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This week we have Maggie Appleton, a designer and developer who is working on a new research tool called Elicit. Maggie is a masterful visual storyteller and has been creating images that are both beautiful and informative for years. She is also a proponent of Digital Gardening, a new way of building a personal website that is both beautiful and informative. We talk about how we should be building AI into our apps, and how we can use the power of local first development to make our apps more accessible to everyone.


https://twitter.com/Mappletons


https://maggieappleton.com/


https://elicit.com/

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Tooltips

Andrew


https://github.com/stanford-oval/storm


https://next-view-transitions.vercel.app/

Justin


https://github.com/atomicojs/atomico


https://superstate.io/

Maggie


Super Whisper - https://superwhisper.com/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M

This week we have Johannes Schickling, the founder and former CEO of Prisma. We talk about what he's been up to in the last few years and what he envisions for the future of software development. He is a contributor to the Effect library which is a new way to write asynchronous code in TypeScript. We also talk about the rise of local first development, how it's changing the way we build software, and how he's using it to build his new app Overtone.


https://twitter.com/schickling?lang=en
http://effect.website
https://overtone.pro/
https://www.localfirst.fm/
https://www.prisma.io/
https://riffle.systems/

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Tooltips

Andrew


https://github.com/rossjrw/pr-preview-action
https://typedoc.org/
https://github.com/PetoiCamp/OpenCat

Justin


https://unstorage.unjs.io/
https://github.com/OnedocLabs/react-print-pdf

Johannes


Nix - https://nixos.org
Attest - https://github.com/arktypeio/arktype/tree/2.0/ark/attest#cli + https://ui.perfetto.dev/

This week we have Mitchell Hashimoto, the founder of HashiCorp. We talk about where it all started and how the company and it's tools have impacted the industry. We also talk about the challenges of being a founder and the importance of thinking about open source monetization early on. We also talk about his experience as a pilot and his technical philanthropy in the terminal emulator space.


https://twitter.com/mitchellh


https://mitchellh.com/


https://github.com/mitchellh


Origin story of HashiCorp (https://youtu.be/Y7c_twmDxQ4)

Selected writing


My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects (https://mitchellh.com/writing/building-large-technical-projects)


Contributing to Complex Projects (https://mitchellh.com/writing/contributing-to-complex-projects)

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This week we talk to Adam Wathan, the creator of Tailwind CSS. We go into all the changes for Tailwind CSS v4, discussing how they use Rust and Lightning CSS. Adam also shares about how they've been monetizing the tool and building out Tailwind Labs. We also address some of the heated feedback from the Twitter.


https://adamwathan.me/
https://github.com/adamwathan
https://twitter.com/adamwathan

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This week we have Dan Abramov, a core team member of React. We talk about his latest work on Bluesky, a decentralized social network. We also go into many react topics, including the history of server components, the new React compiler, and the future of React.


https://twitter.com/dan_abramov2
https://danabra.mov/
https://overreacted.io/
https://bsky.app/

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This week we have Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel, and the creator of Next.js. We talk about the road to Vercel, how web development is changing, and how Vercel is helping developers build better products. We also talk about AI and generative UI, and how it might change the future of software development.


https://github.com/rauchg
https://rauchg.com/
https://github.com/rauchg/Socket.IO
https://vercel.com/

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