Al Buffet: MCPs, Vibe Prompting & Goose

AI’s on the menu! W. Ian Douglas, Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Block, joins Nick Taylor dig into MCPs, Goose, LLM routing & vibe prompting. Pull up a chair at the AI Buffet.

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What Modern PHP Actually Looks Like

Josh Cirre, DevRel at Laravel, joins Nick Taylor do discuss and live code what modern PHP looks like and how can we use types in a Laravel application to have better control across the full stack.

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Levelling up Astro env with Varlock

Phil and Theo from DMNO join Nick Taylor to help him integrate Nick's Astro project with Varlock.

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Travel & Dev Life

Alex Appleget, software engineer, joins Nick Taylor to discuss origins into software development, dev life and travel.

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New Things Coming to Astro

Matt Kane, Astro framework lead, joins Nick Taylor to discuss the some new things coming to Astro.

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Web, Design & Indie Life

Andy Bell joins Nick Taylor to chat about web dev, design, and indie life in 2025 — from CSS and Tailwind to TypeScript, Set Studio, and community-backed course funding.

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An Introduction to TanStack Form

TanStack Form is a headless, performant, and type-safe form state management for TS/JS, React, Vue, Angular, Solid, and Lit. Corbin Crutchley, a maintainer on the project, offers a comprehensive introduction to the project.

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Beyond the Buzz: Practical GenAI

Raymond Camden joins Nick Taylor to discuss and showcase practical GenAI.

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AI Life in Y Combinator

Abhi Aiyer, CTO at Mastra.ai, joins Nick Taylor to discuss being an AI startup in Y Combinator.

Note: Nick's audio wasn't working for the a bit in the beginning for the live stream even though Abhi could hear him, but Abhi's was fine, so all you missed pretty much was Nick introducing Abhi and saying yes and cool. 🤣

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Yeoman

Yeoman is a robust and opinionated set of tools, libraries, and a workflow to manage templates ("generators") for web projects.

The project has new maintainers, including Josh, and we'll dive into open source in general as well as Yeoman.

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From Individual Contributor to CTO

Mike Chen, CTO at Motivo, joins Nick Taylor to discuss their path from individual contributor (IC), to engineering manager, to CTO.

Additional topics covered

• They explore challenges in setting up local development environments that mirror production, particularly for large-scale microservice systems.
• Mike shares insights from working with Google's monorepo and emphasizes the importance of comprehensive code documentation.
• They discuss how AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude are impacting software development, including the potential for specialized AI agents.
• The conversation covers the transition from individual contributor to engineering manager, highlighting the different skills needed for each role.
• They discuss the importance of mentorship while emphasizing that individuals must actively work to improve their skills.

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Waku, the Minimal React Framework

Daishi Kato, a React library author and the creator of Waku, a minimal React framework, joins Nick Taylor to discuss the Waku project. Daishi and Nick will live code something with Waku.

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Full-stack JavaScript with The Boring Javascript Stack

Kelvin Omereshone , Lead maintainer, Sails.js, joins Nick Taylor to discuss full-stack JavaScript with the Boring JavaScript Stack.

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Autoshow: Automated Content Repurposing Tool

Anthony Campolo joins Nick Taylor to discuss the latest improvements to Autoshow, a tool for repurposing content. Autoshow automates the processing of audio and video content from various sources, including YouTube videos, playlists, podcast RSS feeds, and local media files. It performs transcription, summarization, and chapter generation using different language models (LLMs) and transcription services.

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Code Reviews for a11y Pull Requests

Fatuma Abdullahi joins Nick Taylor to review some accessibility fixes up for the @OpenSauced app repository.

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