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- 1 weeks ago1h 4m
Mark & Carl talk with Swizec Teller about using AI at work
Transcript ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky - This Month in React April - Introductions - What convinced you AI code tools were worth using? - Using early ChatGPT for DB migrations - Watching AI use a command-line - Background chat agents - Staying very hands-on while using AI tools - Driving AI closely without reading its code - Mark's workflow; OpenCode with CodeNomad UI, plus IDE+git UI. Opus 4.6 on API - Swizec's workflow, latest Cursor on Opus - Carl's workflow, mostly ClaudeCode but looking at custom orchestrators - Exploring fully autonomous agents - Mark's AI debugging work in React core - Value of providing more context - AI-owned documentation - Using good engineering practices still matters? - How do you know the right code to make? - Good communication still matters - What will "review" look like in the future? - Automating functionality tests with deployment practices - What behaviors belong to the agent, and what fundamentally can't be part of the agent? - Impacts of LLMs on software engineering? - A superpower right now is a domain expert who can kind of code
- Mar 3, 20261h 5m
TMiR 2026-02: CloudFlare remakes Next with AI; Vercel big mad. We talk too much about AI Agents
Transcript and links - This Month in React February 2026 - New releases - [TS 6.0 beta](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-6-0-beta/)/! (last TS impl release; stricter defaults) - [Yarn 6 preview](https://yarn6.netlify.app/blog/2026-01-28-yarn-6-preview/) (rewritten in Rust) - [Electrobun](https://blackboard.sh/electrobun/docs/) (Tauri alternative) - [React Native Gesture Handler v3](https://blog.swmansion.com/introducing-gesture-handler-3-0-hook-based-api-deeper-reanimated-integration-more-9185b0c8e305) - [Next polyfills improved WebStreams and upstreaming to Node](https://vercel.com/blog/we-ralph-wiggumed-webstreams-to-make-them-10x-faster) - [Webpack 2026 roadmap](https://webpack.js.org/blog/2026-04-02-roadmap-2026/) - [Lodash maintenance roadmap](https://socket.dev/blog/inside-lodash-security-reset) - [Gatsby React 19 support](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/reference/release-notes/v5.16/) , [styled-components RSC support](https://styled-components.com/releases#styled-components@6.3.0) - [npmx.dev](https://npmx.dev/) (alternate NPM site UI) - [eslint-plugin-react-render-types](https://github.com/HorusGoul/eslint-plugin-react-render-types) (typed children) - Main Content - React Core updates: - [React Foundation officially launched](https://react.dev/blog/2026/02/24/the-react-foundation) - Docs updates: [/`useActionState/`](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/8284) (merged), [/`use/`](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/8305) and [RSC sandboxes](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/8300) (wip) - [React Native 0.84 released](https://reactnative.dev/blog/2026/02/11/react-native-0.84) - [Hermes WASM support](https://x.com/tmikov/status/2023821160241393839) , [Hermes Node compat CLI](https://x.com/tmikov/status/2024609186936660170) - “State of…” survey results - [State of JS 2025 results](https://2025.stateofjs.com/en-US) - [State of React 2025 results](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US) - [Aurora Scharff’s conclusion](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/conclusion/) - [Josh Comeau’s takes on the results](https://bsky.app/profile/joshwcomeau.com/post/3mf642css6227) - [API pain points](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/features/#main_apis_pain_points) - [State of React Native 2025](https://results.2025.stateofreactnative.com/en-US/) - [How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week](https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/) - CloudFlare v Vercel beef - Carl Vitullo monologs about AI Agents - AI productivity and impacts on our attention - ["wrote a spec, pointed Claude at an Asana board, and went home"](https://x.com/rvivek/status/2026385957596111044) - [Bits AI SRE | Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/product/ai/bits-ai-sre/) - [ThoughtWorks opines on AI productivity impacts](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/14/thoughtworks/) - ⚡ Lightning round ⚡ - [“Wall Street Raider” game modernization](https://www.wallstreetraider.com/story.html) (and uses Preact) - [Github Stacked Diffs preview](https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/2019817235163074881) , [faster Issues search](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-01-29-improved-search-for-github-issues-in-public-preview/) - [Josh Comeau: Sprite animations](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/sprites/) - [Interop 2026](https://wpt.fyi/interop-2026), ([WebKit](https://webkit.org/blog/17818/announcing-interop-2026/), [Igalia](https://www.igalia.com/news/interop-2026.html)) - Conferences ([React](https://react.dev/community/conferences), [Javascript](https://confs.tech/javascript)) Reply on Bluesky ★ Support this podcast ★
- Feb 5, 20261h 5m
TMiR 2026-01: Oops more CVEs. AI has React "skills", Astro exits and Tailwind struggles
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- Dec 31, 20251h 39m
TMiR 2025-12: Year in review, React2Shell (RCE, DOS, SCE, oh my)
Full transcript at ReactifluxMain ContentReact2Shell vulnerabilityInitial announcementFollowup denial-of-service CVE and source code exposure CVEVercel bulletinCloudflareCloudflare report on exploit attemptsCloudflare outage on December 5, 2025Tech analysis: “Flight Protocol”Vuln is carefully crafted Promise deserialization + `new Function` evalPRs: Initial fixes, Promise cycles / function toString, more Promise cyclesGuillermo’s breakdownShruti’s breakdownComms critique“React is rainbow colored (function types)”What does this mean for React and RSC adoption going forward?When I go back and look at react.dev now \[…\] it feels half-finishedReact Native year in reviewMore CSS supportExpo EAS hostingRN 0.78: React 19 supportLynx launchedRN 0.79: JSC moving to Community PackageRN 0.80: Freezing the legacy architectureRN 0.81: Android 16 support for edge to edge1.0 on the horizonVega OS launchedRN 0.82: Only new architectureExpo App AwardsRN 0.83: New Devtools - no breaking changesReact year in reviewCRA deprecation, new install docs (Vite\!)Styled Components DeprecatedReleases: 19.2 (Activity, useEffectEvent), Compiler 1.0Research: View Transitions canary, perf, concurrent stores, “throw a promise” deprecated (but not merged yet)“Async React” and the ecosystemReact FoundationReact growth skyrocketsReact Router RSC support, TanStack Start WIP RSC, WakuDan’s RSC explainers (he had a bunch of things to say)Remix v3 Jam recap (not React but relevant)Mark went from frustrated (<a href="https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2025/06/rea
- Nov 30, 20251h 2m
TMiR 2025-11: Cloudflare outage, ongoing npm hacks, React Router is getting RSCs
Transcript and show notesTMiR on Bluesky[00:13] Intro[01:00] New releases[01:04] BetterAuth 1.4[02:47] Immer 11, RTK 2.11[06:00] Storybook 10[06:22] 0.1 version of Remix team’s “event interaction” package[08:04] Main content[08:08] Ecosystem panel discussion of React Foundation at React Summit NY[14:46] React Concurrent Stores: Polyfill, React-Redux POC[17:52] React Router and transition usage[18:08] Matt Brophy and Ricky discussing nuances of behavior, use with React Router[22:53] The State of TanStack, Two Years of Full-Time OSS[25:57] TanStack DB 0.5[31:01] Tanner teasing a WIP TanStack Start RSC implementation[32:25] State of the web ecosystem[33:13] Cloudflare November outage postmortem[36:10] "What if people don't want to create things"[39:39] “When Everyone’s a Developer, How Do We Promote the Web Platform Over React?”[45:53] Related, “Dead Framework Theory” from last month[48:12] Alex Russell’s latest stats on web devices and network budgets[51:48] Npm attack, Shai-Hulud round 2[52:06] Analysis of its evolution in code from Sept[55:23] Our plan for a more secure npm supply chain from September[55:29] NPM update on token management changes[55:34] ⚡ Lightning round ⚡[55:38] TS 6.0 hopefully Feb 2026, 7.0 (native) soon after (more details in the TypeScript.fm podcast)[56:03] Latest TC39 proposal updates[56:32] Chrome (and other browsers) wants to remove XSLT from the web platform[57:14] “Your URL is Your State”, and David K’s “Goodbye, useState” talk[57:46] Aiden Bai’s “React Grab” util[58:39] Creating a custom Node module loader to import from Bittorrent[59:22] Ryan Carniato’s stream on researching “async signals”[59:33] Details of building Node’s TS type stripping support[59:58] The Web Animation Performance Tier List[01:00:14] Conferences (React, Javascript)[01:00:22] CFPs[01:01:01] React Paris (<a href="http
- Oct 31, 20251h 13m
TMiR 2025-10: Post-conf; React 19.2, React Foundation, React Native removing old architecture. Next.js has too many directives
