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News for the first half of July, 2026: TypeScript 7 is now generally available, Bun's Rust port will be official in v1.4, plus Nuxt 4.5, and Astro 7.1 updates. From the community: Tangled is the new hotness, a tool that can refactor TypeScript, and a modern CSS theming guide.

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In this episode, we interview Kent. C Dodds, a prolific developer educator and TypeScript fan, to talk about his new courses and where he sees the future of software development going. Should you still learn to code in 2026? What skills will still be valuable 5 or 10 years from now? And how is he using agents day-to-day in his own work?

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News for the week of June 15, 2026: TypeScript 7 RC, Astro 7, Babel 8, React Router 8, and a new Bun-like DX for Node.js. From the community: k8s simulated in the browser, relocating rigor, and which frameworks cost the most tokens.

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News for the week of June 8, 2026: Nuxi agent helps you learn Nuxt, Stack Overflow builds a dedicated knowledge base for agents, and new talks from Web Engine Hackfest and JSNation available for your viewing pleasure. From the community: explaining the `unknown` type, template literal type cheatsheet, and understanding how standard.site works with ATproto.

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Excalibur.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...

News for the week of June 1, 2026: VoidZero joins Cloudflare, npm 12 will fix security defaults, and Angular 22 is out. From the community: tips every TS developer should know, how numpy-ts got faster than native, and recent developer talks you should pay attention to.

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News for the week of May 25, 2026: Astro's new Markdown processor API, Rust's take on LLM authorship, and new stage 4 TC39 proposals. From the community: highlights.

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News for the week of May 18, 2026: Claw Patrol! Claw Patrol! We'll be there on the double! Also, npm finally responds to ongoing supply chain attacks. From the community: using Effect more effectively, and AI's impact on open source.

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Excalibur.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.

News for the week of May 11, 2026: Deno 2.8 brings Node compatibility to 75%, Bun's Rust port is taking shape, and more supply chain sadness. From the community: SpacetimeDB's JS engine is faster than Rust, scrapping a custom DSL in favor of TypeScript, and why Effect is good for AI agents.

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Excalibur.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...

News for the weeks of April 27 and May 4, 2026: Rust ports galore, Remix 3 is ready to rumble, and lots of security PSAs that are breaking the Internet. From the community: boring web dev, cross-framework templating with TSRX, and TypeScript features wishlist.

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Excalibur.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.

News for the week of April 20, 2026: highlights from the recent TypeScript 7 beta and Deno Fresh quality of life improvements. From the community: Bloomberg's type-safe CLI library, a new TSGO toolchain, and TypeScript database migrations.

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Excalibur.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.

News for the week of April 13, 2026: require(esm) marked stable in Node 24.15.0 LTS, HTML-in-Canvas demos, and Cal.com goes closed source thanks to AI security. From the community: dependency cooldowns are not a solution, TanStack's take on RSC, and accidentally DDOS'ing npm with TypeScript.

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Excalibur.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.

News for the week of April 6, 2026: latest Bun release adds automated headless browser automation, whether Anthropic is using fear-based marketing, and major releases from Storybook and Docusaurus. From the community: why nominal typing deserves to be first-class, what to do about OSS vulnerabilities, and lessons from building a Rust runtime for TS.

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In this episode with Josh Goldberg, maintainer of TypeScript ESLint, we dive into his latest research project, Flint. The goal of Flint is to test different hypothesis on how to architect a modern, hybrid-native JavaScript and TypeScript linter. What happens when every rule can be type-aware? Can you write lint rules in TypeScript and run them with near-native performance? How can error messages be more helpful for humans and agents alike? How can the configuration and plugin system be re-designed so it's less magical and has more type safety? These are the kinds of questions the Flint team is...

News for the week of March 30, 2026: fun with UUIDs, Cloudflare gunning for Wordpress, and how OSS maintainers can defend against spearphishing attacks. From the community: a very Solid 6 hours, compiling TS to native UI code, and a super fast VIN decoder.

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Excalibur.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.

News for the week of March 23, 2026: Aspire 13.2 now supports TypeScript app hosts, Node.js security releases, and axios got got. From the community: Auvred's hybrid linting research, refactoring with generics, and sharing signals across the server-client boundary. Plus, using Claude to write a JS engine from scratch.

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Excalibur.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...

News for the week of March 16, 2026: TypeScript 6.0 is stable and released, Next 16.2 is better for agents, and SolidStart V2 is coming soon. From the community: bloat in JavaScript projects (and what to do about it), a TypeScript CLI framework, and why Node.js needs a VFS and a better streams API.

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Excalibur.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...

News for the week of March 9, 2026: it's VoidZero all the way down, seriously. From the community: TanStack makes hotkeys simple, plus how good are AI agents at playing Runescape?

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Excalibur.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.

News for the week of March 3, 2026: minor updates in TypeScript 6 Release Candidate, what's new in Astro 6 updates, and latest Chrome revives Sanitizer API. From the community: when to use return types, remembering service workers, and why Patreon took seven years to adopt TypeScript.

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Excalibur.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.

News for the week of Feb 23, 2026: highlights from the State of JS survey, Node is revamping its release schedule, and Bun finally gets stage 3 decorator support. From the community: Deno's code-first sandboxes, typesafe `Map.has()`, and Electrobun rendering with WebGPU.

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News for the week of Feb 16, 2026: npmx.dev is a better frontend for npm, Chrome 145 includes some cool new toys, and we figure out that Knip is pronounced with a hard-K. From the community: fun with generics, Next.js adds an MCP server, and why OSS maintainers need to breaks (as should we all).

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News for the weeks of Feb 2 and Feb 9, 2026: TypeScript 6.0 beta drops, ESLint 10 config updates, and Electrobun 1.0 release. From the community: TypeScript types are not a security feature and breaking changes in TS 6.0 you need to know.

