Front-end Fire Podcast

This week on the pod:

- ⚔️ es-toolkit aims to dethrone Lodash
- 🧠 oRPC wants to up your API game
- 📉 Stack Overflow’s 2025 dev survey is out — and it’s not pretty

🎧 We unpack all that and more.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/107/

. @github.com proposes the EU fund open source like public infrastructure 💸, Apple gets called out its lack of alternative browser support, and Amazon's Kiro adds Agent Hooks to let AI enforce code quality 🛠️.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/106/

. @windsurfai.bsky.social went from almost-acquired by OpenAI, to Google poaching its execs, to Cognition scooping its IP—all in 72 hours 🌀. Amazon’s new AI IDE, Kiro, promises to tame the vibe coding chaos ✍️➡️📑, & @nextjs.org 15.4 powers up for AI agents.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/105/

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. @vercel.com scoops up @nuxtlabs.com 🔥, @figma.com feeds design data to AI agents via Dev Mode 🧠🎨, and OpenAI + Perplexity throw down against Chrome ⚔️. Meanwhile, a new MCP framework called Xmcp promises servers for everyone...and that's just this week.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/104/

💥 @vercel.com ships new AI Cloud tools, @cloudflare.social says ✋ to AI crawlers freeloading off your content, and Neon Launchpad? Easiest Postgres spin-up ever.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/103/

On this week’s episode:

- 🤖 @jherr.dev tried every AI coding CLI so you don’t have to.
- 📣 Google's sneaking Gemini Nano into Chrome, and Mozilla sounds the alarm.
- 🚀 @figma.com acquires @payload.dev so users can design, edit, & publish in one place.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/102/

This week in devland:

- 🧹 Meet @voidzero.dev's new linting beast Oxlint
- 🧘‍♀️ Browser Opera Air wants you to breathe between commits
- 🤖 GitHub Copilot gets promoted to team member
- 🌀 And Remix v3 says it’s the web’s spiritual heir

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/101/

⚡️ New week, new web dev glow-ups on episode 100 🥳:

• Rolldown-Vite makes @vite.dev builds up to 16x faster
• 🍎 Apple's Safari 26 drops <model> + scroll animations
• 🌐 @diabrowser.com, The Browser Company’s AI upgrade to Arc enters early access

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/100/

In this week's podcast episode:

- 🪦 Arc is dead. Long live Dia? The Browser Company goes all-in on AI
- 🎙️ OpenAI's Realtime API brings voice conversations to LLMs
- 🧠 Cursor IDE v1.0 = agents, bug bots, project memory

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/99/

Today on the podcast:

- 🚨 Zod v4 finally lands after 4 years—worth. the. wait.
- ⚡ Angular v20 drops signals, hydration boosts, and... a mascot RFC?! 🐙
- 🤖 Meet vibe-rules — your AI prompts, now cross-editor

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/98/

🔥 Big shifts in web dev this week:

- 🧠 @vscode.dev wants to be the AI editor
- 🧩 @microsoft.com floats “NLWeb” — turning your site into an AI app
- 🛑 Remix v3 breaks up with React
- 🕹️ Claude 4 plays Pokemon.

Let's go ➡️ front-end-fire.com/episodes/97/

Forget LAMP and MERN—there’s a new stack brewing.

@apollographql.com CTO @debergalis.bsky.social makes the case for GraphQL as a critical layer in the AI + developer toolchain. 🚀

Listen in for all the details: front-end-fire.com/episodes/96/

Thanks for the suggestion, JB! We'll definitely give it a look.

This week in dev land:

- ⚡ @tanstack.com DB brings blazing-fast reactivity
- 🧠 @vscode.dev hits v1.100 & gets smarter, chattier, and more agent-y
- 🪄 Basecoat UI gives you @shadcn.com-style components with no React needed

And yes… HBO Max is back, again

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/95/

. @figma.com Site and Figma Make are redefining the design-to-dev pipeline. 🎨 Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro tops the AI leaderboard in the WebDev Arena, @nodejs.org v24 lands, and OpenAI’s $3B @windsurfai.bsky.social deal heats up. 🤑

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/94/

React’s new Activity component preserves state even when hidden. 🔎 Storybook 9 beta adds all the testing tools. 📚 Tips to keep dev skills sharp while still using AI assistants. 🤖 And Apple’s legal bruising over anti-competitive App Store tactics. 🧑‍⚖️

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/93/

. @vuejs.org's new Alien Signals boost reactivity, React Compiler nears stable release, RedwoodSDK reveals its @cloudflare.social-powered future, and... is Yahoo buying Chrome? 🛸🧪🔥

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/92/

That sounds like a good workflow and integration of those tools, James. Thanks for sharing!

OpenAI just dropped GPT-4.1 & a new Codex CLI. The first State of Web Dev AI survey is in: winning tools, what devs are spending, and what’s a pain. Plus: @nextjs.org 15.3 lands, and "slopsquatting" enters the dev lexicon. 🧠⚡️ You don’t want to miss this.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/91/

🌐 Google unveils a protocol for AI agents to talk to each other, 🤖 @github.com Copilot can now review your PRs, and @redwoodjs.com reinvents itself as RedwoodSDK. 👨‍💻✨ All that + more on this week’s episode!

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/90/

.@trpc.io v11 is officially production-ready! 🙌 @netlify.com drops an open letter to @nextjs.org 🔥 — raising real concerns for non-Vercel deployments. And Firefox finally supports PWAs—but not like you’re used to 👀 All the latest from the dev world! 🎧

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/89/

GitHub Copilot just leveled up in VS Code! 🚀 Microsoft’s @burkeholland.bsky.social & @digitarald.bsky.social join us to cover:
- 🤖 Agent Mode
- 🛠️ MCP Support
- 🧠 LLMs
- ✨ Next Edit Suggestions
It’s not just a coding assistant—it’s a full-on AI dev partner.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/88/

. @nextjs.org had a security scare last week, exposing a loophole that could bypass auth validation! 😬 Remix co-founder Michael Jackson says he's DONE supporting React Server Components. 😲 ByteDance just leveled up build analysis with Rsdoctor v1.0. 🚀

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/87/

Popular bundler Parcel just added RSC support 🚀, @netlify.com makes deploying @tanstack.com projects ridiculously easy 🌎, and @codesandbox.io is bringing AI to the cloud. 🤖☁️ Catch up on all the dev news!

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/86/

🔥 @typescriptlang.org is making a major Go move for 10x faster builds, OpenAI drops new APIs for agentic apps, and same.dev claims to “one-shot” clone any site. Wild times in tech—tune in! 🎧

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/85/

📝 @tanstack.com Form v1 is here! Is it the ultimate form solution?📱 ByteDance releases Lynx —the native UI framework powering TikTok! 🤖 VS Code’s Feb update is packed with AI upgrades: GPT-4.5 & Claude 3.7, image context for prompts, & improved Agent Mode.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/84/

On this week’s Front-end Fire:

- 💡 State of AI 2025 is here—let your AI tool opinions be known!
- 🛠️ @anthropic.com's Claude Code—an AI CLI that can edit & commit code
- 🔥 @jherr.dev's create-tsrouter-app now ships with @solidjs.com support

Listen now!🎙️🎧

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/83/

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Thanks for the shout out, Christian! We're so glad you've become a listener. 😄