Best Firebase Podcasts (2025)

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From natural language to UI tests: A deep dive into Journeys for Android Studio 44:57

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Hosts Tor and Chet are joined by Adarsh Fernando, a Product Manager, and Ray Buse, a Software Engineer, to discuss Journeys for Android Studio. Powered by Gemini's vision and reasoning, Journeys aims to simplify end-to-end test creation and maintenance by converting the natural language you provide to describe the steps and assertions for each test…

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React Goes Independent: Inside the New React Foundation 41:10

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Coming up in this episode: React Conf happened this week, and we have a bunch of React news to cover. There’s a new React foundation and new React version. And Cloudflare announced something called Cap'n Web, so of course we need to talk about it. Chapter Markers: 03:18 - React Foundation 07:10 - React Compiler 1.0 and React 19.2 17:13 - Cap’n Web …

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Claude Code Levels Up: VS Code Extension, Checkpoints & Sonnet 4.5 41:58

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Anthropic dropped a bunch of good Claude Code updates. There’s a new a native VS Code extension, a v2 of the terminal version of Claude, code checkpoints, and it’s all powered by Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic’s best coding model yet. On top of Claude’s glow up, the Google Chrome team launched a Chrome DevTools MCP. AI coding assistants will be able to debu…

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Android developer verification 45:22

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To protect users from malware and scams, Android has announced a new layer of security: developer verification. While this is nothing new for Google Play Store apps, Android is extending this to the entire Android ecosystem. Host Tor is joined by Matthew, Patrick, Naheed, and Raz to discuss this latest security update that deters bad actors and cre…

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Adam Argyle on Cracking the 2025 Web Dev Interview 1:03:05

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CSS wizard, and now Staff Design Engineer at Shopify, Adam Argyle, joins us on this episode to talk about what web development interviews are like in 2025 and what folks can do to stand out today. Links: Adam’s nerdy.dev website Adam’s Argyle Ink website Adam on YouTube Adam on Bluesky Adam on GitHub Adam on X Adam on LinkedIn https://nerdy.dev/cas…

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npm Under Siege: The “Shai-Hulud” Worm Attack 56:58

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The supply chain attacks on npm continue and this week, Crowdstrike’s npm packages fell victim to the “Shai-Hulud” worm. To mitigate the potential of downloading these malicious packages, consider pinning specific package versions in JS projects and using 2FA to publish new package versions to npm. Also this week, WebAssembly Specification (Wasm) r…

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npm’s Biggest Supply Chain Attack (and What We Learned) 50:13

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Just 5 months ago we covered how Storybook 9 was in beta, and already Storybook 10 is in beta. The biggest change is that Storybook is going all in on ESM and dropping CJS support, which is making for some big performance gains and smaller bundle sizes. This past week, npm suffered the largest supply chain attack in its history when a prolific OSS …

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Warp Code and the Future of Agent-Driven Dev 51:57

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The Google vs. the US anti-trust lawsuit has finally drawn to a close, and (spoiler alert) Google doesn’t have to sell Chrome (or Android, for that matter). Going forward it will have to share certain search data with its rivals, and that’s about it, so this is definitely a big win for Google any way you look at it. The popular terminal company War…

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121 – Android Studio Narwhal 3, Android 16 QPR2 beta, and more! 7:14

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Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. Dan covers Android 16 QPR2 beta 1, the Android Studio Narwhal feature drop, Jetpack Compose 1.9, and more! Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:24 - Android 16 QPR2 beta 1:38 - Android Studio Updates 2:42 - Jetpack Compose August ‘25 released to …

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Bun v1.2: SQL, YAML & Security Scans 41:36

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Last episode, we lamented Claude’s lack of checkpoints to roll back code when it goes off the rails. Other devs feel the same, and this week Checkpoints for Claude Code debuted. It’s an MCP server that follows Claude Code, creating checkpoints when tasks are completed, allowing for easy reverts when needed. The Bun team quietly pushed some nice new…

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Alchemy: IaC Without Terraform 54:37

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The latest craze for MCP this week? Instead of multiple MCP servers with different tools, use an MCP server that accepts programming code as tool inputs - a single “ubertool” if you will. AI agents like Claude Code are pretty good at writing code, but letting the agent write and execute code to invoke API functions instead of using a defined MCP se…

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TanStack Devtools: One Panel to Rule Them All 50:34

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You just can’t keep TanStack out of the news for more than a few weeks before a new product appears. This week, it’s TanStack Devtools, which provides a centralized devtools panel of all the Tanstack libraries for streamlined DX and custom devtools support. The State of CSS 2025 survey results are in, and highlights include: devs love the new `:has…

