Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat
  • 16 OCT
  • EPISODE 214
  • 1HR 7MIN

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Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat

This week, Robbie, Chuck, and Adam talk about the worst whiskey they’ve tasted, Tailwind as a “state management library,” and recent security scares in open source. Also — dependency hygiene, developer visa drama, and whether inflated tech salaries are finally being reckoned with.

In this episode:

  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (02:14) - Whiskey rating & review: Evan Williams Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
  • (13:00) - What's with all the recent web dev security issues?
  • (28:39) - Is Tailwind secretly the worst state management library?
  • (32:45) - Visa chaos: H-1Bs, gold cards, and reverse immigration
  • (40:51) - Are tech salaries being intentionally driven down?
  • (49:45) - Adam’s AI experiment with Claude + Parallelize
  • (54:09) - Why AI should specialize (and stop trying to do everything)
  • (54:44) - Best AI tools right now
  • (01:01:16) - Chuck’s VPN chaos + funny wifi names
  • (01:04:04) - Plugs

Links

  • GoDaddy: https://www.godaddy.com/
  • Bob Parsons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Parsons
  • Intuit: https://www.intuit.com/
  • Evan Williams Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey: http://evanwilliams.com/straight-bourbon
  • Wrigley Chew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley_Company
  • Bazooka: https://www.bazookajoe.com/
  • Juicy Fruit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicy_Fruit
  • Cinnamon Toast Crunch: https://www.cinnamontoastcrunch.com/
  • Jack Daniel's: https://www.jackdaniels.com/
  • Crown Royal Black: https://www.crownroyal.com/canadian-whisky/crown-royal-black
  • Suntory World Whiskey Ao: https://house.suntory.com/ao-whisky
  • Fresca Mixed: https://www.frescamixed.com/
  • All Things Open: https://allthingsopen.org/
  • Ken Wheeler: https://x.com/ken_wheeler/
  • JavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
  • Ruby: https://www.ruby-lang.org/
  • NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/
  • GitHub: https://github.com/
  • Blockchain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
  • pNPM: https://pnpm.io/
  • Ransom: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117438/
  • Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/
  • WordPress: https://wordpress.org
  • David Cramer: https://x.com/zeeg
  • Django: https://www.djangoproject.com/
  • Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/
  • SemVer: https://semver.org/
  • Google: https://www.google.com/
  • Snowpack: https://www.snowpack.dev/
  • Socket.io: https://socket.io/
  • Guillermo Rauch: https://x.com/rauchg
  • Socket.dev: https://socket.dev/
  • Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
  • David K Piano: https://x.com/DavidKPiano
  • Tesla: https://www.tesla.com/
  • Next.js: https://nextjs.org/
  • OpenAI: https://openai.com
  • Amazon: https://amazon.com
  • Jason Lengstorf: https://x.com/jlengstorf
  • Perl: https://www.perl.org/
  • Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
  • Cobol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
  • Jarred Sumner: https://x.com/jarredsumner
  • Bun: https://bun.com/
  • Zig: https://ziglang.org/
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
  • Claude: https://claude.ai/
  • Codex: https://openai.com/codex/
  • Opencode: https://opencode.ai/
  • Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/
  • Ep 92: Hot Takes, Bun, and Zig with Jarred Sumner: https://whiskey.fm/hot-takes-bun-and-zig-with-jarred-sumner
  • Neovim: https://neovim.io/
  • Bolt: https://bolt.new/
  • Lovable: https://lovable.dev/
  • Spec Kit: https://github.com/github/spec-kit
  • South Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park
  • Proton VPN: https://protonvpn.com/
  • HBO Max: https://www.hbomax.com/
  • Raspberry Pi: https://www.raspberrypi.com
  • Stephen King: https://stephenking.com/
  • Cujo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cujo
  • Nerdy.dev: https://nerdy.dev/
  • Starpod.dev: https://starpod.dev/
  • Como FC: https://comofootball.com/

Connect with the hosts

  • Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner
  • Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd
  • Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

Subscribe and stay in touch

  • Website: https://whiskey.fm
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  • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
  • Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot

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