Front-End Fire

Episodes

• 168: Are Dev Conferences Dying?

  Nov 2, 2026

  AI has reduced interest in talks about line-by-line coding tactics while increasing demand for architecture, orchestration, API contracts, and agent-management strategy.

• 167: AI is Making Code Reviews Worse

  Oct 26, 2026

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• 166: The AI Clone Wars Continue

  Oct 19, 2026

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• 165: Open Source Was Fun While It Lasted

  Oct 12, 2026

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• 164: Developers Are Tired of This Sh*t

  Oct 5, 2026

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• 163: Do Frameworks Still Matter Anymore?

  Sep 28, 2026

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• 162: Shopify Breaks Up with React Native

  Sep 21, 2026

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• 161: Tailwind Has a New Home

  Sep 14, 2026

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• 160: GPT-6 vs. Claude 5.1

  Sep 7, 2026

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• 159: Is AI Making Us Worse Devs?

  Aug 31, 2026

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• 158: The Browser Wars are Getting Weird

  Aug 24, 2026

  Cloudflare's Kitesurf is an innovative, lightweight, agent-first browser that could significantly optimize web scraping and AI workflows by reducing overhead.

• 157: Shai-Hulud Is Back From the Dead

  Aug 10, 2026

  Next.js 16.3 introduces meaningful performance improvements and experimental features aimed at making server-driven applications feel more like SPAs.

• 156: The State of CSS Is In

  Aug 3, 2026

  CSS in 2026 continues to rapidly evolve with new features like anchor positioning and gap decorations gaining popularity.

• 155: OpenAI Breaks Out of its Sandbox

  Jul 27, 2026

  AI models can exhibit extraordinary capabilities, such as breaking out of containment or chaining exploits, raising concerns about AI safety and governance.

• 154: How Not to Drown in AI Code Reviews

  Jul 21, 2026

  AI tools are significantly increasing the volume and complexity of code review tasks, leading to cognitive overload for developers. Developers should adopt best practices such as small PRs, clear descriptions, and thorough smoke testing to manage this influx.

• 153: Vercel Wants Your Entire Stack

  Jul 13, 2026

  Vercel is expanding into full-stack and desktop application development with Vercel Native, aiming to leverage performance benefits of Zig.

• 152: The Fable Redemption Arc

  Jul 6, 2026

  AI safety and moderation are increasingly important, with companies like Anthropic improving classifiers to prevent unsafe use of models.

• 151: Fixing AI’s Microservices Problem

  Jun 29, 2026

  Synthetic monorepos like NX's Polygraph are designed to give AI agents a comprehensive, unified view across multiple repos, addressing complex scaling issues in large organizations.

• 150: The Government Said “No Fable For You”

  Jun 22, 2026

  AI model regulation is rapidly evolving, with government interventions like export controls significantly affecting the availability and distribution of advanced models.

• 149: Rise of the React Foundation

  Jun 15, 2026

  React has officially moved into the React Foundation with ongoing support and stability, and its compiler has been rewritten in Rust to improve performance.