A podcast about developer tools and the people who make them. Join us as we embark on a journey to explore modern developer tooling and interview the people who make it possible. We love talking to the creators front-end frameworks (React, Solid, Svelte, Vue, Angular, etc), JavaScript and TypeScript runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun), Languages (Unison, Elixor, Rust, Zig), web tech (WASM, Web Containers, WebGPU, WebGL), database providers (Turso, Planetscale, Supabase, EdgeDB), and platforms (SST, A ...
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Eli Mallon - Streamplace and the future of decentralized video streaming
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53:47This 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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Zack Jackson - ByteDance, rspack, and the Future of Web Development
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56:39This 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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Sam Goodwin - Alchemy and the Next Generation of Infra as Code
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48:25This 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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Rodrigo Pombo - Code Hike and the Future of Content Authoring
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43:15This 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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Antonio Scandurra - Atom, Zed and the Future of Text Editors
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53:59This 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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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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Charles Lowell - Frontside, Effection, and Structured Concurrency
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53:14This 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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Josh Comeau - Creating Delightful Developer Education
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53:39This 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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David Blass, - ArkType, better runtime type validation
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56:39This 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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Aaron Boodman - Replicache and Zero, Building Sync Engines for the Web
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47:15This 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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Ryan Carniato - SolidJS, Marko.js, and the Future of Frontend Development
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59:49This 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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Jeff Dickey - Mise, Usage, and Pitchfork and the Future of Polyglot Tools
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41:28This 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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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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Darcy Clarke - npm, vlt and the Future of JavaScript Package Management
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54:47This 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…
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Joel Hooks - Egghead, Badass Courses, and the Future of Developer Education
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50:50This week we're talking to Joel Hooks, a founder of Egghead. For years Joel has been building courses and helping developers learn to code. He's been the invisible hand behind many of the high quality courses that have been created over the years. On this episode we talk to him about his journey through developer education and where he thinks the f…
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Rudy Fraser - BlackSky - Next Generation of Social Media
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58:49This week we're talking to Rudy Fraser, the developer behind BlackSky, a community he carved out of BlueSky. Using custom feeds, labelers and everything the platform has to offer, BlackSky offers a safe space for Black communities to share their stories and connect. In the process he's dealt with funding, scaling, and building out his own tools on …
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Matt Perry - (Framer) Motion - The Evolution of Animation Libraries
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54:11This week we're talking to Matt Perry, a creator of Framer Motion. Matt is a software engineer at Framer, and he's been working on the animation libraries for a while and has a long history of innovation. He recently left Framer to focus on the now rebranded Motion. He aims to make more of the library usable form frameworks outside of React. https:…
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This week we talk to Anselm Eickhoff, a creator of Jazz Tools. Jazz is a reimagining of what the client server boundary is and how it can be used to build local first apps. Join us as we explore the next generation of local first tooling. https://bsky.app/profile/anselm.io https://jazz.tools/ https://github.com/aeplay Episode sponsored By MUX (http…
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This week we talk to Dan Stepanov, a maintainer of NativeWind, the author of NativeWind UI. NativeWind is tailwind CSS for React Native, a seemingly simple way to build UI that has lots of challenges to build. On top of that he's building NativeWind UI, a component library that leverages NativeWind to build native like experiences. We also talk abo…
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Evan You - Vue, Vite, VoidZero and the Future of JavaScript Tooling
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51:03This week Evan You joins us again to talk about his new company, VoidZero, and the future of JavaScript tooling. Evan build Vite and ushered in a new era of JavaScript tooling, but thinks he can do better now by building up new rust based tooling. Rolldown is the first step in this as they aim to make build times a thing of the past. https://bsky.a…
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Nate Wienert - Tamagui, One Stack, Zero, and Universal Apps
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51:36This week Nate Wienert stop by for a second appearance. Nate is the creator of Tamagui, a framework for building universal apps with React Native. That work led him to create One Stack, a framework for building local first universal apps with React Native. https://onestack.dev/ https://x.com/one__js https://x.com/natebirdman Apply to sponsor the po…
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Do you use cloud development environments? Do you use dev containers? This week we talk to Ivan Burazin, a co-founder of Daytona, a dev environment manager and AI developer. Ivan has been working on this problem for almost two decades now, originally for PHPAnywhere/CodeAnywhere, but now for Daytona. Daytona is a self-hosted and secure open source …
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Erez Zukerman - ZSA, ErgoDox, and the Future of Keyboards
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55:35This week we have the unique opportunity to talk to Erez Zukerman, the founder and CEO of ZSA, a company that makes open source keyboards. ErgoDox is a split keyboard that is based on open source work. Come with use as we discuss the history of ErgoDox, the challenges of making a keyboard, and all the cool products they ship. https://www.zsa.io/ ht…
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This week we got the opportunity to talk to Kris Rasmussen, the CTO of Figma. We talked about Figma's history, the evolution of Figma, and what they see as the future of designer/developer tools. We dig deep on what they're doing with Dev Mode and ponder how AI might change the way we work. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristopherrasmussen/ https://x…
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Nathan Manceaux-Panot - Retcon - Rewriting Git History made Simple
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53:25This week we have Nathan Manceaux-Panot, the creator of Retcon, a git client. Retcon is a git client that helps you rewrite git history with remarkable ease. You can drag and drop commits to create new commits, undo, redo, and more. https://cykele.ro/ https://mas.to/@Cykelero https://github.com/Cykelero https://indieapps.space/@Retcon https://retco…
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