Bye-bye .IO, void(0)’s Next Gen JS Toolchain, and StackBlitz’s AI platform bolt.new

.io domains have been in vogue for over a decade, but now that the British government has decided to give up sovereignty over the small set of islands in the Indian Ocean that owned that country code on the Internet, it will soon cease to exist. 

Evan You, of Vue JS and Vite fame, has started a new company VoidZero Inc. to build the next generation toolchain for JavaScript. While trying to make Vite even better, Evan realized he needed a full-time team and funding to build the best toolchain around, and the engineers and investors agreed.

StackBlitz enters the AI arena as well with its bolt.new offering, AI-powered software development allowing users to prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps directly in the browser.

WordPress drama reaches new levels of pettiness with a new checkbox that users must check before signing into their WP accounts swearing they are not affiliated with WP Engine in any way. In happier news, Sentry doubles down on its support for open source software (and the maintainers) by creating the Open Source Pledge where companies who use OSS for profit are encouraged to commit to paying the maintainers of the software they use so that burnout and related security issues can be better addressed.

News:

• Paige - void(0) JavaScript tooling
• Jack - StackBlitz’s Bolt.new AI dev tool
• TJ - The end of .io domains

Bonus News:

• Waymo update
• WordPress update
• Sentry launches the Open Source Pledge
• Sentry itself gave $500k to OS maintainers this year
• Deno 2 is officially out!

Fire Starters:

• HTTP QUERY

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power season 2
• Jack - The Substance movie
• TJ - Cider mills

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