Andrew Lisowski, Justin Bennett

devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development

A podcast about developer tools and the people who make them. Join us as we embark on a journey to explore modern developer tooling and interview the people who make it possible. We love talking to the creators front-end frameworks (React, Solid, Svelte, Vue, Angular, etc), JavaScript and TypeScript runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun), Languages (Unison, Elixor, Rust, Zig), web tech (WASM, Web Containers, WebGPU, WebGL), database providers (Turso, Planetscale, Supabase, EdgeDB), and platforms (SST, AWS, Vercel, Netlify, Fly.io).

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Andrew Lisowski, Justin Bennett

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Jun 22, 2026

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Episodes

Brian LeRoux - arc.codes, begin.com 18.03.2022

Join us this week as we talk to our guest Brian LeRoux about functional web apps. Brian is the creator of Architect (https://arc.codes), a framework for building serverless apps on aws. He's also the founder of Begin.com, a service build on top of Architect to easily ship serverless apps. https://begin.com https://arc.codes Andrew https://lyts.christiankaindl.com Justin https://build.typogram...

Anthony Fu - Vue, Vite, Vitest, UnoCSS 04.03.2022

Join us this week with our guest Anthony Fu. Anthony is a voracious open source develop who maintains dozens of packages and works at Nuxt Labs. He is a core member of Vue and Vite and is the creator of Vitest and UnoCSS. https://twitter.com/antfu7 https://github.com/windicss/windicss https://vitejs.dev/ https://nuxtjs.org/ https://vitest.dev/ https://github.com/unocss/unocss https://sli.dev/ http...

Zach Lloyd, Michelle Lim -- Warp.dev 18.02.2022

This episode we're joined by Zach Lloyd and Michelle Lim of Warp.dev. Warp is a modern, rust-based terminal that aims to make developers more efficient by reemerging and enhancing the terminal's UI. If you'd like to try Warp you can download it here: https://app.warp.dev/download/r/1DVTFM Andrew https://github.com/nadeesha/ts-prune https://github.com/junegunn/fzf Justin https://gith...

Steve Ruiz - tldraw 04.02.2022

This episode we're joined by Steve Ruiz, creator of tldraw. Steve is known for his facinating threads on Twitter about his work making open source canvas graphics libaries. In this episode we talk about tldraw, a drawing app with a open source re-usable UI. https://www.tldraw.com Tooltips Andrew https://floating-ui.com https://codesandbox.io/post/sandpack-announcement Justin https://codehike....

Yang Zhang - Plasmic 21.01.2022

This weeks guest is Yang Zhang, co-founder of Plasmic. Plasmic aims to bridge the gap between designers and developers in all sort of interesting ways. Import you code directly into their approachable drag and drag editor or even run pages built in plasmic in your app! https://www.plasmic.app Tooltips Andrew https://mantine.dev https://planetscale.com ( https://github.com/vitessio/vitess ) Justin...

Alex Johansson - tRPC, Zart 07.01.2022

This week's episode features Alex Johansson creator of tRPC. tRPC enables you to create end to end typesafe APIs with ease with no code generation! https://katt.dev/ https://web.archive.org/web/20061112194431/http://www.ociusservers.com/ https://github.com/trpc/trpc https://blitzjs.com/ https://github.com/KATT/zart Tooltips Andrew https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescrip...

Simon Hofmann - Nut.js 17.12.2021

This weeks guest is Simon Hoffman an engineer with passion to Automate All the Things™. Simon is pioneering the way in a new desktop automation library called Nut.js, which works on all OSes and has intuitive thoughtful API.  https://nutjs.dev/ Tooltips Andrew https://beta.reactjs.org https://playwright.dev Justin https://github.com/marcomontalbano/figma-export https://antfu.me/posts/reimagine-ato...

