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Front-End Fire

by TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington

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165: Open Source Was Fun While It Lasted

October 12, 2026 · 56 min

Open source was fun while it lasted. AI-generated submissions are swamping maintainers and bug bounty programs, so the gates are closing, and we can’t say we blame the people closing them. We also dig into Pi 1.0 and the new Pi Durable…
164: Developers Are Tired of This Sh*t

October 5, 2026 · 53 min

The State of Devs 2026 survey results are in, and... they’re not great. We discuss. We also dig into a huge week of 1.0 releases (EmDash, Vinext, and Vite+), OpenAI's Dev Day, and more! Timestamps 0:00 - Intro1:12 - State of Devs 2026…
163: Do Frameworks Still Matter Anymore?

September 28, 2026 · 51 min

DHH took the Rails World stage to announce that he and Basecamp are no longer writing code by hand, wouldn't necessarily recommend Rails for a new app, and are going all in on native. That kicks off this week's big question: in an era of…
162: Shopify Breaks Up with React Native

September 21, 2026 · 56 min

The React core team just shipped 19.3 with view transitions, fragment refs, and Context support in server components. A startup called TypeSafe AI is making waves with Jev, a fast, cheap "System One" model built for structured decisions…
161: Tailwind Has a New Home

September 14, 2026 · 44 min

There are finally some real-world consequences for the Shai-Hulud npm attacks: Australian Federal Police and the FBI arrested two men behind TeamPCP, a group that's been running supply chain attacks using npm since last year. Meanwhile…

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160: GPT-6 vs. Claude 5.1

September 7, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

Both big AI labs shipped their best models yet this week: OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra finally takes computer use seriously, and Anthropic's Fable & Mythos 5.1 land with gains in coding, knowledge work, and long-running tasks. Jack also went down…
159: Is AI Making Us Worse Devs?

August 31, 2026 · 54 min

This week we're asking the uncomfortable question: is AI coding making us worse developers, or just changing which skills matter? We dig into OpenAI's new WebMCP Challenge and what it means for the agentic web, plus Bun's massive 1.4…
158: The Browser Wars are Getting Weird

August 24, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

This week we dig into Cloudflare's new agent-only browser, Kitesurf, built for speed over polish. Cursor made waves by ditching Solid.js for React, and Jack brings back a field report from RenderATL on the state of dev conferences in 2026…
157: Shai-Hulud Is Back From the Dead

August 10, 2026 · 57 min

Next.js is back after a quiet stretch with 16.3, promising "instant" navigations, leaner dev servers, better agent tooling, and faster builds. The TanStack crew keeps shipping too — TanStack Table hit v9.0 and TanStack AI is closing in on…
156: The State of CSS Is In

August 3, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

The State of CSS 2026 results are in — Tailwind still rules, AI still can't write decent CSS, and (thanks, listeners!) we made the resources list. CodePen ships its biggest update in years with CodePen 2.0, and a new library called Octane…
155: OpenAI Breaks Out of its Sandbox

July 27, 2026 · 57 min

We dig into how Bun went from Zig to Rust in just 11 days with an army of Claude sessions, check in on Kimi K3 — another open-weight Chinese model closing in on the frontier — and unpack the week's wildest story: an OpenAI model that…
154: How Not to Drown in AI Code Reviews

July 21, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

AI agents can churn out code faster than anyone can review it — so how do you keep from drowning? We don't claim to have all the answers, but we dig into practical ways to make AI-generated code less sloppy and reviews less painful…