October 5th, 2026 × #AI#Rails#Rust#WebDev
Ruby on Rails is Dead
DHH tells RailsConf he's done writing Ruby, Meta's free Muse agent sends a stranger to someone's apartment, and Opus 5.5 renders entire home gyms and motion graphics. Plus a TypeScript package manager that embarrasses native tools.
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Scott, Wes, and CJ ask whether Ruby on Rails is really dead (and whether Rust is just Rails you don't have to read), then dig into Meta's new Muse agent, which is free, comes with its own VM, and is already reading messages nobody asked it to. Plus: upm, a tiny TypeScript npm replacement, Opus 5.5 moonlighting as a motion designer, Tart VMs on Apple Silicon, and a foundry for gloriously bad web fonts.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome
- 01:11 upm is a tiny fast npm
- 07:34 Zuck cooked with Muse
- 19:21 Ruby on Rails is Dead
- 27:55 loco - Rails for Rust
- 31:06 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 33:12 How should new developers learn?
- 41:40 Opus 5.5 First Impressions
- 58:27 Tart - virtualization toolset for Apple Silicon
- 01:01:43 jevgrep
- 01:06:49 SHOW ME YOUR RACK
- 01:09:04 Chrome gets responsive iframe resizing
- 01:10:25 Bastardica - bastard web font foundry
- 01:14:23 Sonnet 5.5 Released
- 01:16:37 OpenAI Dev Day
- 01:20:02 Syntax SF Meetup
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