Front-End Fire

In this episode:
Anthropic sets its sights on designers
Vercel has a “security incident”
And Elon eyes an IDE
Timestamps:
0:50 - Anthropic introduces Claude Design
10:07 - Vercel’s security incident
18:27 - SpaceX is buying Cursor
26:15 - Google is cracking down on “back button hijacking”
28:35 - Anthropic bans a 60-person company overnight
32:45 - Fire Starter
36:40 - What’s making us happy
News:
Paige - Anthropic introduces Claude Design
Jack - SpaceX is buying Cursor
TJ - Vercel has a “security incident”
Lightning News: 
Google cracking down on “back button hijacking”
Anthropic bans a 60-person company overnight
Fire Starter:
Git 2.54 has a new way to reword commits
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
Paige - Libby audiobooks
Jack - Reolink security cameras
TJ - Installing every Firefox extension
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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 DataCurl
Kyler Krenek, cofounder of Vowel 
Relevant Links:
Dan’s personal website
Dan’s company website
Dan on LinkedIn
Kyler’s GitHub
Kyler’s blog
Kyler on LinkedIn
Vowel.to
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
Paige - Shrinking season 3
TJ - Claude Cowork
Jack - Giving stuff way
Dan - New drug coming on the market for Pancreatic Cancer. 
Kyler - OpenCode Web with GPT-5.4 - Much easier bugfixing
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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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