James McKinven

From getting hacked to cybersecurity founders with Antoine Carossio and Tristan Kalos from Escape.tech

Episode 62 · September 20, 2023 · 30:59

Escape helps you Find and fix GraphQL security flaws at scale within your DevSecOps processIntroduction to Tristan and Antoine. 0:00How did they get started in cybersecurity? 4:35How...

Developer copywriting mistakes to avoid, with Zach Goldie

Episode 61 · September 10, 2023 · 37:26

Zach Goldie is a DevTools messaging consultantShip code faster is an empty statement. 0:00How do you position yourself against the competition? 1:56The problem with free monitoring t...

Building a developer social network with Steve Krouse from Val Town

Episode 60 · August 29, 2023 · 41:18

Steve Krouse is the founder of Val.town - a social website where you can write and run code.Introduction to Val.Town's vision 0:00How long it took Github to make money on SteveVal To...

Dax from SST - content that has nothing to do with your tool can still convert

Episode 59 · August 13, 2023 · 29:47

Dax Raad is building SST - an open-source framework that makes it easy to build serverless apps.What Is SST? 0:00The theory in January was to make content that has nothing to do with...

From mobile app to mobile developer tool with Gabriel Savit from Runway

Episode 58 · August 3, 2023 · 41:40

Gabriel Savit is the founder and CEO of Runway - a tool to coordinate and automate mobile app releases.Introductions 0:00Introduction to GabeUnderlying themes of runway mobile releas...

Hire engineers who don't mind talking, with Brian Douglas from OpenSauced

Episode 57 · July 28, 2023 · 32:51

Brian Douglas - or bdougie - is the founder of OpenSauced - an open source intelligence tool. Brian was previously Developer Experience Lead at Netlify and Director of Developer Advo...

Building ambitious developer tools with Ruben Fiszel from Windmill

Episode 56 · July 13, 2023 · 27:35

Ruben is the founder of Windmill https://www.windmill.dev/ which helps you turn scripts into workflows and UIs in minutes Some of the things we talk about:Getting to the threshold of...

Killing features with Josh Twist, founder of Zuplo

Episode 55 · June 29, 2023 · 36:02

Josh Twist is the founder of Zuplo, an API gatewayIntroducing Josh Twist, the founder of Zuplo. 0:00Zuplo vs Azure API management.How do you make this fit into the developer workflow...

Forums vs Slack with Dan Moore from FusionAuth

Episode 54 · June 22, 2023 · 25:58

Dan is head of DevRel at FusionAuth - Auth Built for Devs, by DevsFusionAuth’s journey from moderation to auth provider.Introduction to Dan Moore, head of DevRel at fusion.Fusion's j...

Building computer vision tooling with Niko from Rerun

Episode 53 · June 16, 2023 · 25:47

Nikolaus West is the founder of Rerun.io - Visualize computer vision.What we discuss:Finding a problem to work on What are some of the features that will be free and open source?What...

Developer onboarding with Kilian from Polypane

Episode 52 · June 8, 2023 · 31:45

How do you do onboarding in a way developers actually like?Kilian is the founder of Polypane - The browser for ambitious web developers https://polypane.app/Kilian's Twitter - https:...

From VC to DevTools with Karl Clement, founder of CODEOWNERS

Episode 51 · June 1, 2023 · 28:35

Karl Clement is the founder of https://codeowners.com/ CODEOWNERS is the single source of truth for code ownership.SummaryIntroducing Karl Code ownershipWhat are the types of people ...

Great Developer Experience with ngrok founder Alan Shreve

Episode 50 · May 25, 2023 · 29:20

Alan Shreve is the founder & CEO of ngrok. ngrok is a simplified API-first ingress-as-a-service that adds connectivity, security, and observability to your apps in one lineWhat we co...

How Fred Schott built two open source projects with 20,000+ GitHub stars

Episode 49 · May 18, 2023 · 47:33

Fred Schott is the founder of Astro.build and the Astro technology company. Astro is the all-in-one web framework designed for speed. Pull your content from anywhere and deploy every...

