A podcast about developer tools by @just-be.dev and @hipstersmoothie.com. https://devtools.fm
Rita Kozlov and Steve Faulkner from Cloudflare dive into the major Vite acquisition and how it fits their AI and developer tools strategy.
Jeff Dickey discusses monetizing open source through his company en.dev and his suite of tools: Mise, HK, Fnox, and the new Aube package manager.
Sam Goodwin introduces Alchemy, a modern infrastructure-as-code tool built with Effect that challenges the tech debt of current solutions.
Elio Struyf showcases Front Matter CMS for VS Code and Demo Time, his tool for creating flawless presentation demos and talks.
Alem Tuzlak breaks down building TanStack Dev Tools and how TanStack AI differentiates itself in the crowded AI library landscape.
Paolo Ricciuti, Svelte maintainer and TMCP creator, discusses Svelte 5's new runes system and his journey from fan to core contributor.
Redux maintainer Mark Erikson covers his journey maintaining Redux, building Redux Toolkit, and pioneering time-travel debugging at Replay.io.
Honeybadger founder Ben Curtis discusses 20 years in the Ruby community, bootstrapped SaaS growth, and his new Docker tool Breakwater.
Infinite Red founder Jamon Holmgren shares his coding journey, building a React Native consultancy, and creating his new game Into the Dawn.
Joel Griffith explains how Browserless runs headless browser automation at scale and introduces BrowserQL for querying the web with SQL-like syntax.
Netlify CTO Dana Lawson discusses her journey from the US Army to leading engineering teams and Netlify's evolution into AI-powered developer tools.
Fabian Hiller explores Valibot's creation, the Standard Schema collaboration between validation libraries, and his new Formish form library.
Salma Alam-Naylor introduces Nordcraft's visual web framework and shares her evolution from music teacher to Head of Developer Education.
Mike Samuel, Google Calendar creator, unveils Temper language designed to solve disconnected programming ecosystems by translating seamlessly across multiple targets.
Peter van Hardenberg from Ink and Switch discusses the origins of local-first software and Automerge, their CRDT-based sync engine for real-time collaboration.
Jeppe Reinhold from Chromatic reveals Storybook's transformation into a fast, modern development environment with Vite integration and AI-powered component discovery.
Eric Seidel, Flutter co-creator and Shorebird founder, traces his journey from WebKit at Apple to solving Flutter's code push challenges for instant app updates.
Oliver Medhurst demonstrates Porffor, his groundbreaking JavaScript ahead-of-time compiler that transforms JS into WebAssembly for next-generation engine performance.
Gabriel Nordeborn from the Rescript team showcases the OCaml-based language's superpowers including pattern matching and seamless React integration for frontend development.
Nathan Flurry reveals how Rivet evolved from multiplayer gaming platform to general-purpose stateful serverless computing with actor frameworks as first-class primitives.
Zoltan Kochan, PNPM's lead maintainer, explores how his revolutionary package manager transformed JavaScript dependency management with speed and superior developer experience.
Oleg Isonen and Bogdan Chadkin discuss Webstudio, their open source visual builder revolutionizing web design with AI integration and developer-designer collaboration.
Francois Best explains how Nuqs solves React URL state management challenges with elegant serialization and router adapter solutions.
Adam Argyle from the CSS Working Group and Chrome dev tools team discusses VisBug and the future of design-development tool integration.
Bereket Engida walks through building better-auth, the extensible authentication library taking the JavaScript community by storm.
Maxwell Brown, former Clinical Pharmacy Specialist turned founding engineer, shows how Effect.ts reimagines TypeScript for production applications.
Brendan O'Brien reveals how Iroh achieves near 100% peer-to-peer connection success rates across hundreds of thousands of devices in production.
Maxim Fateev, co-founder of Temporal, explains how his durable execution platform transformed from an Uber tool into distributed code magic.
Dylan Piercey from eBay explores Marko's pioneering streaming and islands architecture features, plus the major innovations in Marko v6's new compiler.
Peter Pistorius discusses Redwood's evolution into a serverless React Server Components framework and his vision for personal software development.
Greg Sadetsky and Antoine Leclair present Disco, their tool that makes running your own infrastructure as simple as a piece of cake.
Stepan Parunashvili unveils InstantDB, a modern Firebase replacement designed to make building local-first applications easier and more powerful.
