News for the week of October 19, 2026: Bun 1.4.4 ships bun fmt (a Prettier port) and cuts Bun.SQL CPU time by 40%, Ende arrives as a spiritual successor to Deno, and Cloudflare drops a new kind of deterministic output model called Clairic. From the community: content mappers galore, Aspire as “strongly typed docker compose”, and TanStack Redact, a lighter drop-in replacement for React.

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Chapters

  • (00:00) - Tooling: Rolldown Adds Support for Multiple TypeScript Compilers
  • (02:19) - Tooling: Ende, a Community-supported Fork of Deno
  • (03:42) - Tooling: Bun 1.4.4 Featuring bun fmt, bun check, faster Bun.SQL
  • (05:43) - Web Platform: Cloudflare Introduces Clairic, a New Extraction Model
  • (11:10) - Web Platform: Firefox Wishes You Would Come Back
  • (12:41) - Security: Brotli2Shell Vulnerability Affects .NET, Python, and Other Runtimes
  • (14:13) - Security: There's a Third PHP2Shell Bug Without an Emergency Fix
  • (15:16) - Security: Practice Apps to Test Your Leet Hacker Skillz
  • (16:16) - Library Watch: TanStack Introduces Redact, a Lightweight Replacement for React
  • (17:25) - Library Watch: ArkType's attest Now Supports TS 7.1
  • (18:32) - Library Watch: Forges.link for Abstracting Code Hosting Providers
  • (20:17) - Library Watch: Tsonic Compiles TypeScript to .NET, Rust, and Mojo
  • (21:51) - Library Watch: Reylo, Type Checking SQL
  • (24:10) - Library Watch: Celesta, Code-first Video Creation
  • (25:49) - Library Watch: Markasso.it, A Zero Latency Whiteboard Engine
  • (26:44) - Library Watch: mini-van, a Minimalist Template Engine
  • (27:49) - Community: Jovi de Croock Works on Updating gql.tada for TS 7
  • (30:31) - Community: John Reilly Working on ts-loader v10 for TS 7.1
  • (32:44) - Community: Aspire Has Changed, See What's New with Barret Blake
  • (35:50) - Community: Matt Pocock on Why Courses Are Still Selling
  • (42:26) - Community: Orta from Puzzmo Built a Custom SSR Framework
  • (43:23) - Bleet of the Week
  • (43:57) - Cool Product: Tailscale, Remote Networking Tunnels
  • (46:54) - Cool Interview: Brian Kernighan, Creator of C Programming Language
  • (47:50) - Cool Link: The Fun of Programming Doom in DNS
  • (49:37) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News

Library Watch

  • TanStack Redact: A drop-in replacement for React and React DOM that renders synchronously (no time slicing or async rendering)
  • ArkType attest: now supports the TypeScript 7.1 beta
  • Forges: One TypeScript client for issues, PRs, notifications, checks and webhooks across 12 forges (via Daniel Roe)
  • Tsonic: Generate C#, Mojo, and Rust source from TypeScript
  • Reylo: Import .sql files into TypeScript with full type inference and zero codegen, using TypeScript 7.1 content mappers (by Colin McDonnell)
  • Celesta: Code-first videos with React and TypeScript (via natsuneko.cat)
  • Markasso: Framework-agnostic whiteboard engine in vanilla TypeScript and Canvas 2D, with no dependencies (GitHub)
  • Mini-Van: A minimalist template engine for DOM generation and manipulation, for both client-side and server-side rendering (SSR)

From the Community

Cool Links

Music
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