Best Svelte Podcasts (2026)

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Custom Renderers for Svelte with Paolo Ricciuti 1:00:59

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26d ago1:00:59

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In this episode of Svelte Radio, we welcome Jeppe as a new permanent host and sit down with Paolo Ricciuti, Svelte maintainer and Senior Software Developer at Mainmatter, to dive deep into Svelte custom renderers. Paolo walks us through how custom renderers work (using React's approach with React DOM, Ink, and React Native as context), explains the…

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Search engine bots crawled so AI bots could run 23:27

1h ago23:27

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Ryan hosts Akamai data scientist Robert Lester on the show to discuss how the growth of AI bots affects internet traffic, the ways these AI bots differ from the original search engine optimization ones, and why you might not want to mitigate AI bots on your websites. Episode notes: Akamai is a CDN, full-stack cloud computing, and cybersecurity comp…

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The most dangerous shortcuts in software 29:24

4d ago29:24

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Ryan sits down with Tom Totenberg, head of release automation at LaunchDarkly, to discuss the perils of taking too many shortcuts in software development, how business pressures and AI code tools have contributed to dangerous corner cutting, and the importance of balancing speed with sustainability to maintain system integrity. Episode notes: Launc…

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967: What’s Going to Happen in Web Dev During 2026 48:09

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Wes and Scott talk about their bold predictions for web development in 2026, from WebGPU-powered design and modern CSS breakthroughs to JavaScript standards, AI-driven tooling, security risks, the future of frameworks, workflows, and more! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:49 WebGPU and 3D experiences will finally take off Lando Norris 01:30 W…

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How AI is helping us build better communities 33:40

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MIT and Stanford professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland joins the show to explore the power of communities for shared knowledge and how AI could hurt or help the growth of these communities. Ryan and Sandy dive into the findings from Sandy’s new book Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI, the ethical implications of rapidly advancing technolo…

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Containers are easy—moving your legacy system off your VM is not 31:51

11d ago31:51

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Ryan sits down with Dan Ciruli, VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix, to talk about getting your virtual machines and Kubernetes to play nice in cloud-native environments, why VMs are still relevant in enterprise applications, and how AI can help modernize legacy systems. Episode notes: Nutanix combines compute, storage, virtualization…

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966: A Look Back at Web Dev in 2025 56:26

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Wes and Scott revisit their 2025 web development predictions, grading hits and misses across AI, browsers, frameworks, CSS, and tooling. From Temporal and AI coding agents to React, Vite, and vanilla CSS, they reflect on what actually changed, what stalled, and what it all means heading into 2026. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 866: 2025 Web D…

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Settle down, nerds. AI is a normal technology 37:31

14d ago37:31

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Ryan welcomes Anil Dash, writer and former Stack Overflow board member, back to the show to discuss how AI is not a magical technology, but rather the normal next step in computing’s evolution. They explore the importance of democratizing access to technology, the unique challenges that LLMs’ non-determinism poses, and how developers can keep Stack…

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965: Baseline 2025 Features web gained in 2025 26:26

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Scott and Wes break down the biggest web platform features that reached Baseline in 2025, separating the genuinely useful APIs from the niche and forgettable ones. From same-document view transitions and the Popover API to Promise.try, content-visibility, and modern CSS goodies, they share what’s actually ready to use today. Show Notes 00:00 Welcom…

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#256 Jake E. Keelyn - People don't have attention spans for guitar solos anymore 56:41

16d ago56:41

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Jake E is the only Swedish artist with projects simultaneously featured on Spotify’s Metal Trends playlist and national commercial radio in the same month. Alongside music, he is an actor, starring in the upcoming Hollywood fantasy film Eonblade with Doug Jones. He has collaborated with Mark Mangold on cross-genre AOR and modern rock projects, cont…

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Last week in AWS re:Invent with Corey Quinn 23:01

18d ago23:01

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Ryan sits down with Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, at AWS re:Invent to get Corey’s patented snarky take on all the happenings from the conference. They discuss whether the AI agent hype is supported by actual buyers, how startups are faring as AWS focuses on large enterprises, and how many of the new technologies coming out this ye…

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964: Markdown as a CMS is a bad idea 1:03:05

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In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about keyboard shortcuts, choosing frameworks in the age of AI, markdown vs CMSs, backup strategies, moving countries for work, staying relevant as a developer, and more! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 02:28 Do keyboard shortcuts actually improve productivity? Hyperkey 08:4…

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Live from re:Invent…it’s Stack Overflow! 31:35

21d ago31:35

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Ryan is joined by Stack Overflow’s CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar and Director of Data Science Michael Foree on the floor at re:Invent to discuss all they’ve seen and heard at the event, from the future of AI agents to the trust issues the enterprise has around AI and the impact of AI and robotics on the job market. Episode Notes: This episode was reco…