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Autofill in Compose 44:22

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In this episode of Android Back Stage, Hosts Tor, and Chet are joined by Melba and Ralston, Software Engineers on the Compose Team, to talk about Autofill in Compose. Learn about Autofill services, best practices, and more! Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:40 - What is Autofill? 1:21 - Autofill team journey and semantics 2:15 - Defining semantics in Compos…

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TanStack DB: Reactive Apps Without Firebase 45:34

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There’s drama brewing between AI-answer engine company Perplexity and hosting platform Cloudflare, which recently declared it would actively block AI bots from crawling websites without the owners’ permission. Cloudflare received complaints, set up its own test sites, and then asked Perplexity pointed questions only - and got answers! Not a great l…

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120 - Android Canaries, Agentic AI, 16 KB page size requirements, and more! 7:47

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Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. Dan covers Android Canaries, Agentic AI, 16 KB Page Size requirements, and new subscription tools, Resources: Canary release channel → https://goo.gle/4lMWgjh Agentic AI with Gemini in Android Studio → https://goo.gle/3GUZzpi Prepare your Pl…

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Is es-toolkit the Lodash Killer? 47:54

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There’s a new utility library in town called es-toolkit, and it’s gunning for Lodash. 2-3x faster, 97% smaller, full TypeScript support, and using modern JavaScript APIs, es-toolkit’s just added a “Lodash compatibility layer” to ensure an identical API and 100% Lodash compatibility. oRPC is the newest wrinkle in the Remote Procedural Call (RPC) wor…

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Is Open Source Software Infrastructure? 45:42

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GitHub is advocating for a European Union Sovereign Tech Fund to help pay the open source software developers building and maintaining software relied upon by economies and societies just like any other necessary infrastructure like roads and bridges. Apple gets called out by the Open Web Advocacy group saying its technical rules and restrictions a…

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Windsurf’s 72-Hour Power Shuffle 51:38

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There are so many headlines about AI IDE Windsurf as of late, but we’ll try to catch you up. First, OpenAI wanted to buy Windsurf for $3B, but the deal fell through due to Microsoft. Next, Google hired Windsurf’s top execs and researchers to work on its AI products, but didn’t buy the Windsurf IDE, for $2.4B. Then, Cognition bought the remainder of…

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Vercel Acquires Nuxt and Nitro 41:28

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Tech companies continue the acquisition spree of the summer when Vercel announces it’s hired the creators of NuxtLabs, the folks who build metaframework Nuxt and server runtime Nitro. Figma returns to the newscycle with the introduction of its Dev Mode MCP server. This server allows agentic coding tools to pull in design context directly from Figma…

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Back it up, bring it back: No data left behind 48:50

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It can be a draw when setting up a new device. Some info transfers, while some don’t. Learn how developers can ensure the best user experience when people backup and restore an Android device. Hosts Tor and Chet are joined by Graham and Piyush on the Android Consumer Experience team and Alon on the Android Studio team to discuss Android backup and …

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119 - Android 16, testing, desktop experiences, AndroidX, and more! 4:36

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Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. Meghan shares exciting news like the release of Android 16! Discover developer previews for desktop windowing experiences, building adaptive apps, and more! Chapters and resources: 0:00 - Introduction 0:24 - Android 16 is here → https://goo.…

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Cloudflare Drops the Hammer on AI Crawlers 40:56

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The big tech company conferences continued this summer with Vercel hosting Vercel Ship 2025. As you’d expect there was lots of talk about AI and Vercel’s AI Cloud: tools, infrastructure, and platform enhancements to build AI agents and help AI agents use Vercel. On July 1, hosting platform Cloudflare declared Content Independence Day, and changed i…

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Battle of the AI CLIs: Jack Tests Them All 45:36

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The field of AI coding agent CLIs is crowded and getting more so by the day, and our co-host Jack has tried them all so you don’t have to. The big four are: OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, Google’s Gemini Code, and Amazon Q, along with some lesser known CLIs like AmpCode, OpenCode, and (the already shut down) Anon Kode. After trying everyt…

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Oxlint 1.0: The Linter That Leaves ESLint in the Dust 35:29

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In this episode: Linting is getting a whole lot faster with Oxlint Your browser is becoming part of your wellness routine And Copilot is getting more agentic features Chapter Markers: 1:05 - Oxlint 7:05 - Opera Air 11:24 - GitHub Copilot coding agent 18:45 - More Remix v3 updates 23:56 - What makes us happy Links: Paige - void0's Oxlint 1.0 Jack - …

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118 – What’s new in Android development at Google I/O 2025 (part 2) 5:47

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Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, Dan Galpin covers part two of the biggest announcements from Google I/O 2025. From Jetpack Compose, Camera and Media, accessibility, Kotlin Multiplatform, Android development tools, Google Play, and more. Check out part 1 → …

