This podcast episode is a new format where I introduce everyone to my go-to brain trust to chat new technologies with. This episode can be consumed end to end or you can jump to specific categories that particularly interest you (timestamped below).

Alex Mackenzie is a Partner at Tapestry VC and Ian Livingstone is a Team Lead at Snyk. In this day and age, there’s a new technology that seems to capture the interest of the ecosystem (particular tech Twitter) every month. When I need to dive into these technologies or have them explained, I go to Alex & Ian for help understanding why they are interesting. In this episode, we cover a variety of areas and purposefully go deep enough to understand why they’re interesting but not as deep as we could’ve gone to cover the most surface area.

We cover the following areas: Javascript Runtimes & Frameworks (Next.js, Bun, Deno), Edge Computing, Emerging Programming Languages (Zig, Typescript), Observability (Open Telemetry, eBPF), Encryption (Secure Enclaves, Multi-Party Computation), & AI (LLMs, Agents, Embeddings, WebGPU).