Getting Better, Mentoring, Drawing Gophers

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Ashley McNamara joined the show to talk about sharing developer experiences, seeking help from the community, getting people excited about STEM, and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Featuring:

• Ashley Willis – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Gopherize.me

My First Week at Pivotal

Introduction to Programming - Curated list of resources for budding developers

STEM Resources For Kids

Verizon #weneedmore | Anthem :30

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Interesting Go Projects and News

Ruby implemented in Go

Ruby-like language written in Go

Træfik, a modern reverse proxy < Gophercon sponsors too!

Introducing the Developer Experience Working Group

go tool trace

Caddy launch date 4/20 + cute stickers for order

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Free Software Friday!

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Erik - Grafana + InfluxDB + Telegraf + Mosquitto

Carlisia - ✨ All Contributors ✨

Brian - Gobot, Ron Evans for the win…and also Erik

Ashley - Hugo 0.20 Released: Custom Output Formats!

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!