PodRocket

A web development podcast from LogRocket

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[kanav @kanavtwt]

Day 1 of vibecoding

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@kanavtwt jdad... it's me...

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

Microsoft Teams

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Cloudflare bought VoidZero, Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in 4 months, and Anthropic might be subsidizing Claude Max users by 30x.
Big week in web dev! We broke it all down on the PodRocket podcast.

YouTube: https://t.co/0QoZpE6iMG
Apple: https://t.co/BR1NMPPtmS
Spotify: https://t.co/drWtFYlexR

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

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

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@tan_stack

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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: https://t.co/pCSeA2nxC7
Apple: https://t.co/8ati8KB1C0
Spotify: https://t.co/cs20aIBPTU

[Zed @zeddotdev]

.@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:

https://t.co/KIL2BxdTFU

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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: https://t.co/dQEmMLTSsH
Apple: https://t.co/mUt2JwVr1V
Spotify: https://t.co/kCFF3iju8T

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@zkochan YT: https://t.co/e5nVfuNjCh
Apple: https://t.co/ySivLtTV0O
Spotify: https://t.co/PViEaFoaJR

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pnpm lead maintainer @zkochan joined PodRocket to talk about pnpm 11: the 24-hour install rule, the new allow-builds config, the global virtual store, and what's coming in v12... including the highly anticipated Rust rewrite.

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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: https://t.co/QIkHuhrPk7
Apple: https://t.co/TSCJIlTpqR
Spotify: https://t.co/yzAaDNsltJ

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.@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: https://t.co/umKpO6tbng
Apple: https://t.co/wUb0i1eyYS
Spotify: https://t.co/Q2aV4ysr5k

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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: https://t.co/ue4qVD8ILC
Apple: https://t.co/Qqtdb3tEXg
Spotify: https://t.co/PYqLFkbMqG

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@prisma @william_ma14406 <3

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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 👇
https://t.co/s5Eg5Yhe7u

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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: https://t.co/VPkbIcKYRb
Apple: https://t.co/fkpX3JofUn
Spotify: https://t.co/5F47FhQ63L