Best Golang Podcasts (2025)

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Maintainers, Monetization, and Making The Time 59:09

1d ago59:09

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Maintaining software is challenging, but monetizing it while properly valuing your time complicate matters even more. Doing all of this for open source projects is a challenge that few have figured out. In this week's episode Matt and Angelica are joined by Carlos Becker to discuss maintaining and monetizing open source projects, what it's like to …

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Tests just keep getting better, and so do the imaginary internet points! 33:24

5d ago33:24

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Conferences and meetups 🏴 Fyne Conf 2025 @ Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept 19 CFP through June 20 🇺🇸 Go Meetup @ San Francisco, May 28 🇺🇸 Go Meetup @ Atlanta Go meetup, (probably) May 7 Proposals Accepted: Add T.Output() Accepted: Store test artifacts Go Blog: More predictable benchmarking with testing.B.Loop by Junyang Shao Go ranked 7 on TIOBE index 🌩️…

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From TinyGo to Takeoff 1:15:29

8d ago1:15:29

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Most of us write code for servers and systems with terabytes of storage and gigabytes of RAM. This week, we're talking about Go in the small. Patricio Whittingslow joins Dylan and Angelica to discuss how he got started with Tiny Go; how he's used Go in software ranging from trajectory simulations to rocket fueling systems to rocket engine fuel inje…

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The Podcast Pipeline 1:25:55

15d ago1:25:55

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Fallthrough is a podcast about having conversations in public, and over the last 3 months we've shipped 15 of them! In this episode, Kris, Ian, and Matt sit down to discuss the podcast so far: what we've enjoyed, the feedback we've gotten, how we produce episodes, and so much more. We're excited to take a look at the first 15 episodes we've produce…

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Heap Happens: True Crimes in Go 🧹🔪 Plus which YAML is the best for you? 34:00

17d ago34:00

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Visit https://cupogo.dev/ for store links, past episodes including transcripts, and more! Correction: Yoke _is_ a Helm replacement Your code deserves better: give it a linter! - talk in the Czech Repulic soon Accepted: waitgroup.Go Leak and Seek: A Go Runtime Mystery go-yaml goes unmaintained Discussion in our Slack group The stdlib proposal by Sha…

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APIs: Design Imperfectly, Improve Relentlessly 1:29:23

22d ago1:29:23

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APIs are built, not born, so how do we go about actually building them? Well, it starts with design. In this episode, Kris and Ian are joined by Jamie Tanna to talk about API design. From creating a theory of your API, through building its foundation, to actively prototyping as you design, the panel discusses what they've learned over the years to …

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Don't give me that line feed! 🖶 37:17

24d ago37:17

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🛡️ Go 1.24.2 and Go 1.23.8 are released Accepted: structured output for test attributes Interview with Daniel Nephin in Episode 5 Meetups 🇬🇧 Birmingham, UK, April 17 🇬🇧 Manchester Gophers new web site 🇺🇸 Go Meetup w/ Shy @ San Francisco, May 28 🫚 Go Blog: Traversal-resistant file APIs by Damien Neil 🇬🇧 Go Introduces Exciting New Localization Featur…

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What Even Is A Senior Software Engineer? 1:53:21

29d ago1:53:21

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What does it mean to be a senior (or staff) software engineer? How are we preparing the next generation of software engineers to maintain the software we've created? In this episode, Matt and Kris are joined by Bill Kennedy to discuss tech communities, training software engineers, the landscape of learning, how artificial intelligence is affecting …

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The Tools Are Smarter. Are You? ft. YK Sugi | S02 E12 1:08:12

29d ago1:08:12

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Today we welcome YK Sugi—engineer, educator, and the mind behind CSS Dojo—for the final episode of season two. We talk about his journey from YouTube dev tutorials to building one of Sourcegraph’s most-used AI tools, and how the role of DevRel has changed (and in some cases, disappeared). YK also breaks down how senior engineers are actually using …

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🏃🏼‍♂️‍➡️ You can run, but you can't hide from the security! 🫣 And golangci-lint v2 with Ludovic Fernandez 49:04

