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Eric Seidel - Flutter, Shorebird Dec 08, 2025

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This week we have Eric Seidel, co-creator of Flutter and founder of Shorebird. Eric shares his journey from building WebKit at Apple and Chrome at Google to creating Flutter, a multi-platform UI framework that compiles to native code. We talk about the technical challenges of browser engines, why the web couldn't deliver high-quality mobile apps, and how Shorebird is solving Flutter's code push problem to enable instant app updates without app store approval.

Oliver Medhurst - Porffor - JavaScript Ahead of Time Compiler Oct 20, 2025

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This week we have Oliver Medhurst, the creator of Porffor. Porffor is a JavaScript ahead of time compiler that compiles JavaScript to WebAssembly. We talk about the technical details of how it works, and the future of JavaScript engines.

Gabriel Nordeborn - Rescript Oct 06, 2025

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This week we talk to Gabriel Nordeborn, a core member of the Rescript team. Rescript is a langauge that compiles to JS but has some serious superpowers. Whether it is it's awesome pattern matching, or greate react integartoin there is a lot to love. Come learn about it with us.

https://rescript-lang.org/

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Nathan Flurry - Rivet - The Future of Serverless is Stateful Sep 28, 2025

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This week we talk to Nathan Flurry, co-founder of Rivet, a platform for building stateful serverless applications. Rivet started as a platform for building multiplayer games, but has since evolved to be a general purpose computing platform. They're actors are a first class primitive that makes it easy to build stateful serverless applications.

Rivet GitHub: https://github.com/rivet-gg/rivet
RivetKit: https://github.com/rivet-gg/rivetkit
Documentation: https://rivet.gg/docs
Nathan's Twitter/X: https://x.com/NathanFlurry
Nathan's GitHub: https://github.com/NathanFlurry
Y Combinator Profile: https://ycombinator.com/companies/rivet

Zoltan Kochan - PNPM and the Future of Package Management Sep 21, 2025

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This week we talk to Zoltan Kochan, the lead maintainer of PNPM, a package manager for JavaScript. PNPM revolutionized the way we install dependencies in the JavaScript ecosystem with it's speed and focus on DX. Come join us as we talk about the origins of PNPM, the technical details of how it works, and the future of package management.

Oleg Isonen, Bogdan Chadkin - Webstudio Sep 07, 2025

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This week we talk to Oleg Isonen and Bogdan Chadkin, the people behind Webstudio. Webstudio is an open source visual builder for the web, aiming to right the wrongs of the current visual builder landscape for a more collaborative and accessible experience.

François Best Sep 02, 2025

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This week we talk to Francois Best, the creator of Nuqs, a library for managing URL state in React. We talk about the origins of Nuqs, the challenges of managing URL state, and the future of the library.

Adam Argyle - nerdy.dev - Modern CSS Aug 25, 2025

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This week we have Adam Argyle on the show. Adam is a designer and developer who is known for his work on VisBug and other design tools. He's also a member of the CSS Working Group and has worked on the dev tools for Chrome. If you haven't seen Adam's work that utilizes all the latest and greatest CSS features, you're missing out. Come listen to our conversation with Adam as we discuss his work on VisBug, his experience with the CSS Working Group, and his thoughts on the future of design and development tools.

Bereket Engida - Better-Auth Aug 10, 2025

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This week we talk to Bereket Engida (Beka) the creator of better-auth. Better-auth is an extensible, open source authentication library that's taking the JavaScript community by storm.- https://www.beka.et/- https://better-auth.comBecome a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts to help support the podcast. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfmhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

Maxwell Brown - Effect.ts and Effectful Technologies Jul 28, 2025

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This week we're joined by Maxwell Brown, a co-founder of Effectful Technologies, the company behind Effect.ts, a library for building robust, production-grade applications with TypeScript. Effect.ts is a library that bends Typescript in many ways, like putting Errors and Dependencies into the type system. Join as as we see what they've been up to and what's next for Effect.ts.