1054: Reddit Closing it’s Doors

Wes, Scott, and CJ are back with two weeks of news: Reddit is forcing everyone to log in, r/opensource bans anything AI, and CSS-Tricks is independent again. Plus Anomaly's Hex dictation app, Mitchell Hashimoto's Rex terminal, TanStack Redact, Cloudflare's TypeScript port to Rust, Vercel's Agent Desktop, the new touchscreen MacBook Pros, a flood of CVEs, and a certificate authority whose private key was the number 4.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

01:11 Anomaly’s Hex Dictation App

05:00 The Battle to Own Your Computer

07:45 Raycast’s iOS Keyboard

10:11 The New AI Design Meta

11:05 Rex: A Next Gen Terminal

17:37 Rex Remote Hosts and Scripting

22:55 Reddit Is Closing Its Doors

28:46 Bots and Captchas

33:29 r/opensource Bans AI

37:41 CSS-Tricks Has a New Owner

41:08 Brought to you by Sentry!

41:34 Silent Dictation Glasses
Silent dictation with Airpods

Silent dictation on Mac

45:49 Arc Is Dead

49:42 Pico CSS Is Unmaintained

50:49 TanStack Redact

52:37 tsrs: TypeScript in Rust

55:34 Vercel’s Agent Desktop
Launch post

Cua

59:26 Agents in a macOS VM

01:00:38 Claude Is Back in OpenCode

01:01:41 Touchscreen MacBook Pros

01:11:21 Discord Goes Discoverable
AnswerOverflow

01:13:31 Notification Overload

01:14:50 Security Roundup

01:15:33 What Is a CVE?
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure

CVE Tracker

01:18:01 PHP, Linux and GitLab CVEs

01:22:18 Abliterated Models

01:23:38 eMudhra’s Private Key Was 4
eMudhra’s CA keys cracked in milliseconds

mitmproxy

01:31:09 Apple Music’s iPod 404 Page

01:33:18 Norway’s Best Toilets

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