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You heard it here first, folks, RSC support is now available in TanStack Start! Since TanStack Start supports not only React but also Solid, it handles serialization differently, meaning the critical security vulnerabilities RSC-enabled React apps have been suffering from lately won’t affect TanStack apps. Yarn 6 was recently announced, and (surprise, surprise) it’s going to be ported to Rust. Get ready for blazing fast installs, the ability to easily switch between Yarn versions, and lazy installs to silently keep dependency versions in sync with the package.json.  Also on the Rust bandwagon is the VoidZero team with Rolldown 1.0 RC. Rolldown is the bundler successor to Rollup, and boasts 10-30x faster speeds than Rollup while maintaining API plugin compatibility, built-in transforms, and native CJS/ESM interoperability. All hail the perf gains of JS tools written in Rust. Timestamps: 1:20 - TanStack Start RSC4:15 - Yarn 6 and Rust12:03 - Rolldown 1.0 RC16:38 - More RSC CVEs23:19 - Mozilla is building an AI “rebel alliance”30:05 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Rolldown 1.0 RCJack - TanStack Start RSCTJ - Yarn 6 and RustLightning News:  Another day, another RSC CVEMozilla’s building an AI “rebel alliance”What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Landman season 2Jack - VaselineTJ - ChatGPT continuing to help me around the houseThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

jQuery is the JavaScript library that just won’t quit. 20 years after its inception the team released jQuery 4.0.0, and it brings some notable modernizations including removed support for IE 10, a migration to ES modules, and support for Trusted Types.  Node.js creator Ryan Dahl declared earlier this week that “the era of humans writing code is over”, and considering how good AI coding agents have gotten lately, he’s probably not wrong.  Cloudflare also announces it has acquired popular JavaScript framework Astro. Cloudflare has been a good steward to other OSS projects in the past, and this acquisition allows the Astro team to focus on making the framework even better. Timestamps: 0:50 - jQuery 4.07:58 - Is the era of humans writing code over?18:23 - Cloudflare acquires Astro24:54 - Vertical tabs are coming to Chrome29:37 - Apple is going to use Gemini for Siri43:07 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Ryan Dahl declares humans writing code is overJack - Cloudflare acquires AstroTJ - jQuery 4.0Lightning News:  Chrome adds support for vertical tabsApple and Google enter agreement to use Gemini for Apple IntelligenceWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Onyx Storm bookJack - Learning to play Born to Run on guitarTJ - Only Murders in the Building TV series and Dungeon Crawler Carl book seriesThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

A new year, a new tactic to stem the flow of npm supply chain attacks. This time, the proposal is for “Staged Publishing” which introduces a review window that a package owner must approve before a package release becomes publicly available. Vercel Labs is out with a new AI tool called json-render that lets users generate dashboards, widgets, apps, and data visualizations from prompts, and constrains the response to JSON for only components pre-defined by the user. Finally, The Simpsons character Ralph Wiggum is the biggest thing in AI coding recently. Ralph is an AI development pattern using a while loop (like a bash script) to repeatedly run an AI agent on the same task, feeding its output back as context, and forcing it to iterate until a specific completion promise is met, rather than letting the AI stop prematurely. Interesting? Yes! Useful in practice? Still tbd. Chapter Markers: 1:04 - npm to implement staged publishing8:16 - Vercel’s json-render16:13 - Ralph Wiggum loops30:53 - Claude Code tips33:52 - Firefox 147 and anchor positioning35:42 - Fire starter39:40 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - npm to implement Staged PublishingJack - Vercel Labs’ json-renderTJ - Ralph Wiggum loopsLightning News:  Firefox 147 and anchor positioningFire Starters: CSS @container scroll-state()What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Rolife Book Nook Garden House miniatureJack - Blade Runner live at the symphonyTJ - Coffee advent calendarsThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

