Front-End Fire

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 Redact
8:14 - Anthropic makes a deal with SpaceX
19:03 - Warp is now open source
29:58 - Node 26 is out
32:07 - ChatGPT is obsessed with goblins
42:21 - What’s making us happy

News:
Paige - Warp is open source and OpenAI is its founding sponsor
Jack - Projecting React
TJ - Anthropic makes a deal with SpaceX

Lightning News: 
Node 26 is out
ChatGPT is obsessed with goblins

What Makes Us Happy this Week:
Paige - The Koerner Office on YouTube
Jack - 3d printed Star Wars guns
TJ - The Lies of Locke Lamora novel

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In this episode:
pnpm tightens its security stance
We talk about whether the AI bill is coming due
And Remix v3 is back in the news
Timestamps:
1:35 - The AI price hike
16:31 - Remix v3 beta preview
27:33 - pnpm 11’s security changes
35:28 - Firefox adds tab notes
41:10 - What’s making us happy
News:
Paige - AI price hikes are coming for us all, Anthropic’s changed its plan offerings, GitHub Copilot is rolling out usage based billing
Jack - Remix v3 beta preview
TJ - pnpm 11
Lightning News: 
Firefox adds tab notes
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
Paige - Claude Superpower skills
Jack - Ted Lasso season 4
TJ - Duolingo
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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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