Astro 7.2, Stacked Pull Requests, and Eradicating any Using oxlint | News | Ep 77

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News for the week of August 3, 2026: Astro 7.2 adds incremental static builds, SvelteKit 3 preview, and a closer look at TypeScript 7.1 compiler APIs. From the community: build your own "isThingy" type guards, eliminating 'any' types using oxlint, and how it went adding Go's defer keyword to TypeScript.

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Chapters

  • (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
  • (06:32) - Tooling: TypeScript 7.1 API Feature Roadmap
  • (11:34) - Metaframeworks: Astro 7.2 Introduces Experimental Incremental Static Builds
  • (12:44) - Metaframeworks: Sweltering Updates in SvelteKit 3 Preview
  • (14:14) - Web: Cloudflare Open Sources an Issue Triage Agent
  • (18:16) - Web: GitHub Now Supports Stacked Pull Requests
  • (22:24) - Library Watch: zodql, Enforce Zod Schemas for GraphQL
  • (24:11) - Library Watch: TanStack Form v2 is in Alpha
  • (26:17) - Library Watch: TanStack Table V9
  • (28:08) - Library Watch: is-kit Lets You Build Your Own Type Guards
  • (29:23) - Library Watch: typesafe-ts is Like a Toned Down Effect
  • (31:14) - Library Watch: antiox, Rust-like Async Primitives for TypeScript
  • (33:08) - Library Watch: apiful, a Fetch Client You Compose
  • (33:53) - Community: Andrew Healey Adds Go's defer Keyword to TypeScript
  • (36:24) - Community: Mastodon Upgrades to TypeScript 7
  • (36:57) - Community: Next.js on How They Made Navigations Instant in v0
  • (39:14) - Community: Mauro Bieg on How to Build a TypeScript Web Framework With No Build Step
  • (39:52) - Community: Sam Rose Found a Bug in Kubernetes Thanks to Webernetes
  • (41:35) - Community: afox.dev Releases Luna.nvim, a Minimal Neovim Theme
  • (42:32) - Community: Silvenon's Oxlint Config to Eradicate any in Your Codebase
  • (43:23) - Bleet of the Week
  • (44:21) - Cool Link: tuicr Lets You View Side-by-Side PR Diffs in Your Terminal
  • (46:12) - Cool Link: Green Building Advisor
  • (48:17) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

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Creators and Guests

Erik Onarheim
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Erik Onarheim
Self-professed Neovim Dandy 🎩 Software developer in Minneapolis ⛄I created a game engine for the web called Excalibur 🗡
Kamran Ayub
Host
Kamran Ayub
Solopreneur, speaker, and Pluralsight author. Founder of KeepTrackOfMyGames.com.
Astro 7.2, Stacked Pull Requests, and Eradicating any Using oxlint | News | Ep 77
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