This week we talk to James Arthur, co-founder ElectricSQL, a local first sync engine for Postgres. ElectricSQL wants to make it easy to build local first apps with Postgres. Instead of worring about how to sync data between devices, ElectricSQL lets you reason about your database as local and running on your device.

• https://electric-sql.com/
• https://x.com/thruflo
• https://hr.linkedin.com/in/thruflo

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This week we have Lu Wilson (also known as TodePond) on the podcast to talk about their adventure in creating coding. Lu works at TLDraw making fantastic demo of what can build built on TLDraw by using AI in creative ways. They are also a resident at Ink and Switch and they do explorations in the future of computing.

• https://x.com/TodePond
• https://www.todepond.com/
• https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd
• https://github.com/TodePond/Arroost
• https://github.com/tldraw/make-real
• https://github.com/TodePond/CellPond

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Tooltips

Andrew

• https://waku.gg
• https://turbo.build/blog/turbo-2-0

Justin

• https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547482/building-simcity/
• https://toolstash.com/

Lu

• https://saladroom.net/
• https://github.com (!) (for sharing gifs and videos without compression)
• https://getkap.co/

This week we have Naman Goel, the technical lead of StyleX. Stylex is a CSS-in-JS used by Facebook to build the styling of Facebook's products. We talk about the history of StyleX, how it works, and how it's better than other CSS-in-JS solutions. We also talk about how flow is better than TypeScript and why you should be using Swift over Rust.

• https://x.com/naman34
• https://x.com/stylexjs
• https://stylexjs.com/

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This week we sit down with Jason Liu, a machine learning expert and the author of the Instructor. We talk about what working with LLMs is like, how to ship them to production, and how to make them more accessible to everyone. We also talk about the future of prompt engineering and how to make it easier to build better prompts.

• https://x.com/jxnlco
• https://jxnl.co/
• https://github.com/jxnl/instructor

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Andrew

http://v0.dev

https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects

Justin

https://github.com/ThousandBirdsInc/chidori

https://www.cursorless.org/

Jason

https://betterdictation.com (code JASON20)

https://cursor.ai

https://one-sec.app/

This week we have the co-founders of Inngest, Dan Farrelly and Tony Holdstock-Brown. Inngest is a event driven workflow platform that makes it incredibly easy to build asynchronous workflows in your application. We talk about the history of Inngest, how it works, and how you can use it to build your own workflows.

• https://www.inngest.com/

• https://twitter.com/djfarrelly
• https://github.com/djfarrelly
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/djfarrelly/

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• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyhb/
• https://github.com/tonyhb

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This week we have Solomon Hykes, the creator of Docker and co founder of Dagger. We talk about the history of Docker and how it has impacted the development community. Then we dive into Dagger and how it's simplifying CI pipelines with code. We also talk about the future of DevOps and AI integration.

• https://twitter.com/solomonstre
• https://dagger.io/

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This week we're delighted to have José Valim on the podcast. José is the author of Elixir, the programming language build on the Erlang VM. Elixer provides a functional programming language with metaprogramming and built-in support for concurrency and distributed computing. Livebook is a web-based interactive programming environment for Elixir and it flexes what the Phoenix framework can do.

• https://twitter.com/josevalim
• https://elixir-lang.org/
• https://www.phoenixframework.org/
• https://livebook.dev/

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This week we have Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node and Node. We talk about the road that led from Node to Deno and what he wants to do differently. We also talk about the new javascript registry, JSR, and how they hope to make a runtime agnostic town square.

• https://github.com/ry
• https://twitter.com/rough__sea
• https://deno.com

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