This week, Robbie, Chuck, and Adam talk about the worst whiskey they&rsquo;ve tasted, Tailwind as a &ldquo;state management library,&rdquo; and recent security scares in open source. Also &mdash; dependency hygiene, developer visa drama, and whether inflated tech salaries are finally being reckoned with.
In this episode:
<ul>
<li>(00:00) - Intro</li>
<li>(02:14) - Whiskey rating & review: Evan Williams Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey</li>
<li>(13:00) - What's with all the recent web dev security issues?</li>
<li>(28:39) - Is Tailwind secretly the worst state management library?</li>
<li>(32:45) - Visa chaos: H-1Bs, gold cards, and reverse immigration</li>
<li>(40:51) - Are tech salaries being intentionally driven down?</li>
<li>(49:45) - Adam&rsquo;s AI experiment with Claude + Parallelize</li>
<li>(54:09) - Why AI should specialize (and stop trying to do everything)</li>
<li>(54:44) - Best AI tools right now</li>
<li>(01:01:16) - Chuck&rsquo;s VPN chaos + funny wifi names</li>
<li>(01:04:04) - Plugs</li>
</ul>
Links
<ul>
<li>GoDaddy:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.godaddy.com/">https://www.godaddy.com/</a></li>
<li>Bob Parsons:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Parsons">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Parsons</a></li>
<li>Intuit:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.intuit.com/">https://www.intuit.com/</a></li>
<li>Evan Williams Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey:&nbsp;<a href="http://evanwilliams.com/straight-bourbon">http://evanwilliams.com/straight-bourbon</a></li>
<li>Wrigley Chew:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley_Company">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley_Company</a></li>
<li>Bazooka:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bazookajoe.com/">https://www.bazookajoe.com/</a></li>
<li>Juicy Fruit:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicy_Fruit">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicy_Fruit</a></li>
<li>Cinnamon Toast Crunch:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cinnamontoastcrunch.com/">https://www.cinnamontoastcrunch.com/</a></li>
<li>Jack Daniel's:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jackdaniels.com/">https://www.jackdaniels.com/</a></li>
<li>Crown Royal Black:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.crownroyal.com/canadian-whisky/crown-royal-black">https://www.crownroyal.com/canadian-whisky/crown-royal-black</a></li>
<li>Suntory World Whiskey Ao:&nbsp;<a href="https://house.suntory.com/ao-whisky">https://house.suntory.com/ao-whisky</a></li>
<li>Fresca Mixed:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.frescamixed.com/">https://www.frescamixed.com/</a></li>
<li>All Things Open:&nbsp;<a href="https://allthingsopen.org/">https://allthingsopen.org/</a></li>
<li>Ken Wheeler:&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/ken_wheeler/">https://x.com/ken_wheeler/</a></li>
<li>JavaScript:&nbsp;<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript</a></li>
<li>Ruby:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ruby-lang.org/">https://www.ruby-lang.org/</a></li>
<li>NPM:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/">https://www.npmjs.com/</a></li>
<li>GitHub:&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/">https://github.com/</a></li>
<li>Blockchain:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain</a></li>
<li>pNPM:&nbsp;<a href="https://pnpm.io/">https://pnpm.io/</a></li>
<li>Ransom:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117438/">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117438/</a></li>
<li>Reddit:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/">https://www.reddit.com/</a></li>
<li>WordPress:&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/">https://wordpress.org</a></li>
<li>David Cramer:&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/zeeg">https://x.com/zeeg</a></li>
<li>Django:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/">https://www.djangoproject.com/</a></li>
<li>Netflix:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.netflix.com/">https://www.netflix.com/</a></li>
<li>SemVer:&nbsp;<a href="https://semver.org/">https://semver.org/</a></li>
<li>Google:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/">https://www.google.com/</a></li>
