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

This week we're joined by Jacob Beckerman, the founder and CEO of Macro. Macro is a tool to cut through the noise. It's a workspace built for engineers. And it's one place for all your emails, your tasks, your chat, and your documents. We talk about the creation of Macro, and the future of the company. Macro: https://macro.com Docs: https://docs.macro.com GitHub: https://github.com/jbecke X: https://x.com/j_becke LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jbecke

This week we're joined by Rita Kozlov and Steve Faulkner, the co-founders of Cloudflare. The big news of the day is that Cloudflare has acquired Vite. This is a big deal for the JavaScript ecosystem and for the future of developer tools. We talk about the acquisition and what it means for Cloudflare and project. https://www.cloudflare.com/ https://workers.cloudflare.com/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/ https://x.com/rita3ko

This week we're joined by Jeff Dickey, the creator of HK, Fnox, Aube, and Mise.We talk about the creation of these tools and what led him to work on them full time with his new company, en.dev.After that we dive into the future of these tools and what's next for Jeff. Previous episode: https://www.devtools.fm/episode/129 https://jdx.dev/ https://en.dev/ https://github.com/jdx https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/ https://github.com/endevco/aube https://github.com/jdx/hk https://github.com/jdx/fnox

This week we're joined by Sam Goodwin, the creator of Alchemy. Alchemy is a tool that allows you to create and manage your infrastructure as code. The current state of the art is built on all the tech debt of the past 10 years, Alchemy is a new approach to infrastructure as code that is more aligned with the modern web. https://v2.alchemy.run/ https://github.com/alchemy-run/alchemy-effect https://github.com/alchemy-run/distilled https://alchemy.run (v1)

This week we're joined by Elio Struyf, the creator of Front Matter CMS and Demo Time.We talk about the origins of Front Matter CMS, the challenges of building a CMS, and the future of CMSs.We also dive into Demo Time, and how it can be used to create perfect demos for talks and presentations. GitHub: github.com/estruyf Website: eliostruyf.com Bluesky: @eliostruyf.com

This week we're joined by Alem Tuzlak, the creator of Tanstack Dev Tools and maintainer of Tanstack AI. We talk about the creation of Tanstack Dev Tools and what led him to work on it. After that we dive into Tanstack AI and how it differs from other AI libraries. GitHub https://github.com/AlemTuzlak Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/alem.forge42.dev LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alem-tuzlak/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@alemtuzlak TanStack AI https://tanstack.com/ai/latest TanStack Devtools https://tanstack.com/devtools/latest

This week we're joined by Paolo Ricciuti, a Svelte maintainer and the creator of TMCP.We talk about his journey into the world of software development, his work on Svelte, and his new project TMCP.There has been a lot of changes in the Svelte ecosystem since we last talked to Rich, so we're excited to hear about the new features and improvements in Svelte 5! Website: https://ricciuti.me GitHub: https://github.com/paoloricciuti Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/paolo.ricciuti.me SvelteLab: https://sveltelab.dev TMCP: https://github.com/paoloricciuti/tmcp sveltekit-search-params: https://github.com/paoloricciuti/sveltekit-search-params Speaking: https://ricciuti.me/speaking Mainmatter: https://mainmatter.com

This week we're joined by Mark Erikson, the lead maintainer of Redux and the founder of Replay.io. We talk about his journey into the world of software development, his work on Redux, and all the cool stuff he's been doing at Replay.io. https://www.linkedin.com/in/markerikson/ https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/hire-me/ https://bsky.app/profile/acemarke.dev https://github.com/markerikson

This week we're joined by Ben Curtis, the founder and CEO of Honeybadger and creator of Breakwater. Ben has been a pillar of the Ruby community for over 20 years, and has been a driving force behind many of the tools and frameworks that we use today. We talk about his journey into the world of software development, his work on Honeybadger, and his new project Breakwater. https://www.honeybadger.io https://www.bencurtis.com https://www.breakwaterapp.com https://bsky.app/profile/bencurtis.com https://github.com/stympy https://www.linkedin.com/in/bencurtis https://hachyderm.io/@bencurtis

This week we're joined by Jamon Holmgren, the founder and CEO of Infinite Red. Infinite Red is a software consultancy that specializes in building React Native apps. We talk about his early days of coding, starting a consultancy, remote culture at Infinite Red, React Native, community and Chain React, and building his new game Into the Dawn. Personal Website Twitter/X GitHub LinkedIn Infinite Red Into the Dawn on Steam

