Front-End Fire
by TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington
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168: Are Dev Conferences Dying?
168: Are Dev Conferences Dying?
About this podcast
A weekly show that helps you stay up to date on the latest and greatest in the front-end world.
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- 168: Are Dev Conferences Dying? · 1 h 2 min · Episode 168What even is a dev conference in the age of AI? Jack is fresh back from React Advanced in London with a road report, and we dig into how conferences are rethinking their focus as…
- 167: AI is Making Code Reviews Worse · 52 min · Episode 167AI is generating more code than ever, and reviewing it has become a lonelier, more exhausting slog. This week we dig into whether ideas like shared review sessions can actually…
- 166: The AI Clone Wars Continue · 1 h 5 min · Episode 166The AI clone wars continue. The developer who vibe-coded replacements for Adobe's Creative Suite last week is back, this time with open-source clones of Word, Excel, and…
- 165: Open Source Was Fun While It Lasted · 56 min · Episode 165Open source was fun while it lasted. AI-generated submissions are swamping maintainers and bug bounty programs, so the gates are closing, and we can’t say we blame the people…
- 164: Developers Are Tired of This Sh*t · 53 min · Episode 164The State of Devs 2026 survey results are in, and... they’re not great. We discuss. We also dig into a huge week of 1.0 releases (EmDash, Vinext, and Vite+), OpenAI's Dev Day…
- 163: Do Frameworks Still Matter Anymore? · 51 min · Episode 163DHH took the Rails World stage to announce that he and Basecamp are no longer writing code by hand, wouldn't necessarily recommend Rails for a new app, and are going all in on…
- 162: Shopify Breaks Up with React Native · 56 min · Episode 162The React core team just shipped 19.3 with view transitions, fragment refs, and Context support in server components. A startup called TypeSafe AI is making waves with Jev, a…
- 161: Tailwind Has a New Home · 44 min · Episode 161There are finally some real-world consequences for the Shai-Hulud npm attacks: Australian Federal Police and the FBI arrested two men behind TeamPCP, a group that's been running…
- 160: GPT-6 vs. Claude 5.1 · 1 h 2 min · Episode 160Both big AI labs shipped their best models yet this week: OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra finally takes computer use seriously, and Anthropic's Fable & Mythos 5.1 land with gains in coding…
- 159: Is AI Making Us Worse Devs? · 54 min · Episode 159This week we're asking the uncomfortable question: is AI coding making us worse developers, or just changing which skills matter? We dig into OpenAI's new WebMCP Challenge and…
- 158: The Browser Wars are Getting Weird · 1 h 2 min · Episode 158This week we dig into Cloudflare's new agent-only browser, Kitesurf, built for speed over polish. Cursor made waves by ditching Solid.js for React, and Jack brings back a field…
- 157: Shai-Hulud Is Back From the Dead · 57 min · Episode 157Next.js is back after a quiet stretch with 16.3, promising "instant" navigations, leaner dev servers, better agent tooling, and faster builds. The TanStack crew keeps shipping…
- 156: The State of CSS Is In · 1 h 1 min · Episode 156The State of CSS 2026 results are in — Tailwind still rules, AI still can't write decent CSS, and (thanks, listeners!) we made the resources list. CodePen ships its biggest…
- 155: OpenAI Breaks Out of its Sandbox · 57 min · Episode 155We dig into how Bun went from Zig to Rust in just 11 days with an army of Claude sessions, check in on Kimi K3 — another open-weight Chinese model closing in on the frontier —…
- 154: How Not to Drown in AI Code Reviews · 1 h 3 min · Episode 154AI agents can churn out code faster than anyone can review it — so how do you keep from drowning? We don't claim to have all the answers, but we dig into practical ways to make…
- 153: Vercel Wants Your Entire Stack · 48 min · Episode 153Vercel goes all-in on your stack — a Zig-powered Native SDK for building desktop apps, plus Vercel Services to run multiple frameworks as one shared project for monorepo and…
- 152: The Fable Redemption Arc · 55 min · Episode 152Vercel partners with Shopify to rebuild Hydrogen, Anthropic re-releases Fable 5 (plus Sonnet 5) with a beefed-up safety classifier after its government timeout, and Meta…
- 151: Fixing AI’s Microservices Problem · 40 min · Episode 151Nx debuts Polygraph, a "synthetic monorepo" that gives AI agents a unified view across microservice boundaries, Deno Desktop takes aim at Electron by compiling web projects into…
- 150: The Government Said “No Fable For You” · 1 h 0 min · Episode 150Anthropic's new Fable model gets pulled days after launch when the US government restricts foreign access, a fully open-source Chinese model claims Claude Opus-level benchmarks…
- 149: Rise of the React Foundation · 52 min · Episode 149React officially leaves the Meta building to live under the new React Foundation (and the React Compiler gets rewritten in Rust), Apple's WWDC unveils a stacked Safari 27 beta…
