npm Worms & RubyGems Coups: Trust Issues in Open Source

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 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 MerchEnjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.