Coffee with Developers
Welcome to Coffee with Developers, an exclusive series hosted by WeAreDevelopers, Europe's leading developer community. Dive into 1-on-1 chats with world-class tech minds, as they share their anecdotes, career highs and lows, and everything in between. Grab a cup of coffee and tune in for insightful conversations that will inspire, educate, and entertain. Subscribe now to never miss a new episode.
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Episodes
171 episodes
API‑First: How Twilio Designs for Developers - Justin Kitagawa (Twilio)
On this episode we’re joined by Justin Kitagawa, Vp of Engineering at Twilio to tell us what it’s really like to build and scale the infrastructure that powers things like SMS, voice calls, and real-time communication for millions of develop...
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PHP is Alive and Kicking and more - Paul Tregoing
On this episode's Weekly Developer Show, we're joined by Paul Tregoing, the author of Exploring PHP 8Small Steps to Giant Leaps (published by apress) and we discuss all the weird and wonderful tech news from the week, play Fake or News, ...
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From JavaScript to WebAssembly, High-Performance Charting and more - Andrew Burnett-Thompson and David Burleigh (SciChart)
On this edition of the Weekly Developers show we're joined by SciChart CEO Andrew Burnett-Thompson and CTO David Burleigh to talk about what it's like to build, maintain and monetise a high-performance specialist chart library. Built with JavaS...
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Don’t Insert Crazy! On cURL and AI Slop - Daniel Stenberg
On this episode of Coffee with Developers we sat down with Daniel Stenberg, the founder of cURL and libcurl to talk about monetising an open source project, how to deal with AI slop pull requests and a whole lot more.
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Developer Time Is Valuable - Use the Right Tools - Kilian Valkhof
On this episode of Coffee with Developers we speak to Kilian Valkhof, the founder of Polypane, a Chromium-based browser built especially for developers. Kilian tells us about why using the right tools is a matter of respecting the value of a de...
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You Don’t Need JavaScript, Modern CSS, and more - Théodore Lefèvre
This week we're joined by frontend developer and CSS content creator Théodore Lefèvre to talk the best parts of the web platform, why HTML elements are more powerful than we realise, and why developers can't do dates.
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AI in the Open and in Browsers - Tarek Ziadé
On this episode of Coffee with Developers, we're joined by Mozilla Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Tarek Ziadé, to talk about what it's like to integrate AI into browsers, how developers can use open source models and a whole lot more.
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AI, Freelancing, Keeping Up with Tech and More - Anselm Hannemann
On this edition of the Weekly Developer Show, we talk about what it's like to be a tech freelancer in the age of AI, how to keep up with all the new releases, how we can't believe it's 2026, and a whole lot more.
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Cat Herding with Lions and Tigers - Christian Heilmann
This week, Chris Heilmann takes us through his session from the Developer Relations Summit 2025, Cat Herding with Lions and Tigers to give you an insight into how WeAreDevelopers organises a 15,000 attendee developer conference.
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AI and Privacy, On-Device AI and more - Tarek Ziadé (Mozilla)
On this, the first 2026 edition of the Weekly Developer Show, we're joined by Mozilla ML Engineer Tarek Ziadé to discuss AI and privacy, and how to use AI on-device, what browsers will look like in the future, and a whole lot more.
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Fireside Chat: AI and Sustainability - Thorsten Jonas
We're looking back on Thorsten Jonas's appearance on our Performance and AI LIVE Day, which was available live exclusively for our early-bird WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 ticket holders.Thorsten, as the founder of SUX - Sustainabl...
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Devs vs. Marketers, COBOL and Copilot, Make Live Coding Easy and more - The Best of LIVE 2025 - Part 3
This week we're looking back on the best of 2025 from the Weekly Developer Show, with the final instalment of a 3-part series:00:20 - Raphael De Lio on landing a job in open source by contributing to the repo05:40 - Tim Cadenbach ...
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AI is an Electric Bike for the Brain - Stoyan Stefanov
We're looking back on Stoyan Stefanov's appearance on our Performance and AI LIVE Day, which was available live exclusively for our early-bird WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 ticket holders.Stoyan Stefanov's uniquely-named talk takes...
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Slopquatting, API Keys, Fun with Fonts, Recruiters vs AI and more - The Best of LIVE 2025 - Part 2
This week we're looking back on the best of 2025 from the Weekly Developer Show, with part 2 of a 3-part series:00:20 - Sebastian Gingter on 'slopsquatting' and why you should treat AI like an intern06:14 - Ramona Schwering on vib...
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Boost Productivity with AI: Figma & Playwright MCP Workflows - Aris Markogiannakis
CityJS Conference organiser Aris Markogiannakis joins us to show you can boost your productivity with AI, joining up Figma and Playwright with an MCP to take a new approach to your workflow.
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Developers vs Scammers, Bad Design, AI is Pointless, AJAX is 20 and more - The Best of LIVE 2025 - Part 1
This week we're looking back on the best of 2025 from the Weekly Developer Show, with part 1 of a 3-part series:00:20 - Brian Rountree on writing a script to turn the tables on scammers09:10 - Stefan Judis on how bad design can ac...
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Generate AI in the Browser with Chrome AI - Raymond Camden
This week we're looking back at Raymond Camden's appearance on our Performance and AI LIVE Day, which was available live exclusively for our early-bird WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 ticket holders.Raymond shows us how to he generar...
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Guten TAG, Web Standards, AI and more - Christian Liebel
On this edition of the Weekly Developer Show, we welcome Christian Liebel, ddeveloper, consultant at Thinktecture and the latest member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group, to talk about web standards, frameworks vs. the platform, AI and mu...
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Inspiring Young People (and Their Parents) to Become Programmers - Cassandra Chin
On this episode of Coffee with Developers, we meet with Cassandra Chin, software engineer, student, author and kids workshop leader, to hear what it's like to teach young people (and their parents) how to write code.
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Web Scraping, Agents, Actors and more - Ondra Urban (Apify)
On this episode of the Weekly Developer Show we welcome Apify COO Ondra Urban and former developer and lawyer to talk about how they're changing the face of web scraping and giving away $1m to devs around the world, as well as taking a look at ...
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AI Killed DevOps... What Now? - Lee Faus
On this episode we sit down with GitLab's Field CTO Lee Faus to talk about how AI has changed DevOps forever, and what the future of version control looks like in the age of AI.
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Frontend Inspirations, Web Standards and more - Jan Deppisch
On this edition of the Weekly Developer Show we're joined by Jan Deppisch, Senior Frontend Engineer, to discuss all things frontend, web standards, learning HTML first or jumping right into frameworks, and a whole lot more.
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Security Blindspots and How to Learn About Them - Anna Oliveira
On this edition of Coffee with Developers, we speak to Anna Oliveira, Software Engineer and creator of Blindspot, an interactive terminal game that helps developers learn about insecure coding practices by making them better at spotting them.
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