Front-End Fire

Épisodes

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  155: OpenAI Breaks Out of its Sandbox 27.07.2026 57min

  We dig into how Bun went from Zig to Rust in just 11 days with an army of Claude sessions, check in on Kimi K3 — another open-weight Chinese model closing in on the frontier — and unpack the week's wildest story: an OpenAI model that escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. Just another normal week in AI. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro3:05 - Kimi K310:58 - Rewriting Bun in Rust20:42 - OpenAI hacks Hugging Face39:48 - App Store number updates42:11 - Meta's new app is set to a song about human ext...
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  154: How Not to Drown in AI Code Reviews 21.07.2026 1h 3min

  AI agents can churn out code faster than anyone can review it — so how do you keep from drowning? We don't claim to have all the answers, but we dig into practical ways to make AI-generated code less sloppy and reviews less painful — review tools, code-review skills, and the still-irreplaceable habit of smoke testing a PR yourself. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro0:26 - How to not drown in code reviews49:55 - What's Making Us HappyLinks Anthropic: Recursive Self ImprovementSpotify Engineering: C...
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  153: Vercel Wants Your Entire Stack 13.07.2026 47min

  Vercel goes all-in on your stack — a Zig-powered Native SDK for building desktop apps, plus Vercel Services to run multiple frameworks as one shared project for monorepo and microservice teams — while VoidZero ships Vite+ in beta to unify the entire frontend toolchain. Plus Safari joins the MCP party and Claude gets a little too chatty in Slack. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro0:59 - Vercel native8:22 - Vite+ beta10:15 - Vercel Services16:50 - Safari MCP server19:20 - Claude Tag27:07 - Museum covers i...
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  152: The Fable Redemption Arc 06.07.2026 54min

  Vercel partners with Shopify to rebuild Hydrogen, Anthropic re-releases Fable 5 (plus Sonnet 5) with a beefed-up safety classifier after its government timeout, and Meta open-sources Astryx, its React/StyleX design system Timestamps 0:00 - Intro3:50 - Vercel and Shopify collab on Hydrogen13:11 - A Fable 5 update22:38 - Astryx33:51 - Cloudflare to change its crawler policy43:42 - What's Making Us HappyNews Paige: Fable 5's ban has been lifted & Sonnet 5 is out tooJack: Vercel and Shopify c...
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  151: Fixing AI’s Microservices Problem 29.06.2026 39min

  Nx debuts Polygraph, a "synthetic monorepo" that gives AI agents a unified view across microservice boundaries, Deno Desktop takes aim at Electron by compiling web projects into single-binary native apps, and fresh SignalFire hiring data shows engineers holding steady while designers and marketers take the cuts. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro1:41 - Polygraph meta-harness from the Nx folks7:49 - Deno Desktop12:39 - An update on the tech hiring landscape24:42 - Dan Abramov joins Vercel27:01 - Claude C...
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  150: The Government Said “No Fable For You” 22.06.2026 1h

  Anthropic's new Fable model gets pulled days after launch when the US government restricts foreign access, a fully open-source Chinese model claims Claude Opus-level benchmarks for a fraction of the price, and MDN ships an MCP server to keep AI agents current on the web platform. Plus npm 12's supply-chain crackdown and SpaceX's eye-popping $60B Cursor buy. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro1:27 - Anthropic released Fable and the US government shut it down13:51 - GLM-5.220:16 - MDN MCP Server25:42 - npm...
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  149: Rise of the React Foundation 15.06.2026 51min

  React officially leaves the Meta building to live under the new React Foundation (and the React Compiler gets rewritten in Rust), Apple's WWDC unveils a stacked Safari 27 beta, and Chrome DevTools 149 levels up its AI features. A jam-packed week in front-end news. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:27 - React is now officially owned by the React Foundation 3:07 - React Compiler is now in Rust 5:56 - Safari 27 beta 12:12 - DevTools 149 updates 23:46 - State of CSS su...
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  148: The Bots Have Officially Taken Over 08.06.2026 58min

  In this episode: people are still writing new programming language, Microsoft is going all "developers, developers, developers" again, and bots are apparently outnumbering humans on the web now. Timestamps: 1:55 - Bot traffic has passed human traffic5:28 - The Jam programming language12:04 - Jack at Microsoft Build29:26 - Cloudflare bought VoidZero34:46 - Red Hat is the latest victim of Shai Hulud38:39 - Anthropic wants AI dev to slow down41:35 - Someone used a Waymo in a robbery46:47 - What’...
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  147: Vercel Made a Programming Language for Robots 01.06.2026 52min

  In this episode npm implements staged publishing, Deno is patrolling your claws, and Vercel has a new agent-first language. Timestamps: 0:58 - npm staged publishing4:52 - Claw Patrol11:00 - zerolang20:18 - Wordpress 7.023:46 - Dr. Axel takes down his blog and books33:31 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - zerolang, an agent first programming languageJack - Claw PatrolTJ - npm staged publishingLightning News: Wordpress 7.0 and AIDr. Axel takes down his blog and booksWhat Makes Us Happy...
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  146: Humans vs AI—Fight! 25.05.2026 52min

  On this episode: Rust has another convert, npm takes another stab at stopping the hackers, and Jack had a coding battle against robots. Timestamps: 1:00 - Bun switches to Rust6:45 - Jack’s battle against AI on Greenfield Games16:01 - npm RFC to block install scripts22:10 - State of Web Dev AI survey results37:10 - Mark Erikson joins the AI revolution41:45 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Bun, but in RustJack - Jason Lengstorf’s Greenfield Games TV showTJ - npm RFC to block install script...
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  145: AI Layoffs Will Continue Until Morale Improves 18.05.2026 53min

