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News for the week of August 24, 2026: pnpm 12 brings a bunch of quality of life updates, htmx 4 makes attribute inheritance easier, and both Remix and Waku get release candidates. From the community: type-level dice rolls (what!), full-stack type safety for TS and .NET, and committing compile-time crimes.
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Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to the Show

(05:19) - Tooling: TypeScript Repo Migrated to TS 7

(06:31) - Tooling: Ambient Module Declarations for Import Attributes in TS 7

(08:02) - Tooling: Porforr Alpha is Out

(10:21) - Tooling: pnpm 12 Brings a Long List of Updates

(14:37) - Frameworks: Ember is Now Supported in TS 7 Nightly

(15:06) - Frameworks: htmx 4 Released

(19:09) - Frameworks: Remix 3 Release Candidate is Here

(20:50) - Frameworks: Waku 1.0 Release Candidate is Here

(21:53) - Web Platform: WebMCP Challenge by Netlify

(22:48) - Web Platform: Chrome 152 Brings CPU Performance API, Connection Allowlists

(25:54) - Web Platform: Firefox 155, Now with Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Support

(27:45) - Web Platform: Firefox on iOS Can Now Block Ads

(28:02) - Security: Next.js August 2026 Security Releases

(29:19) - Security: Nuxt August 2026 Security Releases

(30:42) - Security: Mini Shai-Hulud on OpenAPI React Query Codegen Packages

(31:44) - Library Watch: minitype, Japanese Language Typesetting

(32:40) - Libary Watch: Joist ORM 2.3, Now with Rails-style Scopes

(33:51) - Library Watch: vgpu, a TypeScript Library for WebGPU

(34:51) - Library Watch: drdice, Deterministic Dice Rolls... in Types

(36:48) - Community: John Reilly's TS Migration Benchmark Harness

(38:43) - Community: Josh Goldberg Interviews Daniel Rosenwasser on TS 7 and What Comes Next

(39:02) - Community: Jake Archibald on Controlling When CSS Custom Properties are Computed

(39:25) - Community: Niklas Bruhn Teaches Us Lean, Explained with TypeScript

(41:58) - Community: Nx on Full Stack Type-safety with .NET

(43:42) - Community: 6 AppSec CTOs Debate Supply Chain Attacks

(44:19) - Community: dearlordylord on Branded Types and the Connascence of Execution

(46:41) - Community: Hugo Vilela Committed Some Compiler-time Crimes

(47:26) - Community: Amin Khansari Talks About Designing with Types

(48:55) - Community: Remo Jansen on RFLCT, Runtime Type Metadata in TS 7

(50:53) - Community: Ghostty in the Browser with gespenst.dev

(51:20) - Community: Jack LaFound Uses TS to Obtain One of the Rarest License Plates

(51:58) - Bleet of the Week

(52:17) - Cool Link: Now THAT's a Big Dragon Game on Steam

(52:41) - Cool Link: Venkat Subramaniam on AI Coding

(55:42) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News
Tooling: Main TypeScript repo migrated to TS 7
Tooling: Ambient Module Declarations for Import Attributes (formerly known as Import Assertions)
Tooling: Porforr Alpha is out
Tooling: pnpm 12 gets a bunch of updates!
Ember: supported in TS 7 
htmx: htmx 4.0.0 has been released!
Remix: Remix 3 Release Candidate
Waku: Waku 1.0 (RC) 
Netlify: OpenAI WebMCP Challenge: Build with Netlify 
Chrome: Chrome 152 released
Firefox: Firefox 155.0 releasedPlus: Reduce clutter and distractions with Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS 

Security CornerNext.js: August 2026 Security Release
Nuxt: Nuxt Security Patch Releases 
Socket: Mini Shai-hulud compromise of OpenAPI packages

Library Watch
Minitype: Japanese TypeSetting in TypeScript 
Joist ORM: Joist 2.3 Released with Rails-style Scopes! 
vercel-labs/vgpu: a TypeScript library for WebGPU  Reminds us of twigl 

dearlordylord/drdice: Type-level dice rolling 
From the Community
John Reilly: Benchmark Harness 
Josh Goldberg w/Daniel Rosenwasser: TypeScript 7 and What Comes Next
Jake Archibald: Controlling when CSS custom properties are computed 
Niklas Bruhn: Lean explained with TypeScript 
Nx: Polyglot monorepos
Secure Disclosure Podcast: 6 AppSec CTOs Debate Open Source Supply Chain Security at Black Hat 
Igor (dearlordylord): Branded types and the connascence of execution 
Hugo Vilela: I Patched the TypeScript Compiler to Add Up Nine Numbers
Amin Khansari: Series: Designing with Types: A TypeScript + Effect Approach
Remo H. Jansen:  RFLCT: Bringing Runtime Type Metadata to TypeScript 7 - DEV Community 
Ghostty in the Browser: gespenst 
Jack LaF...