We’re back with our first episode of 2026, and prominent software developer and YouTuber, Theo Browne, made waves recently when he announced he’d migrated his T3 Chat app from the Next.js framework to TanStack Start. It isn’t that Next.js is bad, but that the requirements of T3 Chat were better supported by TanStack Start’s architecture, and Theo breaks down his evaluation process to reach that decision. For the 10th year in a row, the JavaScript Rising Stars report drops, and the most popular projects (by GitHub stars) for the year include n8n (a workflow automation platform), react-bits (gorgeous animated React components), shadcn/ui (more UI components), and Excalidraw (virtual whiteboard for sketching and diagramming). In less stellar news, the creator of the wildly popular CSS library Tailwind announced he’s had to lay off 75% of his engineering team because AI has killed traffic to its website (and by association, Tailwind’s commercial products that drive revenue). It was hard enough before the rise of AI for OSS to get funding, and this is just another cautionary tale that we need to support the people building the tools and products so many of us use every day in our jobs. Timestamps: 1:54 - Theo moves off Next.js and resulting buzz11:32 - A look at the 2025 JS rising stars23:25 - Is AI hurting Tailwind?31:03 - Lego smart bricks35:45 - What’s making us happy News: Paige - Is AI killing OSS now? Tailwind thinks soJack - Theo moved off Next.js to TanStack Start and the internet is buzzing TJ - 2025 rising starsLightning News:  Lego smart bricksWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Flip-It! Bottle emptying capsJack - Miami Hurricanes football team TJ - New Pokemon GO featuresThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

It’s that time of year again: the holidays are nearly upon us and 2026 is fast approaching, so it’s time for our year end holiday spectacular! This year our past predictions for the future of web development come back to haunt us, we make some bold new proclamations for what’s in store for 2026, and of course, share what’s made us happy this year. Our past predictions were pretty hit or miss. Although a surge in popularity for simpler frontend frameworks like SolidJS and a whole slew of new web APIs didn’t appear (as Jack and Paige predicted), AI agents evolving to be capable of implementing whole new features and debugging bigger problems in code was spot on (point goes to TJ). Predictions for 2026? With the continued popularity of AI for coding, TJ believes we’ll treat HTML more like assembly code. Paige predicts an uptick in Internet outages and supply chain attacks, and more scrutiny of if AI features are really as valuable as we’ve been led to believe. Jack feels this is the year SolidJS takes off, and “code mode” for AI agents is going to add even more value than the creation of MCP servers last year. Just like last year, the things that made us happiest are pretty simple: maintaining consistent routines like exercising, reading books, and stepping away from the keyboard. And using the tools often used for work for fun, creative projects like a homemade fanfiction audiobook. And as always, thank you, Front-end Fire listeners! We wouldn’t be here without you, and we’ve enjoyed getting to know many of you more over the past year. Wishing you a wonderful holiday season, and we’ll be back in 2026 with more frontend goodness. Timestamps: 2:36 - Revisiting old predictions18:01 - 2026 predictions39:26 - What’s making us happy2024 Predictions Revisited: Paige - New web APIsJack - A return to simplicity in coding frameworksTJ - AI agents solving bigger coding problems2026 Predictions:  Paige - More tech attacks and less AI hype, more AI scrutinyJack - SolidJS 2.0 and “code mode” is going to unlock even more AI agent functionalityTJ - We start treating HTML like assembly codeWhat Makes Us Happy this Year: Paige - Consistent routines (as boring as that sounds): regular exercise, regularly practicing hobbies and reading books Jack - Descript and Claude for a homemade fanfic audiobookTJ - Reading booksThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

Hot on the heels of the first critical vulnerability discovered in React applications using RSCs last week, two more vulnerabilities have surfaced, which is not uncommon. Even if you already updated for the critical vulnerability, you will need to update again. In lighter news, Anthropic donates MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation, just one year after introducing it to the world. MCP’s rise has been meteoric: 10,000 active public MCP servers, adoption by ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, VS Code, and more, and now stewardship by the AAIF, which is under the Linux Foundation. With all the great things coming to CSS lately, the Chrome Dev team created a great CSS Wrapped write up highlighting the big features for 2025. Of the 22 new features added, invoker commands, popover enhancements, and customizable select dropdowns are some of the most exciting additions. Timestamps: 2:29 - More vulnerabilities in RSCs6:36 - Anthropic donates MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation16:04 - CSS 2025 wrap up25:05 - Disney to allow characters on Sora29:42 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Anthropic donates MCP to the Agentic AI FoundationJack - More vulnerabilities in RSCs discoveredTJ - CSS Wrapped 2025Lightning News:  Disney will allow characters on Sora AI video generatorWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Twinkly Christmas LightsJack - 3D printed underwear for the multiboard desk organizationTJ - MammothThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

