Best James Garbutt Podcasts (2025)

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Was Nuxt just sold?! (with Daniel Roe and Sébastien Chopin) 30:46

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5d ago30:46

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In this special episode of DejaVue, Alexander and Michael are joined by Daniel Roe and Sébastien Chopin to discuss the recent acquisition of NuxtLabs by Vercel. Questions like "Was Nuxt just sold", "How much influence has Vercel", and "What is Vercel excepting from the deal" are answered. If you wonder what impact the deal has on Nuxt, you as a use…

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Vite 7 is out 25:50

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👉 Don't forget to join ViteConf on October 9-10 in Amsterdam In this episode of DejaVue, Michael and Alexander look into the major release of Vite 7, including the move to ESM-only, dropping Node 18 support, and adopting the Baseline browser target. They also discuss the evolving Environment API, upcoming changes in Rolldown-Vite, new Vite dev tool…

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Buyer Hopes, Seller Nerves: Difficult Conversations With Both Sides of the Deal 28:57

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The shifting buyers’ market is rewriting Vancouver real estate playbooks, demanding frank conversations that sometimes include tough truths on pricing and timelines. This episode unpacks how to deliver bad news gracefully while setting rock-solid expectations that keep both buyers and sellers confident and on track. James and Denny share real-life …

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Maxim Fateev - Temporal 52:09

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This week we talk to Maxim Fateev, a co-founder of Temporal. Temporal started as a tool for Uber but quickly grew into a tool that makes distributed code exectution a breeze. Come hear what one of the poineers of Durable Exectution has to say! https://temporal.io Episode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.com) Become a paid subscriber our patreon,…

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Dylan Piercey - Marko 52:45

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This week we talk to Dylan Piercey, a core team member of Ebay's Marko team. Marko heralded many next gen frontend framework features that litter the landscape today, including streaming, islands architecture, and more. Marko v6 is a major release that brings many new features to the table, including a new language features, and a new compiler. htt…

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Double Trouble: The Nuxt Surprise (with Daniel Roe) 41:07

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Big news in the Nuxt ecosystem. While you out there already know what has been announced - some of us didn't. Luckily, Daniel Roe, Head of the Nuxt team joins this DejaVue episode and discusses the highly anticipated "double trouble": Not one, but two major versions for Nuxt are on the horizon. After over a year of delays, Daniel reveals the strate…

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Market Update June: Hold That Rate! Why the BoC Pause Could Upend Vancouver’s Slumbering Market 38:38

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Metro Vancouver is experiencing a deceptively quiet spring with inventory climbing even as the Bank of Canada holds rates steady. We unpack how that rising supply and the new GST changes could reshape strategies for buyers, sellers, and investors alike. James and Denny discuss how they’re navigating today’s buyer-seller dynamics and the real-world …

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The History of Nuxt and NuxtLabs (with Sébastien Chopin) 1:01:07

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Join Alex and Michael with special guest Sébastien Chopin, creator of Nuxt.js and CEO of NuxtLabs, to learn more about the origins and evolution of the Vue-based meta framework. Sébastien shares valuable lessons from open source, how he came to create Nuxt.js in the first place and which challenges came with it. In the second part of the episode, t…

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Peter Pistorius - Redwood SDK 55:49

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This week we talk to Peter Pistorius, the man currently at the helm of Redwood. Redwood has undergone a lot of changes since it was first announced, pivoting to a serverless framework that leans into React Server Components. Peter has a grand vision for Redwood and the advent of personal software, and we're excited to hear about it. https://rwsdk.c…

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Greg Sadetsky, Antonie Leclair - Disco 58:20

2M ago58:20

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This week we talk to Greg Sadetsky and Antoine Leclair, the creators of Disco. Disco make running you own infra a piece of cake. https://disco.cloud/ https://docs.letsdisco.dev/ https://github.com/letsdiscodev/ https://github.com/gregsadetsky https://github.com/antoineleclair Episode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.com). Become a paid subscribe…

