Fallthrough & Friends (Friends)
Kris Brandow & Matthew Sanabria from Fallthrough.fm join Jerod to discuss tools we’re switching to, whether or not Go is still a great systems programming language choice, user-centric documentation, the need for archivists & more.
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Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
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Show Notes:
Fallthrough.fm
CPU.fm
Tools Worth Changing To in 2025
Helix
Jujutsu
Replacing Git with Git featuring Scott Chacon
Reddit comment
The Seven-Action Documentation model
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The indispensable cog (Friends)
Go Time co-host, Johnny Boursiquot, joins Adam & Jerod to discuss not making the (first) cut, applying Founder Mode, being a cog (or not), realizing that companies are posting fake engineering jobs & the (maybe) imminent demise of the .io TLD.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Hugh Glass - Wikipedia
300 multiple choices (Go Time #300)
Learn Go with Johnny
“Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)
I’m a cog.
Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?
The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
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HATEOAS corpus (Friends)
Jerod is back with another “It Depends” episode! This time he’s joined by Kris Brandow from Go Time and they’re talking all things API design. What makes a good API? Is GraphQL a solid choice? Why do we do REST wrong? And WTF does HATEOAS mean, anyway?
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Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
PHP: a fractal of bad design
PostGraphile Instant GraphQL API
HATEOAS
The Tech Behind the New Grooveshark
OpenAPI Spec
HTTP Specifications
Roy Fielding Dissertation on REST
Mike Amundsen
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Principles of simplicity
Rob Pike says, “Simplicity is the art of hiding complexity.” If that’s true, what is simplicity in the context of writing software in Go? Is it even something we should strive for? Can software be too simple? Ian & Kris discuss with return guest sam boyer.
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Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek
“Simple Made Easy” - Rich Hickey (2011)
“You can’t get snakes from chicken eggs”
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You call it tech debt I call it malpractice (Friends)
Go Time panelist (and semi-professional unpopular opinion maker) Kris Brandow joins us to discuss his deep-dive on the waterfall paper, his dislike of the “tech debt” analogy, why documentation matters so much & how everything is a distributed system.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
“Waterfall” doesn’t mean what you think it means
Kris’s Go Time take on the tech debt analogy
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Building actually maintainable software ♻️ (Interview)
This week we’re sharing the most popular episode of Go Time from last year — Go Time #196. We believe this episode was the most popular because it’s all about building actually maintainable software and what goes into that. Kris Brandow is joined by Johnny Boursiquot, Ian Lopshire, and Sam Boyer. There’s lots of hot takes, disagreements, and unpopular opinions.
This is part two of a three part mini-series led by Kris on maintenance. Make sure you check out Go Time #195 and Go Time #202 to continue the series.
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Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Go Time #195
Go Time #202
Uber’s Go Style Guide
Why smart engineers write bad code
Rant about “performant”
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Maintaining ourselves
With the constant demands of work and life we often don’t take much time to ensure that we’re maintaining ourselves. In this third episode of the maintenance series, Kris is joined by co-host Natalie, along with Ian Lopshire to discuss the ways in which we can maintain ourselves in this busy and chaotic world.
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Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Mage – a Make/rake-like dev tool using Go
Hacktoberfest
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Dependency Management, Semver, Community Consensus
Sam Boyer joined the show to talk about dependency management, building community consensus, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Go Dependency Tool (dep)
Dep
GPS
Gophers, please tag your releases
Working with Semantic Versions
The Saga of Go Dependency Management
dep 101
Interesting Go Projects and News
Part 2: How Sourcegraph scales with the Language Server Protocol
Fuzzing as a first class citizen
Go 1.9 optimizations for allocations in interfaces
HTTPLab (Wuzz alternative)
Syscall Fuzzer
Distributed Storage
Distributed Networking
Upspin from Rob & Andrew
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Brian - jitsi jitsi
Erik - helm
Carlisia - gcli
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Discussing Imposter Syndrome
Johnny Boursiquot and Bill Kennedy joined the show with Erik and Carlisia to talk about a hard subject — Imposter Syndrome. Not often enough do we get to have open conversations about the eventual inadequacies we all face at some point in our career; some more often than others. You are !imposter.
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Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
This episode is direct product of listening to our listeners
Erik faced his biggest fear and gave this talk at KubeCon
The Imposter’s Handbook by Rob Conery comes highly recommended
Check out #speaking in Gopher Slack
Free Software Friday
Erik - Polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
Carlisia - Play With Docker / play-with-docker.com gives you the experience of having a free Alpine Linux Virtual Machine in the cloud where you can build and run Docker containers and even create clusters with Docker features like Swarm Mode.)
Bill - Pachyderm lets you store and analyze your data using containers. All things gonum
Johnny - Spectacle allows you to organize your windows without using a mouse.
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