200: 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

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