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1044: Ruby on Rails is Dead

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2026/10/05

Scott, Wes, and CJ ask whether Ruby on Rails is really dead (and whether Rust is just Rails you don't have to read), then dig into Meta's new Muse agent, which is free, comes with its own VM, and is already reading messages nobody asked it to. Plus: upm, a tiny TypeScript npm replacement, Opus 5.5 moonlighting as a motion designer, Tart VMs on Apple Silicon, and a foundry for gloriously bad web fonts.Show Notes 00:00 Welcome 01:11 upm is a tiny fast npm Pooya Parsa’s launch post

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1043: I’m Using GPUI For Everything

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2026/09/30

Scott and Wes ditch Electron and Tauri for GPUI, the GPU accelerated Rust UI framework from the Zed team. They get into its React-like API, styling that feels a lot like Tailwind, GPUI Kit components, the community fork drama, and the tiny desktop apps Scott has built with it.Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! GPUI 01:24 Electron, Tauri, and the Trouble With Web Views 04:05 Enter GPUI: Why We Don’t Take Money to Talk About Tools 05:32 Brought to you by Sentry.io 05:59 What GPUI Is: GPU

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1042: Is the Jev Hype Overblown?

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2026/09/28

Is Jev actually a leap forward for classification or just hype and fake demos? We dig in, plus Claude Code’s new AGENTS.md support, TinyCast (the free, open-source Raycast alternative), an iPhone Fold simulator in Xcode, and a stack of dev tools you’ll want to tryShow Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:17 The iPhone Fold Simulator and Foldable Web APIs Features behind a flag Syntax Meetup in San Francisco 07:03 Claude Code Finally Supports agents.md Changelog 11:42 Using

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1041: What are normies using AI for?

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2026/09/23

Scott and Wes talk about how non-developers are actually using AI today. They also cover the stuff they don’t think holds up, like AI-staged listings and automated marketing.Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:38 Welcome to Syntax! Wes’ post about using AI 01:50 Finding Parts With AI: Van Buckles and Weird Bolts 03:59 Brought to you by Sentry! 04:37 Fixing Printers, Drivers, and Annoying Home Network Stuff Skylight Calendar 05:32 Rescuing E-Waste: Flashing a Broken Skylight Calendar 08:42

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1040: Developing for the iPhone Duo

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2026/09/21

Scott, Wes, and CJ break down developing for the iPhone Duo with the Device Posture and Viewport Segments APIs, plus the React 19.3 release and Pi’s new Radius platform. Also on deck: Tailwind joining Shopify, Shopify going back to native, Homebrew 7, Aeropeek, and Meta’s Muse Agent.Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:05 React 19.3 05:30 Pi announces Radius 15:26 iPhone Duo Initial Reactions iPhone Duo for developers 22:35 Developing for the iPhone Duo Viewport Segments API Device

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1039: Should You Quit Your Job?

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2026/09/16

Scott and Wes dig into a listener mailbag full of AI questions: how to bill freelance work when the tools make you faster, whether coding still matters in interviews, and if the AI bubble is about to pop. Plus sandboxing your agents, managing block-based CMS chaos, and what it takes to leave a stable job when you’re risk averse.Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:09 Freelance Billing in the Age of AI: Who Gets the Speed Savings? 04:33 Value Based Pricing and Leveling Up Your Skills 06:37

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1038: OpenAI Releases GPT 6 Astra

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2026/09/14

Wes and CJ dig into OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra; the massive jump in computer use, the wild Blender MCP 3D demos, and whether all the AGI talk actually holds up. Plus Hugging Face’s robot duck, Vitest 5 and the arrest behind the shai‑hulud supply chain attacksShow Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:52 30 Years of JScript: How Microsoft Cloned JavaScript 03:28 Ryan Dahl’s Fight to Free the JavaScript Trademark 05:48 The Rise of Micro Ducks and DIY Robotics 13:58 VeriSign Is Killing Third Level .name

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1037: WebMCP is here (and you should care)

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2026/09/09

Scott and Wes talk about WebMCP with Sarah Drasner and Dominic Farolino from the Chrome team, which is the new W3C standard that lets your site hand real tools to an agent. They cover the security model, headless and multi-tab agents, and how to wire it into an app you’ve already shipped.Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:46 Welcome to Syntax! 01:18 What Is WebMCP and How Is It Different from MCP? 02:32 WebMCP for UI: Enabling Agents to Use Websites Directly 06:05 Brought to you by Sentry! 06:43 Is

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1036: Cursor & OpenAI Break Up

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2026/09/07

The messy breakup is official; as of November 12, OpenAI's models are getting pulled from Cursor, and we're digging into who's really to blame (and why Wes called it). Plus pnpm 12 goes full Rust, Mitchell Hashimoto drops Superlogical, ~700 AI agents attack Hugging Face, and Zod 4.5's compiled schemas get up to 9x faster.Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:33 pnpm 12 Rust Re-Write 02:45 Zod 4.5 brings Schema Compilation Zod 4.5 launch post 05:22 Brought to you by Sentry!

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1035: Why everyone is moving to Stylex?

