The Weekly Dev's Brew

Why AI Coding Made Me More Productive - And Less Happy | Dillon Mulroy

Why did AI coding make Dillon Mulroy more productive and less happy? He stopped writing most of his own code after Claude Opus 4.5. Six months later he ships more than he

Dex Horthy - What Actually Gets You 2-3x With AI Coding

You can't get 10x with AI coding. Not today. Dex Horthy (Human Layer) makes the case for 2-3x if you refuse to ship slop, and why a perfect spec still produces garbage if

How To Ship Real Code With AI (Not Junk) ft. David Cramer

Everyone is selling 100x developer productivity, but David Cramer runs production software at Sentry and says LLMs are not making his own work faster. We talk about what

Faster Isn't Better — Mario Zechner on Everything AI Made Us Forget (creator of Pi)

Mario Zechner has watched people generate 500,000 lines of code in a week with a swarm of agents. He'll tell you exactly how that ends.Mario is the creator of Pi, the min

A Google Engineer's Honest Take on AI, Angular, and the Future of Your Career

In this episode, I sit down with Minko Gechev — Google Engineer, former Angular team lead, and one of the most thoughtful voices on AI and developer productivity.We get i

Microfrontends: Cutting Through the Hype and Misconceptions (w/ Luca)

Micro-frontends promise to help teams scale development, but AWS Principal Architect Luca Mezzalira has seen some succeed and some just fall apart. In this conversation,

Why CSS is Now the Fastest-Moving Space in Web Development (with Una Kravets)

Why CSS is Now the Fastest-Moving Space in Web Development (with Una Kravets)While everyone's talking about AI disrupting development, Una Kravets from Google Chrome reve

Writing a Web Browser in 2025 (with Andreas Kling)

What does it take to build a web browser when everyone says it's impossible? In this episode, we sit down with Andreas Kling, the engineer behind Ladybird—the only major

From Discord Helper to OSS Maintainer (w/ Dominik Dorfmeister)

What does it take to accidentally become the maintainer of one of React's most popular libraries? In this episode, we sit down with Dominik Dorfmeister (aka. TkDodo), mai

Andrii Sherman: Breaking ORM Barriers with Drizzle

What does it take to build one of the fastest-growing database ORMs from scratch? In this episode, we sit down with Andrii Sherman, co-founder of Drizzle, to unpack their

How JavaScript Really Evolves: Inside TC39 with Daniel Ehrenberg

Ever wondered who actually decides how JavaScript evolves? In this episode, Jan-Niklas Wortmann sits down with Daniel Ehrenberg, President of Ecma International and long-

Scaling New Heights: Jeff Cross Discusses NX, Monorepos, and the Future of Development

Join us in this insightful episode of The Weekly Dev's Brew as we sit down with Jeff Cross, co-founder of NX, to explore the evolution of monorepos and their impact on mo

Parenting Wisdom in Engineering Leadership: Skills from Raising Kids to Leading Developers

In this episode of The Weekly Dev's Brew, Jan sits down with Maya Shavin, Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce and mother of four, to explore an unconventional truth: par

Why JavaScript is Broken: How Effect and TypeScript Fixes It (w/ Michael Arnaldi)

In this episode of The Weekly Dev's Brew, Jan sits down with Michael Arnaldi, founder of Effect TS, to tackle a controversial truth: JavaScript's async model is fundament

Fast Sites Start with Fonts: A Deep Dive with Daniel Roe

In this episode of The Weekly Dev’s Brew, Jan sits down with Daniel Roe to dive deep into a topic devs often overlook: web fonts. From performance pitfalls to implementat

From Nuxt to Nitro: How One Engine Is Powering the Modern Web (w/ Alexander Lichter)

In this episode of The Weekly Dev’s Brew, we dive into the current state of web development with Alexander Lichter, a core member of Nuxt and DevRel at Void Zero. Join us

Revolutionizing Web Development: The Impact of Signals on Async JavaScript

In this episode, join Jan-Niklas Wortmann and Ryan Carniato, creator of SolidJS and CEO of Signals, as they explore how signals are revolutionizing web development and re

Exporing AI's Impact on Web Development: The Future of Tech (w/ Rachel-Lee Nabors)

In this episode, we dive into the impact of AI on web development with Rachel Lee-Nabors. Discover how AI is transforming user experience and the future landscape of soft

Scaling Vite: Responsibility & Community (with Capeletto Matias)

In this episode, Jan-Niklas Wortmann interviews Capeletto Matias, a key figure in the open-source community and a member of the Vite core team. They discuss Matias's jour

OSS, TypeScript, Linting and Everything in Between (with Josh Goldberg)

Jan-Niklas interviews Josh Goldberg, a developer who transitioned from Microsoft to full-time open source work in the TypeScript ecosystem. Josh shares his daily routine,