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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 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

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotMay 7, 2026

From Wetware to Software (Presented by Warp)

This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Ardbeg Wee Beastie and dive into the wild world of AI development, cloud leaks, and whether humans are officially becoming wetware in their own systems. They explore the Claude code source leak, the death of OpenClaw third party harnesses, the rise of instant transl

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotApr 30, 2026

Axios Is Out. Fetchium Is In. (Presented by Warp)

This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Kristen Garrett to talk signals, reactivity, and whether we've finally found the abstraction that makes sense. They dig into the differences between signals and hooks, why parameterized signals matter, how async fits into reactivity, and whether Fetchium is about t

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotApr 16, 2026

AI Cowgorithm Disrupts The Herd (Presented by Warp)

This week, Robbie and Adam sip on whiskey from the Muff Liquor Company and dive deep into the chaotic state of AI development, Jensen Huang's wild claims about AGI and token spending, and whether we've accidentally turned developers into Ralph Wiggum loopers. They debate auto research workflows, day

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotApr 9, 2026

Flogging Margins With The Dropcap Murphys

This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert from ShopTalk Show to talk brand truth versus brand slop, whether CSS knowledge is now your biggest advantage, the rise of dark factories, and why apps built in a weekend don't inspire trust. They dig into OpenClaw workflows, burn windo

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotApr 2, 2026

Next.js Is Dead, Long Live Next.js! (Presented by Warp)

This week, Robbie and Adam sip Redwood Empire Pipe Dream and dive into the messy reality of AI development, PR reviews, and whether we're all just vibe coding our way into chaos. They debate 200-file PRs versus 10 smaller ones, the rise of YOLO mode versus step-by-step validation, Cloudflare rewriti

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Whiskey Web and WhatnotMar 26, 2026

The Transactional Trap: How 97% of Developers Are Using AI Wrong w/ Leon Noel & Danny Thompson

This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Leon Noel and Danny Thompson to talk AI workflows, agentic development, and whether the job of coding has fundamentally changed. They dig into prompt engineering, mental models, OpenClaw setups, the rise of harnesses and orchestration layers, and why testing in pro