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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 Fer...

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. https://steveklabnik.com/ https://twitter.com/steveklabnik Join our patreon for the full episode https://www.patreon.co...

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...

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. https://turbo.build/pack https://webpac...

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. https://interval.com/ Building a bookmarks CMS with interval https://twitter.com/alexarena Join our patreon for the full episode . T...

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. Tweet that informed us of the project membrane.io https://twitter.com/juancampa membrane demo Join our patreon for the full episode . Tooltips Want to...

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. Rúnar Twitter Unisons Twitter Unison Language Unison Code Unison Share U...

The co-founder of Linear, Jori Lallo, discusses his journey as a software engineer and entrepreneur He shares his experiences working with startups, including his previous company and his current company, Linear, which is a project management software. He also talks about how Linear is different from his previous experiences, and how the company accommodates its customers' workflows by develo...

This week we're joined by Henry Zhu, the current maintainer of Babel. We talk about the his history in OOS, the challenges of maintaining an open source project, and the future of OSS. twitter Website GitHub hopeinsource podcast Join our patreon for the full episode . Tooltips Want to hear use talk about our tooltips? Join our patreon! Andrew https://github.com/gbj/leptos https://github.com/C...

This week we're joined by Paul Biggar, founder of Dark a new programming language that looks to simplify building app without the hassle of managing infrastructure. Dark is a new way of building serverless backends. Just code your backend, with no infra, framework or deployment nightmares. Previously Paul was the founder CircleCI, a continuous integration platform. Join our patreon for the fu...

This week we talk to David Khourshid, the founder of stately.ai, a company that is building a state machine visualizer and debugger. David is also the creator of x-state, a JavaScript library for state machines. We talk about the history of x-state, how it works, and how it change your code. We also talk about the future of state machines and how they can be used in the real world. Join our patreo...

This week we're joined by Faris Masad, a founding engineer at repl.it. We explore how repl.it is breaking down the barriers to coding by provide in browser coding environments. We also discuss the importance of building a community around your product and how creative repl.it's own users have been. Join our patreon for the full episode . Shop Merch Twitter GitHub repl.it https://www.inka...

This week we're joined by Paul Butler, the founder of Drifting in Space. At his company they're exploring new ways to build web apps through Session Lived Application. They're building an open source tool to enabled this architecture called Spawner. On top of that they're building JamSocket, a tool that makes it easy to build these types of apps. This week we're joined by...

Join us this week with Thomas Paul Mann, one of the founders of Raycast, a new command palette for Mac. We talk about the history of Raycast, how it came to be, and what the future holds for the app. The app is powered by a powerful plugin system that use a custom react renderer. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should definitely give it a try! Join our patreon for the full episode . Th...

This week our guest is Jarred Sumner, creator of bun a new JavaScript runtime focused on speed. Bun has already had an influence on the Javscript development, and is now released to the public. Join us as we dive deep on one of the most interesting new things happening in JavaScript. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm Twitter GitHub Website bun Tooltips Andrew https://fork.dev https://github.com/p...

This week we chat with Nick Beattie, lead engineer of RainbowKit. We talk about web3, the changing face of the internet, and the Rainbow company. Twitter Website Tooltips Andrew https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle https://twitter.com/shuding_/status/1475916082875666441 Justin Haptic smart knob project Automatic CNC tool head changer Nick Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for...

This week we're joined by another great contributor to the TypeScript community. Josh Goldberg is the author of O'Reilly's Learning TypeScript and a core contributor to the typescript-eslint. https://twitter.com/JoshuaKGoldberg https://www.learningtypescript.com https://github.com/typescript-eslint/typescript-eslint https://github.com/JoshuaKGoldberg/TypeStat https://www.learningtyp...

This week we go down the stack all the way to the infrastructure! We're joined by Jake Cooper, CEO of Railway, a company innovating in automatic infrastructure deployment. Just push your code and railway figures out how to create an environment! https://railway.app https://twitter.com/JustJake https://twitter.com/Railway https://justjake.substack.com Tooltips Andrew https://docs.plasmo.com ht...

This week we're joined by Tyler Krupicka, an engineer on Stripe's devleper productivity team. He talks to use about their experience migrating millions of lines of Flow to TypeScript. Blog post OSS conversion tool Stripe engineering blog Tooltips Andrew https://virtuoso.dev https://github.com/ecklf/tailwindcss-radix Justin https://riffle.systems/essays/prelude/ https://github.com/maraisr...

This week we're joined by Daniel Stockman the former maintainer of Lerna. In this episode we talk about he became the sole maintainer of the project, how he dealt with burnout, and thet future of Lerna. https://lerna.js.org Andrew https://github.com/shuding/tilg https://github.com/ericclemmons/click-to-component Justin https://github.com/thepassle/astro-service-worker https://github.com/space...

This week we're joined by Colin McDonnel, the head of devrel at EdgeDB a relational database with an object-oriented data model and a powerful queru language. Colin is also the creator of useful TypeScript libraries such as Zod and tRPC. https://trpc.io/ https://www.edgedb.com/ https://github.com/colinhacks/zod Tooltips Andrew RFC: useEvent reactjs/rfcs#220 Justin https://github.com/wycats/st...

This week we dive into a fascinating new concept in web development: Module Federation. Join us with Zack Jackson, the creator of module federation, to discuss where it started, how it works, and all the cool uses cases it unlocks. https://webpack.js.org/concepts/module-federation/ Tooltips Andrew https://www.patterns.dev/ https://reactjs.org/blog/2022/03/29/react-v18.html Justin https://github.co...

Join us this week with Juri Strumpflohner, the head of DX and Europe Engineering at Nrwl . Nrwl maintains NX a next generation build system with first class monorepo support and powerful integrations. Join us as we dive deep into the feature set and learn all about how the make builds lightning fast. Tooltips Andrew Vite Virtual Modules SWC Justin https://github.com/yjs/yjs https://github.com/jdol...

This week we have an exciting episode that peers into the future of the web. Steve Sewell is the CEO of Builder.io, a company that aims to be the Photoshop of building websites. They've built some clever tools come together to render pages insanely fast. join use for this fascinating conversation. Builder.io mitosis qwik partytown Tooltips Andrew https://peeky.dev https://corset.dev Justin ht...

Join us this week on a special episode where we're the guests! We look back on where it all started, what we've learned since, and where we're going. Descript Oxide devtools-ds