HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons hosts the most downloaded sports podcast of all time, with a rotating crew of celebrities, athletes, and media staples, as well as mainstays like Cousin Sal, Joe House, and a slew of other friends and family members who always happen to be suspiciously available.
…
continue reading
MP3•Episode home
Manage episode 513903453 series 3692567
Content provided by RobbieTheWagner, Charles William Carpenter III, and Adam Argyle, Charles William Carpenter III, Adam Argyle, and The Radcast Network. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by RobbieTheWagner, Charles William Carpenter III, and Adam Argyle, Charles William Carpenter III, Adam Argyle, and The Radcast Network or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://staging.podcastplayer.com/legal.
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
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
Whiskey Web and Whatnot Merch
Enjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.
216 episodes