devtools.fm

Andrew Lisowski and Justin Bennett started devtools.fm in 2021 with a clear mission: interview the creators of the developer tools that engineers use every day. Over 164 weekly episodes, they have built an impressive catalog of conversations with the people behind frameworks like React, Solid, Svelte, and Vue, runtimes like Node, Deno, and Bun, languages like Rust and Zig, database platforms like Supabase and Turso, and deployment services like Vercel and Netlify. The show goes beyond surface-level product demos. Lisowski and Bennett dig into the design decisions, tradeoffs, and technical challenges that shaped each tool. They ask the kinds of questions that working engineers actually care about — why was this architectural choice made, what broke along the way, how does this tool fit into the broader ecosystem. Recent episodes have explored AI integration in developer workflows, browser automation tools, schema validation libraries, and the emerging concept of "Agent Experience" as a complement to traditional developer experience. Episodes run about 45 to 60 minutes and drop weekly. The 4.7 star rating from 25 reviews may seem modest in scale, but the feedback is consistently enthusiastic — listeners call out the high-quality guests and genuinely useful insights into developer experience. If you care about the tools in your stack and want to understand the thinking behind them from the people who actually built them, devtools.fm delivers exactly that.