Episodes

  • Crawl, walk & run your way to usable CLIs in Go

    Crawl, walk & run your way to usable CLIs in Go
    Nov 12 2024
    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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    58 mins
  • Writing a shell in Go

    Writing a shell in Go
    Nov 6 2024
    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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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • AI for Observability

    AI for Observability
    Oct 23 2024
    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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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Unpop roundup

    Unpop roundup
    Oct 9 2024
    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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    38 mins
  • Russ Cox on passing the torch

    Russ Cox on passing the torch
    Oct 3 2024
    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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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • "Founder Mode" at work when you're not a founder

    "Founder Mode" at work when you're not a founder
    Sep 24 2024
    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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    56 mins
  • How I lost my (old) job to AI

    How I lost my (old) job to AI
    Sep 18 2024
    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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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Home automation with Go

    Home automation with Go
    Sep 10 2024
    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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    57 mins