News for the weeks of Aug 10 and 17, 2026: major version releases from Bun, ElectroBun, SolidStart, and SvelteKit along with Aspire 13.5, which makes TypeScript app hosts generally available. From the community: self-hosted Durable Objects, anti-slop lint rules, hiding internal state in TS objects, and the true cost of AI coding.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to the Show

(05:32) - Tooling: Content Mappers Merged Into TS 7.1 API

(07:20) - Tooling: Bun 1.4, the One with Rust

(10:27) - Tooling: Aspire 13.5, TypeScript App Hosts Now GA

(13:13) - Metaframeworks: SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate is Here

(15:33) - Metaframeworks: SolidStart V2 is Now Stable

(17:24) - Web Platform: celld, Self-Hosted Workers and Durable Objects

(19:02) - Web Platform: Cloudflare Announces $1 Million in Open Source Funding

(20:36) - Web Platform: Node.js Interactive 2026 Talks

(22:37) - Web Platform: Netlify Source for Hosting Git Version Control

(24:20) - Security: Popular Rust Crates Compromised

(25:29) - Library Watch: Slonick, a Node.js Postgres Client

(27:12) - Library Watch: deopt, Analyze Node.js and V8 De-optimizations

(29:15) - Library Watch: Electrobun 2, Now with a Custom Runtime

(35:24) - Library Watch: Anti-slop Lint Rules

(36:54) - Library Watch: yavascript Builds Cross-platform Bash-like Script Runners

(38:46) - Community: Ryan Peterman Interviews Anders Heijlsberg

(39:20) - Community: Matt Pocock Interviews Uncle Bob on Software Fundamentals in the Age of AI

(39:43) - Community: Josh Goldberg Steps Back from OSS

(41:21) - Community: Academind Teaches Us About Self-hosted Durable Objects

(41:32) - Community: Remco Wrote an MDX Content Mapper for TS 7

(42:28) - Community: Feross Aboukhadijeh on How AI Agents Expand the Software Supply Chain Attack Surface

(43:26) - Community: I would like to personally apologize to the creators of TypeScript

(44:50) - Community: Scott Tolinksi on the True Cost of AI Coding

(45:53) - Community: Carlos Menezes on Hiding Internal State in TS Objects

(48:10) - Community: Tommy Rossi's Manifesto on Errors as Values in TS

(49:58) - Community: Brett Codes on How to Make TypeScript and JavaScript Error Handling Better

(50:34) - Community: Tero Piirainen Thinks the Bun 1.4 Rust Rewrite is Not Looking Good

(52:08) - Community: GameDev.js Survey 2026 is Open

(52:32) - Bleet of the Week

(54:04) - Cool Link: Don't Paste the AI

(59:14) - Cool Link: Local-first Landscape

(01:00:34) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News
TypeScript: Content Mappers merged into 7.1 branch 
Bun: Bun 1.4 (Video: Bun v1.4 )
Aspire: What's new in Aspire 13.5
Svelte: The SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate is here 
Solid: SolidStart v2 is now Stable
Deno: celld, self-host your own Durable Objects
Cloudflare: Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding 
Node.js: Node.js Interactive 2026: A Recap 
Netlify Source: The full power of Git, without the friction: A conversation with Netlify CTO Dana Lawson
Socket: Popular Rust Crates Compromised in Build-Time Supply Chain Attack 
Library Watch
gajus/slonik: A Node.js PostgreSQL client with runtime and build time type safety, and composable SQL
deopt: Analyze Node.js and V8 de-optimizations
Electrobun 2.0 comes with a new purpose-built runtime and CLI
Anti-slop lint rules Biome https://github.com/kualta/anti-slop 
Oxlint https://github.com/dmmulroy/anti-slop 

