- 1 hour 12 minutes1036: Cursor & OpenAI Break Up
The messy breakup is official; as of November 12, OpenAI's models are getting pulled from Cursor, and we're digging into who's really to blame (and why Wes called it). Plus pnpm 12 goes full Rust, Mitchell Hashimoto drops Superlogical, ~700 AI agents attack Hugging Face, and Zod 4.5's compiled schemas get up to 9x faster.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:33 pnpm 12 Rust Re-Write
- 02:45 Zod 4.5 brings Schema Compilation
- 05:22 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 07:14 Cursor OpenAI Break Up
- 15:35 vGPU - WebGPU library for agents
- 22:32 Omarchy Security Issues and Linux Chat
- 36:38 Scott Bought an M5 Ultra Mac Studio
- 44:45 Superlogical is a new terminal multiplexer
- 48:31 Zurich JS
- 48:55 Katamari Object Library
- 52:05 ThreeUI - Three.js library
- 55:36 Hugging Face Hack Analyzed / Updates
- 01:00:46 llms.txt used to pwn devs
- 01:03:56 Running Isolated Code Poll
- 01:05:47 OpenShot 4.0 - OSS Video Editor
- 01:09:06 Lake America
- 01:11:24 Ox Alpha is GLM 5.3
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7 September 2026, 11:00 am - 26 minutes 36 seconds1035: Why everyone is moving to Stylex?
Meta’s StyleX compiles thousands of styles into a few reusable class names at build time—zero runtime, fully type-safe. Scott and Wes break down why it’s suddenly everywhere, and why it might be the best CSS tool for AI agents.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 02:18 What Is StyleX and How Does It Work?
- 04:27 The Difference Between StyleX and Other CSS Scoping Methods
- 06:03 What People Are Saying: StyleX Is Superior for AI Agents
- 11:30 Type Safety and Design System Constraints
- 12:46 No Runtime Dependency: All Computed at Build Time
- 13:49 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 14:13 Reusable Styles: Import, Export, and Auto-Import
- 17:53 Composability and Overriding Styles With JavaScript Objects
- 18:24 It Sucks to Write by Hand
- 19:25 Modern CSS Properties and Waiting for Implementation
- 20:58 Nested CSS and Nested Selectors Are Tricky
- 22:24 Alternatives: Panda CSS and CSS Modules
- 24:41 The Auto-Complete Experience: Why StyleX Shines for Agents
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2 September 2026, 11:00 am - 1 hour 15 minutes1034: Omarchy Quattro Release
Grokbot actually earns its keep, Cursor takes a swing at GitHub with Origin, and Omarchy Quattro ships pre-wired for nine coding agents. Plus: the GitHub outage post-mortem, a compromised Rust crate, native app vibe-coding with Dactyl, and CAD skills for your AI via nurb.dev
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:26 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 00:37 Grok’s New Agentic App: Grokbot
- 12:51 GitHub’s Major Outage and Postmortem
- 16:42 Cursor’s Origin: A GitHub Competitor
- 22:59 Omarchy: The Linux Distro for Nerds
- 29:21 CachyOS: Another Arch-Based Alternative
- 31:12 The $10 Million Omarchy Foundation
- 34:54 Dactyl: Native iOS and Android Development in the Browser
- 44:19 Nurb: AI-Powered 3D CAD Design
- 49:36 Security Stories: Supply Chain Attacks and Model Cheating
- 49:43 Rust Supply Chain Attack
- 51:34 Every Model Cheats: AI Benchmark Findings
- 53:13 Felony Bench: Ranking AI Models by Crimes Committed
- 54:19 Casio’s Smart Dumb Watch
- 58:43 Everything I Own Is Owned: Reverse Engineering USB Devices with AI
- 01:08:05 The Mystery 0x Alpha Model
- 01:13:48 Dactyl Returns Something
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31 August 2026, 11:00 am - 18 minutes 36 seconds1033: 8 New CSS, JS and HTML Features You Should Know
Scott and Wes run through eight new CSS, JS, and HTML features landing in browsers; including the relative alpha() color function, the progress() function for calculating values between units, Promise.allKeyed(), and native camera and microphone elements. They also get into an upgraded attr(), shrink-to-fit containers, and text-box-trim for finally killing that annoying extra space above your text.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:22 CSS Alpha() Relative Color Function
- 02:25 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 02:48 CSS CSS Progress() Function: Calculate Values Between Units
- 05:09 Promise.allKeyed(): Object-Based Promise Resolution
- 06:55 Camera and Microphone HTML Elements
- 09:24 Advanced CSS Attr() Function: Props for CSS
- 11:25 CSS Sibling-Index() and Sibling-Count() Functions
- 13:56 CSS Shrink-to-Fit Container
- 15:36 CSS Text-Box-Trim and Text-Box-Edge
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26 August 2026, 11:00 am - 1 hour 7 minutes1032: Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7B
Scott and CJ break down Stripe's $7B acquisition of OpenRouter, the SvelteKit 3 release candidate, and their first look at TanStack Charts. Plus Zed's new Delta editor, stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs, why dark mode toggles only need two states, and all 43 quintillion Rubik's cube states in your browser.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 02:20 SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate
- 07:43 Video editor recs
- 09:58 TanStack Charts First Look
- 14:24 Ponytail AI Tool
- 17:22 Zed Delta Editor
- Introducing Delta
- 23:44 Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7B+
- 29:27 Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
- 35:03 First look at Cursor’s GitHub killer
- 42:34 Dark Mode UX Discussion
- 46:40 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 48:34 Should AI respond in plain language?
- 52:57 Swamp Club Automation
- 01:02:37 Fight AI slop with this anti-slop plugin
- 01:03:39 Rubik’s Cube Permutations
- 01:05:02 Hackweek
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24 August 2026, 11:00 am - 57 minutes 3 seconds1031: My Coding Skills Are Atrophying
Scott and Wes answer your questions about coding in the AI era, atrophying skills from too much autocomplete, whether it’s finally time to leave VS Code, chasing flow state with agents, and which single AI subscription is worth your money. Plus: AT Protocol vs Solid, making your AI config portable across tools, and bringing Shadcn-level UX to server-rendered frameworks.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:57 AI-Generated Code: Are My Skills Atrophying?
- 06:03 Is It Time to Move On from VS Code?
- 13:19 Hitting Flow State with AI Coding
- 19:15 AT Protocol vs Solid: Decentralized Web Approaches
- 24:55 Which AI Should You Subscribe To?
- 30:23 Making Your AI Setup Portable Across Tools
- 33:56 When to Drop a Tool That Still Works
- 40:12 UX Quality for Traditional Server-Side Frameworks
- 44:14 Using Hermes and Self-Hosted AI Assistants
- 49:27 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
Sick Picks
- Scott: ESP32-S3
- Wes: Sharge ICEMAG3
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19 August 2026, 11:00 am - 1 hour 24 minutes1030: AI Assistant Hacks Gym
An AI assistant goes rogue and hacks a gym website, a $9k surprise Cloudflare bill lands in someone’s inbox, and AI subscriptions start promising unlimited usage. Plus Meta’s Muse Glimmer, Agent Plugins, Kimi K3 in Copilot, and a pile of CSS chaos.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 02:30 Celld: self host distributed durable objects
- 07:57 $9k Cloudflare Bill
- 13:43 Ogygia - SSR islands for SvelteKit
- 18:49 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 19:51 Standard Code - Unlimited Use AI Subscription
- 29:17 New Meta Model Muse Glimmer
- 36:12 AI Assistant Hacks Gym
- 46:49 This Week in AI
- 54:50 Prime Agent RLM harness
- 01:01:02 Agent Plugin Spec
- 01:04:08 Adam Wathan: A Token is a Token
- 01:07:39 New JS Runtime from Remix Creator
- 01:11:21 Lost phone found with Bluetooth meter
- 01:17:24 Center a div with browser sidebars
- 01:19:49 Flexwind froggy
- 01:21:55 Thanks for watching!
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17 August 2026, 11:00 am - 59 minutes 37 seconds1029: The Workflow of the Future With Zed
Nathan Sobo joins Scott and Wes to explain why Zed was built in Rust, how GPUI works, and what happens to editors once agents write most of the code. They also talk about DeltaDB, Zed’s new Git-compatible version control system, and Delta, the collaborative agentic editor it powers.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Start
- 00:35 Welcom to Syntax
- 01:13 The Journey to Zed: Building the Ultimate Tool
- 03:26 Why Rust was chosen for Zed?
- 06:29 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 07:07 Building a UI from scratch in Rust
- 15:55 AI’s role in coding and development
- 18:42 The role of text editors in the age of AI
- 21:52 Delta DB: The vision for collaborative development
- 29:06 The Evolution of Collaborative Coding
- 44:45 The Future of User Interfaces
- 52:42 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
Sick Picks
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- Wes:
- Nathan Sobo:
Shameless Plugs
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- Wes:
- Nathan Sobo:
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12 August 2026, 11:00 am - 1 hour 18 minutes1028: 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!
- 05:27 GitHub scans your npm packages for malware
- 06:42 Your agent has a wallet now
- 12:10 Yet another React compiler?
- 27:19 Scott switched his browser AGAIN!
- 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
- 48:15 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 49:28 News from the TC39 meeting
- 56:58 Qwen 3.8
- 01:02:31 Latest and greatest in CSS and UI libraries
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10 August 2026, 11:00 am - 1 hour 3 minutes1027: The Rise of the Design Engineer
Scott and Wes tackle your questions on the rise of the design engineer, why AI still lacks “taste” (and why it’s about more than just looks), and how to actually write tests in the age of AI-assisted coding. Plus: is AI a bubble about to burst, keeping coding agents efficient in massive codebases, introducing kids to AI, a Linux life update, and more!
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:18 The Rise of the Design Engineer Role
- 08:39 Why AI Has No Taste: It’s Not Just How It Looks
- 14:28 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 14:52 Testing in the AI Era: Are We Using AI to Write Tests?
- 20:09 Is AI a Bubble? Will It Burst?
- 24:35 Negative Public Sentiment Towards AI and Data Centers
- 30:16 Update on Scott Using Omarchy and Linux
- 38:14 Introducing AI to Kids: A Parent’s Perspective with Dr. Courtney
- 49:34 Getting Hired Without AI Experience: How to Catch Up
- 52:53 Keeping Coding Agents Efficient: Token Usage, Speed, and Accuracy
- 57:10 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
Sick Picks
- Scott: Kitchen Sink Brush
- Wes: Magnet Fishing
Shameless Plugs
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5 August 2026, 11:00 am - 1 hour 36 minutes1026: OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face
A rogue OpenAI agent allegedly hacks Hugging Face, the React Compiler lands in Rust, and a fresh Rust full-stack framework ships. Scott, Wes, and CJ also dig into Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement, Claude Opus 5, and the campaign to kill the cookie banner.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:03 React Compiler Ported to Rust
- 06:39 Vercel releases TS to Native Compiler
- 19:26 Standard Agent Zen Garden
- 29:14 In-House LLM at Netflix
- 34:14 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 35:15 Anthropic to pay $1.5B over book piracy
- 38:06 Open Weights and American AI Leadership
- 40:27 Kimi K3 Weights Released
- 44:26 Claude 5 Context Engineering
- 45:40 Writing Code For Agents to Read
- 48:02 Gemini 3.6 Flash / 3.5 Flash Cyber
- 50:44 Qwen Image 3.0 Released
- 54:46 Cactus Hybrid - Fine Tune Small Models
- 56:06 topcoat - Rust Full Stack Framework
- 01:01:00 SvelteKit 3 Migration Notes
- 01:05:16 Canvas UI
- 01:07:26 Jelly UI
- 01:09:24 Kill the Cookie Banner
- 01:12:31 Hugging Face Hacked by OpenAI
- 01:21:27 AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security
- 01:24:51 htmx 4: the game for gameboy
- 01:29:00 Stolen Buttons
- 01:29:33 Fonts in Use
- 01:32:39 3d Splats
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