1M ago49:04

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Vulnerability in golang.org/x/net You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. 💀 IngressNightmare: 9.8 Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX Conferences & CFPs 🇮🇹 GoLab, Oct 5-7 @ Florence, Italy CFP open through Apr 10 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK, Aug 13-5 @ London, UK CFP open through May 17 Accepted proposal: add go mod veri…

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Go makes everything faster. Even ducks! 🦆 39:56

1M ago39:56

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Updates on old news: 🧮 Accepted proposal: New x/exp/stats package Watch Anders Hejlsberg talk about why Microsoft chose Go for TypeScript 7 More typo squatting! Blog: Linux, macOS users infected with malware posing as legitimate Go packages On Reddit: Someone copied our GitHub project, added stars from fake users, injected malicious code Previous t…

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Translating The Law for Software Engineers 1:35:55

1M ago1:35:55

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Software is hard to build. From knowing which regulations apply to us to understanding what's in our software, there's a lot to learn. On top of that, regulation is coming for all of us. In this episode, Luis Villa joins Kris, Ian, and Angelica, to discuss the laws and regulations that will change the way that you build and deploy software. We disc…

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How to Win at Learning ft. Quincy Larson | S02 E11 1:13:54

1M ago1:13:54

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In this episode, we sit down with Quincy Larson, founder of Free Code Camp, to explore his incredible path from high school dropout to influential tech educator. Quincy shares his unconventional journey — from living in his car and working fast food jobs to building one of the most impactful coding education platforms in the world. We discuss the p…

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Choosing, Expanding, & Evolving Communities 1:49:01

1M ago1:49:01

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Communities play a vital role in our technical and non-technical lives, but how much thought have we put into what makes these spaces valuable? In this episode, Kris is joined by the panel and Kelsey Hightower to discuss communities and their intersection with the digital and non-digital world. Supporters get access to an extended conversation with…

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Mitchell Hashimoto: From Terraform to Ghostty | S02 E10 1:04:29

1M ago1:04:29

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Today we welcome Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of Ghostty, a new terminal emulator built in Zig. In this episode, Mitchell shares the story behind Ghostty, how his curiosity about terminals evolved into a full-fledged project, and why Zig became his language of choice. We also dive into Ghostty’s unique features, the role …

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✍️ Rewriting all the things in Go! 🎉 30:04

2M ago30:04

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🛡️ Security releases Go 1.24.1 & 1.23.7 released golang.org/x/net v0.36.0 released gopls v0.18.0 released 🇫🇮 Helsinki meetup, March 18, still looking for speakers TypeScript rewrite in Go 🌩️ Lightning Round Asdf Has Been Re-Written in Go Go clients dominate internet API traffic Why was nvm for Windows written in Go? ★ Support this podcast on Patreo…

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Vercel’s Big AI Bet. ft. Malte Ubl | S02 E09 47:58

2M ago47:58

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Today we welcome Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel, to discuss the evolution of frontend development and the role of AI in shaping modern engineering workflows. Malte dives into V0, Vercel's innovative tool for generating frontend code using AI, and explains how it empowers developers—especially backend engineers—to build full-stack applications. We also ex…

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An Exploration of APIs, Versioning, & HTTP 1:15:33

2M ago1:15:33

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There are Web APIs everywhere, from the classic REST/HTTP, to GraphQL, to gRPC, we rely on them to get things done each and every day. But how much do we think about the design of these APIs? How do you document an API once you've created it? What even is versioning? Do we really understand HTTP? In this episode, Kris and the panel are joined by Ja…

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Build skills, not degrees. ft. Madison Kanna | S02 E08 54:02

2M ago54:02

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Today we welcome Madison Kana—a self-taught dev who defied the traditional path. From dropping out and navigating a world of homeschooling to launching the Code Book Club, Madison transformed her unconventional journey into a thriving community of coders. In this episode, she shares how bypassing the typical education route fueled her passion, the …

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Tools We Love 1:53:39

2M ago1:53:39

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We all have tools that make our lives better. Software tools, hardware tools, and everything in between. In this episode, Matt is joined by Kris, Ian, and Dylan to discuss some of their favorite tools, what they use them for, and why they chose them. Want to hear about the tools we don't like? Become a supporter and enjoy bonus content and higher q…

