Episode 214
npm Worms & RubyGems Coups: Trust Issues in Open Source
Whiskey Web and Whatnot · Skill Issue Studios
October 16, 20251h 6mExplicit
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Show Notes
This week, Robbie, Chuck, and Adam talk about the worst whiskey they’ve tasted, Tailwind as a “state management library,” and recent security scares in open source. Also — dependency hygiene, developer visa drama, and whether inflated tech salaries are finally being reckoned with.
In this episode:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (02:14) - Whiskey rating & review: Evan Williams Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
- (13:00) - What's with all the recent web dev security issues?
- (28:39) - Is Tailwind secretly the worst state management library?
- (32:45) - Visa chaos: H-1Bs, gold cards, and reverse immigration
- (40:51) - Are tech salaries being intentionally driven down?
- (49:45) - Adam’s AI experiment with Claude + Parallelize
- (54:09) - Why AI should specialize (and stop trying to do everything)
- (54:44) - Best AI tools right now
- (01:01:16) - Chuck’s VPN chaos + funny wifi names
- (01:04:04) - Plugs
Links
- GoDaddy: https://www.godaddy.com/
- Bob Parsons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Parsons
- Intuit: https://www.intuit.com/
- Evan Williams Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey: http://evanwilliams.com/straight-bourbon
- Wrigley Chew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley_Company
- Bazooka: https://www.bazookajoe.com/
- Juicy Fruit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicy_Fruit
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch: https://www.cinnamontoastcrunch.com/
- Jack Daniel's: https://www.jackdaniels.com/
- Crown Royal Black: https://www.crownroyal.com/canadian-whisky/crown-royal-black
- Suntory World Whiskey Ao: https://house.suntory.com/ao-whisky
- Fresca Mixed: https://www.frescamixed.com/
- All Things Open: https://allthingsopen.org/
- Ken Wheeler: https://x.com/ken_wheeler/
- JavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
- Ruby: https://www.ruby-lang.org/
- NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/
- Blockchain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
- pNPM: https://pnpm.io/
- Ransom: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117438/
- Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/
- WordPress: https://wordpress.org
- David Cramer: https://x.com/zeeg
- Django: https://www.djangoproject.com/
- Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/
- SemVer: https://semver.org/
- Google: https://www.google.com/
- Snowpack: https://www.snowpack.dev/
- Socket.io: https://socket.io/
- Guillermo Rauch: https://x.com/rauchg
- Socket.dev: https://socket.dev/
- Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
- David K Piano: https://x.com/DavidKPiano
- Tesla: https://www.tesla.com/
- Next.js: https://nextjs.org/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com
- Amazon: https://amazon.com
- Jason Lengstorf: https://x.com/jlengstorf
- Perl: https://www.perl.org/
- Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
- Cobol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
- Jarred Sumner: https://x.com/jarredsumner
- Bun: https://bun.com/
- Zig: https://ziglang.org/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Codex: https://openai.com/codex/
- Opencode: https://opencode.ai/
- Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/
- Ep 92: Hot Takes, Bun, and Zig with Jarred Sumner: https://whiskey.fm/hot-takes-bun-and-zig-with-jarred-sumner
- Neovim: https://neovim.io/
- Bolt: https://bolt.new/
- Lovable: https://lovable.dev/
- Spec Kit: https://github.com/github/spec-kit
- South Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park
- Proton VPN: https://protonvpn.com/
- HBO Max: https://www.hbomax.com/
- Raspberry Pi: https://www.raspberrypi.com
- Stephen King: https://stephenking.com/
- Cujo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cujo
- Nerdy.dev: https://nerdy.dev/
- Starpod.dev: https://starpod.dev/
- Como FC: https://comofootball.com/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner
- Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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