React 19.3, Safari 27 & Chrome 153 Loot Drops, and Cloudflare's New Worker Module Registry | News | Ep 81

News for the week of Sep 7, 2026: new browser loot drops in Chrome 153 and Safari 27, React 19.3 lets you control view transitions, and how Cloudflare rewrote the workers module registry for better Node.js compatibility. From the community: why nobody pays OSS projects, interactively learn Effect, and the motivation behind Zena the Warrior Princ--er, a new programming language inspired by TypeScript.

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Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to the Show

(05:11) - Tooling: React 19.3

(08:50) - Tooling: React Compiler is in Vite 8 via oxc

(10:17) - Web Platform: Chrome 153 Brings (Proper) Single-axis Scroll Support

(12:04) - Web Platform: Safari 27 First to Add Import Defer Support