That's Go Time!
Mat gathers the entire cast (sans Natalie, sadly) alongside our producer, Jerod Santo, for one last Go Time. That’s right, this is Go Time’s finale episode. After eight years and 340 episodes, we are going out on top. Join us one last time, you won’t regret it!
We share our feelings, reminisce on the good times, list some of our favorite moments & share a few opinions, which may (or may not) be unpopular. 😉
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Show Notes:
A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe
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Episodes mentioned
Neurodiverse gophers (Go Time #281)
Gophers Say What!? (Go Time #200)
Who owns our code? (Go Time #252)
Who owns our code? Part 2 (Go Time #263)
Mat’s GopherCon EU diary with (Go Time #250)
Maintenance podcast episodes
2053: A Go Odyssey with Ron Evans (Go Time #235)
The Wu-Tang way with Ron Evans (Changelog & Friends #42)
The se7en deadly sins of Go (Go Time #294)
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Pitching Go in 2025
With so many great programming languages having emerged in the last decade, many of them purpose-built, when and where does Go still make sense and how do you make the case for it at work?
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Kent Quirk – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Christian Gabrielsson – GitHub, LinkedIn
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Unpop roundup! 2023
Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2023.
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chg – GitHub, X
Chris James – GitHub, X
Lea Anthony – GitHub, X
Ole Bulbuk – Website, GitHub, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
Andy Walker – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade – Website, X
Kaylyn Gibilterra – GitHub, X
Joe Davidson – GitHub, X
Matthew Boyle – Website, GitHub, X
David Wickes – GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Is htmx the way to Go? (Go Time #266)
Cross-platform graphical user interfaces (Go Time #271)
Long-term code maintenance (Go Time #264)
Experiences from GopherCon 2023 (Go Time #293)
What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 2 (Go Time #298)
The solo gopher (Go Time #283)
HallwayConf! A new style of conference (Go Time #276)
Hacking with Go: Part 4 (Go Time #270)
Diversity at conferences (Go Time #274)
Go templating using Templ (Go Time #291)
Domain-driven design with Go (Go Time #273)
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Crawl, walk & run your way to usable CLIs in Go
With the number of libraries available to Go developers these days, you’d think building a CLI app was now a trivial matter. But like many things in software development, it depends. In this episode, we explore the challenges that arose during one team’s journey towards a production-ready CLI.
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Wesley Beary – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
How Anchor developed a CLI and the tools that helped along the way.
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Writing a shell in Go
Writing a shell is rarely the kind of project you take on lightly. In this episode, Johnny is joined by Qi Xiao to explore how to go about such a feat in Go.
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Show Notes:
Elvish shell
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AI for Observability
Yasir Ekinci joins Johnny & Mat to talk about how virtually every Observability vendor is rushing to add Generative AI capabilities to their products and what that entails from both a development and usability perspective.
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Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Unpop roundup! 2022
The last time we did a roundup of our unpopular opinion polls, it was November of 2021!
That’s too long ago, so today we fix that bug. Join Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, as he ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2022.
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Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Nishant Roy – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Inbal Cohen – LinkedIn, X
Mark Sandstrom – X
Ivan Kwiatkowski – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Michael Matloob – GitHub, X
Ed Welch – GitHub, X
Mihalis Tsoukalos – X
Misha Avrekh – GitHub
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The other features in Go 1.18 (Go Time #217)
Going with GraphQL (Go Time #218)
Bob Logblaw Log Blog (Go Time #220)
Mastering Go (Go Time #221)
How can we prevent legacy from creeping in? (Go Time #223)
Answering questions for the Go-curious (Go Time #224)
What’s new in Go 1.19 (Go Time #240)
Avoiding bloat (Go Time #246)
Stay agile out there (Go Time #247)
Hacking with Go: Part 2 (Go Time #251)
Debugging Go (Go Time #255)
How Pinterest delivers software at scale (Go Time #257)
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Russ Cox on passing the torch
In this episode, we will be talking to Russ Cox, who joined the Go team at Google in 2008 and has been the Go project tech lead since 2012, about stepping back & handing over the reins to Austin Clements, who will also join us! We also have Cherry Mui, who is stepping into Austin’s previous role as tech lead of the “Go core”.
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Show Notes:
passing torches to Austin and Cherry
Go Issues
Golang Weekly
Proposing Changes to Go
Go Bridge
GopherCon
Cherry’s Github
Austin’s Github
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"Founder Mode" at work when you're not a founder
Tech twitter (“tech X”?) is abuzz with Paul Graham’s Founder Mode essay. How does that affect you or come into play when you’re not a founder? Does it matter at all to you, your projects & your code?
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Founder Mode
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How I lost my (old) job to AI
In this follow-up to episode #306, “How soon until AI takes my job?”, the gang of (grumpy?) veteran software engineers candidly chat about how their day to day is changing in the midst of improving AI tooling & hype.
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Kent Quirk – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
How long until I lose my job to AI? (Go Time #306)
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Home automation with Go
Join Johnny as he dives into the world of home automation with Ricardo Gerardi & Mike Riley, two tinkerers who’ve taken the plunge with Go. We explore the challenges (and the fun) they encounter along the way. If you’re interested in automating your home (or working with micro controllers) come learn how to get started!
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Automate your home with Go from Pragmatic Publishers
Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go from Pragmatic Publishers
TinyGo - A Go Compiler For Small Places
Gitea - Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform
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The community of gophers
On this episode, Angelica is joined by Go community leaders from around the world: meetup organizers from Guadalajara, St. Louis, New York & Go Bridge Atlanta. Together, they explore the ins & outs of organizing meetups, the benefits of attending, the Go Developer Network (GDN) & the current state of the Go Meetup community.
