TMiR 2026-08: Release candidate season; is that an asteroid hitting web educators?
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- (00:00) - tmir-2026-08
- (00:55) - New releases
- (01:02) - Waku 1.0 (RC)
- (03:01) - Preact 11.0.0-rc.1
- (03:56) - Mobx 7.0
- (04:32) - Next 16.3
- (06:55) - React Native 0.87
- (07:47) - TanStack Table 9
- (09:25) - TC39 “Composites” proposal (~ replaces Records and Tuples)
- (10:44) - Solid 2.0 RC
- (13:39) - Bun 1.4
- (17:18) - Github stacked PRs in public preview
- (21:38) - Main Content
- (21:42) - React core-ish
- (21:49) - New ReactDOM `use(browser())` API
- (22:47) - React Foundation website updated
- (23:18) - Big Next.js AMA in /r/reactjs
- (23:49) - React Compiler support in OXC
- (25:21) - Biome and Bun 1.4 have initial support as well
- (25:45) - The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development
- (32:36) - Scott Tolinski’s “True Cost of AI Coding” survey and video
- (37:51) - Josh Goldberg stepped back from OSS work
- (40:53) - Software Stewardship Lab announced (Daniel Roe et al)
- (42:11) - Humanity in OSS
- (46:47) - Cursor switched from Solid to React
- (47:46) - Lovable moved off Next to TanStack Start
- (49:00) - Ryan Carniato’s async Solid articles
- (49:33) - Slew of Github competitors: Tangled, Cloudflare Artifacts, Netlify Source, Cursor Origin
- (55:55) - Git at Any Scale
- (57:14) - Lightning round
- (57:16) - npm.report
- (57:51) - Supplier Security Questionnaire, Andrew Nesbitt
- (58:58) - Everything I own, owned, Chaz Schlarp
- (01:02:33) - The sorry state of Skill distribution
- (01:03:46) - Conferences
- (01:03:48) - ZurichJS Sep 11
- (01:04:47) - React Alicante Sep 23-24
- (01:05:09) - Outro
Creators and Guests
Host
Mark Erikson
An engineer maintaining Redux and Redux Toolkit, working at Replay.io to make smarter AI chat bots and debuggers using time travel.
Producer
Carl Vitullo
Solopreneur just vibing, posts are probably bullshit. Community lead at Reactiflux, the largest chat community of React professionals.