James Garbutt explains e18e, the community initiative focused on improving JavaScript package performance across the entire npm ecosystem.
Anirudh and Akshay from Tangled.sh demonstrate how they're revolutionizing social coding by building a decentralized git platform on atproto.
Eli Mallon shares how Streamplace is building the future of decentralized video streaming on atproto, challenging traditional platforms like Twitch.
Zack Jackson from ByteDance explores rspack, the Rust-based bundler that's reshaping the web development landscape beyond webpack and vite.
Sam Goodwin introduces Alchemy, a next-generation infrastructure as code tool that leverages TypeScript and AI to modernize how we manage cloud resources.
Rodrigo Pombo discusses Code Hike, his tool for adding rich animations to code blocks in documentation and the future of technical content authoring.
Antonio Scandurra shares lessons from building Atom and discusses Zed's Rust-powered approach to creating the next generation of collaborative text editors.
Simen Svale from Sanity.io explains how their developer-focused CMS is evolving into a content operating system with real-time collaboration features.
Charles Lowell introduces Effection and structured concurrency concepts, exploring how they can solve JavaScript's promise-handling challenges.
Josh Comeau reveals his techniques for creating interactive developer education experiences and building delightful web interfaces with CSS and JavaScript.
David Blass showcases ArkType's TypeScript-native approach to runtime validation and shares performance optimization secrets for TypeScript developers.
Aaron Boodman from Rocicorp dives into Replicache and Zero, explaining how modern sync engines are transforming web application development.
Ryan Carniato explores SolidJS's reactive approach that works opposite to React, plus his insights on Marko.js and the future of frontend frameworks.
Jeff Dickey discusses his polyglot development tools Mise, Usage, and Pitchfork, and how they're revolutionizing CLI frameworks and dev environments.
Artem Zakharchenko explains Mock Service Worker's network request mocking capabilities, technical evolution, and future automation features.
Darcy Clarke introduces VLT, a new JavaScript package manager aiming to disrupt npm with innovative features and VSR registry.
Joel Hooks from Egghead discusses years of developer education, course creation philosophy, and his new Course Builder platform.
Rudy Fraser built BlackSky, a safe community space carved from BlueSky using custom feeds and ATProto tools for Black creators.
Matt Perry shares the evolution of Framer Motion into Motion, focusing on animation performance and expanding beyond React frameworks.
Anselm Eickhoff presents Jazz Tools, reimagining client-server boundaries for local-first apps with collaborative data structures.
Dan Stepanov explores NativeWind's Tailwind CSS for React Native challenges and his new component library NativeWind UI monetization.
Evan You discusses his new company VoidZero and building Rust-based JavaScript tooling like Rolldown to make build times obsolete.
Nate Wienert returns to showcase One Stack, his local-first universal app framework built on Tamagui's React Native foundation.
Ivan Buzarin discusses two decades of cloud development evolution, from CodeAnywhere to Daytona's self-hosted dev environment management.
Erez Zukerman shares the journey of building ZSA's open source ErgoDox keyboards and the challenges of crowdfunded hardware manufacturing.
Figma CTO Kris Rasmussen reveals the evolution from WebGL experiments to design powerhouse, plus Dev Mode and AI's future in design tools.
Nathan Manceaux-Panot demonstrates Retcon, a Git client that revolutionizes history rewriting with drag-and-drop commits and intuitive undo/redo.
Guido Rosso unveils Rive, the next-generation interactive graphics format designed to bridge designers and developers for web animation.
David Mytton discusses building Console.dev's developer newsletter and ArcJet's mission to make application security easier for developers.
Predrag Gruevski explores Trustfall, a revolutionary query tool that turns anything into queryable data, and cargo-semver-checks for Rust semantic versioning.
Travis Arnold demonstrates OmniDoc's type-checked documentation system and discusses performance optimization in his React-based UI libraries.
Jordan Harband defends his controversial stance on legacy support while managing countless npm packages that power millions of JavaScript projects.
Brandon Roberts explores Open Sauced's approach to open source analytics and demos Analog, his full-stack framework bringing Next.js patterns to Angular.
Richard Feldman unveils RockLang's revolutionary functional programming features and how working at Zed shapes his vision for the future of code.
Nicholas C. Zakas discusses ESLint's evolution, the new FlatConfig system, and ambitious plans to rewrite the core linting engine from scratch.
Nathan Walker and Eduardo Speroni dive into NativeScript's ability to bridge JavaScript with native platform APIs for cross-platform mobile development.
Robby Russell shares the origin story of Oh My ZSH and how Planet Argon evolved alongside the terminal customization revolution he sparked.
James Arthur from ElectricSQL explains how their local-first sync engine transforms Postgres into a distributed database that runs locally on every device.
Naman Goel, StyleX technical lead, breaks down Facebook's CSS-in-JS solution and why it outperforms other styling frameworks.
Jason Liu, machine learning expert and Instructor author, shares insights on shipping LLMs to production and the future of prompt engineering.
Dan Farrelly and Tony Holdstock-Brown, Inngest co-founders, explain how their platform makes building asynchronous workflows effortless.
Solomon Hykes, Docker creator and Dagger co-founder, reflects on containerization's impact and how Dagger is simplifying CI pipelines.
José Valim, creator of Elixir, dives into functional programming on the Erlang VM and demonstrates the power of Phoenix and Livebook.
Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js, explores his journey to building Deno and the new JavaScript registry JSR for runtime-agnostic development.
Scott Chacon, GitHub co-founder, discusses his revolutionary new product GitButler and how it's reimagining version control workflows.
Maggie Appleton explores visual storytelling in tech, digital gardening concepts, designing AI interfaces, and building the research tool Elicit.
Johannes Schickling discusses Prisma's impact, the Effect library for TypeScript, and how local-first development is reshaping software.
Mitchell Hashimoto reflects on founding HashiCorp, creating Terraform, open source monetization challenges, and his passion for aviation.
Adam Wathan reveals Tailwind CSS v4's technical journey with Rust and Lightning CSS, plus how Tailwind Labs monetizes and handles criticism.
Dan Abramov dives into his work at Bluesky, React's evolution including Server Components, Strict DOM, and insights from the core team diaspora.
Guillermo Rauch explores Vercel's mission to democratize web development, React Server Components, and how AI will transform generative UI.
DHH discusses the genesis of Ruby on Rails, the philosophy behind beautiful code, and his vision for the future of web development at 37signals.
Dani Grant shares how Jam.dev revolutionizes bug reporting with one-click captures developers actually love, plus her journey from intern to CEO.
Herrington Darkholme demonstrates AST Grep's powerful code search capabilities using abstract syntax trees instead of traditional regex patterns.
Robert Balicki introduces Isograph as a potential future of React data fetching, comparing it to his experience building Relay at Meta.
Glauber Costa explains how Turso forks SQLite into libSQL to create a distributed database, drawing from his Linux kernel development experience.
Zeno Rocha reveals the journey from creating the beloved Dracula Theme to building Resend and React.Email for modern email development workflows.
Evan Bacon dives into Expo Router's file-based navigation, cross-platform development challenges, and React Server Components on React Native.
Christopher Chedeau shares the creation stories behind Prettier and React Native, plus Meta's open source culture and the shift to Rust tooling.
Daniel Thompson-Yvetot and Lucas Nogueira explore Tauri's advantages over Electron for building smaller, faster desktop apps with Rust and web tech.
Feross Aboukhadijeh discusses Socket.dev's advanced approach to open source security, using static analysis and AI to detect complex vulnerabilities.
Eric Simons reveals how living in AOL's headquarters led to StackBlitz and WebContainers that run Node.js and npm directly in your browser.
Brian Douglas, former GitHub DevRel head and Open Sauced founder, discusses GitHub Actions, Copilot, and building better social graphs for developers.
Jess Martin explains DXOS, a framework for local-first multiplayer apps where users own their data and carry identity across applications.
Yagiz Nizipli dives into Node.js performance optimization, URL parser challenges, and shares spicy takes on VC funding in open source projects.
Matteo Collina explores his prolific Node.js contributions, the ESM/CJS transition, plus his work building Fastify and Platformatic for modern development.
Braden Sidoti, CTO of Clerk, breaks down authentication complexity, session management challenges, and how Clerk evolved beyond just auth.
Isaac Schlueter shares the creation story of npm, early Node.js days, and his new pricing platform Tier that's changing how products handle monetization.