Michael Jackson - react-router, Remix, unpkg 03.12.2021

Joining us this week is Michael Jackson, creator of unpkg, a CDN for all things NPM, as well as co-creator of react router, and co-founder of react training. He has now created, alongside his long time cohort Ryan Florence, Remix a a full stack react framework built on modern web standards. https://remix.run/ https://reactrouter.com/ https://unpkg.com/ https://remix.run/docs/en/v1/guides/philosoph...

Dr. Chris Weichel - GitPod 19.11.2021

This week's guest is Dr. Chris Weichel, CTO of GitPod. GitPod is an all-in-one online development environment with a complete version of VSCode in the browser. We also spend some time talking about Chris' Human-Computer interaction research. https://www.gitpod.io/ https://www.gitpod.io/blog/openvscode-server-launch https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/ https://open-vsx.org/ htt...

Pedro Duarte - Modulz, Radix, Stitches 05.11.2021

This week's guest is Pedro Duarte, a developer experience engineer working at Modulz helping maintain the open source libraries (Radix and Stitches) that power the product. https://www.modulz.app/ https://stitches.dev/ https://www.radix-ui.com/ Tooltips Andrew https://twitter.com/orta/status/1432044027474583552/photo/1 Justin https://github.com/BuilderIO/partytown https://github.com/meilisear...

Kilian Valkhof - Polypane, Electron, Superposition 22.10.2021

Join as as we chat with Kilian Valkhof, an indie developer with a passion for building developer focused tooling. On this episode we discuss his product Polypane, a browser built for web developers.  https://polypane.app/ https://www.electronjs.org/ https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist https://superposition.design/ https://cssstats.com/ Tooltips Andrew https://www.webpagetest.org https://w...

Rich Harris - Svelte, Rollup 08.10.2021

Join as we talk with Rich Harris, creator of Rollup, Svelte, degit and more. Rich works at the New York Time developing engaging data visualizations and building the tools of tomorrow. https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris https://github.com/rollup/rollup https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte https://github.com/sveltejs/kit Tooltips Andrew https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-json-reconciler https://popper....

Fred K. Schott - Snowpack, Astro 24.09.2021

Blast off into the future of webdev with Fred K. Schott, creator of snowpack, skypack, and Astro. Polymer Snowpack Skypack Astro Islands Architecture Marko.js 11ty Tooltips Andrew Cosmic Rays cause bugs https://render.com Justin https://github.com/msokalski/asciiid https://learn.adafruit.com/cnc-milling-keycaps Fred https://shikijs.github.io/ https://shikijs.github.io/twoslash/

Shawn Wang - Temporal 10.09.2021

Join us as we chat with Shawn Wang who's Head of Developer Experience at Temporal and a staunch advocate of learning in public. https://temporal.io/ https://vuejs.nyc https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/ https://www.netlify.com/ https://sidekiq.org/ https://bazel.build/ https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/ Tooltips Andrew https://www.prisma.io esbuild Justin https://github.com/unjs/unplugin https:...

Evan You - Vue, Vite 27.08.2021

Join us as we talk to Evan You, creator of Vue.js, Vite, VitePress, and a host of other tools. https://vuejs.org/ https://vitejs.dev/ https://vitepress.vuejs.org/ https://www.meteor.com/ https://v3.vuejs.org/api/composition-api.html https://github.com/vuejs/rfcs/pull/78 https://vueuse.org/ https://vue-loader.vuejs.org/ https://astro.build/ Tooltips Andrew https://linear.app https://www.npmjs.com/p...

Kendall Gassner - A11y, Design Systems 13.08.2021

Join us for a lighthearted chat with Kendall Gassner a seasoned design systems engineer with an expertise in accessibility. https://github.com/intuit/eslint-plugin-no-explicit-type-exports https://github.com/intuit/accessibility-snippets https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/ https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/jaws/ https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/certification https://www.l...

