Speaker
CJ Reynolds
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HTTP QUERY (RFC 10008) is the first new HTTP method proposed in roughly 16 years, enabling idempotent requests with a request body instead of cramming data into URLs.
Node.js has already implemented the HTTP QUERY method in its HTTP module even though no web browsers support it yet.
Gea's hello-world is 214 bytes versus SolidJS's 10KB and Svelte's 23KB, showcasing its compiler-first approach to minimal bundle sizes.
A real to-do app in Gea ships 15KB of minified JS versus SolidJS's 16KB and Svelte's 38KB.
Claude Code secretly auto-selects an answer and keeps coding if the user doesn't respond within 60 seconds, a feature that was on by default and triggered production mishaps.
Claude Code uses hidden Unicode substitutions to fingerprint requests from Chinese timezones, helping Anthropic detect AI labs like Deepseek that may be distilling Claude's responses.
All major JS package managers now support a minimum release age config option to prevent auto-installing compromised packages before they're detected by the community.
npm now locks high-impact package accounts into a 72-hour read-only state after suspicious authentication events, blocking attackers from publishing malicious packages.
GitHub's fun CD-ROM promo was capped at 1,000 recipients but triggered backlash from tens of thousands of people, a reaction Scott Tolinski found absurd.
$100/month Codex proved more cost-effective for agentic workflows than GitHub Copilot, which CJ Reynolds burned through in about 2 hours of use.
Auto-accept on, brain off? The answer depends on what you're building. For production code, skipping code review means losing the mental model of your codebase entirely — and that erodes the core value of having an engineer in the loop.
GET can't officially have a body. POST feels wrong for read-only queries. HTTP QUERY (RFC 10008) is the first new HTTP method in roughly 16 years, and it's already implemented in Node.js — filling the gap GraphQL has been hacking around forever.
GitHub announced you can get your public repo on a CD-ROM, and the internet declared it an infrastructure scandal. Scott's take: the marketing team of 3 people cannot redirect engineering budget. The outrage was completely unhinged.
Gea ships a hello-world in 214 bytes versus Svelte's 23KB. It ditches hooks entirely — state lives in class components with plain methods — and its compiler strips everything unnecessary at build time. React stagnation might be the thing that makes this matter.
Fable 5 doesn't wait to be told what to do. It researches, makes decisions, and goes deep before reporting back — consuming dramatically more tokens than GPT-5.5 or Opus in the process. Scott called it the best model he'd used for large, complex refactoring.
GPT-5.6 arrives as Sol, Terra, and Luna. The Sol Ultra tier — OpenAI's most powerful model — is landing in the Codex subscription, giving developers who prefer OpenCode over Claude Code access to the biggest available model.
Marshmallow the Reachy Mini robot now responds to its name, holds conversations via GPT-5.5 mini, and stores memories about Scott's kids through Hermes. Scott's children started doing math with it unprompted — the exact human-robot moment the project was aiming for.
Scott Tolinski once swore he'd never code from Slack. Now he does it daily using Junior, Sentry Labs' developer Slack agent. It integrates with Vercel, GitHub, Linear, Notion, YouTube Analytics, and more — letting the whole team trigger workflows without leaving chat.
Every major JS package manager now supports a minimum release age setting. Set it and your toolchain will refuse to install packages published too recently — before the community has had a chance to catch malicious updates. It's a simple config change that could prevent the next supply chain attack.
Claude Code changes dashes to slashes and swaps apostrophes for a different Unicode character when it detects you're in a Chinese timezone. It's steganographic fingerprinting designed to catch AI labs like Deepseek from using Claude responses as training data — and users had no idea it was happening.
Organic Maps downloads full offline maps for entire countries including points of interest — something Google Maps' offline mode doesn't really do. It's OpenStreetMap-powered, completely disconnected from any cloud service, and works when hiking or camping without signal.
Starring the Computer indexes every computer that has appeared in movies and TV shows, searchable by brand and model. Jackie Chan had a GE 635 in his Subaru in Cannonball Run. The internet used to make things like this just because it was fun.
If you're not watching your terminal for 60 seconds while Claude Code waits for your answer, it picks one and keeps coding. It was on by default, caused production incidents, and may conveniently generate more token revenue for Anthropic.
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