This week TanStack joins the AI wars with the alpha release of TanStack AI: an open-source AI SDK with a unified interface across multiple providers. TanStack AI is an open-source ecosystem of libraries and standards, and it is client, server, and AI provider agnostic, to make building AI-enabled apps accessible to all. In a surprise move, AI company Anthropic acquires JavaScript runtime Bun to accelerate its development of Claude Code. Apparently, Bun has been central to Claude Code reaching $1 billion in run-rate revenue in just six months, and Anthropic’s brought the team in house to keep the momentum going. And it’s been another rough week for security in JavaScript. First, a new self-replicating, credential stealing malware attack, dubbed Shai-Hulud 2.0, swept the npm ecosystem and compromised 800 npm packages in the process, and then a critical security vulnerability was discovered for any React projects using React Server Components. Just remember to lock down your dependencies and install those patches ASAP, folks. Timestamps: 1:22 - TanStack AI9:12 - Anthropic buys Bun21:03 - Shai-Hulul 2.0 on npm and an RSC vulnerability30:23 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Shai-Hulud 2.0 on npm and RSC vulnerabilityJack - TanStack AITJ - Anthropic buys Bun (Bun post) (Anthropic post)What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - The Durrells TV seriesJack - Essentialism bookTJ - Dungeon Crawler Carl book seriesThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

Another week, another new AI IDE. This week, Google released the Antigravity IDE (yet another VS Code fork) which offers unique twists like “cross-surface” agents, user feedback to agent-generated artifacts, and a view of all agents across any workspace. The team behind the Unistyles cross-platform library just debuted Uniwind for all the React Native devs who want to use Tailwind styling in their native apps. Uniwind brings Tailwind-style className support to RN at build time, and has a custom, high-performance CSS parser to handle both Tailwind 4 and plain CSS files.  Prisma 7.0 is out, and so is Rust from its codebase. The team completely rebuilt it in TypeScript to cut down on its bundle size and the communication layer between Rust and the JS runtime that was actually slower than just JavaScript through and through. In Lightning News, even if you don’t develop in Angular, the Angular v21 dev release video is worth a watch, Cloudflare had a big Internet outage this week, Firefox has teased AI in its browser “the Firefox way”, and the State of React Survey 2025 is open now (please vote for Front-end Fire in the Podcasts section!). Timestamps: 1:27 - Prisma 7.09:35 - Uniwind12:18 - Antigravity27:32 - Angular v21 release video29:20 - Cloudflare outage37:11 - Firefox gets an AI window38:47 - State of React survey open40:36 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - UniwindJack - Prisma 7.0TJ - AntigravityLightning News: Firefox gets an AI windowCloudflare had a big outageThe State of React Survey 2025 is now openAngular v21 Dev Release videoWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Upcoming holidays and seeing familyJack - StroboClip HD for the guitarTJ - Dungeon Crawler Carl bookThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

In a surprise move, Snapchat open sources its cross-platform UI Valdi. Valdi lets devs write UI components in TypeScript then compiles them to native views on iOS, Android, and macOS, offers instant hot reload without recompiling, and integrates well into already existing native apps.  GitHub Universe 2025 wrapped up just a few weeks ago, and it had a bunch of new AI agent updates to share. Think: a single source to manage agents across GitHub, Mobile, CLI, and VS Code, custom agents with tailored prompts and tools, new Copilot integrations and agentic code review, and Plan Mode.  TanStack DB released v0.5 and Query-Driven Sync. With Query-Driven Sync, a component’s query is the API call and DB handles the fetching, caching, and updating, and provides different sync modes for different use cases.  Chapter Markers: 0:47 - Snapchat open sources cross-platform tool Valdi7:08 - GitHub Universe updates15:45 - TanStack DB query-driven sync19:54 - GitHub eliminates toasts22:49 - Firefox has an updated mascot24:09 - Vibe coding named word of the year33:26 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Snapchat open sources cross-platform UI ValdiJack - TanStack DB query-driven syncTJ - GitHub Universe recapLightning News: GitHub eliminates toasts from their designsFirefox has an updated mascotVibe coding named word of the yearWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Holiday light displaysJack - Cursor ComposerTJ - Inflatable dragon yard decorationThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

