1048: Deno Is Dead

Deno is shutting down and the team is heading to Cloudflare — Scott, Wes, and CJ break down what that means for the runtime, JSR, and workerd. Plus OpenCode 2.0 on durable objects, TanStack Start 1.0, SubQ Snap, Gemini 4 Argon, and Wes’s accidental $50 photo frame movement.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- Gemini 4 Argon is out
01:31 Deno Is Shutting Down: The Team Joins Cloudflare
06:23 Why Bun Spelled the End of Deno
12:24 OpenCode 2.0: Durable Objects, Code Mode and Hot Reloading Plugins
- OpenCode 2.0
- Ryan Vogel runs OpenCode 2.0 inside a tweet
20:24 Where Should Your Agent Actually Run?
21:41 Talorys: A Personal AI Agent on the Cloudflare Free Tier
22:42 I Accidentally Started a $50 Photo Frame Movement
27:05 Agent Driven Open Source: Dozens of Pull Requests From Bots
- Simeon Griggs hacks his Peloton
35:11 SubQ Snap: A Cheaper, Smarter Decision Model Than Jev
41:26 AirDrop Reverse Engineered: Continuity on Linux
- T4T5: AirDrop fully reverse-engineered on Linux
44:47 Brought to you by Sentry.io
45:24 TanStack Start 1.0 Is Officially Stable
- TanStack announces Start 1.0 is officially stable
- fsearch
- FinderSearch
- Kuro: Tinycast file search is now 15–90× faster
55:23 The FFF vs fsearch Twitter Drama
- Dmitriy Kovalenko compares fff to fsearch
59:34 Model Roundup: Hands On With Gemini 4 Argon
01:08:01 Zen Garden: Ranking Models on Their 3D Taste
01:12:49 Muse Wonder From Meta
- Meta AI on Muse Spark open weights
01:15:15 EmbeddingGemma 2 and Why Embeddings Power Better Search
- Sundar Pichai introduces EmbeddingGemma 2
01:18:32 Claude Haiku 5.5 Gains Thinking Levels
- Claude announces Haiku 5.5
- Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5
01:20:19 Grok Bot Leaks a CEO’s Bank Balance Into Company Slack
- Shane Mac: An AI agent posted my bank balances in Slack
01:24:18 CJ’s Whirlwind Tour: A Commodore 64 Keycap Font
01:25:08 Lightbulb Computer: A Projector Screwed Into Your Ceiling
01:29:11 Recomps and Decomps: Running PS5 Games on Linux and Windows
01:32:23 Open Source Photoshop Clones and the Whole Craft Suite
01:35:25 Audacity 4 and the Case for Forking Old Open Source Apps
01:36:35 PS2 and PSP Games Recompiled to WebAssembly
01:37:39 Bootstrap 6 Alpha Brings Back Real Buttons
01:39:39 Wrapping Up the Live Stream