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TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington

A weekly show that helps you stay up to date on the latest and greatest in the front-end world.

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  • #144
    May 11 · 57 min

    144: Did Tanner Just Replace React?

    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 Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

  • #143
    May 4 · 55 min

    143: The AI Bill Is Due

    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 Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

  • #142
    April 27 · 55 min

    142: Vercel Had a Week

    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 Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

  • #141
    April 21 · 1 hr 2 min

    141: When AI Belongs in Products with Dan Wilson & Kyler Krenek

    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 Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

  • #140
    April 13 · 57 min

    140: Cloudflare is Coming for WordPress

    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 Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

  • #139
    April 6 · 36 min

    139: Claude Code’s Secrets Are Out

    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 Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

  • #138
    March 30 · 51 min

    138: Next.js Leans into AI Agents

    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 Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

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