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Stepan Parunashvili - InstantDB 52:03

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This week we're joined by Stepan Parunashvili, co-creator of InstantDB, a new database that's designed to make it easier to build local-first apps. Instant is a replacement for Firebase, and it's designed to be a more modern, more flexible, and more powerful database for the modern web. Join us as we dive into the details of InstantDB, the challeng…

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Motion for Vue (with Matt Perry) 1:03:21

2M ago1:03:21

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In this episode of DejaVue, Michael and Alex chat with Matt Perry, the creator of Motion (formerly Framer Motion), about animations in web development. Matt talks about his journey from designing gaming magazines as a kid to becoming a full-time developer, sharing his experiences with ActionScript, jQuery, and how Motion was born. They discuss how …

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Presale Panic: Inside Vancouver’s Imploding Condo Market 35:07

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Vancouver’s condo market is reeling as presale buyers face steep losses, with completed units reselling for less than their launch prices. Analysts warn that the wave of cancellations, investor fatigue, and rising carrying costs has turned once-sure-thing presales into a cautionary tale of condo crisis and buyer pain. James and Denny dive into Vanc…

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James Garbutt - e18e 54:01

2M ago54:01

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In this episode, we talk with James Garbutt about e18e, a community-driven initiative focused on improving the performance of JavaScript packages across the ecosystem.We discuss: • The goals and vision behind e18e • What’s slowing down the JS ecosystem • Why performance work is often invisible—and how to fix that • The importance of community coord…

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Anirudh and Akshay from Tangled.sh and the Future of Decentralized Coding 55:12

2M ago55:12

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This week we're joined by Anirudh and Akshay from Tangled.sh. Tangle.sh is a social coding platform built on the AT Protocol. We discuss the future of decentralized coding, the challenges of building a new platform, and how developers can leverage Tangled.sh's tools. https://anirudh.fi/ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wshs7t2adsemcrrd4snkeqli http…

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Eli Mallon - Streamplace and the future of decentralized video streaming 53:47

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This week we're joined by Eli Mallon, founder of Streamplace, a decentralized video streaming platform. In this episode we discuss the future of decentralized video streaming, the challenges of building a new platform, and how developers can leverage Streamplace's tools. We also go into Atproto, the decentralized social media network that stream pl…

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Snapshot Testing and Beyond (with The Jared Wilcurt) 1:06:40

3M ago1:06:40

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In this episode of DejaVue, Alex and Michael are joined by Jared Wilcurt, UI architect and open source contributor, to get knee-deep into the world of testing in Vue.js, especially Snapshot Testing. Jared shares his journey from React frustration to Vue enthusiasm, and explains how he identified gaps in Vue's testing ecosystem that led to the creat…

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Zack Jackson - ByteDance, rspack, and the Future of Web Development 56:39

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This week we're once again joined by Zach Jackson, creator of Module Federation, and now core team member of ByteDance's rspack project. In this episode we talk about the bundler landscape, the future of web development, and how rspack is changing the game. https://x.com/rspack_dev https://x.com/ScriptedAlchemy https://rspack.dev/ Episode sponsored…

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Market Update April: Bank of Canada Rate Hold & the Spring Market Situation 1:01:48

3M ago1:01:48

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The Bank of Canada has kept its benchmark interest rate steady at 2.75%, putting a pause on a streak of seven straight cuts. In its Wednesday announcement, the Bank acknowledged a significant slowdown in the Canadian economy but opted to hold the rate as it awaits more clarity on U.S. trade policy and the broader effects of tariffs. James and Denny…

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Sam Goodwin - Alchemy and the Next Generation of Infra as Code 48:25

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This week we're delighted to welcome Sam Goodwin to the show. Sam is the creator of Alchemy, a tool that allows you to create and manage your infrastructure as code. The current state of the art is built on all the tech debt of the past 10 years, Alchemy is a new approach to infrastructure as code that is more aligned with the modern web. https://a…

