Best Elide Podcasts (2025)

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The political and the personal of who learns classical music (ft. Élider DiPaula) 30:41

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On this week’s episode of The Codcast, what it means when political forces come for the arts. CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith talks with Élider DiPaula, the new executive director of Project STEP — a 12-year music program focused on bringing students from underrepresented or marginalized backgrounds into the world of classical string mu…

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Elide Runs TypeScript Faster Than Node Runs JavaScript | Sam Gammon | Ep 47B 49:01

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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 fast…

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Modernization Agents, Standard Schema V1, and Year-end Podcast Wins | News | Ep 49 45:31

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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 TypeScrip…

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Beyond the MCAS with Ed. Secretary Tutwiler 33:12

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On this week’s episode of the Codcast, Michael Jonas, executive editor of CommonWealth Beacon, sits down with Patrick Tutwiler, Massachusetts’ Secretary of Education. Tutwiler co-chairs a graduation council tasked with proposing new educational standards and assessments to replace the MCAS. Take a look behind the scenes.…

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Deno 2.6 Adds dx and TSGo, Temporal API in Chrome 144 Beta, and JSDoc is TypeScript | News | Ep 48 46:57

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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. MCP in Practice Course Out now. Kamran shows you how to build a practi…

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Anthropic's Bet on Bun, React2Shell, Vite 8 Beta, and Elves Spam npm | News | Ep 47 55:34

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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 enter…

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Showdown over Boston tax rates, ft Greg Maynard 34:34

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How much of Boston’s tax needs should fall on residents? The question is splitting City Hall and the business community, as dropping commercial property values and rising home values threaten a 13 percent residential tax hike in 2026. This week on the Codcast, Greg Maynard, executive director of the Boston Policy Institute, joins CommonWealth Beaco…

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Progress on TypeScript 7, Advent of Code as an Excuse to Learn Zig, and Type-safe CLIs | News | Ep 46 42:31

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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. Sponsored by Excalibur.js Excalibur.js is the friend…

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The Legislature breaks for the holidays and ballot questions heat up 31:00

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On this week’s episode of The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporters Jennifer Smith and Chris Lisinski check in as Beacon Hill heads into its winter break. Chris looks back at the end of year lawmaking hustle, and what was left for 2026, then turns to a possibly record-smashing number of ballot questions that could land before voters next November.…

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Angular 21, Autofac Meets TS, and Shai Hulud Strikes Again | News | Ep 45 27:50

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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. Sponsored by Excalibur.js Ex…

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Restoring civic discourse in an age of polarization (with Jim Peyser) 35:57

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On this week’s episode of The Codcast, Jim Peyser, who served as secretary of education under Gov. Charlie Baker, talks with executive editor Michael Jonas about the yearlong series of essays he wrote for CommonWealth Beacon on the need for civil discussion of often controversial issues in an era of polarized debate. Peyser says a healthy democracy…

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Type Stripping is Stable, Type-safe Music, and Rust Engines Enter the Chat | News | Ep 44 43:11

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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. Sponsored by Excalibur.…

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When medical access is a legal puzzle (with Matt Selig) 35:26

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On the monthly Health or Consequences episode of The Codcast, John McDonough of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Paul Hattis of the Lown Institute talk Matt Selig, the executive director of Health Law Advocates (HLA). They discuss the blur between medical and legal access issues, the group’s history and capacity, and their current li…

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What's Coming in TypeScript 6/7 | Daniel Rosenwasser | Jake Bailey | Ep 43B 1:09:01

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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…

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Nuxt Image Loves TypeScript, Node 24 Goes LTS, and a Satisfying Use of satisfies | News | Ep 43 49:13

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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. Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (05:24) - Announcement…

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Municipal budgets at the breaking point (with Adam Chapdelaine, Mayor Kassandra Gove, and Paul Craney) 32:14

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Massachusetts Municipal Association Executive Director Adam Chapdelaine, Amesbury Mayor Kassandra Gove, and Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance Executive Director Paul Craney join The Codcast to dive deep on the world of municipal finances in a panel discussion moderated by CommonWealth Beacon reporter Chris Lisinski. Guests unpack the various dynamics p…

