Season 1, Episode 155 · devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
Nathan Flurry - Rivet - The Future of Serverless is Stateful
28 Sep 2025 · 43 min
Season 1, Episode 155 · devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
28 Sep 2025 · 43 min
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:…
by Andrew Lisowski, Justin Bennett · English · Tech & Science
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…
S1 · E158 · 8 Dec 2025 · 50 min
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
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
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 · E154 · 21 Sep 2025 · 45 min
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
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
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 · E178 · 28 Sep 2026 · 48 min
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…
S1 · E177 · 14 Sep 2026 · 49 min
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
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
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
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