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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• Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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• Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub
• Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Ian Lopshire – Twitter, GitHub
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe
• Subscribe to Fallthrough!
• Subscribe to The Changelog!

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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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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Featuring:

• Kent Quirk – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
• Christian Gabrielsson – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

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Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2023.

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Featuring:

• chg – Twitter, GitHub
• Chris James – Twitter, GitHub
• Lea Anthony – Twitter, GitHub
• Ole Bulbuk – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub
• Ian Lopshire – Twitter, GitHub
• Andy Walker – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade – Twitter, Website
• Kaylyn Gibilterra – Twitter, GitHub
• Joe Davidson – Twitter, GitHub
• Matthew Boyle – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• David Wickes – Twitter, GitHub
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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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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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Featuring:

• Wesley Beary – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• How Anchor developed a CLI and the tools that helped along the way.

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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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Featuring:

• Qi Xiao – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Elvish shell

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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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Featuring:

• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

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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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Featuring:

• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub
• Nishant Roy – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Inbal Cohen – Twitter, LinkedIn
• Mark Sandstrom – Twitter
• Ivan Kwiatkowski – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
• Michael Matloob – Twitter, GitHub
• Ed Welch – Twitter, GitHub
• Mihalis Tsoukalos – Twitter
• Misha Avrekh – GitHub
• Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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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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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Featuring:

• Russ Cox – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Austin Clements – GitHub
• Cherry Mui –
• Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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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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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• Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub
• Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Founder Mode

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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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Featuring:

• Sharon DiOrio – Twitter
• Steven Pyle – LinkedIn
• Kent Quirk – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• How long until I lose my job to AI? (Go Time #306)

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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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Featuring:

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• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• 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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