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963: Hardware Hacking with Matt Brown 58:02

22d ago58:02

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Scott and Wes chat with YouTuber and security consultant Matt Brown about breaking into IoT devices, extracting firmware, and decoding the hidden tech inside everyday gadgets. Matt shares his methods, the legal boundaries, and the wild stories behind his most interesting hacks. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:21 Curiosity in Hacking 03:28 Un…

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Interface is everything, and everything is an interface 24:28

25d ago24:28

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Ryan talks with Wesley Yu, head of engineering at Metalab, about the evolution of interfaces in technology, the pressure that UI generated on the fly would put on your backend systems, and why AI is just the latest and fanciest in a long line of CRUD apps. Episode notes: Metalab designs interfaces for top brands around the world, helping them desig…

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962: The Home Server / Synology Show 35:20

27d ago35:20

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Wes and Scott talk about their evolving home-server setups—Synology rigs, Mac minis, Docker vs. VMs, media servers, backups, Cloudflare Tunnels, and the real-world pros and cons of running your own hardware. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:35 Why use a home server? 07:29 Apps for home servers 16:23 Home server hardware 18:27 Brought to you b…

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AI is a crystal ball into your codebase 34:54

28d ago34:54

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Ryan is joined by Kayvon Beykpour, CEO and founder of Microscope, to dive into AI-powered code review’s potential for managing large codebases, the need for humans-in-the-loop for reviewing PRs so AI tools can efficiently and effectively debug, and how AI can increase visibility through summarization at the abstract syntax tree level and high signa…

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961: Keeping Up With The Fast and Furious Web 28:02

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Scott and CJ go live from JS Nation NYC to talk about how developers can actually stay current without drowning in the constant churn of new tools and trends. They break down how to see through the fluff, focus on why tech exists before adopting it, and build a healthier, curiosity-driven approach to learning in 2025 and beyond. Show Notes 00:00 We…

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One Man Svelte for NGOs with Ilja 1:13:44

1M ago1:13:44

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Guest Ilja - Berlin-based developer specializing in building websites and data visualizations for NGOs. Svelte Ambassador. Topics Discussed Working with NGOs vs. traditional businesses Budget constraints and project-based funding The AfroZensus project Svelte 5 migration Berlin Svelte Meetup announcement Berlin Svelte Meetup Date: December 9th (Tue…

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Treating your agents like microservices 35:31

1M ago35:31

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Ryan is joined by Outshift by Cisco’s VP of Engineering Guillaume De Saint Marc to discuss the future of multi-agent architectures as microservices, the challenges and limitations of the infrastructure for these multi-agent systems, and the importance of communication protocols and interoperability in order to build decentralized and scalable archi…

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960: Reacting to the Weird + Creative Corners of the Web 27:33

1M ago27:33

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Wes and Scott talk about the weird, creative corners of the web—from live-coded music with Strudel and wild Hydra visuals to shader wizardry, projection-mapping art, fully synced Christmas lights, and more. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:10 Strudel https://www.tiktok.com/@dj_dave__/video/7541104277234748685 https://www.tiktok.com/@switch.an…

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Abstraction, but for robots 24:38

1M ago24:38

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Ryan welcomes Simone Kalmakis, VP of Engineering at Viam, to dive into how her team is bridging the gap between software and robotics, the importance of abstraction layers in making robotics more accessible, and the real-world applications of robotics from lobster traps to industrial sanding robots. Episode notes: Viam is a robotics platform that b…

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959: TypeScript on the GPU with TypeGPU creator Iwo Plaza 25:36

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Scott and CJ sit down live at JSNation NYC with Iwo Plaza, creator of TypeGPU, to dig into how WebGPU is unlocking a new wave of graphics and compute power on the web. They chat about shader authoring in TypeScript, the future of GPU-powered AI in the browser, and what it takes to build a killer developer-friendly graphics library. Show Notes 00:00…

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Lightning-as-a-service for agriculture 21:30

1M ago21:30

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Darryl Lyons, co-founder and Chief Rainmaker at Rainstick, joins the show to dive into advancements in AgTech and how Rainstick is using bioelectricity to enhance agricultural productivity. They discuss how Rainstick mimics natural thunderstorms to create electric fields and frequencies that promote plant growth, challenges and breakthroughs in the…

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958: 2025 Holiday Gift Guide 1:05:29

1M ago1:05:29

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The Syntax team brings us their annual Holiday Gift Guide! They’ve curated the best gadgets, tools, food, and even kitchen essentials for the dev in your life — plus a few treats anyone would love to unwrap. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax 00:54 Our Favorite Things 01:03 Wes - Bambu Lab 3d Printers 01:50 Wes - Leatherman Arc Multi-tool 03:07 Kai…

