Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
by Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers
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1055: What the hell is going on with GitHub?
1055: What the hell is going on with GitHub?
About this podcast
Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.
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- 1055: What the hell is going on with GitHub? · 31 minScott and Wes sit down with GitHub’s Kyle Daigle to ask what the hell is going on with GitHub: the downtime, the agent traffic spike, and the infrastructure overhaul decoupling…
- 1054: Reddit Closing it’s Doors · 1 h 35 minWes, Scott, and CJ are back with two weeks of news: Reddit is forcing everyone to log in, r/opensource bans anything AI, and CSS-Tricks is independent again. Plus Anomaly's Hex…
- 1053: What’s in Our Home Lab · 1 h 20 minScott and CJ tour their homelabs, from a fully 3D printed server rack to a custom OPNsense firewall load balancing two ISPs. They dig into Proxmox, Tailscale, Caddy, Synology vs…
- 1052: Github Universe Keynote Recap · 39 minScott, Wes, and CJ report live from GitHub Universe in San Francisco, breaking down GitHub’s re-architecture for agent-scale traffic, the GitHub Copilot app, Copilot Fusion…
- 1051: Mourning the Death of Code · 58 minScott and Wes tackle your potluck questions, from passing context between Claude Code and Codex to whether AI-generated skills are any good. Plus high-fidelity Figma builds…
- 1050 - Everyone Is Hacking Their TV · 1 h 19 minWes, Scott, and CJ run through the week’s biggest web dev news: everyone’s hacking their TVs, VoidZero open-sourced its Void framework with Cloudflare deploys, OpenCode got…
- 1049: WTF is a Software Factory? · 58 minScott and Wes talk with Adam Jacob about software factories: what they actually are, why they’re unique to each team, and how to build trust in agent-generated code. They dig…
- 1048: Deno Is Dead · 1 h 40 minDeno is shutting down and the team is heading to Cloudflare — Scott, Wes, and CJ break down what that means for the runtime, JSR, and workerd. Plus OpenCode 2.0 on durable…
- 1047: Adobe has a big problem · 35 minSomeone just clean-room ported seven Adobe apps to Rust, and Wes is shocked at how good it is. Scott and Wes break down what it gets right, what’s still missing, and why copying…
- 1046: The Pi Updates are insane · 1 h 40 minScott, Wes, and CJ break down the latest Pi updates, including durable long-running agents, Codemode, and MCP support, then debate whether pull requests are dead in favor of…
- 1045: Who can actually max out 5 AI subscriptions? · 52 minScott and Wes answer listener questions about what replaced blogging, what to do while your AI agent works, and who should pay for token costs. They also cover keeping agents…
- 1044: Ruby on Rails is Dead · 1 h 20 minScott, Wes, and CJ ask whether Ruby on Rails is really dead (and whether Rust is just Rails you don't have to read), then dig into Meta's new Muse agent, which is free, comes…
- 1043: I’m Using GPUI For Everything · 33 minScott and Wes ditch Electron and Tauri for GPUI, the GPU accelerated Rust UI framework from the Zed team. They get into its React-like API, styling that feels a lot like…
- 1042: Is the Jev Hype Overblown? · 1 h 22 minIs Jev actually a leap forward for classification or just hype and fake demos? We dig in, plus Claude Code’s new AGENTS.md support, TinyCast (the free, open-source Raycast…
- 1041: What are normies using AI for? · 47 minScott and Wes talk about how non-developers are actually using AI today. They also cover the stuff they don’t think holds up, like AI-staged listings and automated marketing…
- 1040: Developing for the iPhone Duo · 1 h 33 minScott, Wes, and CJ break down developing for the iPhone Duo with the Device Posture and Viewport Segments APIs, plus the React 19.3 release and Pi’s new Radius platform. Also on…
- 1039: Should You Quit Your Job? · 1 h 0 minScott and Wes dig into a listener mailbag full of AI questions: how to bill freelance work when the tools make you faster, whether coding still matters in interviews, and if the…
- 1038: OpenAI Releases GPT 6 Astra · 1 h 25 minWes and CJ dig into OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra; the massive jump in computer use, the wild Blender MCP 3D demos, and whether all the AGI talk actually holds up. Plus Hugging Face’s…
- 1037: WebMCP is here (and you should care) · 57 minScott and Wes talk about WebMCP with Sarah Drasner and Dominic Farolino from the Chrome team, which is the new W3C standard that lets your site hand real tools to an agent. They…
- 1036: Cursor & OpenAI Break Up · 1 h 12 minThe messy breakup is official; as of November 12, OpenAI's models are getting pulled from Cursor, and we're digging into who's really to blame (and why Wes called it). Plus pnpm…
- 1035: Why everyone is moving to Stylex? · 27 minMeta’s StyleX compiles thousands of styles into a few reusable class names at build time—zero runtime, fully type-safe. Scott and Wes break down why it’s suddenly everywhere, and…
- 1034: Omarchy Quattro Release · 1 h 15 minGrokbot actually earns its keep, Cursor takes a swing at GitHub with Origin, and Omarchy Quattro ships pre-wired for nine coding agents. Plus: the GitHub outage post-mortem, a…
- 1033: 8 New CSS, JS and HTML Features You Should Know · 19 minScott and Wes run through eight new CSS, JS, and HTML features landing in browsers; including the relative alpha() color function, the progress() function for calculating values…
- 1032: Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7B · 1 h 7 minScott and CJ break down Stripe's $7B acquisition of OpenRouter, the SvelteKit 3 release candidate, and their first look at TanStack Charts. Plus Zed's new Delta editor, stealing…
- 1031: My Coding Skills Are Atrophying · 57 minScott and Wes answer your questions about coding in the AI era, atrophying skills from too much autocomplete, whether it’s finally time to leave VS Code, chasing flow state with…
- 1030: AI Assistant Hacks Gym · 1 h 24 minAn AI assistant goes rogue and hacks a gym website, a $9k surprise Cloudflare bill lands in someone’s inbox, and AI subscriptions start promising unlimited usage. Plus Meta’s…
- 1029: The Workflow of the Future With Zed · 60 minNathan Sobo joins Scott and Wes to explain why Zed was built in Rust, how GPUI works, and what happens to editors once agents write most of the code. They also talk about…
- 1028: Cloudflare Wallets · 1 h 18 minCloudflare is rolling out crypto wallets with claimable handles as identity, and a real React compiler finally landed for regular hooks-based code. Plus: OpenAI's pricing war…
- 1027: The Rise of the Design Engineer · 1 h 3 minScott and Wes tackle your questions on the rise of the design engineer, why AI still lacks “taste” (and why it’s about more than just looks), and how to actually write tests in…
- 1026: OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face · 1 h 36 minA rogue OpenAI agent allegedly hacks Hugging Face, the React Compiler lands in Rust, and a fresh Rust full-stack framework ships. Scott, Wes, and CJ also dig into Anthropic’s…
- 1025: The Open Web's second chance (w/ Dan Abramov) · 1 h 0 minDan Abramov joins Scott and Wes to explain AT Protocol, the open standard quietly rebuilding the social web. They get into how it actually works, why it’s way bigger than just…
- 1024: Open Models Replace Big AI · 1 h 7 minA huge week for open models: Inkling (the first big US open-weight model since Gemma 4), Qwen 3.8, and Kimi 3 all dropped. Plus Vue 3.6 RC + Vapor Mode, the slow death of Stack…
- 1023: Mosh, Caddy & Tailscale: A Remote Dev Deep Dive · 49 minRunning your dev process off your main machine doesn’t have to mean the cloud. Scott and Wes break down how to host projects on a box you can reach from any device, close your…
- 1022: Bun re-written in Rust, Zig team big mad · 1 h 15 minCJ and Scott break down the biggest week in web dev: TypeScript 7 ships with a 10x-faster native port, Bun gets rewritten in Rust (much to the Zig team’s dismay), and Better Auth…
- 1021: We got addicted to an AI model we can't talk about · 51 minDax Raad, co-founder of OpenCode, joins Scott and Wes to talk remote dev servers, OpenCode 2.0, and why his team is “addicted” to AI models they’re not even allowed to name yet…
- 1020: Do You Read The Code? · 1 h 27 minAuto-accept on, brain off? We’re getting into whether anyone actually reads the code they ship anymore — then it’s HTTP’s first new method in 16 years (meet QUERY) and OpenAI’s…
- 1019: LGTM, Ship It: The AI Code Review Problem · 39 minThis episode tackles the growing pains of AI-assisted development, from the struggle of reviewing thousands of lines of agent-generated code to the mounting technical debt when…
- 1018: Google fires Workspace CLI Creator · 1 h 17 minGoogle fires the engineer behind its Workspace CLI tool, OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 with three new model tiers, and Astro 7 lands with a full Rust rewrite. Plus: Coinbase cuts token…
- 1017, We need to stop calling it “AI” · 57 minScott and Wes raid the listener mailbag to settle the pnpm vs. npm debate, decode how web standards sneak into your browser, and ask the big one: is “AI” even intelligent, or…
- 1016: More Bots Than Humans · 1 h 23 minWes, Scott, and CJ break down the latest web dev news. From AI agents and coding tools to Deno Desktop, Nub, and predictive UX. They also discuss bot-filled social media, remote…
- 1015: Browsers and UIs are dead. Everything is chat · 18 minIs the web dead, or just evolving? Wes Bos breaks down his JS Nation Amsterdam talk on agentic interfaces, why chat won’t replace everything, how Web MCP lets agents interact…
- 1014: Anthropic doesn’t use AI · 1 h 32 minScott, Wes, and CJ reunite fresh off a trip to Amsterdam to chat conferences, burnout, and whether Anthropic actually uses AI. They also dig into a packed bag of sick picks and…
- 1013: Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero · 15 minLive at JSNation in Amsterdam, Scott, Wes, and CJ break down Cloudflare’s acquisition of VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, and Oxc. They dig into why this is…
- 1012: Who Decides What Ships on the Web? · 1 h 9 minScott and Wes sit down with Jake Archibald from Mozilla to unpack how web standards actually get made at Firefox. From browser features and developer feedback to the drama around…
- 1011: tmux + Terminal Maxxing with Ben Vinegar · 1 h 5 minScott and Wes sit down with Ben Vinegar, former Syntax GM and founder of Modem.dev, to geek out over terminal-maxxing, from SSH-based development and tmux workflows to AI-powered…
- 1010: No one cares anymore? · 56 minOn this episode, Scott and Wes dig into the messy reality of modern front-end work, from struggling to find skilled devs and navigating team chaos to questioning code quality…
- 1009: 54% AI-Generated and Climbing — State of AI · 55 minScott and Wes react to the freshly released State of AI 2026 survey, covering everything from skyrocketing AI adoption and the rise of coding agents to the pain points, job…
- 1008: Diffs, Trees, and VS Code 2.0 · 60 minScott and Wes sit down with Alex Sexton and Amadeus De Marzi from Pierre Computer to dig into the gnarly performance challenges behind building blazing-fast code review tools…
- 1007: 8 Tech Choices to Lock In Before Agentmaxxing · 17 minWes and Scott talk about the foundational decisions that make AI-assisted coding actually work—database schemas, validation, routing, CSS structure, and more. They explore why…
- 1006: Can AI Make Good Design? · 35 minWes and Scott talk about whether AI can actually create good design, or if it just remixes the same patterns over and over. They dig into AI-generated UX, design systems, YouTube…