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Rolldown-Vite: Evan You Just Made Vite 16x Faster 44:01

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We first reported on Evan You’s company void0 back in October, 2024, and now Evan and co are making good on their promise to rework the entire JS toolchain from the ground up with the release of Rolldown-Vite. The new package is a drop-in replacement for the Vite bundler we all know and love, with benefits like production build time reductions of u…

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Bot to the Future: Two Years Later 46:27

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Join Tor and Siva Velusamy and Sandhya Mohan from the Android Studio team to learn about the latest updates to Studio Bot (Gemini in Android Studio) that dropped at Google I/O 2025 including Agent Mode. Building on their conversation from two years ago about the Studio Bot, they explore Gemini’s role in every stage of development, from design to bu…

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56: XTDB: A Bitemporal database in Clojure 1:17:09

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Jeremy Taylor and James Henderson talk about building XTDB, bitemporality, SQL compatibility, and Apache Arrow Launching XTDB v2 Grid Dynamics acquires JUXT LSM Tree The Generational Hypothesis JUXT Cast - Viktor Leis HTAP Processing Are We There Yet - Rich Hickey Jepsen Consistency Tree Jepsen Datomic test Jepsen Postgres test Andy Pavlo - CMU Int…

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The Browser Company Kills Arc 49:20

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OpenAI has a new API in beta called the Realtime API, which enables speech conversations with LLMs. Real-time text and audio processing means users can have conversations with voice agents and voice-enabled apps, and OpenAI makes it simple to connect via WebRTC or WebSockets. Several months ago, The Browser Company, abruptly announced they were sto…

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Now in Android: 117 – What’s new in Android development at Google I/O 2025 (part 1) 7:02

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Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, Dan Galpin covers part one of the biggest announcements from Google I/O 2025. From Material Design’s latest evolution, to building with on-device and cloud AI, to updates for wearables, automotive, XR, and more. Stay tuned f…

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Zod v4: Prettier, Better, Faster, Smaller 53:59

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It’s been 4 years since TypeScript schema validation library Zod released v3, but the new v4 release makes it worth the wait. Expect faster parsing times across the board, built in error pretty-printing, and even a tree-shakeable API called Zod Mini for constrained environments like edge runtimes. There’s a new npm-based CLI tool for managing and s…

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Horus Heresy Special 1:59:08

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** Apologies, it seems we have some audio issues with this episode, with some annoying crackling. It may be our software getting upset as we prepare to switch to a painting stream.. ** Yes we are back with another podcast episode! After a few weeks testing a few things as we prepare to bring back the painting stream, we just had to do a new episode…

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VS Code Open Sources GitHub Copilot Chat 37:26

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This week both Google and Microsoft held conferences where they announced all the new, great AI breakthroughs, but there were a few other notable, web dev-focused pieces in between. VS Code announced it will be open sourcing the GitHub Copilot Chat extension, refactoring relevant components into its core codebase, as the next logical step “in makin…

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GraphQL and AI with Apollo CTO Matt DeBergalis 47:19

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CTO and co-founder of Apollo, Matt DeBergalis, joins us on this episode to talk about how GraphQL has continued to evolve over time, and how Apollo is focused on making it more accessible for developers and AI agents than ever before. For those less familiar with Apollo and GraphQL, Matt shares the history of both, including lessons he learned from…

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TanStack DB & The Rise of the Tannerverse 39:35

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TanStack, a collection of popular open-source software libraries, is back in the news cycle this week with the announcement of TanStack DB. TanStack DB extends TanStack Query with collections, live queries, and optimistic UI mutations to keep UIs reactive, consistent, and lightning fast. VS Code marks its 100th release of v1 with updates like: enab…

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Design, Code, Publish - All in Figma? 49:25

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Node is back in the news with some noteworthy updates as v24 drops. It gets an upgrade to 13.6 for its V8 JavaScript engine, runs with npm version 11, and has more efficient implementation of the local storage API and test runner updates. Google has released its newest version of its Gemini AI model: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O Edition), which clai…

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116 - Google I/O, Gemini, and Jetpack Compose 1.8 3:58

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Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover the Google I/O 2025 program lineup, the release of Jetpack Compose 1.8, Android 16 Beta 4, new Play Console insights, and updated Android Vitals metrics. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:22 - Google I/O 2025 agend…

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Kotlin Multiplatform: Have your code and eat it too 58:08

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Software Engineers Dustin Lam and Yigit Boyar join host Tor Norbye to chat all about Kotlin Multiplatform. Resources: Tor’s Bluesky → https://goo.gle/4iLXEAg Yigit’s Bluesky → https://goo.gle/4dmsYVj

