OM DENNE EPISODE
Oracle's free window for Java 21 just closed. The Deno team is joining Cloudflare, and the Deno runtime now has a one-year clock on it. And an npm SDK for running AI-generated code in a sandbox shipped with a credential-stealing worm in its install hook.
Three different stories, one question: do you know what your systems depend on?
On this episode of the Pro Coder Show, I walk through what changed with Oracle JDK 21's license and why "just upgrade to Java 25" is harder to pitch than it sounds, what Cloudflare picking up Deno, Astro, and Vite means for the JavaScript ecosystem, and how the TensorLake compromise ran without anyone importing a thing. Then I dig into the fine print on cheap AI models, from Claude Haiku 5.5's new tokenizer to why spending caps should be on by default, and why open source maintainers like Sindre Sorhus are shutting off outside pull requests. I wrap up with some Pro Coder commentary on staying on top of constant change.
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STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: 📰
- Foojay.io: The Java 21 doomsday clock countdown
- Deno blog (Ryan Dahl): Deno is joining Cloudflare
- Cloudflare Blog: Deno joins Cloudflare
- Socket: TensorLake SDK compromise
- Simon Willison on Claude Haiku 5.5
- Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Simon Willison: default hard budget caps
- JavaScript Weekly #805 (Sindre Sorhus disables outside PRs)
- JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Incubator)
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