Week of April 28, 2025 | News | Ep 16

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News for the week of April 28, 2025: Deno 2.3 brings some nice quality-of-life improvements, plus void(0) has released a new all-in-one bundler for your TypeScript libraries.

Chapters

  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (04:51) - News: This Week in TypeScript Go
  • (05:47) - News: Deno 2.3 Released
  • (08:36) - News: tsdown is a TypeScript Bundler for Library Authors
  • (11:29) - News: Astro 5.7 Release
  • (13:04) - Community Highlights: "Macros" in TypeScript by cinny.bun.how
  • (15:40) - Community Highlights: Dan Abramov's AMA on BlueSky
  • (16:02) - Community Highlights: Josh Goldberg's Series on "If I Wrote a Linter..."
  • (18:03) - Community Highlights: Plaid Migrated 100 Services to Deno Deploy
  • (19:52) - Community Highlight: Pinterest Migrated 3.7MM Lines of Flow Code to TypeScript
  • (21:59) - Dr. Axel's Corner: Converting Values to Strings
  • (23:14) - Community Highlights: Build Your Own Build Tools with Immaculata
  • (24:52) - Community Highlights: Type-safe Route Management in Vue
  • (25:56) - Cool Stuff: Hate git? Try Sapling Instead
  • (27:45) - Cool Stuff: Nerd Out with HVAC Ceiling Cassettes
  • (30:00) - Cool Stuff: Build Custom Fonts with FontForge
  • (30:28) - Cool Stuff: Quantum Computing Explainer by 3Blue1Brown
  • (31:05) - Cool Stuff: "Ed", an Early Text Editor
  • (31:25) - Cool Stuff: 4000+ Icons for Your Game at Game-Icons.net

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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

Creators and Guests

Erik Onarheim
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Erik Onarheim
Hi, my name is Erik 👋 I'm a software developer in Minneapolis ⛄I created a game engine for the web called Excalibur 🗡
Kamran Ayub
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Kamran Ayub
Solopreneur, speaker, and Pluralsight author. Founder of KeepTrackOfMyGames.com.
Week of April 28, 2025 | News | Ep 16
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