Show Notes
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 wallet now
Make your own
Cloudflare wallet announcement blog post
X402 payments
12:10 Yet another React compiler?
Ripple.ts
Inferno.js
Dominic Gannaway’s launch post
Octane
Native Script
Reactivity + Rendering Benchmark
27:19 Scott switched his browser AGAIN!
Dia
Knock off extension
31:56 AI Mental health survey
32:29 OpenAI models are becoming cheaper?
38:49 GitHub stacked PRs finally arrived
41:48 AI video podcasts
HeyGen launch post
Hank Green’s unhealthy AI usage
48:15 Brought to you by Sentry!
49:28 News from the TC39 meeting
ECMAScript news
Await dictionary
TC39 Process
56:58 Qwen 3.8
01:02:31 Latest and greatest in CSS and UI libraries
Foley.dev
Morphicons
Lucide
Nucleo
8bit library
CSS radar
Impeccable
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