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🧮 Is new math in Go's future? Plus boot.dev update with Lane Wagner 30:05

2M ago30:05

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🛡️ Security releases golang.org/x/crypto v0.35.0 golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.27.0 Proposals Accepted: net/http: support content negotiation 🧮 Likely accept: math/stats: new package with Mean, Median, more Conferences 🇨🇿 Gophercamp, April 25 @ Brno, Czech Republic CFP open until ?? 🇨🇭 Go blog: Faster Go maps with Swiss Tables by Michael Pratt Blog: Golan…

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Roll your own auth or you’re ngmi. ft. Dreams of Code | S02 E07 1:13:59

2M ago1:13:59

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This time Elliot from @dreamsofcode joins us to talk about building his own course platform we dive into why he chose to go custom, the tech stack behind his platform, and the philosophy of building vs. buying in software. We also discuss the challenges of teaching programming, the role of AI in development, and what it really takes to create a gre…

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Ghosttying Go 1:35:04

2M ago1:35:04

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What's a terminal? Why is it being emulated? On this week's episode, Matt and Kris are joined by Mitchell Hashimoto to discuss his newest project Ghostty, the Zig programming language, thoughts and feelings about Go, and more. As always, catch some Unpopular Opinions at the end of the episode. Want to hear even more from Mitchell? This episode feat…

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The strength of Go in the job market 📈, and some stress relief with Carlos Becker 🚀 57:12

2M ago57:12

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🛡️ Security pre-release announcements, update on Monday, Feb 24 golang.org/x/oauth2 golang.org/x/crypto Blog: State of the startup and scaleup hiring markets by Gergely Orosz – as seen by recruiters (Partial paywall) Blog: Testing concurrent code with testing/synctest by Damien Neil Proposals 🤝 Likely (re-)accept: net/http: support content negotiat…

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Programming Music with Sonic Pi feat. Sam Aaron | S02 E06 1:05:09

2M ago1:05:09

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Today we bring Sam Aaron, the creator of Sonic Pi, a free code-based music creation and performance tool that lets you use simple code to turn your computer into a fully networked live coding music studio! It is also used to engage students in computer science and programming through music creation! In this episode, we explore the origins of Sonic …

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Patching Problems with Persnickety Proxies Purveyed by Paternalistic Princes 2:06:56

2M ago2:06:56

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A recent Ars Technica article outlined a backdoor in the Go Module Mirror. Even though it's framed as a backdoor, and potentially a vulnerability, it's actually an exploit of a design choice designers of the module mirror made. Kris is joined by Matthew, Dylan, and guest host Jamie Tanna, to discuss this vulnerability-but-actually-feature, the impl…

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💯 Go 1.24 release party - LIVE SHOW FOR EPISODE 100! 🎙️ 1:10:32

2M ago1:10:32

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This episode was LIVE! Even if you usually listen to this show, if you want you can check out the video on YouTube :) Visit https://cupogo.dev/ for store links, past episodes including transcripts, and more! GopherCon Israel Accepted proposal: Clone a Hash We Replaced Our React Frontend with Go and WebAssembly from Dagger Extensible Wasm Applicatio…

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KRAZAM Unfiltered feat. Ben Burke | S2 E05 1:06:39

3M ago1:06:39

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Today, we bring a very special guest, one whose face you might recognise, one that appears on your homepages with a sporadic video and seemingly disappears. His name is Benjamin Burke, or simply Ben, he’s the co-creator of KRAZAM, a channel that consists of sketches that combine grotesque and absurdist humor with technological anxiety, satirizing t…

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What's New In Go 1.24? 1:06:11

3M ago1:06:11

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Go's steady cycle of releasing new versions every six months continues. On this episode, our "What's new in Go?" correspondent (a carry over from Go Time) joins special guest host Johnny Boursiquot to talk about the new features and changes coming in Go 1.24. As always, we've got some great unpopular opinions at the end. Thanks for tuning in and ha…

