About this episode
News for the week of January 12, 2026: Astro finds a new home, Chrome ships Temporal API, and latest Node marks require(esm) as stable. From the community: type-safe UI, how TypeScript differs at dev-time vs runtime, and Deno's (impressive) latency under load.Sponsored by Excalibur.jsExcalibur.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.comMake Your First Game in 10 MinutesJoin the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985UyChapters(00:00) - Welcome to the Show
(05:11) - News: Astro Joins Cloudflare
(06:09) - News: Astro 6 Beta Brings Parity to Dev and Prod Behavior
(07:46) - News: Node 25.4.0 Brings Stable require(esm)
(09:42) - News: Chrome 144 Ships Temporal, Safari... wen?
(12:58) - Library Watch: Ohm Lets You Build Parsers, Interpreters, and Compilers
(14:07) - PSA: Fastify Express Middleware Bypass Vulnerability
(15:09) - Community Highlight: Daniel Rosenwasser Fixes BOM Bug
(15:53) - Community Highlight: Type-safe UI by Andrew Hathaway
(16:51) - Community Highlight: Forcing TS to Be Exhaustive by Carlos Menezes
(18:11) - Community Highlight: Deno's Low Latency Under Load
(19:43) - Community Highlight: Deno 2.6.5 Adds WebP and GIF Support to createImageBitmap
(20:08) - Community Highlight: TypeScript. Runtime. And In-between by Ariel Shulman
(20:48) - Community Highlight: You Should Be Using Dev Containers
(21:42) - Community Highlight: useOptimistic Won't Save You by Colum Kelly
(22:09) - Community Highlight: React Native Best Practices for AI Agents by Callstack
(23:39) - Bleet of the Week
(24:23) - Cool Link: Gameboy LEGO Set
(25:00) - Cool Link: Global Game Jam is Happening Soon
(25:56) - Cool Link: Realistic Terrain with Wave Function Collapse
(27:19) - Cool Link: Complete CSS Course by Andy Bell
(29:13) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
NewsAstro: The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare Theo: Cloudflare takes on Next.js Ast