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e18e: Ecosystem Performance (with James Garbutt) 1:02:51

3M ago1:02:51

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In this episode of DejaVue, Alex sits down with James Garbutt, open source maintainer and lead of the e18e initiative. James shares his journey from writing web scrapers as a teenager to maintaining critical JavaScript libraries like parse5 or Chokidar and eventually co-creating the ecosystem performance initiative. The conversation is then all aro…

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The Truth About Vancouver Real Estate: Is It Still Worth Your Money? 43:02

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Thinking about jumping into real estate? In this episode, we discuss whether investing in Vancouver real estate still makes sense today, explore different property types, and discuss long-term appreciation in a market everyone’s watching. James and Denny discuss whether it’s still worth investing in the Vancouver real estate market, diving into cur…

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Rodrigo Pombo - Code Hike and the Future of Content Authoring 43:15

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This week we're delighted to welcome Rodrigo Pombo to the show. Rodrigo is the creator of Code Hike, a tool that allows you to add rich animations to code blocks in your documentation. We chat about the origins of Code Hike, the challenges of authoring technical content, and the future of content authoring. https://pomb.us/ https://codehike.org/ ht…

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Open Source Sustainability (with Daniel Roe, Chad Whitacre & Rijk van Zanten) 1:00:24

3M ago1:00:24

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Join hosts Michael Thiessen and Alexander Lichter for a special episode of DejaVue - a fascinating panel discussion on open source sustainability with three open source enthusiasts: Daniel Roe (Nuxt Team Lead), Chad Whitacre (Head of Open Source at Sentry), and Rijk van Zanten (CTO and co-founder of Directus). The panelists dive deep into what sust…

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New Releases: Nuxt 3.16 and Nuxt UI 3 42:15

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Nuxt 3.16 dropped and it's packed with goodies! In this episode, Alex and Michael break down all the cool stuff in this release that'll make your Nuxt development smoother. They dive into the new command to initialize a Nuxt application, the performance-game-changing lazy hydration support that'll boost your app's performance, and named layer alias…

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Antonio Scandurra - Atom, Zed and the Future of Text Editors 53:59

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This week we're delighted to welcome Antonio Scandurra to the show. Antonio is the co-founder of Zed, a new text editor built in Rust. He was one of the core contributors to Atom, the text editor from GitHub that was the start of a new era of text editors. Join us as we chat about the past, present and future of text editors. https://github.com/as-…

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Visualizing Data in Vue (with Dennis Adriaansen) 1:03:14

4M ago1:03:14

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In episode 52 of DejaVue (yes, it is a whole year), Dennis Adriaansen joins Michael and Alex to discuss data visualization in Vue.js. Dennis shares insights about building chart components, his experience with different charting libraries, and introduces his own Vue charting library. They explore topics like chart customization, performance conside…

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Multiple Offers Making a Comeback? Not So Fast! 26:13

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The real estate market has yet to gain the momentum many expected, with buyer demand remaining sluggish despite seasonal trends. However, some properties are still holding at peak pricing and even attracting multiple offers. James and Denny discuss the types of properties receiving multiple offers despite the overall slow real estate market in the …

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Simen Svale - sanity.io 53:54

4M ago53:54

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This week we're joined by Simen Svale, the co-founder and CTO of Sanity.io Sanity is a content management system that's built for developers, and it's a great alternative to traditional CMSs like WordPress. Sanity focuses on developer experience, and it's a great choice for building modern, scalable content-driven applications. https://sanity.io ht…

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Vite Inside Out (with Matias "Patak" Capeletto) 1:26:38

4M ago1:26:38

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Vite is amazing, I think we can all agree on that statement. But what is Vite actually!? Why is it so great, faster than webpack and the "de-facto standard of the web" already? Alex is joined by Vite Core Team member Matias Capeletto, better known as Patak, to talk about all these questions. Learn about the future of Vite, how it uses two bundlers …

