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**Brian Ketelsen:** There's a lot of interesting stuff that came out this week. Probably the most exciting one - or at least the most interesting one is the Goggles application. Did anybody see that? From Kyle Banks. [github.com/kylebanks/goggles](https://github.com/KyleBanks/goggles), it's an application that lets you... |
**Luna Duclos:** Oh yeah, that... I've seen that on Twitter. I've been meaning to try it out, actually. I should do that. |
**Erik St. Martin:** You know, Brian, I'm actually really surprised that you installed it, because it requires working with npm and Gulp. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I've got npm installed, and Gulp, and Bauer, and Webpack, and... \[laughter\] |
**Erik St. Martin:** No, I just mean you're using those things so much... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It's all right here, buddy... It's all right here. My chops are getting strong. |
**Erik St. Martin:** I can picture it too, you're like "Wow, this looks really cool! Oh, npm... How badly do I want this?" \[laughter\] |
**Luna Duclos:** I wonder why this hasn't been all bundled in one neat, single Go binary that you can just start up. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** \[32:03\] That's a good idea. I'm trying to get by without installing npm and Gulp... I don't have those on this machine... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I can tell you, the reason for all of that is because it uses [Gallium](https://github.com/alexflint/gallium), which is the wrapper for the Chrome web app thing that makes it a native app, and I would bet you a dollar that Kyle does not have an Apple developer account, so he can't sign those web app... |
**Luna Duclos:** Is it Mac only though, or does it also work on Linux? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It's Mac only right now. |
**Luna Duclos:** Aw... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Well, it seems like most of it is written in Go and frontend stuff, so the Gallium part I think is just what wraps it into a native application. So in theory, there's no reason this couldn't be served up over HTTP and you could hit a local port or something, too. |
**Luna Duclos:** Yeah, that's what I was expecting it to do, so... Maybe we should look at that. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** If you dig through the source code, the whole system source file under package.sys is all Mac-specific, so it definitely will need at least Linux and Windows versions of that file before it's gonna fly. |
**Luna Duclos:** They're very small files though, so it shouldn't be very difficult to get that done. |
**Erik St. Martin:** I'm sure he would happily take pull requests, too... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Every time I turn anywhere, I've seen this app on Twitter, on Reddit... It's gotten a lot of attention recently. I think it was even on the Go newsletter today, so it should be getting more attention soon. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Did that come too, already? I have not seen the newsletter today. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, I don't think it was that long ago, though. I think it was just maybe an hour before the show. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Okay. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** 1:30 PM our time. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Alright. What else have we got? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I noticed that the [GoKit](https://github.com/go-kit/kit) team released their 0.4.0 release, and that moved to the inbuilt context library in Go 1.8, so no longer using the Xnet contact package anymore in GoKit, so that's a big release for them. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Oh, cool. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Very exciting to see all of the cool stuff coming out of that GoKit package. |
**Erik St. Martin:** And speaking of releases too, I think [Gobot](https://gobot.io/) just had a release this week too, didn't it? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I don't know... If they did, I missed it. |
**Erik St. Martin:** I will google that. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Is it possible that I missed a release of something? |
**Erik St. Martin:** It's quite possible. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Oh yeah, Gobot 1.3, you're right. Now supporting the BBC micro:bit and DragonBoard. Very cool. |
**Luna Duclos:** Is anyone using Gobot here? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yes! |
**Luna Duclos:** I'm actually very curious about it, but I don't actually have one of those boards to try it out with. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Actually, you can use it with just about anything; if you have a Raspberry Pi, or BeableBone... You can run Gobot on anything that basically has GPIO. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, Intel Edison... You name it. It runs on everything. I have a project called Cupid, which is a barbecue controlling application that runs on a Raspberry Pi, and it controls my barbecue. That all runs on Gobot. |
**Luna Duclos:** That is awesome. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It really is cool. It's the only way to barbecue. |
**Luna Duclos:** \[laughs\] You need to invite me to one of those. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Any day! |
**Erik St. Martin:** Hardware is interesting, because I don't think many of us think much about it, aside from using embedded devices. But actually developing against it is really cool, because we all love programming and we love seeing the things that come to life... But being able to see it interact with physical obj... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** \[36:08\] It's really cool. I also have used Gobot to control AR Drone drones at my kids' school. We do a thing every year called The Great American Teach-In where parents come in and talk about what they do. I couldn't explain to the students that my work is actually that boring, so I did Gobot wit... |
**Luna Duclos:** That sounds awesome. |
**Erik St. Martin:** I wonder if there's a list somewhere of all the projects that are currently using it... They have interfaces with all kinds of cool little toys. Have you seen the Sphero? It's like a little ball that rolls around, and you can jump it, and you can play with it with your mobile phone... But they have... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Oh, I thought you were going to ask me if I'm using Gobot... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Or Gobot... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** \[laughs\] No... Yes, I wanted to mentioned that the Women Who Go -- well, Sarah Adams, the founder of [Women Who Go](https://www.womenwhogo.org/) launched an initiative to send women Go developers to [GopherCon](https://www.gophercon.com/). There are a lot of us who would not be able to afford a... |
**Erik St. Martin:** A million dollars... |
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