Tech Rants, Supporting Open Source, and Great TV Shows

Building products is hard. And devs can often feel hamstrung by competing priorities. The battle between revenue and quality is ever-present and ongoing. But is it possible to achieve both?  In this episode, Chuck and Robbie discuss some of their frustrations with the tech companies and tech stacks in the modern era, supporting open source projects, and some great TV shows they have been enjoying. Key Takeaways * [01:27] - A whiskey review - Barrell Dovetail Whiskey. * [08:00] - Why tech companies are reluctant to upgrade dependencies. * [18:08] - The importance of supporting open source projects. * [30:45] - Why React dominates the landscape. * [43:13] - Chuck and Robbie discuss TV shows. * [49:36] - Chuck's weekend plans with family. * [54:29] - Chuck's Korean fried chicken experience. Quotes [10:48] - "I feel like we've done all of this stuff to be like, let's get everyone Scrum certified, and let's do this whole process. And people really bought into that, and it does not help them." ~ @rwwagner90 [https://twitter.com/rwwagner90] [12:59] - "You read the books. You see the blogs. You get experts to come in and train your teams, and you're still kind of struggling to get it right. But then we keep getting told there's a right way. Who is doing it right?" ~ @CharlesWthe3rd [https://twitter.com/CharlesWthe3rd] [25:27] - "I think in a perfect world, what I would love to see happen is companies kind of take frameworks under their wing and be like, look, we realize how much work you're doing. We realize there are not that many people doing it. Here are these two people we just hired. Teach them the thing that no one knows so we can increase the buzz factor here and at the same time, instead of just telling you to teach them, here's $500,000. Do whatever you think makes the framework better." ~ @rwwagner90 [https://twitter.com/rwwagner90] Links * Barrell Dovetail Whiskey [https://www.barrellbourbon.com/dovetail] * MGP [https://www.mgpingredients.com/] * Dr Pepper [https://www.drpepper.com/] * Cherry Coca Cola [https://us.coca-cola.com/products/coca-cola-flavors/cherry] * George Dickel Tenessee Whiskey [https://www.georgedickel.com/] * Jack Daniels Distillery [https://www.jackdaniels.com/] * Green Brier Distillery [https://www.greenbrier.com/] * Ember [https://emberjs.com/] * Next.js [https://nextjs.org/] * GitHub [https://github.com/] * NPM [https://www.npmjs.com/] * Melaine Sumner [https://melanie.codes/] * Sindre Sorhus [https://sindresorhus.com/] * Chris Manson [https://ie.linkedin.com/in/realate] * Microsoft [https://www.oracle.com/industries/micros/] * Jest [https://jestjs.io/] * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/] * Vitest [https://vitest.dev/] * Faker  [https://fakerjs.dev/] * Java Script [https://www.javascript.com/] * Hacker News [https://thehackernews.com/] * Reddit [https://reddit.com/] * Sqwok [https://sqwok.im/] * jQuery [https://jquery.com/] * LESS [https://lesscss.org/] * Sass [https://sass-lang.com/] * Coffee Script [https://coffeescript.org/] * TypeScrpit [https://www.typescriptlang.org/] * Lodash [https://lodash.com/] * Shop Talk [https://shoptalkshow.com/] * Electro-Voice [https://electrovoice.com/]