Thomas G Lopes — Svelte, MeltUI, Being a Svelte Ambassador, Upbringings, Faith, Career, Hobbies

12/01/24 • 62 min

Thomas is a svelte ambassador who built MeltUI, one of the most used open source Svelte UI library and Rune, a collection of utilities built on top of Svelte's runes. This's a really educational conversation covering topics across AI, Open Source management, technical topics about Svelte and alot more. In this conversation we talk about Thomas's upbringings, education, programming journey, Svelte, MeltUI, faith, hobbies and so much more.

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