The Go ecosystem has a hoard of tools and editors for Gophers to choose from and it can be difficult to find ones that are a good fit for each individual. In this episode, we discuss what tools and editors we’re using, the ones we wish existed, how we go about finding new ones, and why we sometimes choose to write our own tools.

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Featuring:

Andy Walker – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X

Show Notes:

Where we find tools
- r/sysadmin
- r/programming
- Golang Weekly Newsletter
- Watching screencasts and live streams
Collaboration
- Pop
Equipment
- Time to upgrade your monitor
Assorted Reading
Videos
- GopherCon 2016: Ivan Danyliuk - Visualizing Concurrency in Go
- PDE: A different take on editing code
Editors
- VSCode
- NeoVim
- GoLand
Shell Scripting
Terminal Emulators
- WezTerm
- kitty
- warp
Build Tools
- Bazel
- Task
- Mage
Documentation Tools
- Dash for macOS
- pkg.go.dev
Terminal Multiplexers
- tmux
- Zellij
Application Launchers
- Alfred
- Raycast
Knowledge Tools
- Notion
- Obsidian
- MindNode
- Bike Outliner
- Workflowy
- Muse
Miscellaneous Tools
- The F*ck
- fzf

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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