This week, Robbie and Chuck talk about whiskey, wings, and web development—naturally. They taste-test Sweetens Cove Kennessee, reminisce about failed food challenges, and discuss whether HTML and Markdown qualify as programming languages. They also discuss site optimization woes, Astro troubleshooting, and the chaos of parenting while debugging.

In this episode:

• (00:00) – Intro
• (01:17) – Whiskey rating and review: Sweetens Cove Kennessee
• (11:46) – Is HTML a programming language?
• (13:47) – 200 episodes and debugging Astro
• (17:56) – Ember projects and developer nostalgia
• (20:10) – Playing with AI inside Ember
• (23:37) – What’s the right AI stack for web development today?
• (28:29) – Are AI builder tools worth the hype?
• (32:11) – Warp 2.0
• (33:25) – Chuck’s hot take: why am I assembling my own dinner?
• (38:15) – Robbie's sushi realizations
• (38:52) – Chuck’s moving status and life update
• (43:04) – Robbie’s parenting update
• (45:30) – Robbie gets back to the gym (sort of)

Links

• Sweetens Cove Kennessee: https://sweetenscovespirits.com/
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Always_Sunny_in_Philadelphia
• Norlan: https://norlanglass.com/
• Jack Daniel's: https://www.jackdaniels.com/
• George Dickel: https://www.georgedickel.com/
• Belle Meade: https://www.bellemeadebourbon.com/
• Buffalo Trace: https://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/
• Arrested Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development
• JavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
• PHP: https://www.php.net/
• C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
• Markdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
• Friday Deployment: https://fridaydeployment.co/
• Astro: https://astro.build/
• Vercel: https://vercel.com/
• Discord: https://discord.com
• jQuery: https://jquery.com/
• Ember: https://emberjs.com/
• Vite: https://vite.dev/
• ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/
• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com
• Claude: https://claude.ai
• Windsurf: https://windsurf.ai/
• VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
• Cline: https://cline.bot/
• GitHub: https://github.com
• Typecraft: https://typecraft.dev/
• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink/
• Bolt: https://bolt.new/
• Lovable: https://lovable.dev/
• Replit: https://replit.com/
• React: https://react.dev/
• Jordan Walke: https://x.com/jordwalke
• Figma: https://www.figma.com/
• Rails: https://rubyonrails.org/
• Next.js: https://nextjs.org/

Connect with Chuck and Robbie

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner
• Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd

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