Show Notes
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 Charts
TanStack Charts implementations of every official shadcn/ui chart
14:24 Ponytail AI Tool
17:22 Zed Delta Editor
Introducing Delta
23:44 Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7B+
29:27 Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
35:03 First look at Cursor’s GitHub killer
42:34 Dark Mode UX Discussion
46:40 Brought to you by Sentry!
48:34 Should AI respond in plain language?
52:57 Swamp Club Automation
01:02:37 Fight AI slop with this anti-slop plugin
01:03:39 Rubik’s Cube Permutations
01:05:02 Hackweek
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