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

by Andrew Lisowski, Justin Bennett · English · Tech & Science

New episodes: Every two weeks
Typical length: 52 min
Latest: 28 Sep 2026
Language: English

Latest episode

28 Sep 2026 · 48 min

Bobby Grayson - Deciduous

This week we're joined by Bobby Grayson, a longtime Elixir developer and the creator of Deciduous, a decision graph that gives LLMs a living memory.Deciduous stores goals, options, and outcomes in a SQLite-backed graph that agents like Claude Code can query as they work, so they remember why decisions were made instead of repeating past mistakes.We talk about how it slots invisibly into an agent workflow, how teams share decision graphs, the surprising authors using it to organize their books, and where coding is headed in the next five years. https://deciduous.dev…

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S1 · E177 · 14 Sep 2026 · 49 min

Scott Lanoue - CoMail

This week we're joined by Scott Lanoue, the creator of CoMail, a cooperative email service built on the AT Protocol.Getting a self-hosted mail server to actually land in the inbox is a months-long slog of warming IPs and building domain reputation, so CoMail pools that reputation across everyone sending through a shared relay. We talk about how atproto identity lets CoMail vend out trust instead of spam scores, what it means to store your mail in your own PDS with spaces, and why a co-op might be a better shape than a startup for a protocol with no moats. https://comail.at/…
S1 · E176 · 17 Aug 2026 · 54 min

Jacob Miller - DiffUI

This week we're joined by Jacob Miller, founder of DiffUI, an AI-driven UI design tool. DiffUi uses diffusion models to generate UI designs, and then uses a large language model to convert the designs to code. Jacob is a design systems expert and has a lot of experience with design systems, and that's baked right into the product. https://x.com/pwnies https://diffui.ai
S1 · E175 · 22 Jun 2026 · 56 min

Jacob Beckerman - Macro

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
S1 · E174 · 8 Jun 2026 · 52 min

Rita Kozlov and Steve Faulkner - Cloudflare

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
S1 · E173 · 18 May 2026 · 53 min

Jeff Dickey - Mise, HK, Fnox, and Aube

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
S1 · E172 · 11 May 2026 · 50 min

Sam Goodwin - Alchemy

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)
S1 · E171 · 20 Apr 2026 · 57 min

Elio Struyf - Front Matter CMS, Demo Time

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
S1 · E170 · 6 Apr 2026 · 46 min

Alem Tuzlak - Tanstack Dev Tools and Tanstack AI

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
S1 · E169 · 23 Mar 2026 · 57 min

Paolo Ricciuti - Svelte, TMCP

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:…
S1 · E168 · 16 Mar 2026 · 56 min

Mark Erikson - Redux, Replay.io

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
S1 · E167 · 9 Mar 2026 · 54 min

Ben Curtis - Honeybadger, Breakwater

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
S1 · E166 · 2 Mar 2026 · 53 min

Jamon Holmgren - Infinite Red, Into the Dawn

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
S1 · E165 · 16 Feb 2026 · 52 min

Joel Griffith - Browserless

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:…
S1 · E164 · 9 Feb 2026 · 55 min

Dana Lawson - Netlify

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/…
S1 · E163 · 2 Feb 2026 · 51 min

Fabian Hiller - Valibot, Standard Schema, Formisch

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/
S1 · E162 · 26 Jan 2026 · 55 min

Salma Alam-Naylor - Nordcraft

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/…
S1 · E161 · 12 Jan 2026 · 51 min

Peter van Hardenberg - Ink and Switch, Automerge

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…
S1 · E160 · 5 Jan 2026 · 55 min

Jeppe Reinhold - Storybook Modernization

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/…
E159 · 15 Dec 2025 · 52 min

Mike Samuel - Temper

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.
S1 · E158 · 8 Dec 2025 · 50 min

Eric Seidel - Flutter, Shorebird

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
S1 · E157 · 20 Oct 2025 · 49 min

Oliver Medhurst - Porffor - JavaScript Ahead of Time Compiler

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/
S1 · E56 · 6 Oct 2025 · 48 min

Gabriel Nordeborn - Rescript

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___
S1 · E155 · 28 Sep 2025 · 43 min

Nathan Flurry - Rivet - The Future of Serverless is Stateful

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:…
S1 · E154 · 21 Sep 2025 · 45 min

Zoltan Kochan - PNPM and the Future of Package Management

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/
S1 · E152 · 7 Sep 2025 · 44 min

Oleg Isonen, Bogdan Chadkin - Webstudio

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
S1 · E150 · 2 Sep 2025 · 52 min

François Best

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
S1 · E151 · 25 Aug 2025 · 1 hr 5 min

Adam Argyle - nerdy.dev - Modern CSS

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…
E150 · 10 Aug 2025 · 47 min

Bereket Engida - Better-Auth

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
S1 · E125 · 28 Jul 2025 · 56 min

Maxwell Brown - Effect.ts and Effectful Technologies

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:…

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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).

devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development is a English tech & science podcast from Andrew Lisowski, Justin Bennett. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

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