Transcript and article links[00:00:00] Intro[00:00:46] New releases[00:00:49] Immer 10.2[00:01:55] ArkType ArkRegex (typed regex)[00:02:41] Main Content[00:02:45] React Conf[00:02:50] Official ReactConf 2025 Recap[00:02:57] Introducing the React Foundation (also from Linux Foundation, Meta engineering, and Seth Webster)[00:17:03] 19.2 (Activity, useEffectEvent)[00:17:27] React Native news[00:17:32] New architecture only from v0.82[00:18:52] Vega OS announcement[00:19:04] Vega introduction at React Conf[00:22:36] Joe Savona’s “Exploring React Performance” talk[00:23:26] Ricky’s “Async React Part I” and “Part II” (repo)[00:27:12] Async React Working Group[00:27:35] First discussion of more docs ideas[00:28:27] Remix v3 announcement[00:29:03] Announcement demo timestamped breakdown[00:31:28] Updates syntax can be customized?[00:34:44] I built the same app 10 times (code)[00:37:57] Same author as React Won by Default and It’s Killing Innovation[00:43:33] Solito 5[<a href="https://github
- Oct 1, 20251h 2m
TMiR 2025-09: React 19.2 on the horizon; npm is still getting compromised
[00:52] New releases[00:54] TanStack Start 1.0 RC![01:13] react-window 2.0 rewrite[01:44] Apollo Client 4.0[01:59] Redux Toolkit 2.9.0[02:47] Main Content[02:52] React 19.2 coming soon?[03:24] in canary, with docs[07:18] last React Labs post mention[11:43] useEffectEvent in canary and has docs[15:47] Compiler inferring function names[16:08] Docs for eslint-plugin-react-hooks, including rules and compiler issues[17:15] React Native 1.0 on the horizon[22:02] “React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation”[22:18] Inevitable HN argument[27:54] Ricky on Ryan Carniato’s stream talking about scheduling and demoing using modern React features[33:41] Server Components[33:44] React Router RSC framework mode preview[34:36] also middleware is now stable[34:44] Krasimir Tsonev’s “Can I Use RSC Today?” support matrix and experimental Forket “RSC without a framework” build tool[35:43] RSBuild support for RSCs[35:55] Useful post on parallel and recursive route rendering[36:35] All the NPM compromises and malware this month[39:47] npm package maintainer Qix[39:48] CrowdStrike npm Packages[40:16] GitHub Actions npm Token Theft[41:01] GitHub response[42:00] ⚡ Lightning round ⚡[42:03] Porting Modern TypeScript to Run on DOS[42:35] Cloudflare DDOSed themselves with a bad useEffect fetch[43:11] A very lovely writeup of the evolution of css zoom[43:56] What You Need to Know about Modern CSS[45:21] Fetch streams are great, but not for measuring upload/download progress[45:40] Why do browsers throttle JS timers?[46:01] “How Modern Browsers Work” deep dive, Addy Osmani[46:32] Biome: Stress-testing WIP noFloatingPromises lint rule[48:37] Bun: How bun install is so fast[49:23] Styled-Components fork for perf and React 19 compat[50:02] Vite SSR: Custom getStaticProps[50:11] Dominic Gannaw
- Aug 29, 202556 min
TMiR 2025-08: Nx compromised; no more throwing promises; Remix-ing new component models
New releasesTS 5.9TS 6.0 may make `strict` and change other defaultsReact Native 0.81Next 15.5Preact 11 betaHydration 2.0Bun 1.2.21Native YAML support. Definitely not going to cause any problemsTanstack DB betaGhost v6Main ContentReact API changes / updatesReact deprecating the “throw a promise” Suspense trigger methodDiscussion between Dan, Dominik, and Ricky about how to support multiple React versions (if at all)Joe Savona: “no useContext in useMemo, the compiler addresses this”Github discussion with Joe about why no context selectors API or signals, research into data modeling, and why “concurrent stores” are the current focus areaPR for “concurrent stores” skeletonThird-party `react-concurrent-store` ponyfill packageDevtools Suspense TimelineLee Robinsons’s “Reflections on the React Community” wrap-up postRemix doing its own component model??Remix 3 and the End of React-Centric ArchitecturesPopular nx packages compromised on npmLast month eslint-plugin-prettier maintainers were targeted, this is a much broader attack⚡ Lightning round ⚡React Strict DOM vs React Native for Web in 2025Faster JSON.stringify()Node 22.18 unflags TS type-stripping supportWaku switches to Vite’s WIP RSC supportRari, a fast React framework with RSC support built with RustSelecting values from query results, as well as The Useless useCallbackTS+ postmortem (Effect-TS experimental TS fork)React useTransition update ordering details“A Clock that Doesn’t Snap”, Techniques for fixing hydration of values like datesReact Cache: It’s about consistencySelf-hosting Next at scaleServer and Client Component Composition in PracticeConferences (React, Javascript)React Universe Conf Sept 2-4, 2025. Wrocław, Poland<a href="
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