Prettier in Bun, Deno's Spiritual Successor, and Extraction Models Are A Thing | News | Ep 87
Download MP3News for the week of October 19, 2026: Bun 1.4.4 ships bun fmt (a Prettier port) and cuts Bun.SQL CPU time by 40%, Ende arrives as a spiritual successor to Deno, and Cloudflare drops a new kind of deterministic output model called Clairic. From the community: content mappers galore, Aspire as “strongly typed docker compose”, and TanStack Redact, a lighter drop-in replacement for React.
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Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
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Chapters
- (00:00) - Tooling: Rolldown Adds Support for Multiple TypeScript Compilers
- (02:19) - Tooling: Ende, a Community-supported Fork of Deno
- (03:42) - Tooling: Bun 1.4.4 Featuring bun fmt, bun check, faster Bun.SQL
- (05:43) - Web Platform: Cloudflare Introduces Clairic, a New Extraction Model
- (11:10) - Web Platform: Firefox Wishes You Would Come Back
- (12:41) - Security: Brotli2Shell Vulnerability Affects .NET, Python, and Other Runtimes
- (14:13) - Security: There's a Third PHP2Shell Bug Without an Emergency Fix
- (15:16) - Security: Practice Apps to Test Your Leet Hacker Skillz
- (16:16) - Library Watch: TanStack Introduces Redact, a Lightweight Replacement for React
- (17:25) - Library Watch: ArkType's attest Now Supports TS 7.1
- (18:32) - Library Watch: Forges.link for Abstracting Code Hosting Providers
- (20:17) - Library Watch: Tsonic Compiles TypeScript to .NET, Rust, and Mojo
- (21:51) - Library Watch: Reylo, Type Checking SQL
- (24:10) - Library Watch: Celesta, Code-first Video Creation
- (25:49) - Library Watch: Markasso.it, A Zero Latency Whiteboard Engine
- (26:44) - Library Watch: mini-van, a Minimalist Template Engine
- (27:49) - Community: Jovi de Croock Works on Updating gql.tada for TS 7
- (30:31) - Community: John Reilly Working on ts-loader v10 for TS 7.1
- (32:44) - Community: Aspire Has Changed, See What's New with Barret Blake
- (35:50) - Community: Matt Pocock on Why Courses Are Still Selling
- (42:26) - Community: Orta from Puzzmo Built a Custom SSR Framework
- (43:23) - Bleet of the Week
- (43:57) - Cool Product: Tailscale, Remote Networking Tunnels
- (46:54) - Cool Interview: Brian Kernighan, Creator of C Programming Language
- (47:50) - Cool Link: The Fun of Programming Doom in DNS
- (49:37) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
- Tooling
- Rolldown: Pick your TypeScript compiler for .d.ts generation (via Kevin Deng)
- Get started with Ende
- Bun v1.4.4
- Web Platform
- Security Corner
Library Watch
- TanStack Redact: A drop-in replacement for React and React DOM that renders synchronously (no time slicing or async rendering)
- ArkType attest: now supports the TypeScript 7.1 beta
- Forges: One TypeScript client for issues, PRs, notifications, checks and webhooks across 12 forges (via Daniel Roe)
- Tsonic: Generate C#, Mojo, and Rust source from TypeScript
- Reylo: Import .sql files into TypeScript with full type inference and zero codegen, using TypeScript 7.1 content mappers (by Colin McDonnell)
- Celesta: Code-first videos with React and TypeScript (via natsuneko.cat)
- Markasso: Framework-agnostic whiteboard engine in vanilla TypeScript and Canvas 2D, with no dependencies (GitHub)
- Mini-Van: A minimalist template engine for DOM generation and manipulation, for both client-side and server-side rendering (SSR)
From the Community
- Jovi De Croock: Tada after tsserver plugins
- John Reilly: TypeScript 7.1 and the ts-loader v10 beta
- Armen Vardanyan: Building an auditMap operator for RxJS from throttle and concatMap
- Barret Blake: Aspire 2026 Revisit, Episode 1 - Overview
- Matt Pocock: Courses are still very much alive, they've just changed
- Orta Therox: Built his own SSR framework for Puzzmo
- Bleet of the Week
Cool Links
- Tailscale
- Brian Kernighan: Inside Bell Labs, The Best Programmer, Why C Won
- The Register: No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed, literally (Corey Quinn)
- Stratechery: The End of the Internet
Creators and Guests
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Erik Onarheim
Self-professed Neovim Dandy 🎩 Software developer in Minneapolis ⛄I created a game engine for the web called Excalibur 🗡
