Show Notes
Scott, Wes, and CJ break down the latest Pi updates, including durable long-running agents, Codemode, and MCP support, then debate whether pull requests are dead in favor of issues. Plus Supabase picks up Turso, Screen Studio 4 drops, JavaScript Composites bring value-based equality, and a stack of new AI models from Google, OpenAI, Cloudflare, and more.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax Weekly
00:46 example.com gets a facelift
Oliver Dunk’s post
IANA’s reply
04:37 The death of pull requests
Sindre Sorhus’ post
Dave Kiss’ post
SWC’s post
Andreas Kling’s post
Yusuke Wada’s post
Wes’ NiimBlue PR
JSON Alexander
12:46 pi v1.0
24:14 Brought to you by Sentry!
25:08 Turso Joining Supabase
28:13 Screen Studio Updates
Screen Studio 4.0 upscaling
33:24 Svelte 3.0 Release
35:32 Effect 4.0
38:14 Alchemy
Cloudflare’s Programmatic configuration
42:59 Foldkit
44:10 OpenAI Dev Day Announcements
Dots
Rahim Nathwani’s reply regarding Luna
Plugin Extensions
Sites in ChatGPT
56:40 Cloudflare Clef Decision Model
01:01:25 Gemini 4 Argon
Google’s announcement post
01:09:04 Flux 3 Image Model
01:11:50 Claude Mods
01:13:44 Muse Gadgets
Nat Friedman’s post
01:17:27 Nvidia Lyra 2.0 World Model
01:27:30 Game Recomps and Decomps
01:30:54 JS Composite Type
01:35:00 RFC 1149 Auction
First implementation of the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol
01:37:49 eslint cssicorn
01:39:15 Syntax Meetup
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