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- Oct 6, 20261h 10m
TMiR 2026-09: React 19.3; a eulogy to software engineering?
Transcript and URLs 𐄁 Creators & Guests Mark Erikson - Host Carl Vitullo - Producer ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky - 2026-09: React 19.3; a eulogy to software engineering? - New Releases - Redux has a unified docs site now - React-Redux `useSignalSelector` hook alphas - Vite+ 1.0 - Vitest 5 - Vinext 1.0 - Lovable OJ vite-mostly-compatible dev server - Preact 11 - MSW 3 - React Router 8.4 - Remix 3 RC - Shopify bought Tailwind - Jotai 3 - Poimandres Glyph typography engine - Vidact - Tanner Linsley’s Redact - TMiR has a new website! - Sponsored by Cloudways Velocity - Main content - React 19.3 is out! - View Transition support - Fragment Refs - `use(browser())` API - Oops bundle is bigger - bundlejs.org - React Devtools 8.0 - "React Now Rusted All The Way Out" - React concurrent store prototyping??? - A eulogy for the software engineer | Dave Kiss - We are all product engineers now | Laurie Voss - "Do Frameworks Matter Anymore?" | Brooks Lybrand - "How do you care when nobody else does?" | François Best - “What motivates you to build software for others anymore?” | Sebastien Lorber - AI Contribution Policies - Lightning rounds - Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Laurie Voss - Agent hacking swarms - Schema Benchmarks 7 month update - State of Devs 2026 - some quick misc thoughts about why MCP is so much better than CLIs | Rhys Sullivan - The Grand Unifying Architecture of Frontend | Ryan Carniato - Simon Willison: 2026 in LLMs So Far - Shopify switching from React Native to native apps - Discord migrated to RN New Architecture - Conferences (React, Javascript) - React India, Oct 30 - React Summit NY, Nov 17 - React Day Berlin, Dec 4
- Aug 28, 20261h 6m
TMiR 2026-08: Release candidate season; is that an asteroid hitting web educators?
Transcript and URLs 𐄁 Creators & Guests Mark Erikson - Host Carl Vitullo - Producer ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky - tmir-2026-08 - New releases - Waku 1.0 (RC) - Preact 11.0.0-rc.1 - Mobx 7.0 - Next 16.3 - React Native 0.87 - TanStack Table 9 - TC39 “Composites” proposal (~ replaces Records and Tuples) - Solid 2.0 RC - Bun 1.4 - Github stacked PRs in public preview - Main Content - React core-ish - New ReactDOM `use(browser())` API - React Foundation website updated - Big Next.js AMA in /r/reactjs - React Compiler support in OXC - Biome and Bun 1.4 have initial support as well - The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development - Scott Tolinski’s “True Cost of AI Coding” survey and video - Josh Goldberg stepped back from OSS work - Software Stewardship Lab announced (Daniel Roe et al) - Humanity in OSS - Cursor switched from Solid to React - Lovable moved off Next to TanStack Start - Ryan Carniato’s async Solid articles - Slew of Github competitors: Tangled, Cloudflare Artifacts, Netlify Source, Cursor Origin - Git at Any Scale - Lightning round - npm.report - Supplier Security Questionnaire, Andrew Nesbitt - Everything I own, owned, Chaz Schlarp - The sorry state of Skill distribution - Conferences - ZurichJS Sep 11 - React Alicante Sep 23-24 - Outro
- Aug 12, 20261h 10m
TMIR July 2026: React-alikes, GOVERNANCE, and state management
Transcript and links 𐄁 Creators & Guests Mark Erikson - Host Carl Vitullo - Producer ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky - This Month in React July 2026 - New releases - Vite+ Beta - TypeScript 7.0 released - Open PR for “content mappers” to typecheck templates other than JSX - Johnson Chu made a compatibility layer to drop-in for unsupported tools - OXC type-aware linting stable - NPM v12 and new security defaults - Dependabot supports a configurable delay - More React RSC security tweaks for 19.x - Main Content - React org updates - “Leadership Council” and Working Group structure on the new team page - Stub governance docs for the Leadership Council - Rick Hanlon update on the React team using a “stage” process internally - Pete Hunt and Nick Schrock join Vercel to run Frameworks/Next and Agent DX - Poimandres published a charter - For instance, WebGL text rendering - React-alikes - Octane from Dominic Gannaway - Ryan Carniato: "React’s staying power is because of complacency" - “Do people think FE innovation is dead? - Parallel articles on Solid 2.0 with async, and Remix 3 - "no benchmark […] has captured the relationship between reactivity and rendering" - ReactBench to measure AI code quality from Aidan Bai - Alex Russell thinks everyone is screwing up state management - Aurora Scharff rewrote the Suspense docs page to cover how it works - And a post on RSC performance patterns - TanStack removed RSCs from the website - Mark is experimenting with perf improvements for RTK v3 - Making referential stability a type - Porffor native compiler upcoming alpha - Perry cross-compiles Claude Code bundle - Marker - Goodbye, forever, probably. - Conferences - Sep 11: ZurichJS, Switzerland - Sep 25-26: React Alicante, Spain
- Jul 2, 202654 min
TMiR 2026-06: React Compiler is getting rusty, what does AI mean for engineering culture
