1048: Deno Is Dead
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Deno is shutting down and the team is heading to Cloudflare — Scott, Wes, and CJ break down what that means for the runtime, JSR, and workerd. Plus OpenCode 2.0 on durable objects, TanStack Start 1.0, SubQ Snap, Gemini 4 Argon, and Wes’s accidental $50 photo frame movement.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:31 Deno Is Shutting Down: The Team Joins Cloudflare
- 06:23 Why Bun Spelled the End of Deno
- 12:24 OpenCode 2.0: Durable Objects, Code Mode and Hot Reloading Plugins
- 20:24 Where Should Your Agent Actually Run?
- 21:41 Talorys: A Personal AI Agent on the Cloudflare Free Tier
- 22:42 I Accidentally Started a $50 Photo Frame Movement
- 27:05 Agent Driven Open Source: Dozens of Pull Requests From Bots
- 35:11 SubQ Snap: A Cheaper, Smarter Decision Model Than Jev
- 41:26 AirDrop Reverse Engineered: Continuity on Linux
- 44:47 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 45:24 TanStack Start 1.0 Is Officially Stable
- 55:23 The FFF vs fsearch Twitter Drama
- 59:34 Model Roundup: Hands On With Gemini 4 Argon
- 01:08:01 Zen Garden: Ranking Models on Their 3D Taste
- 01:12:49 Muse Wonder From Meta
- 01:15:15 EmbeddingGemma 2 and Why Embeddings Power Better Search
- 01:18:32 Claude Haiku 5.5 Gains Thinking Levels
- 01:20:19 Grok Bot Leaks a CEO’s Bank Balance Into Company Slack
- 01:24:18 CJ’s Whirlwind Tour: A Commodore 64 Keycap Font
- 01:25:08 Lightbulb Computer: A Projector Screwed Into Your Ceiling
- 01:29:11 Recomps and Decomps: Running PS5 Games on Linux and Windows
- 01:32:23 Open Source Photoshop Clones and the Whole Craft Suite
- 01:35:25 Audacity 4 and the Case for Forking Old Open Source Apps
- 01:36:35 PS2 and PSP Games Recompiled to WebAssembly
- 01:37:39 Bootstrap 6 Alpha Brings Back Real Buttons
- 01:39:39 Wrapping Up the Live Stream
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