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 (x.com/iruletheworldmo/status/21100381004831952…)

• 01:31 Deno (deno.com/blog/cloudflare) Is Shutting Down: The Team Joins Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com/deno-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 (anoma.ly/notes/opencode-2-0)

• Ryan Vogel runs OpenCode 2.0 inside a tweet (x.com/ryanvogel/status/2110018158903919076?s=20)

• 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 (x.com/simeonGriggs/status/2109942992857354387)

• 35:11 SubQ (subq.ai/introducing-subq-snap) Snap: A Cheaper, Smarter Decision Model Than Jev

• 41:26 AirDrop Reverse Engineered: Continuity on Linux

• T4T5: AirDrop fully reverse-engineered on Linux (x.com/t4t5/status/2108543714318582247)

• 44:47 Brought to you by Sentry.io (sentry.io/syntax)

• 45:24 TanStack (tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-start-1-0) Start 1.0 Is Officially Stable

• TanStack announces Start 1.0 is officially stable (x.com/tan_stack/status/2110022759338422327)

• github.com/noahdunnagan/fsearch

• github.com/zeusinsight/FinderSearch

• Kuro: Tinycast file search is now 15–90× faster (x.com/abue_ammar/status/2109745915686994278)

• 55:23 The FFF vs fsearch Twitter Drama

• Dmitriy Kovalenko compares fff to fsearch (x.com/neogoose_btw/status/2109001807863366097)

• 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 (research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder)

• Meta AI on Muse Spark open weights (x.com/AIatMeta/status/2109701605042032998?s=20)

• 01:15:15 EmbeddingGemma 2 and Why Embeddings Power Better Search

• Sundar Pichai introduces EmbeddingGemma 2 (x.com/sundarpichai/status/2107501975671890211)

• 01:18:32 Claude Haiku 5.5 Gains Thinking Levels

• Claude announces Haiku 5.5 (x.com/claudeai/status/2107894042235166750)

• Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 (anthropic.com/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 (x.com/ShaneMac/status/2107486740491669879)

• 01:24:18 CJ’s Whirlwind Tour: A Commodore 64 Keycap Font

• 01:25:08 Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com): 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 (blog.getbootstrap.com/2026/10/08/bootstrap-6-a…) 6 Alpha Brings Back Real Buttons

• 01:39:39 Wrapping Up the Live Stream

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