Very important agents (Friends)
Nick Nisi joins us to dig into the latest trends from this year and how they’re impacting his day-to-day coding and Vision Pro wearing. Anthropic’s acquisition of Bun, the evolving JavaScript and AI landscape, GitHub’s challenges and the Amp/Sourcegraph split. We dive into AI development practices, context management, voice assistants, Home Assistant OS and home automation, the state of the AI browser war, and we close with a prediction from Nick.
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Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip and Dual Knit Band
Bun is joining Anthropic
Anthropic acquires Bun as Claude Code reaches $1B milestone
Amp, Inc.
The Browser Company explains why it stopped developing Arc
Letter to Arc members 2025
The Browser Company launches Dia in beta
Home Assistant 2025.12: Triggering the holidays
Home Assistant Green
Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
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Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends)
Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he’s actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn’t more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys.
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How Windsurf was Split between OpenAI, Google, and Cognition in a billion-dollar acquisition deal?
Repo Prompt
AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why.
How I use Git Worktrees
Ultrathink++ | ClaudeLog
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Vibing into the vibe (Friends)
Nick Nisi joins us to confess his AI subscription glut, drool over some cool new hardware gadgets, discuss why the TypeScript team chose Go for their new compiler, opine on the React team’s complicated relationship with Vercel, suggest people try Astro, update us on his browser habits, and more.
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Godwin’s law - Wikipedia
Gitingest
Raycast
Maccy
BUSY Bar
Flipper Zero
The Casio Secret Sender
Game Genie - Wikipedia
Why Go? · microsoft/typescript-go
Astro
Framer
Eleventy
Use long flags when scripting
ZEN browser
Apple’s Acquisition of Pixelmator is Complete
The Dysfunctional Developer
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The wrong place to slap a person (Friends)
Nick Nisi joins Adam and Jerod to talk about Karaoke, ARC and the business model of web browsers, this WordPress drama, and an epic bonus for Changelog ++ subscribers.
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Zulip with us!
Enchanted iOS / macOS app
Ollama
Tuning a guitar with ChatGPT
Arc CVE
Pocket Casts iOS
WP Engine is not WordPress
WP Engine Cease and Desist (PDF)
Automattic sends WP Engine its own cease-and-desist | TechCrunch
WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
WP Engine is not WordPress
Matt Talks About WordPress Situation
These responses are like whoa
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#define: legendary (Friends)
What happens when you take three #define newbs (Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi, Mat Ryer) & pit them against the grizzled vet, Adam? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back & this time it’s even more legendary!
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You have how many open tabs?! (Friends)
We’re taking you to the hallway track at THAT Conference in Austin TX, where we have 3 fun conversations: one with our old friend Nick Nisi from JS Party, one with our new(ish) friend Amy Dutton from CompressedFM (who has been a guest on JS Party of late) & one with our brand new friend / long-time listener Andres Pineda from the Dominican Republic.
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CompressFM
Pinedax on Twitter
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What do we want from a web browser? (Friends)
A hoy hoy! Our old friend Nick Nisi does his best to bring up TypeScript, Vim & Tmux as many times as possible while we discuss a new batch of web browsers, justify why we like the ones we do & try to figure out what it’d take to disrupt the status quo of Big Browser.
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Digging through Nick Nisi’s tool box (JS Party #278)
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome | Ars Technica
Arc from The Browser Company
Sizzy — The browser for web developers
Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers
Orion Browser
Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser
The Ladybird browser project
Horse Browser
Web Browser Quiche on the App Store
Nyxt browser: The hacker’s browser
Opera browser goes free with version 5.0 launch • The Register
Nick’s vim + tmux video
Vim with Me playlist
Our viral short on Instagram Reels
Gabe Kangas on Mastodon
Rich Harris on JS Party
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The future of fintech with Chris Hutchins and Jake Gibson
Ryan recently visited Grove HQ in SOMA in San Francisco to chat with two founders who know a ton about fintech.
Chris Hutchins was our gracious host and is CEO of Grove, a startup that uses people and technology to help you with your financial goals. Ryan actually met Chris in the early days of Product Hunt when he was an investor at Google Ventures. Before that, he started a company called Milk that was acquired by Google. All his life he's been a self-acknowledged financial nerd, often sharing his money-saving tips with friends, which was a large inspiration for starting Grove.
