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This week we have Robby Russell, the creator of Oh My ZSH, and CEO of Planet Argon. We talk about the history of Oh My ZSH, the history of Planet Argon, and the future of terminal environments.


https://ohmyz.sh/
https://github.com/robbyrussell
https://x.com/robbyrussell
https://robbyonrails.com/
https://www.planetargon.com/

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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.


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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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