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Bank of Canada Cuts Rates Again! How Tariffs & Elections Could Change Everything 16:05

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The Bank of Canada has implemented its seventh consecutive rate cut, continuing its aggressive push to stimulate economic growth amid slowing inflation and global uncertainty. This latest reduction signals ongoing concerns about consumer spending, business investment, and the broader impact of tariffs and upcoming elections on the Canadian economy.…

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Charles Lowell - Frontside, Effection, and Structured Concurrency 53:14

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This week we talk to Charles Lowell, a developer and consultant who has created a library called Effection. Effection is a library that allows you to write structured concurrency code in JavaScript. What is structured concurrency and how could it be useful for you? Find out in this episode! https://frontside.com/effection https://github.com/thefron…

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DevRel and IDEs (with Jan-Niklas Wortmann) 51:08

4M ago51:08

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For episode number 50 (not 51 Alex!), Angular GDE and JetBrains DevRel Jan-Niklas Wortmann joins the show. Together with Michael and Alex they dive into Jan-Niklas' angle of being a DevRel, how framework communities are different and why people should give WebStorm a try. Beyond that, Volar and LSPs are also covered, as well as some new announcemen…

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Vancouver Flip or Flop: Can You Really Profit in Real Estate? 19:00

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Flipping homes in British Columbia can be a lucrative venture, but with rising costs, market fluctuations, and strict taxation rules, is it still worth it? In this episode, we break down the realities of house flipping in BC, the taxes that can eat into your profits, and whether investors can still make money in today’s market. James and Denny shar…

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Josh Comeau - Creating Delightful Developer Education 53:39

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This week we talk to Josh Comeau, a developer and educator who has created a series of interactive courses on CSS, React, and JavaScript. His courses are lauded for their interactive nature and his ability to explain complex concepts in a way that is both easy to understand and fun to learn. Join us as we discuss his journey from a developer to an …

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The Fusion of Laravel and Vue (with Aaron Francis) 1:32:47

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In this episode, Michael and Alex are joined by Aaron Francis, software developer, content creator, and co-founder of Try Hard Studios. Besides covering Aaron's journey into programming, they dive into Fusion, a new library that Aaron has been working on which will fuse your Laravel backend together with your Vue frontend, allowing you to write PHP…

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AI and Vue.js (with Daniel Kelly and Patrick van Everdingen) 47:54

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AI is a hot topic in the tech industry, but how does it intersect with Vue.js? In this special episode, Michael and Alex host a panel at Vue.js Nation 2025 and are joined by two amazing guests: Patrick van Everdingen, AI Solutions Engineer Daniel Kelly, Lead Instructor at Vue School The four developers discuss how AI and Vue can work together. Will…

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David Blass, - ArkType, better runtime type validation 56:39

5M ago56:39

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This week we talk to David Blass, the creator of ArkType, a runtime validation library for TypeScript. ArkType goes against the mold of other TypeScript validation libraries by using a syntax that is as close to native TypeScript as possible. It's packed with interesting features and has made David a TypeScript performance expert. https://bsky.app/…

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A Vue at Alexander Lichter 1:11:52

5M ago1:11:52

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If you've listened to the last episode, you know what is coming next! It is time to get take a Vue at the other host of this podcast. Michael is asking Alex all around his past - from how we got into programming and web development, if university was worth it and how he got into the Nuxt Core Team. Also don't miss out how Minecraft is part of the h…

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Aaron Boodman - Replicache and Zero, Building Sync Engines for the Web 47:15

5M ago47:15

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This week we talk to Aaron Boodman, a founder of Rocicorp, the company behind Replicache and Zero. They have been innovating in the sync engine space for years and have been working on Zero for a while now. Zero is a sync engine that is designed to be a general purpose sync engine for the web with a focus on DX and UX. https://rocicorp.dev/ https:/…

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Market Update February: Vancouver Real Estate Amid Tariffs, Density Shifts & Election Uncertainty 54:22

