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Join Mat Ryer on his journey to Berlin for GopherCon EU 2022. Along the way he chats with Egon Elbre, Ale Kennedy, Ole Bulbuk, Christian Haas, Bill Kennedy & Ron Evans. Danke!

Join Mat Ryer on his journey to Berlin for GopherCon EU 2022. Along the way he chats with Egon Elbre, Ale Kennedy, Ole Bulbuk, Christian Haas, Bill Kennedy & Ron Evans. Danke!
In November 2021, we decided to trial a four-day week across our bank. Was it a success? Yes. Read our blog post to find out how.
Phew, that's a lot of traffic 😅 What happens when a blog post goes viral? (5 mins read).
Looking at some of the things that happen when my posts have gone viral, from how much traffic it brings, to the various sources of traffic.
Week Notes 22#40 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-10-03?
I may be attending
New on the blog: @JamieTanna writes about how we've been looking at our #OpenSource dependencies to determine where best to prioritise for contributions over #Hacktoberfest and beyond deliveroo.engineering/2022/09/29/hac…DeliverooEng (@DeliverooEng)Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:55 +0000
Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.
We talk about giving people the space necessary to do their best work, implementing more inclusive hiring practices, and everyday routines that help us stay our happiest and most productive.
I don’t care who this is offends, Tories are bad people. Their policies are based on selfishness, hatred of the poor, self preservation, pure recklessness and every single person who votes for them is responsible for torpedoing the country
Pistachio 🇮🇷♥️ (@HarleyShah)Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:16 +0000
I've got ADHD (4 mins read).
Announcing my recent diagnosis with ADHD Inattentive Type.
We did an episode on functional programming in Go with Aaron Schlesinger back in 2019… But that was before generics were a thing. Let’s revisit the topic and discuss the pros and cons now that we have generics. What’s changed? What hasn’t?
Week Notes 22#39 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-09-26?
Love to spend a good chunk writing a library for Go to wrap an http.Handler
and make it straightforward to run in AWS Lambda, only to discover this morning that there's a library already for it - woops 😅 Saves me finishing off the README or blogging about my "novel" approach, I guess
Analysing our dependency trees to determine where we should send Open Source contributions for Hacktoberfest (8 mins read).
How we (at Deliveroo) are using GitHub Advanced Security's dependency scanning functionality to determine what our most popular dependencies are, and whether we can find any Open Source contributions for the month of Hacktoberfest.
When it's done wrong, it becomes punitive micromanagement. When it's done right, it empowers everyone to tackle the problems they handle best.
This week we’re talking about product development structures as systems with Lucas da Costa. The last time we had Lucas on the show he was living the text-mode only life, and now we’re more than 3 years later, Lucas has doubled down on all things text mode. Today’s conversation with Lucas maps several ideas he’s shared...
In this episode, we will be exploring interviewing as a Software Engineer. Tips, tricks, and gotchas, as well as potentially some interviewing horror stories and red flags to avoid at all costs. We’re joined by Emma Draper, Engineering Manager at the New York Times based in Arizona, and Kate Jonas, goes by Jonas, Techn...
Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery, is back to talk about his latest book, Modern Software Engineering, a Top 3 Software Engineering best seller on Amazon UK this September. Shipping good software starts with you giving yourself permission to do a good job. It continues with a healthy curiosity, admitting th...
Week Notes 22#38 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-09-19?
Had a great time in the week at Immersive Gamebox with my #Deliveroo colleagues, playing their new #SquidGames immersive game! Definitely helped that failure wasn't fatal 😅 We managed to score pretty well, too
For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.
Wishing bi folks a happy #BiVisibilityDay! 💗💜💙Sarah Cosgriff 🏳️🌈 (@Sarah_Cosgriff)Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:07 +0000
There have been discussions in the aftermath of the log4j vulnerability about whether or not open source is broken or sustainable, what we can do to improve the sustainability of the open source ecosystem moving forwards, and the entitlement of users and companies in expecting maintainers to fix their problems.
Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly (8 mins read).
What I've learned in the year since posting my salary history publicly.
In today’s Kaizen episode, we talk about shipping Adam’s Christmas present: chapter support for all Changelog episodes that we now publish. This feature was hard because there are many subtle differences in how the ID3 spec is implemented. Of course, once the PR shipped, there were other issues to solve, including an u...