This week is a news roundup while cohost Jack is away for a hackathon in SF.  First up, is how Chrome DevTools has added AI to its panels. Now users can ask Gemini to explain console errors, make CSS changes via in the elements tab, and explain traces collected in the performance panel. HTMX has also jumped from v2 to v4 (alpha), rebuilding the internals after 5 years of maintaining the project. Upgrades include: going from XMLHttpRequests to fetch, explicit attribute inheritance, and improved history caching. Angular’s meta-framework AnalogJS also just launched 2.0 which offers file-based routing, better Vite ecosystem support, and unified SSR, SSG, and islands-style hydration in one cohesive setup. Rumor has it that next year Apple will be using Gemini to drive Siri, as it continues to try and get Apple Intelligence to work reliably. GitHub has officially disabled classic token creation for npm publishing in an effort to reign in the supply chain attacks we’ve reported on for the last few months.  And last but not least, a company called NEO has a home assistant robot available for preorder now. The robot can clean, fold laundry, do dishes, and so on, but here’s the kicker: it’s a human piloting it remotely. Is this really the robot enhanced future we imagined? Timestamps: 1:16 - Chrome DevTools gets a bunch of AI features8:39 - htmx v4 alpha14:25 - AnalogJS 2.017:09 - Apple allegedly to use Gemini to drive Siri22:13 - GitHub disables classic token creation for npm27:38 - NEO home robot35:58 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - HTMX goes right from v2 to v4 (alpha)TJ - Chrome DevTools gets a bunch of AI featuresLightning News: AnalogJS 2.0Apple allegedly to use Gemini to drive SiriGitHub’s disabled classic token creation for npmNEO home robotWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - The Survivalists novelTJ - Pokemon Legends Z–A gameThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

It’s been almost 3 weeks since the React Compiler hit v1.0 and Jack gives an update on the ease of adding it to a React-based project and immediate performance improvement he’s seen from it.  Popular AI-powered IDE Cursor just released v2.0, and it’s going hard on the agent mode, offering things like: a multi-agent interface where agents can run in parallel working on the same task with different models, and a new frontier model that’s 4x faster. Then the hosts then get existential about whether the AI hype bubble is about to burst, if it’s really capable of stealing anyone’s jobs, and how much you should trust an LLM when making decisions about things like the tech stack for a new project.  Timestamps: 1:43 - React Compiler 1.08:13 - Cursor 2.022:28 - AI discussion on bubbles and more43:13 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - AI: bubbles and more bubbles, employment impact, and proper useJack - React Compiler 1.0TJ - Cursor 2.0What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Heated Under Desk Foot RestJack - The Toxic Avenger movieTJ - A London reporter interviewed the wrong Bill DeBlasioThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

Another week, another new AI-browser. This time it’s OpenAI’s turn to introduce ChatGPT Atlas. As with the other AI browsers, Atlas knows the context of open tabs, has an agent that can do things for you, and (maybe its defining feature) it has "memory" built in so conversations can draw on past chats and details when needed. The team behind Vite reveals their path to revenue with command line devtool Vite+. Devs will soon be able to test, lint, format, bundle, and even view their apps’ stats with Vite+, with the performance we expect from a compiler toolchain built completely in Rust. Plus, it’s free for individual users and OSS projects, and has annual licensing prices for startups and enterprises. Vercel held not one but two conferences this week: Next.js Conf and then Ship AI. Next.js 16 was unveiled with improvements to Turbopack, a Next.js DevTools MCP, and updates to Cache Components. And Ship AI covered updates to the AI SDK, Vercel’s AI Gateway and Agents, and more.  Chapter Markers: 02:05 - ChatGPT Atlas12:38 - Vite+20:21 - Next.js conf and Ship AI28:07 - Claude Code on the web33:02 - The Louvre was robbed38:02 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Vite+Jack - Next.js Conf and Ship AI conf updatesTJ - ChatGPT AtlasLightning News: Claude Code on the webThe Louvre was robbedWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - The Diplomat TV seriesJack - Timers to limit doom scrollingTJ - Claude CodeThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

