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  "description": "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) ",
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  "textContent": "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.\n\n\nIn this episode:\n\n- (00:00) - Intro\n\n- (02:07) - Whiskey rating & review: Flaviar & Jack Daniels\n\n- (06:02) - Stress gummies, holiday chaos, and why Robbie is fried\n\n- (13:05) - Adam on pulling back, burnout, and choosing quality over quantity\n\n- (21:02) - Second pour: Flavia SirDavis American Whisky\n\n- (21:23) - Building color tools for fun (and sanity)\n\n- (21:51) - Is React actually holding us back?\n\n- (25:16) - Food, culture, and building with the platform\n\n- (27:19) - The worst IDE idea ever\n\n- (31:00) - Vibe-coding an iOS app… on iOS\n\n- (32:39) - Where AI still completely fails\n\n- (34:02) - OpenAI vs. Gemini and the shifting AI landscape\n\n- (34:56) - Editors, agents, and AI overload\n\n- (38:34) - Space toggles in CSS and weirdly powerful tricks\n\n- (42:14) - Are AI tools getting more scatterbrained?\n\n- (44:20) - Perspective when everything feels heavy\n\n- (46:20) - Learning new skills without burning out\n\n- (48:03) - Curiosity is a survival skill\n\n- (48:40) - Working through hard seasons in life\n\n- (54:14) - TV shows, distractions, and mental breaks\n\n- (54:46) - Robbie vs. Lego ordering (again)\n\n- (56:05) - Adam’s exhausting travel run\n\n- (57:07) - Why kids are basically walking germs\n\n- (58:26) - Adam’s Beyond Tellerrand talk\n\n- (59:13) - Advent of Code\n\n\n\n\n**Links**\n\n- Flaviar Bhakta Golden Age Blend: https://flaviar.com/products/bhakta-1928-golden-age-blend-750\n\n- Flavia SirDavis American Whisky: https://flaviar.com/products/sirdavis-american-whisky-750\n\n- Jack Daniels Single Barrel Rye: https://www.jackdaniels.com/en-us/whiskey/single-barrel-rye\n\n- Whiskey Web and Whatnot live episodes from All Things Open 2025: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7uiIY_6TPL-iREDcpUVndAZaz118OE-h\n\n- Olly Stress Gummies: https://www.olly.com/\n\n- Flaviar Whiskey Advent Calendar: https://flaviar.com/pages/advent-calendar\n\n- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: https://www.harrypottertheplay.com/\n\n- ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/\n\n- Adam's blog post - An Update On My Involvement In Standards: https://nerdy.dev/update-on-my-involvement-in-standards\n\n- Primeagen: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen\n\n- Swach: https://swach.io/ [https://www.swach.io/]\n\n- Chrome EyeDropper API: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/eyedropper\n\n- Linux: https://www.linux.org/\n\n- Wayland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol)\n\n- GNOME: https://www.gnome.org/\n\n- KDE: https://kde.org/\n\n- C++: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp\n\n- Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/\n\n- Electron: https://www.electronjs.org/\n\n- Antigravity: https://antigravity.google/\n\n- Adam's color component: https://github.com/argyleink/css-color-component\n\n- theCHIVE: https://thechive.com/\n\n- Preact: https://preactjs.com/\n\n- React: https://react.dev/\n\n- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/\n\n- Seinfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld\n\n- VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/\n\n- Ember: https://emberjs.com/\n\n- OpenAI: https://openai.com\n\n- Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/\n\n- Nano Banana: https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/\n\n- Claude: https://claude.ai/\n\n- Opencode: https://opencode.ai/\n\n- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/\n\n- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/\n\n- Big Pickle: https://opencode.ai/docs/zen/\n\n- Windsurf: https://windsurf.ai/\n\n- CSS: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/\n\n- Stranger Things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things\n\n- Chris Coyier: https://x.com/chriscoyier\n\n- Wednesday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday_(TV_series)\n\n- LEGO: https://www.lego.com/\n\n- WebGL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API\n\n- Advent of Code: https://adventofcode.com/\n\n- Figma: https://www.figma.com/\n\n- Adam's Beyond Tellerrand talk: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2025/speakers/adam-argyle\n\n\n\n\n**Connect with the hosts**\n\n- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner\n\n- Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd\n\n- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink\n\n\n\n\n**Subscribe and stay in touch**\n\n- Website: https://whiskey.fm\n\n- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603\n\n- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf\n\n- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603\n\n- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot\n\n\n\n\n**Whiskey Web and Whatnot Merch**\n\nEnjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.",
  "title": "A Very Merry Descent Into Holiday Madness"
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