Tammer Saleh, founder of Super Orbital, a tiny team of exceptional Kubernetes engineers and teachers, is joining us today to talk about what is cool in the Cloud Native world. Yes, it’s the same Tammer that we had the pleasure of on shipit.show/31 - Is Kubernetes a platform? In today’s episode, we also cover two great ...
Inbal Cohen, Product expert and Agile evangelist, joins Natalie & Angelica for a conversation about all things Agile. Inbal lays out some agile tips for Go devs, discusses if and how remote work changes things, describes some downsides of the methodology, and more.
Week Notes 22#37 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-09-12?
💶 Instead of sponsoring open-source contributors for their work, sponsor them to go on vacation. 🏝️ (Suggested by @Tixie_)Mara Bos (@m_ou_se)Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:31 +0000
You: I submitted that pull request. Time to start a new thing! Me: can we not? Are there pull requests to review? Untended upkeep, like libraries to upgrade? To keep WIP low, avoid starting a new thing. Move anything in-progress forward first.Jessica Joy Kerr (@jessitron)Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:04 +0000
The website of Robin Rendle, a designer and writer from the UK.
Week Notes 22#36 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-09-05?
Why are the right values important for a company that changed the way the world builds software? How does pair programming help scale & maintain the company culture? What is it like to grow a company to 3000 employees over 30 years? Today we have the privilege of Rob Mee, former CEO of Pivotal, the real home of Clo...
Egon Elbre and Roger Peppe join Mat for a conversation all about bloat (and how to avoid it). Expect talk of code bloat, binary bloat, feature bloat, and an even-more-bloated-than-usual unpopular opinion segment.
The way people in England discuss pegging or o rings when they are in the news is why I am worried about the online harms bill What consenting adults do might not be your thing but it ain’t wrong And cishet vanilla sex isn’t the “best” way for everyone.Stella (@RisuToInu)Sun, 11 Sep 2022 08:52 +0000
Remains of your attention span. Photo by Pablo Martinez on Unsplash This is exactly why you can’t focus on reading anything longer than a mobile page length these days. Not even a blog post, let alone …
Can someone at McDonald's please fix their Android push notifications? I always get an empty notification as well as the normal one, and it's been happening for best part of 6 months
Ever wondered how GopherCon came to be, and how it’s put together every year. In this show we will be chatted with Erik St. Martin, who has been there from the start about how GopherCon came to be, how this year’s conference came together, as well as why events like GopherCon as so great! We are joined by Erik St. Mart...
Week Notes 22#35 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-08-29?
babe is everything okay? you've barely touched your pile of hundreds of elaborate projects you start but never finish
rachel tanner (@rickit)Wed, 31 Aug 2022 14:04 +0000
Carlos Alexandro Becker shared some SSH tips, Sakun Acharige (a Comp Sci student + visual design enthusiast) created System.css, Felix Krause built a browser app that shows the JavaScript commands being executed by iOS app in-app browers, Yan Zhulanow decided to create Marta, and Lőrik Levente did a comparrison between...
In this episode, we’ll be further exploring PRs. Check out The art of the PR: Part 1 if you haven’t yet. What is it that makes a PR a good PR? How do you consider PRs in an open source repo? How do you vet contributions from people who aren’t a part of the repository? How does giving feedback and encouragement fit in t...
In this episode, we will be exploring PRs. What makes a good PR? How do you give the best PR review? Is there such thing as too small, or big of a PR? We’ll be debating the details, and trying to help our fellow gophers perfect the art of the PR. We are joined by three wonderful guests Jeff Hernandez, Sarah Duncan, and...
Gotcha: testable examples in Go need an output
comment (2 mins read).
Beware that your Go Example
tests may not actually be running.
The "worthless degree" argument is fascinating to me because education shouldn't be a commodity. We should be able to pursue our interests and passions. Also, social workers, artists, journalists and teachers shouldn't be so devalued in this society. These wages are ridiculous.
Maddy Clifford 🟥 (@MAD_lines)Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:44 +0000
Since rediscovering Close Your Eyes - Dezza on my liked songs I've definitely) had it on loop 🎶