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Father's Day Drinking w/ Typecraft

Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development Neat June 19, 2025

This week, Robbie talks with Typecraft about the chaotic joys of fatherhood, the realities of raising twins, and various dad-related hot takes. They also discuss their tech carries and conference talks, including Typecraft's Vim nerdery and Robbie’s sarcastic ode to underappreciated HTML features.

In this episode:

(00:00) - Intro
(02:05) - Beer selections
(03:11) - Newborns and parenting
(07:34) - Robbie's transition to HashiCorp
(12:11) - Home ownership and the volatile housing market
(15:19) - Hot Take: tall socks vs ankle socks
(16:41) - Hot Take: New Balance vs Nike
(17:29) - Hot Take: gas vs charcoal grills
(18:41) - Efficient scheduling as parents
(20:09) - Education costs
(23:24) - Hot Take: parking forward vs backward
(24:13) - Hot Take: baseball vs football
(25:59) - The real point of golf
(28:39) - The chaotic joys of parenting
(33:05) - Big Sky Dev Con and other confs
(34:55) - Typecraft's Big Sky talk
(39:26) - Robbie's Big Sky talk
(42:02) - The state of AI in coding
(58:46) - Black Mirror and Star Trek
(01:00:16) - Plugs

Links

Aaron Francis: https://x.com/aarondfrancis [https://x.com/aarondfrancis]
Michelob Ultra: https://www.michelobultra.com/ [https://www.michelobultra.com/]
Sip of Sunshine IPA: https://www.lawsonsfinest.com/beer/sip-sunshine/ [https://www.lawsonsfinest.com/beer/sip-sunshine/]
Apple Watch: https://www.apple.com/watch/ [https://www.apple.com/watch/]
Claude: https://claude.ai [https://claude.ai/]
Amazon: https://amazon.com [https://amazon.com/]
HashiCorp: https://www.hashicorp.com/ [https://www.hashicorp.com/]
IBM: https://www.ibm.com/ [https://www.ibm.com/]
Ruby on Rails: https://rubyonrails.org/ [https://rubyonrails.org/]
PHP: https://www.php.net/ [https://www.php.net/]
Bitcoin: https://bitcoin.org/en/ [https://bitcoin.org/en/]
Target: https://www.target.com/ [https://www.target.com/]
New Balance: https://www.newbalance.com/ [https://www.newbalance.com/]
Nike: https://www.nike.com/ [https://www.nike.com/]
Big Green Egg: https://biggreenegg.com/ [https://biggreenegg.com/]
ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/ [https://chatgpt.com/]
Big Sky Dev Con: https://bigskydevcon.com/ [https://bigskydevcon.com/]
React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/ [https://www.reactmiami.com/]
Rails World: https://rubyonrails.org/world/ [https://rubyonrails.org/world/]
Primeagen: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen [https://x.com/ThePrimeagen]
Vim: https://www.vim.org/ [https://www.vim.org/]
Robert Beene: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beene/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/beene/]
Teladoc: https://www.teladochealth.com/ [https://www.teladochealth.com/]
Typecraft on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@typecraft_dev [https://www.youtube.com/@typecraft_dev]
Google: https://google.com [https://google.com/]
VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/ [https://code.visualstudio.com/]
OpenAI: https://openai.com [https://openai.com/]
ART19: https://art19.com/ [https://art19.com/]
Gamma: http://gamma.app/ [http://gamma.app/]
Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/ [https://www.cursor.com/]
Windsurf: https://windsurf.ai/ [https://windsurf.ai/]
Next.js: https://nextjs.org/ [https://nextjs.org/]
Astro: https://astro.build/ [https://astro.build/]
Neovim: https://neovim.io/ [https://neovim.io/]
Avante: https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim [https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim]
Claude Code: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code [https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code]
Typescript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/ [https://www.typescriptlang.org/]
ES6: https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_es6.asp [https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_es6.asp]
Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com [https://www.anthropic.com/]
React: https://react.dev/ [https://react.dev/]
DoorDash: https://www.doordash.com/ [https://www.doordash.com/]
Black Mirror: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085059/ [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085059/]
Star Trek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek]

Connect with Typecraft

Website: https://typecraft.dev/ [https://typecraft.dev/]
X / Twitter: https://x.com/typecraft_dev [https://x.com/typecraft_dev]

Connect with Chuck and Robbie

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

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