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**Adam Stacoviak:** Me neither.
**Brian Ketelsen:** I'm gonna write it down, because I want some now.
**Carlisia Thompson:** If you go to a Brazilian churrascaria, you need to ask for this.
**Adam Stacoviak:** Wow, we are getting educated here, man...
**Carlisia Thompson:** It's amazing.
**Brian Ketelsen:** You know, there's a really good Brazilian steakhouse in Denver that we might need to go to, Carlisia, so you can educate us on all of this delicious meat.
**Carlisia Thompson:** Oh, let's do it.
**Adam Stacoviak:** Do you know the name, by any chance?
**Brian Ketelsen:** I don't remember the name, I just remember the location. We'll figure it out.
**Erik St. Martin:** Carlisia knows a lot of cool stuff...
**Adam Stacoviak:** She does!
**Erik St. Martin:** I was out in San Diego for work and I met up with her, and we went out to dinner to an Ethiopian restaurant... I'd never had it before?
**Brian Ketelsen:** What did you eat, fried dirt?
**Adam Stacoviak:** Fried dirt... \[laughter\]
**Erik St. Martin:** So one of the coolest parts about eating that way was -- one of the things that I love about barbecue and things like that is that it brings people together, having to cook out and having people over... But the way people eat is awesome. It's like, you ordered everything, and everything came out on...
**Carlisia Thompson:** It's called "injera".
**Erik St. Martin:** \[24:01\] Yeah... It's almost like pancake material, spongy, and you tear off pieces and you kind of pinch your food off in it and eat collectively...
**Adam Stacoviak:** What?!
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah...
**Adam Stacoviak:** That sounds cool.
**Carlisia Thompson:** Ethiopian food is my favorite food.
**Brian Ketelsen:** It's good stuff.
**Carlisia Thompson:** If I'm going to go for a day and you'll say "You can only have one meal that day, but you can choose whatever meal", it's gonna be Ethiopian food.
**Erik St. Martin:** Culturally, I thought that that was really cool, because that really brings everybody together. It's not like "I get my plate and then I go off and eat it", everybody is sitting around that plate; everybody's food is in the same place.
**Adam Stacoviak:** I'm gonna jump in here and say we have a ton of questions, and a finite amount of time...
**Erik St. Martin:** Yes, let's do this...
**Adam Stacoviak:** That was a good subject though, I liked that.
**Brian Ketelsen:** Well, why don't we take a break for our sponsor? Why don't we hit our first sponsor break while we're here, since we've gotten everybody hungry...
**Adam Stacoviak:** Brian, that's a great idea, I love it.
**Carlisia Thompson:** I'm starving... \[laughs\]
**Adam Stacoviak:** Let's break for some food.
**Carlisia Thompson:** Oh, gosh...
**Brian Ketelsen:** Today's show is brought to you by barbecue... And Toptal.
**Break:** \[25:08\]
**Erik St. Martin:** Alright, and we are back doing our AMA. \[laughter\] We went off on a tangent there with barbecue and food, and now that I'm hungry, what else do we have for questions? Here we go... Out next question is from Wade Arnold, and this came from Twitter. He says, "What aspects of the language have made ...
**Brian Ketelsen:** I think there's a huge reason for me, and especially in terms of the large, complex codebases, it's the readability. Go was very specifically built to be read, more so than it was built to be written. In a really big codebase you spend far more time reading code that you do writing code. So having a...
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yeah, I was thinking exactly that. I was going to say I don't really know, and the only thing I can think about is the readability factor, which is amazing. And you don't understand what it is until you're really working with it for a while.
**Adam Stacoviak:** It's interesting to say though that in a large codebase you would read a lot more than you write, because technically somebody had to write all that, but reading -- it would totally make sense, especially if you didn't write it... You're probably gonna read it, right? Because you can't write what yo...
**Carlisia Thompson:** I totally agree with that, you read so much more... Even the code that I wrote I keep reading, to figure out "Okay, what is this doing again?" There's a lot more reading, I think.
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yeah, like a book... Code is like a book, y'all... Read it.
**Brian Ketelsen:** ...y'all.
**Erik St. Martin:** So our next question came from Casey Wilson on the GoTime FM Slack channel... It says "Something else... I'd like to see your guys' development environment. What does your focused mode look like?"
**Brian Ketelsen:** \[28:05\] That's a good question.
**Adam Stacoviak:** What does "focused mode" mean?
**Erik St. Martin:** I think like super productive, in the zone programming... This is what I'm gonna take that as.
**Adam Stacoviak:** Okay... I wasn't sure if it was like a turn for the IDE, or an editor you might use... I was like, "I don't know about no focused mode."
**Erik St. Martin:** So I'll start first... Typically I work in Vim and I use the i3 window manager in Linux. So typically I have kind of i3 configured where I just have Vim taking up most of the window, and another window to the side that's my shell, and this is what I do. I'm perfectly happy in just a command line...
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, for a focused mode mine's exactly the same. If I know I have some dedicated time to really sit down and focus, I'm right with you in i3... Usually on a laptop though, so it would be one i3 window per thing. So I'll have an i3 window for my editor, an i3 window for my shell, an i3 window for a ...
**Erik St. Martin:** Now, I should also add, when I'm in super focused mode, I'm a big music person, so I love to jam out to music while I'm coding. My wife will come home and that's when she knows I'm in the zone, because music will just be like blaring in the house. How about you, Carlisia?
**Carlisia Thompson:** I'm very volatile with editors, I've come to realize... Sometimes I go for stretches of times when I'm using Vim, and then I run into a roadblock with Vim and I switch to -- my go-to switch to was Atom, and then I recently changed to VS Code, which I really like, especially for the ability to nav...