Jessie Frazelle on Maintaining Open Source, Docker, dotfiles

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Jessie Frazelle joins us this week to talk about being an open source maintainer, Docker’s pull request acceptance workflow, dotfiles, getting started with public speaking.

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Featuring:

• Jessie Frazelle – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Maintainerati: WONTFIX Cabal
• The Art of Closing
• Jessie’s dotfiles
• GothamGo

Interesting Go Projects and News

• GoBridge Talk Formula
• GoKit: A toolkit for microservices
• Francesc Campoy: Analyzing Go code with BigQuery (blog post)
• The complete guide to Go net/http timeouts (blog post)
• A pipeline-based CI system written in Go
• etcd3
• Changelog Weekly
• Changelog Nightly

Free Software Friday

• Brian ­- jq: command line json tool
• Carlisia ­- Go testing in the browser: goconvey
• Jessie - A simple utility to safely retrieve arbitrary files and Michael Crosby’s world best gists
• Erik ­- Ranger: console file manager with VI key bindings

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!