About this episode
Next.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 too — TanStack Table hit v9.0 and TanStack AI is closing in on v1.0 with tool calling, reasoning, code sandboxes, and memory. Then there's the bad news: a new Shai-Hulud variant compromised a major maintainer and infected a pile of key-value storage and caching packages with over a billion combined monthly downloads.
Timestamps
- 0:00 - Intro
- 1:10 - Next.js 16.3
- 9:22 - TanStack AI and TanStack Table 9.0
- 15:55 - Another npm supply chain attack
- 27:07 - An update on the Deno v. Oracle lawsuit
- 31:44 - Anthropic announced Claude broke containment too
- 37:41 - Google Earth has to roll back an AI feature
- 39:34 - An interesting Sam Altman tweet
- 46:27 - What's making us happy
News
- Paige: Another day another npm supply chain attack
- Jack: TanStack AI and TanStack Table 9.0
- TJ: Next.js 16.3
Lightning News
- Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Anthropic announced Claude broke containment too
- An update on the Deno v Oracle lawsuit
- Google Earth has to roll back an AI feature
- An interesting Sam Altman tweet
What's Making Us Happy
- Paige: Ride or Die miniseries
- Jack: Shin Kamen Rider movie and Vibe Island
- TJ: OpenAI Shop and Perplexity Supply
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