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With upcoming federal elections, the threat of Trump's tariffs, and constant density changes, the Vancouver real estate market is shrouded in uncertainty. It’s hard to predict what the future holds as these dynamic factors continue to influence market trends. James and Denny offer their insights into the current state of Vancouver's real estate mar…

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A Vue at Michael Thiessen 56:37

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The guest of this episode is one you've heard on here quite often - but do you also know him well? Together, we take a look (or Vue 👀) at Michael Thiessen, co-host of this podcast. Learn how his average day looks like, how he became a full-time content creator and find out what he did before getting into Web Development, plus insights on how he cre…

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Ryan Carniato - SolidJS, Marko.js, and the Future of Frontend Development 59:49

5M ago59:49

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This week we talk to Ryan Carniato, the creator of SolidJS. SolidJS is a modern frontend framework that is designed to be simple, fast, and reactive. It work in almost the exact opposite way of React, but with very familiar patterns. Learn how it's been behind the scenes influencing things for years. https://bsky.app/profile/ryansolid.bsky.social h…

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Understanding the Bank of Canada's Interest Rate Decision 11:10

6M ago11:10

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The Bank of Canada (BoC) has lowered its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 3%. This marks the sixth consecutive cut since June, bringing the benchmark rate down by a total of 200 basis points from its peak of 5% in July 2023. James and Denny share what they see in today's real estate market and how these rate cuts affect every…

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FormKit and Hot Takes (with Justin Schroeder) 1:25:48

6M ago1:25:48

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Together with the FormKit author Justin Schroeder, Michael and Alex discuss the challenges of building forms on the internet. While it seems like a simple task, forms can be complex and pretty time-consuming. Especially when it is more than a Newsletter or Contact Form. Justin shares his experience building FormKit (multiple times), a form library …

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Jeff Dickey - Mise, Usage, and Pitchfork and the Future of Polyglot Tools 41:28

6M ago41:28

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This week we talk to Jeff Dickey, the creator of Mise, Usage, and Pitchfork. You might know him from his work on Oclif, a CLI framework for Node.js. With his latest tools he is focused on making development easier and faster. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdxcode/ https://jdx.dev/ https://github.com/jdx/mise https://github.com/jdx/usage https://githu…

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Our Predictions for Vue and Nuxt in 2025 (with Daniel Roe) 1:02:23

6M ago1:02:23

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After our recap episode on 2024, it is time to look into 2025 - and share our predictions and even some rather spicy hot takes what developers can expect in 2025. Of course, Michael and Alex once again have the Nuxt team Lead Daniel Roe on the show to get some insights on his takes as well! Find out more about their thoughts on Vue Vapor, Nuxt 4, C…

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Artem Zakharchenko - Mock Service Worker 57:01

6M ago57:01

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This week we talk to Artem Zakharchenko, the creator of Mock Service Worker (MSW). MSW is a library that allows you to mock network requests in your tests and demos. We talk about the evolution of MSW, the technical details of how it works, and the future prospects of the library. https://bsky.app/profile/kettanaito.com https://mswjs.io/ https://ww…

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The Year in ReVue (with Daniel Roe) 56:22

6M ago56:22

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Of course, we can't fully start into 2025 with a little ReVue of the past year. And to make sure to catch all the highlights, Alex is joined by Daniel Roe, full-time open source developer and lead of the Nuxt team to go through some notable events of 2024 in the Vue and Nuxt ecosystem. In addition to the shining moments of 2024, don't miss out a de…

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Darcy Clarke - npm, vlt and the Future of JavaScript Package Management 54:47

6M ago54:47

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This week we talk to Darcy Clarke, formerly at npm and now at the helm of VSR, a new package manager. VLT aims to be the package manager we all want in the JS ecosystem, while at the same time disrupting the npm registry. See what they're cooking up for the future of JavaScript package management. https://x.com/darcy https://www.vlt.sh/ https://www…