Mat Ryer joined the show to talk about creating your own Gopher avatar with Gopherize.me, the importance of GitHub Stars, his project BitBar, and other interesting Go projects and news. Special thanks to Kelsey Hightower for guest hosting too!

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Featuring:

• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Kelsey Hightower – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Create your very own Gopher avatar with gopherize.me
• Buffalo from Mark Bates
• Beautiful Packages in Go
• We talked through the Go 1.8 release notes
• murlokswarm/app - Like Electron but in Go
• gdlv - Linux GUI for Delve
• Fission - A framework for serverless functions on Kubernetes
• Your First PR: Contributing to an Open Source Go Project
• Kelsey Hightower predicted the future! - “it’s Go Time!”

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