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Syntax Snack Pack: Zod's Major Upgrade & Figma's Legal Rampage

Published 3 months ago • 3 min read

A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers

Issue #43:

  • What major features made the cut for Zod 4? (Spoiler: it's a lot)
  • Amex is now sponsoring Prettier (don't leave home without open source!)
  • Ever wondered what Tokyo looks like from a stranger's apartment?
  • Plus: Who knew Figma was so litigious?? sending cease-and-desists over "DEV MODE"?

​Introducing Zod 4 beta | Zod Docs​

FROM CJ

Zod 4 has reached beta and brings a ton of long awaited features / fixes. Its faster, has built in metadata, built in json schema, built in error pretty printing and much more!

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​The Post-Developer Era

selected by CJ

Josh provides some perspective on how AI has affected the industry over the past few years and provides advice on how to stay relevant.

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​American Express is sponsoring Prettier​

chad's find!

It’s great to see a Fortune 500 company start to pay the maintainers of the software they depend on. Don’t leave home without Open Source!

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just for fun:

​WindowSwap

Picked by cj

Look out of other peoples windows across the world!

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All Hail The Algorithm

Some good stuff™ we posted this week

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The legal team at figma is sending cease and desists to anyone using the term "DEV MODE" in their apps...

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Interviewing in Tech has changed -

Take home exercises, coding challenges, and job boards are dead? Did AI Kill them?

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we dropped two new items last week, more coming soon

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