New Go branding strategy

Steve Francia joined the show and told us EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and don’t worry, the gopher isn’t going anywhere!)

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Featuring:

• Steve Francia – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Go’s New Brand


• The Go Gopher


• Go’s New Brand | Hacker News

Interesting Go Projects and News

• Rat - Compose shell commands to build terminal applications


• gVisor - Container Runtime Sandbox


• Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime


• Using SVGo, A Go Language Library for SVG Generation


• Bounds Check Elimination In Go


• Go Compiler intro


• ian molee on Twitter: “This clip of @deadprogram endangering @markbates’ wellbeing with an out of control robot…”

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 - Julia Evans’ Bite Size Linux


• Steve - Anthony Starks

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!