Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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In this episode of Svelte Radio, Ken Kunz (https://bsky.app/profile/kenthropic.com) joins the hosts to discuss his journey with Svelte, from discovering it


through Rich Harris's "Rethinking Reactivity" talk to building complex financial applications. Ken shares his


experience working on Trading Strategy, a decentralized finance platform, and the challenges of implementing


sophisticated charting solutions.


The conversation also covers Ken's memorable Svelte Summit talk (youtube.com/watch?v=3yuQQ0JeRgQ) where he


recreated the Macrodata Refinement interface from the TV show Severance, complete with props and staying in


character throughout. The episode touches on testing philosophies, state management with his library Svelte- (github.com/kenkunz/svelte-fsm)


FSM (github.com/kenkunz/svelte-fsm) , and the newly launched Svelte Society Chicago chapter (https://guild.host/svelte-chicago/events) .


Notes

• Trading Strategy (tradingstrategy.ai/)
• LayerChart (layerchart.com/)
• TradingView Lightweight Chart (tradingview.com/lightweight-charts/)
• xstate (xstate.js.org/)
• svelte-fsm (github.com/kenkunz/svelte-fsm)
• Talk (youtube.com/watch?v=3_D-3HPUdEI)
• Runed (github.com/svecosystem/runed)
• Macrodata Refinement Talk (youtube.com/watch?v=3yuQQ0JeRgQ)
• GitHub Repo (github.com/kenkunz/svelte-mdr)
• Website (https://mdr.kenthropic.com)
• Bert B's Svelte Summit Talk (youtube.com/watch?v=V-5nr6BhZPA)
• Svelte Chicago (https://guild.host/svelte-chicago/events)

Picks

• Kevin: Zen Browser (https://zen-browser.app/)
• Zed (https://zed.dev)
• Zod (https://zod.dev/)
• Antony: n8n (n8n.io/)
• Active Pieces (activepieces.com/)
• Brittney: Tab Groups!
• Ken: Rock Climbing!
• Brene Brown (brenebrown.com/)