Gophercises and creating content for Gophers

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Jon Calhoun joined the show and talked with us about Gophercises, experiencing the joy of building cool things, creating content for Gophers, and other interesting projects and news.

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Featuring:

• Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Gophercises

usegolang.com

Calhoun.io

Jon kite boarding, compliments of Calhoun Photography

Errors in Go

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Interesting Go Projects and News

Go 1.10.1 released

Zerolog (allocation free JSON logging)

A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go

Vim-go 1.17 released

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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.

Brian - GitPitch

Andrei - OpenTracing + govet

Brian - Luke Smith (who is awesome, check out mutt-wizard)

Jon - slate (cool window manager for macOS)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!