Ep #251 Guppy Pimpin In Trip Pants While Debugging IE5 Robbie and I do a mostly whatnot episode about our path getting into tech, playing in bands, and getting into trouble. We sip Glen Morangie "A Tale of Ice Cream" and share some stories. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · appl…
Ep #250 Live at React Miami with Christina Martinez Robbie , Christina and I chat fun coding experiments, personifying agents, OpenClaw, hot takes and a little bit of whatnot. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #249 Live at React Miami with Joel Hooks Robbie , Joel and I chat about Pi , OpenClaw, JoelClaw , YOLO mode, AGI, custom harnesses and a little bit of whatnot. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #248 Live at React Miami with guests Jason Lengstorf , Kent C. Dodds , Tanner Linsley and Francesco Ciulla Robbie and I chat with 4 guests in 1 episode ! Topics span things like Lambo's, MCP vs OpenClaw , agents building agents, polymorphic UI libraries, SDD + state machines,…
Ep #247 Live at React Miami with guest Ken Wheeler Robbie , Ken and I chat about proxies, pranks, survival bags, agent swarms and Ramon the 420 IQ Gorilla. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #246 React Miami with guest Michael "Micky" Shimeles (AKA Rasmic) Robbie , Micky and I chat about AI, frameworks, and the eternal beard vs mustache debate with a hilarious and fun guest. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #245 Live at React Miami with Typecraft (Chris) Robbie and I chat with Typecraft , chat tech and extract some 🔥 hot takes. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #244 Live at React Miami with Seth Webster Robbie and I chat with Seth Webster (executive director of the React Foundation , former React lead at Meta, and chief developer evangelist at Expo ) to talk the past, present, and future of React and some 🔥 hot takes. ⤷ whiskey.fm ·…
Ep #243 Keyframes, Cash and Codepens with Stephen Shaw Robbie and I chat with Stephen about CSS animations, web components, SSR nightmares, and why building things by hand still matters in the age of AI slop. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Was lucky to be on the 🎙️ Overcommitted podcast with Bethany , Brittany , and Erika .
Was on PodRocket to chat about my post Why AI Sucks At Front End : Watch it here or listen
Ep #242 From Wetware to Software (presented by Warp ) 🧠 wetware 🌧️ cloud leaks 🧑💼 agent vs agent 🥃 Whiskey & whatnot ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
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Ep #241 Axios Is Out, Fetchium Is In (presented by Warp ) 📡 Signals 🎣 Hooks 🔭 Observables 💀 Death to prop drilling 🥃 Whiskey & whatnot ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #240 AI Cowgorithm Disrupts The Herd (presented by Warp ) 🕹️ Token spending 🧐 Autoresearch 🌗 Day Shift / Night Shift 🐄 Cowgorithms 💻 Terminal tools 🥃 Whiskey & whatnot ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #239 Flogging Margins With The Dropcap Murphys featuring Dave Rupert and Chris Coyier ™️ Brand Truth vs Brand Slop 🔫 One-Shot Apps 🧑🎨 CSS in the Age of AI Context Rot 🧛🏻♂️ Energy Vampires & AI Brain Fry 🥃 Whiskey & whatnot ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #238 NextJS is Dead, Long Live NextJS (presented by Warp ) 🏭 Dark Factories 🤖 YOLO mode ❌ T shape vs X shape 🦞 OpenClaw 💀 Death of SaaS 🥃 Redwood Empire & whatnot ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #237 The Transactional Trap: How 97% of Developers Are Using AI Wrong - with Leon Noel & Danny Thompson 🤖 agentic dev 💬 prompt engineering 🦞 OpenClaw 🎼 orchestration, harnesses, and models 💀 leet code interviews 🕹️ Pokemon Go 🥃 whiskey & whatnot ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify…
Ep #236 The Manager Has Become The Managed (Presented by Warp ) Robbie and I chat with guest Amelia Wattenberger about: 📄 Why specs still aren't taking off 🤖 Being managed by your own bots 🛠️ Amelia's rad project Intent 🦆 Rubber duck debugging with Claude 🥃 A little whiskey & what…
Join us tonight at 5pm PT for a 🍀 St. Patrick's Day 🍀 live collab with the ShopTalk Show folks! Twitch · YouTube
Ep #235 Hot Pockets Pro Max (presented by Warp ) Robbie and I chat OpenClaw , token optimizations, liberating data from walled gardens, burn windows, and of course some whiskey and some whatnot. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #234 Pay No Attention to the LLM Behind the Terminal with Zach Lloyd of Warp Robbie and I chat latest agentic workflows with the CEO of Warp, digging into our favorite features, cloud agents with Oz , some delicious smokey whiskey and some whatnot. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spo…