James Perkins discusses co-founding Unkey, balancing dual programming jobs, and the critical security practices every tech startup needs.
Dax Raad presents SST as a TypeScript framework for AWS serverless development with superior developer experience over CDK.
Vlad Ionescu explores Earthly's containerized build automation and the business challenges of creating developer-friendly CI tools.
Emanuele Stoppa tells the story of Biome rising from Rome's ashes to become a unified JavaScript toolchain with CST architecture.
Aiden Bai explains how Million.js makes React render faster and discusses growing up alongside his open source community.
Eric Elliott introduces SudoLang, a pseudo-code programming language that runs on AI models like GPT-4 for natural coding.
James Pearce discusses TinyBase, his local-first data store built while living on a boat after leaving Meta's React team.
Josh Goldberg dives into TypeScript ESLint's v6 release, stylistic rules, and the future of JavaScript tooling ecosystem.
Corbin Crutchley shares his Framework Field Guide approach to learning React, Angular, and Vue simultaneously through practical examples.
Nate Wienert showcases Tamagui's ambitious approach to cross-platform React Native development with unified styling, components, and optimizing compiler.
Daniel Roe reveals his transition from law to leading Nuxt's core team and how community-driven development shapes the Vue.js ecosystem.
Erik Bernhardsson explains how Modal is revolutionizing serverless computing for data teams with seamless GPU access and flexible container primitives.
Tuomas Artman from Linear breaks down the engineering behind their lightning-fast sync engine that powers the beloved modern issue tracking tool.
Andrey Sitnik, creator of PostCSS, Browserslist, and Autoprefixer, dives into CSS tooling evolution and his latest work on OKLCH color format tooling.
Steven Fabre, CEO of Liveblocks, shares how his collaboration platform is transforming developer experience by making real-time features effortless to implement.
Steve Manuel and Ben Eckel from Dylibso explore Extism, their WebAssembly-powered extension framework that's bridging the gap in modern app architecture.
Christoph Nakazawa discusses his journey from shepherding major OSS projects like Jest, Yarn, and Metro to building his new gaming venture Athena Crisis.
Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians, discusses leading the consultancy behind PostCSS and AnyCable while balancing commercial success with open source impact.
Developer advocate Sabin Adams dives into Prisma's type-safe ORM magic, exploring schema power, Prisma Accelerate, and the future of database tooling.
Charlie Marsh explains how he built Ruff, the blazing-fast Python linter written in Rust, and his transition from mobile apps to developer tooling at Astral.
Steve Krouse unveils Val.Town, a social coding platform where TypeScript runs instantly in browsers, bridging his teaching background with end-user programming.
Tanner Linsley reveals the TypeScript-first future of TanStack Router and shares how he approaches building beloved open source libraries like TanStack Query.
Matt Butcher explores how Web Assembly revolutionizes serverless computing with faster startup times and his journey from Microsoft to co-founding Fermyon.
Steve Klabnik from Oxide Computer Company shares his Rust expertise, compiler insights, and guidance on when to choose Rust for your next project.
Sunil Pai discusses PartyKit, his new platform making multiplayer app development as simple as deploying static sites, plus his React and edge computing journey.
Tobias Koppers discusses Webpack's origins and introduces TurboPack, Vercel's next-generation JavaScript bundler.
Alex Arena showcases Interval, a batteries-included approach to building rich internal tools in your app's backend.
Juan Campa presents membrane.io, a development platform for API automation and internal tooling with persistent state.
Rúnar Bjarnason introduces Unison, a functional programming language with content-addressed code for distributed systems.
Linear co-founder Jori Lallo talks about building project management software and his entrepreneurial journey.
Henry Zhu, Babel maintainer, shares his open source journey, burnout challenges, and the future of community projects.
Paul Biggar explains Dark, a new programming language for building serverless backends without infrastructure headaches.
David Khourshid discusses x-state JavaScript library for state machines and his company stately.ai's visualizer tools.
Faris Masad, founding engineer at repl.it, explains how they're democratizing coding with in-browser development environments.
Paul Butler from Drifting in Space introduces Session Lived Applications and JamSocket, a new architecture for building scalable web apps.
Thomas Paul Mann, Raycast founder, reveals how they built the ultimate Mac command palette with custom React renderers and powerful plugins.
