Podcast Episodes

Bun v1.2: SQL, YAML & Security Scans

Episode 111

Last episode, we lamented Claude’s lack of checkpoints to roll back code when it goes off the rails. Other devs feel the same, and this week Checkpoints for Claude Code debuted. It’s an MCP server th…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Alchemy: IaC Without Terraform

Episode 110

The latest craze for MCP this week? Instead of multiple MCP servers with different tools, use an MCP server that accepts programming code as tool inputs - a single “ubertool” if you will. AI agents l…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

TanStack Devtools: One Panel to Rule Them All

Episode 109

You just can’t keep TanStack out of the news for more than a few weeks before a new product appears. This week, it’s TanStack Devtools, which provides a centralized devtools panel of all the Tanstack…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

TanStack DB: Reactive Apps Without Firebase

Episode 108

There’s drama brewing between AI-answer engine company Perplexity and hosting platform Cloudflare, which recently declared it would actively block AI bots from crawling websites without the owners’ p…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Is es-toolkit the Lodash Killer?

Episode 107

There’s a new utility library in town called es-toolkit, and it’s gunning for Lodash. 2-3x faster, 97% smaller, full TypeScript support, and using modern JavaScript APIs, es-toolkit’s just added a “L…

Published on 3 months ago

Is Open Source Software Infrastructure?

Episode 106

GitHub is advocating for a European Union Sovereign Tech Fund to help pay the open source software developers building and maintaining software relied upon by economies and societies just like any ot…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Windsurf’s 72-Hour Power Shuffle

Episode 105

There are so many headlines about AI IDE Windsurf as of late, but we’ll try to catch you up. 

First, OpenAI wanted to buy Windsurf for $3B, but the deal fell through due to Microsoft. Next, Google hir…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Vercel Acquires Nuxt and Nitro

Episode 104

Tech companies continue the acquisition spree of the summer when Vercel announces it’s hired the creators of NuxtLabs, the folks who build metaframework Nuxt and server runtime Nitro.

Figma returns to…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Cloudflare Drops the Hammer on AI Crawlers

Episode 103

The big tech company conferences continued this summer with Vercel hosting Vercel Ship 2025. As you’d expect there was lots of talk about AI and Vercel’s AI Cloud: tools, infrastructure, and platform…

Published on 4 months ago

Battle of the AI CLIs: Jack Tests Them All

Episode 102

The field of AI coding agent CLIs is crowded and getting more so by the day, and our co-host Jack has tried them all so you don’t have to. The big four are: OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, G…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago