Guppy Pimps, Tripp Pants, and Debugging IE5

Guppy Pimps, Tripp Pants, and Debugging IE5

Author: Skill Issue Studios August 14, 2026 Duration: 1:11:50
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 menthol schemes, breeding birds that pecked themselves, mowing lawns fast, and why nipple piercings are a bad investment. Along the way, they debate pop punk band names like Superband, recording with Fruity Loops, screamo versus emo trajectories, Under Oath versus Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, fight dancing versus moshing, ticket scams at Graystone Tavern, horror game mechanics in Outlast and Dead Space, proximity chat hacks in Phasmophobia and Peak, why RV There Yet is too hard, selling Die Ants Die on the BlackBerry Playbook, device walls for IE5 through IE8, and whether scotch aged in bourbon casks is secretly amaretto. Presented by GitKraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/lp/whiskeyfm In this episode: Chapters 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions 00:05:30 Early Entrepreneurial Adventures: Fish Pimping & Child Modeling 00:14:48 Hot Topic Tripp Pants & The Band Years Begin 00:19:24 Pop Punk Covers, Recording Studios & The MySpace Era 00:28:49 From Metal to Hip Hop: Musical Evolution & Nerdcore 00:32:57 Video Game Nostalgia: From Zelda to Dead Space 00:39:37 Survival Horror Deep Dive: Outlast, Dead Space & Phasmophobia 00:50:02 Peak, RV There Yet & The Difficulty Problem 00:53:41 Mobile Dev Nightmares: BlackBerry Playbook & Die Ants Die 00:57:29 Browser Wars & Device Testing Hell 01:04:19 Whiskey Review: Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream Links Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream: https://www.glenmorangie.com/ Maylene and the Sons of Disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maylene_and_the_Sons_of_Disaster Under Oath: https://underoath777.com/ Dashboard Confessional: https://www.dashboardconfessional.com/ John Mayer: https://www.johnmayer.com/ Me First and the Gimme Gimmes: https://www.gimmemusic.com/ MF Doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Doom Aesop Rock: https://www.aesoprock.com/ Sage Francis: https://www.sagefrancis.net/ Atmosphere: https://atmosphere.com/ Del the Funky Homosapien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_the_Funky_Homosapien Fruity Loops: https://www.image-line.com/ Analog Pocket: https://www.analogue.co/pocket Slay the Spire: https://www.megacrit.com/ Zelda Ocarina of Time: https://www.zelda.com/ Metroid: https://metroid.nintendo.com/ Resident Evil: https://www.residentevil.com/ Bioshock: https://bioshockgame.com/ Fable: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/fable Outlast: https://redbarrelsgames.com/games/outlast/ Dead Space: https://www.ea.com/games/dead-space Phasmophobia: https://kineticgames.co.uk/ Peak: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643520/Peak/ RV There Yet: https://rvthereyet.com/ BlackBerry Playbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_PlayBook Palm Pre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Pre Adobe PhoneGap: https://phonegap.com/ Califia Farms: https://www.califiafarms.com/ React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/ Cascadia JS: https://cascadiajs.com/ Clerk: https://clerk.com/ Connect with the hosts Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner 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.

There's a certain alchemy that happens when you combine deep technical expertise with the warmth of a good conversation, and that's exactly what you'll find in Whiskey Web and Whatnot. Hosts Robbie Wagner, Charles William Carpenter III, and Adam Argyle bring decades of collective experience to the table, but they leave the lecture format at the door. Instead, each episode feels like pulling up a chair with colleagues who are just as passionate about the craft of building for the web as they are about the nuanced flavors in a glass of whiskey. The discussion naturally flows between the concrete details of modern development-like navigating JavaScript frameworks, CSS architecture, or the practical realities of agentic AI and new coding tools-and the broader, human aspects of a software engineering career. This podcast from Skill Issue Studios is built on the idea that the tools and the people who use them are equally important. You'll come for insightful, grounded advice on developer productivity and emerging technologies, but you'll stay for the genuine camaraderie and the occasional spirited debate about which whiskey bottle truly earns a spot on the shelf. It’s a refreshing blend of substance and personality, making complex topics accessible and reminding everyone that there's always a story behind the code.
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