Paige Niedringhaus
paigen11.bsky.social
Paige Niedringhaus
@paigen11.bsky.social
Staff software engineer at Blues | Cohost of @front-end-fire.com and LogRocket podcasts | Artist and hand balancer in my spare time | she/her
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If you:
💻 Stare at code all day
👀 Battle eye strain
🌙 Switch between light/dark modes constantly
…then the BenQ RD series monitor might be your new best friend.

My full review is live now: www.paigeniedringhaus.com/blog/reviewi...
Reviewing the BenQ RD Series Monitor for Developers
I didn't think developers needed a special monitor, until I tried the BenQ RD280U.
www.paigeniedringhaus.com
This week on @front-end-fire.com: AI inside DevTools, HTMX's guts refactored for v4, AnalogJS 2.0 drops, Apple + Gemini rumors swirl, and robots... driven by humans in the cloud?

The future is here and it’s… weird.
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 2:41 PM
On @front-end-fire.com: we tested React Compiler in prod, Cursor just became an AI agent swarm in your editor, and is the AI bubble popping already?

This week we dig into real performance numbers, AI IDE power moves, and whether the hype train is finally slowing down.
. @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 1:49 PM
Another week, another AI browser 🌐: this week OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas enters the AI browser race, Vite+ is bringing Rust-powered dev tools and a business model, and Vercel drops two conferences in one week with Next.js 16 + Ship AI.

There's plenty to cover on @front-end-fire.com!
. @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 1:53 PM
On today's @front-end-fire.com: Next.js 16 beta brings the heat with full React 19.2 support, Remix v3 looks nothing like Remix anymore, and Bun 1.3 goes full-stack runtime with dev servers, MySQL, and more.

Oh, and the W3C's new logo... sure is something. 🌀
🍞 @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 1:52 PM
Big news in the @front-end-fire.com podcast this week:

- After years under Meta, React's going solo 🎰
- React 19.2 rolls out new hooks & rendering tricks ⚛️
- And Cloudflare's at it again with the Cap'n Web RPC protocol in pure TypeScript 💥
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 1:50 PM
On this episode of @front-end-fire.com we cover:

- Anthropic's Claude just got a major dev-focused glow up,
- Chrome DevTools just raised the MCP stakes,
- Vercel creates a political PR nightmare

Oh, and Meta’s building a 70 football field data center 😳
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 1:48 PM
It was such a pleasure having @nerdy.dev on @front-end-fire.com to talk about interviewing for web dev positions in 2025.

Adam talks surviving rejection, shining in broken interview systems, and building confidence with practical tips. Encouragement + strategy all in one episode!
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 1:56 PM
npm packages struck again: this time Crowdstrike's the unlucky victim, WebAssembly 3.0 brings big wins, and our very own @jherr.dev breaks down your best options for running LLMs locally.

Another great episode of @front-end-fire.com is out now!
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 1:49 PM
The npm ecosystem dodges a bullet after a massive phishing-based supply chain attack 🎯. Storybook 10 pushes for performance with ESM-only, Brave calls out Comet’s agent vulnerability, and Claude Code keeps agreeing with us… a little too much.

Another great episode of @front-end-fire.com is out now!
. @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 1:45 PM
Today on the @front-end-fire.com podcast:

- Warp is reimagining the coding workflow with Warp Code
- Google's antitrust suit earned it a "slap on the wrist" and nothing more
- And Atlassian scoops up Dia for $610M

Hear all this and more on our latest episode.
. @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 1:53 PM
If you:
💻 Stare at code all day
👀 Battle eye strain
🌙 Switch between light/dark modes constantly
…then the BenQ RD series monitor might be your new best friend.

My full review is live now: www.paigeniedringhaus.com/blog/reviewi...
Reviewing the BenQ RD Series Monitor for Developers
I didn't think developers needed a special monitor, until I tried the BenQ RD280U.
www.paigeniedringhaus.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
👩‍💻👨‍💻 Devs, meet the monitor made just for us.
BenQ’s new RD series isn’t your average display — it’s purpose-built for coding.

Check out the BenQ RD280U: benqurl.biz/4oHVx4E

Blog review coming soon — you’ll want to see this. 👀
September 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
In this week's @front-end-fire.com episode: checkpoints for Claude Code, Bun levels up, and richer experiences with MCP-UI.

