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00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
01:02 Shai Hulud is back!
05:27 GitHub scans your npm packages for malware
06:42 Your agent has a wallet now
12:10 Yet another React compiler?
27:19 Scott switched his browser AGAIN!
31:56 AI Mental health survey
32:29 OpenAI models are becoming cheaper?
38:49 GitHub stacked PRs finally arrived
41:48 AI video podcasts
48:15 Brought to you by Sentry!
49:28 News from the TC39 meeting
56:58 Qwen 3.8
01:02:31 Latest and greatest in CSS and UI libraries
New Shai-Hulud announcement | https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2084636007790449126?s=20 Attacked keyv packages | https://socket.dev/supply-chain-attacks/keyv-and-cacheable-compromise
Github's malware scan | https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-28-npm-publish-time-malware-scanning-and-dual-use-metadata/
Cloudflare wallets | https://cloudflare.pay/ Announcement Blog post | https://blog.cloudflare.com/wallets/ X402 payments | https://x402.org/
Ripple.ts | https://www.ripple-ts.com/ Inferno.js | https://www.infernojs.org/ Dominic Gannaway’s launch post on X | https://x.com/trueadm/status/2081764408741540071 Octane | https://octanejs.dev/ Native Script | https://nativescript.org/ Reactivity + Rendering Benchmark | https://rbench.nullvoxpopuli.com/results?q=7
Dia browser | https://www.diabrowser.com/ Kcock off extension | https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/knockoff-amazon-etsy-shop/pjgickchbiikhdfpmecaabkphmofpdce
Scott’s AI mental health survey | https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdij87S57ibtMm2yPotcL0Ipd-c4ybQ45FgPqNTvVVW4pGU5w/viewform
Terra and Luna are on sale | https://openai.com/index/building-abundant-intelligence/
Stacked pull requests from Github | https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/
HeyGen video podcast | https://x.com/HeyGen/status/2082510248489943367 Hank Green says his AI usage is not healthy | https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/01/youtuber-hank-green-says-his-ai-usage-is-not-healthy/
ECMAScript news | https://bsky.app/profile/tc39.es/post/3mrdjr6uq2t2i Await dictionary | https://github.com/tc39/proposal-await-dictionary TC39 Process | https://tc39.es/process-document/
Qwen 3.8 | https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8
Foley.dev | https://usefoley.dev/ Morphicons | https://www.morphicons.com/ Lucide | https://lucide.dev/ Nucleoapp | https://nucleoapp.com/ 8bit library | https://8bit.cnlibs.com/theme CSS radar | https://cssradar.com/ Impeccable | https://impeccable.style/
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