Syntax - Web Development Podcast

With Wes Bos × Scott Tolinski × CJ Reynolds
Served Fresh Twice Weekly
GitHub COO Kyle Daigle (Daglan in the transcript) gets grilled on the downtime, explains why AI agents are breaking everything with 7-8 billion commits a month, and walks through the massive Git infrastructure overhaul. Plus: are pull requests dead, and what the heck is Copilot Fusion?
Reddit forces logins to starve the AI scrapers, ARC gets sunset, and a new terminal called Rex wants to replace your whole setup. Plus CSS Tricks gets a new owner, Redact tries to replace React, and a certificate authority's private key turns out to be the number four.
Scott and CJ crack open their server racks to show off firewalls, NAS setups, Proxmox VMs, Tailscale, Home Assistant and self hosted AI coding tools. Come for the 48 core Dell workstation, stay for the offline copy of Wikipedia.
Scott, Wes, and CJ broadcast live from a fancy news-style set at GitHub Universe in San Francisco, covering the Syntax meetup swag, hacking the Pimoroni badges, and the keynote's explosive growth numbers, infrastructure rebuild, and Copilot announcements.
Wes and Scott tackle how to pass context between coding agents, whether AI-written skills are any good, and what to learn when everything's changing. Plus a pep talk for anyone grieving hand-written code, WebMCP vs AG-UI, minimal Pi setups, and sick picks for lights and ethernet cables.
Scott, CJ, and Wes dive into thrift store photo frame hacking, Void's framework going open source, and JEV's new image support that costs a hundredth of a cent per image. Plus, your home security cameras might finally get smart without selling your soul to the cloud.
Adam Jacob of Swamp Club explains what software factories actually are, why they're not just slop cannons, and how to trust AI output with black box testing and architecture skills. Plus: should you delete your unit tests, and what do 10,500 LinkedIn engineers do now?
Deno gets acquired by Cloudflare and sunsetted in a year, OpenCode 2.0 runs inside a tweet, and Wes's $50 photo frame hack turned into thousands of agent-driven pull requests. Plus TanStack Start 1.0, file search drama on Twitter, and honest early-access takes on Gemini Argon.
Tasty × October 14th, 2026
A Rust-built, clean-room Adobe suite clone just opened Scott's gnarliest Photoshop files faster than Photoshop itself. Wes and Scott dig into what's missing, where the real moat is, the Figma MCP drama, and plenty of sick picks.
Hasty × October 12th, 2026
Pull requests are officially dead, Pi hits 1.0 with code mode and a durable agent harness, and Terso joins Supabase. Plus SvelteKit 3, Effect 4, Alchemy, and OpenAI's Dev Day shenanigans.
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