devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
by Andrew Lisowski, Justin Bennett
Tarun Sachdeva - Traces
About this podcast
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).
Episodes
The newest 20 of 181 episodes
- Tarun Sachdeva - Traces · 53 min · Episode 180This week we're joined by Tarun Sachdeva, founder of Traces and previously head of product at Wattpad. Traces gives coding agent sessions a home: a CLI that collects sessions…
- Boris Tane - Polylane · 53 min · Episode 179This week we're joined by Boris Tane, founder of Polylane and previously founder of Baselime, the observability startup Cloudflare acquired in 2024, where he went on to lead…
- Bobby Grayson - Deciduous · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 178This week we're joined by Bobby Grayson, a longtime Elixir developer and the creator of Deciduous, a decision graph that gives LLMs a living memory.Deciduous stores goals…
- Scott Lanoue - CoMail · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 177This week we're joined by Scott Lanoue, the creator of CoMail, a cooperative email service built on the AT Protocol.Getting a self-hosted mail server to actually land in the…
- Jacob Miller - DiffUI · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 176This week we're joined by Jacob Miller, founder of DiffUI, an AI-driven UI design tool. DiffUi uses diffusion models to generate UI designs, and then uses a large language model…
- Jacob Beckerman - Macro · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 175This week we're joined by Jacob Beckerman, the founder and CEO of Macro. Macro is a tool to cut through the noise. It's a workspace built for engineers. And it's one place for…
- Rita Kozlov and Steve Faulkner - Cloudflare · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 174This week we're joined by Rita Kozlov and Steve Faulkner, the co-founders of Cloudflare. The big news of the day is that Cloudflare has acquired Vite. This is a big deal for the…
- Jeff Dickey - Mise, HK, Fnox, and Aube · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 173This week we're joined by Jeff Dickey, the creator of HK, Fnox, Aube, and Mise.We talk about the creation of these tools and what led him to work on them full time with his new…
- Sam Goodwin - Alchemy · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 172This week we're joined by Sam Goodwin, the creator of Alchemy. Alchemy is a tool that allows you to create and manage your infrastructure as code. The current state of the art is…
- Elio Struyf - Front Matter CMS, Demo Time · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 171This week we're joined by Elio Struyf, the creator of Front Matter CMS and Demo Time.We talk about the origins of Front Matter CMS, the challenges of building a CMS, and the…
- Alem Tuzlak - Tanstack Dev Tools and Tanstack AI · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 170This week we're joined by Alem Tuzlak, the creator of Tanstack Dev Tools and maintainer of Tanstack AI. We talk about the creation of Tanstack Dev Tools and what led him to work…
- Paolo Ricciuti - Svelte, TMCP · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 169This week we're joined by Paolo Ricciuti, a Svelte maintainer and the creator of TMCP.We talk about his journey into the world of software development, his work on Svelte, and…
- Mark Erikson - Redux, Replay.io · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 168This week we're joined by Mark Erikson, the lead maintainer of Redux and the founder of Replay.io. We talk about his journey into the world of software development, his work on…
- Ben Curtis - Honeybadger, Breakwater · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 167This week we're joined by Ben Curtis, the founder and CEO of Honeybadger and creator of Breakwater. Ben has been a pillar of the Ruby community for over 20 years, and has been a…
- Jamon Holmgren - Infinite Red, Into the Dawn · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 166This week we're joined by Jamon Holmgren, the founder and CEO of Infinite Red. Infinite Red is a software consultancy that specializes in building React Native apps. We talk…
- Joel Griffith - Browserless · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 165This week we're joined by Joel Griffith, the founder and CEO of Browserless. Browserless is a browser automation service that allows you to run headless browsers in the cloud. We…
- Dana Lawson - Netlify · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 164This week we're joined by Dana Lawson, CTO at Netlify. We talk about her journey from the US Army to leading engineering teams at companies like GitHub, New Relic, and now…
- Fabian Hiller - Valibot, Standard Schema, Formisch · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 163This week we're joined by Fabian Hiller, the creator of Valibot, Standard Schema, and Formish. We talk about the birth of Valibot, the collaboration between all the schema…
- Salma Alam-Naylor - Nordcraft · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 162This week we're joined by Salma Alam-Naylor, the Head of Developer Education at Nordcraft. Salma shares her journey from music teacher to developer, her discovery of the…
- Peter van Hardenberg - Ink and Switch, Automerge · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 161This week we're joined by Peter van Hardenberg (PVH), director of the Ink and Switch research lab and co-author of the seminal Local First Software paper.Peter shares the origin…







