
devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
A podcast about developer tools and the people who make them. Join us as we embark on a journey to explore modern developer tooling and interview the people who make it possible.
We love talking to the creators front-end frameworks (React, Solid, Svelte, Vue, Angular, etc), JavaScript and TypeScript runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun), Languages (Unison, Elixor, Rust, Zig), web tech (WASM, Web Containers, WebGPU, WebGL), database providers (Turso, Planetscale, Supabase, EdgeDB), and platforms (SST, AWS, Vercel, Netlify, Fly.io).
Latest episodes

4 snips
Mar 18, 2022 • 58min
Brian LeRoux - arc.codes, begin.com
Join us this week as we talk to our guest Brian LeRoux about functional web apps. Brian is the creator of Architect (https://arc.codes), a framework for building serverless apps on aws. He's also the founder of Begin.com, a service build on top of Architect to easily ship serverless apps.https://begin.comhttps://arc.codesAndrewhttps://lyts.christiankaindl.comJustinhttps://build.typogram.co/p/the-taste-skill-gapBrianBreville Bambion Expresso Maker

Mar 4, 2022 • 53min
Anthony Fu - Vue, Vite, Vitest, UnoCSS
Join us this week with our guest Anthony Fu.Anthony is a voracious open source develop who maintains dozens of packages and works at Nuxt Labs.He is a core member of Vue and Vite and is the creator of Vitest and UnoCSS.https://twitter.com/antfu7https://github.com/windicss/windicsshttps://vitejs.dev/https://nuxtjs.org/https://vitest.dev/https://github.com/unocss/unocsshttps://sli.dev/https://antfu.me/posts/reimagine-atomic-cssTooltipsAndrewRadix PrimitivesasChild propcomposeEventHandlershttps://www.svgator.com/JustinFigma Tokens Plugintoken-transformerhttps://github.com/huxingyi/dust3dAnthonyhttps://github.com/unjs/unbuildhttps://pnpm.io/

Feb 18, 2022 • 55min
Zach Lloyd, Michelle Lim -- Warp.dev
This episode we're joined by Zach Lloyd and Michelle Lim of Warp.dev. Warp is a modern, rust-based terminal that aims to make developers more efficient by reemerging and enhancing the terminal's UI.If you'd like to try Warp you can download it here: https://app.warp.dev/download/r/1DVTFMAndrewhttps://github.com/nadeesha/ts-prunehttps://github.com/junegunn/fzfJustinhttps://github.com/bradtraversy/design-resources-for-developershttps://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/ (Tom Johnson)Zachhttps://github.com/rust-lang/rustlingshttps://vt100.net/https://vt100.net/emu/dec_ansi_parserMichellehttps://retool.com/https://www.nutribullet.com

Feb 4, 2022 • 1h 19min
Steve Ruiz - tldraw
This episode we're joined by Steve Ruiz, creator of tldraw.Steve is known for his facinating threads on Twitter about his work making open source canvas graphics libaries.In this episode we talk about tldraw, a drawing app with a open source re-usable UI.https://www.tldraw.comTooltipsAndrewhttps://floating-ui.comhttps://codesandbox.io/post/sandpack-announcementJustinhttps://codehike.org/ by Rodrigo Pombohttps://ioun.it/ by Samuel TimbóStevehttps://github.com/steveruizok/telestratorhttps://getkap.cohttps://topnotch.app

Jan 21, 2022 • 57min
Yang Zhang - Plasmic
This weeks guest is Yang Zhang, co-founder of Plasmic. Plasmic aims to bridge the gap between designers and developers in all sort of interesting ways. Import you code directly into their approachable drag and drag editor or even run pages built in plasmic in your app!https://www.plasmic.appTooltipsAndrewhttps://mantine.devhttps://planetscale.com (https://github.com/vitessio/vitess)Justinhttps://blog.warp.dev/how-to-draw-styled-rectangles-using-the-gpu-and-metal/https://regexly.js.org/Yanghttps://developer.chrome.com/blog/renderingng/https://browser.engineering/https://github.com/pmndrs/suspend-react

Jan 7, 2022 • 58min
Alex Johansson - tRPC, Zart
This week's episode features Alex Johansson creator of tRPC. tRPC enables you to create end to end typesafe APIs with ease with no code generation!https://katt.dev/https://web.archive.org/web/20061112194431/http://www.ociusservers.com/https://github.com/trpc/trpchttps://blitzjs.com/https://github.com/KATT/zartTooltipsAndrewhttps://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-4-5/ (Awaited type, depend on lib, top level await, new type import syntax)https://next-auth.js.orgJustinhttps://github.com/tldraw/tldrawhttps://github.com/cocoss-org/co-shareAlexhttps://www.prisma.io

Dec 17, 2021 • 53min
Simon Hofmann - Nut.js
This weeks guest is Simon Hoffman an engineer with passion to Automate All the Things™.Simon is pioneering the way in a new desktop automation library called Nut.js, which works on all OSes and has intuitive thoughtful API. https://nutjs.dev/TooltipsAndrewhttps://beta.reactjs.orghttps://playwright.devJustinhttps://github.com/marcomontalbano/figma-exporthttps://antfu.me/posts/reimagine-atomic-csshttps://github.com/antfu/unocssSimonhttps://github.com/tnobody/lerna-audithttps://sli.dev

6 snips
Dec 3, 2021 • 1h 8min
Michael Jackson - react-router, Remix, unpkg
Joining us this week is Michael Jackson, creator of unpkg, a CDN for all things NPM, as well as co-creator of react router, and co-founder of react training.He has now created, alongside his long time cohort Ryan Florence, Remix a a full stack react framework built on modern web standards.https://remix.run/https://reactrouter.com/https://unpkg.com/https://remix.run/docs/en/v1/guides/philosophyTooltipsAndrewhttps://spline.designhttps://github.com/snowpackjs/astro/tree/main/examplesJustinhttps://github.com/Valerioageno/ssr-rshttps://github.com/plopjs/plopMichaelhttps://fly.io

Nov 19, 2021 • 52min
Dr. Chris Weichel - GitPod
This week's guest is Dr. Chris Weichel, CTO of GitPod. GitPod is an all-in-one online development environment with a complete version of VSCode in the browser.We also spend some time talking about Chris' Human-Computer interaction research.https://www.gitpod.io/https://www.gitpod.io/blog/openvscode-server-launchhttps://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/https://open-vsx.org/https://github.com/features/codespaceshttps://csweichel.de/papers/2015-spata.pdfhttps://csweichel.de/papers/2015-reform.pdfhttp://scihi.org/mark-weiser-ubiquituous-computing/https://simonhearne.com/2020/network-faster-than-cache/TooltipsAndrewhttps://www.npmjs.com/package/webpack-bundle-analyzerhttp://webpack.github.io/analyse/#Justinhttps://github.com/prisma-labs/konnhttps://github.com/Owez/argiChrisJumpcutHarvester

Nov 5, 2021 • 1h 16min
Pedro Duarte - Modulz, Radix, Stitches
This week's guest is Pedro Duarte, a developer experience engineer working at Modulz helping maintain the open source libraries (Radix and Stitches) that power the product.https://www.modulz.app/https://stitches.dev/https://www.radix-ui.com/TooltipsAndrewhttps://twitter.com/orta/status/1432044027474583552/photo/1Justinhttps://github.com/BuilderIO/partytownhttps://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearchhttps://github.com/eps1lon/screen-reader-testing-libraryPedrohttps://www.raycast.com/https://www.are.na/