Recorded live at All Things Open, Robbie and guest co-host Jason Torres talk with Nick Taylor about Kubernetes mishaps, DevRel life, front-end nostalgia, CSS wizardry, arcade emulators, and why taste and creativity still matter in an AI-accelerated world.
In this episode:
<ul>
<li>(00:00) - Intro</li>
<li>(03:26) - Wine rating & review: Cupcake Prosecco</li>
<li>(09:42) - Casinos, arcades, and emulator nostalgia</li>
<li>(11:45) - Favorite video games and gaming with kids</li>
<li>(16:25) - Hot Take: git rebase vs. git merge</li>
<li>(19:58) - Fellow tech podcasters and community shoutouts</li>
<li>(22:48) - Law & Order appreciation</li>
<li>(24:00) - Life at conferences and returning to ATO</li>
<li>(24:49) - "The Commits" Awards</li>
<li>(26:13) - Hot Take: Is HTML a programming language?</li>
<li>(26:24) - Hot Take: Is CSS a programming language?</li>
<li>(29:20) - AI&rsquo;s impact on front-end and who still stands out</li>
<li>(32:05) - Nick&rsquo;s shift from front-end to Kubernetes and security</li>
<li>(36:40) - How efficient is AI really?</li>
<li>(37:55) - Robbie&rsquo;s experience using AI in daily work</li>
<li>(40:28) - Why no USB-B?</li>
<li>(41:23) - Customizing MCPs vs. following the spec</li>
<li>(44:15) - What Nick would do if not in tech</li>
<li>(45:03) - Plugs</li>
</ul>
Links
<ul>
<li>ChatGPT: <a href="https://chatgpt.com/">https://chatgpt.com/</a></li>
<li>Monster Energy: <a href="https://www.monsterenergy.com/">https://www.monsterenergy.com/</a></li>
<li>Laracon: <a href="https://laracon.us/">https://laracon.us/</a></li>
<li>Kubernetes: <a href="https://kubernetes.io/">https://kubernetes.io/</a></li>
<li>YAML: <a href="https://yaml.org/">https://yaml.org/</a></li>
<li>Kubernetes: <a href="https://kubernetes.io/">https://kubernetes.io/</a></li>
<li>The Kubernetes Podcast with Nick: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhToH2KgMtk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhToH2KgMtk</a></li>
<li>All Things Open: <a href="https://allthingsopen.org/">https://allthingsopen.org/</a></li>
<li>Guinness: <a href="https://www.guinness.com/">https://www.guinness.com/</a></li>
<li>Jolt Cola: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolt_Cola">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolt_Cola</a></li>
<li>del Lago Casino: <a href="https://dellagoresort.com/">https://dellagoresort.com/</a></li>
<li>React: <a href="https://react.dev/">https://react.dev/</a></li>
<li>NESticle: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESticle">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESticle</a></li>
<li>XBOX: <a href="https://www.xbox.com/">https://www.xbox.com/</a></li>
<li>Super Mario: <a href="https://mario.nintendo.com/">https://mario.nintendo.com/</a></li>
<li>NESticle: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESticle">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESticle</a></li>
<li>Just Dance: <a href="https://justdancenow.com/">https://justdancenow.com/</a></li>
<li>Rihanna: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rihanna">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rihanna</a></li>
<li>PS4: <a href="https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps4/">https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps4/</a></li>
<li>Star Wars Battlefront: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Battlefront">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Battlefront</a></li>
<li>Lego Fornite: <a href="https://www.fortnite.com/@epic/lego-fortnite-odyssey">https://www.fortnite.com/@epic/lego-fortnite-odyssey</a></li>
<li>Clone Hero: <a href="https://clonehero.net/">https://clonehero.net/</a></li>
<li>Guitar Hero: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Hero">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Hero</a></li>
<li>Analogue Pocket: <a href="https://www.analogue.co/pocket">https://www.analogue.co/pocket</a></li>
<li>Oculus: <a href="https://www.oculus.com/">https://www.oculus.com/</a></li>
<li>Meta Quest 3: <a href="https://www.meta.com/quest/quest-3/">https://www.meta.com/quest/quest-3/</a></li>
<li>Minecraft: <a href="https://www.minecraft.net/">https://www.minecraft.net/</a></li>
<li>VS Code: <a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/">https://code.visualstudio.com/</a></li>
<li>Neovim: <a href="https://neovim.io/">https://neovim.io/</a></li>
<li>GitKraken: <a href="https://www.gitkraken.com/">https://www.gitkraken.com/</a></li>
<li>Primeagen: <a href="https://x.com/ThePrimeagen">https://x.com/ThePrimeagen</a></li>
<li>Terminal.shop: <a href="https://www.terminal.shop/">https://www.terminal.shop/</a></li>
<li>Dax: <a href="https://x.com/thdxr/">https://x.com/thdxr/</a></li>
