June 18, 2025

The CEO of htmx likes codin' dirty (Interview)

1 hour 23 minutes

Jerod is joined by Carson Gross, the creator of htmx –a small, zero-dependency JavaScript library that he says, “completes HTML as a hypertext”. Carson built it because he’s big on hypermedia, he even wrote a book called Hypermedia Systems. Carson has a lot of strong opinions weakly held that we dive into in this conversation.

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Show Notes:

htmx - high power tools for html

Why Gumroad Didn’t Choose htmx

Codin’ Dirty

Vendoring

Hypermedia Systems

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