1048: Deno Is Dead

Deno is shutting down and the team is heading to Cloudflare — Scott, Wes, and CJ break down what that means for the runtime, JSR, and workerd. Plus OpenCode 2.0 on durable objects, TanStack Start 1.0, SubQ Snap, Gemini 4 Argon, and Wes’s accidental $50 photo frame movement.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
  • Gemini 4 Argon is out
• 01:31 Deno Is Shutting Down: The Team Joins Cloudflare
• 06:23 Why Bun Spelled the End of Deno
• 12:24 OpenCode 2.0: Durable Objects, Code Mode and Hot Reloading Plugins
  • OpenCode 2.0
  • Ryan Vogel runs OpenCode 2.0 inside a tweet
• 20:24 Where Should Your Agent Actually Run?
• 21:41 Talorys: A Personal AI Agent on the Cloudflare Free Tier
• 22:42 I Accidentally Started a $50 Photo Frame Movement
• 27:05 Agent Driven Open Source: Dozens of Pull Requests From Bots
  • Simeon Griggs hacks his Peloton
• 35:11 SubQ Snap: A Cheaper, Smarter Decision Model Than Jev
• 41:26 AirDrop Reverse Engineered: Continuity on Linux
  • T4T5: AirDrop fully reverse-engineered on Linux
• 44:47 Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 45:24 TanStack Start 1.0 Is Officially Stable
  • TanStack announces Start 1.0 is officially stable
  • fsearch
  • FinderSearch
  • Kuro: Tinycast file search is now 15–90× faster
• 55:23 The FFF vs fsearch Twitter Drama
  • Dmitriy Kovalenko compares fff to fsearch
• 59:34 Model Roundup: Hands On With Gemini 4 Argon
• 01:08:01 Zen Garden: Ranking Models on Their 3D Taste
• 01:12:49 Muse Wonder From Meta
  • Meta AI on Muse Spark open weights
• 01:15:15 EmbeddingGemma 2 and Why Embeddings Power Better Search
  • Sundar Pichai introduces EmbeddingGemma 2
• 01:18:32 Claude Haiku 5.5 Gains Thinking Levels
  • Claude announces Haiku 5.5
  • Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5
• 01:20:19 Grok Bot Leaks a CEO’s Bank Balance Into Company Slack
  • Shane Mac: An AI agent posted my bank balances in Slack
• 01:24:18 CJ’s Whirlwind Tour: A Commodore 64 Keycap Font
• 01:25:08 Lightbulb Computer: A Projector Screwed Into Your Ceiling
• 01:29:11 Recomps and Decomps: Running PS5 Games on Linux and Windows
• 01:32:23 Open Source Photoshop Clones and the Whole Craft Suite
• 01:35:25 Audacity 4 and the Case for Forking Old Open Source Apps
• 01:36:35 PS2 and PSP Games Recompiled to WebAssembly
• 01:37:39 Bootstrap 6 Alpha Brings Back Real Buttons
• 01:39:39 Wrapping Up the Live Stream

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