It’s a rare non-AI episode! Instead, fresh @bun.sh just dropped 🍞, @npmx.dev is the UX we all want for npm, and @solidjs.com jumps straight from experimental to beta in v2.
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/135/
Claude gets remote control 👀, @anthropic.com refuses to hand over AI for unrestricted military use 💥, and @cloudflare.social ships an AI-built @nextjs.org replacement in a week. 🤯 Sounds made up? It’s not.
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/134/
Survey season continues and React’s results are in 📊, Google wants agents to browse smarter, not harder with WebMCP, and @cloudflare.social plans to convert HTML to markdown, on demand, for AI agents.
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/133/
We're having some technical difficulties over at Front-end Fire HQ getting this week's podcast episode published. Thanks for your patience, we hope to have it up soon!
Devs are faster, busier, and more exhausted—thanks, AI? 🤖 We break down new @hbr.org research, dig into the State of JS 2025 results 👀, and flag new @nextjs.org exploits you need to know about.
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/132/
. @openclaw-x.bsky.social is going viral as a fully autonomous AI agent on your local machine 🤖, two malicious @vscode.dev extensions are sending every file you open to remote servers 🚨, & @deno.land introduces secure cloud sandboxes for AI workloads 🔐.
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/131/
. @tanstack.com Start now supports RSC 🔥—without the recent React RSC vulns, @yarnpkg.dev 6 is heading to Rust 🦀, and @rolldown.rs 1.0 hits RC with massive perf gains 🚀. Plus: @mozilla.org's "rebel alliance" against closed AI. 🎙️
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/130/
. @tinyclouds.org says humans writing code is over, jQuery celebrates 20 years with a modernized 4.0 release, and @cloudflare.social acquires @astro.build in the latest framework power move. Oh - and Apple makes an AI pivot. 💣👀
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/129/
The hottest new trend in AI coding? Ralph Wiggum loops 🤖. Plus, @vercel.com's new json-render AI UI tool, @npmjs.bsky.social's staged publishing proposal, and a Fire Starter that proves CSS keeps winning. 🌀
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/128/
- @t3.gg ditches @nextjs.org for @tanstack.com Start 🤯
- AI’s impact on OSS gets real as @tailwindcss.com lays off 75% of its team 🤖
- And JavaScript Rising Stars reveals the most-loved projects of 2025 ✨
Our first episode of 2026 is packed. 🚀
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/127/
We decided to extend the holiday break by a week, but stay tuned for next Monday: we will be back with the first new episode of 2026, guaranteed!
We're taking a short break from recording the podcast between Christmas and New Years. 🎄
We'll be back next week with a fresh episode. Get ready for more news and updates to get 2026 started right! 🎇
From revisiting our past web dev predictions, to bold 2026 forecasts about AI, HTML, and frameworks — and finally wrapping it all up with what kept us sane and happy this year.
Our yearly holiday spectacular is here ❤️🎄
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/126/
- RSC devs: you’re patching again 😬
- @anthropic.com donates MCP to boost OSS cred
- CSS Wrapped 2025 reveals 22 shiny new features you’ll want yesterday
Oh, and Disney just invested $1B in OpenAI.
New episode is LIVE — buckle up.
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/125/
⚡ A unified SDK for AI apps? @tanstack.com says yes.
💥 @anthropic.com acquires @bun.sh to boost Claude Code
🛡️ Shai-Hulud 2.0 & RSC security issues shake JS devs everywhere
We unpack EVERYTHING on this week's show 🎙️
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/124/
No new episode of the podcast this week due to the US Thanksgiving holiday 🦃.
But not to worry - we'll be back next Monday with ALL the news and updates!
New episode!
- 💥 Google's Antigravity IDE enters the ring
- 🎨 Uniwind brings Tailwind syntax to @reactnative.dev
- 🦀 @prisma.io swaps Rust for TS to slim down
All that + @angular.dev v21, @cloudflare.social chaos & Firefox's AI tease.
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/123/
- A new @reactnative.dev competitor? Yep — Snapchat just dropped Valdi 👀
- @github.com builds a full agent HQ for Copilot 🧠
- @tanstack.com DB v0.5 might change how you fetch data forever
Plus: Firefox gets cuter & vibe coding becomes officially legit 😎
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/122/
Chrome DevTools now has AI 🤖
@htmx.org rewrites the engine for v4 ⚙️
@analogjs.org hits 2.0 🚀
Apple might rent Gemini for Siri 🍎
@npmjs.bsky.social cuts classic tokens 🔐
A human-piloted home robot?? 🤯
New pod is lightning-round chaos. Buckle up ⚡🔥
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/121/
. @react.dev Compiler = real DX + perf wins ✅
Cursor 2.0 = parallel agents + faster models ⚡
And… AI layoffs + low adoption + insane compute cost = bubble incoming? 💣
Hotter takes than a bundler flame war. Let’s go.
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/120/
. @vercel.com didn’t just ship — it launched an armada between the Next.js & Ship AI confs 🛠️. Meanwhile, OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas joins the AI browser battle and @vite.dev is shipping more than builds now — it's shipping a business model with Vite+ 💼
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/119/
🍞 @bun.sh 1.3 wants to be your full-stack JS runtime, @remix.run v3 isn’t just an update — it’s a total rebrand 😳, @nextjs.org 16 beta ships with React 19.2 support, and @hbo.bsky.social + W3C keep rebranding like it’s a sport 😅.
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/118/
React Conf brought the goods this week 👀: @react.dev spins out from Meta into a new foundation, React 19.2 ships new rendering magic, and @cloudflare.social introduces Cap’n Web (a pure TypeScript RPC). Also… the EU admits cookie banners were a mistake 🍪
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/117/
Today on the pod: @anthropic.com's new Claude updates are 🔥 — Sonnet 4.5, VS Code integration, and checkpoints. @developer.chrome.com teams up with AI assistants to debug like never before. 🤖 And @vercel.com's CEO stirred up a political firestorm. 🌪️
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/116/
What are web dev interviews really like in 2025? @argyleink.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy shares his story of 🚫 handling rejections, 🎥 leveling up his pitch, ✅ the companies doing interviews right, and 💡 advice for every job seeker today.
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/115/
Another week, another @npmjs.bsky.social attack ⚠️ @crowdstrike.bsky.social packages hit by the “Shai-Hulud” worm. Wasm 3.0 drops and it's huge: GC, multi-memory, massive perf gains 💥. Want AI without the cloud? @jherr.dev shares the best browser LLMs 🖥️
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/114/
. @npmjs.bsky.social gets hit with its largest supply chain attack 😱, @storybook.js.org 10 drops CJS for big perf wins 🚀, Brave finds a major flaw in Comet browser⚠️, & a dev makes a site to count Claude Code’s favorite phrase: “You’re absolutely right!” 😂
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/113/
. @warp.dev's new Warp Code wants to make your terminal the hub of AI dev workflows ⚡, Google walks away from its antitrust case with barely a scratch 👀, and @atlassian.bsky.social just dropped $610M to buy AI browser Dia 💰.
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/112/
🍞 @bun.sh ships a big v1.2 update: SQL client, YAML, vuln scans & secrets storage 🛠
🛑 Claude Code gets rollback checkpoints
💻 MCP-UI gets visual with embedded HTML/iframes
Plus, support @deno.land in its Oracle fight for the JS trademark! ⚔️
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/111/
In this week's podcast episode:
🪄 Forget HCL — Alchemy does Infrastructure as Code with plain TypeScript
🤔 MCP “ubertool” servers experiment with letting AI write & run code
📦 And @nextjs.org15.5 preps for v16.
Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/110/