And Deno needs us to help free JS!
🍞 @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 2:33 PM
On this week's @front-end-fire.com we cover: an MCP server that just runs code as tool inputs 🤯, TS-native Infrastructure as Code with Alchemy, and Next.js with one final minor release before v16.

You don't want to miss this! 🎧
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 4:56 PM
On today's @front-end-fire.com: TanStack Devtools brings a unified panel for all your TanStack libs, State of CSS 2025 crowns Tailwind again 👑, Panda CSS v1 arrives with type safety & modern CSS features.

Plus… Perplexity’s $34B Chrome offer?!
- 🛠 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 2:21 PM
Today on the @front-end-fire.com podcast: Cloudflare calls out Perplexity for scraping AI data where it's been banned, Vercel drops AI SDK v5 with big upgrades, and TanStack DB promises Firebase-like speed without the lock-in.

All the AI battles & dev tool launches you missed, right here.
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 1:45 PM
On this episode of @front-end-fire.com: a smaller, faster Lodash alternative appears ⚡, oRPC blends type-safe APIs with OpenAPI standards 📡 , and Stack Overflow's usage nosedives 📊 .

Don't miss it.
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 1:56 PM
On this episode of @front-end-fire.com :

- GitHub says the EU should pay devs who keep OSS alive 🧑‍💻
- Open Web Advocacy says Apple’s “support” for other iOS browsers is full of traps 🚧
- Kiro's Agent Hooks bring AI pre-commit vibes
. @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 1:42 PM
This week on @front-end-fire.com:

- OpenAI, Google, and Cognition all wanted a piece of Windsurf—and they got it, sort of 🧠💥,
- Amazon launches Kiro to bring structure to vibe coding,
- And Next.js ships some sweet AI-friendly features.
. @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 2:11 PM
On today's episode of @front-end-fire.com : the @nuxt.com creators join Vercel, Figma powers up Dev Mode for agentic UIs ✨, and new AI browsers aim to dethrone Google Chrome.

Oh, and CSS now supports if() statements. For real.
. @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 1:53 PM
This week on @front-end-fire.com : @vercel.com's AI Cloud aims to be the dev platform for AI agents, Neon Launchpad creates instant Postgres DBs (no account needed), and @cloudflare.social throws down the gauntlet for content rights ⚖️.

Also: Claude couldn't run a vending machine. 😂
💥 @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 2:16 PM
So many coding AI agents, so little time.

On this week's @front-end-fire.com, Jack did the leg work on which ones are worth your time, plus Mozilla's upset Chrome's building Gemini-powered APIs, and design platform @figma.com bought a CMS system?

Lots of good news to cover as always!
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 2:49 PM
On this episode of @front-end-fire.com: @voidzero.dev continues its hot streak with Oxlint 1.0, GitHub Copilot can tackle GH issues just like a teammate, and Opera Air wants your web experience to be a calm one.

So much good stuff to talk about!
This week in devland:

- 🧹 Meet @voidzero.dev's new linting beast Oxlint
- 🧘‍♀️ Browser Opera Air wants you to breathe between commits
- 🤖 GitHub Copilot gets promoted to team member
- 🌀 And Remix v3 says it’s the web’s spiritual heir

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/101/
June 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Episode #100 of @front-end-fire.com ?!?

Thanks for helping us make it this far, listeners! 🥹

This week we've got: Rolldown-Vite speeding up your build times, Safari 26 bringing the updates at WWDC25, and The Browser Company's new AI-browser Dia in early access.

Big shifts ahead!
⚡️ New week, new web dev glow-ups on episode 100 🥳:

• Rolldown-Vite makes @vite.dev builds up to 16x faster
• 🍎 Apple's Safari 26 drops + scroll animations
• 🌐 @diabrowser.com, The Browser Company’s AI upgrade to Arc enters early access

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/100/
June 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🎤 Talk to your AI agent in real time with OpenAI’s new API. 📉 Arc browser is dead—meet Dia, The Browser Co’s next AI gamble. 🛠️ Cursor’s BugBot + Background Agent go public in v1.0.⚠️ Codex can now browse the internet.

So much good stuff to talk about in this week's @front-end-fire.com!
In this week's podcast episode:

- 🪦 Arc is dead. Long live Dia? The Browser Company goes all-in on AI
- 🎙️ OpenAI's Realtime API brings voice conversations to LLMs
- 🧠 Cursor IDE v1.0 = agents, bug bots, project memory

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/99/
June 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM