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**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, I find it really helps. I ended up doing it in every class this last month. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** And talking about your online courses, the Udemy course on Go that you have - first of all, I wanna say for everybody to hear, I have seen so many people comment on Slack, on Twitter that they learned Go by doing the Udemy course that you have, and that they loved it. |
**Todd McLeod:** That's cool. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** It's over and over and over again. I haven't taken the course yet, but it's definitely on my to-do list. Now, I wanted to ask you why do you think people rave about your course so much? |
**Todd McLeod:** I don't know, maybe because I'm a goofball. \[laughs\] For me it's kind of like just hanging out here with you guys. It's fun, I like talking, and I like sharing. For me, I approach it as... I hate the ivory tower of academia, and I hate that pretention and ostentation (or however you say that word). I... |
\[44:00\] I think also it's the fact that I've been doing it since (gosh, man...) 1997. That's almost two decades. If you look at Malcolm Gladwell's theory of outliers, it takes 10,000 hours, or 4 hours a day for ten years to become an expert at something, and I definitely know that the way I teach today is really diff... |
So I think that all has something to do with it. |
**Bill Kennedy:** Todd, I can also give you an answer to this because over the last three months -- in fact two days ago at the Vancouver Meetup somebody was glowing talking about your course and the videos. I'm seeing this more and more, and it's always this ridiculously positive, glowing experience. I ask people what... |
In Natalie's experience, she's told me, in the classroom when she's made mistakes, it has sometimes really helped the entire class open up a little bit more because it's like, "She's not perfect, and neither are we." I think that's a huge aspect to your videos and how you approach teaching. |
**Todd McLeod:** Oh, nice. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** And we should mention that Todd's giving a coupon code for a discount for his Udemy course. The code is "gotime", so for listeners - you can definitely use that |
**Todd McLeod:** Yeah, and I also really believe in pay it forward, help the world... I only got to where I am because tons of people helped me out along the way. I think 'gotime' gives you access to my courses for $10, so if you can't afford that because you're in a third-world country where 10 USD is a month's wage o... |
I'm a full believer in doing what I can to help others, and if you can't afford it just send me a note and I'll give you free access. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** We love that attitude. Bill and Erik and I feel the same way about the book that we wrote, and when people ask, we're always glad to help them have it without cost. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I think Bill Kennedy gets paid every time he sends somebody a book, because he's always trying to push the book for free to people. \[laughter\] |
**Todd McLeod:** \[47:59\] Yeah, he gave my entire class his book. You know, that generous spirit always comes back. You can never have too many friends. |
**Bill Kennedy:** Actually, the royalties to the book, Brian, that goes back to Gopher Academy every year for the scholarship fund, right? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, we split the royalties for the book between GoBridge and Gopher Academy, so none of us are making any money off the book anyway. \[laughs\] They help support the scholarship fund for GopherCon, they help support all of the GoBridge activities... |
**Todd McLeod:** Sounds great. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** So let's move to interesting Go news and projects. I'd like to start this off with something that's interesting but not perhaps awesome - the Reddit Golang Subreddit kerfuffle this week. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Oh my god... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** ...started with the CEO of Reddit deleting things and editing posts, which I find absolutely an abomination. You should never ever change user's content. It's horrible, and I reacted very poorly by saying that Reddit was a "wretched hive of scum and villainy", the Ben Kenobi quote. A lot of people t... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I wanna say something about that - I saw so many well thought out and kind comments on that thread. People saying, "Let's have temperament. Let's really think this through. Do we really wanna delete Subreddit?" They had a really nice conversation, it was lovely to see. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** So on to more interesting news... Go 1.8 Beta 1 released today, raise your hand if you installed it. I already did. Can you see my hand? |
**Todd McLeod:** I'm installing it tonight. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It is awesome. By awesome, I mean it didn't break anything, and the compiles are a little faster, and the code seems a little bit faster. Overall, awesome. |
**Bill Kennedy:** Cool! I'm kind of excited about two pieces of this update. The new profiling that you can get out of a tracing tool, and I'm really interested to see how the plugin stuff ends up working and being adopted, because some of that is a little -- we can get in a lot of trouble with a plugin, but it's also ... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I'm afraid of the plugins, honestly. One of the things I loved about Go was that it was static and there was no question at runtime what was going to be happening with your app. The whole idea of dynamically loading other code just opens a whole can of fear for me. I'm sure I'll get over it eventual... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I wonder if you could block that from happening. Could you lock a code and say, "Hey, nothing external is going to plug into my code and run." |
**Brian Ketelsen:** You have to actually write code to dynamically load other plugins, so it's not gonna happen automatically or by mistake. It's not something that can happen implicitly, you have to explicitly make it happen. But it scares me a little bit, I'll be honest. |
I am very excited about all of the changes in the http package, graceful shutdowns, context everywhere, and the DB SQL package - holy cow! Almost every function in DB SQL now has an equivalent that takes a context as the first parameter, so we get awesome cancellations all throughout the database package... |
I don't even know what kind of speed they're taking over at the garbage collection team, but they must be living next to a math lab because all they do is make that damn garbage collector faster and faster and faster and faster. Kudos to them for working so hard to make garbage collection awesome. |
**Bill Kennedy:** \[52:05\] Brian, I'm sure you had the same thought I did reading through the 1.8 notes. All I thought about was, "Oh my god, we have a lot of work to do to update materials for teaching." |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Right? Yeah, so much! There's so many big changes, and the thing about the Go 1 compatibility guarantee is that that code that you wrote for Go 1 is still gonna work in 1.8. I love that. But I was actually thinking exactly the same thing this morning, or last night when I was reading those release n... |
**Bill Kennedy:** Yeah, and context, because it's being used as much as it is, I think now becomes a really important topic for all of us to start teaching and teaching effectively, and making sure people aren't abusing the context as a generic bag of values and teaching cancellation properly. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, I teach context now in day two or my three-day class. I bring it right in. I almost have to, it's so big in Go now. |
**Todd McLeod:** Yeah, I wanna come sit in on your guys' classes again, get a fresh take on all the material you're teaching. I like learning from you. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Really looking forward to taking Brian's online class about... Is it web development the name of the class, Brian? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Which one? |
**Carlisia Thompson:** The one that you're doing online. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Well, which one? I'm doing a lot online. I've got one at the end of the month, Go for not-beginners... What's it called? Go Beyond The Basics. But it's not necessarily web. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yeah, that one. That's the one. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** You'd better hurry up and sign up, too. Last I heard, out of the 300 seats in that there were only 20 left, and it just opened yesterday. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I need to find somebody to pay for me. \[laughter\] |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Well, I'm doing it again in January and February, so there'll be time to take it again. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yeah, I'm sure. I'll definitely take it. |
**Bill Kennedy:** Is that one of the classes through O'Reilly? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That's an O'Reilly webinar. I don't know how their new pricing scheme works, but I think it's open for anybody who's a Safari Online member, or something like that. Some really ridiculously lower pricing for Safari people. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Oh, I think I signed up for that and haven't canceled at work. \[laughs\] |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, check it out, because I think it makes a big difference. |
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