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

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