Jarred Sumner, creator of Bun JavaScript runtime, explains building a blazing-fast platform in Zig that's reshaping JavaScript development.
Nick Beattie, lead engineer of RainbowKit, dives into web3 development, decentralized identity, and the future of blockchain wallets.
Josh Goldberg, author of Learning TypeScript and typescript-eslint core contributor, explores TypeScript features and writing technical books.
Jake Cooper, CEO of Railway, discusses building automatic infrastructure deployment that figures out how to create environments from your code.
Tyler Krupicka from Stripe's developer productivity team shares how they migrated millions of lines of Flow code to TypeScript using codemods.
Daniel Stockman shares his journey maintaining Lerna, dealing with open source burnout, and transitioning project leadership.
Colin McDonnell from EdgeDB discusses end-to-end type safety through his creations Zod and tRPC plus EdgeDB's query innovations.
Zack Jackson introduces Module Federation, exploring this groundbreaking webpack concept that enables software streaming and self-healing apps.
Juri Strumpflohner from Nrwl explains how NX revolutionizes monorepo development with lightning-fast builds and powerful integrations.
Steve Sewell reveals Builder.io's vision for ultra-fast web rendering using Qwik, Partytown, and Mitosis technologies.
The hosts reflect on their podcasting journey, production lessons learned, and future plans in this special year-end retrospective.
Brian LeRoux explores serverless architecture through his framework Architect and hosting service Begin.com for AWS applications.
Anthony Fu discusses his prolific open source contributions including Vue, Vite, Vitest, and UnoCSS while working at Nuxt Labs.
Zach Lloyd and Michelle Lim from Warp.dev explain why they built a modern Rust-based terminal to reimagine developer efficiency.
Steve Ruiz breaks down the technical challenges behind tldraw and his open source canvas graphics libraries through viral Twitter threads.
Yang Zhang, co-founder of Plasmic, shows how their platform bridges designers and developers through code imports and drag-and-drop editing.
Alex Johansson explains how tRPC enables end-to-end typesafe APIs without code generation, plus his work on the Zart project.
Simon Hoffman explores desktop automation with Nut.js, a cross-platform library designed to automate anything with an intuitive API.
Michael Jackson, creator of unpkg and react-router, dives into building Remix as a full stack React framework based on modern web standards.
Dr. Chris Weichel, CTO of GitPod, discusses building cloud development environments and applying human-computer interaction research to developer tools.
Pedro Duarte shares how his developer experience work at Modulz powers the open source Radix and Stitches libraries used by countless developers.
Kilian Valkhof, indie developer behind Polypane browser, shares his journey building developer-focused tooling and the future of web development.
Rich Harris from the New York Times discusses creating Svelte and Rollup while building engaging data visualizations and tools for tomorrow.
Fred K. Schott, creator of Snowpack and Astro, explores island architecture, web performance, and reimagining how we build for the modern web.
Shawn Wang, Head of Developer Experience at Temporal, discusses his journey from finance to programming and why learning in public matters.
Evan You, creator of Vue.js and Vite, talks about living off open source, framework evolution, and building the next generation of dev tools.
Kendall Gassner shares insights on accessibility best practices, IAAAP certification, and building inclusive design systems that work for everyone.
Robert Long from AltSpace and Mozilla explores the open metaverse, VR/AR collaboration tools, and the future of virtual workspaces.
Jason Laster, CEO of replay.io, discusses how time travel debugging could revolutionize the way developers debug programs across the entire stack.
Fig founders Brenden Falk and Matt Schrage explain how they're revolutionizing the terminal experience with community-driven autocomplete.
Paul Shen introduces natto.dev, his experimental approach to visualizing code and reimagining the future of programming interfaces.
Orta Therox shares insights from creating CocoaPods, Danger, and contributing to TypeScript across a decade of open source tooling.
Dominic Nguyen and Norbert de Langen discuss building Storybook, the open source tool for developing UI components in isolation.
Danny Banks explains style-dictionary's origins at Amazon while Kelly Harrop shares real-world design token usage stories from Intuit.
David Stone and Adam Dierkens reveal how Intuit's Player delivers the same content across multiple platforms using semantic building blocks.
David Sheldrick discusses patch-package, the tool that lets you fix npm packages instantly without waiting for upstream fixes.
