Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Berlin 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say!

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• Cameron Balahan – X
• Chioma Onyekpere – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Ron Evans – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Travis Cline – GitHub, X
• Paula Babbicola – GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week we’re catching up on the news! Kris is joined by Ian to discuss some of the recent news from around the Go community. Listen in to hear whether the co-hosts believe there’s software that shouldn’t be written in Go, their thoughts on if Go is evolving in the right direction & whether common nouns make good package names.

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• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Angelica is joined by Cameron Balahan, Sameer Ajmani & Russ Cox from the Go Team at Google to talk about how things get done on the Go Team, how do they decide what to improve and then how do they go about improving it. We also discuss how they decide what to work when & what the future of Go might look like.

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• Cameron Balahan – X
• Sameer Ajmani – GitHub, X
• Russ Cox – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Angelica is joined by Samantha Coyle to talk about her newly published textbook: Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional. This book serves as a go-to guide to master Go for real-world software dev success covering fundamentals to advanced topics.

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• Samantha Coyle – LinkedIn, X
• Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Based on their experience in Curve and Cloudflare, Matthew Boyle & Chris Shepherd share their experience migrating from PHP to Go.

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• Matthew Boyle – Website, GitHub, X
• Chris Shepherd – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In this week’s episode we’re talking about the news! In this laugh-filled episode, Kris is joined by Ian & Johnny to discuss the future of Go, both the Go team itself and iterations of packages within the standard library; Microsoft creating a Go blog & a Go fork; and SQLite and Go.

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• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

What makes a good, bad, and truly great workshop? How do you put together a Go workshop that works, and how do you get the most out of workshops you attend?

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• Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

The 3 Musketeers return! Filippo Valsorda, Roland Shoemaker & Nicola Murino continue their deep-dive conversation with Natalie about Go’s crypto libraries.

Also listen to Part 1 and Part 2!

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• Filippo Valsorda – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Roland Shoemaker – Website, GitHub, X
• Nicola Murino – GitHub
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In this episode, Ben Burkert & Chris Stolt join Johhny to explore the ups & downs of trying to get secure local development environments set up, why it’s hard & what you can do about it.

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• Ben Burkert – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Chris Stolt – X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Natalie is joined by Carlos Becker (a Brazil-based software developer who maintains GoReleaser and other OSS software) to discuss how GOOS and GOARCH spark joy.

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• Carlos Becker – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!