The myth of incremental progress

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

During a conversation in the #gotime channel of Gopher Slack, Jerod mentioned that some people paint with a blank canvas while others paint by numbers. In this 8th episode of the maintenance series, we’re talking about maintaining our knowledge. With Jerod’s analogy and a little help from a Leslie Lamport interview, our panel discusses the myth of incremental progress.

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Featuring:

• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Thread that started it all
• Leslie Lamport Interview
• Jacob Kaplan-Moss talks hiring on The Changelog

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

פרקים

1. Opener (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Chronosphere (00:00:20)

https://chronosphere.io

3. Intro (00:01:41)

4. Segment 1 (00:02:24)

5. Sponsor: Square (00:22:05)

https://changelog.com/square

6. Segment 2 (00:23:20)

7. Sponsor: Honeycomb (00:48:50)

https://honeycomb.io/changelog

8. Sponsor: Flatfile (00:50:11)

https://flatfile.com/teams/engineering/

9. Coders vs programmers (00:50:53)

10. Unpopular Opinions (00:57:49)

11. Outro (01:09:26)