Go Time

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. 😉 Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. Featuring: Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website 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) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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? Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Featuring: Kent Quirk – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub Christian Gabrielsson – GitHub, LinkedIn Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website Show Notes: Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2023. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland 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) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog 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. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Timescale – Real-time analytics on Postgres, seriously fast. Over 3 million Timescale databases power loT, sensors, Al, dev tools, crypto, and finance apps — all on Postgres. Postgres, for everything. Featuring: Qi Xiao – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website Show Notes: Elvish shell Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Incogni – Go to incogni.com/gotime and use code GOTIME using our link to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan. Featuring: Yasir Ekinci – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website Show Notes: Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland 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) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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”. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 11 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Incogni – Use code GOTIME using our link to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan. 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 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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? Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. NordVPN – Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra at nordvpn.com/gotime It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee. Featuring: Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Show Notes: [Founder Mode]((https://paulgraham.com/foundermode.html) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 11 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. JetBrains – The world’s leading provider of professional developer tools. Download GoLand, the complete IDE crafted for Gophers. 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) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. NordVPN – Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra at nordvpn.com/practicalai It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee. Featuring: Ricardo Gerardi – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Mike Riley – Twitter, GitHub, Website Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website Show Notes: Automate your home with Go from Pragmatic Publishers Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

On this episode, Angelica is joined by Go community leaders from around the world: meetup organizers from Guadalajara, St. Louis, New York & Go Bridge Atlanta. Together, they explore the ins & outs of organizing meetups, the benefits of attending, the Go Developer Network (GDN) & the current state of the Go Meetup community. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com Featuring: Wilken Riveria – Website Matthew Sanabria – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website Jennifer Johnson – LinkedIn Paul Balogh – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Hannah W – Guillermo Galván – Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Show Notes: Go Developers Platform Engineering New York NJ Code & Coffee GoBridge Atlanta Golang Guadalajara GoBridge StLGo MO Reliability CNCF Saint Louis Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This episode focuses on the art of delivering concise Lightning Talks, a popular format at conferences worldwide where speakers present in a short timeframe. Joined by some of this year’s GopherCon Lightning Talkers, we’ll discuss their experiences, challenges & tips for effective communication within a limited time. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Porkbun – Go to porkbun.com to get .app, .dev, or .foo domain names at Porkbun for only $1 for the first year! Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring: Andy Joseph – Dylan Bourque – GitHub Cassie Coyle – Twitter, GitHub Ehden Sinai – GitHub, LinkedIn Jacob Hochstetler – GitHub Matt Dale – Mastodon, GitHub Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Show Notes: GopherCon 2024 - YouTube Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Kris, Angelica & Johnny react to the recently announced Go team changes, discuss the finding that 80% of developers surveyed by Stack Overflow are unhappy & disagree about the concept of tech debt (but agree that something’s gotta give). Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com Featuring: Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website Show Notes: Russ Cox: passing torches to Austin and Cherry 80% of professional programmers are unhappy (Changelog News #106) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We’re talking OpenAPI this week! Kris & Johnny are joined by Jamie Tanna, one of the maintainers of oapi-codegen, to discuss OpenAPI, API design philosophies, versioning, and open source maintenance and sustainability. In addition to the usual laughs and unpopular opinions, this week’s episode includes a Changelog++ section that you don’t want to miss. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 18 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com Featuring: Jamie Tanna – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website Show Notes: oapi-codegen is moving to its own org Creating a more sustainable model for oapi-codegen in the future I’m Now A Full-time Profession Open Source Maintainer Does the tech industry thrive on free work? Jamie’s GitHub Sponsors Profile How do you represent a JSON field in Go that could be absent, null or have a value? APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning Common Haus Workflow Introduction to OpenRewrite OpenAPI Changes quobix.com pb33f.io Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We check out the upcoming 1.23 release for new language features and improvements, including iterator functions and supporting packages. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com Featuring: Carlana Johnson – Website Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website Show Notes: Go 1.23 pre-release notes Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jesús Espino from Mattermost tells Natalie all about (the final four of) his 10 “aha moments” he had reading the Go source code. Don’t miss Part 1! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com Speakeasy – Production-ready, Enterprise-resilient, best-in-class SDKs crafted in minutes. Speakeasy takes care of the entire SDK workflow to save you significant time, delivering SDKs to your customers in minutes with just a few clicks! Create your first SDK for free! Featuring: Jesús Espino – Twitter, GitHub Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub Show Notes: Aha moments: Part 1 Understanding the go runtime Deep dive into a go binary at Golab Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jesús Espino from Mattermost tells Natalie all about (the first six of) his 10 “aha moments” he had reading the Go source code. Part 2 (with the rest of his aha moments) coming soon! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Speakeasy – Production-ready, Enterprise-resilient, best-in-class SDKs crafted in minutes. Speakeasy takes care of the entire SDK workflow to save you significant time, delivering SDKs to your customers in minutes with just a few clicks! Create your first SDK for free! Featuring: Jesús Espino – Twitter, GitHub Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub Show Notes: Dissecting slices, maps and channels in Go (at fosdem) The secret life of a goroutine Understanding the go compiler Go compiler inliner overhaul Mr. Meeseeks TinyGo Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mat Ryer has been writing HTTP services in Go for more than 13 years. Needless to say, he’s learned a lot along the way. Today, Johnny & Ian sit down with Mat to ask him all about it. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring: Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website Ian Lopshire – Twitter, GitHub Show Notes: How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Dependencies! We need them, but how do we use them effectively and safely? In this week’s episode Kris is joined by Ian and Johnny to discuss the polyfill.io supply chain attack, the history of dependency management and usage in Go, and the Go Proverb that “a little copying is better than a little dependency”. Of course, we wrap up the episode with some Unpopular Opinions! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Speakeasy – Production-ready, Enterprise-resilient, best-in-class SDKs crafted in minutes. Speakeasy takes care of the entire SDK workflow to save you significant time, delivering SDKs to your customers in minutes with just a few clicks! Create your first SDK for free! Featuring: Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website Ian Lopshire – Twitter, GitHub Show Notes: Polyfill.io supply chain attack hits 100,000+ websites — all you need to know How Go Mitigates Supply Chain Attacks Go Proverbs A little copying is better than a little dependency Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!