Sarah Adams on Test2Doc and Women Who Go (Go Time #5)

On this show we’re joined by Sarah Adams. We talk about creating safe spaces for women to get started in the Go community, about Women Who Go, and take a deep dive into her Test2Doc open source project.

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Featuring:

• Sarah Adams – Website, GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Test2Doc - Generate API documentation from your tests: a simple addition to Go’s testing pkg

Interesting Go Projects and News

• Go 1.7 toolchain improvements
• Context in 1.7
• Vendor Check - Check that all your Go dependencies are properly vendored
• Building the simplest Go static analysis tool
• Heka state
• GopherCon 2014 Data Snarfing with Go: Heka Good Time by Rob Miller (video)
• Go libhunt - curated list of Go libraries
• Minio Object Storage in Kubernetes
• Lime Text editor
• A pure Go implementation of Gil Tene’s HDR Histogram and “How NOT to Measure Latency” by Gil Tene (video)
• Brian’s GitHub search for interesting Go repos

Free Software Friday

• Brian - Docker
• Erik - Rofi - A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement
• Carlisia - Remote Go Meetup and Sourcegraph Chrome Extension
• Sarah - API Blueprint Spec

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!