Vibe-porting Galore, Remix 3 Beta, Node 26, and the Internet Falling Down | News | Ep 66

News for the weeks of April 27 and May 4, 2026: Rust ports galore, Remix 3 is ready to rumble, and lots of security PSAs that are breaking the Internet. From the community: boring web dev, cross-framework templating with TSRX, and TypeScript features wishlist.

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Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
• (02:45) - News: tsz is a Vibe-ported TypeScript Go Compiler to Rust
• (07:45) - News: Bun Experiments with Rust Port from Zig
• (10:23) - News: pnpm Core Officially Being Ported to Rust as Pacquet
• (13:13) - News: Astro 6.3 with Experimental Advanced Routing
• (14:06) - News: Remix 3 Beta is Ready to Kick the Tires
• (17:06) - News: Nuxt.js Has a New Agent
• (18:31) - News: SvelteKit Now Supports TS 6.0
• (19:03) - News: Node 26 Brings Stable Temporal API, Experimental FFI
• (23:02) - News: Chrome 148 Ships Prompt API No One Wants
• (28:50) - News: Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox
• (35:20) - PSA: Multiple Critical Linux Exploits, Copy Fail and Dirty Frag
• (38:55) - PSA: React 19 and Next.js Vulnerabilities
• (40:34) - PSA: TanStack Packages Compromised
• (42:07) - PSA: vm2 Critical Vulnerabilities
• (43:05) - PSA: cPanel is Being pwned Across the Web
• (44:42) - Library Watch: Laravel TypeScript Type Generator
• (45:31) - Library Watch: motion.dev JavaScript Animation Library
• (46:25) - Library Watch: Temper Lets You Build Cross-language Libraries
• (48:36) - Library Watch: Wavedash is a Backend for Multiplayer Games
• (49:37) - Library Watch: Flue, a TypeScript Agent Harness Framework
• (49:59) - Highlight: Rebuilding Zork in TypeScript and React
• (50:59) - Highlight: TSRX, a TS-driven Templating Library
• (53:29) - Highlight: I Went Back to Boring Web Dev and I'm Not Sorry by Andre Klein
• (55:41) - Highlight: TypeScript Features Wishlist by Cinnamon
• (57:22) - Highlight: JSON.parse vs. stringify Date Handling Tip
• (57:59) - Bleet of the Week
• (58:37) - Cool Link: Shader Playground
• (59:38) - Cool Link: Recreating the PSP from Cast Acrylic
• (01:00:02) - Cool Link: Cascade Radiance for Realistic Lighting
• (01:01:10) - Cool Link: Inside Out Money Podcast
• (01:02:39) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News

• tsz vibe-port of Go compiler to Rust
• Bun experimental Rust port
• pnpm port to Rust officially called pacquet
• Astro 6.3
• Remix 3 Beta Preview
• Introducing the Nuxt Agent
• SvelteKit: Now Supports TS 6.0
• Node.js 26.1.0 (Current)
• New in Chrome 148, the controversial Prompt API
• Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox
• PSA: Malicious npm Package Brand-Squats TanStack to Exfiltrate Environment Variables
• PSA: TanStack Packages Compromised
• PSA: Linux exploits, Copy Fail and Dirty Frag, including WSL2 on Windows
• PSA: React and Next.js Hit With 12 Security Flaws — Three Let Attackers Bypass Auth, Hijack Servers
• PSA: vm2 Node.js Library Vulnerabilities Enable Sandbox Escape and Arbitrary Code Execution
• PSA: cPanel & WHM Authentication Bypass CVE-2026-41940

Library Watch

• Laravel TS Annotations
• Motion.dev – Effortless Animation For The Web
• Temper: Cross-language *libraries* with Temper: Interview
• Wavedash for multiplayer apps
• Flue: TypeScript agent harness, BYOM and build your own agents

From the Community

• Chad Loder: Zork in TypeScript+React
• Ryan Carniato: Exploring TSRX w/ Dominic Gannaway
• André Klein: I Went Back to Boring Web Dev, and I'm Not Sorry
• Cinnamon: Feedback for TypeScript
• Jonathan Bones: JSON.parse vs JSON.stringify date handling
• Bleet of the week

Cool Links

• Excalibur.js contributor Justin has a Shader Editor
• I re-created the PSP
• Exploring a New Approach to Realistic Lighting: Radiance Cascades
• Inside Out Money podcast – if you like friends yapping about money

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)