1028: Cloudflare Wallets

Cloudflare is rolling out crypto wallets with claimable handles as identity, and a real React compiler finally landed for regular hooks-based code. Plus: OpenAI's pricing war, Vue Vapor benchmarks, GitHub's new npm malware scanning, and an active supply chain attack hitting 868 packages. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:02 Shai Hulud is back! New Shai-Hulud announcement Attacked keyv packages 05:27 GitHub scans your npm packages for malware 06:42 Your agent has a wallet now Make your own Cloudflare wallet announcement blog post X402 payments 12:10 Yet another React compiler? Ripple.ts Inferno.js Dominic Gannaway’s launch post Octane Native Script Reactivity + Rendering Benchmark 27:19 Scott switched his browser AGAIN! Dia Knock off extension 31:56 AI Mental health survey 32:29 OpenAI models are becoming cheaper? 38:49 GitHub stacked PRs finally arrived 41:48 AI video podcasts HeyGen launch post Hank Green’s unhealthy AI usage 48:15 Brought to you by Sentry! 49:28 News from the TC39 meeting ECMAScript news Await dictionary TC39 Process 56:58 Qwen 3.8 01:02:31 Latest and greatest in CSS and UI libraries Foley.dev Morphicons Lucide Nucleo 8bit library CSS radar Impeccable Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads