152: The Fable Redemption Arc

Vercel 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 open-sources Astryx, its React/StyleX design system

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 3:50 - Vercel and Shopify collab on Hydrogen
• 13:11 - A Fable 5 update
• 22:38 - Astryx
• 33:51 - Cloudflare to change its crawler policy
• 43:42 - What's Making Us Happy

News

• Paige: Fable 5's ban has been lifted & Sonnet 5 is out too
• Jack: Vercel and Shopify collab on Hydrogen
• TJ: Astryx

Lightning News

• Cloudflare to change its crawler policy

What's Making Us Happy

• Paige: Pink Starburst Vodka Lemonade
• Jack: Goodr sunglasses
• TJ: Rail Explorers

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