This week we're joined by Jeff Dickey, the creator of HK, Fnox, Aube, and Mise.We talk about the creation of these tools and what led him to work on them full time with his new company, en.dev.After that we dive into the future of these tools and what's next for Jeff.

• Previous episode: https://www.devtools.fm/episode/129

• https://jdx.dev/

• https://en.dev/

• https://github.com/jdx

• https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/

• https://github.com/endevco/aube

• https://github.com/jdx/hk

• https://github.com/jdx/fnox

This week we're joined by Sam Goodwin, the creator of Alchemy. Alchemy is a tool that allows you to create and manage your infrastructure as code. The current state of the art is built on all the tech debt of the past 10 years, Alchemy is a new approach to infrastructure as code that is more aligned with the modern web.

• https://v2.alchemy.run/
• https://github.com/alchemy-run/alchemy-effect
• https://github.com/alchemy-run/distilled
• https://alchemy.run (v1)

This week we're joined by Elio Struyf, the creator of Front Matter CMS and Demo Time.We talk about the origins of Front Matter CMS, the challenges of building a CMS, and the future of CMSs.We also dive into Demo Time, and how it can be used to create perfect demos for talks and presentations.

• GitHub: github.com/estruyf
• Website: eliostruyf.com
• Bluesky: @eliostruyf.com