Ep #233 Humans Are Now Legacy Dependencies Robbie and I chat agentic workflows, OpenClaw , Pi , malleable software, some whiskey and some whatnot. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #232 No Ralph Wiggum. No Training Wheels. Just Agents. do Ralph Wiggum loops automatically produce better results? is context pollution killing productivity? the rise and fall of MCP servers and skills why vanilla Claude might be the only tool you actually need CSS anchor posi…
Ep #231 We stopped coding by hand because agentic AI is too good Robbie and Chuck dig into agentic AI loops, the rise of prompt-driven development, whether coding by hand is officially dead, and what happens when tools like OpenCode and Claude become the new normal. ⤷ whiskey.fm…
Ep #230 We accidentally deleted programming Robbie and I dig into the shift from code-first to spec-first development, whether TypeScript still matters in an AI-driven world, the rise of agency over specialization, and why the future might belong to prompt-driven tinkerers instea…
This week I compete in Syntax 's March madCSS ; me against 16 other badass devs in CSS & UI challenges 😅 Wish me luck 🤞
Ep #229 Is AI just stealing with extra steps? Robbie and I talk about the ethics and economics of AI, and why “stealing with extra steps” feels like the right metaphor for where things are headed. We also dig into open source burnout, whether AI replaces developers or just reshap…
Ep #228 Santa.exe 🎄💻🥃 Robbie , Chuck and I bring you the holiday edition of Whiskey Web and Whatnot : random whiskeys, Christmas hot takes, and dev debates. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #227 AI and Oath with Will Johnson Robbie and I talk with Will Johnson , senior developer advocate at Auth0, about web dev, parenting, and internet culture. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #226 A very merry descent into holiday madness Robbie and I talk about holiday travel chaos, parenting stress, and health scares before diving into AI-assisted coding, Linux quirks, IDE trends, burnout in open source, and more. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #225 SOC 2 in the Streets, Spaghetti in the Sheets Robbie and Chuck sip Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Rye, and discuss why SOC 2 compliance is a painful but necessary sign of company maturity. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #224 Spooky Scary CSS This week, Robbie and Adam talk about Halloween vibes, excellent scotch, and the strange state of modern web development. After rating an Orphan Barrel single malt, they dig into AI coding workflows, agent tools, why one-shot prompts so often fail, and mo…
Ep #223 The Piano Man of State Machines w/ David K. Piano This week, Robbie and Adam talk with David K. Piano about state machines, the chaos of overusing React hooks, Tailwind controversies, AI agents, security risks in emerging AI tooling, and why determinism still matters. ⤷ w…
Was on The UX Show with Yash Raj and Victor Sanchez 🤓 Watch it on YouTube
I was on the General Musings show with Kevin Powell 🤘🏻💀 We chat front-end job hunting in 2025, the misalignments between the technical interviews and the roles they were looking to fill, the overall state of the industry and hiring processes and how to distinguish yourself from th…
Ep #216 Live at All Things Open w/ Shruti Kapoor Robbie and guest co-host Jason Lengstorf chat with Shruti Kapoor about her leap from Slack and PayPal to YouTube, the joys and pitfalls of open source, and eternal web dev debates. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #215 Rust Is Overrated w/ guest Naman Goel Robbie and I talk with Naman Goel about the origins and evolution of StyleX , how it integrates with React and other frameworks, the pros and cons of different programming languages like Rust, TypeScript, and Swift, and whatnot. ⤷ whi…
Ep #214 NPM Worms & RubyGems Coups: Trust Issues in Open Source Robbie , Chuck , and I talk about the worst whiskey, Tailwind as a “state management library,” recent security scares in open source, NPM dependency hygiene, developer visa drama, and tech salaries. ⤷ whiskey.fm · yo…
Ep #213 Is CSS A programming language? Robbie and I chat with Kevin Powell about the quirks and complexities of CSS, Tailwind and Flexbox, AI’s failure to write decent styles, anchor dingles, trim styles, and more. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Checkout this episode of PodRocket with Kevin Powell , Paige and I; we chat about… you guessed it, CSS! Watch or Listen
Ep #212 TalkShop Show w/ Macho Man Randy Standards Robbie and I chat with Dave Rupert about whiskey, web culture, the quirks of building side projects, the shifting landscape of the web, AI-driven development, spec-driven workflows, RSS’s decline, and more. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube…