This week we talk to a legend in the dev tools space, Christopher Chedeau. Christopher is a software engineer at Meta (formerly Facebook) and has worked on some of the most popular open source projects in the world. He is the creator of Prettier, a code formatter that has saved millions of developer hours. He is also the co-creator of React Native, a framework for building native apps with React. Christopher has also worked on many other projects such as Excalidraw, Yoga, and and many others. ht...
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 81
This week we're joined by Daniel Thompson-Yvetot and Lucas Nogueira to talk about Tauri, a framework for building smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications. We talk about the advantages of Tauri over Electron, the importance of security in open source software, and the future of cross-platform apps with Tauri. After that we talk about the importance of governance in open source projects and how Tauri is approaching it with their new company Crab Nebula. https://crabnebula.dev htt...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 82
This week we talk to the open source legend Feross Aboukhadijeh about his journey into open source, the challenges of open source funding, and his new company Socket.Socket is a tool that aims to make OSS security level up by providing a way to audit your dependencies for security vulnerabilities.They are able to detect much more complex vulnerabilities than the current tools on the market by using a combination of static analysis, dynamic analysis, and even some LLMs!Come get scared with us as ...
Jan 16, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 81
This week we're joined by Eric Simons, CEO of StackBlitz. StackBlitz is an online IDE for web applications, powered by a new web standard called WebContainers. Web container allow you to run code much closer to the OS, and StackBlitz uses this to run NodeJS and NPM in the browser. We also talk about Eric's time living in AOL's headquarters, and how that led eventually to the creation of StackBlitz. https://twitter.com/ericsimons40 https://twitter.com/StackBlitz https://stackblit...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 80
This week we're joined by Brian Douglas, founder of Open Sauced and former Head of DevRel at GitHub. We talk about his time at GitHub, where he worked on GitHub Actions, GitHub Discussions, and GitHub Copilot. We also talk about his new company, Open Sauced, which is a tool for developers and businesses to get insights into their open source projects. Will Open Sauced save social coding? Find out on this week's episode of DevTools FM! https://opensauced.pizza https://twitter.com/bdougieY...
Dec 18, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 79
This week we have Jess Martin, a developer at DXOS. We talk about his journey to DXOS and what realizations he had along the way. DXOS is a framework for building local first, multiplayer, interoperable apps where users own their own data. Apps are built on top of a shared data substrate, and users can bring their identity with them across apps. DXOS is a wild reimagining of what computers could be, and we're excited to see where it goes. https://twitter.com/jessmartin https://jessmart.in/ h...
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 75
This week we talk to Yagiz Nizipli about his work on Node.js performance. We discuss his journey into Node.js contribution, the challenges of URL parser implementation, the impact of competing runtimes, and more. We also discuss the current state of backend javascript's competing runtimes, and his views of VC Money and Open Source Funding. https://twitter.com/yagiznizipli https://www.yagiz.co/ Episode sponsored By Raycast ( https://www.raycast.com/ ) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spo...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 77
This week we talk with Matteo Collina about his background, contributions to the Node.js community, and his work on Fastify and Platformatic. Matteo is a prolific open source contributor and maintainer of many popular projects including Fastify, Pino, Mercurius, Avvio, and fast-json-stringify. He is also a Node.js TSC member and on the board of the OpenJS Foundation. Join us as we discuss the current state of Node.js, the future of JavaScript runtimes, and the importance of open source sustainab...
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 72
This week we talk to Braden Sidoti, CTO and Co-founder of Clerk. Clerk is a developer tool that makes it easy to add authentication to your app. We talk about the complexity of authentication, the role of session management, and the evolution of Clerk. https://twitter.com/bsinthewild https://clerk.com/ Episode sponsored By Raycast ( https://www.raycast.com/ ) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https:/...
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 4 min
This week we talk with Isaac Schlueter, a founder at npm and Tier. We talk about the creation of npm, the early days of node, and the transition from CJS to ESM in node. We delve into the challenges of running a package registry (and a company) and his new company Tier. Tier is building a new way to define pricing for your products. https://github.com/isaacs https://www.tier.run https://node-tap.org https://fosstodon.org/@isaacs https://twitter.com/izs Episode sponsored By Raycast ( https://www....
Nov 13, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 74
In this week's insightful conversation, we feature James Perkins, the co-founder of Unkey. James discusses his experiences at Clerk, his career transition to co-founding Unkey, and his thoughts on the future direction of backend services. He shares the challenging reality of balancing two programming jobs at once and underscores the necessity for strong security practices in every tech startup. https://twitter.com/james_r_perkins https://clerk.com/ https://unkey.dev/devtools.fm Want to spons...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 73
This week we talk with Dax Raad about SST, a framework for building serverless applications on AWS. SST is a typescript framework that makes it easy to build serverless applications on AWS. It's built on top of the AWS CDK, but provides a much nicer developer experience. ax also presents a critique of cloud service providers and a call for more open source knowledge. https://twitter.com/thdxr https://twitter.com/SST_dev https://twitter.com/tomorrow_fm https://github.com/sst/sst https://thdxr...
Oct 29, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 72
This week we talk to Vlad A Ionescu about Earthly, a build automation framework that helps you with containerizing your builds such that they behave the same way no matter where you run them. By using Earthly, you can run your entire CI scripts locally on your laptop with the same consistency as you would get in the CI, and be able to debug things faster, iterate faster, and get faster feedback. Join us as we talk about the challenges of building a CI service, the importance of understanding the...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 71
This week we talk to Emanuele Stoppa about Biome, a continuation of the Rome project. We talk about the history of Rome, the fall of the company, and the rise of Biome from the ashes. Biome aims to be a one stop shop for all your JavaScript/TypeScript dev tool needs by building unified syntax tree for all your tools. It's a linter, formatter, and aims to be much more in the future. What will be the future of Biome? Listen to find out! https://twitter.com/ematipico https://www.linkedin.com/in...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 70
This week we're joined by Aiden Bai, the creator of Million.js. Million.js is a virtual DOM library that makes React render faster. We talk about how Aiden got into programming, his journey with open source, and how he's handling the transition from high school to college. Will million.js take over the world and make all our apps faster? Find out on this week's episode of DevTools FM. https://million.dev https://twitter.com/aidenybai Sponsored By Raycast ( https://www.raycast.co...
Oct 09, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 69
This week we talk with Eric Elliot about his new project SudoLang. SudoLang is a pseudo code programming language that runs on top of AI language models like GPT-4. By leveraging the power of AI, SudoLang enables you to just write what you want your program to do in plain english and it will write the code for you. We also discuss the future of coding with AI and how it can help you be more productive. http://devanywhere.io/ https://twitter.com/_ericelliott?lang=en https://twitter.com/SudoLang S...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 68
This week we're joined by James Pearce, creator of TinyBase. James has a long history of working on developer tools and open source software. He was the engineering director at Meta (formerly Facebook) for over 10 years, where he worked on a variety of projects including React, React Native, and PyTorch. He also worked on Portal, Meta's smart speaker, for a couple of years. James is currently living on a boat and working on TinyBase full-time. Local first software is a big part of TinyBa...
Sep 25, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 67
In this episode, we talk with Josh Goldberg about TypeScript ESLint, a tool that enables you to run standard JavaScript tools like eslint and prettier on your TypeScript code. We discuss the recent v6 release, the differences between formatting and styling, and the future of TypeScript ESLint. Josh also shares his thoughts on the future of TypeScript and the JavaScript ecosystem. Sponsored By Raycast ( https://www.raycast.com/ ) https://twitter.com/JoshuaKGoldberg https://typescript-eslint.io/bl...
Sep 18, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 66
In this episode, we have a conversation with Corbin Crutchley, a principal front-end developer, GitHub Star, and teacher. Corbin shares his journey in the tech industry, his passion for teaching, and his various open-source projects. He talks about his experience teaching at a bootcamp and his motivation to create Unicorn Utterances, an open-source publishing platform aimed at providing free resources for learning programming. Corbin also discusses his work on various open-source projects, inclu...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 65
This week we talk to Nate Wienert about Tamagui, a UI kit for building cross platform (web + mobile) react native apps. Tamagui is a full stack, component kit style system, and optimizing compiler that bridges native and web. With a host of features like cross platform animations, themes, and a studio, Tamagui is a great way to build cross platform apps. Join us as we talk about the challenges of building a cross platform UI kit, and how Tamagui solves them. Sponsored By Raycast https://twitter....
