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

This week we're joined by Jamon Holmgren, the founder and CEO of Infinite Red. Infinite Red is a software consultancy that specializes in building React Native apps. We talk about his early days of coding, starting a consultancy, remote culture at Infinite Red, React Native, community and Chain React, and building his new game Into the Dawn.
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Twitter/X
GitHub
LinkedIn
Infinite Red
Into the Dawn on Steam

This week we're joined by Joel Griffith, the founder and CEO of Browserless. Browserless is a browser automation service that allows you to run headless browsers in the cloud. We talk about the challenges of running headless browsers at scale, the use cases for browser automation, and the future of browser automation. We also discuss the BrowserQL feature, which allows you to query the web using a SQL-like language.
Website: browserless.io
Documentation: docs.browserless.io
GitHub: github.com/browserless/browserless (12.3k stars)
GitHub (Personal): github.com/joelgriffith
Twitter/X: @browserless
LinkedIn: Joel Griffith

This week we're joined by Dana Lawson, CTO at Netlify. We talk about her journey from the US Army to leading engineering teams at companies like GitHub, New Relic, and now Netlify. We discuss Netlify's evolution from JAMstack to AI-powered developer tools, including Agent Runners and their MCP server. We also explore the concept of "Agent Experience" (AX) as a new paradigm alongside UX and DX, and how hiring practices are evolving in the age of AI.
Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/
Agent Experience Hub: https://www.netlify.com/agent-experience/
agentexperience.ax: https://agentexperience.ax/
Agent Runners: https://www.netlify.com/platform/agent-runners/
Netlify MCP Server: https://docs.netlify.com/build/build-with-ai/netlify-mcp-server/
Dana on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dglawson/
Dana's LeadDev Profile: https://leaddev.com/community/dana-lawson
Dana's UXDX Profile: https://uxdx.com/profile/dana-lawson/

This week we're joined by Fabian Hiller, the creator of Valibot, Standard Schema, and Formish. We talk about the birth of Valibot, the collaboration between all the schema libraries on Standard Schema, and the new Formish library. We also discuss the future of developer tools and AI integration.
GitHub: https://github.com/fabian-hiller
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fabianhiller.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabianhiller/
Valibot — https://valibot.dev/
Standard Schema — https://standardschema.dev/
Formisch — https://formisch.dev/

This week we're joined by Salma Alam-Naylor, the Head of Developer Education at Nordcraft. Salma shares her journey from music teacher to developer, her discovery of the developer education space in 2020, and the challenges and opportunities she's faced in her role. We discuss the importance of visual editors in web development, the illusion of complexity in development, and the future of web development. Salma also introduces Nordcraft, a visual web framework that allows you to build websites with a GUI.
https://whitep4nth3r.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitep4nth3r/?originalSubdomain=uk
https://github.com/whitep4nth3r
https://nordcraft.com/