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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
• Ef...

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 ...

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

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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://g...

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/

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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

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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...

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 th...

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/identit...

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/...

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/

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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
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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.you...

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

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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.co...

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/

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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.joshwcom...

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
• ht...

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://aaronboodma...