The Weekly Dev's Brew

Jan-Niklas Wortmann runs this show like a Monday morning coffee check-in with a friend who happens to know the JavaScript ecosystem inside out. Jan is an RxJS core team member and developer advocate, so he brings actual standing in the community and does not need to pad episodes with fluff. Each week he picks a small handful of stories that mattered: a framework release, a spec proposal moving forward, an interesting blog post, a controversy that blew up on dev Twitter. Then he unpacks why the story matters for working developers, not just maintainers. Some weeks he goes solo and just talks. Other weeks he brings in guests, usually people building things he genuinely admires: library authors, conference organizers, engineers at companies doing interesting front-end work. The interviews feel relaxed because Jan asks the kinds of follow-up questions someone who writes code would ask, rather than the generic press-kit prompts. Episodes run short enough to fit a commute but long enough to actually say something. German listeners might recognize Jan from his conference talks, though the show itself is in English and aimed at a global audience. It is a solid way to stay current on the JS world without drowning in newsletters, and the informal tone makes dense topics feel approachable. Good pick for mid-level devs who want context, not just headlines.