Back in May, the Remix cofounders revealed they were reimagining Remix v3 from the ground up, and this past week at Remix Jam, they gave a sneak peek of it. It’s fair to say this new framework shouldn’t be called Remix at all because it’s departed so far from its origins: devs manually update state, it uses signals, routes are defined in a TS doc, and it will ship with a component library, for starters. Will it catch on, who knows? Not to be outdone by React v19.2 last week, Next.js 16 beta debuted (with support for React 19.2 included). In addition to the latest version of React, Next.js 16 has also declared Turbopack, RSC support, and React Compiler all stable, and improved its caching system as well. And Bun is back in the news with the release of Bun 1.3, and it’s a doozy of a minor version release. Bun wants to be a full-stack JavaScript runtime as it now includes a full-stack dev server, built in support for MySQL and Redis DBs, routing, and the ability to package an entire project into one executable for cross-platform support. Well done, Bun team! Chapter Markers: 01:14 - Remix v310:38 - Next.js 16 beta17:35 - Bun 1.324:42 - Firefox 144 released w/view transition support25:19 - HBO changes TV channel names28:00 - W3C has a new logo31:25 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Bun 1.3Jack - Remix v3TJ - Next.js 16 betaLightning News: Firefox 144 released w/view transition supportW3C has a new logo and the Gavin Belson signature from Silicon Valley HBO changes TV channel namesWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - The Gilded Age TV seriesJack - KPop Demon HuntersTJ - Madison, WIThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com

It’s been a big week for React devs as the annual React Conf just wrapped up in Las Vegas.  The biggest news? React and React Native are moving out from under Meta to a new React Foundation with an independent technical governance structure. The React Foundation’s mission will be to support the React community and ecosystem, and a board of directors will steer it going forward. Also in time for React Conf, React 19.2 dropped, and it brings new features like partial pre-rendering, a new useEffectEvent hook, and an component that lets devs prioritize rendering  tomaintain state and make navigation faster. Not to be outdone, Cloudflare announced a new RPC protocol called Cap’n Web, which is a pure TypeScript implementation. What makes Cap’n Web unique is that it supports bi-directional calling, promise pipelining, and lets users design RPC interfaces that look like regular JavaScript APIs. Chapter Markers: 03:18 - React Foundation07:10 - React Compiler 1.0 and React 19.217:13 - Cap’n Web24:19 - Opera Neon27:16 - The EU is considering cookie law changes31:43 - The Internet Archive hits 1 trillion pages33:33 - What’s making us happyLinks: Paige - Cap’n Web pure TypeScript RPC systemJack - Introducing the React FoundationTJ - React 19.2European policymakers may be fixing the cookie banner headache they createdOpera wants you to pay $20 per month for its new AI browserCelebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - The Terminal List: Dark Wolf TV seriesJack - Fender Acoustasonic guitarTJ - Portable stadium seat additionThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

In this episode: Claude is getting into your VS CodeCoding agents are now using browsersAnd Guillermo gives Vercel a new image on TwitterTimestamps: 00:46 - Claude Sonnet and Claude Code updates7:55 - Chrome DevTools MCP13:50 - Vercel Drama19:03 - State of JS survey is open20:21 - GitHub’s plan to make npm more secure25:30 - Meta builds data center the size of 70 football fields29:04 - What’s making us happyLinks: Paige - Chrome DevTools MCPJack - Vercel’s in hot water after a selfie with Benjamin NetanyahuTJ - Claude Code levels upState of JS survey is openGitHub’s got a plan to make npm more secureMeta builds AI data center the size of 70 football fieldsPaige - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3Jack - reactnorway.comThanks 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 websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast