Today, we'll be talking about TypeScript 5.9, GLM 4.5 and it's coding capabilities, and the Node.js 22.18 LTS release, along with some amazing developer tools! Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!…

Sally and Joël kick off a new season of the Bike Shed by asking the question, what exactly is it that we as developers even do around here? Together they discuss their roles as developers, how their workflows and skills have changed over time, the value of context and experience when evaluating different solutions to a problem, why so much of their…

Joël is joined by some familiar faces in today’s episode of the Bike Shed to help reveal some exciting changes to the show as he asks his new co-hosts, what’s new in your world? — Thanks to our sponsors for this episode Judoscale - Autoscale the Right Way (check the link for your free gift!), and Scout Monitoring. Joining Joël Quenneville as your n…

Joël talks with Adam McCrea, founder of Judoscale, about the best ways to manage your queues and autoscaling. Adam discusses some tough lessons he learnt recently during a technical outage at Judoscale, what exactly autoscaling is and how it works, the best signals to assess when working with an autoscaler, and provides some simple tips to better o…

Joël and fellow thoughtbotter Jimmy Thigpen assess their AI workflows and question whether LLM partners really are as helpful as they claim to be. Joël points out the blindspots AI can have when processing certain requests, they each share the ways they utilise AI into their workflow and pros and cons of doing so, as well as looking at some of the …

Today, we'll be talking about GitHub Spark, that lets you build apps in just 20 minutes, Qwen3-Coder's insane coding capabilities, and a new JavaScript utility library. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!…

Joël sits down with Tess Griffin as they take a moment to recap the very last RailsConf together. The pair discuss their favourite moments from final conference, how their love of D&D has crossed over to shape their experiences attending RailsConf, and the future of the show as a whole. — Thanks to our sponsors for this episode Judoscale - Autoscal…

Today, we'll be talking about Kimi K2 and how it might be the best AI agent for coders and web developers, Next.js 15.4 which also came with a Next.js 16 sneak peek, Nuxt 4.0, and more. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!…

Today, we'll be looking at Grok 4's early-stage coding capabilities, possibly the best Postgres provider, the TypeScript 5.9 Beta release and more. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!…

Today, we'll be talking about the new Deno 2.4 update, GitHub Copilot Chat now being open source, and Minecraft, built in 100% CSS! Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!โดย Jam.dev

Today, we'll be covering the new JavaScript features being moved through their respective stages from TC39, Angular's AI prompting guide for LLMs, Vite 7's newest features, and more. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!…

Joël continues his preparations for the last RailsConf as he talks with Matheus about how to make the most of your time at the conference. Hear their tips to connect and communicate with other attendees, the different ways to take notes at the various talks you can attend, what to do when your discussions have a lull, as well as how to draw inspira…

As the final RailsConf draws near Joël and Aji Slater sit down to discuss its varied and interesting history of keynote presentations. The pair reminisce on their previous trips and talks at RailsConf, share some tips on creating the perfect keynote, as well as discussing the strong community that’s rallied behind RailsConf for so many years and ho…

Today, we’ll be talking about Biome 2.0, the ESLint and Prettier killer with type-aware linting, a big update to JSON modules, 9 new updates to JavaScript from ES2025, and more. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!…

Today, we'll be talking about the biggest developer updates to Safari 26 from WWDC 2025, Oxlint's (finally) stable release, and pnpm's most important update in a long time. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!…

Today, we'll be talking about Cursor 1.0, the finally stable version of the AI code editor, A FAST AF JavaScript bundler, and new JavaScript features from TC39. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!…

Today, we'll be talking about the newest Angular v20 features in detail, Remix v3 finally ditching React, and more. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!โดย Jam.dev

Elaina Natario returns to talk with Joël about what makes good quality product design and the priorities that shape development. The pair discuss the importance of certain elements such as security and accessibility, maintaining certain standards throughout development, as well as judging the practical applications of prototypes within a project an…

Today, we'll be talking about the newest Angular v20 release from Google I/O 2025, Claude Sonnet and Opus 4's coding capabilities, and TypeScript's new compiler. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!…

Joël and Rémy draw inspiration from the stars as they discuss Rémy’s new open source Ruby gem, Astonoby. Rémy reveals the challenges he faced in taking on this project, the scientific translation work that went into making it accessible for everyone, as well as the key lessons he learnt from modelling the cosmos. — The Sponsor for this episode has …

Today, we'll be talking about OpenAI Codex, their latest fully agentic coder, a new update to Deno's Fresh Framework, and a new JavaScript superpower no one knows about. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!…

Joël strikes up a dialogue with fellow thoughtboter Elaina Natario about the various use cases of modals. Together they discuss their pros and cons, the dos and don’ts, their functionality and accessibility to the end user as well as the subtle differences you'll notice when compared to dialogs. — The Sponsor for this episode has been Judoscale - A…

Today, we'll be talking about Node.js 24, VS Code's new update and a new JavaScript load testing tool. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!โดย Jam.dev

Joël and Steve sit down to discuss the ins and outs of decomposition within their respective workflows and how they use it to their advantage when working on certain projects. Together they look at working with vertical slices over other decomposition methods, when and how to break down code as efficiently as possible, and Joël lays out his three k…

Today, we'll be talking about a Google Chrome feature that'll make JavaScript run faster, Webflow just acquired GSAP, the popular JavaScript animation library, an unknown JavaScript hack, and more. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with you…

Joël talks with fellow thoughtboter Sara about the different ways developers can help one another across the various stages of an app’s lifecycle. They highlight the importance of utilising notes early on to clarify your work for others who may need it later down the line, how tooling can aid with this at all stages of development, and what lessons…

Today, we'll be talking about some p5.js 2.0's latest update and overhaul, new experimental React 19 features, and 10 years of Solid.js and the revolutions that came along with it. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!…

Start taking notes in this episode as Joël and Valerie discuss the different ways in which they structure their note taking systems to improve their workflows. Together they cover the best ways to get started with serious note taking, how to best map out your thoughts so they make the most sense when you come back round to them, as well as examinin…

Today, we'll be talking about some OpenAI's newest GPT 4.1, o3 and o4-mini models, their Codex CLI Programming AI Agent, Updates from the TC39 Conference, and Hako, a new 800KB JavaScript runtime. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your…

Joël and thoughtbot colleague Sally Hall set out to find an answer to the question, what exactly are the differences between paper data structures and digitals ones? They compare the different ways humans store and access data, from rolodexs to the dewey decimal system, browsing a system vs searching it, and how the digital age has changed the way …

Today, we'll be talking about some must-know JavaScript features in 2025, Google's vibe coding platform, Firebase Studio, and more! Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!โดย Jam.dev

Joël and fellow thoughtboter Aji Slater examine the unfamiliar world of Typescript and various ways of working within it’s system. They lay out the pros and cons of Typescript over other environments such as Ruby and Elm and discuss their experience of adopting LLM partners to assist in their workflows. Using ChatGPT and Claude to verify code and t…

Today, we'll be talking about the React 19.1 update, Bare, a new JavaScript runtime, Safari's 18.4 update, and more. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your friends!โดย Jam.dev

Today, we'll be talking about Next.js' security vulnerability, ChatGPT-4o's game-changing image generation features and how it can be used in JavaScript apps, and The State of Vue.js Report 2025! Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with your …

Today, we'll be talking about the the Next.js vs. TanStack debate, and how TanStack might just be better and more pocket-friendly, rsdoctor for rspack and webpack, and OpenAI o1's huge pricing problem. Visit ThisWeekinJavaScript.com to subscribe to our Newsletter. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast for weekly updates and share this podcast with…