Transcript and URLs ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky - This Month in React: June News Roundup - Intros - [React Router 8](https://remix.run/blog/react-router-v8) - [Babel 8](https://babeljs.io/blog/2026/06/16/8.0.0/) - [Astro 7](https://astro.build/blog/astro-7/) - [TS 7.0 RC](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0-rc/) - ESM only, no programmatic API right now - [Nub JS](https://nubjs.com/), from Zod creator - [Legend List 3.0 with DOM support](https://x.com/jmeistrich/status/2059922504320225316) - [TSRX revamped the syntax](https://tsrx.dev/blog/rethinking-tsrx) - React Core news - [React Compiler in Rust is rolling out](https://bsky.app/profile/sebastienlorber.com/post/3moibsmtqjk2x) - [PR was merged after testing at Meta and improved](https://github.com/react/react/pull/36173#issuecomment-4608356402) - [Oxlint, SWC, RSPack, Next all integrating](https://bsky.app/profile/sebastienlorber.com/post/3moibsmtqjk2x%20) - [Rolldown tried integrating directly but removed due to binary size increase](https://x.com/evanyou/status/2069593612153987373) - [Bun tried optimizing the Rust Compiler code](https://gist.github.com/Jarred-Sumner/84df369c35216f40d61d1ea9f95771c2) - Other core improvements - [Fragment Refs have been documented](https://react.dev/reference/react/Fragment#fragmentinstance) in canary - React DevTools MCP tools, including [component tree](https://github.com/react/react/pull/36597) and [perf analysis](https://github.com/react/react/pull/36598) APIs - React Foundation progress - There’s a(n early) [react.foundation](https://react.foundation/) website, advertising funding for maintainers and community groups - They’re gonna have a booth at [Chain React at the end of July](https://chainreactconf.com/) - [Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering) - [AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less](https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline) - Christoph Nakazawa posted his [“Modern Engineering Values” and how he uses AI](https://cpojer.net/posts/modern-engineering-values) - [Cloudflare bought VoidZero](https://voidzero.dev/posts/voidzero-cloudflare) - NPM / security updates - [Github Actions allows enforcing pinned action SHAs](https://github.blog/changelog/2025-08-15-github-actions-policy-now-supports-blocking-and-sha-pinning-actions/) - [GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst](https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html) - [NPM 12 will disable install scripts and Git deps by default](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-upcoming-breaking-changes-for-npm-v12/) - Code optimization still matters! - [TanStack Table cut memory in v9 by 90% on large lists by optimizing JS objects](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-table-v9-memory-performance) and [optimized TS perf](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-table-v9-typescript-performance) - [Pierre Diffs was significantly optimized](https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs) - has to handle virtualization, syntax highlighting, source loading - [CompileCat is a new optimizing compiler to improve JS execution after bundling](https://github.com/isaac-mason/compilecat), similar to Closure Compiler. ([the RSPack team says they’re working on something similar](https://x.com/jiahan_c/status/2065630866668453898) ) - [Mark’s React-Redux /+ signals draft perf PR](https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/pull/2318) and [updated React-Redux benchmarks repo](https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux-benchmarks) - [Aurora Scharff’s preferred RSC component architecture](https://aurorascharff.no/posts/component-architecture-for-react-server-components/) - [Lovable projects now use TanStack Start by default](https://lovable.dev/blog/building-apps-using-tanstack-start)
- Jun 6, 20261h 9m
TMiR 2026-05: Who even is on the Core team anymore, TanStack got pwn'd bad
Transcript and URLs ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky - Interview - Some podcast meta - New Releases - [TS v7 beta](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0-beta/) - [Rolldown 1.0](https://voidzero.dev/posts/announcing-rolldown-1-0) - [Fate 1.0](https://fate.technology/posts/fate-1.0) - Main Content - React Core - React team status after Meta layoffs? - [React Compiler port to Rust still in progress](https://x.com/poteto/status/2056865079543681329), latest [PR](https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/36173) - [Tanner Linsley is "projecting" React](https://tannerlinsley.com/posts/projecting-react) (it's definitely not a fork) - [Tests are the new moat](https://saewitz.com/tests-are-the-new-moat) - [Brooks Lybrand thoughts on React + community after React Miami](https://brookslybrand.com/posts/react-miami-2026.html) - [TanStack is exploring how to expose Server Components](https://tanstack.com/blog/react-server-components) - [Who Owns the Tree](https://tanstack.com/blog/who-owns-the-tree) - [RSCs in TanStack](https://frontendmasters.com/blog/react-server-components-in-tanstack/) - [Remix v3 beta preview](https://remix.run/blog/remix-3-beta-preview) - Both Remix and TanStack are exploring "what if no React"? - [TSRX](https://tsrx.dev/), a variant on JSX - Security! Everything is compromised - [TanStack Router compromised](https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem), and [Socket analysis](https://socket.dev/blog/tanstack-npm-packages-compromised-mini-shai-hulud-supply-chain-attack) - [TanStack followup with followup hardening](https://tanstack.com/blog/incident-followup) - [Nx monorepo tool compromised](https://nx.dev/blog/nx-console-v18-95-0-postmortem) as a result - React2Shell recaps from [Lachlan Davidson](https://lachlan.nz/blog/the-react2shell-story/) and [Sylvie](https://sylvie.fyi/posts/react2shell/) - [Next 16.2.5 and more React CVEs](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/releases/tag/v16.2.5) - [NPM adds “staged packages”](https://docs.npmjs.com/staged-publishing) and [E18E adds guidance](https://e18e.dev/docs/publishing.html#staged-packages) - [PNPM 11 defaults to min release age](https://socket.dev/blog/pnpm-11-adds-new-supply-chain-protection-defaults), NPM 12 will [block by default](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/868) - [Review your GH Actions, people!](https://github.com/e18e/ecosystem-issues/issues/266) - Mark posted his big AI blog posts. [Part 1: Fears and Journey](https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2026/05/ai-thoughts-part-1-fears-opinions-journey/) - Outro
- May 7, 20261h 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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