1048: Deno Is Dead
Summary
Wes Bos, CJ Reynolds, and the host discuss the acquisition of Dino by Cloudflare and its subsequent sunset, alongside the release of OpenCode 2.0 featuring durable objects and hot-reloaded plugins. The episode covers the viral community effort to hack cheap Android photo frames into custom displays, driven by AI agents. They also analyze Subquadratic’s new decision model, which offers faster inference and image support at a lower cost than Jev, marking a significant shift in AI model capabilities.
Topics discussed
Intro: Gemini 4 Argon release and dev community
Deno sunset and Cloudflare's shift to WorkerD
Runtime wars: Bun, Node, and the future of JS
OpenCode 2.0: Durable agents and X player cards
Talaris: Personal AI agent on Cloudflare
Hacking Skylight photo frames: Community and hardware
Sub-Q Snap: New fast, cheap decision model
Omdrop Owl: Reverse-engineering AirDrop for Linux
TanStack Start 1.0: Full-stack React and Solid
FFF and FSearch: Fast file search tools for agents
Gemini 4 Argon review: Coding and 3D capabilities
Meta Muse Wonder and Fable 5.5 rumors
Embeddings and offline Wikipedia search project
Haiku 5.5: Thinking capabilities and subagents
AI agent privacy leak: Bank account exposure
C64 font and projected UI light bulb concept
PS5 emulation vs recompilation on Linux
Open source Photoshop and Gimp alternatives
PS2 and PSP games in WebAssembly
Bootstrap 6 alpha and closing remarks
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