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Snack Pack: OpenAI’s Dev Day bombshells + our new swag drop 🤫

Published 8 days ago • 3 min read

A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers

Issue #55:

First up, a warm welcome to Niki Brandner, the newest member of the Syntax team! She’s joining us as a Senior Podcast Producer — and we’re stoked to have her on board.
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Gear up for a long one — but trust us, it’s stacked. We'll skip the bullets, dive on in.

BIG NEWS

Open AI Launched a few new products yesterday at their Dev Day.

Some interesting ones are ChatKit - a sort of boilerplate for building agentic chat experiences.

They also launched their “Apps SDK” - which gives the ability to add custom apps into ChatGPT with the MCP protocol. They have used the MCP resource spec to include registering UI widgets - so not only will your app return MCP data, it can also return components which look like they can be written in Vanilla JS or React.

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​Mole

FROM scott

MacOS System Cleanup from the Terminal.

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​The Temporal Dead Zone, or why the TypeScript codebase is littered with var statements

cj'S LINK

Even the TypeScript code base uses var! Here's why.

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​React 19.2

cj's plug

React 19.2 is here! Also checkout Monday's episode of the pod where we talk to a React core dev about these new features.

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​Why Next.js Falls Short on Software Engineering ​

another one from cj

A thoughtful critique of Next.js.

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