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Supply chain attacks ⛓️‍💥 Ghetto Logs 👊🏾 🪵 and Rust/AI cold takes 🧊 with Thorsten Ball 1:14:46

3M ago1:14:46

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🛡️ Security releases Go 1.23.6 & 1.22.12 released Go 1.24rc3 released Proposal accepted: cmd/fix: automate migrations for simple deprecations ⛓️‍💥 Go Supply Chain Attack: Malicious Package Exploits Go Module Proxy Caching for Persistence 👊🏾Ghettoize Hook👊🏾 Interview with Thorsten Ball thorstenball.com zed Sourcegraph Register Spill Hard numbers in …

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Does ADHD really make programming harder? ft. Chris Ferdinandi | S2 E04 1:20:12

3M ago1:20:12

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Lane chats with Chris Ferdinandi—creator of Go Make Things and ADHD for the Win—a frontend dev, educator, and all-around expert in making JavaScript (and learning) simpler. Chris has built a career helping devs cut through the noise, level up their skills, and embrace ADHD-friendly ways to stay focused and productive. We dive into his journey from …

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Navigating A Career In Tech 1:25:55

3M ago1:25:55

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How much do you know about a career in coding? Perhaps you're already a well versed professional software person. Or maybe you're someone who's just starting out. Either way, you're going to need some help along your entire technology career. In this episode, which is part 2 of a 2 part series, the panel is chatting with Chris Allaire to talk about…

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What's coming beyond Go 1.24? A look at proposals, and interview with Anton Zhiyanov 52:04

3M ago52:04

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Proposals ✈️ Accepted: runtime/trace: flight recording 🫷 Accepted: add vet check for sync.WaitGroup abuse Draft: json/v2 proposal draft 🌩️ Lightning round Blog post: Gist of Go: Channels by Anton Zhiyanov ⚒️ Blog post: Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years by Jamie Tanna On Hacker News Video: Building a course pla…

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Why You Need To Stop Worrying About AI feat. Danny Thompson | S2 E03 1:09:43

3M ago1:09:43

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We’re joined by Danny Thompson, currently Director of Technology at This Dot Labs and technical leader and organizer of the Dallas Software Developers Group, where he fosters vibrant local tech ecosystem through workshops, cohorts, and meetups. With a passion to help others learn and find jobs, Danny shares his stories and insights that he gained t…

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An Exploration of Complexity 1:39:31

3M ago1:39:31

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Modern software development feels so complex. In this episode, Ian Wester-Lopshire is joined by Kris Brandow, Matthew Sanabria, and Angelica Hill to discuss complexity. They propose hypotheses for the root cause of complexity, explore the ways complexity affects our technology and organizations, and ponder if artificial intelligence can aid us in r…

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🌲🌳🌲 If an error falls in forest, and there's no variable around to see it... ? 32:25

3M ago32:25

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Go 1.24RC2 released Go 1.23.5 & 1.22.11 released 🇺🇸 GopherCon, Aug 26-28 @ New York, New York CFS open through March 3 Proposals 🇺🇸 New: reduce error handling boilerplate using ? 🥁 New: sync/v2 package Lightning round 📼 VHS v0.9.0 🤖 openai-go 📦 Video: I tried to deploy to a VPS without Docker... ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Everyone is doing memory management wrong. feat. Ryan Fleury | S2 E02 1:11:49

3M ago1:11:49

1:11:49

This week on Backend Banter, we’re joined by Ryan Fleury, a talented game developer currently working with Epic Games on their Rad Debugger project. Ryan shares his journey from building games to creating powerful developer tools, offering insights into arenas, memory management, and the fascinating world of programming from the ground up. In this …

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Do We Think You Should Learn To Code? 1:38:38

3M ago1:38:38

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For years we've been told that everyone needs to learn to code. As career software people, what are our thoughts on this? Should you learn to code? Is coding the right career for you? In this first episode of a two part series, the panel discusses how they learned to code, whether they think everyone should learn to code, and of course they offer u…

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🎤 A nil microphone won't keep us away from the 1.24 Interactive Tour or trying Hugo's new features 37:03

