The modern web is changing fast. Front-end frameworks evolve quickly, standards are emerging and old ones are fading out of favor. There are a lot of things to learn, but knowing the right thing is more critical than learning them all. Modern Web Podcast is an interview-style show where we learn about modern web development from industry experts. We’re committed to making it easy to digest lots of useful information!
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The modern web is changing fast. Front-end frameworks evolve quickly, standards are emerging and old ones are fading out of favor. There are a lot of things to learn, but knowing the right thing is more critical than learning them all. Modern Web Podcast is an interview-style show where we learn about modern web development from industry experts. We’re committed to making it easy to digest lots of useful information!
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June 5, 2026
Improving AI Assisted Development with Minko Gechev
Host Rob Ocel interviews AI expert Minko Gechev about improving AI-assisted development through skills, agent workflows, and robust evaluation strategies.
January 8, 2026
Databases at Extreme Scale (PlanetScale CEO Sam Lambert)
<p>In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel talks with PlanetScale CEO Sam Lambert about what “database scale” actually looks like in 2026. Sam shares migration stories from companies that moved at the perfect time and others that waited until they were already in trouble, plus why sharding and reliability are never just “magic” if your queries and data model are a mess.</p><p>They also cover PlanetScale’s evolution beyond its MySQL and Vitess roots into Postgres, Metal, and what’s coming next for sharding in the Postgres world. Along the way, they connect the dots to AI workloads, which are increasingly write heavy and put new pressure on performance, uptime, and security.</p><p><br></p><p>What You'll Learn:</p><p>- How to spot the “right time” to migrate databases before you’re on fire (and what happens when you wait too long)</p><p>- What PlanetScale actually gives you “for free” at scale, and what it can’t fix (bad schema, missing indexes, terrible SQL)</p><p>- Why “auto” database magic is usually a tradeoff, and what to ask for when you want to peek behind the curtain</p><p>- What PlanetScale is becoming beyond MySQL/Vitess, including Postgres, Metal, and Nikky (sharding for Postgres)</p><p>- How AI workloads are changing database patterns, especially the shift toward write heavy systems and why that pressures reliability and security</p><p><br></p><p>Sam Lambert on Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/isamlambert/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/isamlambert/</a></p><p>Rob Ocel on Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/robocel/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/robocel/</a></p><p>This Dot Labs Twitter: <a href="https://x.com/ThisDotLabs" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://x.com/ThisDotLabs</a></p><p>This Dot Media Twitter: <a href="https://x.com/ThisDotMedia" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://x.com/ThisDotMedia</a></p><p>This Dot Labs Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thisdotlabs/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/thisdotlabs/</a></p><p>This Dot Labs Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thisdot/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/thisdot/</a></p><p><br></p><p>Sponsored by This Dot Labs: <a href="https://www.thisdot.co/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.thisdot.co/</a></p>
December 10, 2025
How Varlock Fixes .env Vulnerabilities and Secures Your Secrets
<p>Environment variables and secrets are usually a mess: out of sync .env files, scattered API keys, painful onboarding, and brittle CI configs. In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel talks with Varlock co-creators Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim about how Varlock turns .env files into a real schema with types, validation, and documentation, pulls secrets from tools like 1Password and other backends, and centralizes configuration across environments and services. They also dig into protecting secrets in an AI-heavy world by redacting them from logs and responses, preventing accidental leaks from agents, and pushing toward an open env-spec standard so configuration becomes predictable, portable, and actually pleasant to work with.</p><p><br></p><p>What you will learn:</p><p>- Why traditional .env files and copy paste workflows break down as teams, services, and environments grow.</p><p>- How Varlock turns environment variables into a schema with types, validation, documentation, and generated TypeScript.- How to pull secrets from tools like 1Password and other backends without leaving them in plain text or scattering them across dashboards.</p><p>- How to manage multiple environments such as development, staging, and production from a single, declarative configuration source.</p><p>- How Varlock helps protect secrets in AI and MCP workflows by redacting them from logs and responses and blocking accidental leaks.</p><p>- What the env spec standard is and how a common schema format can make configuration more portable across tools, templates, and platforms.</p><p><br></p><p>Theo Ephraim on Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/theo-ephraim/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/theo-ephraim/</a></p><p>Phil Miller on Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/themillman/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/themillman/</a></p><p>Rob Ocel on Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/robocel/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/robocel/</a></p><p>This Dot Labs Twitter: <a href="https://x.com/ThisDotLabs" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://x.com/ThisDotLabs</a></p><p>This Dot Media Twitter: <a href="https://x.com/ThisDotMedia" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://x.com/ThisDotMedia</a></p><p>This Dot Labs Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thisdotlabs/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/thisdotlabs/</a></p><p>This Dot Labs Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thisdot/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/thisdot/</a></p><p>This Dot Labs Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/thisdotlabs.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://bsky.app/profile/thisdotlabs.bsky.social</a></p><p><br></p><p>Sponsored by This Dot Labs: <a href="https://ai.thisdot.co/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://ai.thisdot.co/</a></p>
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