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Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat

Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat

By: RobbieTheWagner and Charles William Carpenter III The Radcast Network
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 Veteran web developers RobbieTheWagner and Charles William Carpenter III host this informal, whiskey-fueled fireside chat with your favorite web devs. They discuss all things web development including JavaScript, TypeScript, EmberJS, React, Astro, SolidJS, CSS, HTML, Web3, and more. They take a unique approach and focus on getting to know the human side of developers and their hobbies outside of work, all while sampling a new whiskey that they rate on their unique tentacle scale.© RobbieTheWagner and Charles William Carpenter III
Episodes
  • Is HTML a Programming Language?

    Is HTML a Programming Language?
    Jul 10 2025
    This week, Robbie and Chuck talk about whiskey, wings, and web development—naturally. They taste-test Sweetens Cove Kennessee, reminisce about failed food challenges, and discuss whether HTML and Markdown qualify as programming languages. They also discuss site optimization woes, Astro troubleshooting, and the chaos of parenting while debugging.In this episode:(00:00) – Intro(01:17) – Whiskey rating and review: Sweetens Cove Kennessee(11:46) – Is HTML a programming language?(13:47) – 200 episodes and debugging Astro(17:56) – Ember projects and developer nostalgia(20:10) – Playing with AI inside Ember(23:37) – What’s the right AI stack for web development today?(28:29) – Are AI builder tools worth the hype?(32:11) – Warp 2.0(33:25) – Chuck’s hot take: why am I assembling my own dinner?(38:15) – Robbie's sushi realizations(38:52) – Chuck’s moving status and life update(43:04) – Robbie’s parenting update(45:30) – Robbie gets back to the gym (sort of)LinksSweetens Cove Kennessee: https://sweetenscovespirits.com/It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Always_Sunny_in_PhiladelphiaNorlan: https://norlanglass.com/Jack Daniel's: https://www.jackdaniels.com/George Dickel: https://www.georgedickel.com/Belle Meade: https://www.bellemeadebourbon.com/Buffalo Trace: https://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/Arrested Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_DevelopmentJavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScriptPHP: https://www.php.net/C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)Markdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarkdownFriday Deployment: https://fridaydeployment.co/Astro: https://astro.build/Vercel: https://vercel.com/Discord: https://discord.comjQuery: https://jquery.com/Ember: https://emberjs.com/Vite: https://vite.dev/ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.comClaude: https://claude.aiWindsurf: https://windsurf.ai/VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/Cline: https://cline.bot/GitHub: https://github.comTypecraft: https://typecraft.dev/Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink/Bolt: https://bolt.new/Lovable: https://lovable.dev/Replit: https://replit.com/React: https://react.dev/Jordan Walke: https://x.com/jordwalkeFigma: https://www.figma.com/Rails: https://rubyonrails.org/Next.js: https://nextjs.org/Connect with Chuck and RobbieRobbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagnerChuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rdSubscribe and stay in touchWebsite: https://whiskey.fmApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDfOvercast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnotWhiskey Web and Whatnot MerchEnjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    48 mins
  • From FAANG to Fired: The Illusion of Stability in Big Tech w/ Adam Argyle

