devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development

Braden Sidoti - Clerk

This week we talk to Braden Sidoti, CTO and Co-founder of Clerk. Clerk is a developer tool that makes it easy to add authentication to your app. We talk about the complexity of authentication, the role of session management, and the evolution of Clerk. ⁠https://twitter.com/bsinthewild⁠ ⁠https://clerk.com/⁠ Episode sponsored By Raycast (⁠https://www.raycast.com/⁠) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. ⁠https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm⁠ ⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe⁠ ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership⁠ Tooltip Andrew ⁠https://rivet.ironcladapp.com/⁠ ⁠https://jsx.email/⁠ Justin ⁠https://github.com/0xType/0xProto⁠ ⁠https://github.com/seflless/skewed⁠ by Francois Laberge Braden ⁠https://resend.com/⁠

Isaac Schlueter - npm, Tier

This week we talk with Isaac Schlueter, a founder at npm and Tier. We talk about the creation of npm, the early days of node, and the transition from CJS to ESM in node. We delve into the challenges of running a package registry (and a company) and his new company Tier. Tier is building a new way to define pricing for your products. https://github.com/isaacs https://www.tier.run https://node-tap.org https://fosstodon.org/@isaacs https://twitter.com/izs Episode sponsored By Raycast (https://www.raycast.com/) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

James Perkins - Unkey

In this week's insightful conversation, we feature James Perkins, the co-founder of Unkey. James discusses his experiences at Clerk, his career transition to co-founding Unkey, and his thoughts on the future direction of backend services. He shares the challenging reality of balancing two programming jobs at once and underscores the necessity for strong security practices in every tech startup. https://twitter.com/james_r_perkins https://clerk.com/ https://unkey.dev/devtools.fm Want to sponsor the podcast? Head on over to https://devtools.fm/sponsor to get started. Shop devtools.fm merch => https://shop.devtools.fm Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership Tooltips Andrew https://github.com/intel/Wasmnizer-ts https://carton.run/ Justin https://github.com/laurentpayot/verticalize https://deno.com/blog/queues James https://reflect.app/ https://www.risecalendar.com/ https://www.hanko.io/

Dax Raad - SST

This week we talk with Dax Raad about SST, a framework for building serverless applications on AWS. SST is a typescript framework that makes it easy to build serverless applications on AWS. It's built on top of the AWS CDK, but provides a much nicer developer experience. ax also presents a critique of cloud service providers and a call for more open source knowledge. https://twitter.com/thdxr https://twitter.com/SST_dev https://twitter.com/tomorrow_fm https://github.com/sst/sst https://thdxr.com Episode sponsored By Raycast (https://www.raycast.com/) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership Tooltips Andrew https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsertech-digest-how-rayon-is-making-cad/ https://github.com/infinitered/flame Justin https://github.com/memgraph/odin https://getdarkmatter.dev/ Dax https://popsql.com/ https://replicache.dev/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B5R3VQJ3?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

Vlad A. Ionescu - Earthly

This week we talk to Vlad A Ionescu about Earthly, a build automation framework that helps you with containerizing your builds such that they behave the same way no matter where you run them. By using Earthly, you can run your entire CI scripts locally on your laptop with the same consistency as you would get in the CI, and be able to debug things faster, iterate faster, and get faster feedback. Join us as we talk about the challenges of building a CI service, the importance of understanding the business side of things, and how to price your product. https://earthly.dev https://earthly.dev/blog/shutting-down-earthly-ci/ https://twitter.com/VladAIonescu https://vladaionescu.com Sponsored By Raycast (https://www.raycast.com/) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership Tooltips Andrew https://docs.axflow.dev/guides/models/getting-started.html https://www.hyperdx.io/ Justin https://www.burnerapp.com/ https://www.bhoite.com/sculptures/boron-lander/ Vlad https://github.com/moby/buildkit