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🔥 Some new DOM apis: .closest() and .matches()

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Syntax Podcast: #990

Syntax Podcast

March 25th, 2026

Vite Is Taking Over (Vite+)

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This is a great use case as well. Always wanted something as light+fast as codepen/jsfiddle but that can run server code

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Trying Cloudflare's new Dynamic Workers Running code I don't trust in a dynamic worker to produce a UI I don't trust displayed in an Iframe

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ooooops, I posted a link to the new SuperWhisper demo (also really cool) Here is the link to our video →

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Vite Is Taking Over and I'm (mostly) OK with that