Show Notes
Scott, Wes, and CJ ask whether Ruby on Rails is really dead (and whether Rust is just Rails you don't have to read), then dig into Meta's new Muse agent, which is free, comes with its own VM, and is already reading messages nobody asked it to. Plus: upm, a tiny TypeScript npm replacement, Opus 5.5 moonlighting as a motion designer, Tart VMs on Apple Silicon, and a foundry for gloriously bad web fonts.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome
01:11 upm is a tiny fast npm
Pooya Parsa’s launch post
07:34 Zuck cooked with Muse Mark Zuckerberg’s post
Safety and Security in Muse
Privacy concerns
Ray Wong’s post
19:21 Ruby on Rails is Dead
27:55 loco - Rails for Rust
31:06 Brought to you by Sentry!
33:12 How should new developers learn?
41:40 Opus 5.5 First Impressions
Stephan Livera’s motion graphics with Opus 5.5
Kenn Ejima’s single prompt motion graphics
Andras Bacsai’s Coolify motion graphics
Tyler Shukert’s Supabase motion graphics
Ben Vinegar’s Modem motion graphics
Wes’ gym builder
GFX
58:27 Tart - virtualization toolset for Apple Silicon
01:01:43 jevgrep is-jeven
01:06:49 SHOW ME YOUR RACK
01:09:04 Chrome gets responsive iframe resizing
01:10:25 Bastardica - bastard web font foundry
01:14:23 Sonnet 5.5 Released
01:16:37 OpenAI Dev Day
01:20:02 Syntax SF Meetup
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