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:

(00:00) - Intro
(03:26) - Wine rating & review: Cupcake Prosecco
(09:42) - Casinos, arcades, and emulator nostalgia
(11:45) - Favorite video games and gaming with kids
(16:25) - Hot Take: git rebase vs. git merge
(19:58) - Fellow tech podcasters and community shoutouts
(22:48) - Law & Order appreciation
(24:00) - Life at conferences and returning to ATO
(24:49) - "The Commits" Awards
(26:13) - Hot Take: Is HTML a programming language?
(26:24) - Hot Take: Is CSS a programming language?
(29:20) - AI’s impact on front-end and who still stands out
(32:05) - Nick’s shift from front-end to Kubernetes and security
(36:40) - How efficient is AI really?
(37:55) - Robbie’s experience using AI in daily work
(40:28) - Why no USB-B?
(41:23) - Customizing MCPs vs. following the spec
(44:15) - What Nick would do if not in tech
(45:03) - Plugs

Links

ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/
Monster Energy: https://www.monsterenergy.com/
Laracon: https://laracon.us/
Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/
YAML: https://yaml.org/
Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/
The Kubernetes Podcast with Nick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhToH2KgMtk
All Things Open: https://allthingsopen.org/
Guinness: https://www.guinness.com/
Jolt Cola: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolt_Cola
del Lago Casino: https://dellagoresort.com/
React: https://react.dev/
NESticle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESticle
XBOX: https://www.xbox.com/
Super Mario: https://mario.nintendo.com/
NESticle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESticle
Just Dance: https://justdancenow.com/
Rihanna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rihanna
PS4: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps4/
Star Wars Battlefront: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Battlefront
Lego Fornite: https://www.fortnite.com/@epic/lego-fortnite-odyssey
Clone Hero: https://clonehero.net/
Guitar Hero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Hero
Analogue Pocket: https://www.analogue.co/pocket
Oculus: https://www.oculus.com/
Meta Quest 3: https://www.meta.com/quest/quest-3/
Minecraft: https://www.minecraft.net/
VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
Neovim: https://neovim.io/
GitKraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/
Primeagen: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen
Terminal.shop: https://www.terminal.shop/
Dax: https://x.com/thdxr/
GitHub Universe: https://githubuniverse.com/
Tomorrow.fm Podcast: https://tomorrow.fm/
Law & Order SVU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_&_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit
Vincent D'Onofrio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_D'Onofrio
Daredevil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevil_(TV_series)
Render Conf: https://www.renderatl.com/
So I Married an Axe Murderer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_I_Married_an_Axe_Murderer
HTML: https://www.w3schools.com/html/
CSS: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
Ep 120: Throwback Frameworks, Tailwind Fandom, and CSS with Jhey Tompkins: https://whiskey.fm/throwback-frameworks-tailwind-fandom-and-css-with-jhey-tompkins
Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink/
Jason Lengstorf: https://x.com/jlengstorf
Web Dev Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz8Iz-Fnk_eTkZvSNWXW_TKZ2UwVirT2M
Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
Vercel: https://vercel.com/
Claude: https://claude.ai
AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/
McAfee: https://www.mcafee.com/
1Password: https://1password.com/
Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/
Ep 217: 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
Kubernetes the Hard Way: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
Sam Altman: https://x.com/sama
TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
OpenAI: https://openai.com
Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
NVidia: https://www.nvidia.com/
Goose: https://block.github.io/goose/
MCP Dev Summit: https://mcpdevsummit.ai/
Playwright: https://playwright.dev/

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