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Mauro Bieg joins the two fools to talk about Mastro, a simple and minimal web framework and site generator. If 11ty and Astro had a baby, it might look like Mastro! With support for routing, HTML templating, streaming, and even reactive UI, Mastro might be a great fit for your next content-driven website.

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News for the week of January 26, 2026: Yarn 6.0 is rewritten in Rust, Anders interviewed on history and future of TypeScript, and a PSA on the Notepad++ update system. From the community: start using the satisfies keyword, learn more about Node Single Executable Applications (SEAs), and a DnD rule engine written in TS.

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News for the week of January 19, 2026: Rolldown reaches 1.0 release candidate, and a PDF library we all deserve. From the community: a better npm admin experience, supertype safety, and modern package.json targets.

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We are native Minnesotans. The ICE occupation is affecting our community in so many ways and has disrupted daily life for thousands of us. Families are sheltering in place, fearing to go to work, let their kids walk to school, take the bus, or even attend school at all. Adults and children are being abducted from their workplaces, schools, cars, and...

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.

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Excalibur.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.

News for the week of January 5, 2026: patch all your Node.js installations! Like now! Plus, a new TypeScript ESLint fixer for unused imports. From the community: why we all suck at logging, the concise TypeScript book, and all the JS engines in one page.

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Excalibur.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.

News for the weeks of December 22 and 29, 2025: MongoDB exploit drops on Christmas day in true Grinchy fashion, a new backend library called Vla that is far from blah, and starter templates for your next React Native app. From the community: NodeTLV keynote, strongly-typed events in gamedev, and a 6-hour deep dive into Doom in TS.

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Excalibur.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...

Our last episode for 2025, see you in 2026! News for the week of December 15 2025: Microsoft's experimental JS/TS modernization agent, new Next.js and Bun releases, and how pnpm is tightening the security screws. From the community: when to use types vs. interfaces, actionable tips on securing your local dev environment, and tips on using TypeScript types as a programming language.

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News for the week of December 8 2025: Deno 2.6 is packed with some cool features, Node 24 LTS ships stable type stripping, more React CVEs, and some new browser updates. From the community: JSDoc love, slay your TS type performance, and Figma's plugin system is built on shadows.

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Sam Gammon joins the two fools to talk about Elide, a batteries-included multi-language runtime. What if you could import Python modules from TypeScript... or Ruby, or Kotlin, or Rust? What if you could consolidate multiple backends to just one that ran all your code end-to-end with a unified DX? And what if doing all that was just as fast (or faster) than your existing backend? That's what we talk about in this episode!

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News for the week of December 1, 2025: Anthrophic acquired Bun, React2Shell is pretty darn bad (and that's not all), plus "elf spam" packages on npm. From the community: tRPC vs. oRPC, demystifying TSConfig, and hash-slash (#/) project-relative import support in Node.

MCP in Practice Course
Watch now. Kamran shows you how to build a practical enterprise-grade MCP server with .NET, C#, and OAuth, hosted remotely on Azure. (Requires subscription)

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News for the week of November 24, 2025: TypeScript team discusses progress on TS 7 and upcoming deprecations for TS 6. Plus, Svelte's new hydratable API. From the community: creating strongly-typed CLIs with yargs, magic union types to check characters, and how TypedArray can reduce memory usage.

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News for the week of November 17, 2025: Angular 21 is zoneless by default and adds Vitest support, plus Shai-Hulud worm hits another 500+ npm packages. What's a dev to do??? From the community: you basically know C# if you already know TypeScript and a new decorator-free dependency injection library inspired by Autofac.

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Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, tile maps, particles, and...

News for the week of November 10, 2025: Node 25 marks type stripping as stable, the downlow on some new Rust-based JavaScript and TypeScript engines, and a new browser for keyboard lovers. From the community: visualize how types work, using .NET Aspire without .NET, type-safe SQL, and an experimental Rust-based type checker.

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Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, tile maps, particles, and...

Daniel Rosenwasser and Jake Bailey join the two fools to talk about what's coming soon in TypeScript 6 and 7. What changes should developers expect? What might the new compiler API look like? How is the Go port progressing? We talk about smarter (and stricter) defaults, ES targets, module resolution, and why it's hard to emulate JavaScript floating point semantics in Go.

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News for the week of November 3, 2025: Node 24 promoted to LTS, Nuxt Image V2 is full of TS goodies, and Anders is humbled by TypeScript's rise. From the community: TypeScript is not a substitute for good engineering, why codemods are helpful, and examples of using the satisfies keyword.

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News for the week of October 27, 2025: TypeScript is the #1 language on GitHub, making your Regex type-safe, and Biome adds support for three new metaframeworks. From the community: a metaframework for Angular, PHP in JS, and a polyglot runtime that will blow your mind.

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News for the week of October 20, 2025: Deno Deploy revamp, Vitest 4, Nuxt 4.2, and Next.js 16, all in a single week. From the community: 4 weird ways to cast in TypeScript (+2 to Arcana rolls), type-safe API clients, and the hottest JS REPL around.

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News of the week of October 13, 2025: Node 25 brings V8 perf update, Remix reinvents itself once again, TypeScript in your DB, and why Map upsertions will be celebrated by TS devs. From the community: 15 npm packages you no longer need, Deno's side projects, Snoop L. O. Double G., and how to write architecture assertions.

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News of the week of October 6, 2025: Highlights from ReactConf 2025, Bun 1.3's (delicious) security lede got buried, and how to buy lifetime access to someone's webcam for $500. From the community: CSS is cool again, Immer.js perf improvements, and why typed linting is blocked by ESLint core.

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