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   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…

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   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/…

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   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.

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   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/

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   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___

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   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:…

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   S1 · E178 · 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/…

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   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

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    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

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