<li>Snowpack:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.snowpack.dev/">https://www.snowpack.dev/</a></li>
<li>Socket.io:&nbsp;<a href="https://socket.io/">https://socket.io/</a></li>
<li>Guillermo Rauch:&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/rauchg">https://x.com/rauchg</a></li>
<li>Socket.dev:&nbsp;<a href="https://socket.dev/">https://socket.dev/</a></li>
<li>Tailwind CSS:&nbsp;<a href="https://tailwindcss.com/">https://tailwindcss.com/</a></li>
<li>David K Piano:&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/DavidKPiano">https://x.com/DavidKPiano</a></li>
<li>Tesla:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tesla.com/">https://www.tesla.com/</a></li>
<li>Next.js:&nbsp;<a href="https://nextjs.org/">https://nextjs.org/</a></li>
<li>OpenAI:&nbsp;<a href="https://openai.com/">https://openai.com</a></li>
<li>Amazon:&nbsp;<a href="https://amazon.com/">https://amazon.com</a></li>
<li>Jason Lengstorf:&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/jlengstorf">https://x.com/jlengstorf</a></li>
<li>Perl:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.perl.org/">https://www.perl.org/</a></li>
<li>Rust:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/">https://www.rust-lang.org/</a></li>
<li>Cobol:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL</a></li>
<li>Jarred Sumner:&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/jarredsumner">https://x.com/jarredsumner</a></li>
<li>Bun:&nbsp;<a href="https://bun.com/">https://bun.com/</a></li>
<li>Zig:&nbsp;<a href="https://ziglang.org/">https://ziglang.org/</a></li>
<li>Facebook:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/">https://www.facebook.com/</a></li>
<li>Claude:&nbsp;<a href="https://claude.ai/">https://claude.ai/</a></li>
<li>Codex:&nbsp;<a href="https://openai.com/codex/">https://openai.com/codex/</a></li>
<li>Opencode:&nbsp;<a href="https://opencode.ai/">https://opencode.ai/</a></li>
<li>Gemini:&nbsp;<a href="https://gemini.google.com/">https://gemini.google.com/</a></li>
<li>Ep 92: Hot Takes, Bun, and Zig with Jarred Sumner:&nbsp;<a href="https://whiskey.fm/hot-takes-bun-and-zig-with-jarred-sumner">https://whiskey.fm/hot-takes-bun-and-zig-with-jarred-sumner</a></li>
<li>Neovim:&nbsp;<a href="https://neovim.io/">https://neovim.io/</a></li>
<li>Bolt:&nbsp;<a href="https://bolt.new/">https://bolt.new/</a></li>
<li>Lovable:&nbsp;<a href="https://lovable.dev/">https://lovable.dev/</a></li>
<li>Spec Kit:&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/github/spec-kit">https://github.com/github/spec-kit</a></li>
<li>South Park:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park</a></li>
<li>Proton VPN:&nbsp;<a href="https://protonvpn.com/">https://protonvpn.com/</a></li>
<li>HBO Max:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hbomax.com/">https://www.hbomax.com/</a></li>
<li>Raspberry Pi:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/">https://www.raspberrypi.com</a></li>
<li>Stephen King:&nbsp;<a href="https://stephenking.com/">https://stephenking.com/</a></li>
<li>Cujo:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cujo">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cujo</a></li>
<li>Nerdy.dev:&nbsp;<a href="https://nerdy.dev/">https://nerdy.dev/</a></li>
<li>Starpod.dev:&nbsp;<a href="https://starpod.dev/">https://starpod.dev/</a></li>
<li>Como FC:&nbsp;<a href="https://comofootball.com/">https://comofootball.com/</a></li>
</ul>
Connect with the hosts
<ul>
<li>Robbie Wagner:&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner">https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner</a></li>
<li>Chuck Carpenter:&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd">https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd</a></li>
<li>Adam Argyle:&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/argyleink">https://x.com/argyleink</a></li>
</ul>
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<ul>
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<li>Overcast:&nbsp;<a href="https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603">https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603</a></li>
<li>YouTube:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot">https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot</a></li>
</ul>
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