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/

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
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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

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
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamargyle

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

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: https://www.effectful.co
• Effect Discord: https://discord.gg/effect-ts
• Effect Days Conference: https://effect.website/events/effect-days
• Advanced Effect Workshop Materials: https://github.com/IMax153/advanced-effect-workshop

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 to focus solely on the transport layer, and how Iroh is already running in production on hundreds of thousands of devices.

• https://twitter.com/b5
• https://github.com/b5
• https://github.com/n0-computer
• https://iroh.computer/
• https://www.iroh.computer/docs
• https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh
• https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-examples
• https://github.com/n0-computer/awesome-iroh
• https://perf.iroh.computer/
• https://discord.gg/n0
• https://n0.computer/

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://github.com/DylanPiercey
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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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