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Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development Neat

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A podcast by RobbieTheWagner and Charles William Carpenter III about whiskey, web development, and a wide range of whatnot.

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Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotOct 11, 2026

Meta-Harnesses, Medical Midjourney, and Why Specialists Are Cooked

This week, Robbie and Adam are back together to catch up on life, AI workflows, and whether agents can actually fix themselves when they break. They dig into barrel bourbon batch 38, token limits at work versus unlimited at Shopify, open code burning through budgets, work trees for parallel agent ta

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotSep 24, 2026

From GeoCities to GPT: Brad Frost on Mythos, Mastery, and Musical Non-Sequiturs

This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Brad Frost—creator of Atomic Design, design system architect, front of the front end developer, bass player, Dragon Ball Z fan site pioneer, and maker of weird and wonderful internet things—to talk grief, AI, and finding your line through an uncontrollable landscap

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotAug 21, 2026

OpenClaw, Dark Factories, and Why You Should Stop Cussing at Your Agents

This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Compass Box Crimson Cask and dive into the wild world of AI infrastructure chaos, factory engineering, and why yelling at your computer might actually be the most productive workflow. They dig into the death of OpenClaw after a catastrophic tokenization failure, the

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotAug 14, 2026

Guppy Pimps, Tripp Pants, and Debugging IE5

This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream and dive deep into their entrepreneurial origin stories, from childhood hustles to band life to building apps for dead platforms. They dig into selling guppies as a fish pimp, child modeling for Nintendo ads, third grade pepto menth

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotJul 31, 2026

Silly Software, Sugar Snap Peas, and Coding in Gen Z Slang w/ Christina Martinez

This week, Robbie and Adam are live from the Clerk booth at React Miami with Christina Martinez, DevEx engineer at Resend, former gym owner, and creator of the viral Gen Z slang Babel plugin. They dig into whether React is a framework, React Server Components, hooks versus signals, HTML as a program

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotJul 23, 2026

Pi Extensions, YOLO Mode, and Building Your Own Personal Claw w/ Joel Hooks

This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Joel Hooks—co-founder of Egghead, tool builder, course creator, backend architect, indie hacker, advisor, consultant, father of five, and automation enthusiast—to talk dark factories, custom AI harnesses, and whether we've reached the point where looking at code is

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotJun 25, 2026

Dark Factories, Polymorphic UI, and Why Developers Still Matter

This week, Robbie and Adam are live from React Miami with a packed lineup of rapid fire interviews and hot takes. They catch up with Jason Lengstorf about driving a quarter million dollar Lamborghini through Miami with a police escort, the philosophy behind The Build Log show, and why the principles

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotJun 19, 2026

Proxies, Petty Pranks, and Ramon the 420 IQ Gorilla w/ Ken Wheeler

This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Ken Wheeler to talk AI harnesses, multi-agent swarms, survival bags, and whether React is finally a framework. They dig into React Server Components, hooks versus signals versus proxies, semicolons, Java hate, AI token arbitrage, and why you should subscribe to eve

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotJun 11, 2026

AI Harnesses, Framework Wars, and Why Beards Beat Mustaches

This week, Robbie and Adam are coming to you live from the Clerk booth at React Miami with a rapid-fire lineup of lightning podcasts. Fueled by Cutwater cocktails and conference energy, they caught up with Nnenna Ndukwe, Michael "Micky" Shimeles (AKA Rasmic), and the legendary Ryan "Thighs" Vogel fo

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotMay 31, 2026

From COBOL to Claude: Live Coding, AI Agents, and the Death of Typing w/ Typecraft

This week, Robbie and Adam are live from React Miami at the Clerk booth, sipping Cutwater cocktails and talking hot takes with Typecraft. They dig into whether React is a framework or library, server components, hooks versus signals versus proxies, HTML as a programming language, git rebase versus m

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotMay 21, 2026

React Foundation, AI Agents, and the Future of Frameworks w/ Seth Webster

This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Seth Webster—executive director of the React Foundation, former React lead at Meta, and chief developer evangelist at Expo—to talk React's past, present, and future, whether frameworks still matter in the age of AI, and why constraints are the secret to good code.

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotMay 14, 2026

Keyframes, Cash, and CodePen w/ Shaw

This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Shaw from CodePen to talk CSS animations, web components, server side rendering nightmares, and why building things by hand still matters in the age of AI slop. They dig into the CodePen 2.0 rewrite, Apollo GraphQL cache manipulation, the pain of reactive variables