Vitest 5, rslib 1.0, and the No Sloptober Challenge | News | Ep 80
Summary
Kamran Ayub and Eric Onheim discuss Eric’s garage organization and home build progress, alongside Kamran’s new "No Sloptober" challenge to abstain from LLM tools. The news segment covers TypeScript 7.1’s 23x speed boost for Ember, Bun 1.4.1 updates, and Vitest 5’s new trace view and Temporal mocking. Library highlights include RsLib 1.0, a TypeScript runtime in MinC, and a React-based PCB design tool. Community posts feature a Brainfuck interpreter in the type checker and an analysis of Turbopack’s chunking strategy.
Topics discussed
Introduction and welcome to TypeScript FM
Personal updates: home organization and DIY projects
Work updates and recommendation for 'Architecture for Flow'
Announcing No Sloptober: a challenge to avoid AI tools
TypeScript news: strongly typed paths and type guards
TypeScript 7 nightly: Ember support and performance benchmarks
Playwright updates: trace view and temporal clock injection
Rspack and Rslib 1.0 release for library maintainers
Astro 7.3: multiple preview servers and security features
Cloudflare Managed Defense and AI-driven security scanning
Starlight 0.42 release and build time improvements
New libraries: HQ TUI and TSMC TypeScript runtime
Fun projects: TS Circuit PCB design and Jazzy PDF
Retro graphics library and Causealk for error handling
NumPy.ts 1.7 outperforms native NumPy
Community: TypeScript for Ruby devs and Brainfuck in TS
Engineering: How Turbopack closed 1500 issues using AI
Result pattern utilities and Effect for backend TS
Bleat of the week and miscellaneous tech links
Closing remarks, social links, and sign-off
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