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TypeScript Won, Type-safe Regex, and Import from... Python? | News | Ep 42 53:59

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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. Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (05:36) - News: TypeScript Won in 2025 (…

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A year after Steward closures, lost trust and betrayal 31:51

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This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporters Jennifer Smith and Hallie Claflin talk about Claflin’s deep dive into the fallout from Steward Health Care’s bankruptcy. Two communities – the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester and the rural Nashoba Valley – lost their community health centers. Just over a year later, the local emergency healt…

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Deno Deploy Makeover, Vitest 4, Nuxt 4.2, and Next.js 16 (Oh, and React Native 0.82) | News | Ep 41 40:40

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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. Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (05:04) - News: Deno Deployed a Brand Spankin' New Deno Deploy…

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The government shutdown's effects on the Mass. Health Connector (with Audrey Gasteier) 34:45

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This week on The Codcast: Health or Consequences, John McDonough and Paul Hattis are joined by Audrey Gasteier, executive director of the Massachusetts Health Connector. Gasteier discusses the current crisis facing residents of the commonwealth should the federal government fail to renew premium tax credits.…

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15 npm Deps to Replace (Axe 'em), Remix Remixed (Again), and TS in Space (Not Really) | News | Ep 40 57:33

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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. Chapters (00:00) - Welcome…

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Who you gonna call? (with Salem Mayor, Dominick Pangallo) 30:21

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This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Hallie Claflin talks with Dominick Pangallo, Mayor of Salem. Every year in October, Salem experiences a massive tourism boom as more than a million visitors flock to the site of the Salem Witch Trials for the spooky season. How does a small city of 45,000 manage the influx of tourists? How do S…

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ReactConf 2025 Highlights, Bun 1.3's Security Scanner API, and Malware-as-a-Service | News | Ep 39 48:25

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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. Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (05:52) - News: R…

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Could the shutdown push Mass. toward recession? (with Mark Williams) 24:30

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This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith talks with Mark Williams, finance lecturer at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University. Now two weeks into the federal shutdown, Williams reviews an already bleak estimate of Massachusetts’s financial health if officials continue on their current spending path. Facing…

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Deno Might be npm's Saving Throw, Temporal Dead Zones, and SSR Under .NET?! | News | Ep 38 47:50

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News of the week of September 29, 2025: Is Deno the answer to npm's security issues? From the community: replacing .env files with 1Password, stepping outside of TypeScript's padded room, and temporal dead zones. Plus, Kamran fell into a rabbit hole and defeated the Red Queen: SSR with .NET. Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (07:39) - News: TS…

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Health care challenges in the Berkshires (with Michael Leary) 30:09

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This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith talks with Michael Leary, director of media relations for Berkshire Health Systems. They dive into what makes Berkshire County such a complicated place for health care access – with rural towns, busier cities, college students, and of course the seasonal visitors looking to peep …

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New ECMAScript Proposals, Cap'n Web, and TS on DOS/PlayStation | News | Ep 37 59:07

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News of the week of September 22, 2025: new default option in TS 6.0, Jiti upgrade, and Cloudflare's on a tear. Plus, npm's security roadmap. From the community: Python-style kwargs, running TS on MS-DOS, and running JS on PlayStation. Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (07:42) - News: Take the State of JS Survey 2025 (08:25) - News: TS 6.0 Wil…

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A Super PAC longshot (with Prof. Larry Lessig) 36:54

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This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith talks with Harvard professor Larry Lessig about the ill-fated attempt to restrict Super PAC contributions in Massachusetts and the successful effort in Maine that was struck down by the lower court. The Maine coalition thinks it has a shot at convincing higher courts, not to over…

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Let the Spicy Takes Flow: Shai-Hulud Hits npm, Motion's TS Exodus | News | Ep 36 51:40

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News of the week of September 15, 2025: Shai-Hulud worm hits npm supply chain, WebAssembly 3 spec is ratified, and Elixir fans finally get their time in the spotlight. From the community: SquiggleConf was awesome, type branding and tuples, local-first app dev, and why @ts-ignore is almost always the worst option. Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the S…

