This week we're joined by Rita Kozlov and Steve Faulkner, the co-founders of Cloudflare. The big news of the day is that Cloudflare has acquired Vite. This is a big deal for the JavaScript ecosystem and for the future of developer tools. We talk about the acquisition and what it means for Cloudflare and project.

• https://www.cloudflare.com/
• https://workers.cloudflare.com/
• https://blog.cloudflare.com/
• https://x.com/rita3ko

This week we're joined by Jeff Dickey, the creator of HK, Fnox, Aube, and Mise.We talk about the creation of these tools and what led him to work on them full time with his new company, en.dev.After that we dive into the future of these tools and what's next for Jeff.

• Previous episode: https://www.devtools.fm/episode/129

• https://jdx.dev/

• https://en.dev/

• https://github.com/jdx

• https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/

• https://github.com/endevco/aube

• https://github.com/jdx/hk

• https://github.com/jdx/fnox

This week we're joined by Sam Goodwin, the creator of Alchemy. Alchemy is a tool that allows you to create and manage your infrastructure as code. The current state of the art is built on all the tech debt of the past 10 years, Alchemy is a new approach to infrastructure as code that is more aligned with the modern web.

• https://v2.alchemy.run/
• https://github.com/alchemy-run/alchemy-effect
• https://github.com/alchemy-run/distilled
• https://alchemy.run (v1)

This week we're joined by Elio Struyf, the creator of Front Matter CMS and Demo Time.We talk about the origins of Front Matter CMS, the challenges of building a CMS, and the future of CMSs.We also dive into Demo Time, and how it can be used to create perfect demos for talks and presentations.

• GitHub: github.com/estruyf
• Website: eliostruyf.com
• Bluesky: @eliostruyf.com

This week we're joined by Alem Tuzlak, the creator of Tanstack Dev Tools and maintainer of Tanstack AI. We talk about the creation of Tanstack Dev Tools and what led him to work on it. After that we dive into Tanstack AI and how it differs from other AI libraries.

• GitHub https://github.com/AlemTuzlak
• Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/alem.forge42.dev
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alem-tuzlak/
• YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@alemtuzlak
• TanStack AI https://tanstack.com/ai/latest
• TanStack Devtools https://tanstack.com/devtools/latest

This week we're joined by Paolo Ricciuti, a Svelte maintainer and the creator of TMCP.We talk about his journey into the world of software development, his work on Svelte, and his new project TMCP.There has been a lot of changes in the Svelte ecosystem since we last talked to Rich, so we're excited to hear about the new features and improvements in Svelte 5!

• Website: https://ricciuti.me
• GitHub: https://github.com/paoloricciuti
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/paolo.ricciuti.me
• SvelteLab: https://sveltelab.dev
• TMCP: https://github.com/paoloricciuti/tmcp
• sveltekit-search-params: https://github.com/paoloricciuti/sveltekit-search-params
• Speaking: https://ricciuti.me/speaking
• Mainmatter: https://mainmatter.com

This week we're joined by Mark Erikson, the lead maintainer of Redux and the founder of Replay.io. We talk about his journey into the world of software development, his work on Redux, and all the cool stuff he's been doing at Replay.io.

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/markerikson/
• https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/hire-me/
• https://bsky.app/profile/acemarke.dev
• https://github.com/markerikson

This week we're joined by Ben Curtis, the founder and CEO of Honeybadger and creator of Breakwater. Ben has been a pillar of the Ruby community for over 20 years, and has been a driving force behind many of the tools and frameworks that we use today. We talk about his journey into the world of software development, his work on Honeybadger, and his new project Breakwater.

• https://www.honeybadger.io
• https://www.bencurtis.com
• https://www.breakwaterapp.com
• https://bsky.app/profile/bencurtis.com
• https://github.com/stympy
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/bencurtis
• https://hachyderm.io/@bencurtis