1044: Ruby on Rails is Dead

Scott, Wes, and CJ ask whether Ruby on Rails is really dead (and whether Rust is just Rails you don't have to read), then dig into Meta's new Muse agent, which is free, comes with its own VM, and is already reading messages nobody asked it to. Plus: upm, a tiny TypeScript npm replacement, Opus 5.5 moonlighting as a motion designer, Tart VMs on Apple Silicon, and a foundry for gloriously bad web fonts.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome

• 01:11 upm.sh is a tiny fast npm

• Pooya Parsa’s launch post (x.com/_pi0_/status/2104348546682044525)

• 07:34 Zuck cooked with Muse (ai.meta.com/muse)
• Mark Zuckerberg’s post (x.com/finkd/status/2104550609403695581)

• Safety and Security in Muse (research.meta.ai/blog/security-and-safety-for-…)

• Privacy concerns (inc.com/jason-aten/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-rea…)

• Ray Wong’s post (x.com/raywongy/status/2104309096534978595)

• 19:21 Ruby on Rails is Dead (youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vDjW_dRyKX…)

• 27:55 loco.rs - Rails for Rust

• 31:06 Brought to you by Sentry! (sentry.io/syntax)

• 33:12 How should new developers learn?

• 41:40 Opus 5.5 First Impressions

• Stephan Livera’s motion graphics with Opus 5.5 (x.com/stephanlivera/status/2103315922098470926)

• Kenn Ejima’s single prompt motion graphics (x.com/kenn/status/2103337314021937232)

• Andras Bacsai’s Coolify motion graphics (x.com/heyandras/status/2103453411857580294)

• Tyler Shukert’s Supabase motion graphics (x.com/dshukertjr/status/2103511027308781677)

• Ben Vinegar’s Modem motion graphics (x.com/bentlegen/status/2104580654864466399)

• Wes’ gym builder (gym.wesbos.com)

• GFX (gfx.computer)

• 58:27 Tart (tart.run) - virtualization toolset for Apple Silicon

• 01:01:43 github.com/dzhng/jevgrep
• github.com/wobsoriano/is-jeven

• 01:06:49 SHOW ME YOUR RACK

• 01:09:04 Chrome gets responsive iframe resizing (x.com/sebastienlorber/status/2102738709795995737)

• 01:10:25 Bastardica (bastardica.mitpit.com) - bastard web font foundry

• 01:14:23 Sonnet 5.5 Released (x.com/claudeai/status/2104633115620823187)

• 01:16:37 OpenAI Dev Day (reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wr52pw/open…)

• 01:20:02 Syntax SF Meetup (luma.com/5ng6bniy)

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