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What health care workers are feeling on the ground 27:39

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This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith continues health care month coverage in a conversation with 1199SEIU executive vice president Cari Medina and Anestine Bentick, lead medical assistant at South Boston Community Health. They discuss existing pressures on stretched workforces, the impacts of recent closures, and ho…

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ArkType is TypeScript's 1:1 Validator | David Blass | Ep 35B 1:09:53

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David Blass (@ssalbdivad.dev) teaches the two fools about ArkType and its 1:1 validator type system. If you, like us, thought ArkType was only about validation, think again! David pulls back the curtain on what makes ArkType unique, how he built a type-level parser to provide helpful error messages, and why ArkType can provide soundness guarantees …

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Deno 2.5, Type-safe Configs and Forms, and Underrated TS Features | News | Ep 35 49:12

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News of the week of September 8, 2025: Deno 2.5 adds a bunch of DX improvements, Fresh 2.0 is out of beta, and a supply chain attack mitigation for pnpm users. From the community: Val Town's OSS TypeScript editor, discussing underrated TS features, and tools/libraries to help make your configs, secrets, and forms type-safe. Chapters (00:00) - Welco…

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Bracing for impact with Health and Human Services Secretary Kiame Mahaniah 31:58

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This week on the monthly Health or Consequences episode of The Codcast, John McDonough of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Paul Hattis of the Lown Institute spoke with Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, Massachusetts secretary of Health and Human Services, about looming Medicaid cuts, the primary care crisis, and how to make sure the vulnerable can…

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Fresh 2.0 Beta, TS Nostalgia, and Spear Phishing the Supply Chain | News | Ep 34 49:52

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News of the week of September 1, 2025: Deno Fresh 2.0 is now in beta, Swift 6.2 adds WASM support, and a serious spear-phishing attack on npm maintainers. From the community: looking back on TypeScript, optimizing immutability, type-safe state machines, sharing Wi-Fi links, and some prolific open source work. Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show …

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Blocking and tackling with Massport CEO Rich Davey 34:05

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This week on the Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith talks with Rich Davey, who just finished his first year as CEO of Massport. They talk about his long history of ground transportation work, plans to improve air travel, and whether Boston actually could have handled the 2024 Olympics.…

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Breaking Changes in TS 6, a Calm Migration to Type Stripping, and Deno's #FreeJavaScript Campaign | News | Ep 33 56:07

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News of the week of August 25, 2025: the two fools unpack the expected breaking changes to TSConfig in the upcoming 6.0 release, explain Node's latest LTS notable changes, and cover the latest in the JS trademark case from Deno. Plus, a PSA if you use Nx! From the community: making the case to migrate to Node's type stripping, a peek at Vitest 4, Z…

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Elyse Cherry talks BlueHub predatory lending lawsuit 39:20

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This week on the Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith sits down with Elyse Cherry, CEO of BlueHub Capital, to discuss the recent court decision that BlueHub violated consumer protection statutes around lending. Where does the case go next, and why did lawmakers push for new rules tailored to BlueHub’s controversial lending practices…

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TypeScript Go Nightly Improvements, Rslint Announced, and Big Bun Updates | News | Ep 32 51:09

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News of the week of August 18, 2025: one of the biggest nightly updates for TS Go, Rspack team announces a new linter, the new minor Bun release is pretty major, and Next.js 15.5 features typed routing . From the community: more learning web dev resources, an exhaustive switch utility for JSX, --strict on by default?, and whether you can really pro…

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Restoring blighted properties is easier said than done in Western Mass. 32:23

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This week on the Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon editor Laura Colarusso sits down with Gateway Cities reporter Hallie Claflin to talk about her recent reporting in Holyoke – where city leaders and housing developers have struggled to restore vacant mills and blighted industrial buildings. They discuss the costly environmental hazards associated with t…

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Astro DB Gets Enum Support, Type-safe Data Flow in Next.js, and a Moose-y ORM | News | Ep 31 17:42

