Andrew Lisowski, Justin Bennett
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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).
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Builder interviews turn developer-tool architecture, usability, and failure modes into clear accounts of how software products take shape.
Andrew and Justin approach developer tooling through the decisions made by the people building it. Their interviews move quickly from a product's premise to the engineering and operational choices underneath it, with follow-up questions that keep abstractions tied to actual use.
A Git tool once wiped a repo; if that makes you lean in, you've found your show.
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Alem makes AI tooling easier to reason about by putting streaming, tool calls, approvals, and type safety in view.
Alem's conversation about 10-stack DevTools and 10-stack AI keeps visual observability at the center. The episode focuses on tools that make streaming chunks, tool calls, and approvals visible, giving developers a clearer view of what is happening while they work.
Daytona turns developer setup, open-source licensing, and AI pressure into a practical developer-tools discussion.
Daytona frames the episode around a familiar developer-tools problem: the slow, messy work of getting engineers into a usable environment. The conversation moves from onboarding delays and lost productive time into remote development environments, then widens into the harder…
A grounded conversation about how ZSA makes deeply configurable keyboards feel approachable enough to keep using.
This conversation with Erez, co-founder of ZSA, frames the keyboard as both a daily work tool and a product someone might keep refining for years.
A grounded review of how Figma's engineering and Dev Mode ambitions push it toward broader product-team infrastructure.
Figma comes across as a web application built with unusually deep engineering beneath the surface, from lower-level rendering work to custom in-memory abstractions.
Retcon rethinks Git history as a desired state, while keeping its risks in view.
Retcon starts from a Git pain point many developers know well: rewriting history can feel slow and fussy enough that they simply avoid it. Nathan, whose background is mostly in front-end work, frames the side project as a way to make that workflow feel close to instant, using a…
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
The engineering decisions behind code, agents, and control.
Python tools, practical trade-offs, and the occasional programming joke.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
This episode features an interview with developer Josh Comeau about his approach to creating effective, interactive educational content for software developers.
This episode of DevTools FM features an interview with Oleg Isonen and Bogdan Chadkin, co-founders of Web Studio, discussing their backgrounds, experiences at Webflow, and the development of their website creation tool.
This episode features an interview with freelance software engineer François Best, discussing his transition from music software development in C++ to web development, highlighting the advantages of faster feedback loops in web tools.
This episode features Maxwell Brown, a founding engineer at Effectful Technologies, discussing the powerful TypeScript-based Effect.ts library and his background in DevOps and infrastructure.
This episode features an interview with Peter van Hardenberg about his work at Ink and Switch Lab, focusing on Local First software and Automerge for developer tools.
This episode features an interview with Maxim Fateev, CTO and co-founder of Temporal, discussing his background in large tech companies and the development of Temporal as a technology that abstracts distribution for developers.
Sam Goodwin discusses his background at Amazon and his new project Alchemy, a fresh take on infrastructure as code for developers.
Anselm Eickhoff discusses the creation of Jazz Tools, a framework born from his experience as a full-stack consultant noticing repetitive boilerplate in diverse apps, emphasizing developer experience and design.
This episode features an interview with Simen Svale, co-founder and CTO of Sanity.io, discussing his background in connecting design, art, and technology, and the development of the Sanity content management system.
This episode features Dylan Piercy discussing his work on the Marco.js framework and his experience in platform engineering at eBay.
This episode features Peter Pistorius discussing his journey from co-founding Redwood.js to becoming CEO and pivoting to the new Redwood SDK product.
This episode features an interview with Oliver Medhurst, creator of Porffor, a JavaScript ahead-of-time compiler, discussing his background and the technical aspects of the project.
This episode features Paolo Ricciuti from the Svelte team discussing his background, his role at Mainmatter consultancy, and insights into web development frameworks and data loading patterns.
This episode of DevTools FM features an interview with Greg Sadetsky and Antonie Leclair discussing their backgrounds in software development and their project Disco.
This episode features Gabriel Nordeborn discussing Rescript, a functional programming language with a sound type system that compiles to JavaScript, along with his background in behavioral science and software development.
This episode features an interview with David Blass, creator of the ArkType runtime validation library, discussing its unique features like TypeScript-like syntax and set-based type system.
Mark Erikson, the primary maintainer of Redux and a senior engineer at Replay.io, discusses his career in web development and his experiences with Redux on the DevTools FM podcast.
This episode features an interview with Ben Curtis, co-founder of HoneyBadger, discussing his background in technology, early experiences with computers, and journey into web development and Ruby.
This episode features Nathan Flurry discussing his journey from building multiplayer video games to co-founding Rivet, a stateful serverless platform, and exploring the shift from SaaS to library-first approaches in open source developer tools.
This episode features an interview with Aaron Boodman, founder of RustyCorp, discussing his work on sync engines like Replicache and Xero for building better web applications.
This episode features an interview with Zoltan Kochan, creator and project lead of PNPM, discussing his journey into open source development and the impact of his package management tool.
This episode of DevTools FM features an interview with James Garbutt about the E18E initiative, which aims to clean up, speed up, and improve the JavaScript ecosystem.
This episode of DevTools FM features an interview with Jamin Holmgren, co-founder and CTO of Infinite Red, discussing his background in coding, consultancy work, and personal life.
Joel Griffith, founder and CEO of Browserless, discusses his journey from non-engineer to solving web automation problems and building his company.
This episode features an interview with Jeff Dickey, creator of Meets in Place and Oakcliff, discussing his journey in developer tools, polyglot tool management, and CLI development.
This episode features an interview with Artem Zakharchenko, creator of Mock Service Worker (MSW), discussing the development and philosophy behind this API mocking library for software testing.
Eli Mallon discusses his work on Stream.Place, a decentralized video streaming platform built on the AT protocol, aiming to challenge Twitch's monopoly and create a lasting alternative.
This episode features an interview with Adam Argyle, a former Google employee and CSS expert, discussing his background in web development, design tools, and his work on empowering designers through technology.
This episode features an interview with Darcy Clarke discussing his work on VLT/Vault, his background at npm and GitHub, and the future of JavaScript package management.
This episode features an interview with Fabian Hiller, creator of Valibot and Formish and co-creator of Standard Schema, discussing his background in software engineering, open source projects, and developer tools.
This episode features an interview with Zack Jackson, an infrastructure architect at ByteDance, discussing his work on web development tools like compilers and bundlers, including updates on rspack and the future of developer infrastructure.
This episode features an interview with Salma Alam-Naylor discussing her background in music and tech, her work at Nordcraft, and the evolution of developer tools.
This episode features an interview with Bereket Engida, creator of the BetterAuth library, discussing his background and development journey.
Rudy Frazier discusses Black Sky, a community and algorithm-driven platform for black users on Blue Sky, focusing on content moderation and community building.
This episode features an interview with Rodrigo Pombo, creator of CodeHike, discussing his background in software development and his work on tools for enhancing technical content authoring.
This episode features an interview with Matt Perry, creator of Framer Motion and PopMotion, discussing the evolution of animation libraries and the launch of his new unified library called Motion.
This episode of DevTools FM features an interview with Antonio Scandurra, co-founder of Zed, discussing his background in software engineering, his work on the Atom text editor, and the ambitious development of the Zed text editor as a platform for coding.
This episode features an interview with Dana Lawson, CTO at Netlify, discussing her background in developer tools, experiences at companies like GitHub, and insights on technology trends and unconventional paths into tech.
This episode features an interview with Jeppe Reinhold from the Chromatic team, discussing updates and modernization in Storybook since 2021, including new features and the transition to Storybook 7.
This episode features Brendan O'Brien discussing his work on IRO, a Rust-based peer-to-peer networking library, and his company N0, focusing on shipping complete apps with integrated client-server components.
This episode features an interview with Stepan Parunashvili, co-creator of InstantDB, discussing his background, development journey, and the inspiration behind creating tools to simplify programming.
This episode features an interview with Eric Seidel, discussing his career journey from Apple and Google to creating Flutter and Dart, and his current work at Shorebird on CodePush technology.
This episode features an interview with Anirudh and Akshay, creators of Tangled.sh, discussing their backgrounds in developer tools and decentralized coding technology built on App Proto.
Charles Lowell discusses his consultancy Frontside, the open-source library Affection, and his prediction that structured concurrency will become a standard expectation in programming runtimes within the next decade.
Ryan Carniato discusses the creation and evolution of SolidJS, its comparison to React, and his journey in web development spanning decades.
This episode features Joel Hooks, co-founder of Egghead, discussing his background as a software developer and his passion for developer education and technology trends.
This episode of DevTools FM features an interview with Mike Samuel, creator of Google Calendar, discussing his background in programming languages and developer tools.
["Alem Tuzlak says observability and visual chunk tracing are the reason he built 10-stack DevTools.", "He traces that work back to a Remix-specific React Hook Form abstraction, the React Router DevTools, and a dev agency he started about three years ago after a decade in software.", "He describes 10-stack AI as a typed layer over providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, and Grok for chat, images, video, transcription, and text-to-speech.", "The interview spends its most technical time on AGUI, compile-time model checks, and the decision to split adapters so a two-person team can keep the library scalable."]
Dan Stepanov discusses his career in software development, from transitioning from chemical engineering to focusing on mobile apps and React Native, and introduces NativeWind as a tool that brings Tailwind CSS to React Native for enhanced styling.
Evan You discusses his journey from creating Vue and Vite to starting a new company focused on improving the JavaScript toolchain, including the development of the Roda bundler to enhance Vite and other tools.
Nate Wienert returns to discuss the complexity of sharing code across different developer tools and introduces his new project OneStack, while sharing his journey from design to React development.
["DevTools FM opens with the claim that developers waste about 56% of productive time on development-environment issues, then introduces Daytona co-founder Ivan Boraisen.", "Ivan says he lives between Croatia, New York, San Francisco, and London, and he uses a wheels up clock-reset routine to avoid jet lag.", "Daytona is presented as an open source development-environment manager that provisions local or cloud workspaces and integrates with VS Code, Cursor, JetBrains, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.", "The sharpest discussion is about why Daytona splits the developer-facing project from enterprise features, how Apache 2.0 fits that choice, and why companies with 1,000-plus engineers care about onboarding, scalability, and security."]
Erez Zerkerman of ZSA says keyboards should be judged by how they feel after 40, 50, or 60 hours a week, not by a clean catalog render.
DevTools FM talks with Chris Rasmussen, Figma's CTO, about the browser, rendering, and collaboration problems behind a design tool used by product teams.
DevTools FM hosts Andrew and Justin talk with Nathan Manceaux-Panot about Retcon, a Mac app in Swift and AppKit for rewriting Git history from the UI.
Interview with Prajak about developer tools, databases, and making querying easier.
Interview with Jordan Harband, a key figure in the JavaScript ecosystem, discussing open source maintenance, TC39, and developer tools.
An interview with Harrington Darkholm, creator of ASTGrab, discussing code search using abstract syntax trees and his work on a Rust-based Vue compiler.
Interview with Glauber Costa, CEO of Turso, about their distributed SQLite service that enables multiple applications to sync database changes across regions.
Interview with Corbin Crutchley, a principal front-end developer and teacher, discussing his background and passion for teaching.