Front-End Fire Podcast

.@windsurf_ai went from almost-acquired by @OpenAI, to @Google poaching its execs, to @cognition_labs scooping its IP— in 72 hours 🌀. @amazon's AI IDE, Kiro, promises to tame the vibe coding chaos✍️➡️📑, & @nextjs 15.4 powers up for AI agents. Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/105/

💥 @vercel ships new AI Cloud tools, @Cloudflare says ✋ to AI crawlers freeloading off your content, and @neondatabase Launchpad? Easiest Postgres spin-up ever. Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/103/

.@vercel scoops up @nuxtlabs 🔥, @figma feeds design data to AI agents via Dev Mode🎨, and @OpenAI + @perplexity_ai throw down against @googlechrome ⚔️. Meanwhile, new MCP framework @xmcp_dev promises servers for all... & that's just this week Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/104/

On this week’s episode: - 🤖 @jherr tried every AI coding CLI so you don’t have to. - 📣 @Google's sneaking Gemini Nano into Chrome, Mozilla sounds the alarm. - 🚀 @figma acquires @payloadcms so users can design, edit, & publish in one place . Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/102/

This week in devland: - 🧹 Meet @voidzerodev's new linting beast Oxlint - 🧘‍♀️ Browser Opera Air wants you to breathe between commits - 🤖 @GitHubCopilot gets promoted to team member - 🌀 And @remix_run 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_js up tobuilds 16x faster • 🍎 @Apple's Safari 26 drops <model> + scroll animations • 🌐 @diabrowser, @browsercompany'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_ai 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: - 🧠 @code wants to be the AI editor - 🧩 @Microsoft floats “NLWeb” — turning your site into an AI app - 🛑 @remix_run 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 CTO @debergalis makes the case for GraphQL as a critical layer in the AI + developer toolchain. 🚀 Listen up for all the details: front-end-fire.com/episodes/96/

This week in dev land: - ⚡ @tan_stack DB brings blazing-fast reactivity - 🧠 @code hits v1.100 and gets smarter, chattier, and more agent-y - 🪄 Basecoat UI gives you @shadcn components with no React needed And yes… HBO Max is back, again. Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/95/

.@figma 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 v24 lands, and @OpenAI's $3B @windsurf_ai deal heats up. 🤑 Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/94/

React’s new Activity component preserves state even when hidden. 🔎 @storybookjs 9 beta adds all the testing tools. 📚 Tips to keep skills sharp while using AI assistants. 🤖 Apple’s legal bruising over anti-competitive App Store tactics. 🧑‍⚖️ Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/93/

.@vuejs’s new Alien Signals boost reactivity, React Compiler nears stable release, RedwoodSDK reveals its @Cloudflare-powered future, and... is @Yahoo buying @googlechrome? 🛸🧪🔥 Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/92/

.@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 15.3 lands, and "slopsquatting" enters the lexicon. 🧠⚡️ Don’t miss this. Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/91/

🌐 @Google unveils a protocol for AI agents to talk to each other, 🤖 @GitHubCopilot can now review your PRs, and @RedwoodJS reinvents itself as RedwoodSDK. 👨‍💻✨ All that + more on this week’s episode! Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/90/

.@trpcio v11 is officially production-ready! 🙌 @Netlify drops an open letter to @nextjs 🔥 — raising real concerns for non-Vercel deployments. @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/

.@GitHubCopilot just leveled up in @code! 🚀 Microsoft’s @burkeholland & @digitarald join us to cover: - 🤖 Agent Mode - 🛠️ MCP Support - 🧠 More 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 had a security scare last week, exposing a loophole that could bypass auth validation! 😬 @remix_run co-founder @mjackson says he's DONE supporting React Server Components. 😲 ByteDance leveled up build analysis with Rsdoctor v1.0. 🚀 Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/87/

Popular bundler @parceljs just added RSC support 🚀, @Netlify makes deploying @tan_stack projects ridiculously easy 🌎, and @codesandbox is bringing AI to the cloud. 🤖☁️ Catch up on all the dev news! Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/86/