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After last episode with Templ maintainers I was really pumped to try Templ and see if it would work for me. Without spoiling too much I believe it would have been easier to start from scratch with Templ vs. trying to migrate an existing project.

This led me to try and see if I could add static analysis of my templates in my library tpl. I don't really have a PoC yet, but kind of getting close to it. If everything continue I should be able to capture errors in using of wrong field in template, like typos in field name that are caught at runtime at this moment.

Links: https://github.com/dstpierre/tpl

Also if you want to support this show, this is a 50% discount on my courses: Build SaaS apps in Go and Build a Google Analytics in Go.

In this episode Adrian Hesketh and Joe Davidson from Templ joins me and we talk about the what, why, and how of Templ. If you haven't checked it out, Templ helps creating strongly typed html template and use a component based approach to building web interface in Go.

Links:

• Templ GitHub repo
• The documentation
• Go ship it
• Quicktemplate

As always if you want to support the time I invest into this podcast the best way is by purchasing my courses which are at 50% off for listener of this pod: Build SaaS apps in Go and Build a Google Analytics in Go.

Ramesh joins me this week to talk about his experiences teaching programming in Girls who code club and gate keeping that can discourage some people from choosing computer science as their career path.

Links:

• Confluence podcast with Ramesh
• Scott Hanselman's blog Profanity doesn't work
• Ramesh's blog
• Hanselminutes podcast
• ChangeLog

I'd appreciate any mention you can share about the pod. If you'd like to support the effort, the best way if to purchase my courses, listeners of the show get 50% off Build SaaS apps in Go and Build a Google Analytics in Go.

Getting out there, showing what you're currently doing / learning, starting a blog, creating content to help other software engineers, those are all good way to distinguish yourself. You might want to consider speaking at conferences as well. In this episode we're talking with Matt Boyle about the what, why, how of getting your first conference talk accepted.

Links:

• @GopherCon on Twitter
• Sessionized
• Matt's blog post on what should you build
• Writing a successful GopherCon proposal
• ByteSizeGo Matt's courses and books

As always I'd appreciate if you can talk about the pod, share a link, add a review. If you want to support the efforts the best way is to purchase my courses: Build SaaS apps in Go and Build a Google Analytics in Go.

I'm joined by Marian Montagnino this week. We talk about CLI in Go, programming languages. Java and Elm mentioned, be warned .;) and other tech related stuff. Marian wrote a book on building CLI in Go and presented multiple talks at Go conferences.

We had some connectivity glitches during our call making it challenging. You won't here the internet cuts as we did, but the lag is real, sorry about that.

Links:

• Building Modern CLI Applications in Go
• Marian on Twitter

As always I'd highly appreciate any mention of the pod and if you want to support the show the best way is to grab my courses at 50% off for listeners of the show: Build SaaS apps in Go and Build a Google Analytics in Go

I started a monolith-style web application couple of weeks ago and force to admit that Go is more and more fun to use where I was considering more like Django or Rails before.

For me there was still the templates aspect that needed to be fixed, and I wrote a library for that. The other major place where I was not enjoying myself was the database code, found it way to repetitive for application that had a lot of SQL tables.

We're in a very good place at the moment and the benefits of having a compiled language to build heavy backend web application is great.

Links:

• dstpierre/tpl - a simple library to help with templates structuring, parsing, and rendering
• sqlc - I finally surrender, and I like it

As always if you want to support the show you may purchase my courses Build SaaS apps in Go and Build a Google Analytics in Go.

I've restarted active development on my open source Go backend server API StaticBackend. For a long time I wanted to make its CLI size smaller, and I decided to use Go's plugin package to extract a functionality that used a dependency that was accounting for more than 50% of its 170 MB. Go plugin were the solution I decided to use for this and I explain the problem and the solution in this episode.

Links:

• StaticBackend on GitHub
• go-size-analyzer

As always it's appreciated if you can talk about the pod and share. You may also purchase my course(s) if you want to contribute with money, there's a 50% off coupon with those links: Build SaaS apps in Go and Build a Google Analytics in Go.

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I've been building SaaS since 2008 and built two with Go. Big spoiler, the technology you choose has a little impact in the early stage of a software business. There's some danger to over-engineer and use complex construct while you still does not even know if what you're building is desirable. Heck, you don't even know what you're building at first.

I'm giving some example of common traps and pitfails technical founder tend to fail into when jumping into a startup venture for first times. And yes, times is plural, because it takes multiple attempt before learning lessons.

If you enjoy the pod please consider sharing / talking about it. You may also contribute by purchasing my courses Build SaaS apps in Go and Build a Google Analytics in Go courses, they're at 50% off for listeners of the show.

I'm joined by Mark Carpenter, the maintainer of EbitenUI, a UI library you may use with your Ebitengine Go game. Game dev is slowly making its way to Go with game library like Ebitengine and Raylib. The nice thing about Ebitengine is that it's built in Go, have great cadance in its development and is simple to use.

EbitenUI is a UI library that allows you to build UI for your games. It's a simple library that integrates smoothly with the programming model of Ebitengine games.

Links:

• EbitenUI on GitHub
• EbitenUI documentation
• EbitenUI on Reddit
• EbitenUI on Discord
• Awesome Ebitengine

As always if you want to support my efforts with this show please talk about it, share it. You may also purchase my online courses Build SaaS apps in Go and Build a Google Analytics in Go, there's a 50% discount for listeners of this show.

A follow-up episode on last week episode. We go a little bit deeper into Encore with André Eriksson. Encore can do a lot for your Go project and infrastructure. It allows your team to focus on your product and provides local development and DevOps tooling that help your team go faster.

Links:

• Encore.dev - website
• Encore on GitHub
• André on Twitter

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• Share and talk about it.
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