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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 vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. The orgs will use Mythos to up their software security before putting it in the hands of the rest of us.
And Cloudflare, ever in our weekly news cycle, has released EmDash, an Astro-powered version of WordPress using Cloudflare's infra to securely sandbox plugins and prevent the hacking that WP has long suffered from.
Timestamps:
1:53 - Pretext.js
9:20 - Anthropic’s new model: Mythos
15:27 - Cloudflare’s EmDash
24:31 - Claude Code buddies
30:09 - An update on how Axios was hacked
34:19 - Chrome is getting vertical tabs
35:47 - State of Web Dev AI survey
36:29 - Jack is a GDE
37:23 - Code mode is new in TanStack AI
41:47 - What’s making us happy
News:
Paige - Pretext.js
Jack - Anthropic's new model: Mythos
TJ - Cloudflare’s EmDash and Matt Mullenweg’s response
Lightning News: 
Claude Code buddies were for April Fools and the community now wants them back
An update on how Axios was hacked
Chrome is getting vertical tabs
State of Web Dev AI Survey 2026
Jack is a Google Developer Expert
Code Mode is new in TanStack AI and Jack’s video about Code Mode
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
Paige - OpenAI’s GPT 5.4 in GH Copilot
Jack - 3D printed planets
TJ - Mammoth in concert
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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 data fetching library Axios is the latest victim. This particular hack delivered a remote access trojan (RAT) virus courtesy of a postinstall script, that deleted itself after execution to evade detection. Sneaky! Lock down your packages and dependencies, folks.
Timestamps:
1:13 - Anthropic accidentally Claude Code’s source code
14:02 - Popular npm library Axios got hacked
23:40 - RedwoodSDK 1.0
28:28 - What’s making us happy
News:
Paige - Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code’s source code
TJ - Popular npm library Axios got hacked
Lightning News: 
RedwoodSDK 1.0
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
Paige - The Idiot podcast from the New York Times
TJ - Activate Games
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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 weeks back, Vercel’s released a stable of adapter APIs to make deploying Next.js apps to hosting platforms besides Vercel easier. While this is a step in the right direction, it’s still not exactly “easy” to get all the bells and whistles of a Next app running on other platforms.
Timestamps:
0:52 - TypeScript 6
5:04 - Next 16.2
16:06 - Next.js adapters
20:04 - Firefox gets split views
22:03 - OpenAI shuts down Sora
25:48 - Claude can control your whole computer now
26:43 - Out Claude Cowork updates
36:41 - Ollama update
38:37 - What’s making us happy
News:
Paige - TypeScript 6
Jack - Next.js adapters and potential Claude file setup
TJ - Next.js 16.2 
Lightning News: 
Firefox gets split view too
OpenAI shuts down Sora
Claude can control your whole computer now
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
Paige - Claude Cowork
Jack - Grilling
TJ - The Strength of the Few book
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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 their release schedule so that every release now (both even and odd) numbers will be an LTS release, and beginning in 2027, it will be named release 27, just to make it easier for everyone.
Timestamps:
0:57 - Vite 8 is out
8:04 - Jack joins Netlify and Netlify Start
12:21 - Node.js is changing their release cadence
20:10 - The dictionary sues OpenAI
23:18 - Vercel v. Cloudflare on X
31:20 - Quite the tweet from Sam Altman
39:18 - What’s making us happy
News:
Paige - Vite 8 is out
Jack - Jack joined Netlify and launches Netlify Start
TJ - Node.js is changing their release schedule
Lightning News: 
The dictionary sues OpenAI
Quite the tweet from Sam Altman
Vercel vs. Cloudflare on X
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
Paige - Afrin nasal spray
Jack - Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die and Project Hail Mary
TJ - One Piece live action series and college basketball
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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 Cloudflare, the Astro team had their first big release with Astro 6.0, which includes a new dev server and build pipeline powered by Vite’s environment API so it can run the exact same production runtime during development. Other upgrades include a built-in Fonts API, request-time content, and a new experimental Rust compiler.
Timestamps:
0:54 - Eleventy becomes Build Awesome
5:40 - VoidZero announces Vite+ alpha
10:38 - Astro 6.0
15:39 - Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign
17:53 - The Chrome team is looking for feedback on focusgroup
20:31 - Updates to TanStack AI
22:21 - OpenClaw gripe with lack of permissions
27:22 - Moltbook get acquired by Meta
30:05 - What’s making us happy
News:
Paige - Astro 6.0
Jack - VoidZero announces Vite+ Alpha
TJ - Eleventy becomes Build Awesome and the original Font Awesome Kickstarter video
Lightning News: 
Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign
The Chrome team is looking for feedback on focusgroup
Upgrades to TanStack AI
OpenClaw gripe with lack of permissions with v2026.3.2
Moltbook is acquired by Meta
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
Paige - Foundation TV series
Jack - Taxes done with Firefly III
TJ - Claude Code
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