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

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 into why AI won't replace engineers anytime soon (and what that actually means for your career), how Google'...

The Timeline Is Gaslighting You About AI

The Timeline Is Gaslighting You About AI

If AI timelines and layoff headlines are making you feel behind, this is a reminder that the loudest voices are not a reflection of the industry. Most teams are still figuring this out, and the real bottlenecks in software development have not changed.

One AI Coding Agent Is Not Enough

One AI Coding Agent Is Not Enough

A practical default-plus-handoff workflow for AI development: keep one coding agent as your default, then use ACPX to route design-heavy or specialized tasks to better-suited models.

The Weekly Dev's Brew Is Pivoting

After 31 newsletter issues curating JavaScript links, The Weekly Dev's Brew is shifting to AI in developer workflows. What changed, what's coming, and why I think this matters more.

Your Agent Instructions Are Probably Making Things Worse. Here's How to Fix Them.

Your Agent Instructions Are Probably Making Things Worse. Here's How to Fix Them.

Most developers overload their AI agent instruction files with rules that actively degrade performance. Learn why shorter, failure-backed instructions dramatically outperform long rulebooks, and get a practical framework for pruning your CLAUDE.md, Cursor rules, or copilot-instructions.md down to...

Talk cover for JetBrains Doesn't Want Me To Give This Talk

JetBrains Doesn't Want Me To Give This Talk

Transparent communication is hard and frankly, we're not always great at it. We know you have questions about WebStorm's performance, pricing decisions, feature priorities, and the bugs that drive you crazy. This talk changes that by giving you direct, unfiltered answers and a behind-the-scenes

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

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, he shares what he's learned from years of implementation work at companies like DAZN and through consu...

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)

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 reveals a surprising twist: CSS has quietly become the fastest-evolving part of web development. In this...

Writing a Web Browser in 2025 (with Andreas Kling)

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 browser project that doesn't take money from Google. Andreas breaks down a uncomfortable truth: G...

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

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), maintainer of React Query (now TanStack Query), to unpack his unexpected journey from answering Discord q...

Andrii Sherman: Breaking ORM Barriers with Drizzle

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 philosophy: "If you know SQL, you know Drizzle." Andrii breaks down why their "headless ORM" approach is w...

How JavaScript Really Evolves: Inside TC39 with Daniel Ehrenberg

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-time TC39 contributor, talking about how the language evolves-from vague idea to official spec. We unpack h...

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

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 modern web development. Jeff shares his journey from working on the Angular team to launching his own su...

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

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: parenting might be the best management training you never knew you needed. From navigating tantrums (both...