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JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Jerod, KBall & Nick discuss the latest news: Devin, Astro DB, The JavaScript Registry, Tailwind 4 & Angular merging with Wiz. Oh, and a surprise mini-game of HeadLIES!

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Devin, the first AI software engineer
• Astro DB
• JSR - the JavaScript Registry
• Tailwind 4
• Angular merging with Wiz

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Hello party people (00:00:56)

3. Meet Devin (00:02:01)

https://www.cognition-labs.com/introducing-devin

4. Astro DB (00:19:54)

https://astro.build/db/

5. Sponsor: PowerSync (00:28:24)

https://www.powersync.com/changelog

6. The JavaScript Registry (00:30:22)

https://deno.com/blog/jsr_open_beta

7. Tailwind 4 now in alpha (00:41:27)

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v4-alpha

8. Angular merging with Wiz (00:51:14)

https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1770478763253379488

9. Sponsor: CrabNebula Cloud (00:54:15)

https://crabnebula.dev/cloud/

10. HeadLIES mini-game! (00:57:17)

11. Round 1: Wrongful SWAT (00:57:26)

https://apnews.com/article/swat-search-verdict-find-my-phone-colorado-87c754fa8ed69658bbb59d325b4505af

12. Round 2: New Boeing toy (01:00:53)

13. Round 3: Toilet too smart (01:01:52)

https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-designed-a-smart-toilet-with-butt-recognition-technology-2020-4?op=1

14. We're all winners (01:04:10)

15. Outro (01:05:00)