YavaScript lets you build cross-platform Bash-like script runners
From the Community
Ryan Peterman: Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg
Matt Pocock: Uncle Bob on Software Fundamentals in the Age of AI 
Josh Goldberg: Stepping Back from Open Source (Mostly) | Goldblog 
Josh Goldberg: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuakgoldberg.com/post/3mtehtwtyrs2i 
Academind: Self-hosted durable objects are pretty interesting! 
Remco: mdx-content-mapper for TS 7 
Feross Aboukhadijeh: How AI Agents Expand the Software Supply Chain Attack Surface 
Reddit: I would like to personally apologize to the creators of TypeScript 
Scott Tolinski: The True Cost of AI Coding 
Carlos Menezes: Hiding internal state in TypeScript objects
Tommy Rossi: Errors as Values in TypeScript
Brett Codes: TypeScript & JavaScript error handling is pretty bad (and how to make it better) 
Tero Piirainen: Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good

News for the week of August 3, 2026: Astro 7.2 adds incremental static builds, SvelteKit 3 preview, and a closer look at TypeScript 7.1 compiler APIs. From the community: build your own "isThingy" type guards, eliminating 'any' types using oxlint, and how it went adding Go's defer keyword to TypeScript.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to the Show

(06:32) - Tooling: TypeScript 7.1 API Feature Roadmap

(11:34) - Metaframeworks: Astro 7.2 Introduces Experimental Incremental Static Builds

(12:44) - Metaframeworks: Sweltering Updates in SvelteKit 3 Preview

(14:14) - Web: Cloudflare Open Sources an Issue Triage Agent

(18:16) - Web: GitHub Now Supports Stacked Pull Requests

(22:24) - Library Watch: zodql, Enforce Zod Schemas for GraphQL

(24:11) - Library Watch: TanStack Form v2 is in Alpha

(26:17) - Library Watch: TanStack Table V9

(28:08) - Library Watch: is-kit Lets You Build Your Own Type Guards

(29:23) - Library Watch: typesafe-ts is Like a Toned Down Effect

(31:14) - Library Watch: antiox, Rust-like Async Primitives for TypeScript

(33:08) - Library Watch: apiful, a Fetch Client You Compose

(33:53) - Community: Andrew Healey Adds Go's defer Keyword to TypeScript

(36:24) - Community: Mastodon Upgrades to TypeScript 7

(36:57) - Community: Next.js on How They Made Navigations Instant in v0

(39:14) - Community: Mauro Bieg on How to Build a TypeScript Web Framework With No Build Step

(39:52) - Community: Sam Rose Found a Bug in Kubernetes Thanks to Webernetes

(41:35) - Community: afox.dev Releases Luna.nvim, a Minimal Neovim Theme

(42:32) - Community: Silvenon's Oxlint Config to Eradicate any in Your Codebase

(43:23) - Bleet of the Week

(44:21) - Cool Link: tuicr Lets You View Side-by-Side PR Diffs in Your Terminal

(46:12) - Cool Link: Green Building Advisor

(48:17) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News
TypeScript: API feature roadmap #4830 - microsoft/typescript-go 
Astro 7.2 brings incremental static builds
What’s new in Svelte: August 2026
Cloudflare: How we built a software factory to drive Astro’s GitHub issue count to zero 
GitHub: ICYMI, Stacked pull requests 
Library Watch
zodql: Enforce Zod schemas for your GraphQLPlus: https://github.com/enormora/schema-hub 
Plus: gql.tada 

TanStack Forms v2: Form v2 is here: All you need to know about the alpha
TanStack Table v9: Announcing TanStack Table V9 
is-kit: Build isThingy style type guards
typesafe-ts (via Allan Duetsch): Runtime typesafety helpers
antiox: Rust like async primitives for Typescript
apiful: a fetch client you compose
From the Community
Andrew Healey: Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler
Mastodon: Now written in TS7 
Next: Making Navigations Instant in v0 
Mauro Bieg: A TypeScript web framework with no build step
Sam Rose: Found a bug in kubernetes
Luna.nvim: Minimal colorscheme for TS 
Matija Marohnić: Eradicate as any with oxlint 
Bleet of the Week
Cool Links
GitHub - agavra/tuicr: a code review TUI with vim keybindings ("tweaker")
Green Building Advisor for all your high-performance building needs
Discord: Kamran's backyard studio build thread
Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

News for the week of July 27, 2026: insights into what's coming in TS 7.1, rendering JSX and TSX natively using ASP.NET Core, and Elysia gets rewritten with the new v2 beta. From the community: semantic versioning spec for types, a typesafe TSConfig builder, and lessons learned migrating ts-loader with AI.
Kamran's New Course: React 19 Security and Safety
Watch on Pluralsight. Learn how to deal with and protect yourself from real-world threats like XSS, CSRF, and supply chain attacks with full-stack React applications.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy
Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to the Show

(04:53) - Tooling: TypeScript 7.1 Iteration Plan

(07:29) - Tooling: TypeScript ESLint Still Needs TS 6 For Now

(09:02) - Tooling: Emacs TypeScript LSP Fixed

(09:24) - Tooling: JsxCore is a Native JSX/TSX View Engine for ASP.NET Core

(12:50) - Tooling: Notion as Code (in TypeScript)

(14:31) - Metaframeworks: Nuxt July Security Patches

(15:22) - Metaframeworks: Elysia 2 Beta is a Full Rewrite

(18:08) - Web: Cloudflare Workers RPC Now Works Across Python and JavaScript

(21:00) - Web: Chrome 151 Adds User Media Element

(23:56) - Security: Ongoing npm Supply Chain Attack for keyv and cacheable Scopes

(25:56) - Security: Node July Security Releases

(26:24) - Library Watch: semver-ts, a Spec for Versioning Types

(28:03) - Library Watch: JS2WASM Compiler is in the Experimental Phase

(30:40) - Library Watch: PeurTS, Write TS in Unity, Unreal, and .NET

(32:03) - Library Watch: dynwinrt, Mess with WinRT APIs in TypeScript

(34:16) - Library Watch: syt, Type-safe TSConfig Builder

(35:09) - Library Watch: rm-pushnotify, Cross-browser Push Notifications

(37:05) - Library Watch: mazely, a Maze Editor and Solver in TypeScript

(38:05) - Library Watch: inclusive-color, a Color Space for Human Skin Colors

(39:00) - Community: Are the Types Wrong?

(39:58) - Community: John Reilly Migrated ts-loader to TypeScript 7

(41:16) - Community: Jake Worth Shares Daily TypeScript Notes in Your Inbox

(42:13) - Community: Tabularis Ported Their Visual EXPLAIN Rust Parsers to TypeScript

(43:14) - Community: Jake Archibald Wants Us to Learn From His Tool Tip Accessibility Mistake

(44:57) - Community: Debugging TypeScript Applications Book by Andrey Ozornin

(45:50) - Community: David Sherret Made TS AST Viewer Support TS 7

(46:42) - Bleet of the Week

(48:48) - Cool Link: Reliability Lessons from SQLite by Richard Hip

(51:24) - Cool Link: Why I Delete My Tests Every Night by KCD

(52:02) - Cool Link: Nirvanna the Band the Show

(54:23) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News
TypeScript: 7.1 iteration plan PSA TS 6/7 - typescript-eslint and others that depend on compiler apis 
emacs LSP fixed

JsxCore: Native JSX + Preact/React support for ASP.NET Core MVC 
Notion: In beta, Notion as code
Nuxt: Nuxt Security Patch Releases
Elysia: Elysia 2 beta - DayDream 
Cloudflare: Workers RPC now works across Python and JavaScript  
Chrome: New in Chrome 151 
Socket: Popular npm Packages in the keyv and Cacheable Namespaces Compromised in Active Supply Chain Attack 
Node: July Security Releases
Library Watch
semver-ts: Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types 
JS2: JS to WASM AOT Compiler 
Puerts: TS in Unreal Engine or Unity in TS!?! 
dynwinrt: Mess with WinRT APIs using TS 
syt:  a typesafe builder for tsconfigs (via domutala)
rm-pushnotify: Browser push notifications library
Mazely: Maze editor and generation in TS 
Inclusive Color: Inclusive human skin color space
From the Community
Are The Types Wrong: Tool for checking declaration files
John Reilly: Migrating ts-loader to TypeScript 7.1 with AI 
Jake Worth: TypeNotes – Daily learning notes for TS and JS developers 
Tabularis: Visual EXPLAIN beyond the app: one engine, multiple hosts (c/w LLM-assisted)
Jake Archibald: Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake 
Andrey Ozornin: Debugging TypeScript Applications: Build Web Apps That Don't Break
David Sheeret: TS Ast viewer supports 7
Bleet of the Week
Cool Links
Take some lessons from Reliability Lessons From SQLite - Richard Hipp | SSW 2026 
You should watch Nirvana the Band the Show
Stop Being Tricked by theprimeagen
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News for the week of July 20, 2026: Oxlint type-aware linting is now stable, Qwik v2 is now in beta, and the successor to Inferno is lighting up React. From the community: must-watch talks from Software Should Work conference, why Node.js can't harden against prototype pollution, and practical TypeScript tips learned while building a Trello clone.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to the Show

(03:45) - Tooling: WebStorm Adds TypeScript 7 to the IDE

(04:34) - Tooling: TypeScript 7.1 Compiler API is in Progress

(05:32) - Tooling: Type-aware Linting is Now Stable in oxlint

(08:24) - Tooling: New Buz Runtime is a Bun Port in Modern Zig

(10:48) - Tooling: TypeScript 7 is Getting Some Perf Improvements

(11:23) - Metaframeworks: Solid.js Getting a Rewrite in Rust?