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News of the week of August 11, 2025: there ain't much! Astro 5.13 minor release brings enums to Astro DB and improved meta environment variables. From the community: learning web dev, Result-typing Next.js server actions, and Clickhouse built an ORM. Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (05:07) - News: Astro 5.13 Adds import.meta.env and Astro DB…

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WebStorm Supports TS Go, V8 Stringifies JSON 2X Faster, and a TypeScript AI Conference | News | Ep 30 48:52

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News of the week of August 4, 2025: WebStorm 2025.2 adds support for TypeScript Go language server (preview), V8 made JSON.stringify supa-supa-fast, and there's a new TypeScript AI conference on the block. From the community: recommended tools and libraries for TS developers, how to prevent ReDOS attacks, and an interview discussing how the JavaScr…

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Can Mass. turn the health care crisis around? (with Eric Dickson) 33:44

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The Bay State is already struggling with a primary care provider crisis, and the head of the largest not-for-profit health care system in Central Massachusetts sees an increasingly grim road ahead if current trends persist. This week on the monthly Health or Consequences episode of The Codcast, John McDonough of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public…

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State of TypeScript Linting 2025 | Joshua Goldberg | Ep 29B 41:53

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Joshua Goldberg (JoshuaKGoldberg.com), creator of typescript-eslint, joins us to discuss the state of linting TypeScript projects in 2025. Which linters should we pay attention to? Why are there so many? What's unique about TypeScript? Josh shares his perspective and covers what to look for in a linter and how best to utilize them in your projects.…

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Node 22.18 LTS Green Lights TypeScript for Orgs | News | Ep 29 42:20

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News of the week of July 28, 2025: TS 5.9 released, Node 22.18 is the first LTS to support TypeScript, a Rust-based alternative to Next.js, plus why Laravel ain't your pappy's PHP. From the community: eslint-max-depth-ts plugin, Zod vs. Valibot battle, Better Auth is so good, a deal with the TypeScript devil, and did you know you can render motion …

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Trump tax bill: the good, the mixed, and the still uncertain 26:10

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This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon executive editor Michael Jonas talks with reporter Jennifer Smith about a series of stories, parsing the sprawling Trump tax and spending bill. They discuss why it’s so hard to know if Opportunity Zones have been effective, and why affordable housing advocates are mixed on the administration’s approach …

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Building Secure TypeScript Applications | Liran Tal | Ep 28B 57:02

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Liran Tal (lirantal.com) from Snyk joins us to dive deep into writing secure TypeScript applications. What's different compared to vanilla JavaScript security? Will schema validators fix all our woes? Can't we let LLMs find and fix security vulnerabilities? Liran educates us about the pitfalls and risks with misplacing trust in TypeScript and LLMs …

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Deno Fresh 2.0 Alpha, a BigInt Trick, and Learn TS in One Hour | News | Ep 28 32:57

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News of the week of July 21, 2025: Deno Fresh 2.0 is in alpha, TS 5.9 RC has some small changes, and beware the latest eslint-config-prettier supply chain attack. From the community: learn TypeScript for free in an hour, master generics through Soduku, run TS in the browser without a build step, and a library for modern TS dependency injection. Cha…

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Navigating the new broker’s fee law in Mass. (with Todd Kaplan) 27:49

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This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith and Todd Kaplan, senior attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services, set the stage for a new law changing the way broker’s fees in Massachusetts have been handled for the past decade. Starting August 1, the balance is meant to shift away from the renters and towards landlords when …

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Nuxt 4.0, Bun's Smarter Types, and Testing Type Completions | News | Ep 27 38:21

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News of the week of July 14, 2025: Nuxt 4.0 is released along with an acquisition by Vercel, TSGO ships go-to-type definition support, and Bun ships smarter types. From the community: test type completions and benchmark instantiations with a testing package from Arktype, treating types as values with type-level maps, and dive a bit deeper into how …

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Massachusetts leans into artificial intelligence (with AI Hub director Sabrina Mansur) 28:37

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This week on The Codcast, it’s the state angle on artificial intelligence. CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith talks with Sabrina Mansur, director of the Massachusetts Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hub. Mansur explains how she uses AI in her daily life and why keeping Massachusetts competitive means a $100 million taxpayer-funded effort to g…