This week we're joined by Joel Griffith, the founder and CEO of Browserless. Browserless is a browser automation service that allows you to run headless browsers in the cloud. We talk about the challenges of running headless browsers at scale, the use cases for browser automation, and the future of browser automation. We also discuss the BrowserQL feature, which allows you to query the web using a SQL-like language. Website: browserless.io Documentation: docs.browserless.io GitHub: github.com/browserless/browserless (12.3k stars) GitHub (Personal): github.com/joelgriffith Twitter/X: @browserless LinkedIn: Joel Griffith

This week we're joined by Dana Lawson, CTO at Netlify. We talk about her journey from the US Army to leading engineering teams at companies like GitHub, New Relic, and now Netlify. We discuss Netlify's evolution from JAMstack to AI-powered developer tools, including Agent Runners and their MCP server. We also explore the concept of "Agent Experience" (AX) as a new paradigm alongside UX and DX, and how hiring practices are evolving in the age of AI. Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/ Agent Experience Hub: https://www.netlify.com/agent-experience/ agentexperience.ax: https://agentexperience.ax/ Agent Runners: https://www.netlify.com/platform/agent-runners/ Netlify MCP Server: https://docs.netlify.com/build/build-with-ai/netlify-mcp-server/ Dana on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dglawson/ Dana's LeadDev Profile: https://leaddev.com/community/dana-lawson Dana's UXDX Profile: https://uxdx.com/profile/dana-lawson/

This week we're joined by Fabian Hiller, the creator of Valibot, Standard Schema, and Formish. We talk about the birth of Valibot, the collaboration between all the schema libraries on Standard Schema, and the new Formish library. We also discuss the future of developer tools and AI integration. GitHub: https://github.com/fabian-hiller Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fabianhiller.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabianhiller/ Valibot — https://valibot.dev/ Standard Schema — https://standardschema.dev/ Formisch — https://formisch.dev/

This week we're joined by Salma Alam-Naylor, the Head of Developer Education at Nordcraft. Salma shares her journey from music teacher to developer, her discovery of the developer education space in 2020, and the challenges and opportunities she's faced in her role. We discuss the importance of visual editors in web development, the illusion of complexity in development, and the future of web development. Salma also introduces Nordcraft, a visual web framework that allows you to build websites with a GUI. https://whitep4nth3r.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitep4nth3r/?originalSubdomain=uk https://github.com/whitep4nth3r https://nordcraft.com/

This week we're joined by Peter van Hardenberg (PVH), director of the Ink and Switch research lab and co-author of the seminal Local First Software paper.Peter shares the origin story of local-first software, from his realization on a San Francisco train to his work at Heroku and beyond.We dive deep into Automerge, Ink and Switch's local-first sync engine built on CRDTs (Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types), exploring how it enables real-time collaboration while keeping data on your computer.We discuss the technical challenges of building distributed systems, the philosophy behind local-first software, and how projects like Key Hive are pushing the boundaries of decentralized data access.Peter also shares his vision for the future of computing, where software ownership and interoperability become fundamental principles rather than afterthoughts. https://www.pvh.ca https://www.inkandswitch.com https://automerge.org https://github.com/automerge/automerge https://github.com/pvh

This week we have Jeppe Reinhold, a core contributor to Storybook working at Chromatic. Jeppe shares how Storybook has evolved from a slow, complex tool to a fast, modern development environment through major architectural changes like Vite integration, ESM migration, and dependency reduction. We talk about the Component Story Format evolution, framework agnosticism challenges, local testing improvements with vitest integration, and how Storybook is integrating with AI and LLMs through MCP servers to help coding agents understand and use component libraries. https://reinhold.is/ https://bsky.app/profile/reinhold.is https://storybook.js.org/

Join us as we chat with Mike Samuel, an engineer who was at google for 17 years and built the original version of google calendar. He's now the founder and CEO of Temper, a programming language specifically design for translating logic into other programming languages.