    From FAANG to Fired: The Illusion of Stability in Big Tech w/ Adam Argyle
    Jul 3 2025
    This week, Robbie and special guest co-host Adam Argyle talk about life after layoffs, the myth of job security at big tech companies, and what it really means to build meaningful things on the web.In this episode:(00:00) - Intro(01:23) - Whiskey: Chicken Cock Rye(02:45) - From FAANG to fired: the illusion of stability in Big Tech(14:49) - How HTML and CSS are replacing JavaScript, one feature at a time(23:13) - Robbie’s role at HashiCorp(26:47) - What is AI actually good at?(53:30) - Taste, tools, and the art of building with (or without) AI(57:32) - Waking and baking(58:54) - Robbie on raising twins(01:03:05) - Why Robbie left Amazon(01:04:25) - Where tech is headed: AI, burnout, and the future of creativity(01:09:20) - PlugsLinksChicken Cock: https://chickencockwhiskey.com/Seinfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeinfeldNorlan Glass: https://norlanglass.com/Chrome: https://www.google.com/chrome/South Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_ParkAmazon: https://amazon.comTanStack: https://tanstack.com/Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/Shopify: https://www.shopify.comMicrosoft: https://www.microsoft.com/Lady Bird: https://ladybird.orgMozilla: https://www.mozilla.org/Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/Duolingo: https://www.duolingo.com/Apple: https://apple.comWestworld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(TV_series)Dead Space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_SpaceAwwwards: https://www.awwwards.com/Vue: https://vuejs.org/Safari: https://www.apple.com/safari/Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/Figma: https://www.figma.com/Lodash: https://lodash.com/HashiCorp: https://www.hashicorp.com/Ember: https://emberjs.com/Windsurf: https://windsurf.ai/Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/Firebase Studio: https://firebase.studio/Zed: https://zed.dev/NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/Claude: https://claude.aiCline: https://cline.bot/Deno: https://deno.com/Sam Altman: https://x.com/samaDeepSeek: https://www.deepseek.com/Dia: https://www.diabrowser.com/Warp: https://www.warp.dev/Honda Accord: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_AccordSilicon Valley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)Bitcoin: https://bitcoin.org/en/Catch Me If You Can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Me_If_You_CanCopilot: https://github.com/features/copilotKen Wheeler: https://x.com/ken_wheeler/MySpace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyspaceGitHub: https://github.comConnect with AdamWebsite: https://nerdy.dev/X / Twitter: https://x.com/argyleinkConnect with Chuck and RobbieRobbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagnerChuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rdSubscribe and stay in touchWebsite: https://whiskey.fmApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDfOvercast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnotWhiskey Web and Whatnot MerchEnjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • The One Rye to Rule Them All w/ Kendall Miller & Rishi Malik

    The One Rye to Rule Them All w/ Kendall Miller & Rishi Malik
    Jun 26 2025
    This week, Robbie and Chuck talk with Kendall Miller and Rishi Malik about their startup Friday Deployment Spirits, and creating whiskey for developers. They discuss the art of making good whiskey, bourbon vs rye, coding in the age of AI, and much more.In this episode:(00:00) - Intro(00:53) - Meet Rishi and Kendall(03:01) - Whiskey rating and review: Friday Deployment Generative A Rye(21:27) - Hot take: Is HTML a programming language?(25:56) - Hot Take: Bourbon or Rye?(27:13) - Is deploying on a Friday bad?(37:57) - Payment systems, Web3, and blockchain(45:44) - The art of making whiskey(51:39) - MCP security for the AI age(55:40) - What happened to Chartreuse?(57:26) - PlugsLinksFriday Deployment: https://fridaydeployment.co/CTO Lunches: https://ctolunches.com/Maybe Don't AI: https://www.maybedont.ai/Wolves Whiskey: https://wolveswhiskeyca.com/Heaven Hill Distillery: http://heavenhilldistillery.com/Angels Envy: https://www.angelsenvy.com/Laphroaig: https://www.laphroaig.com/Buffalo Trace: https://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/Malort: https://malort.com/Sagamore Spirit: https://sagamorespirit.com/Guillermo Rauch: https://x.com/rauchgWillett: https://www.kentuckybourbonwhiskey.com/Midwinter Night's Dram: https://highwest.com/pages/a-midwinter-nights-dramChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/Typescript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/Brenne Whiskey: https://www.houseofmalt.co.uk/brand/brenne/Seinfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeinfeldMad Men: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_MenTailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/Norlan: https://norlanglass.com/Office Space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_SpaceStripe: https://stripe.com/Privy: https://www.privy.io/Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/React: https://react.dev/Venmo: https://venmo.com/Cash App: https://cash.app/Laravel: https://laravel.com/JavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScriptjQuery: https://jquery.com/Jim Beam: https://www.jimbeam.com/Fernet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FernetFireball: https://www.fireballwhisky.com/Jagermeister: https://us.jagermeister.com/Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/Aviation Gin: https://www.aviationgin.com/Ryan Reynolds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_ReynoldsCostco: https://www.costco.com/Boodles Gin: https://boodlesgin.com/Tanqueray: https://www.tanqueray.com/en-rowThe Botanist Gin: https://www.thebotanist.com/Connect with KendallLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendallamiller/Connect with RishiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishilmalik/Connect with Chuck and RobbieRobbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagnerChuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rdSubscribe and stay in touchWebsite: https://whiskey.fmApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDfOvercast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnotWhiskey Web and Whatnot MerchEnjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    59 mins

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