3M ago37:03

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🛡️ Security updates Go 1.23.5, 1.22.11, and 1.24RC2 coming Jan 16 github.com/golang/glog v1.2.4 released last week Go 1.24 interactive tour Proposals On hold: container/unordered: a generic hash table with custom hash function and equivalence relation #️⃣ Active: hash: standardize the hash function Blog post: Go is a Well-Designed Language, Actuall…

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Is Elixir the Future? feat. José Valim | S2 E01 1:23:25

4M ago1:23:25

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We're back for Backend Banter Season 2, and we bring a very special guest, José Valim, the creator of the Elixir Programming Language, one of the most popular and loved functional programming languages of today. (Fun fact: it's used in production at Discord). We cover the nitty-gritty of the language, ranging from simple topics such as the decision…

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The Gems & Warts of Go 1:57:15

4M ago1:57:15

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Gems are the things we love, and warts are the things we don't. On today's episode, Kris is joined by the hosting panel of Ian, Matt, and Dylan and they are talking about the gems and warts of Go. From defer, to net/http, to vanity URLs, to modules, we cover around 30 topics! To prevent our listeners/viewers from returning an E_TOO_MANY_UNPOPS erro…

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🗓️ 2025 conference preview, GoReleaser enhancements, and whether to use assertion libraries 43:43

4M ago43:43

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🪵 github.com/golang/glog fix pre-announcement Conferences 🇧🇷 GopherCon LATAM @ Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, May 5-6 🇩🇪 GopherCon EU @ Berlin, Germany, June 16-19 CFP through February 23 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK @ London, UK, August 13-15 CFP starts March 1 go-safeweb On Hacker News 🦀 GoReleaser 2.5 includes Zig & Rust support Coming soon: GoReleaser 2.6 🌩️ Li…

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War Stories 1:13:07

4M ago1:13:07

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Our experiences are what make us the software people we are today. In this episode, Kris is joined by the hosting panel of Ian, Matt, and Dylan and they're talking war stories. You'll hear tales of coworker frustrations, our own hubris, and plenty of weird software bugs. To close the episode out, Dylan, Ian, and Kris provide some unpopular opinions…

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ʕ◔ϖ◔ʔ -> 🦀 Rust GOes Async, Survey says LLMs aren't all over, & new questions 37:10

4M ago37:10

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Happy New Year, everyone! Visit cupogo.dev to buy Swag 🇮🇪 Go Ireland relaunch - tcube Dublin on Feb 6th. 🦀 Rust GOes Async on Alexander Fadeev's blog Hello Internet podcast 🗳️ Go Developer Survey 2024 H2 Results 🗣️ Best practices of using Go and Prometheus in Kubernetes environment Wails: YouTube video + grpcmd ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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➿ Jonathan and Josh iterate through the Go 1.24 changes and related proposals 22:20

4M ago22:20

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Go 1.24rc1 is out. Start testing it! golang.org/x/net v0.33.0 released with security patches for golang.org/x/net/html 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore coming up, Jan 22-24 1.24 in preview 🧶 New iterator functions added to the bytes and strings packages 🗺️ sync.Map has a new, faster implementation The testing package's T and F types now expose a Context() me…

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That's Go Time! 1:27:48

4M ago1:27:48

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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 & …

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Falling Through: A New Perspective 49:34

4M ago49:34

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Welcome to Fallthrough! In our first episode, properly numbered 0, we're discussing what this podcast is and many of the things we hope to discuss on future episodes of the podcast. If you loved Go Time, we hope that you'll love Fallthrough. Happy listening! (00:00) - Welcome to Fallthrough! (00:29) - What's in a name? (01:55) - A New Perspective (…

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Update your crypto! And Go 1.24 preview 28:01

5M ago28:01

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golang.org/x/crypto security update Go 1.24 draft release notes Blog: What's missing from Golang Generics? by Nick Tobey Lightning Round Blog: Weak Pointers in Go: Why They Matter Now by Phuong Le Orchestrion: Compile-time auto-instrumentation for Go Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go) Video: Rethinking Domain-Driven Design …

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Pitching Go in 2025 1:01:16

5M ago1:01:16

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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? Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Timescale – Purpose-built perfo…

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