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. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericseidel/ https://shorebird.dev/ https://bsky.app/profile/eseidel.com https://github.com/eseidel

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. https://x.com/canadahonk https://porffor.dev/ https://github.com/CanadaHonk/porffor https://goose.icu/

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/ https://github.com/zth https://x.com/___zth___

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

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. https://github.com/zkochan https://www.linkedin.com/in/zkochan/ https://pnpm.io/ https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm https://www.kochan.io/

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. https://webstudio.is/ https://github.com/kof https://bento.me/oleg008 https://x.com/oleg008 https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogdan-chadkin-ab1684b6/ https://github.com/TrySound https://bsky.app/profile/trysound.io

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. https://francoisbest.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/francoisbest.com

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. https://nerdy.dev/ https://github.com/argyleink https://bsky.app/profile/nerdy.dev https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamargyle

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

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. Effect Website: https://effect.website Effect GitHub: https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect Maxwell's GitHub: https://github.com/IMax153 Maxwell's Twitter/X: https://x.com/imax153 Effectful Technologies: https://www.effectful.co Effect Discord: https://discord.gg/effect-ts Effect Days Conference: https://effect.website/events/effect-days Advanced Effect Workshop Materials: https://github.com/IMax153/advanced-effect-workshop

This week we're joined by Brendan O'Brien (b5), founder and CEO of n0, the company behind Iroh - a peer-to-peer networking library that prioritizes reliability and "just works." Iroh enables developers to establish direct, authenticated connections between any two devices using only their public keys, achieving near 100% connection success rates. We discuss the pragmatic approach to P2P networking, why they chose to focus solely on the transport layer, and how Iroh is already running in production on hundreds of thousands of devices. https://twitter.com/b5 https://github.com/b5 https://github.com/n0-computer https://iroh.computer/ https://www.iroh.computer/docs https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-examples https://github.com/n0-computer/awesome-iroh https://perf.iroh.computer/ https://discord.gg/n0 https://n0.computer/

This week we talk to Maxim Fateev, a co-founder of Temporal. Temporal started as a tool for Uber but quickly grew into a tool that makes distributed code exectution a breeze. Come hear what one of the poineers of Durable Exectution has to say! https://temporal.io Episode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we talk to Dylan Piercey, a core team member of Ebay's Marko team. Marko heralded many next gen frontend framework features that litter the landscape today, including streaming, islands architecture, and more. Marko v6 is a major release that brings many new features to the table, including a new language features, and a new compiler. https://markojs.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-piercey-680601136/ https://github.com/DylanPiercey https://x.com/dylan_piercey Episode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we talk to Peter Pistorius, the man currently at the helm of Redwood. Redwood has undergone a lot of changes since it was first announced, pivoting to a serverless framework that leans into React Server Components. Peter has a grand vision for Redwood and the advent of personal software, and we're excited to hear about it. https://rwsdk.com/ Episode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we talk to Greg Sadetsky and Antoine Leclair, the creators of Disco. Disco make running you own infra a piece of cake. https://disco.cloud/ https://docs.letsdisco.dev/ https://github.com/letsdiscodev/ https://github.com/gregsadetsky https://github.com/antoineleclair Episode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we're joined by Stepan Parunashvili, co-creator of InstantDB, a new database that's designed to make it easier to build local-first apps. Instant is a replacement for Firebase, and it's designed to be a more modern, more flexible, and more powerful database for the modern web. Join us as we dive into the details of InstantDB, the challenges of building a new database, and the future of local-first development.This episode is sponsored by WorkOS (https://workos.com)https://www.linkedin.com/in/stepan-parunashvili-65698932/https://www.instantdb.com/https://github.com/instantdb/instanthttps://github.com/stopachka

In this episode, we talk with James Garbutt about e18e, a community-driven initiative focused on improving the performance of JavaScript packages across the ecosystem.We discuss: • The goals and vision behind e18e • What’s slowing down the JS ecosystem • Why performance work is often invisible—and how to fix that • The importance of community coordination in open source • How developers can get involved in improving the packages they rely onIf you care about build times, bundle sizes, and the health of the JavaScript ecosystem, this episode is for you.This episode is sponsored by WorkOS (https://workos.com) and Mailtrap (https://l.rw.rw/devtools_4)🔗 Links • e18e Website: https://e18e.dev/ • GitHub: https://github.com/e18e • Discord: https://discord.gg/e18e • James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jgarbutt • Full episode + transcript: [link to your site if available]🎧 Subscribe to Devtools.fm for more conversations with the people behind the tools developers use every day.

This week we're joined by Anirudh and Akshay from Tangled.sh. Tangle.sh is a social coding platform built on the AT Protocol. We discuss the future of decentralized coding, the challenges of building a new platform, and how developers can leverage Tangled.sh's tools. https://anirudh.fi/ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wshs7t2adsemcrrd4snkeqli https://tangled.sh/ https://bsky.app/profile/icyphox.sh https://anirudh.fi/identity Episode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.com) and MailTrap (https://l.rw.rw/devtools_1) 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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we're joined by Eli Mallon, founder of Streamplace, a decentralized video streaming platform. In this episode we discuss the future of decentralized video streaming, the challenges of building a new platform, and how developers can leverage Streamplace's tools. We also go into Atproto, the decentralized social media network that stream place is built on. https://stream.place/about https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/04/beyond-bluesky-these-are-the-apps-building-social-experiences-on-the-at-protocol https://github.com/iameli https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-mallon-5703a94a https://bsky.app/profile/iame.li https://www.livepeer.org/ Episode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.com) and MailTrap (https://l.rw.rw/devtools_1) 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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we're once again joined by Zach Jackson, creator of Module Federation, and now core team member of ByteDance's rspack project. In this episode we talk about the bundler landscape, the future of web development, and how rspack is changing the game. https://x.com/rspack_dev https://x.com/ScriptedAlchemy https://rspack.dev/ Episode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.com) and MailTrap (https://l.rw.rw/devtools_1) 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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we're delighted to welcome Sam Goodwin to the show. Sam is the creator of Alchemy, a tool that allows you to create and manage your infrastructure as code. The current state of the art is built on all the tech debt of the past 10 years, Alchemy is a new approach to infrastructure as code that is more aligned with the modern web. https://alchemy.run https://github.com/sam-goodwin/alchemy https://github.com/sam-goodwin Episode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we're delighted to welcome Rodrigo Pombo to the show. Rodrigo is the creator of Code Hike, a tool that allows you to add rich animations to code blocks in your documentation. We chat about the origins of Code Hike, the challenges of authoring technical content, and the future of content authoring. https://pomb.us/ https://codehike.org/ https://x.com/pomber https://codehike.org/blog/the-curse-of-markdown https://www.youtube.com/user/tripombo https://github.com/pomber Episode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we're delighted to welcome Antonio Scandurra to the show. Antonio is the co-founder of Zed, a new text editor built in Rust. He was one of the core contributors to Atom, the text editor from GitHub that was the start of a new era of text editors. Join us as we chat about the past, present and future of text editors. https://github.com/as-cii https://x.com/as__cii Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the ad-free episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we're joined by Simen Svale, the co-founder and CTO of Sanity.io Sanity is a content management system that's built for developers, and it's a great alternative to traditional CMSs like WordPress. Sanity focuses on developer experience, and it's a great choice for building modern, scalable content-driven applications. https://sanity.io https://www.linkedin.com/in/simenss/?originalSubdomain=no https://x.com/svale Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the ad-free episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we talk to Charles Lowell, a developer and consultant who has created a library called Effection. Effection is a library that allows you to write structured concurrency code in JavaScript. What is structured concurrency and how could it be useful for you? Find out in this episode! https://frontside.com/effection https://github.com/thefrontside/effection https://frontside.com/effection/contrib/ https://frontside.com/ Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the ad-free episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we talk to Josh Comeau, a developer and educator who has created a series of interactive courses on CSS, React, and JavaScript. His courses are lauded for their interactive nature and his ability to explain complex concepts in a way that is both easy to understand and fun to learn. Join us as we discuss his journey from a developer to an educator, and his new course on animations and interactions. https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ https://css-for-js.dev/ https://www.joyofreact.com/ https://whimsy.joshwcomeau.com/ Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the ad-free episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we talk to David Blass, the creator of ArkType, a runtime validation library for TypeScript. ArkType goes against the mold of other TypeScript validation libraries by using a syntax that is as close to native TypeScript as possible. It's packed with interesting features and has made David a TypeScript performance expert. https://bsky.app/profile/ssalbdivad.dev https://arktype.io/ https://github.com/ssalbdivad https://arktype.io/docs/blog/2.0 Apply to sponsor the podcast: https://devtools.fm/sponsor Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the ad-free episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we talk to Aaron Boodman, a founder of Rocicorp, the company behind Replicache and Zero. They have been innovating in the sync engine space for years and have been working on Zero for a while now. Zero is a sync engine that is designed to be a general purpose sync engine for the web with a focus on DX and UX. https://rocicorp.dev/ https://replicache.dev/ https://zero.rocicorp.dev/ https://x.com/aboodman https://aaronboodman.com/ Apply to sponsor the podcast: https://devtools.fm/sponsor Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the ad-free episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership