1032: Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7B
Show notes
Scott and CJ break down Stripe's $7B acquisition of OpenRouter, the SvelteKit 3 release candidate, and their first look at TanStack Charts. Plus Zed's new Delta editor, stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs, why dark mode toggles only need two states, and all 43 quintillion Rubik's cube states in your browser.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 02:20 SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate
- 07:43 Video editor recs
- 09:58 TanStack Charts First Look
- 14:24 Ponytail AI Tool
- 17:22 Zed Delta Editor
- Introducing Delta
- 23:44 Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7B+
- 29:27 Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
- 35:03 First look at Cursor’s GitHub killer
- 42:34 Dark Mode UX Discussion
- 46:40 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 48:34 Should AI respond in plain language?
- 52:57 Swamp Club Automation
- 01:02:37 Fight AI slop with this anti-slop plugin
- 01:03:39 Rubik’s Cube Permutations
- 01:05:02 Hackweek
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