Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat

Written by: RobbieTheWagner and Charles William Carpenter III
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  • Veteran web developers RobbieTheWagner and Charles William Carpenter III host this informal, whiskey-fueled fireside chat with your favorite web devs. They discuss all things web development including JavaScript, TypeScript, EmberJS, React, Astro, SolidJS, CSS, HTML, Web3, and more. They take a unique approach and focus on getting to know the human side of developers and their hobbies outside of work, all while sampling a new whiskey that they rate on their unique tentacle scale.
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Episodes
  • How to Make a Podcast Worth Listening To with Dan Blumberg

    How to Make a Podcast Worth Listening To with Dan Blumberg
    Jan 30 2025
    This week, Robbie and Chuck talk with Dan Blumberg about his journey from radio producer to product manager and podcaster. They explore the art of building great software, podcasting essentials, and the changing landscape of podcast platforms. Plus, Dan shares his kayaking adventures and insights on balancing authenticity and growth. In this episode: (00:00) - Intro (02:26) - Whiskey review and rating: Woodinville Straight Bourbon (08:23) - Apple Podcasts vs Spotify (10:20) - Spotify video vs YouTube (12:02) - Podcasting audio vs video (14:24) - Advice on starting a podcast (18:24) - Equipment requirements for guests on podcasts (21:15) - Having a pre-interview interview (25:06) - Social media and podcasting challenges (26:37) - How to grow your audience (32:18) - How to make money as a podcaster (36:28) - Being yourself vs having a persona (38:42) - Monetizing your podcast (41:11) - What’s missing from RSS (42:38) - Dan’s non-tech career ideas (44:40) - Podcast recommendations (48:12) - Dan’s plugs Links Woodinville Straight Bourbon: https://woodinvillewhiskeyco.com/ Crafted: https://crafted.fm WNYC: https://www.wnyc.org/ NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ Spotify: https://www.spotify.com/ Pocket Casts: https://pocketcasts.com/ IAB: https://www.iab.com/ National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ Shure SM7B: https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/sm7b Focusrite: https://focusrite.com/ Shure MV7: https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mv7 Elgato: https://www.elgato.com/ AirPods: https://www.apple.com/airpods/ Audio Technica: https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/ Morning Edition: https://www.wnyc.org/shows/me Chicago Public Radio: https://www.wbez.org/ Riverside: https://riverside.fm/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/ Mr. Beast: https://youtube.com/@mrbeast Docker: https://www.docker.com/ Artium: https://www.thisisartium.com/ Jay Clouse: https://creatorscience.com/ Hark: https://harkaudio.com/ Syntax: https://syntax.fm/ Hard Fork: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork Big Technology with Alex Kantrowitz: https://www.bigtechnology.com/ Decoder with Nilay Patel: https://www.theverge.com/decoder How I Built This: https://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this Acquired: https://www.acquired.fm/ Smartless: https://smartless.com/ Wondery: https://wondery.com/ Sacha Baron Cohen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Baron_Cohen Tim Burton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton Beetlejuice: https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/beetlejuice Darknet Diaries: https://darknetdiaries.com/ Connect with Dan Website: https://crafted.fm X / Twitter: https://x.com/dblums LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dblums/ Connect with Chuck and Robbie Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd Subscribe and stay in touch Website: https://whiskey.fm Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot Whiskey Web and Whatnot Merch Enjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.
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    50 mins
  • Is Cereal Soup?, the FG Scale, and JS vs CSS with Adam Argyle

    Is Cereal Soup?, the FG Scale, and JS vs CSS with Adam Argyle
    Jan 23 2025
    This week, Robbie and Chuck talk with Adam Argyle about the quirks of CSS and JavaScript tooling, and modern web development. They discuss why JavaScript often takes center stage over CSS, the funding disparities between them, and what this means for developers. In this episode: (00:00) - Intro (02:32) - Whiskey review: Standard Spirit Wormwood Rye (07:54) - Social media and Blue Sky (09:39) - Is cereal soup? (11:15) - The Hot Dog and sandwich debate (17:55) - JavaScript library guilty pleasures (25:40) - CSS vs. JavaScript tooling (34:52) - How Tailwind is funded (35:58) - Politics in business (41:36) - Shotgun debugging and pair programming (47:46) - What is the FG scale? (49:51) - Robbie’s big Tailwind “FG” (51:16) - CSS carousel (57:08) - The complexity of CSS and HTML (01:07:15) - The importance of accessibility (01:08:54) - The problem with AI in CSS (01:09:54) - Plugs Links Fresca Mixed: https://www.frescamixed.com/ Bootstrap: https://getbootstrap.com/ Standard Spirit Wormwood Rye: https://www.standardwormwood.com/ Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/ Gray Sky: https://graysky.app/ Lodash: https://lodash.com/ ES6: https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_es6.asp Monty Python and the Holy Grail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail Hot Ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Ones Manchester Orchestra: https://www.manchesterorchestra.com/ Typescript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/ Raspberry Pi: https://www.raspberrypi.com/ Honeybadger: https://www.honeybadger.io/ Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/ Next.js: https://nextjs.org/ PHP: https://www.php.net/ Astro: https://astro.build/ Jason Fried: https://x.com/jasonfried? DHH: https://x.com/dhh/ Vercel: https://vercel.com/ Donald Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump Joe Rogan: https://x.com/joerogan Bernie Sanders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders JD Vance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance Taco Bell: https://www.tacobell.com/ Panic Playdate: https://play.date/ Nintendo Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/us/switch/ Changelog: Wine Web and a whole lot of Whatnot: https://changelog.com/friends/68 Ken Wheeler: https://x.com/ken_wheeler/ WAI-ARIA: https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/ Project Wallace: https://www.projectwallace.com/ Syntax: https://syntax.fm Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/ Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/ Connect with Adam Website: https://nerdy.dev X / Twitter: https://x.com/argyleink YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@adamargyleink Connect with Chuck and Robbie Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd Subscribe and stay in touch Website: https://whiskey.fm Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot Whiskey Web and Whatnot Merch Enjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Authenticity in a World of Algorithms

