This week we're joined by Peter van Hardenberg (PVH), director of the Ink and Switch research lab and co-author of the seminal Local First Software paper.Peter shares the origin story of local-first software, from his realization on a San Francisco train to his work at Heroku and beyond.We dive deep into Automerge, Ink and Switch's local-first sync engine built on CRDTs (Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types), exploring how it enables real-time collaboration while keeping data on your computer.We discuss the technical challenges of building distributed systems, the philosophy behind local-first software, and how projects like Key Hive are pushing the boundaries of decentralized data access.Peter also shares his vision for the future of computing, where software ownership and interoperability become fundamental principles rather than afterthoughts.

• https://www.pvh.ca
• https://www.inkandswitch.com
• https://automerge.org
• https://github.com/automerge/automerge
• https://github.com/pvh

This week we have Jeppe Reinhold, a core contributor to Storybook working at Chromatic. Jeppe shares how Storybook has evolved from a slow, complex tool to a fast, modern development environment through major architectural changes like Vite integration, ESM migration, and dependency reduction. We talk about the Component Story Format evolution, framework agnosticism challenges, local testing improvements with vitest integration, and how Storybook is integrating with AI and LLMs through MCP servers to help coding agents understand and use component libraries.

• https://reinhold.is/
• https://bsky.app/profile/reinhold.is
• https://storybook.js.org/

Join us as we chat with Mike Samuel, an engineer who was at google for 17 years and built the original version of google calendar. He's now the founder and CEO of Temper, a programming language specifically design for translating logic into other programming languages.

This week we have Eric Seidel, co-creator of Flutter and founder of Shorebird. Eric shares his journey from building WebKit at Apple and Chrome at Google to creating Flutter, a multi-platform UI framework that compiles to native code. We talk about the technical challenges of browser engines, why the web couldn't deliver high-quality mobile apps, and how Shorebird is solving Flutter's code push problem to enable instant app updates without app store approval.

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericseidel/
• https://shorebird.dev/
• https://bsky.app/profile/eseidel.com
• https://github.com/eseidel

This week we have Oliver Medhurst, the creator of Porffor. Porffor is a JavaScript ahead of time compiler that compiles JavaScript to WebAssembly. We talk about the technical details of how it works, and the future of JavaScript engines.

• https://x.com/canadahonk
• https://porffor.dev/
• https://github.com/CanadaHonk/porffor
• https://goose.icu/

This week we talk to Gabriel Nordeborn, a core member of the Rescript team. Rescript is a langauge that compiles to JS but has some serious superpowers. Whether it is it's awesome pattern matching, or greate react integartoin there is a lot to love. Come learn about it with us.

https://rescript-lang.org/

https://github.com/zth

https://x.com/___zth___

This week we talk to Nathan Flurry, co-founder of Rivet, a platform for building stateful serverless applications. Rivet started as a platform for building multiplayer games, but has since evolved to be a general purpose computing platform. They're actors are a first class primitive that makes it easy to build stateful serverless applications.

• Rivet GitHub: https://github.com/rivet-gg/rivet
• RivetKit: https://github.com/rivet-gg/rivetkit
• Documentation: https://rivet.gg/docs
• Nathan's Twitter/X: https://x.com/NathanFlurry
• Nathan's GitHub: https://github.com/NathanFlurry
• Y Combinator Profile: https://ycombinator.com/companies/rivet

This week we talk to Zoltan Kochan, the lead maintainer of PNPM, a package manager for JavaScript. PNPM revolutionized the way we install dependencies in the JavaScript ecosystem with it's speed and focus on DX. Come join us as we talk about the origins of PNPM, the technical details of how it works, and the future of package management.

• https://github.com/zkochan
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/zkochan/
• https://pnpm.io/
• https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm
• https://www.kochan.io/