  In this episode: An IDE written in Rust hits 1.0; more vulnerabilities, this time in TanStack and Next.js; and the AI layoffs continue—we’ll discuss whether you should be worried. Timestamps: 0:46 - Alternative editor Zed hits 1.010:48 - AI layoffs24:12 - TanStack’s CI pipeline was compromised30:01 - Another Next.js vulnerability31:46 - Tailwind 4.3 adds new scrollbar utilities35:03 - Fire Starter: The new install element41:22 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Alternative editor Zed hits ...
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  144: Did Tanner Just Replace React? 11.05.2026 57min

  In this episode, we look at whether “founding sponsor” is becoming the new AI acqui-hire, Tanner building a possible React replacement, and how Claude could get faster thanks to a new deal with SpaceX. Timestamps: 0:58 - Tanner builds Redact8:14 - Anthropic makes a deal with SpaceX19:03 - Warp is now open source29:58 - Node 26 is out32:07 - ChatGPT is obsessed with goblins42:21 - What’s making us happy News: Paige - Warp is open source and OpenAI is its founding sponsorJack - Projecting Re...
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  143: The AI Bill Is Due 04.05.2026 55min

  In this episode: pnpm tightens its security stanceWe talk about whether the AI bill is coming dueAnd Remix v3 is back in the newsTimestamps: 1:35 - The AI price hike16:31 - Remix v3 beta preview27:33 - pnpm 11’s security changes35:28 - Firefox adds tab notes41:10 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - AI price hikes are coming for us all, Anthropic’s changed its plan offerings, GitHub Copilot is rolling out usage based billingJack - Remix v3 beta previewTJ - pnpm 11Lightning News: Firefo...
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  142: Vercel Had a Week 27.04.2026 55min

  In this episode: Anthropic sets its sights on designersVercel has a “security incident”And Elon eyes an IDETimestamps: 0:50 - Anthropic introduces Claude Design10:07 - Vercel’s security incident18:27 - SpaceX is buying Cursor26:15 - Google is cracking down on “back button hijacking”28:35 - Anthropic bans a 60-person company overnight32:45 - Fire Starter36:40 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Anthropic introduces Claude DesignJack - SpaceX is buying CursorTJ - Vercel has a “security incide...
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  141: When AI Belongs in Products with Dan Wilson & Kyler Krenek 21.04.2026 1h 2min

  This week special guests Dan Wilson of DataCurl and Kyler Krenek of Vowel join us to discuss when AI belongs in products and what kinds of AI tools are best suited to different needs. Special Guests: Dan Wilson, Principal Partner of DataCurlKyler Krenek, cofounder of Vowel Relevant Links: Dan’s personal websiteDan’s company websiteDan on LinkedInKyler’s GitHubKyler’s blogKyler on LinkedInVowel.toWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Shrinking season 3TJ - Claude CoworkJack - Giving stuf...
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  140: Cloudflare is Coming for WordPress 13.04.2026 57min

  One of the former React Core team members caused quite the stir last week when he released Pretext, a TypeScript library that uses math to make text measurement and layout super fast. Handy for niche use cases? Definitely. Controversial online? Extremely. Also this week, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, a new initiative bringing together all the biggest players in tech to reshape cybersecurity because Anthropic's latest frontier model Mythos has identified thousands of high-severity vul...
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  139: Claude Code’s Secrets Are Out 06.04.2026 36min

  This week, Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code’s source code to the world when it published a source map inside an npm release. While the offending file was quickly removed, the code was out there and folks got to work speculating about what’s next for Claude Code. Always running background daemons, something known as “undercover mode”, and a cute little ASCII animal next to inputs are some of the things we might see in Claude’s future. The npm hacks keep on coming as well, as popular d...
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  138: Next.js Leans into AI Agents 30.03.2026 51min

  Microsoft dropped the last version of JavaScript-powered TypeScript this week with TS 6.0. TypeScript 6 bridges the gap between the TS of yesteryear and the soon to come Go-powered TS compiler of TypeScript 7 that users can fix now so they can smoothly upgrade later. Next.js 16.2 debuted this week with the usual performance improvements expected in a minor version upgrade, plus AI improvements to make AI-assisted development smoother and easier. In response to Cloudflare’s Vinext fork a few w...
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  137: Netlify Enters the AI App Builder Race 23.03.2026 53min

  This week the VoidZero team shipped Vite 8. It’s using Rolldown under the hood and boasting 30x faster builds, full plugin compatibility, integrated devtools, and a searchable registry for all plugins. Co-host Jack has officially joined Netlify as a Principal Developer Experience Engineer and announces the launch of Netlify Start. Start a new Netlify project with a prompt on the site, and see it built and deployed in minutes, and keep iterating on it from there. The Node.js team is changing t...
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  136: VoidZero Wants to be the Laravel of JavaScript 16.03.2026 48min

  JavaScript framework Eleventy has been renamed Build Awesome, 1.5 years after joining the Font Awesome stable. The name change precedes Build Awesome Pro, which will offer premium features alongside the features Eleventy users know and love. Today the Awesomeverse got a little awesomer. The VoidZero team also open-sourced Vite+, which is a unified toolchain and entry point to web app development that manages runtime, package manager, and frontend toolchain all in one. Since being acquired by ...