Are Developers Overthinking Everything? W/ Bdougie Whiskey Web And Whatnot: Web Development, Neat podcast

Recorded live at All Things Open, Robbie and guest co-host Nick Taylor talk with Bdougie (Brian Douglas) about open source’s impact on their careers, the legacy of OpenSauced, and why developer tools succeed—or don’t. They dive into Git philosophy, editor wars, AI’s sometimes-chaotic influence on coding, and how strong frameworks like Rails still shape the ecosystem.

In this episode:

(00:00) - Intro
(01:11) - Wine rating & review: Josh Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon
(02:46) - The rise and fall of OpenSauced
(03:28) - Hot Take: git rebase vs git merge
(03:59) - Hot Take: Is HTML a programming language?
(04:17) - Hot Take: Is CSS a programming language?
(04:53) - Hot Take: Sidebar on the right or left in VS Code?
(08:15) - Hot Take: Rails vs Laravel
(12:30) - Who’s really to blame when AI goes wrong?
(15:07) - The impact of open source on Brian’s career
(16:26) - Highlights from Brian's All Things Open talks
(20:28) - Building with TypeScript agents
(30:04) - Light mode vs dark mode
(31:36) - The future of AI coding tools
(46:02) - Tips for new developers
(48:53) - How to evaluate AI-generated content
(50:31) - Iced coffee preferences
(50:56) - Brian's game development project
(51:51) - Plugs

Links

Josh Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon: https://www.joshcellars.com/
OpenSauced: https://opensauced.pizza/
GitHub: https://github.com/
Linux: https://www.linux.org/
HTML: https://www.w3schools.com/html/
VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
Jason Lengstorf: https://x.com/jlengstorf
Neovim: https://neovim.io/
IntelliJ: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
WebStorm: https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
Zed: https://zed.dev/
Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink/
Rails: https://rubyonrails.org/
Laravel: https://laravel.com/
React: https://react.dev/
Opencode: https://opencode.ai/
Claude Sonnet: https://www.anthropic.com/claude/sonnet
All Things Open: https://allthingsopen.org/
Counter-Strike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike
Rainbow Six Rogue Spear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy's_Rainbow_Six:_Rogue_Spear
SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/
Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/
TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
GraphQL: https://graphql.org/
Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
Claude Haiku: https://www.anthropic.com/claude/haiku
OpenAI: https://openai.com
Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
Ollama: https://ollama.com/
CodeRabbit: https://www.coderabbit.ai/
HashiCorp: https://www.hashicorp.com/
Slack: https://slack.com/
Heroku: https://www.heroku.com/
Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/
Homebrew: https://brew.sh/
RenderATL: https://www.renderatl.com/
Codex: https://openai.com/codex/
IBM Granite: https://www.ibm.com/granite
Dev-end: https://dev-end.com/
Windsurf: https://windsurf.ai/
Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/
Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/
Sniffly.dev: https://sniffly.dev/
Opus: https://www.anthropic.com/claude/opus
Python: https://www.python.org/
dltHub: https://dlthub.com
DuckDB: https://duckdb.org/
SQL: https://www.mysql.com/
Sora: https://openai.com/sora/
Blue Bottle Coffee: https://bluebottlecoffee.com/
NVidia: https://www.nvidia.com/
Conributor.info: https://contributor.info/

Connect with Nick

Website: https://nickyt.online/
X / Twitter: https://x.com/nickytonline

Connect with Bdougie

Website: https://briandouglas.me/
X / Twitter: https://x.com/bdougieyo

Connect with the hosts

Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner
Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd
Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

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