Episode Details

News of the week of September 29, 2025: Is Deno the answer to npm's security issues? From the community: replacing .env files with 1Password, stepping outside of TypeScript's padded room, and temporal dead zones. Plus, Kamran fell into a rabbit hole and defeated the Red Queen: SSR with .NET.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
• (07:39) - News: TSGo Got a Lil Bit Faster (Still)
• (08:56) - News: How Deno Protects Against npm Exploits
• (13:28) - News: DBOSS Adds Better JS and TS Support for Durable Workflows
• (15:44) - News: Astro Got a New Sponsor
• (16:49) - Community Highlight: Liran Tal on Mitigating Supply Chain Security for Node.js Local Dev
• (21:11) - Community Highlight: Why is the TypeScript Codebase Littered with var Statements?
• (23:36) - Community Highlight: When Type Safety Can Be Tricky
• (27:40) - Community Highlight: Theo.gg on Life After TypeScript
• (29:10) - Community Highlight: Kamran Got React SSR Working Under .NET!
• (40:12) - Cool Link: En*bleep*ification by Cory Doctorow
• (40:32) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News

• TSGO News: PR #1732: Improves source file parse time by ~10%
• How Deno protects against npm exploits
• DBOS 2.0 adds JS support with a decoratorless API. (docs)
• What’s new in Astro - September 2025

From the Community

• Liran Tal: Mitigate Supply Chain Security with DevContainers and 1Password for Node.js Local Development
• Vincent Rolf: The Temporal Dead Zone, or why the TypeScript codebase is littered with var statements
• Paul Schmeing: TypeScript and the Illusion of Type-Safety
• Theo: Life after TypeScript
• Kamran: dotnet-ssr, an (experimental!) .NET SSR host

Cool Stuff

• Erik's LD58 Game Jam: Play the Gem Jam Game
• Video: Kamran on rendering React Router using a .NET SSR host
• Book: Ensh*ttification with Cory Doctorow (plus, Interview with Adam Conover)
• Kamran's Course: Staying on Task with the Pomodoro Technique
• Kamran's Course: Prioritizing Work with Rocks, Pebbles, and Sand
• Library: microsoft/node-api-dotnet, advanced interoperability between .NET and JavaScript in the same process.
• Library: agracio/edge-js, run .NET and Node.js code in-process on Windows, MacOS, and Linux

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