This week we have Oliver Medhurst, the creator of Porffor. Porffor is a JavaScript ahead of time compiler that compiles JavaScript to WebAssembly. We talk about the technical details of how it works, and the future of JavaScript engines.

• https://x.com/canadahonk
• https://porffor.dev/
• https://github.com/CanadaHonk/porffor
• https://goose.icu/

This week we talk to Gabriel Nordeborn, a core member of the Rescript team. Rescript is a langauge that compiles to JS but has some serious superpowers. Whether it is it's awesome pattern matching, or greate react integartoin there is a lot to love. Come learn about it with us.

https://rescript-lang.org/

https://github.com/zth

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This week we talk to Nathan Flurry, co-founder of Rivet, a platform for building stateful serverless applications. Rivet started as a platform for building multiplayer games, but has since evolved to be a general purpose computing platform. They're actors are a first class primitive that makes it easy to build stateful serverless applications.

• Rivet GitHub: https://github.com/rivet-gg/rivet
• RivetKit: https://github.com/rivet-gg/rivetkit
• Documentation: https://rivet.gg/docs
• Nathan's Twitter/X: https://x.com/NathanFlurry
• Nathan's GitHub: https://github.com/NathanFlurry
• Y Combinator Profile: https://ycombinator.com/companies/rivet

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
• https://bsky.app/profile/trysound.io

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