The One Rye to Rule Them All w/ Kendall Miller & Rishi Malik

This week, Robbie and Chuck talk with Kendall Miller and Rishi Malik about their startup Friday Deployment Spirits, and creating whiskey for developers. They discuss the art of making good whiskey, bourbon vs rye, coding in the age of AI, and much more.

In this episode:

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:53) - Meet Rishi and Kendall
• (03:01) - Whiskey rating and review: Friday Deployment Generative A Rye
• (21:27) - Hot take: Is HTML a programming language?
• (25:56) - Hot Take: Bourbon or Rye?
• (27:13) - Is deploying on a Friday bad?
• (37:57) - Payment systems, Web3, and blockchain
• (45:44) - The art of making whiskey
• (51:39) - MCP security for the AI age
• (55:40) - What happened to Chartreuse?
• (57:26) - Plugs

Links

• Friday Deployment: https://fridaydeployment.co/
• CTO Lunches: https://ctolunches.com/
• Maybe Don't AI: https://www.maybedont.ai/
• Wolves Whiskey: https://wolveswhiskeyca.com/
• Heaven Hill Distillery: http://heavenhilldistillery.com/
• Angels Envy: https://www.angelsenvy.com/
• Laphroaig: https://www.laphroaig.com/
• Buffalo Trace: https://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/
• Malort: https://malort.com/
• Sagamore Spirit: https://sagamorespirit.com/
• Guillermo Rauch: https://x.com/rauchg
• Willett: https://www.kentuckybourbonwhiskey.com/
• Midwinter Night's Dram: https://highwest.com/pages/a-midwinter-nights-dram
• ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/
• Typescript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
• Brenne Whiskey: https://www.houseofmalt.co.uk/brand/brenne/
• Seinfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld
• Mad Men: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Men
• Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
• Norlan: https://norlanglass.com/
• Office Space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space
• Stripe: https://stripe.com/
• Privy: https://www.privy.io/
• Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/
• React: https://react.dev/
• Venmo: https://venmo.com/
• Cash App: https://cash.app/
• Laravel: https://laravel.com/
• JavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
• jQuery: https://jquery.com/
• Jim Beam: https://www.jimbeam.com/
• Fernet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernet
• Fireball: https://www.fireballwhisky.com/
• Jagermeister: https://us.jagermeister.com/
• Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/
• Aviation Gin: https://www.aviationgin.com/
• Ryan Reynolds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Reynolds
• Costco: https://www.costco.com/
• Boodles Gin: https://boodlesgin.com/
• Tanqueray: https://www.tanqueray.com/en-row
• The Botanist Gin: https://www.thebotanist.com/

Connect with Kendall

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendallamiller/

Connect with Rishi

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishilmalik/

Connect with Chuck and Robbie

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

Subscribe and stay in touch

• Website: https://whiskey.fm
• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
• Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot

Whiskey Web and Whatnot Merch

Enjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.

Veteran web developers RobbieTheWagner and Charles William Carpenter III host this informal, whiskey-fueled fireside chat with your favorite web devs. They discuss all things web development including JavaScript, TypeScript, EmberJS, React, Astro, SolidJS, CSS, HTML, Web3, and more. They take a unique approach and focus on getting to know the human side of developers and their hobbies outside of work, all while sampling a new whiskey that they rate on their unique tentacle scale.