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 64
This week we talk with Daniel Roe about his journey from law to design to development and how he ended up leading the Nuxt core team. We dive deep into all the cool things Nuxt can do and how it compares to other frameworks like Next and React. Community is a big part of Nuxt/unjs and we talk about how that has shaped the project and the community around it. Sponsored By Raycast https://twitter.com/danielcroe https://twitter.com/nuxt_js https://nuxt.com/ https://twitter.com/nuxtstudio https://nu...
Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 63
This week we talk with Erik Bernhardsson about Modal, a serverless platform for data teams. Erik talks about his background in data science and machine learning, and how he saw a need for a better tool for data teams. We talk about the challenges of building a serverless platform, and how Modal is building a new vision for serverless cloud. We also talk about the challenges of building a platform that is both easy to use and flexible enough to handle a wide variety of use cases. https://twitter....
Aug 14, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 62
This week we have Tuomas Artman on from Linear. We talk about his background, building Linear, and the Linear Sync Engine. Linear is a modern issue tracking tool for software teams that want to build software better. It's characterized by its beautiful design, fast performance, and powerful features, including issues, projects, and sprints. Join us as we dive deep on how the Linear Sync Engine works and has evolved over time. https://twitter.com/artman Become a paid subscriber our patreon, s...
Jul 31, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 61
This week we are joined by Andrey Sitnik, the creator of PostCSS, Browserslist, Autoprefixer, and many other tools. We talk about the origins of PostCSS, the future of CSS, and the power of open source and distributed applications. We also go into OKLCH, a new color format that Andrey has been working on tooling for. https://github.com/ai https://sitnik.ru/en/ https://twitter.com/sitnikcode Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon...
Jul 21, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 60
This week we talk with Steven Fabre, CEO and co-founder of Liveblocks. We talk about his background, how journey into developer tools, and how Liveblocks is trying to make collaboration easier for developers. https://liveblocks.io/ https://twitter.com/stevenfabre https://stevenfabre.com/ https://gifmock.com/ Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https:/...
Jul 07, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 59
This week we talk with Steve Manuel and Ben Eckel from Dylibso about their project Extism, an extension framework built on WebAssembly. We talk about the inspiration for the project, the challenges of building a apps with WebAssembly, and the future of WebAssembly. https://extism.org/ https://dylibso.com/ https://twitter.com/nilslice https://twitter.com/bhelx Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcaste...
Jun 23, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 58
This week we talk to Christoph Nakazawa, former engineering manager of yarn, jest, and metro, We talk about OSS culture, sheparding OSS, front end archetypes, and his new company Athena Crisis. https://twitter.com/cpojer https://cpojer.net/ https://athenacrisis.com/ Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode....
Jun 09, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 58
This week we're joined by Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians. Evil Martians is a consultancy that has created and amazing open source catalog with projects like PostCSS, AnyCable, and ImgProxy. We talk about her background, stepping into leadership, and commercial open source. https://evilmartians.com https://twitter.com/inazarova https://anycable.io https://imgproxy.net Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsf...
May 26, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 56
This week we talk to developer advocate Sabin Adams about Prisma, an ORM with a focus on type safety and developer experience. We delve into the benefits of Prisma, how it works, and all the cool features it has to offer. https://twitter.com/sabinthedev https://www.sabinthedev.com https://github.com/sabinadams https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabin-adams-656261122/ Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcast...
May 12, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 55
This week we talk to Charlie Marsh, the creator of Ruff, a fast python linter written in Rust. We talk about his journey from working on the Khan Academy mobile apps to building developer tools for the Python ecosystem. We also talk about the challenges of building a linter, fostering a community, and the future of Ruff and his new company Astral. https://twitter.com/charliermarsh https://github.com/charliermarsh/ https://www.crmarsh.com https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff https://astral.sh Be...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 54
