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Hacking with Go: Part 4 Mar 23, 2023

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Our “Hacking with Go” series continues! This time Natalie & Johnny are joined by Ivan Kwiatkowski & Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade and the conversation is we’re focused around generics and AI.

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Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade – Website, X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

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The bits of Go we avoid (and why) Mar 16, 2023

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The panel discuss the parts of Go they never use. Do they avoid them because of pain in the past? Were they overused? Did they always end up getting refactoring out? Is there a preferred alternative?

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Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Carl Johnson – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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This will blow your docs off Mar 10, 2023

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In a world where most documentation sucks, large language models write better than humans, and people won’t be bothered to type full sentences with actual punctuation.

Two men… against all odds… join an award-worthy podcast… hosted by a coin-operated, singing code monkey (?)… to convince the developer world they’re doing it ALL wrong.

Grab your code-generator and heat up that cold cup of coffee on your desk. Because this episode of Go Time is about to blow your docs off!

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Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
Cory LaNou – X
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a.k.a. “Doc, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”
a.k.a. “Doc-a Schoen”
a.k.a. “Like Doc-work”
a.k.a. “Pull Your Docs Up”
a.k.a. “What’s Up, Docs?”
a.k.a. “A Doc-work Orange”

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What's new in Go 1.20 Feb 16, 2023

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Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent Carl Johnson joins Mat & Johnny to discuss… what’s new in Go 1.20, of course! What’d you expect, an episode about Rust?! That’s preposterous…

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Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Is htmx the way to Go? Feb 09, 2023

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A quick look at the history of building web apps, followed by a discussion of htmx and how it compares to both modern and traditional ways of building.

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JS Party – Your weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web

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chg – GitHub, X
Chris James – GitHub, X
David Wickes – GitHub, X
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How to ace that CFP Feb 02, 2023

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It’s “Call For Papers” (CFP) season in Go land, so we gathered some seriously experienced conference organizers to help YOUR submission be the best ever.

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V Körbes – Website, GitHub, X
Anna-Katharina Wickert – GitHub, X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Anna-Katharina’s talk at GopherCon EU 2022
GopherCon UK CFP
GopherCon CFP
GopherCon EU CFPCfp Gophercon europe https://www.papercall.io/gceu23
The Inigo Montoya Story structure
Bill Gates commencement speech
Chips definition lawsuit

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Long-term code maintenance Jan 27, 2023

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Ole Bulbuk & Sandor Szücs join Natalie to discuss the ins & outs of long-term code maintenance. What does it take to maintain a codebase for a decade or more? How do you plan for that? What about inheriting a codebase for the long term? Oh, and (how) can AI help?

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Ship of Theseus
GoTime Episode with Ole on the Berlin transition to Go
GoTime Episode with Bill Kennedy on TDD
OS projects mentioned by Ssandor
- skipper
  - proxytest
  - kubernetestest
- kube-ingress-aws-controller
Omega
BDD - Behaviour Driven Development
OS projects mentioned by Ole Bulbuk
- Spaghetti Analyzer
- Spaghetti Cutter

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Who owns our code? Part 2 Jan 19, 2023

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Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to Go Time to school us once again on the intellectual property concerns of software creators in this crazy day we live in. This time around, we’re focusing on the implications of Large Language Models, code generation, and crazy stuff like that.

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The Changelog – Conversations with the hackers, leaders, and innovators of the software world

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How Go helped save HealthCare.gov ♻️ Jan 12, 2023

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Paul Smith (from “Obama’s Trauma Team”) tells us the tale of how Go played a big role in the rescuing and rebuilding of the HealthCare.gov website. Along the way we learn what the original team did wrong, how the rescue team kept it afloat during huge traffic spikes, and what they’ve done since to rebuild it to serve the people’s needs.

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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A special New Year's fireside chat Jan 05, 2023

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Mat and the gang ring in the new year by gathering around a make believe fireplace and discussing what they’re excited about in 2023, their new years resolutions & a little bit of Go talk, too. But only a little.

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