npmx.dev, Chrome 145 Devtools, and K'nipping Yaks | News | Ep 56
Download MP3News 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).
Chapters
- (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
- (07:10) - News: We Made Our First Video Podcast Episode
- (09:02) - News: TS Native Gets Remote AST Speed-up of 6.4X
- (09:59) - News: npmx.dev is a New Frontend for npm Registry
- (14:13) - News: Chrome 145 Brings Some Cool New Devtools
- (18:41) - News: Safari 26.4 Looks to Improve CSS Grid Support
- (19:35) - Library Watch: Knip 5.85.0 Cleans Up Codebase Cruft
- (22:30) - Library Watch: @wasmground/emit Builds WASM with TS
- (23:58) - Library Watch: Tempest Generates Types from PHP
- (25:33) - Library Watch: runner 5.5.0, an All-in-one TS Framework
- (28:02) - Community Highlight: Build a Game Series by Deno
- (30:02) - Community Highlight: Next.js MCP Server
- (33:29) - Community Highlight: What is TC39 by Shop Talk Show
- (34:32) - Community Highlight: Open Source Developers Need to Take Breaks
- (38:16) - Community Highlight: Fun with TS Generics by Adam Rackis
- (39:38) - Bleet of the Week
- (39:59) - Cool Link: 400 Car Batteries Wired Together
- (40:39) - Cool Link: FragCoord.xyz is a ShaderToy Alternative
- (41:37) - Cool Link: Recreating a BBC Micro Game in TypeScript
- (43:19) - Cool Link: YootTower, Open Source Code for SimTower
- (44:33) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
- Watch our TS 6.0 “Read Along” Vodcast!
- TS native preview got a 6.4X perf increase for “remote” AST materialization
- npmx.dev is not a package manager
- Chrome: What's new in DevTools (Chrome 145)
- Safari: 26.4 beta improves CSS grid support
Library Watch
- Knip includes monorepo memory optimizations
- @wasmground/emit lets you build WASM with TypeScript for better learning
- Tempest can generate types from PHP files
- runner shaved the yak until it got bald
From the Community
- Deno: https://deno.com/blog/build-a-game-with-deno-6
- Next.js: Building Next.js for an agentic future
- Shop Talk Show: TC39 and how it works (via Rob Palmer)
- The Register: OSS Maintainers take a break (via Daniel Roe)
- Frontend Masters: Fun with TypeScript Generics
Cool Links
- Cool Watch: 400 car batteries wired together!!
- Cool Tool: FragCoord is a ShaderToy alternative
- Cool Game: TypeScript version of BBC Micro game
- Cool Code: YootTower is the OG SimTower source code
Creators and Guests
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Self-professed Neovim Dandy 🎩 Software developer in Minneapolis ⛄I created a game engine for the web called Excalibur 🗡