    Authenticity in a World of Algorithms
    Jan 16 2025
    This week, Robbie and Chuck dive into the delicate balance between authenticity and adaptation, both in tech and everyday life. They unpack the challenges of staying true to their passions—like whiskey and web development—while navigating the pressures of broadening their appeal and monetizing their craft. They also reflect on podcasting, personal branding, industry trends, social media shifts, and the complexities of dealing with polarizing figures in tech. In this episode: (00:00) - Intro (01:28) - All Things Open (02:18) - Whiskey: Redwood Empire Emerald Giant Rye Whiskey (07:29) - Whiskey rating (10:24) - Rebase vs Merge (10:57) - Bluesky vs Twitter (17:45) - The political influence on social media (19:18) - Anonymity in social media and usernames (23:44) - What elements should a web framework include? (26:15) - Should you be your authentic self all the time? (31:58) - The difficulty of monetizing a podcast (35:58) - Commercial real estate and the wig shop (40:04) - Cars and coffee (42:03) - Ghosted by Guillermo? (44:24) - Should politics influence the products and tech we use? (48:40) - Robbie’s new leaf blower (50:28) - Robbie on Web Dev Challenge (51:40) - JavaScript, Ember, and React (58:56) - Holiday prep and European living Links Redwood Empire Emerald Giant: https://redwoodempirewhiskey.com/whiskey/emerald-giant-rye/ All Things Open: https://2024.allthingsopen.org/ Primeagen: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen Maker’s Mark: https://www.makersmark.com/ Wawa: https://www.wawa.com/ Sagamore: https://sagamorespirit.com/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/ Kafka: https://kafka.apache.org/ Runspired: https://runspired.com/ Facebook: https://facebook.com Instagram: https://instagram.com X / Twitter: https://x.com Threads: https://www.threads.net/ Discord: https://discord.com/ Dan Abramov: https://danabra.mov/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/ Wondery: https://wondery.com/ Whiskey.fund: https://whiskey.fund Django: https://www.djangoproject.com/ Rails: https://rubyonrails.org/ SQLite: https://www.sqlite.org/ RedwoodJS: https://redwoodjs.com/ Laravel: https://laravel.com/ Syntax: https://syntax.fm/ ShopTalk: https://shoptalkshow.com/ Changelog: https://changelog.com/ How About Tomorrow: https://tomorrow.fm/ Devtools: https://www.devtools.fm/ Torc: https://www.torc.dev/ Jason Torres: https://x.com/tasonjorres Sentry: https://sentry.io Guillermo Rauch: https://x.com/rauchg Charisma Carpenter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charisma_Carpenter John Carpenter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carpenter Sabrina Carpenter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Carpenter Lululemon: https://lululemon.com Lamborghini: https://www.lamborghini.com/en-en Donald Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump Katie’s Cars and Coffee: https://www.instagram.com/katies_cars_and_coffee Porsche: https://www.porsche.com/ DeLorean: https://delorean.com/ Bronco: https://www.ford.com/bronco/ Bugatti Veyron: https://www.bugatti.com/the-bugatti-heritage/modern-icons/veyron/ Kelly Vaughn: https://x.com/kvlly Elon Musk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk Vercel: https://vercel.com/ Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/ Tesla: https://www.tesla.com/ Starlink: https://www.starlink.com/ Ryobi: https://www.ryobitools.com/ Web Dev Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz8Iz-Fnk_eTkZvSNWXW_TKZ2UwVirT2M Astro: https://astro.build/ Mailchimp: https://mailchimp.com/ Next.js: https://nextjs.org/ React: https://react.dev/ Dax: https://x.com/thdxr/ Netflix: https://netflix.com Supabase: https://supabase.com/ TanStack: https://tanstack.com/ 89: Hot Takes, TanStack, and Open Source with Tanner Linsley: https://whiskey.fm/hot-takes-tanstack-and-open-source-with-tanner-linsley George Clooney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clooney Connect with Chuck and Robbie Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd Subscribe and stay in touch Website: https://whiskey.fm Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot Whiskey Web and Whatnot Merch Enjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.
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    1 hr and 4 mins

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