devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development

This week we have Glauber Costa, CEO and founder of Turso, a service for distributing and using multiple SQLite instances in different regions. Glauber has a long history in the software industry, including working on the Linux kernel for many years. He shares his experience working on the Linux kernel and how it led him to found Turso. e also discuss the limitations of SQLite and how Turso is solving those problems with their fork libSQL. ⁠https://twitter.com/glcst⁠ ⁠https://twitter.com/tursodatabase⁠ ⁠https://turso.tech/libsql⁠ ⁠https://turso.tech/⁠ ⁠https://github.com/glommer⁠ Episode sponsored By CodeCrafters (⁠https://codecrafters.io/devtoolsfm⁠) 40% Discount! Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. ⁠https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm⁠ ⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe⁠ ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership⁠ Tooltips Andrew ⁠https://rsdoctor.dev⁠ ⁠https://www.npmjs.com/package/playwright-test-coverage⁠ Justin ⁠https://github.com/ije/md4w⁠ ⁠https://www.unison.cloud/⁠ Glauber ⁠http://val.town⁠ ⁠https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist⁠

Zeno Rocha discusses creating React Email and Resend, challenges of email delivery, origins of Dracula Theme, and tool recommendations like workerpool, promise-fun, and react-postgres-components.

Today's episode features Evan Bacon, the head of devtools at Expo. Expo is a framework for building React Native apps it takes care of a lot of the details so all you have to worry about is writing code. Evan is also the author of Expo Router which makes seamlessly manage your app's navigation with file based routing and so much more. We also delve in to the topic of React Server Components on React Native and the exciting possibilities of developing for Vision OS. https://evanbacon.dev https://twitter.com/Baconbrix https://docs.expo.dev https://github.com/EvanBacon https://docs.expo.dev/router/introduction/ Episode sponsored By CodeCrafters (https://codecrafters.io/devtoolsfm) 40% Discount! Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

This week we talk to a legend in the dev tools space, Christopher Chedeau. Christopher is a software engineer at Meta (formerly Facebook) and has worked on some of the most popular open source projects in the world. He is the creator of Prettier, a code formatter that has saved millions of developer hours. He is also the co-creator of React Native, a framework for building native apps with React. Christopher has also worked on many other projects such as Excalidraw, Yoga, and and many others. https://blog.vjeux.com https://github.com/vjeux https://twitter.com/Vjeux Episode sponsored By Raycast (https://www.raycast.com/) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

Daniel Thompson-Yvetot and Lucas Nogueira join to talk about Tauri, advantages over Electron, importance of security in open source, future of cross-platform apps. They discuss governance in open source projects and Tauri's approach with Crab Nebula. They also explore optimizing bundle sizes, impact on the planet, challenges for digital nomads, and importance of updates and security in frameworks and applications. They conclude by discussing building mobile apps with Tauri and the importance of listening to users and staying innovative.

Open source legend Feross Aboukhadijeh discusses his journey into open source, challenges of open source funding, and his company Socket. Socket aims to level up OSS security and can detect complex vulnerabilities using static and dynamic analysis. They delve into the world of open source security, including device identifiers, managing open source packages, controversial funding experiments, the risks of relying on code maintainers, and the importance of considering the software supply chain.

This week we're joined by Eric Simons, CEO of StackBlitz. StackBlitz is an online IDE for web applications, powered by a new web standard called WebContainers. Web container allow you to run code much closer to the OS, and StackBlitz uses this to run NodeJS and NPM in the browser. We also talk about Eric's time living in AOL's headquarters, and how that led eventually to the creation of StackBlitz. ⁠https://twitter.com/ericsimons40⁠ ⁠https://twitter.com/StackBlitz⁠ ⁠https://stackblitz.com/@EricSimons⁠ Episode sponsored By Raycast (⁠https://www.raycast.com/⁠) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. ⁠https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm⁠ ⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe⁠ ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership⁠ Tooltips Andrew ⁠https://github.com/webdiscus/html-bundler-webpack-plugin⁠ ⁠https://next-video.dev/⁠ Justin Blob APIs from netlify and val.town ⁠https://www.netlify.com/blog/introducing-netlify-blobs-beta/⁠ ⁠https://twitter.com/stevekrouse/status/1724792828310741045⁠ ⁠https://github.com/immich-app/immich⁠ Eric The new angular.dev site  viteconf.org remix.run

Guest Brian Douglas, former Head of DevRel at GitHub, discusses his time at GitHub, GitHub Actions, Copilot, and his new venture Open Sauced. Topics include open source projects, AI in development, historical data in GitHub, building open source projects, future of open source, and AI tools for developers.

Jess Martin, a developer at DXOS, shares their journey to DXOS and the realizations they had along the way. They discuss the concept of decentralized apps and the challenges of shared data layer. They also explore the benefits of modifiability in UI development and the ethical concerns with voice cloning technology. Additionally, they talk about collaborative tools, infinite canvases, and recommend drag and drop library Deflex.

This week we talk to Yagiz Nizipli about his work on Node.js performance. We discuss his journey into Node.js contribution, the challenges of URL parser implementation, the impact of competing runtimes, and more. We also discuss the current state of backend javascript's competing runtimes, and his views of VC Money and Open Source Funding. https://twitter.com/yagiznizipli https://www.yagiz.co/ Episode sponsored By Raycast (https://www.raycast.com/) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership Tooltips Andrew https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/flappy-bird-in-type-level-typescript https://github.com/farm-fe/farm Justin https://github.com/seanoliver/audioflarey https://wasmer.io/posts/announcing-winterjs-service-workers Yagiz https://ui.com/us/camera-security https://prsguitars.com/electrics/model/silver_sky_2021