Kris Brandow, a Go Time panelist and semi-professional unpopular opinion maker, discusses his deep-dive on the waterfall paper, his dislike of the "tech debt" analogy, the importance of documentation, and the idea that everything is a distributed system.

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring:Andy Walker – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteKris Brandow – Twitter, GitHubJon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteMat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteShow 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 The Gift of Fear by Gavin DeBecker Procedural Memory XKCD Is It Worth the Time? Ink & Switch The Chatsworth Banana Videos GopherCon 2016: Ivan Danyliuk - Visualizing Concurrency in Go PDE: A different take on editing code Editors VSCode NeoVim GoLand Shell Scripting Charm_ Charm GitHub Organization Charm_ Gum Bubble Tea mvdan/sh script (not mentioned in episode) 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!

Has Go caught your interest, but you just haven’t had the time/opportunity to really dig into it? Are you relatively productive in your current language/ecosystem but wonder if the grass truly is greener on Go’s side of the fence? If so, this episode’s for you! Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started. Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you. Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog SignalWire – Build what’s next in communications with video, voice, and messaging APIs powered by elastic cloud infrastructure. Try it today at signalwire.com/video and mention “Go Time” to receive an extra 5,000 video minutes. Featuring:Ian Lopshire – Twitter, GitHubJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInKris Brandow – Twitter, GitHubShow Notes: Charm on The Changelog Go Proverbs Go Code Review Comments Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Many Gophers build projects as a team of one. Sometimes these are side projects, other times they are projects used by millions of people but who are still maintained by a single individual. In this episode, the panel discusses techniques for developing and maintaining Go projects as a solo developer. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring:Ben Johnson – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteKris Brandow – Twitter, GitHubIan Lopshire – Twitter, GitHubShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We often have code that’s similar between projects and we find ourselves copying that code around. In this episode we discuss what to do with this common code, how to organize it, and what code qualifies as this common code. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you. Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started. FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Try FireHydrant free for 14 days at firehydrant.io SignalWire – Build what’s next in communications with video, voice, and messaging APIs powered by elastic cloud infrastructure. Try it today at signalwire.com/video and mention “Go Time” to receive an extra 5,000 video minutes. Featuring:Ian Lopshire – Twitter, GitHubKris Brandow – Twitter, GitHubJohnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: Thoughts on how to structure Go code Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Kris Brandow, co-host of Go Time podcast, joins Jerod to discuss API design, including the importance of understanding different types of APIs, the advantages of Neon's serverless Postgres, the pros and cons of GraphQL and RESTful APIs, and the challenges faced in building new databases and APIs. They also touch on the concept of hypermedia APIs and delve into the flexibility and functionality of HTTP.

The DevCycle team joins Jon & Kris for a deep conversation on WebAssembly (Wasm) and Go! After a high-level discussion of what Wasm is all about, we learn how they’re using it in production in cool and interesting ways. We finish up with a spicy unpop segment featuring buzzwords like “ChatGPT”, “LLM”, “NFT” and “AGI” Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with extended episodes, make the ads disappear, and increment your audio quality with higher bitrate mp3s. Let’s do this! Featuring:Jonathan Norris – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Wootton – GitHubBrad Van Vugt – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteJon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteKris Brandow – Twitter, GitHubShow Notes: DevCycle WebAssembly AssemblyScript Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

A technical dive into how the Go stack works and why we as programmers should care. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Tailscale – Simple, secure networks for teams of any scale. Built on WireGuard. Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring:Yarden Laifenfeld – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHubDavid Chase – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHubMat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteKris Brandow – Twitter, GitHubShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week we’re sharing the most popular episode of Go Time from last year — Go Time #196. We believe this episode was the most popular because it’s all about building actually maintainable software and what goes into that. Kris Brandow is joined by Johnny Boursiquot, Ian Lopshire, and Sam Boyer. There’s lots of hot takes, disagreements, and unpopular opinions. This is part two of a three part mini-series led by Kris on maintenance. Make sure you check out Go Time #195 and Go Time #202 to continue the series. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:InfluxData – All of the open source software InfluxData creates is either MIT-licensed or Apache2-licensed. These are very permissive licenses. But why are they all for permissive licenses? Paul Dix shares his thoughts on the spirit of open source and why freedom, evolution, and impact drive them to license InfluxData’s open source software as permissively possible. Learn more at influxdata.com/changelog Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you. Honeycomb – Guess less, know more. When production is running slow, it’s hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? With Honeycomb you get a fast, unified, and clear understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. Join the swarm and try Honeycomb free today at honeycomb.io/changelog Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Featuring:sam boyer – Twitter, GitHubIan Lopshire – Twitter, GitHubKris Brandow – Twitter, GitHubJohnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: Go Time #195 Go Time #202 Uber’s Go Style Guide Why smart engineers write bad code Rant about “performant” Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Discussing the challenges of diving into unfamiliar codebases, exploring the importance of knowledgeable guides, good documentation, and experienced team members. Delving into tracing functions in different languages, using interfaces, and navigating codebase changes. Touching on the significance of meaningful data collection, observability, and effective knowledge management. Advocating for discipline, clarity, and gradual improvements over rash rewrites.