(12:53) - Metaframeworks: Qwik v2 Beta is Official

(15:16) - Metaframeworks: Next.js July Security Release is Available

(17:13) - Web: TypeScript AI Conference Videos Are Up

(18:05) - Web: A Bunch of TC39 Proposals Advance

(20:27) - Web: Octane, Successor to Inferno is a New React Alternative

(23:46) - Web: Firefox 153 with Quality of Life Updates

(26:22) - Security: Malicious Corepack Site Was Tricking People Into Downloading Malware

(28:32) - Security: Wordpress Exploit is Pretty Darn Bad

(29:49) - Security: White House Launches Gold Eagle Initiative

(30:54) - Library Watch: scriptc, Compiles TypeScript to Native Binaries

(33:50) - Library Watch: API Extractor Helps You Build Better TS Library Packages

(35:35) - Library Watch: knip Keeps Knipping Its Own Performance

(35:52) - Library Watch: TanStack Markdown and Highlight

(36:48) - Library Watch: webpack 105.9 Ships Zero-config Bundling

(39:39) - Community: Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

(40:11) - Community: Software Should Work Conference Videos Are Up

(41:18) - Community: MochaJS is Sponsoring Other Open Source Projects

(41:43) - Community: Effect Miami 2 Talks Are Up

(42:05) - Community: Antony Jones Shares Practical TypeScript Benefits, Pitfalls, and Patterns That Paid Off

(43:09) - Community: Jon Sagara Upgrades Microsoft.TypeScript.MSBuild to v7

(43:57) - Community: Rachel Johnson Will Teach You To Build Express APIs in TypeScript

(44:21) - Community: Matteo Collina Says No, We Can't Harden Node.js Against Prototype Pollution

(45:43) - Community: Matia Makes the Web Fun Again with Pretext

(47:43) - Cool Link: I Tried Coding My Own Graphics Library

(48:37) - Cool Link: nitter.net Lets You Follow People on X or Get RSS Feeds

(49:36) - The Minnesota Short Goodnight

News
Developer ToolingTypeScript 7 in JetBrains WebStorm
TypeScript v7.1 is cooking
Oxlint: Type-Aware Linting Stable
Buz: A drop-in replacement for Bun using modern Zig

MetaframeworksSolidJS rewritten in Rust?
Qwik v2 Beta is official
Next.js: July 2026 Security Release

WebTypeScript AI: The only conference for TypeScript AI developers
More ECMAScript Proposals Advanced
Octane announced, successor to Inferno (React, compiled)

BrowsersFirefox 153: See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

SecuritySocket: Beware of fake Corepack site (since taken down)
Wordpress: Wordpress Exploit is Absolutely Beautiful 
Socket: White House Launches Gold Eagle Initiative to Manage Surge in AI-Discovered Vulnerabilities 

Library Watch
Scriptc: https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc 
API Extractor: Validate and track breaking changes on output typings
Knip is k-nipping perf 
Introducing TanStack Markdown and TanStack Highlight 
Webpack 5.109: Zero-config bundling for new projects
From the Community
Jim: TrueType QR code font
Software Should Work conferenceAndrew Kelly’s Talk Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026 
Alexis King The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Constructive Data Modeling - Alexis King | SSW 2026 
Fil-C Real Memory Safety Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out! - Filip Pizlo | SSW 2026 

Joshua Goldberg: Mocha is donating to other projects: Knip, @nodejs.org, Prettier, and Unified 
Effect: Effect Miami 2 videos landed
Antony Jones: TypeScript in Practice: Benefits, Pitfalls and Patterns That Paid Off 
Jon Sagara: Upgrading Microsoft.TypeScript.MSBuild to v7.0.0
Rachel Johnson: FreeCodeCamp: Build Bullet-Proof APIs in Express w/ TS 
Matteo Collina: