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

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/zkochanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/zkochan/https://pnpm.io/https://github.com/pnpm/pnpmhttps://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/kofhttps://bento.me/oleg008https://x.com/oleg008https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogdan-chadkin-ab1684b6/https://github.com/TrySoundhttps://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/argyleinkhttps://bsky.app/profile/nerdy.devhttps://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.websiteEffect GitHub: https://github.com/Effect-TS/effectMaxwell's GitHub: https://github.com/IMax153Maxwell's Twitter/X: https://x.com/imax153Effectful Technologies: https://www.effectful.coEffect Discord: https://discord.gg/effect-tsEffect Days Conference: https://effect.website/events/effect-daysAdvanced 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/b5https://github.com/b5https://github.com/n0-computerhttps://iroh.computer/https://www.iroh.computer/docshttps://github.com/n0-computer/irohhttps://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-exampleshttps://github.com/n0-computer/awesome-irohhttps://perf.iroh.computer/https://discord.gg/n0https://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.ioEpisode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.com)Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode.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 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/DylanPierceyhttps://x.com/dylan_pierceyEpisode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.com)Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode.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 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/devtoolsfmhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758https://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/gregsadetskyhttps://github.com/antoineleclairEpisode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.com).Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode.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 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:wshs7t2adsemcrrd4snkeqlihttps://tangled.sh/https://bsky.app/profile/icyphox.shhttps://anirudh.fi/identityEpisode 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/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 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/abouthttps://techcrunch.com/2025/04/04/beyond-bluesky-these-are-the-apps-building-social-experiences-on-the-at-protocolhttps://github.com/iamelihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-mallon-5703a94ahttps://bsky.app/profile/iame.lihttps://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/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 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_devhttps://x.com/ScriptedAlchemyhttps://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/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 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.runhttps://github.com/sam-goodwin/alchemyhttps://github.com/sam-goodwinEpisode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.com)Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode.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 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/pomberhttps://codehike.org/blog/the-curse-of-markdownhttps://www.youtube.com/user/tripombohttps://github.com/pomberEpisode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.com)Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode.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 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-ciihttps://x.com/as__ciiBecome a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the ad-free episode.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 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.iohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/simenss/?originalSubdomain=nohttps://x.com/svaleBecome a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the ad-free episode.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