TMiR 2026-08: Release candidate season; is that an asteroid hitting web educators?

Transcript and URLs 𐄁 **Creators & Guests** - Mark Erikson - Host - Carl Vitullo - Producer [**★ Support this podcast ★**](https://donate.stripe.com/14A4gyfrP5YS0Za6HbfMA04 "★ Support this podcast ★") [Reply on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yfqlzwi66ubgasg5z6pjiudc/post/3mu6fefxren2u "Reply on Bluesky") - (00:00) - tmir-2026-08 - (00:55) - New releases - (01:02) - Waku 1.0 (RC) - (03:01) - Preact 11.0.0-rc.1 - (03:56) - Mobx 7.0 - (04:32) - Next 16.3 - (06:55) - React Native 0.87 - (07:47) - TanStack Table 9 - (09:25) - TC39 “Composites” proposal (~ replaces Records and Tuples) - (10:44) - Solid 2.0 RC - (13:39) - Bun 1.4 - (17:18) - Github stacked PRs in public preview - (21:38) - Main Content - (21:42) - React core-ish - (21:49) - New ReactDOM \`use(browser())\` API - (22:47) - React Foundation website updated - (23:18) - Big Next.js AMA in /r/reactjs - (23:49) - React Compiler support in OXC - (25:21) - Biome and Bun 1.4 have initial support as well - (25:45) - The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development - (32:36) - Scott Tolinski’s “True Cost of AI Coding” survey and video - (37:51) - Josh Goldberg stepped back from OSS work - (40:53) - Software Stewardship Lab announced (Daniel Roe et al) - (42:11) - Humanity in OSS - (46:47) - Cursor switched from Solid to React - (47:46) - Lovable moved off Next to TanStack Start - (49:00) - Ryan Carniato’s async Solid articles - (49:33) - Slew of Github competitors: Tangled, Cloudflare Artifacts, Netlify Source, Cursor Origin - (55:55) - Git at Any Scale - (57:14) - Lightning round - (57:16) - npm.report - (57:51) - Supplier Security Questionnaire, Andrew Nesbitt - (58:58) - Everything I own, owned, Chaz Schlarp - (01:02:33) - The sorry state of Skill distribution - (01:03:46) - Conferences - (01:03:48) - ZurichJS Sep 11 - (01:04:47) - React Alicante Sep 23-24 - (01:05:09) - Outro