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You’re probably underutilizing your GPUs 26:14

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Ryan is joined by Jared Quincy Davis, CEO and co-founder of Mithril, to explore the importance of efficient resource allocation and GPU utilization in AI, the myth and misconceptions of the GPU shortage, and how the economics of GPU will change with new scheduling and utilization strategies. Episode notes: Mithril’s omnicloud platform aggregates an…

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#255 Robin Horsfall: Would Putin Nuke Ukraine? 37:39

1M ago37:39

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Robin is a Former SAS Soldier. Writer, Veterans Campaigner and Public Speaker. Operations Nimrod and Mikado. 🔴 Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/09ikwotikx Episode Links: https://robinhorsfall.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-horsfall-52243220/ PODCAST LINKS: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nikos-show/id…

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957: CSS: Advanced and Obscure 37:50

1M ago37:50

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Scott and Wes face off in a CSS-themed round of STUMP’d, quizzing each other on shape functions, scroll snap types, obscure functions, and long-forgotten spec history. From ray() to cross-fade() to print-color quirks, this episode is packed with rapid-fire frontend trivia guaranteed to sharpen your CSS brain. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:…

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Only you can stop AI database drops 32:13

2M ago32:13

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Ryan is joined by David Hsu, CEO and founder of Retool, to explore how AI is transforming the role of a software developer into a software architect, the increasing accessibility of coding for non-engineers, and the importance of placing guardrails and higher-level programming primitives on AI coding assistants. Episode notes: Retool is an enterpri…

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956: Should I Keep Using WordPress? 50:10

2M ago50:10

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In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott answer your questions about paid vs. free SSL, the state of frontend jobs, headless WordPress trade-offs, organizing TypeScript types, and more! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:51 Recapping the GitHub Meetup 05:14 Is there any real benefit to picking a paid SSL over Let's Encrypt? 08:03 Is the pure fron…

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How to create agents that people actually want to use 27:07

2M ago27:07

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Ryan welcomes Assaf Elovic, head of AI at monday.com, to discuss creating AI tools that users will actually adopt, how they created their Monday Sidekick agent with the user experience in mind, and the opportunities that AI creates for better productivity and more efficiency. Episode notes: monday.com is a work management platform that allows you t…

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955: SvelteKit has solved data loading 36:16

2M ago36:16

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Scott and Wes break down SvelteKit’s new remote functions and why they finally solve the long-standing pain of page-level data in Svelte. They cover queries, forms, batching, caching, and all the clever RPC ergonomics that make Svelte’s approach feel surprisingly powerful and refreshingly simple. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:45 Lots of RP…

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The fastest agent in the race has the best evals 32:33

2M ago32:33

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Ryan welcomes Benjamin Klieger, lead engineer at Groq, to explore the infrastructure behind AI agents, how you can turn a one-minute agent into a ten-second agent, and how they used fast inference and effective evals to build their efficient and reliable Compound agent. Episode notes: Groq delivers fast, low-cost inference using their custom-design…

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One thing enterprise AI projects need to succeed? Community. 23:59

2M ago23:59

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In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar chats with Ramprasad Rai, VP of Platform Engineering at JPMorgan Chase & Co., about the unique challenges of implementing AI in an enterprise environment. They discuss how organizations can balance AI-driven productivity with strict compliance and security requirements by…

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954: Fullstack TanStack! The Scoop with Tanner Linsley 18:05

2M ago18:05

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Live from GitHub Universe, Wes and Scott talk with Tanner Linsley about the latest from TanStack, including TanStack DB’s local-first syncing, new routing ideas, and fresh perspectives on server components and “magic” directives. They explore performance, incremental adoption, and what’s next for the rapidly growing TanStack ecosystem — plus a few …

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AI code means more critical thinking, not less 32:38

2M ago32:38

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Ryan is joined by Secure Code Warrior’s co-founder and CTO Matias Madou to discuss the implications of LLMs’ variability on code security, the future of developer training as AI coding assistants become more popular, and the importance of critical thinking—especially for junior developers—in the age of AI. Episode notes: Secure Code Warrior upskill…

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953: Why v0 creator left Vercel to fix GitHub (GOAT Jared Palmer) 16:50

2M ago16:50

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Scott and Wes sit down with Jared Palmer of GitHub (formerly of Vercel) to unpack all the biggest announcements from GitHub Universe 2025. They dive into the future of developer workflows with agents, how GitHub is rethinking project interfaces, and where there’s still room to improve the dev experience. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! GitHub U…

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Revealing the unknown unknowns in your software 31:42

2M ago31:42

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Ryan welcomes Nic Benders to discuss the complexity and abstraction crisis in software development, the importance of going beyond observability into understandability, and demystifying AI's opacity for understanding and control. Episode notes: New Relic is a full-stack observability platform that helps engineers plan, build, deploy, and run softwa…

