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    Changing the web one tool at a time, with Kelly Norton, principal software engineer at Mailchimp and creator of open-source code search engine Hound

    Changing the web one tool at a time, with Kelly Norton, principal software engineer at Mailchimp and creator of open-source code search engine Hound

    Why is the software industry now willing and excited to buy developer tools instead of building them internally? In this episode, Kelly Norton, principal software engineer at Mailchimp and creator of open-source code search engine Hound, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to talk a...

    Kelly Norton, Beyang Liu

    Disassembling and building developer tools, with Nelson Elhage, creator of the open source code search engine Livegrep

    Disassembling and building developer tools, with Nelson Elhage, creator of the open source code search engine Livegrep

    Why is a systems engineering mindset essential for a scaling startup? In this episode, Nelson Elhage, creator of the open source code search engine Livegrep, co-creator of the Ruby type checker Sorbet, and Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, t...

    Nelson Elhage, Beyang Liu

    Building the foundation of code search, with Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of open-source code search engine Zoekt

    Building the foundation of code search, with Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of open-source code search engine Zoekt

    How do Google developers create and popularize internal tools? In this episode, Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of the open-source code search engine Zoekt, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to discuss the agonizing experience with Perforce that drove Han-Wen to build his first dev tool...

    Han-Wen Nienhuys, Beyang Liu

    Christopher Chedeau, creator of Excalidraw, co-creator of React Native on the impact of connecting the right ideas with the right people

    Christopher Chedeau, creator of Excalidraw, co-creator of React Native on the impact of connecting the right ideas with the right people

    On the eve of the pandemic, Christopher Chedeau was procrastinating on performance reviews at Facebook and decided to hack together a simple drawing app. That weekend project became Excalidraw, an open source virtual whiteboard so popular that its users have basically demanded a startup form around ...

    Christopher Chedeau, Beyang Liu