<li>GitHub Universe: <a href="https://githubuniverse.com/">https://githubuniverse.com/</a></li>
<li>Tomorrow.fm Podcast: <a href="https://tomorrow.fm/">https://tomorrow.fm/</a></li>
<li>Law & Order SVU: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_&_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_&_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit</a></li>
<li>Vincent D'Onofrio: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_D'Onofrio">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_D'Onofrio</a></li>
<li>Daredevil: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevil_(TV_series)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevil_(TV_series)</a></li>
<li>Render Conf: <a href="https://www.renderatl.com/">https://www.renderatl.com/</a></li>
<li>So I Married an Axe Murderer: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_I_Married_an_Axe_Murderer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_I_Married_an_Axe_Murderer</a></li>
<li>HTML: <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/html/">https://www.w3schools.com/html/</a></li>
<li>CSS: <a href="https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/">https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/</a></li>
<li>Ep 120: Throwback Frameworks, Tailwind Fandom, and CSS with Jhey Tompkins: <a href="https://whiskey.fm/throwback-frameworks-tailwind-fandom-and-css-with-jhey-tompkins">https://whiskey.fm/throwback-frameworks-tailwind-fandom-and-css-with-jhey-tompkins</a></li>
<li>Adam Argyle: <a href="https://x.com/argyleink/">https://x.com/argyleink/</a></li>
<li>Jason Lengstorf: <a href="https://x.com/jlengstorf">https://x.com/jlengstorf</a></li>
<li>Web Dev Challenge: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz8Iz-Fnk_eTkZvSNWXW_TKZ2UwVirT2M">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz8Iz-Fnk_eTkZvSNWXW_TKZ2UwVirT2M</a></li>
<li>Shopify: <a href="https://www.shopify.com/">https://www.shopify.com/</a></li>
<li>Tailwind CSS: <a href="https://tailwindcss.com/">https://tailwindcss.com/</a></li>
<li>Vercel: <a href="https://vercel.com/">https://vercel.com/</a></li>
<li>Claude: <a href="https://claude.ai/">https://claude.ai</a></li>
<li>AWS: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/">https://aws.amazon.com/</a></li>
<li>McAfee: <a href="https://www.mcafee.com/">https://www.mcafee.com/</a></li>
<li>1Password: <a href="https://1password.com/">https://1password.com/</a></li>
<li>Netlify: <a href="https://www.netlify.com/">https://www.netlify.com/</a></li>
<li>Ep 217: Open Source, Agents, and the Next AI Wave w/ Angie Jones: <a href="https://whiskey.fm/open-source-agents-and-the-next-ai-wave-w-angie-jones">https://whiskey.fm/open-source-agents-and-the-next-ai-wave-w-angie-jones</a></li>
<li>Kubernetes the Hard Way: <a href="https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way">https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way</a></li>
<li>Sam Altman: <a href="https://x.com/sama">https://x.com/sama</a></li>
<li>TypeScript: <a href="https://www.typescriptlang.org/">https://www.typescriptlang.org/</a></li>
<li>OpenAI: <a href="https://openai.com/">https://openai.com</a></li>
<li>Anthropic: <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/">https://www.anthropic.com/</a></li>
<li>IBM: <a href="https://www.ibm.com/">https://www.ibm.com/</a></li>
<li>NVidia: <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/">https://www.nvidia.com/</a></li>
<li>Goose: <a href="https://block.github.io/goose/">https://block.github.io/goose/</a></li>
<li>MCP Dev Summit: <a href="https://mcpdevsummit.ai/">https://mcpdevsummit.ai/</a></li>
<li>Playwright: <a href="https://playwright.dev/">https://playwright.dev/</a></li>
</ul>
Connect with Jason
<ul>
<li>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/jasonetorres">https://github.com/jasonetorres</a></li>
<li>X / Twitter: <a href="https://x.com/TasonJorres">https://x.com/TasonJorres</a></li>
</ul>
Connect with Nick
<ul>
<li>Website: <a href="https://nickyt.online/">https://nickyt.online/</a></li>
<li>X / Twitter: <a href="https://x.com/nickytonline">https://x.com/nickytonline</a></li>
</ul>
Connect with the hosts
<ul>
<li>Robbie Wagner: <a href="https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner">https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner</a></li>
<li>Chuck Carpenter: <a href="https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd">https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd</a></li>
<li>Adam Argyle: <a href="https://x.com/argyleink">https://x.com/argyleink</a></li>
</ul>
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