jQuery is the JavaScript library that just won’t quit. 20 years after its inception the team released jQuery 4.0.0, and it brings some notable modernizations including removed support for IE 10, a migration to ES modules, and support for Trusted Types.

Node.js creator Ryan Dahl declared earlier this week that “the era of humans writing code is over”, and considering how good AI coding agents have gotten lately, he’s probably not wrong.

Cloudflare also announces it has acquired popular JavaScript framework Astro. Cloudflare has been a good steward to other OSS projects in the past, and this acquisition allows the Astro team to focus on making the framework even better.

Timestamps:

0:50 - jQuery 4.0
7:58 - Is the era of humans writing code over?
18:23 - Cloudflare acquires Astro
24:54 - Vertical tabs are coming to Chrome
29:37 - Apple is going to use Gemini for Siri
43:07 - What’s making us happy

News:

Paige - Ryan Dahl declares humans writing code is over
Jack - Cloudflare acquires Astro
TJ - jQuery 4.0

Lightning News:

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

Paige - Onyx Storm book
Jack - Learning to play Born to Run on guitar
TJ - Only Murders in the Building TV series and Dungeon Crawler Carl book series

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Star Wars (feat. Karen Peterson)