1028: Cloudflare Wallets

Cloudflare is rolling out crypto wallets with claimable handles as identity, and a real React compiler finally landed for regular hooks-based code. Plus: OpenAI's pricing war, Vue Vapor benchmarks, GitHub's new npm malware scanning, and an active supply chain attack hitting 868 packages.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 01:02 Shai Hulud is back!
  • New Shai-Hulud announcement
  • Attacked keyv packages
• 05:27 GitHub scans your npm packages for malware
• 06:42 Your agent has a wallet now
  • Make your own
  • Cloudflare wallet announcement blog post
  • X402 payments
• 12:10 Yet another React compiler?
  • Ripple.ts
  • Inferno.js
  • Dominic Gannaway’s launch post
  • Octane
  • Native Script
  • Reactivity + Rendering Benchmark
• 27:19 Scott switched his browser AGAIN!
  • Dia
  • Knock off extension
• 31:56 AI Mental health survey
• 32:29 OpenAI models are becoming cheaper?
• 38:49 GitHub stacked PRs finally arrived
• 41:48 AI video podcasts
  • HeyGen launch post
  • Hank Green’s unhealthy AI usage
• 48:15 Brought to you by Sentry!
• 49:28 News from the TC39 meeting
  • ECMAScript news
  • Await dictionary
  • TC39 Process
• 56:58 Qwen 3.8
• 01:02:31 Latest and greatest in CSS and UI libraries
  • Foley.dev
  • Morphicons
  • Lucide
  • Nucleo
  • 8bit library
  • CSS radar
  • Impeccable

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