A Very Merry Descent Into Holiday Madness

This week, Robbie and Adam 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. In this episode: - (00:00) - Intro - (02:07) - Whiskey rating & review: Flaviar & Jack Daniels - (06:02) - Stress gummies, holiday chaos, and why Robbie is fried - (13:05) - Adam on pulling back, burnout, and choosing quality over quantity - (21:02) - Second pour: Flavia SirDavis American Whisky - (21:23) - Building color tools for fun (and sanity) - (21:51) - Is React actually holding us back? - (25:16) - Food, culture, and building with the platform - (27:19) - The worst IDE idea ever - (31:00) - Vibe-coding an iOS app… on iOS - (32:39) - Where AI still completely fails - (34:02) - OpenAI vs. Gemini and the shifting AI landscape - (34:56) - Editors, agents, and AI overload - (38:34) - Space toggles in CSS and weirdly powerful tricks - (42:14) - Are AI tools getting more scatterbrained? - (44:20) - Perspective when everything feels heavy - (46:20) - Learning new skills without burning out - (48:03) - Curiosity is a survival skill - (48:40) - Working through hard seasons in life - (54:14) - TV shows, distractions, and mental breaks - (54:46) - Robbie vs. Lego ordering (again) - (56:05) - Adam’s exhausting travel run - (57:07) - Why kids are basically walking germs - (58:26) - Adam’s Beyond Tellerrand talk - (59:13) - Advent of Code **Links** - Flaviar Bhakta Golden Age Blend: https://flaviar.com/products/bhakta-1928-golden-age-blend-750 - Flavia SirDavis American Whisky: https://flaviar.com/products/sirdavis-american-whisky-750 - Jack Daniels Single Barrel Rye: https://www.jackdaniels.com/en-us/whiskey/single-barrel-rye - Whiskey Web and Whatnot live episodes from All Things Open 2025: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7uiIY_6TPL-iREDcpUVndAZaz118OE-h - Olly Stress Gummies: https://www.olly.com/ - Flaviar Whiskey Advent Calendar: https://flaviar.com/pages/advent-calendar - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: https://www.harrypottertheplay.com/ - ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/ - Adam's blog post - An Update On My Involvement In Standards: https://nerdy.dev/update-on-my-involvement-in-standards - Primeagen: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen - Swach: https://swach.io/ - Chrome EyeDropper API: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/eyedropper - Linux: https://www.linux.org/ - Wayland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol) - GNOME: https://www.gnome.org/ - KDE: https://kde.org/ - C++: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp - Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/ - Electron: https://www.electronjs.org/ - Antigravity: https://antigravity.google/ - Adam's color component: https://github.com/argyleink/css-color-component - theCHIVE: https://thechive.com/ - Preact: https://preactjs.com/ - React: https://react.dev/ - Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/ - Seinfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld - VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/ - Ember: https://emberjs.com/ - OpenAI: https://openai.com - Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/ - Nano Banana: https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/ - Claude: https://claude.ai/ - Opencode: https://opencode.ai/ - Warp: https://www.warp.dev/ - Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/ - Big Pickle: https://opencode.ai/docs/zen/ - Windsurf: https://windsurf.ai/ - CSS: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ - Stranger Things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things - Chris Coyier: https://x.com/chriscoyier - Wednesday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday_(TV_series) - LEGO: https://www.lego.com/ - WebGL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API - Advent of Code: https://adventofcode.com/ - Figma: https://www.figma.com/ - Adam's Beyond Tellerrand talk: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2025/speakers/adam-argyle **Connect with the hosts** - Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner - Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd - Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink **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.