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952: VS Code, GitHub & Copilot - UNIVERSE 25 Announcements + Reactions 35:54

2M ago35:54

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Live from GitHub Universe, Wes, Scott, and CJ talk about the latest AI and developer tools from GitHub, including Agent HQ, Copilot integrations, and the new mission control for agents. They also share stories from the Syntax meetup, hack their conference badges, and debate AI’s role in coding. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 03:39 This year’s …

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To write secure code, be less gullible than your AI 28:26

2M ago28:26

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Ryan is joined by Greg Foster, CTO of Graphite, to explore how much we should trust AI-generated code to be secure, the importance of tooling in ensuring code security whether it’s AI-assisted or not, and the need for context and readability for humans in AI code. Episode notes: Graphite is an AI code review platform that helps you get context on c…

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951: A first look at Remix 3 47:41

2M ago47:41

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Scott and Wes dive into Remix 3, exploring how it embraces native web standards like Events, Signals, and Streams to become a truly full-stack framework. They unpack what “LLM-ready,” thin APIs, and a standards-based approach mean for the future of web development. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 03:21 Uses the platform - native Events, Signals…

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Vibe coding needs a spec, too 26:45

2M ago26:45

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Ryan talks with Deepak Singh, VP of Developer Agents and Experiences at AWS and lead at Kiro, about spec-driven development in a vibe coding world. They explore how AI tools have evolved from autocomplete to sophisticated agents that can write code based off of just specs, and how AWS has pioneered spec-driven development through their Kiro agent. …

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Benchmarking AI with Stanislav Khromov 1:13:58

2M ago1:13:58

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In this episode, Stanislav Khromov joins the Svelte Radio team to discuss his work on Svelte Bench, a benchmarking tool that scientifically measures how well different LLMs understand and write Svelte 5 code. The conversation explores the challenges of AI-assisted coding with Svelte 5, the development of the official Svelte MCP (Model Context Proto…

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950: Even SCARIER Web Dev Nightmares (Spooky Stories Pt. 2) 57:57

2M ago57:57

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In part 2 of this year’s Spooky Stories special, Wes and Scott discuss the most chilling developer horror stories—from six-month-old unprocessed donations and runaway dog-food orders to vanishing databases, DNS disasters, code that literally tore apart a mall’s ventilation system, and more! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:33 A Bug Beyond the…

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Craft and quality beat speed and scale, with or without agents 27:50

2M ago27:50

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Ryan welcomes Tom Moor, head of engineering at Linear, to discuss AI agents’ mixed results for productivity in the development lifecycle, the importance of context for maximizing agents’ effectiveness, and the role that junior developers need to take in a world increasingly driven by AI. Episode notes: Linear is a tool for planning and building pro…

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949: Web Dev HORROR Stories + Spooky Trivia! (Spooky Stories Pt. 1) 40:51

2M ago40:51

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It’s that time of year again, Scott (as Dracula) and Wes (as a big bad shark) return for their annual Spooky Stories special! They’re joined by a mysterious guest for a round of creepy coding trivia and chilling true tales of web dev gone wrong; dropped databases, haunted passwords, and more. Beware: these are real developer horror stories. Show No…

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Your runbooks are obsolete in the age of agents 24:55

2M ago24:55

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Ryan is joined by Spiros Xanthos, CEO and founder of Resolve AI, to talk about the future of AI agents in incident management and troubleshooting, the challenges of maintaining complex software systems with traditional runbooks, and the changing role of developers in an AI-driven world. Episode notes: Resolve AI is building agents to help you troub…

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Macrodata Refinement with Ken Kunz 1:04:59

2M ago1:04:59

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In this episode of Svelte Radio, Ken Kunz joins the hosts to discuss his journey with Svelte, from discovering it through Rich Harris's "Rethinking Reactivity" talk to building complex financial applications. Ken shares his experience working on Trading Strategy, a decentralized finance platform, and the challenges of implementing sophisticated cha…

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What leaders need to know from the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey 31:16

3M ago31:16

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In this episode of Leaders of Code, Eira May, B2B Editor at Stack Overflow, and Natalie Rotnov, Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Enterprise Product Suite at Stack Overflow, unpack the key takeaways from the 2025 Developer Survey for tech and business leaders. The discussion focuses on the evolving developer relationship with AI, the continu…

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948: Zed is Ready For Primetime 53:08

3M ago53:08

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Wes and Scott talk about what makes Zed—the hot new editor built in Rust—fast, beautiful, and finally ready for primetime. From Git UI to extensions and AI tools, they break down what Zed gets right, what it still lacks, and whether it’s time to finally ditch VS Code. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! Syntax San Francisco Meetup We need your Spoo…