Robert Long - VR/AR Open Metaverse 30.07.2021

Join as a we talk with Robert Long (AltSpace, Mozilla) to talk about all things open metaverse!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIwdCN4dV6w https://altvr.com/ https://hubs.mozilla.com/ https://www.babylonjs.com/ https://threejs.org/ https://sketchfab.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlTF https://modelviewer.dev/ https://www.blender.org/ https://github.com/mozilla/Spoke Tooltips Andrew gitup.co...

Jason Laster - replay.io 16.07.2021

Join us as we talk with the CEO of replay.io a radical new time travel debugger that poised to change how we debug our programs. https://replay.io/ http://pry.github.io/ https://bpython-interpreter.org/ https://www.recurse.com/ https://cdn.openai.com/dota-2.pdf https://www.benzinga.com/news/21/06/21706412/software-company-figma-raises-200m-at-10b-valuation-bloomberg https://pulse2.com/cypress-io-r...

Brendan Falk, Matt Schrage - Fig 02.07.2021

Join as on a chat with the founder's of fig.io. They're trying to bring fresh air to the terminal experience in new and interesting ways. https://fig.io Fig Hacker News Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819 shell explainer: https://explainshell.com/ Tooltips Andrew Postico https://homebridge.io https://level.co Justin https://github.com/lirantal/nodejs-cli-apps-best-practic...

Paul Shen - natto.dev 18.06.2021

Tune in while we chat with Paul Shen the creator of natto.dev. https://drawbattle.io https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ https://gource.io/ https://github.com/efokschaner/terraform-provider-factorio https://dion.systems/blog_0001_hms2020.html https://inliner.io https://www.andy.works/words/serious-play Tooltips Andrew Digital Garden https://www.hipstersmoothie.com/garden Justin SqlDBM, visual tool for...

Orta Therox - CocoaPods, Danger, TypeScript 11.06.2021

Listen to us chat with Orta Therox, creator and maintainer of a decades worth of open source tooling! https://orta.io/ https://shikijs.github.io/twoslash/ https://opensourcedesign.net/ https://github.com/danger https://github.com/intuit/auto https://github.com/wixplosives/pleb https://flappyroyale.io/ https://redux.js.org/ https://github.com/JSMonk/hegel Tooltips Andrew https://getpixelsnap.com/ J...

Storybook with Norbert and Dom 04.06.2021

Storybook is an open source tool for building UI components in isolation. Tune in as we talk t Dominic Nguyen and Norbert de Langen about the story behind storybook, what it's like to run an open-source based company, the importance of developing UI in isolation, and more Storybook jimp Storybook Addon React Docgen Meteor Pheonix LiveView Meteor's DDP Blitz.js Redwood.js Atmosphere Compo...

Danny Banks and Kelly Harrop - style-dictionary 28.05.2021

What's a design token? Why would you even want one? Listen to our conversations with Amazon's Danny Banks where he talks about style-dictionary's origin. Hear stories about real world usage with Kelly Harrop from Intuit. style-dictionary figma Framer storybook playroom theo diez Tooltips Andrew: cleanshot Justin Listen Notes natto Kelly reactflow domevents Danny replit

David Stone and Adam Dierkens - Intuit Player 21.05.2021

In this episode of devtools.fm we talk to two of the people behind how Intuit products deliver their products to multiple platforms. Explore the interesting world of the Player and all the tools it's spawned. Intuit style-dictionary design-systems-cli devtools-ds auto jsonnet kotlin hooks Tooltips Andrew Rome walrus.ai Justin betterer Muse App polarized zx David concepts.app delta Adam reaflo...

David Sheldrick - patch-package 14.05.2021

In this episode we interview David Sheldrick, the creator of patch-package. https://github.com/ds300/patch-package/ https://github.com/artsy/eigen Artsy's mobile app https://www.artsy.net https://pulley.com/ Where David is going next https://github.com/artsy/gudetama A tool David worked on at Artsy https://github.com/artsy/eigen/pull/3210 Artsy's automated move to strict type checking in...

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