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React Activity, Storybook 9 Beta, and AI as a Collaborator, Not a Crutch 55:50

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The React team’s been on a roll lately with new experimental updates. Last episode we covered View Transitions, and today we discuss Activity. Activity is a component to hide and show parts of the UI while maintaining the component’s state and continuing to render at a lower priority when it’s not visible on screen. Storybook 9 beta is out now, and…

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Alien Signals, React Compiler Hits RC, and RedwoodSDK Plans Revealed 37:14

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Signals has been gaining in popularity the past few years for its fine-grained approach to reactivity in the browser, and a new high performance implementation called Alien Signals has landed in Vue.js. It offers significant performance improvements to complex applications with lots of data changes, and has been extended so it can be used in other …

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115 - Gemini in Android Studio, Enhancing Safety and Security, and more! 10:18

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Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover Android 16 beta 3, Gemini in Android Studio for Business and Multimodal, Android XR, Media and Camera updates, and much more. Resources: Samsung's One UI 7 → https://goo.gle/42Ubuvv Quality Tiers → https://goo.gl…

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Warmachine on MyMiniFactory feat. Rich and Anjuli 1:35:41

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We have a super awesome show this week, as we chat to Rich, Founder and CEO of Steamforged Games and Anjuli from MyMiniFactory to chat about Warmachine, the amazing steampunk-inspired tabletop game, of which has just launched on MyMiniFactory! Want to know more about Warmachine on MyMiniFactory? Hit this link right here. Fancy unlocking a FREE one …

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All AI All the Time: OpenAI’s Codex, the Web Dev AI Survey, and More 45:21

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The AI hype train keeps chugging along with new updates from OpenAI. ChatGPT now offers GPT-4.1 - a new dev-first model trained for use cases related to coding, instruction following, and function calling with a context window of up to 1 million tokens. It also announces Codex CLI, a terminal version of ChatGPT that devs can use to run code, manipu…

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Agents Assemble: Google’s A2A Protocol, Copilot Reviews & RedwoodJS Reborn 50:17

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Google announces a new Agent2Agent protocol meant to support AI agents communicating with each other. A2A aims to complement MCP and address the challenges of deploying large-scale, multi-agent systems from various providers across different platforms and cloud environments. GitHub Copilot’s new code review feature is now generally available. Just …

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Linting on the Side of Caution: Safety & Security 50:31

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What is app safety for Android? What is the Android team working on to ensure developers and users alike enjoy safe and reliable apps? Watch along as Tor Norbye, Chet Haase, Romain Guy, Theresa Khuu, Naheed Vora take a deep dive backstage and discuss what’s new in the Android safety space. Resources: Enhanced Tools for Secure & Efficient Developmen…

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tRPC v11, Netlify vs. Next.js, and Firefox Gets PWAs (Kind Of) 36:53

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The tRPC team declares v11 officially production-ready. tRPC allows devs to build typesafe APIs with types that can be shared on the client and server, and now it has support for TanStack Query v5, the ability to send and receive non-JSON data content types, improved support for RSCs, and the ability to stream responses. After the Next.js security …

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VS Code & GitHub Copilot Announcements with Burke Holland and Harald Kirschner 55:55

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Special guests Burke Holland and Harald Kirschner from Microsoft join us on this episode to share the new GitHub Copilot features coming to VS Code and beyond. First up: agent mode is now available to all users in VS Code. GitHub Copilot gets a serious upgrade as it can now create new apps from scratch, handle complex changes to existing code acros…

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Next.js’s Security Vulnerability, Remix Walks Away from RSCs, and Rsdoctor 1.0 48:16

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Next.js had a security vulnerability scare last week due to an internal header in its middleware that allowed for skipping middleware (like auth validation) before reaching routes. The Next.js team responded quickly and patched the security holes, but this serves as a reminder to stay vigilant, keep dependencies updated, and implement multiple laye…

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Megabeast: Last Titans feat Steve! 1:53:47

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Welcome back to a slightly delayed podcast episode! We will update this post with a link to the Last Titans Kickstarter page once it launches, which is super super soon! On this week's episode we have an awesome interview with Steve Foote from Megabeast Games, as we discuss his brand new boardgame, Megabeast: Last Titans, which is launching via Kic…

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Parcel Joins the RSC Party, CodeSandbox Gets AI-Powered, & Netlify x TanStack Start 39:01

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Web app bundler Parcel adds support for React Server Components, including a repo of example apps for developers to reference. Although not specifically aimed at framework developers it seems like that’s the audience that would benefit most from this new feature in Parcel. CodeSandbox enters the AI game by teaming up with AI hosting platform Togeth…