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SOMEONE VIBE CODED A VIDEO STREAM THAT IS SECRETLY 100% TEXT SO IT CANT BE BLOCKED it plays 360p video at 30fps, but theres no actual video on the page. every frame is just colored text characters being repainted on a canvas to the browser its not media at all, its javascript updating some text its called asciline, and here's the trick: > the server decodes the real video and streams it as binary packed text over websockets > the browser paints thousands of colored block characters fast enough to look like 360p > ad blockers and autoplay blockers cant catch it because theres no video element to catch > it streams in kilobytes since its just strings, so it runs on trash internet since the video is literally text, you can apply css glows to it, let people copy paste a moving frame, or feed it straight to a local llm however, an unblockable stream is also an unblockable ad as well

Cloudflare bought VoidZero. Uber torched its AI budget by April. And your $200 Claude plan is subsidized 30-to-1. This week's panel unpacks it all! YouTube: buff.ly/PGOwu8a Apple: buff.ly/UqhGPNS Spotify: buff.ly/DFR8xSk

.@radgendervibes joined @PodRocketpod to talk through the internals of Zed: how GPUI renders the UI, how CRDTs keep collaborative editing in sync, the road to Zed 1.0, and where Rust fits in AI-driven development. Check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=a2FkwhZ1…

The team over at @zeddotdev is rebuilding the entire dev tooling stack from scratch, in Rust. GPU rendering, CRDTs for live collaboration, an AI-agnostic editor, and a philosophy forged from watching Atom fall apart. YouTube: buff.ly/HxK25Zc Apple: buff.ly/c1SDEg2 Spotify: buff.ly/6w606FJ

Cooked your computer after that TanStack supply chain attack? We dropped an episode on pnpm 11 with lead maintainer Zoltan Kochan last week. If you're curious about the new security features and what else pnpm 11 brings to the table, it's a good listen. YT: buff.ly/sUJL3H3 Apple: buff.ly/MIifAvK Spotify: buff.ly/heggcl9

.@argyleink joined the podcast with a hot take: CSS will be the last language LLMs get good at. We also talk about his four-part breakdown of why AI struggles with front-end, the tooling closing the gap, and how he's running agentic overnight loops to wake up to ready to ship PRs. Worth a listen for any front-end dev navigating AI-assisted workflow. YouTube: buff.ly/qrhYoYk Apple: buff.ly/Axsu847 Spotify: buff.ly/jFRzRnv

Google & Meta compute feature flags at request time and every user gets a fully personalized page instantly. Nobody else can do that, yet. Next.js wants to change that. Full episode on the Adapters API, partial pre-rendering, agentic DX, and more with @feedthejim. YouTube: buff.ly/iyexfBR Apple: buff.ly/v90YR23 Spotify: buff.ly/F2kNzqt

AI can write SQL. So why do ORMs still matter? Our Engineering Manager, @william_ma14406, joined the latest @PodRocketpod episode to talk about Prisma Next and how ORMs are evolving for the age of agentic coding. Watch the episode 👇 pris.ly/pn-podrocket

Building a secure cross-platform framework in 2026 means thinking beyond performance. Earlier this month, Daniel Thompson-Yvetot dug into @TauriApps evolution, the reality of web view tradeoffs, and why regulation and supply chains are now part of the conversation. YouTube: buff.ly/6aLhJNC Apple: buff.ly/H4NMQJs Spotify: buff.ly/LcxEC2a

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AI is replacing docs, traffic is disappearing, and open source is being forced to adapt. This week, we talked about why moves like Cloudflare picking up Astro make sense right now, how tools like Tailwind get squeezed in the shift, and what “writing code” even looks like going forward. YT: buff.ly/l2OdSqj Apple: buff.ly/TZINbXh Spotify: buff.ly/88t5xVe