François Best

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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 · 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/

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   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

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   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…

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   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

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   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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   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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