This week we're talking to Rudy Fraser, the developer behind BlackSky, a community he carved out of BlueSky. Using custom feeds, labelers and everything the platform has to offer, BlackSky offers a safe space for Black communities to share their stories and connect. In the process he's dealt with funding, scaling, and building out his own tools on top of ATProto, the tech behind BlueSky.

• https://www.blackskyweb.xyz/
• https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/rsky
• https://blog.rudyfraser.com/blob-post/
• https://github.com/rudyfraser

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This week we're talking to Matt Perry, a creator of Framer Motion. Matt is a software engineer at Framer, and he's been working on the animation libraries for a while and has a long history of innovation. He recently left Framer to focus on the now rebranded Motion. He aims to make more of the library usable form frameworks outside of React.

• https://x.com/mattgperry
• https://motion.dev/
• https://github.com/motiondivision/motion
• https://github.com/mattgperry
• https://motion.dev/about

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This week we talk to Anselm Eickhoff, a creator of Jazz Tools. Jazz is a reimagining of what the client server boundary is and how it can be used to build local first apps. Join us as we explore the next generation of local first tooling.

• https://bsky.app/profile/anselm.io
• https://jazz.tools/
• https://github.com/aeplay

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This week we talk to Dan Stepanov, a maintainer of NativeWind, the author of NativeWind UI. NativeWind is tailwind CSS for React Native, a seemingly simple way to build UI that has lots of challenges to build. On top of that he's building NativeWind UI, a component library that leverages NativeWind to build native like experiences. We also talk about the challenges of making money on top of open source.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8QvZKlnb7M
• https://www.danstepanov.com/
• https://x.com/nativewindui
• https://rn.new/
• https://github.com/danstepanov
• https://www.nativewind.dev/

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This week Evan You joins us again to talk about his new company, VoidZero, and the future of JavaScript tooling. Evan build Vite and ushered in a new era of JavaScript tooling, but thinks he can do better now by building up new rust based tooling. Rolldown is the first step in this as they aim to make build times a thing of the past.

• https://bsky.app/profile/evanyou.me
• https://www.accel.com/noteworthy/our-seed-investment-in-voidzero-evan-yous-bold-vision-for-javascript-tooling
• https://voidzero.dev/posts/announcing-voidzero-inc
• https://github.com/yyx990803

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This week Nate Wienert stop by for a second appearance. Nate is the creator of Tamagui, a framework for building universal apps with React Native. That work led him to create One Stack, a framework for building local first universal apps with React Native.

• https://onestack.dev/
• https://x.com/one__js
• https://x.com/natebirdman

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Do you use cloud development environments? Do you use dev containers? This week we talk to Ivan Burazin, a co-founder of Daytona, a dev environment manager and AI developer. Ivan has been working on this problem for almost two decades now, originally for PHPAnywhere/CodeAnywhere, but now for Daytona. Daytona is a self-hosted and secure open source development environment manager. Come with us as we learn about the history and the future of dev environments in the cloud.

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• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanburazin/
• https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona
• https://x.com/ivanburazin
• https://medium.com/@ivanburazin/the-real-ai-coding-race-9fe2a5f7b9c5
• https://medium.com/@ivanburazin/enterprise-grade-alternative-to-github-codespaces-118a75cc4e00
• https://codeanywhere.com/blog/the-strategic-partnership-between-codeanywhere-and-daytona

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This week we have the unique opportunity to talk to Erez Zukerman, the founder and CEO of ZSA, a company that makes open source keyboards. ErgoDox is a split keyboard that is based on open source work. Come with use as we discuss the history of ErgoDox, the challenges of making a keyboard, and all the cool products they ship.

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• https://ergodox-ez.com/
• https://people.zsa.io/
• https://blog.zsa.io/
• https://ergodox-ez.com/crowdfunding
• https://www.ergodox.io/ (Original OSS version)
• https://www.zsa.io/tisha-talks-switches

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