Live from Big Sky Dev Con: Code Debates, Content Insights, and What's Next for Web Development

Live from Big Sky Dev Con, Robbie is joined by Aaron Francis, Ken Wheeler, and Typecraft to discuss HTML and CSS programming status, React’s future, app security failures, NPM’s weak spots, content creation hooks, survival tech fantasies, and balancing big tech ambitions with family life.

In this episode:

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:55) - Whiskey rating and review: Undammed Distilling Co. Shields River - Single (Malt ) -Whiskey
• (03:52) - Is HTML a programming language?
• (05:30) - Is CSS a programming language?
• (06:34) - Will classes make a comeback in React?
• (10:02) - The Tea app fiasco
• (15:10) - When NPM flags critical code as malicious
• (20:36) - Turning technical know-how into content people actually want
• (26:32) - One piece of tech to survive in the Montana wilderness
• (29:37) - Balancing family life, content creation, and work
• (35:06) - The pros and cons of working from home
• (38:49) - Predicting the tech debates of 2030
• (45:59) - One piece of advice you wish you’d been given

Links

• Aaron Francis: https://x.com/aarondfrancis
• Ken Wheeler: https://x.com/ken_wheeler/
• Typecraft: https://typecraft.dev/
• Undammed Distilling Co.: https://undammedspirits.com/
• HTML: https://www.w3schools.com/html/
• JavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
• CSS: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
• HTMX: https://htmx.org/
• Minecraft: https://www.minecraft.net/
• React: https://react.dev/
• Michael Jackson's tweet about React Hooks: https://x.com/mjackson/status/1937979887815692465
• PHP: https://www.php.net/
• Vercel: https://vercel.com/
• Remix: https://remix.run/
• Firebase: https://firebase.google.com/
• Stripe: https://stripe.com/
• Twilio: https://www.twilio.com/
• Stylus: https://www.npmjs.com/package/stylus
• NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/
• MIT: https://www.mit.edu
• Tea: https://www.teaforwomen.com/
• Numerical Recipes: https://numerical.recipes/
• Numerical Recipes: https://numerical.recipes/
• Google: https://www.google.com/
• Linux: https://www.linux.org/
• Rails: https://rubyonrails.org/
• Mark Twain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
• SQLite: https://www.sqlite.org/
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