Making developer videos with Jamie Barton, DevRel Engineer at Grafbase

Episode 47 · May 4, 2023 · 27:29

Jamie Barton is a DevRel Engineer at Grafbase https://grafbase.com/ and the host of https://graphql.wtf/

How SigNoz grew to 12k GitHub stars with Pranay Prateek

Episode 46 · April 20, 2023 · 28:53

Pranay Prateek is the founder of SigNoz - Open Source Observability with Traces, Logs and Metrics in a single pane. Topics covered:How SigNoz has grown to 12k starsHow did you get st...

Developer Marketing with Adam DuVander

Episode 45 · April 11, 2023 · 34:06

Adam DuVander is an expert in developer marketing and the author of two books: Developer Marketing Does Not Exist and Technical Content Strategy Decoded. In this episode, we dive dee...

Go slow & build good things, with Rob Moore from Churnkey

Episode 44 · April 6, 2023 · 24:53

Rob Moore is the CTO and founder of Churnkey - a tool that reduces churn for you automatically. What we cover:- Developer documentation- How Rob buys tools- How Rob discovers tools- ...

PMF is one pivot away with Ant Wilson from Supabase

Episode 43 · March 30, 2023 · 37:19

Ant is the founder of Supabase. Supabase is the open-source firebase alternative and has gone from zero to 47,000+ GitHub stars in a matter of years.  What we cover:- Ant's Egyptolog...

Growing with open source projects - Josh Thurman from Uffizzi

Episode 42 · March 28, 2023 · 30:48

Josh is a Navy Seal turned founder of Uffizzi. Uffizzi provides environments as a Service and works with open source projects like Backstage.Topics- Pivoting between ideas- Working w...

Building in-person developer communities with Paul Butler from Drifting In Space

Episode 41 · March 23, 2023 · 27:48

Paul Butler is the cofounder of Drifting in Space. They believe that browser-based applications can feel like magic if they’re built with the right tools. They make Jamsocket, a plat...

Developer marketplaces with Robin Warren, founder of Corrello & Blue Cat Reports

Episode 40 · March 16, 2023 · 30:43

Robin Warren is the Founder of Corrello & Blue Cat Reports. Corrello is a Scrum and Kanban extension that instantly and seamlessly integrates with Trello.

Demand Generation for DevTools - Dino Kukic from Hygraph

Episode 39 · March 9, 2023 · 18:58

Dino Kukic is Head of Demand Generation at Hygraph. Hygraph is the federated content platform that allows you to unify, structure, enrich and distribute content from anywhere to anyw...

Where should Developer Advocacy sit? With Vera Tiago from OutSystems

Episode 38 · March 2, 2023 · 26:51

Vera Tiago is a Developer Advocacy Manager at OutSystems. OutSystems helps turn your big ideas into apps. Uniting design, code and deployment, the OutSystems platform radically simpl...

Shomik Ghosh - office hours with a DevTools investor

Episode 37 · February 23, 2023 · 38:31

Shomik Ghosh is Partner at boldstart Ventures. boldstart Ventures is a day one partner and true believer for developer first, crypto infra, and SaaS founders.

Making DevTools more human with Carla Sofia Teixeira from Miro

Episode 36 · February 9, 2023 · 31:21

Carla Sofia Teixeira is a DevRel Program Manager at Miro. Miro helps your team go beyond brainstorming, with a wide variety of tasks that require collaboration: workshopping, strateg...

Great DevRel Content is a process, not a project with Jason Lengstorf

Episode 35 · January 19, 2023 · 38:10

Jason Lengstorf is the host of Learn with Jason. A pair programming YouTube channel with more than 30,000 subscribers.

Crossing the chasm with Shawn Wang (swyx)

Episode 34 · January 12, 2023 · 34:19

Everyone in tech should understand the technology adoption cycle and know which stage of the adoption cycle you’re at. Shawn Wang, known on the internet as swyx. Shawn is a writer, ...

The first 2,000 GitHub stars with Matija Šošić from Wasp

Episode 33 · January 5, 2023 · 27:15

Matija Šošić is the CEO & Co-founder of Wasp. Allows you to develop full-stack web apps without boilerplate.

Giving developers what they want with Deepak Prabhakara

Episode 32 · December 20, 2022 · 20:05

Deepak Prabhakara is the CEO and Co-founder of BoxyHQ. BoxyHQ enables you to add plug-and-play enterprise-ready features to your SaaS product.