text
stringlengths
0
1.49k
**Brian Ketelsen:** Ship it! Ship it?
**Carlisia Thompson:** It worked! Nice, thank you!
**Brad Fitzpatrick:** Yeah, no problem.
**Erik St. Martin:** I did not have one this week because I hadn't been doing a whole lot of new stuff. I just give a shoutout to all the people who are contributing libaries for sensors and things like that for Arduino because on last minute notice Brian and I were able to throw together something very quickly to stre...
**Brian Ketelsen:** It was so awesome. It was epic. Best Easter ever.
**Erik St. Martin:** I love some of the conversions though I think that need a CRC between the chips because I don't think like 4 billion degrees is a thing. \[laughter\]
**Brian Ketelsen:** That's how you get the caramelization on the skin.
**Erik St. Martin:** Right. It's like alternate simmering right there.
**Carlisia Thompson:** We were so fast this time and we are not gonna talk about the Docker name change?
**Brian Ketelsen:** No. We are not talking about the Docker name change because we don't want Brian's blood pressure to go any higher than it already is.
**Carlisia Thompson:** Let it go...
**Erik St. Martin:** \[laughter\]
**Carlisia Thompson:** Alright then.
**Erik St. Martin:** Alright so with that a big thank you to everybody on the show especially to Brad for coming on. Huge shoutout to our sponsors for today [Toptal](https://www.toptal.com/) and [Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/). Definitely share the show with fellow Go programmers, coworkers, friends. You can subs...
**Brian Ketelsen:** Thank you Brad!
**Brad Fitzpatrick:** Yep! Yep!
**Carlisia Thompson:** Goodbye!
• Introduction of Ron Evans, the king of Gobot
• Overview of the Hybrid Group and their work with hardware companies
• History of Ron's involvement in open source software for hardware, including his experience with Ruby Arduino Development and Flying Robot
• Creation of Gobot and its evolution over time
• Discussion of Go's simplicity and how it has made it easy to learn and use for Ron Evans
• Story about Rob Pike helping Ron reorganize the Gobot codebase at a community hack day during GopherCon
• The importance of kindness and community in the Go language and its ecosystem
• Update on Gobot's popularity, including its GitHub stars and contributor count
• Discussing community involvement in open source projects
• Comparison of R2 (Ruby), Cylon.js (JavaScript), and Gobot (Go) implementations
• Design patterns for building hardware-oriented applications
• Go's advantages for IoT and device programming (performance, concurrency, portability)
• Opportunities for improvement in Go for hardware and IoT (Bluetooth 4.0 support, RTOS support, OpenCV integration)
• Low-level hardware interfaces for Go
• Raspberry Pi Zero W release and its capabilities
• Gobot's performance and adoption metrics (including controlling BBQ equipment)
• Upcoming Hardware Hack Day at GopherCon and potential new projects
• Efforts to make hardware more approachable with tools like Gobot
• Difficulty of a task is not a measure of its value
• Democratization of knowledge and accessibility through open source
• Hardware development should be made more accessible to developers like software development
• Open source can facilitate innovation and progress in the Internet of Things (IoT)
• Contributing to open source projects requires confidence and support from the community
• Familiarity with customs and idioms in hardware and software development is necessary for effective communication and collaboration
• The negative impact of using words like "easy" and "simple" in tutorials and documentation
• Impostor syndrome triggered by such language
• The importance of confidence and willingness to approach problems with uncertainty for mastery
• The pressures and expectations placed on programmers, likened to an Olympic cognitive level
• Burnout and the need for mental health support in programming
• The emotional highs and lows of coding and the potential for addiction
• Gobot's development history and philosophy
• Open-source software as a means to improve human condition through incremental solutions
• Future plans for Gobot, including stabilizing external interfaces, improving core implementations, and adding new hardware interfaces (GPIO, SPI, UART)
• Importance of professional development practices in IoT devices
• Tooling and packaging for connected devices using Go and Snapcraft
• Consumers should be willing to pay for products that include online technical support and updates.
• Companies need to build products responsibly and prioritize consumer control over data collection.
• The proliferation of web trackers and connected devices is creating a surveillance society with perverse incentives.
• Licensing models or micropayments approaches may be needed to give consumers control over their data.
• Technology should focus on reducing environmental resource utilization, not just selling more stuff.