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Wilken Rivera – Website
Matthew Sanabria – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jennifer Johnson – LinkedIn
Paul Balogh – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Hannah W –
Guillermo Galván –
Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Go Developers
Platform Engineering New York
NJ Code & Coffee
GoBridge Atlanta
Golang Guadalajara
GoBridge
StLGo
MO Reliability
CNCF Saint Louis
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⚡ Lightning Talk life ⚡
This episode focuses on the art of delivering concise Lightning Talks, a popular format at conferences worldwide where speakers present in a short timeframe. Joined by some of this year’s GopherCon Lightning Talkers, we’ll discuss their experiences, challenges & tips for effective communication within a limited time.
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Dylan Bourque – GitHub
Cassie Coyle – GitHub, X
Ehden Sinai – GitHub, LinkedIn
Jacob Hochstetler – GitHub
Matt Dale – GitHub, Mastodon
Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
GopherCon 2024 - YouTube
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Big shoes to fill
Kris, Angelica & Johnny react to the recently announced Go team changes, discuss the finding that 80% of developers surveyed by Stack Overflow are unhappy & disagree about the concept of tech debt (but agree that something’s gotta give).
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Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Russ Cox: passing torches to Austin and Cherry
80% of professional programmers are unhappy (Changelog News #106)
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OpenAPI & API design
We’re talking OpenAPI this week! Kris & Johnny are joined by Jamie Tanna, one of the maintainers of oapi-codegen, to discuss OpenAPI, API design philosophies, versioning, and open source maintenance and sustainability. In addition to the usual laughs and unpopular opinions, this week’s episode includes a Changelog++ section that you don’t want to miss.
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Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
oapi-codegen is moving to its own org
Creating a more sustainable model for oapi-codegen in the future
I’m Now A Full-time Profession Open Source Maintainer
Does the tech industry thrive on free work?
Jamie’s GitHub Sponsors Profile
How do you represent a JSON field in Go that could be absent, null or have a value?
APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning
Common Haus
Workflow
Introduction to OpenRewrite
OpenAPI Changes
quobix.com
pb33f.io
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What's new in Go 1.23
We check out the upcoming 1.23 release for new language features and improvements, including iterator functions and supporting packages.
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Carlana Johnson – Website
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Go 1.23 pre-release notes
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Aha moments reading Go's source: Part 2
Jesús Espino from Mattermost tells Natalie all about (the final four of) his 10 “aha moments” he had reading the Go source code. Don’t miss Part 1!
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Aha moments: Part 1
Understanding the go runtime
Deep dive into a go binary at Golab
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Aha moments reading Go's source: Part 1
Jesús Espino from Mattermost tells Natalie all about (the first six of) his 10 “aha moments” he had reading the Go source code. Part 2 (with the rest of his aha moments) coming soon!
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Dissecting slices, maps and channels in Go (at fosdem)
The secret life of a goroutine
Understanding the go compiler
Go compiler inliner overhaul
Mr. Meeseeks
TinyGo
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How Mat writes HTTP services in Go
Mat Ryer has been writing HTTP services in Go for more than 13 years. Needless to say, he’s learned a lot along the way. Today, Johnny & Ian sit down with Mat to ask him all about it.
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How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years
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Dependencies are dangerous
Dependencies! We need them, but how do we use them effectively and safely? In this week’s episode Kris is joined by Ian and Johnny to discuss the polyfill.io supply chain attack, the history of dependency management and usage in Go, and the Go Proverb that “a little copying is better than a little dependency”. Of course, we wrap up the episode with some Unpopular Opinions!
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Polyfill.io supply chain attack hits 100,000+ websites — all you need to know
How Go Mitigates Supply Chain Attacks
Go Proverbs
A little copying is better than a little dependency
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Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Berlin 2024
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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Chioma Onyekpere – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Ron Evans – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Travis Cline – GitHub, X
Paula Babbicola – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Moar dev game shows!
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Is Go evolving in the wrong direction?
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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What software shouldn’t you write in Go?
The myth of Go garbage collection hindering “real-time” software?
The long-overdue problem coming for some people in Go 1.23
Don’t name packages common nouns
Alternatives to Makefiles written in Go
Go evolves in the wrong direction
Teaching Concurrency
Go: Don’t name packages common nouns
Computation and State Machines
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How things get done on the Go Team
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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Sameer Ajmani – GitHub, X
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Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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go.dev
Issue Tracker
Proposing Changes to Go
GopherCon 2022: Russ Cox - Compatibility: How Go Programs Keep Working
John Ousterhout - Open Decision Making
GothamGo 2016 Codebase Refactoring (with help from Go) by Russ Cox
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Your ultimate guide to mastering Go
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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Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional
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Migrating from PHP to Go
Based on their experience in Curve and Cloudflare, Matthew Boyle & Chris Shepherd share their experience migrating from PHP to Go.
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Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
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Sonar
Encore
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What if Google lays off the Go team?
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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Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
If Google decided to part with the core Go team, what would that mean for its future adoption?
Microsoft now has a Go blog
Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2
Redis re-implemented in Go with SQLite
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Go workshops that work
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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Go Bridge
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What's new in Go's cryptography libraries: Part 3
The 3 Musketeers return! Filippo Valsorda, Roland Shoemaker & Nicola Murino continue their deep-dive conversation with Natalie about Go’s crypto libraries.
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Nicola Murino – GitHub
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What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 1
What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 2
ssh: add AlgorithmNegotiationError
ssh: validate key type in SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_PK_OK response
BoGo
Project Wycheproof
The Password Game
Filippo’s open source maintenance policy
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Local cert management for mere mortals
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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Chris Stolt – X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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lcl.host
anchor on GitHub
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Ship software, not code
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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GoReleaser
K3s
Pprof
testscript
uber-go/goleak
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