Benchmarking in Node, Modern DOM Typings, and Jev the Type-safe AI | News | Ep 82

News for the week of Sep 14, 2026: latest Node 26 includes experimental benchmark tests, a modern drop-in replacement for DOM typings, and we try to understand Jev, bruv. From the community: how GitHub rewrote Copilot's runtime in Rust, learn about ESM, and why Shopify ditched React Native (spoiler: agents).

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Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
• (06:02) - Tooling: Node 26.9.0 Lets You Write Benchmarks with node:bench
• (08:49) - Tooling: Jev, the Type-safe AI
• (15:25) - Tooling: TypeScript 7 Works Around New Golang FMA Changes
• (17:58) - Frameworks: GeaStack Compiles Typescript to Native Apps with C++
• (20:00) - Frameworks: Ember 7.2, New Built-in Strict Resolver and ESM-only
• (20:46) - Web Platform: Firefox 156, Can Now Open Automatically on macos
• (21:21) - Security: Happy Birthday Shai-Hulud!
• (22:17) - Security: GitHub Actions Tries to Limit Cache Poisoning Risk
• (23:47) - Security: Gitea Affected by Severe RCE Vulnerability
• (24:47) - Library Watch: modern-web-types Drop-in Replacement for DOM Typings
• (26:52) - Library Watch: sqlbraid Lets You Write SQL and Keep TypeScript
• (29:28) - Library Watch: temporal-parser, a Lexer and Parser for Temporal Expressions
• (31:06) - Library Watch: Zod 4.6 Comes With Some Perf Improvements
• (32:26) - Community: Puffball Explains How TypeScript 7 Creates Typed ASTs in Go
• (33:44) - Community: ESModule.com, Learn About ES Modules
• (34:47) - Community: cm.xyz Explains Why You'd Use Effect
• (36:27) - Community: Porffor Can Compile TSC
• (37:34) - Community: Stephen Toub on How GitHub Rewrote Copilot Runtime in Rust, with Copilot
• (42:29) - Community: ecyrbe Creates Typeskell to Experiment with Typeclasses
• (42:52) - Community: Barak's Complete Guide to HOCs with Next.js, React, and TS
• (43:53) - Community: Orhun Interviews Sebastian from OpenTUI
• (44:34) - Community: Shopify Switched Back to Swift and Kotlin from React Native
• (48:07) - Bleet of the Week
• (49:31) - Cool Link: Design Your Own Silicon Chip
• (50:41) - Cool Link: The Essential Craftsman
• (53:10) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News

• Node: 26.9.0
• Syntax:  Jev Explained: Demos and Use Cases 
• Jake Bailey: Go FMA’s introduce non-determinism
• Geastack compiles TypeScript to native apps via C++
• Ember: 7.2 released
• Firefox: Firefox 156.0 release 
• Socket: Happy Birthday, Shai-Hulud 
• GitHub: Control GitHub Actions cache access with cache-mode 
• Gitea RCE Vulnerability: Ed from Low Level's update on git situation 

Library Watch

• modern-web-types is a drop-in replacement for dom typings with modern APIs
• Clickin/SQLBraid: Write SQL. Keep TypeScript. Skip the query-builder translation layer 
• taskade/temporal-parser: A lexer and parser for temporal expressions
• Zod 4.6 perf fixes and Zod Mini standalone

From the Community

• iamstan.dev: ES Modules via James
• Puffball: Inside TypeScript 7's Go Port: Designing Typed AST Nodes Without a Giant Struct
• cm.xyz: Understanding Why You'd Use Effect.ts 
• Porffor: TSC compiled with Porffor
• Stephen Toub: Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
• Typeskell is a cursed project
• Burak.dev: The Complete Guide to HOCs in Next.js with React and TypeScript 
• Interview with OpenTUI https://bsky.app/profile/orhun.dev/post/3mvlg6qrwls2u 
• Shopify: Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify 
• Bleet of the Week
  • XKCD comic: guaranteed to be random

Cool Links

• Designing Silicon From Scratch 
• Dr.Semiconductor - YouTube 
• Essential Craftsman – absolute gold carpentry tips

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

Creators and Guests

Host

Erik Onarheim

Self-professed Neovim Dandy 🎩 Software developer in Minneapolis ⛄I created a game engine for the web called Excalibur 🗡

Host

Kamran Ayub

Solopreneur, speaker, and Pluralsight author. Founder of KeepTrackOfMyGames.com.

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