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/

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