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2026/09/02

Meta’s StyleX compiles thousands of styles into a few reusable class names at build time—zero runtime, fully type-safe. Scott and Wes break down why it’s suddenly everywhere, and why it might be the best CSS tool for AI agents.Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! Syntax Ep 650 San Francisco Syntax Meetup 02:18 What Is StyleX and How Does It Work? 04:27 The Difference Between StyleX and Other CSS Scoping Methods 06:03 What People Are Saying: StyleX Is Superior for AI Agents Jared

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1034: Omarchy Quattro Release

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2026/08/31

Grokbot actually earns its keep, Cursor takes a swing at GitHub with Origin, and Omarchy Quattro ships pre-wired for nine coding agents. Plus: the GitHub outage post-mortem, a compromised Rust crate, native app vibe-coding with Dactyl, and CAD skills for your AI via nurb.devShow Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:26 Brought to you by Sentry.io 00:37 Grok’s New Agentic App: Grokbot 12:51 GitHub’s Major Outage and Postmortem 16:42 Cursor’s Origin: A GitHub Competitor 22:59 Omarchy: The Linux

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1033: 8 New CSS, JS and HTML Features You Should Know

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2026/08/26

Scott and Wes run through eight new CSS, JS, and HTML features landing in browsers; including the relative alpha() color function, the progress() function for calculating values between units, Promise.allKeyed(), and native camera and microphone elements. They also get into an upgraded attr(), shrink-to-fit containers, and text-box-trim for finally killing that annoying extra space above your text.Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! Wes’s Demo Site 00:22 CSS Alpha() Relative Color

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1032: Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7B

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2026/08/24

Scott and CJ break down Stripe's $7B acquisition of OpenRouter, the SvelteKit 3 release candidate, and their first look at TanStack Charts. Plus Zed's new Delta editor, stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs, why dark mode toggles only need two states, and all 43 quintillion Rubik's cube states in your browser. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 02:20 SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate 07:43 Video editor recs Casey Faris 09:58 TanStack Charts First Look TanStack

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1031: My Coding Skills Are Atrophying

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2026/08/19

Scott and Wes answer your questions about coding in the AI era, atrophying skills from too much autocomplete, whether it’s finally time to leave VS Code, chasing flow state with agents, and which single AI subscription is worth your money. Plus: AT Protocol vs Solid, making your AI config portable across tools, and bringing Shadcn-level UX to server-rendered frameworks.Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:57 AI-Generated Code: Are My Skills Atrophying? 06:03 Is It Time to Move On from VS

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1030: AI Assistant Hacks Gym

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2026/08/17

An AI assistant goes rogue and hacks a gym website, a $9k surprise Cloudflare bill lands in someone’s inbox, and AI subscriptions start promising unlimited usage. Plus Meta’s Muse Glimmer, Agent Plugins, Kimi K3 in Copilot, and a pile of CSS chaos.Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 02:30 Celld: self host distributed durable objects 07:57 $9k Cloudflare Bill 13:43 Ogygia - SSR islands for SvelteKit 18:49 Brought to you by Sentry.io 19:51 Standard Code - Unlimited Use AI Subscription 29:17

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1029: The Workflow of the Future With Zed

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2026/08/12

Nathan Sobo joins Scott and Wes to explain why Zed was built in Rust, how GPUI works, and what happens to editors once agents write most of the code. They also talk about DeltaDB, Zed’s new Git-compatible version control system, and Delta, the collaborative agentic editor it powers.Show Notes 00:00 Start 00:35 Welcom to Syntax 01:13 The Journey to Zed: Building the Ultimate Tool 03:26 Why Rust was chosen for Zed? 06:29 Brought to you by Sentry! 07:07 Building a UI from scratch in

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1028: Cloudflare Wallets

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2026/08/10

Cloudflare is rolling out crypto wallets with claimable handles as identity, and a real React compiler finally landed for regular hooks-based code. Plus: OpenAI's pricing war, Vue Vapor benchmarks, GitHub's new npm malware scanning, and an active supply chain attack hitting 868 packages. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:02 Shai Hulud is back! New Shai-Hulud announcement Attacked keyv packages 05:27 GitHub scans your npm packages for malware 06:42 Your agent has a

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1027: The Rise of the Design Engineer

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2026/08/05

Scott and Wes tackle your questions on the rise of the design engineer, why AI still lacks “taste” (and why it’s about more than just looks), and how to actually write tests in the age of AI-assisted coding. Plus: is AI a bubble about to burst, keeping coding agents efficient in massive codebases, introducing kids to AI, a Linux life update, and more!Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:18 The Rise of the Design Engineer Role 08:39 Why AI Has No Taste: It’s Not Just How It Looks 14:28

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1026: OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face

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2026/08/03

A rogue OpenAI agent allegedly hacks Hugging Face, the React Compiler lands in Rust, and a fresh Rust full-stack framework ships. Scott, Wes, and CJ also dig into Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement, Claude Opus 5, and the campaign to kill the cookie banner.Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:03 React Compiler Ported to Rust 06:39 Vercel releases TS to Native Compiler 19:26 Standard Agent Zen Garden 29:14 In-House LLM at Netflix 34:14 Brought to you by Sentry.io 35:15 Anthropic to

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1025: The Open Web's second chance (w/ Dan Abramov)

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2026/07/29

Dan Abramov joins Scott and Wes to explain AT Protocol, the open standard quietly rebuilding the social web. They get into how it actually works, why it’s way bigger than just Bluesky, and why Dan calls it one of the most interesting ideas on the internet right now.Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:45 Welcome to Syntax! 01:46 Introduction of Dan Abramov 02:55 Understanding AT Protocol and Its Importance 06:41 The Relationship Between AT Protocol and Bluesky 08:22 Identity and Hosting in AT

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