Francesc Campoy on GopherCon and understanding nil (Go Time #13)

In our first show after GopherCon, we are joined by Francesc Campoy to chat about some of our GopherCon experience, understanding nil, and a great variety of interesting topics of interest to the Go community.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

• GopherCon talk: Understanding Nil (slides)
• Ivan Danyliuk’s GopherCon talk: Visualizing Concurrency in Go (slides)
• Concurrency tracer and visualizer for Go
• Notes from the vendoring discussion at GopherCon
• Katrina Owen’s GopherCon talk: Mind the Gap (blog post)
• Matt Aimonetti’s blog post: Go is for everyone
• Notes from the diversity discussion at GopherCon
• How to submit an issue for the Go Tour
• Renee French’s talk about the Gopher (slides)
• Donnie Berkholz’s GopherCon talk: Mining the Go Developer Community (slides)
• Keith Randall’s GopherCon talk: Inside the Map Implementation (slides)
• totessafe.io: Unsafe has never been more safe
• GoBridge Go Remote Meetup
• Why the Lucky Stiff
• Women Who Go
• GoBridge
• GoSF remote meetup July 20th (video)
• ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
• GopherCon Brasil, date correction: November 4 and 5

Interesting Go Projects and News

• buntdb: Fast, embeddable, in-memory key/value database for Go with custom indexing and geospatial support
• #clever-gopher

Free Software Friday

• Brian ­- Docker
• Carlisia - Tsuru is an extensible open source Platform as a Service
• Francesc - Audio Editor
• Erik - Environment switcher for the shell

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!