Whiskey Web and Whatnot A Very Merry Descent Into Holiday Madness
This week, Robbie and Adam talk about holiday travel chaos, parenting stress, and health scares before diving into AI-assisted coding, Linux quirks, IDE trends, burnout in open source, and more.
In this episode:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (02:07) - Whiskey rating & review: Flaviar & Jack Daniels
- (06:02) - Stress gummies, holiday chaos, and why Robbie is fried
- (13:05) - Adam on pulling back, burnout, and choosing quality over quantity
- (21:02) - Second pour: Flavia SirDavis American Whisky
- (21:23) - Building color tools for fun (and sanity)
- (21:51) - Is React actually holding us back?
- (25:16) - Food, culture, and building with the platform
- (27:19) - The worst IDE idea ever
- (31:00) - Vibe-coding an iOS app… on iOS
- (32:39) - Where AI still completely fails
- (34:02) - OpenAI vs. Gemini and the shifting AI landscape
- (34:56) - Editors, agents, and AI overload
- (38:34) - Space toggles in CSS and weirdly powerful tricks
- (42:14) - Are AI tools getting more scatterbrained?
- (44:20) - Perspective when everything feels heavy
- (46:20) - Learning new skills without burning out
- (48:03) - Curiosity is a survival skill
- (48:40) - Working through hard seasons in life
- (54:14) - TV shows, distractions, and mental breaks
- (54:46) - Robbie vs. Lego ordering (again)
- (56:05) - Adam’s exhausting travel run
- (57:07) - Why kids are basically walking germs
- (58:26) - Adam’s Beyond Tellerrand talk
- (59:13) - Advent of Code
**Links**
- Flaviar Bhakta Golden Age Blend: https://flaviar.com/products/bhakta-1928-golden-age-blend-750
- Flavia SirDavis American Whisky: https://flaviar.com/products/sirdavis-american-whisky-750
- Jack Daniels Single Barrel Rye: https://www.jackdaniels.com/en-us/whiskey/single-barrel-rye
- Whiskey Web and Whatnot live episodes from All Things Open 2025: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7uiIY_6TPL-iREDcpUVndAZaz118OE-h
- Olly Stress Gummies: https://www.olly.com/
- Flaviar Whiskey Advent Calendar: https://flaviar.com/pages/advent-calendar
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: https://www.harrypottertheplay.com/
- ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/
- Adam's blog post - An Update On My Involvement In Standards: https://nerdy.dev/update-on-my-involvement-in-standards
- Primeagen: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen
- Swach: https://swach.io/
- Chrome EyeDropper API: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/eyedropper
- Linux: https://www.linux.org/
- Wayland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol)
- GNOME: https://www.gnome.org/
- KDE: https://kde.org/
- C++: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp
- Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
- Electron: https://www.electronjs.org/
- Antigravity: https://antigravity.google/
- Adam's color component: https://github.com/argyleink/css-color-component
- theCHIVE: https://thechive.com/
- Preact: https://preactjs.com/
- React: https://react.dev/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- Seinfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld
- VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
- Ember: https://emberjs.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com
- Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/
- Nano Banana: https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Opencode: https://opencode.ai/
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Big Pickle: https://opencode.ai/docs/zen/
- Windsurf: https://windsurf.ai/
- CSS: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
- Stranger Things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things
- Chris Coyier: https://x.com/chriscoyier
- Wednesday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday_(TV_series)
- LEGO: https://www.lego.com/
- WebGL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API
- Advent of Code: https://adventofcode.com/
- Figma: https://www.figma.com/
- Adam's Beyond Tellerrand talk: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2025/speakers/adam-argyle
**Connect with the hosts**
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner
- Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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