Jake Gibson is the co-founder of NerdWallet. The company started back in 2009 and helps consumers make smart financial decisions like “which credit card should I get?” or “what's the best savings account for me?” He left in 2014 and has since focused his time angel investing, primarily in fintech startups.
In this episode they discuss...
How fintech has evolved over the past decade — and why it’s so hot right now
Jake and Chris both worked in finance before becoming entrepreneurs and they talk about how that informed the companies they founded. They talk about the big changes that have happened over the last ten years and why a space that very few founders would touch just a few years ago has become one of the hottest spaces for entrepreneurs and investors.
“We all basically know the guidelines around how to be healthy, but we don’t do it, because eating broccoli sucks, and its complicated, and good food is expensive, so there are a lot of reasons why we aren’t going to do it and personal finance is the same way.” — Jake
The top financial life hacks, including why Chris says he buys his groceries at OfficeMax
People ask me, ‘where do you buy your groceries?’ and I’ll be like, ‘I buy my groceries at OfficeMax, because I buy Whole Foods gift cards at OfficeMax so that I can buy my groceries.’ You have to be kind of crazy to do that but I’m clearly there.” — Chris
Chris talks about his obsessive quest for credit card points and why, once you take a lavish vacation using only the points you’ve accrued on your cards, it makes having twelve credit cards and an index card to tell you when to spend on which one all worth it.
“I have all these credit cards and I’ve specifically gone in and said, ‘do I spend enough here to make it worth it?’ It might be that I’m the first person to volunteer to plan a trip for friends and they all think ‘wow, I’m getting this awesome benefit, my friend’s planning this trip for me, I don’t have to think about it.’ I’m like, totally, and I will do that for free, but I will put 100% of the flights and hotels on my credit card. I’ll earn the points, you get a free travel agent, and it works out really well for both of us.” — Chris
What the future holds for fintech and their favorite companies in the space
They talk about the problems they were trying to solve with the companies they co-founded, what remains to be done in the space, and some of their favorite apps for helping you get a handle on your finances.
“How do you know if a term life policy is more relevant than investing in your 401k or saving more money or putting it towards your kids’ college? How do you figure all that out? The short answer is you could build a future cash flow model and the bankers in the room are like ‘oh, I already did that’ but 99 percent of people are like ‘I have no idea.’” — Chris
The rise of crypto and how it might impact fintech
“There are a lot of people in the crypto space who don’t know anything about finance and a lot of people who know a lot about finance getting into crypto who don’t know anything about crypto, so it’ll be interesting to see how that will all evolve.” — Jake
It wouldn’t be a tech podcast without talking about crypto, right? They discuss the promise of crypto and which aspects of it are overhyped.
“People talk about how tokenizing securities — stocks and bonds and things like that — should make the world better and more efficient. Sure, if you can cut out trading costs, I think that can be helpful, but you don’t necessarily need a blockchain to do that. Additionally, everyone says one of the benefits is it’s tradable 24/7. I don’t think that’s actually a benefit.” — Jake
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With great power comes great responsibility (Interview)
Adam and Jerod are joined by JS Party panelist Nick Nisi and #causeascene advocate Kim Crayton for a deep discussion on ethics in the technology industry at-large and our roles as software developers. If you’ve never heard Kim describe what life is like online for underrepresented and marginalized folks, you have to listen to this show!
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We start by asking the question: should we npm-uninstall-facebook.com?
Jerod and Nick first met Kim at NEJS Conf 2017
Kim also keynoted Node+JS Interactive 2017
Kim’s podcast discusses these topics often
The #causeascene movement being lead by Kim
Read Kim’s article on QZ about defining diversity & inclusion terms
Here’s coverage of bots mimicking female/black voices on NBC, Wired, and NYTimes
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JavaScript in the Wild at NEJS Conf (Interview)
Jerod Santo took off his host hat this show and joined Zach Leatherman, and Nick Nisi, his co-organizers of NEJS Conf to talk about JavaScript in the wild in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) on Twitter
Nick Nisi (@nicknisi) on Twitter
Jerod Santo (@jerodsanto) on Twitter
NEJS Conf
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Making NEJS Conf Inclusive and Accessible
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The Superbytes
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