Unpop roundup! 2023

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2023.

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Featuring:

• chg – GitHub, X
• Chris James – GitHub, X
• Lea Anthony – GitHub, X
• Ole Bulbuk – Website, GitHub, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
• Andy Walker – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade – Website, X
• Kaylyn Gibilterra – GitHub, X
• Joe Davidson – GitHub, X
• Matthew Boyle – Website, GitHub, X
• David Wickes – GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Is htmx the way to Go? (Go Time #266)
• Cross-platform graphical user interfaces (Go Time #271)
• Long-term code maintenance (Go Time #264)
• Experiences from GopherCon 2023 (Go Time #293)
• What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 2 (Go Time #298)
• The solo gopher (Go Time #283)
• HallwayConf! A new style of conference (Go Time #276)
• Hacking with Go: Part 4 (Go Time #270)
• Diversity at conferences (Go Time #274)
• Go templating using Templ (Go Time #291)
• Domain-driven design with Go (Go Time #273)

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1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:00:46)

https://fly.io/

3. Time for a roundup! (00:03:15)

4. Top Pop #5: Carson Gross (00:04:39)

5. Top Pop #4: Chris James (00:06:33)

6. Top Pop #3: Lea Anthony (00:08:54)

7. Top Pop #2: Ole Bulbuk (00:12:09)

8. Top Pop #1: Johnny Boursiquot (00:14:01)

9. Sponsor: Timescale (00:17:03)

https://www.timescale.com

10. Unpopular Opinions! (00:19:20)

11. Top Unpop #5: Natalie Pistunovich (00:19:51)

12. Top Unpop #4: Ian Lopshire (00:22:07)

13. Top Unpop #3: Andy Walker (00:24:05)

14. Top Unpop #2: JAGS (00:25:16)

15. Top Unpop #1: REDACTED (00:27:16)

16. Sponsor: JetBrains (00:28:48)

https://www.bytesizego.com/goland

17. Bonus #1: Joe Davidson (00:31:58)

18. Bonus #2: Matt Boyle (00:33:34)

19. Bonus #3: David Wickes (00:35:20)

20. Outro (Changelog News!) (00:36:48)

https://changelog.com/news