1037: WebMCP is here (and you should care)
9 Sept 2026
"WebMCP enables AI agents to interact directly with web apps via browser-based protocols, improving efficiency, security, and collaboration across platforms."
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Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski cover web development topics. Episodes released as audio and video
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1027: The Rise of the Design Engineer
5 Aug 2026
"Design engineers merge creativity and technical skills to build functional solutions, facing biases in tech while emphasizing human judgment over AI-generated aesthetics, environmental concerns, and practical coding tips."
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1025: The Open Web's second chance (w/ Dan Abramov)
29 Jul 2026
"ATProto is a decentralized data layer enabling users to own and control their data across apps, solving walled gardens and interoperability issues with a standardized, JSON-based system and web-native identity."
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1023: Mosh, Caddy & Tailscale: A Remote Dev Deep Dive
22 Jul 2026
"Remote development workflows offer benefits like continuous processing and multi-device access but face challenges like rogue processes and secure local environment exposure, with tools like Tmux, Herder, and Tailscale discussed for managing sessions and networking."
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1022: Bun re-written in Rust, Zig team big mad
20 Jul 2026
"TypeScript 7.0 delivers a 10x speed boost, network upgrades include 2G speeds and SFP fiber, AI updates cover GPT 5.6 and Grok concerns, while tech news highlights acquisitions, language releases, and personal tech setups."
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1021: We got addicted to an AI model we can't talk about
15 Jul 2026
"Explores remote development evolution, cloud-based workflows, AI-assisted coding, open-source AI models, and future AI interaction trends, emphasizing cost efficiency, scalability, and user experience."
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1020: Do You Read The Code?
13 Jul 2026
"Explored React's stagnation, AI-generated repetitive code, debates on reading code, soccer critiques, social media algorithm issues, AI-assisted workflows, a new HTTP 'query' method, and the Gea UI framework's performance advantages."
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1019: LGTM, Ship It: The AI Code Review Problem
8 Jul 2026
The text explores AI-generated code challenges like complexity and stylistic differences, suggests improvements through comments and strict prompts, contrasts backend vs. UI reliability, highlights over-reliance concerns, technical debt, refactoring limits, and covers local models, Delta DB, CSS quirks, alternative Git tools, pricing, and AI-integrated robots for education.
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1018: Google fires Workspace CLI Creator
6 Jul 2026
Corporate challenges in innovation, security, and scalability are explored through bureaucratic hurdles, tech industry events like Google's CLI tool termination, AI model updates (GPT 5.6 variants), open-weight models, robotics, privacy tools, and Cloudflare's AI deployment features, highlighting tensions between enterprise constraints and technological progress.
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1017, We need to stop calling it AI
1 Jul 2026
The text covers ShadCN's manual control vs. updates, PNPM's efficiency over NPM, React design system gaps in native HTML usage, balancing AI tools with foundational skills, trade-offs in code ownership, upstream dependency vulnerabilities, under-adoption of native APIs, evolving web standards, and the need for security awareness in AI-driven development.
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