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- RSC devs: you’re patching again 😬
- @anthropic.com donates MCP to boost OSS cred
- CSS Wrapped 2025 reveals 22 shiny new features you’ll want yesterday

Oh, and Disney just invested $1B in OpenAI.

New episode is LIVE — buckle up.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/125/
- RSC devs: you’re patching again 😬
- @anthropic.com donates MCP to boost OSS cred
- CSS Wrapped 2025 reveals 22 shiny new features you’ll want yesterday

Oh, and Disney just invested $1B in OpenAI.

New episode is LIVE — buckle up.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/125/
December 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
⚡ A unified SDK for AI apps? @tanstack.com says yes.
💥 @anthropic.com acquires @bun.sh to boost Claude Code
🛡️ Shai-Hulud 2.0 & RSC security issues shake JS devs everywhere

We unpack EVERYTHING on this week's show 🎙️

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/124/
December 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
No new episode of the podcast this week due to the US Thanksgiving holiday 🦃.

But not to worry - we'll be back next Monday with ALL the news and updates!
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
New episode!

- 💥 Google's Antigravity IDE enters the ring
- 🎨 Uniwind brings Tailwind syntax to @reactnative.dev
- 🦀 @prisma.io swaps Rust for TS to slim down

All that + @angular.dev v21, @cloudflare.social chaos & Firefox's AI tease.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/123/
123: Is Google’s Antigravity IDE a Game-Changer or Just Another Fork? | Front-End Fire
💥 Google’s Antigravity IDE enters the ring, 🎨 Uniwind brings Tailwind syntax to React Native, 🦀 Prisma swaps Rust for TS to slim down. All that + Angular v21, Cloudflare chaos & Firefox’s AI tease.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
- A new @reactnative.dev competitor? Yep — Snapchat just dropped Valdi 👀
- @github.com builds a full agent HQ for Copilot 🧠
- @tanstack.com DB v0.5 might change how you fetch data forever

Plus: Firefox gets cuter & vibe coding becomes officially legit 😎

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/122/
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Chrome DevTools now has AI 🤖
@htmx.org rewrites the engine for v4 ⚙️
@analogjs.org hits 2.0 🚀
Apple might rent Gemini for Siri 🍎
@npmjs.bsky.social cuts classic tokens 🔐
A human-piloted home robot?? 🤯

New pod is lightning-round chaos. Buckle up ⚡🔥

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/121/
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
. @react.dev Compiler = real DX + perf wins ✅
Cursor 2.0 = parallel agents + faster models ⚡
And… AI layoffs + low adoption + insane compute cost = bubble incoming? 💣

Hotter takes than a bundler flame war. Let’s go.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/120/
November 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
. @vercel.com didn’t just ship — it launched an armada between the Next.js & Ship AI confs 🛠️. Meanwhile, OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas joins the AI browser battle and @vite.dev is shipping more than builds now — it's shipping a business model with Vite+ 💼

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/119/
October 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🍞 @bun.sh 1.3 wants to be your full-stack JS runtime, @remix.run v3 isn’t just an update — it’s a total rebrand 😳, @nextjs.org 16 beta ships with React 19.2 support, and @hbo.bsky.social + W3C keep rebranding like it’s a sport 😅.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/118/
October 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
React Conf brought the goods this week 👀: @react.dev spins out from Meta into a new foundation, React 19.2 ships new rendering magic, and @cloudflare.social introduces Cap’n Web (a pure TypeScript RPC). Also… the EU admits cookie banners were a mistake 🍪

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/117/
October 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today on the pod: @anthropic.com's new Claude updates are 🔥 — Sonnet 4.5, VS Code integration, and checkpoints. @developer.chrome.com teams up with AI assistants to debug like never before. 🤖 And @vercel.com's CEO stirred up a political firestorm. 🌪️

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/116/
October 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
What are web dev interviews really like in 2025? @argyleink.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy shares his story of 🚫 handling rejections, 🎥 leveling up his pitch, ✅ the companies doing interviews right, and 💡 advice for every job seeker today.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/115/
September 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Another week, another @npmjs.bsky.social attack ⚠️ @crowdstrike.bsky.social packages hit by the “Shai-Hulud” worm. Wasm 3.0 drops and it's huge: GC, multi-memory, massive perf gains 💥. Want AI without the cloud? @jherr.dev shares the best browser LLMs 🖥️

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/114/
September 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
. @npmjs.bsky.social gets hit with its largest supply chain attack 😱, @storybook.js.org 10 drops CJS for big perf wins 🚀, Brave finds a major flaw in Comet browser⚠️, & a dev makes a site to count Claude Code’s favorite phrase: “You’re absolutely right!” 😂

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/113/
September 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
. @warp.dev's new Warp Code wants to make your terminal the hub of AI dev workflows ⚡, Google walks away from its antitrust case with barely a scratch 👀, and @atlassian.bsky.social just dropped $610M to buy AI browser Dia 💰.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/112/
September 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🍞 @bun.sh ships a big v1.2 update: SQL client, YAML, vuln scans & secrets storage 🛠
🛑 Claude Code gets rollback checkpoints
💻 MCP-UI gets visual with embedded HTML/iframes

Plus, support @deno.land in its Oracle fight for the JS trademark! ⚔️

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/111/
September 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
In this week's podcast episode:

🪄 Forget HCL — Alchemy does Infrastructure as Code with plain TypeScript
🤔 MCP “ubertool” servers experiment with letting AI write & run code
📦 And @nextjs.org15.5 preps for v16.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/110/
August 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
- 🛠 Devtools centralization for all @tanstack.com libs
- 🎨 State of CSS 2025 celebrates :has() & @tailwindcss.com supremacy
- 🐼 Panda CSS v1 ships with cascade layers

And… @perplexityai.bsky.social offers $34B for Chrome while Gemini rage-quits 💻

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/109/
August 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
On deck today:

- 🔥 @cloudflare.social & Perplexity's data scraping dispute
- 🚀 @vercel.com supercharges its AI SDK in v5
- ⚡ @tanstack.com DB gives you live, reactive data without Firebase

🎧 Developer drama & game-changing tools await.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/108/
August 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This week on the pod:

- ⚔️ es-toolkit aims to dethrone Lodash
- 🧠 oRPC wants to up your API game
- 📉 Stack Overflow’s 2025 dev survey is out — and it’s not pretty

🎧 We unpack all that and more.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/107/
August 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
. @github.com proposes the EU fund open source like public infrastructure 💸, Apple gets called out its lack of alternative browser support, and Amazon's Kiro adds Agent Hooks to let AI enforce code quality 🛠️.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/106/
July 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
. @windsurfai.bsky.social went from almost-acquired by OpenAI, to Google poaching its execs, to Cognition scooping its IP—all in 72 hours 🌀. Amazon’s new AI IDE, Kiro, promises to tame the vibe coding chaos ✍️➡️📑, & @nextjs.org 15.4 powers up for AI agents.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/105/
July 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
. @vercel.com scoops up @nuxtlabs.com 🔥, @figma.com feeds design data to AI agents via Dev Mode 🧠🎨, and OpenAI + Perplexity throw down against Chrome ⚔️. Meanwhile, a new MCP framework called Xmcp promises servers for everyone...and that's just this week.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/104/
July 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
💥 @vercel.com ships new AI Cloud tools, @cloudflare.social says ✋ to AI crawlers freeloading off your content, and Neon Launchpad? Easiest Postgres spin-up ever.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/103/
July 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
On this week’s episode:

- 🤖 @jherr.dev tried every AI coding CLI so you don’t have to.
- 📣 Google's sneaking Gemini Nano into Chrome, and Mozilla sounds the alarm.
- 🚀 @figma.com acquires @payload.dev so users can design, edit, & publish in one place.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/102/
June 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM