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  1. Open Claw, AI agents, and the future of developer workflows

    6 DAYS AGO

    Open Claw, AI agents, and the future of developer workflows

    The PodRocket panel is back for their February roundup! Paige, Paul, Jack and Noel dig into the biggest stories reshaping the web development landscape right now. The panel kicks off with a deep dive into OpenClaw, it's transition to a foundation, and Peter Steinberger joining OpenAI. Is a foundation the right long-term home for fast-moving AI projects? And what does the continuing flow of talent into big AI labs mean for the open source ecosystem? From there, the conversation shifts to the browser's changing role in the web, how the lines between native and web experiences continue to blur, and what that means for developers building for the future. The panel also tackles growing pressures on open source sustainability and the widening gap between developers who are deeply integrating AI agents into their workflows and everyone else who hasn't even heard of these tools yet. Resources TechCrunch: OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/openclaw-creator-peter-steinberger-joins-openai Interop 2026 report and dashboard: https://web.dev/blog/interop-2026 Google Chrome announcement on Gemini auto-browsing: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/chrome/gemini-3-auto-browse/ What to expect for open source in 2026, Github blog: https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/what-to-expect-for-open-source-in-2026/?ref=thecodebrew.net We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Fill out our listener survey! https://t.co/oKVAEXipxu Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Elizabeth, at elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Check out our newsletter! https://blog.logrocket.com/the-replay-newsletter/ Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket provides AI-first session replay and analytics that surfaces the UX and technical issues impacting user experiences. Start understanding where your users are struggling by trying it for free at LogRocket.com. Try LogRocket for free today. Chapters 00:00 Intro and Panel Welcome 01:00 What Is OpenClaw 03:00 Moving to a Foundation and OpenAI Concerns 08:00 AI Security Risks and Malware Issues 13:00 AI Haves vs Have Nots 18:00 Evaluating Open Source AI Stability 26:00 Browser Interop 2026 and Compatibility Gaps 31:00 Designing for AI Agents First 37:00 AI Search vs Google 42:00 Gemini in Chrome and Browser Lock In 49:00 Hot Takes 55:00 AI Burnout and Developer Mental Health Special Guest: Jack Herrington.

    53 min
  2. Making sense of web rendering patterns with Gil Fink

    19 FEB

    Making sense of web rendering patterns with Gil Fink

    Gil Fink breaks down web rendering patterns including server side rendering, SSR, client side rendering, CSR, and static rendering, along with newer approaches like islands architecture, resumability, and hybrid rendering. The conversation explores tradeoffs around hydration, web performance, INP, CDN caching, and bundle size optimization, and compares frameworks like Next.js, TanStack Start, Astro, Qwik, and Remix to help developers make better decisions about React rendering strategies and overall application performance. Links Resources We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Fill out our listener survey! https://t.co/oKVAEXipxu Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Elizabeth, at elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Check out our newsletter! https://blog.logrocket.com/the-replay-newsletter/ Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket provides AI-first session replay and analytics that surfaces the UX and technical issues impacting user experiences. Start understanding where your users are struggling by trying it for free at LogRocket.com. Try LogRocket for free today. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Gil’s Background 01:00 Why Rendering Patterns Keep Evolving 02:00 What Problem Rendering Patterns Solve 03:00 Frameworks and Rendering Decisions 04:00 Server Side Rendering Explained 05:30 Client Side Rendering and Hydration Costs 07:00 Performance Tradeoffs Between SSR and CSR 08:30 Static Rendering for Blogs and Marketing Sites 09:30 Hybrid Rendering and Progressive Enhancement 11:00 How to Choose the Right Rendering Strategy 12:00 Interactivity as the Key Decision Factor 14:00 Islands Architecture vs SSR 16:00 Common Mistakes with Rendering Choices 17:30 Real World Performance Tuning Examples 19:00 When You Don’t Actually Need Next.js 21:00 The Rise of Hybrid Rendering 22:30 Next.js vs TanStack Start 24:00 Final Rule of Thumb for Choosing Rendering Patterns

    25 min
  3. How developer platforms fail (and how yours won’t) with Russ Miles

    12 FEB

    How developer platforms fail (and how yours won’t) with Russ Miles

    Russ Miles joins the show to unpack why developer platforms fail and how to rethink platform engineering through the lens of flow of value rather than factory-style developer productivity metaphors. Russ explains why every organization already has an internal developer platform, and why treating it as platform as a product changes everything. The conversation explores cognitive load and cognitive burden, how to design around strong feedback loops, and why the OODA loop mindset helps teams make better decisions closer to development time. They discuss the risks of overloading pipelines and CI/CD systems, the tension between shipping fast and handling security vulnerabilities in a regulated environment, and how to “shift left” without simply dumping responsibility onto developers. Drawing on lessons from Rod Johnson, the Spring Framework, TDD, and modern software engineering as described by Dave Farley, Russ reframes platforms as systems that support experimentation through the scientific method. The episode also touches on AI assisted coding, developer focus, and how thoughtful developer experience and DX surveys can prevent burnout while improving value delivery. Links Website: https://www.russmiles.com Substack: https://russmiles.substack.com X: https://x.com/russmiles Resources Talk: https://www.russmiles.com/platform-engineering-failure-keynote Substack article: https://russmiles.substack.com/p/developer-platform-devrel-listen We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Fill out our listener survey! https://t.co/oKVAEXipxu Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Elizabeth, at elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Check out our newsletter! https://blog.logrocket.com/the-replay-newsletter/ Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket provides AI-first session replay and analytics that surfaces the UX and technical issues impacting user experiences. Start understanding where your users are struggling by trying it for free at LogRocket.com. Try LogRocket for free today. Chapters 00:00 What Is a Developer Platform 03:00 You Already Have a Platform 08:00 Cognitive Load vs Cognitive Burden 12:00 Feedback Loops and TDD 18:00 Pipelines, Security and OODA Loops 26:00 The Factory Metaphor Problem 31:00 Modern Software Engineering and Value Delivery 40:00 Avoiding Burnout Through Better DX 46:00 The Software Enchiridion and Final Thoughts

    46 min
  4. Rich Harris on fine grained reactivity and async first frameworks

    5 FEB

    Rich Harris on fine grained reactivity and async first frameworks

    Rich Harris joins the podcast to discuss his talk, fine-grained everything, exploring fine-grained reactivity, frontend performance, and the real costs of React Server Components and RSC payloads. Rich explains how Svelte and SvelteKit approach co-located data fetching, remote functions, and RPC to reduce server-side rendering costs, improve developer experience, and avoid unnecessary performance overhead on mobile networks. The conversation dives into async rendering, parallel async data fetching, type safety with schema validation, and why async-first frameworks may define the future of JavaScript frameworks and web performance. Links X: https://x.com/Rich_Harris Github: https://github.com/rich-harris Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rich-harris.dev Resources Modern front-end frameworks like Svelte are astonishingly fast at rendering, thanks to techniques such as signal-based fine-grained reactivity. But there's more to performance than updating the screen at 60 frames per second. In this talk, we'll learn about new approaches that help you build fast, reliable, data-efficient apps. Slides: https://fine-grained-everything.vercel.app/1-1 We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Fill out our listener survey! https://t.co/oKVAEXipxu Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Elizabeth, at elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Check out our newsletter! https://blog.logrocket.com/the-replay-newsletter/ Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket provides AI-first session replay and analytics that surfaces the UX and technical issues impacting user experiences. Start understanding where your users are struggling by trying it for free at LogRocket.com. Try LogRocket for free today. ChaptersSpecial Guest: Rich Harris.

    41 min
  5. Tailwind Layoffs, Cloudflare Buys Astro | Panel

    29 JAN

    Tailwind Layoffs, Cloudflare Buys Astro | Panel

    In this mini-panel, Jack, Paige, Paul, and Noel discuss how AI reshaping developer tooling is impacting open source monetization, including the recent Tailwind layoffs and the collapse of Tailwind documentation traffic caused by AI. The conversation expands into broader developer tooling business models and reacts to claims like Ryan Dahl stating that the era of humans writing code is over. They also cover the Astro Cloudflare acquisition, what it means for the Cloudflare developer platform, and how this shapes the frontend frameworks future. Hot takes include light mode vs dark mode SaaS, shifting developer aesthetics, and why AI productivity for developers may now come down to workflow design rather than raw coding skill. Resources Tailwind Layoffs and AI Tailwind layoffs: https://www.businessinsider.com/tailwind-engineer-layoffs-ai-github-2026-1#:~:text=Tailwind%20laid%20off%2075%25%20of,on%20our%20engineering%20team%20lost Tailwind layoffs: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957 Ryan Dahl Tweet: https://x.com/rough__sea/status/2013280952370573666 Apple and Google joint statement: https://x.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/2010760810751017017 Astro joins Cloudflare Astro joins Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/astro-joins-cloudflare We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Fill out our listener survey! https://t.co/oKVAEXipxu Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Elizabeth, at elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Check out our newsletter! https://blog.logrocket.com/the-replay-newsletter/ Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket provides AI-first session replay and analytics that surfaces the UX and technical issues impacting user experiences. Start understanding where your users are struggling by trying it for free at LogRocket.com. Try LogRocket for free today. ChaptersSpecial Guest: Jack Herrington.

    39 min
  6. Modern CSS tricks for massive performance gains with Michael Hladky

    22 JAN

    Modern CSS tricks for massive performance gains with Michael Hladky

    Michael Hladky joins the pod to explain how CSS performance improvements like content-visibility, CSS containment, contain layout, and contain paint can dramatically outperform JavaScript virtual scrolling. The conversation explores virtual scrolling, large DOM performance, and how layout and paint work inside the browser rendering pipeline, including recalculate styles and their impact on INP Interaction to Next Paint. Michael shares real-world examples of frontend performance optimization, discusses cross-browser CSS support including Safari content-visibility, and explains why web performance issues tied to rendering are often misunderstood and overlooked. Links LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-hladky-519340148/ GitHub: https://github.com/BioPhoton X: https://x.com/Michael_Hladky Resources Conference link: https://push-based.io/event/perfnow-2025-michael-hladky-zero-js-virtual-scrolling-css Conference resource: https://github.com/push-based/css-contain-and-content-visibility-research We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Fill out our listener survey! https://t.co/oKVAEXipxu Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Elizabeth, at elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Check out our newsletter! https://blog.logrocket.com/the-replay-newsletter/ Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket provides AI-first session replay and analytics that surfaces the UX and technical issues impacting user experiences. Start understanding where your users are struggling by trying it for free at LogRocket.com. Try LogRocket for free today. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to CSS Performance and Virtual Scrolling 01:20 Why Interaction to Next Paint (INP) Changed Everything 03:00 The Real Cost of Layout and Paint 05:10 Why Large DOMs Break Performance 06:45 How CSS Containment Works 08:30 Contain Layout vs Contain Paint Explained 10:40 When Containment Breaks Your UI 12:20 Introducing Content Visibility 14:10 CSS Content Visibility vs JavaScript Virtual Scrolling 16:40 Why CSS Skips Recalculate Styles Entirely 18:50 Real Performance Gains on Desktop and Mobile 20:40 Cross-Browser Support Including Safari 22:10 Common Pitfalls and Flickering Issues 24:10 How to Measure Layout and Paint Performance 26:10 Why Frameworks Should Use This by Default 28:00 Design Systems and Low-Hanging Performance Wins 30:10 The Biggest CSS Performance Misconception 32:00 Final Takeaways on Frontend Performance

    26 min
  7. What's new with Tauri | Daniel Thompson-Yvetot

    15 JAN

    What's new with Tauri | Daniel Thompson-Yvetot

    In this episode of PodRocket, Daniel Thompson--Yvetot joins us to break down what’s new in Tauri 2.0 and how developers are using the Tauri framework to build desktop and mobile apps with Rust and JavaScript. We discuss how Tauri lets developers use frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular for the UI while handling heavy logic in Rust, resulting in smaller app binaries and better performance than Electron alternatives. The conversation covers Create Tauri App for faster onboarding, the new plugin system for controlling file system and OS access, and how Tauri improves app security by reducing attack surfaces. They also dive into mobile app development, differences between system WebViews, experiments with Chromium Embedded Framework, and why cross platform apps still need platform-specific thinking. Daniel also shares what’s coming next for Tauri, including flexibility in webviews, accessibility tooling, compliance requirements in Europe, and the roadmap toward Tauri 3.0. Links Tauri: https://v2.tauri.app LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denjell We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Fill out our listener survey! https://t.co/oKVAEXipxu Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Elizabeth, at elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Check out our newsletter! https://blog.logrocket.com/the-replay-newsletter/ Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket provides AI-first session replay and analytics that surfaces the UX and technical issues impacting user experiences. Start understanding where your users are struggling by trying it for free at LogRocket.com. Try LogRocket for free today. ChaptersSpecial Guest: Daniel Thompson-Yvetot.

    50 min
  8. Angular v21, from signals to testing with Mark Techson

    8 JAN

    Angular v21, from signals to testing with Mark Techson

    Paul sits down with Mark Techson to break down Angular v21. They explore how Angular signals power new features like Angular signal forms, improve scalability, and simplify state management. The conversation dives deep into Angular AI tooling, including the Angular MCP server, Angular AI tutor, and the Angular Gemini CLI extension, explaining how Angular is adapting to modern AI-first developer workflows. Mark also shares how Angular Aria introduces Angular headless components with built-in Angular accessibility, reshaping UX collaboration. The episode wraps with updates on using Vitest with Angular, and performance features like Angular defer syntax and Angular incremental hydration. Links Blog: https://marktechson.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marktechson YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@marktechson X: https://x.com/marktechson Github: https://github.com/MarkTechson Resources Announcing Angular v21: https://blog.angular.dev/announcing-angular-v21-57946c34f14b Angular v21 video announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDAHORVzQ5g We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Fill out our listener survey! https://t.co/oKVAEXipxu Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Elizabeth, at elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Check out our newsletter! https://blog.logrocket.com/the-replay-newsletter/ Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket provides AI-first session replay and analytics that surfaces the UX and technical issues impacting user experiences. Start understanding where your users are struggling by trying it for free at LogRocket.com. Try LogRocket for free today. Chapters 00:00:00 – Introduction & What’s New in Angular v21 00:01:00 – Angular Release Cadence & Why v21 Matters 00:02:45 – Who Angular v21 Is For: Scaling Teams & Apps 00:04:00 – AI in Modern Angular Workflows 00:05:00 – Context, Memory, and AI Tooling Strategy 00:07:30 – Web CodeGen Score & Evidence-Based Best Practices 00:08:50 – Introducing Signal Forms 00:11:00 – Client vs Server Validation with Signals 00:12:00 – Migration Strategy for Signal Forms 00:13:00 – Signals vs Observables: When to Use Each 00:15:00 – Rethinking UX with Angular Aria 00:17:00 – Headless Components & Design Systems 00:19:30 – Styling, AI, and Design Collaboration 00:22:00 – Testing in Angular v21 & Vitest 00:24:00 – Why Vitest Took Time to Land 00:26:00 – Developer Experience & Framework Fatigue 00:29:00 – Choosing Frameworks in 2025 00:31:00 – AI Tutors, MCP Servers & CLI Tooling 00:34:00 – Deferred Loading & Incremental Hydration 00:35:00 – Where to Learn More & Closing Remarks

    36 min
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    2020 - 2026
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