1028: Cloudflare Wallets

Cloudflare is rolling out crypto wallets with claimable handles as identity, and a real React compiler finally landed for regular hooks-based code. Plus: OpenAI's pricing war, Vue Vapor benchmarks, GitHub's new npm malware scanning, and an active supply chain attack hitting 868 packages.



Show Notes


00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

01:02 Shai Hulud is back!

New Shai-Hulud announcement

Attacked keyv packages




05:27 GitHub scans your npm packages for malware

06:42 Your agent has a wallet now

Make your own

Cloudflare wallet announcement blog post

X402 payments




12:10 Yet another React compiler?

Ripple.ts

Inferno.js

Dominic Gannaway’s launch post

Octane

Native Script

Reactivity + Rendering Benchmark




27:19 Scott switched his browser AGAIN!

Dia

Knock off extension




31:56 AI Mental health survey

32:29 OpenAI models are becoming cheaper?

38:49 GitHub stacked PRs finally arrived

41:48 AI video podcasts

HeyGen launch post

Hank Green’s unhealthy AI usage




48:15 Brought to you by Sentry!

49:28 News from the TC39 meeting

ECMAScript news

Await dictionary

TC39 Process




56:58 Qwen 3.8

01:02:31 Latest and greatest in CSS and UI libraries

Foley.dev

Morphicons

Lucide

Nucleo

8bit library

CSS radar

Impeccable





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