This week's a non-AI episode!

It’s been a minute since we last discussed Bun, but the team is back with a new release. In v1.3.10, the REPL’s completely rewritten in Zig, barrel imports are optimized, and the JavaScriptCore engine got upgraded for big perf gains.

Npmx, a fast, modern browser for the npm registry has reached alpha version in less than 2 months of existence. Its goal is to make it easy for devs to find, evaluate, and manage npm packages, and boasts cool features like the ability to compare packages and even launch demo environments directly from package READMEs.

Solid 2.0.0 jumped straight from experimental to beta this week, and it introduces changes like: async is first-class, derived state is a primitive, dev guardrails to prevent foot guns, and a DOM cleanup model.

Timestamps:

2:04 - Bun v1.3.10
8:39 - npmx
13:03 - Solid 2.0 beta
22:42 - PlanetScale bought Drizzle ORM
23:46 - Safari is getting customizable <select>s
27:26 - Fire starter
30:15 - What’s making us happy

News:

Paige - npmx
Jack - Solid 2.0 beta
TJ - Bun v1.3.10

Lightning News:

Fire Starter:

Navigation API is baseline available

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

Paige - Kytin Parasole shoes
Jack - Immich
TJ - Stratechery’s coverage of the Anthropic v. DoW saga

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