Spearphishing OSS Maintainers, EmDash is a Wordpress Replacement, and ECMA Fools Day | News | Ep 62

News for the week of March 30, 2026: fun with UUIDs, Cloudflare gunning for Wordpress, and how OSS maintainers can defend against spearphishing attacks. From the community: a very Solid 6 hours, compiling TS to native UI code, and a super fast VIN decoder.Sponsored by Excalibur.jsExcalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.comMake Your First Game in 10 MinutesJoin the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985UyChapters(00:00) - Welcome to the Show (05:01) - News: ECMA Fools Day (07:22) - News: Cloudflare's EmDash Wants to Replace WordPress (11:56) - News: Attackers Are Spear-phishing High Profile OSS Maintainers (20:31) - News: BabylonJS v9, a 3D TypeScript Game Engine (21:38) - News: Claude Code CLI Source Code Leaked (24:00) - Library Watch: LayoutSans, Pure TypeScript 2D Layout Engine (25:29) - Library Watch: PerryTS Compiles TS to Native UI on Any Platform (28:55) - Library Watch: Gagen, Generating GitHub Actions with TypeScript (30:48) - Library Watch: finprim, Type-safe Financial Primitives (32:27) - Library Watch: GameDevLibrary, Excalibur.js Demos and Snippets (34:14) - Highlight: How Vercel Made Turborepo 96% Faster (37:16) - Highlight: oxlint and oxfmt Framework Compatibility Matrix (37:46) - Highlight: Jake Archibald Highlights Proposed HTML-in-Canvas Feature (38:49) - Highlight: Boston TS Club is Back (39:17) - Highlight: Solid 2.0 with Ryan Carniato (40:18) - Highlight: Cardog's Super Fast VIN Decoder in Corgi V3 (41:32) - Highlight: Fireship's Explainer on What Pretext Does (43:48) - Bleets of the Week (44:46) - Secret of the Handbook: Assertion Functions (46:50) - Cool Link: neovim 0.12 (48:07) - Cool Watch: Hands-on with Artemis II (49:14) - Cool Watch: Floating Point Math is Really Hard (50:27) - Cool Read: Project Hail Mary (52:39) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye NewsECMA Fools DayEvery UUID Dot Com Hot Guids in your area Cloudflare: Announcing EmDash, Wordpress in TypeScriptSocket: Attackers Are Hunting High-Impact Node.js Maintainers in a Coordinated Social Engineering CampaignBabylonJS v9 released Anthropic: Claude Code Source Code Leaked and Rewritten in PythonLibrary WatchLayoutSans: Pure TypeScript 2D layout engine powered by PretextPerryTS: Compile TypeScript to native UI on any platform (React Native, .NET MAUI alternative) Gagen: GH actions in TypeScriptFinPrim: Financial Primitives in TypeScriptGameDevLib: Excalibur.js demos and snippetsFrom the CommunityVercel: Making Turborepo 96% fasterVoidZero: Oxlint Oxfmt support compatibility matrixJake Archibald: HTML-in-Canvas demosBoston TS meetup is back! Ryan Carniato: 6