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This week we have Mitchell Hashimoto, the founder of HashiCorp. We talk about where it all started and how the company and it's tools have impacted the industry. We also talk about the challenges of being a founder and the importance of thinking about open source monetization early on. We also talk about his experience as a pilot and his technical philanthropy in the terminal emulator space.

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This week we talk to Adam Wathan, the creator of Tailwind CSS. We go into all the changes for Tailwind CSS v4, discussing how they use Rust and Lightning CSS. Adam also shares about how they've been monetizing the tool and building out Tailwind Labs. We also address some of the heated feedback from the Twitter.

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This week we have Dan Abramov, a core team member of React. We talk about his latest work on Bluesky, a decentralized social network. We also go into many react topics, including the history of server components, the new React compiler, and the future of React.

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This week we have Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel, and the creator of Next.js. We talk about the road to Vercel, how web development is changing, and how Vercel is helping developers build better products. We also talk about AI and generative UI, and how it might change the future of software development.

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This week we're joined by DHH, the co founder of 37signals, and the creator of Ruby on Rails. We talk about the future of web development, the history of Rails, and the evolution of the web. David also talks about his views on the longevity of software and ecosystems.

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This week we're joined by Dani Grant, founder of Jam.dev, a tool to report bugs in a ways that developers can immediately act on them. We talk about Dani's journey to building Jam.dev and the challenges that they faced along the way trying to find product market fit. Dani also talks her experience fund raising for Jam.dev.

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This week we're joined by Herrington Darkholme, the creator of AST Grep. AST Grep is a code search tool that uses the abstract syntax tree (AST) of your code to find patterns. We talk about the genesis of AST Grep, the efficiency of AST Grep in code searching, the challenge of expressing complex patterns, the versatility of YAML for rule expression, testing and evolving rules with AST Grep, and expanding AST Grep with SDKs and VS Code integration. You should definitely check out AST Grep if you're looking for a powerful code search tool!

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This week, we have Robert Balicki on the show to talk about Isograph, a new data fetching framework for React. Robert has worked on the Relay team at Meta (formerly Facebook) and is currently at Pinterest helping them adopt Relay. We talk about the differences between Isograph and Relay, the future of data fetching and web development, and the journey to make Isograph production ready. Could Isograph be the future of data fetching in React? Listen to find out!

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This week we have Glauber Costa, CEO and founder of Turso, a service for distributing and using multiple SQLite instances in different regions. Glauber has a long history in the software industry, including working on the Linux kernel for many years. He shares his experience working on the Linux kernel and how it led him to found Turso. e also discuss the limitations of SQLite and how Turso is solving those problems with their fork libSQL.

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This week we have Zeno Rocha on the show. He is "developer famous" for creating the Dracula Theme, a popular theme for developers. He is also the co-founder of Resend, a modern email platform for developers. We talk about the journey they took to create Resend, starting with the creation of React Email, and the complexities of email delivery at scale.

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Today's episode features Evan Bacon, the head of devtools at Expo. Expo is a framework for building React Native apps it takes care of a lot of the details so all you have to worry about is writing code. Evan is also the author of Expo Router which makes seamlessly manage your app's navigation with file based routing and so much more. We also delve in to the topic of React Server Components on React Native and the exciting possibilities of developing for Vision OS.

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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.

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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.

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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 we delve into the world of open source security.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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 sustainability.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 business side of things, and how to price your product.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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 TinyBase, and James has been working with the Local First community to help build out the ecosystem.

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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.

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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, including HouseForm, a React form library, and CLI Testing Library.

Corbin also gives us a sneak peek into his upcoming set of books. The first book aims to provide a comprehensive guide for learning the three big frameworks all at the same time, with a focus on practical application and real-world examples. The future books will teach the ecosystems for the tools and third will round it out by taking a deeper look into how each framework actually works.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This week we talk to Steve Krouse, the creator of Val.Town, a platform for writing TypeScript code in a browser and deployed instantly. Starting with Steve's with his first venture into teaching children to code we trace that line directly to the vision of Val.Town. Val.Town is a social network, app store, and collaborative place all in one.

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This week we talk to Tanner Linsley, creator of beloved tools like TanStack Query, TanStack Table, and many more. We talk about how he got started in open source, how he approaches building libraries, and what new things he has cooking up. Get a taste of what's to come in TanStack Router and bling.

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In the episode, we're joined by Matt Butcher, we discuss the potential of Web Assembly and how it can revolutionize serverless computing. He highlights the advantages of using Web Assembly for serverless applications, such as faster startup times, improved performance, and support for a wide variety of languages. Matt left his role at Microsoft on the Deis Labs Kubernates team to co-found Fermyon, a platform that uses Web Assembly to run serverless functions.

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This week we're joined by Steve Klabnik, an engineer at Oxide Computer Company. He was formally on the Rust Core team, co-author of the Rust book, and a lot of other things. We talk about how he got into Rust, why you might choose rust and how he uses Rust in his day to day.

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This week we're joined by Sunil Pai. Sunil use to work on the React team at Facebook, created the CSS and JS library glamor, built CloudFlare's CLI tool Wrangler, and many, many other things. He's now working on a project called PartyKit, which is a platform for collaborative realtime multiplayer apps. PartyKit aims to make creating multiplayer app experiences as easy as deploying a static site.

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This week we're joined by Tobias Koppers, the creator of Webpack, and now TurboPack. We talk about the origin of Webpack, maintaining Webpack, and what's next for JavaScript bundling. TurboPack is a new bundler from Vercel, and it's built on a completely new architecture with a familiar API. Join as as we dive deep into the future of bundling.

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This week we're joined by Alex Arena, the founder of Interval. Interval is a batteries included approach to building rich internal tools directly in your apps backend. We talk about the inspiration for Interval, how it works, and how it's evolved over time.

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Juan Campa is the creator of membrane.io, a still in development platform for simplifying API automation and internal tooling. We talk about Membrane's inspiration, persistent state, graph powers, and it's unique combination of UX and DX.

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This week's guest is Rúnar Bjarnason, co-founder of Unison Computing. Unison is a programming language and developer platform for making distributed systems. It's purely functional and code is content addressed. We discuss the motivation behind Unison, how it works, and how it might change the way we write software.

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