Show Notes
CJ and Scott break down the biggest week in web dev: TypeScript 7 ships with a 10x-faster native port, Bun gets rewritten in Rust (much to the Zig team’s dismay), and Better Auth joins Vercel. Plus GPT-5.6 first impressions, Odin 1.0, Cloudflare’s new Workers cache and drag-and-drop deploys, and the OpenCode 2 beta.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:21 CJ upgraded his homelab network
02:09 TypeScript 7 is 10x faster
11:19 Bun Rust rewrite drama
Zig creator criticizes rewrite
28:18 GPT 5.6 Impressions
Ashley Peachock on X
Matt Shumer on X
40:58 Better Auth Acquired by Vercel
49:51 Grok Build CLI is stealing your code
International Cyber Digest on X
56:00 Cloudflare Worker Cache and Drop
01:01:22 Check out CJ’s latest video I Built an LLM from Scratch
01:03:06 Odin 1.0 Announced
01:05:33 OpenCode 2.0 Beta released
01:07:32 Winamp Skin Museum
01:11:08 CJ’s new MP3 player
01:13:03 Scott’s Robot Update
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Scott: Reachy Mini
CJ: Snowsky Echo Mini
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