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 coordination in open source • How developers can get involved in improving the packages they rely onIf you care about build times, bundle sizes, and the he...
May 12, 2025•54 min•Ep. 142
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 https://tangled.sh/ https://bsky.app/profile/icyphox.sh https://anirudh.fi/identity Episode sponsored By WorkOS ( https://workos.com ) and MailTra...
May 05, 2025•55 min•Season 1Ep. 140
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 place is built on. https://stream.place/about https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/04/beyond-bluesky-these-are-the-apps-building-social-experiences-on...
Apr 28, 2025•54 min•Season 1Ep. 136
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 By WorkOS ( https://workos.com ) and MailTrap ( https://l.rw.rw/devtools_1 ) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts...
Apr 21, 2025•57 min•Season 1Ep. 113
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://alchemy.run https://github.com/sam-goodwin/alchemy https://github.com/sam-goodwin Episode sponsored By WorkOS ( https://workos.com ) Become a paid ...
Apr 14, 2025•48 min•Season 1Ep. 138
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/ https://x.com/pomber https://codehike.org/blog/the-curse-of-markdown https://www.youtube.com/user/tripombo https://github.com/pomber Episode sponsor...
Apr 07, 2025•43 min•Season 1Ep. 137
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-cii https://x.com/as__cii Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the ad-free episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoo...
Mar 24, 2025•54 min•Season 1Ep. 136
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 https://www.linkedin.com/in/simenss/?originalSubdomain=no https://x.com/svale Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple po...
Mar 17, 2025•54 min•Season 1Ep. 132
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/thefrontside/effection https://frontside.com/effection/contrib/ https://frontside.com/ Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for t...
Mar 10, 2025•53 min•Season 1Ep. 134
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 educator, and his new course on animations and interactions. https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ https://css-for-js.dev/ https://www.joyofreact.com/ https://...
Mar 03, 2025•54 min•Season 1Ep. 133
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/profile/ssalbdivad.dev https://arktype.io/ https://github.com/ssalbdivad https://arktype.io/docs/blog/2.0 Apply to sponsor the podcast: https://de...
Feb 17, 2025•57 min•Season 1Ep. 132
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://replicache.dev/ https://zero.rocicorp.dev/ https://x.com/aboodman https://aaronboodman.com/ Apply to sponsor the podcast: https://devtools.fm/sponsor...
Feb 11, 2025•47 min•Season 1Ep. 131
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 https://www.youtube.com/@ryansolid https://markojs.com/ https://dev.to/ryansolid https://www.solidjs.com/ https://github.com/ryansolid Apply to spo...
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 130
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://github.com/jdx/pitchfork https://github.com/oclif/oclif Apply to sponsor the podcast: https://devtools.fm/sponsor Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spo...
Jan 27, 2025•41 min•Season 1Ep. 129
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://www.epicweb.dev/ Apply to sponsor the podcast: https://devtools.fm/sponsor Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the ad-f...
Jan 20, 2025•57 min•Season 1Ep. 128
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.darcyclarke.me/ https://github.com/darcyclarke Apply to sponsor the podcast: https://devtools.fm/sponsor Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotif...
Jan 13, 2025•55 min•Season 1Ep. 127
This 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 future lies. https://egghead.io/ https://joelhooks.com/ https://badass.dev/ Apply to sponsor the podcast: https://devtools.fm/sponsor Become a paid sub...
Jan 06, 2025•51 min•Season 1Ep. 126
This 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 top of ATProto, the tech behind BlueSky. https://www.blackskyweb.xyz/ https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/rsky https://blog.rudyfraser.com/blob-pos...
Dec 16, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 125
This 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://x.com/mattgperry https://motion.dev/ https://github.com/motiondivision/motion https://github.com/mattgperry https://motion.dev/about Episode sponsor...
Dec 09, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 124
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 ( https://mux.com ) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podca...
Dec 02, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 123
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 about the challenges of making money on top of open source. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8QvZKlnb7M https://www.danstepanov.com/ https://x.com/native...
Nov 18, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 122
This 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.app/profile/evanyou.me https://www.accel.com/noteworthy/our-seed-investment-in-voidzero-evan-yous-bold-vision-for-javascript-tooling https://voidzero.d...
Nov 11, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 121
This 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 podcast: https://devtools.fm/sponsor Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the ad-free episode. https://www.patreon.com/d...
Nov 04, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 120
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 development environment manager. Come with us as we learn about the history and the future of dev environments in the cloud. https://daytona.io https:...
Oct 28, 2024•56 min•Season 1Ep. 119
This 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/ https://ergodox-ez.com/ https://people.zsa.io/ https://blog.zsa.io/ https://ergodox-ez.com/crowdfunding https://www.ergodox.io/ (Original OSS version) h...
Oct 21, 2024•56 min•Season 1Ep. 118
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.com/kris_rasmussen https://github.com/krisr Episode sponsored By MUX ( https://mux.com ) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podc...
Oct 14, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 117
This 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://retcon.app/ Episode sponsored By MUX ( https://mux.com ) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www...
Sep 30, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 116
Join us as we talk to Guido Rosso, a co-founder of Rive a new graphics format made for interactive mediums. Guido has a storied career in animation and is building the next generation of graphics formats for the web with his twin brother, Luigi. Rive is the culmination of that experience that lets you create interactive graphics in a way that is familiar to designers and developers. https://www.linkedin.com/in/guidorosso/ https://x.com/guidorosso https://dribbble.com/guidorosso Episode sponsored...
Sep 23, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 115
This week we have David Mytton, a co-founder of console.dev, and a co-founder of ArcJet. At console.dev, David is always looking for ways to improve the developer experience. With ArcJet, David is try to make it easier for developers to build secure applications. https://davidmytton.blog/ Co-founder of https://console.dev/ https://x.com/davidmytton https://arcjet.com/ https://github.com/davidmytton Episode sponsored By MUX ( https://mux.com ) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or app...
Sep 16, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 114
This week we have Predrag Gruevski to discuss TrustFall, a new query-based tool for querying anything. Trustfall makes it simple to turn anything into queryable data. Predrag used that to create cargo-semver-checks, a tool that checks your Rust packages for semantic versioning compliance. https://x.com/PredragGruevski https://predr.ag/ https://github.com/obi1kenobi/ https://crates.io/crates/cargo-semver-checks Episode sponsored By MUX ( https://mux.com ) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spo...
Sep 09, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 113
