This week we have Eric Seidel, co-creator of Flutter and founder of Shorebird. Eric shares his journey from building WebKit at Apple and Chrome at Google to creating Flutter, a multi-platform UI framework that compiles to native code. We talk about the technical challenges of browser engines, why the web couldn't deliver high-quality mobile apps, and how Shorebird is solving Flutter's code push problem to enable instant app updates without app store approval.

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericseidel/
• https://shorebird.dev/
• https://bsky.app/profile/eseidel.com
• https://github.com/eseidel

This week we have Eric Seidel, co-creator of Flutter and founder of Shorebird. Eric shares his journey from building WebKit at Apple and Chrome at Google to creating Flutter, a multi-platform UI framework that compiles to native code. We talk about the technical challenges of browser engines, why the web couldn't deliver high-quality mobile apps, and how Shorebird is solving Flutter's code push problem to enable instant app updates without app store approval.

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericseidel/
• https://shorebird.dev/
• https://bsky.app/profile/eseidel.com
• https://github.com/eseidel

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

https://x.com/___zth___

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