Getting Better, Mentoring, Drawing Gophers

Ashley McNamara joined the show to talk about sharing developer experiences, seeking help from the community, getting people excited about STEM, and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Featuring:

• Ashley Willis – GitHub (https://github.com/ashleymcnamara), X (https://x.com/ashleymcnamara) • Erik St. Martin – GitHub (https://github.com/erikstmartin), X (https://x.com/erikstmartin) • Carlisia Thompson – GitHub (https://github.com/carlisia), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlisia), X (https://x.com/carlisia) • Brian Ketelsen – GitHub (https://github.com/bketelsen), X (https://x.com/bketelsen)

Show Notes: Gopherize.me (https://gopherize.me/)

My First Week at Pivotal (https://medium.com/@ashleymcnamara/my-first-week-at-pivotal-acd6e6b4e16a)

Introduction to Programming - Curated list of resources for budding developers (http://ashleymcnamara.github.io/learn_to_code/)

STEM Resources For Kids (https://github.com/ashleymcnamara/STEM_Resources_For_Kids)

Verizon #weneedmore | Anthem :30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgao5EKVkSU)

Interesting Go Projects and News Ruby implemented in Go (https://github.com/goruby/goruby)

Ruby-like language written in Go (https://github.com/st0012/Rooby)

Træfik, a modern reverse proxy (https://github.com/containous/traefik) < Gophercon sponsors too!

Introducing the Developer Experience Working Group (https://blog.golang.org/developer-experience)

go tool trace (https://making.pusher.com/go-tool-trace)

Caddy launch date 4/20 + cute stickers for order (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFf9HQlL_-Dsk-QeEIlVjX5klsYIDNQEX2On2psYesjRPC2g/viewform?c=0&w=1)

Free Software Friday! Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Erik - Grafana (https://grafana.com/) + InfluxDB (https://www.influxdata.com/) + Telegraf (https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf) + Mosquitto (https://mosquitto.org/)

Carlisia - ✨ All Contributors ✨ (https://github.com/kentcdodds/all-contributors)

Brian - Gobot (https://gobot.io/), Ron Evans (https://github.com/deadprogram) for the win…and also Erik (https://github.com/erikstmartin)

Ashley - Hugo 0.20 Released: Custom Output Formats! (https://gohugo.io/extras/output-formats/)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! (https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/gotime/go-time-43.md)