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**Erik St. Martin:** So here's a question for anybody listening for the answer - is anybody here actively seeking mentees? Is anybody here willing to take on new people to mentor? |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I would love to. I don't have a lot of time to take on somebody on a formal and consistent basis; I'm making an exception for a woman of color, so if somebody knows someone like that, I would take that on. But I don't have a lot of time. I'm already pretty pressed for time. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, I guess there was a distinction to be made, too... I don't have a lot of time, so I don't know how much I'd be able to help teach somebody the language, outside of answering particular questions or pointing people in the right direction? I'm not sure I have enough spare time to spend several ... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yeah, that's harder, because it also requires for you to understand the domain, which if it's someone starting to learn, that's probably gonna need to be simple enough, but it still requires a little bit of effort. |
\[47:50\] The best thing I think - and this is not final; I would like to hear from Brian and Chase as well - is definitely join group chats, like the newbies channel that we have - [Golang Newbies channel on GopherSlack](https://gophers.slack.com/messages/golang-newbies), or the [WomenWhoGo Slack](https://gophers.slac... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, that's probably an important part of the mentor discussion - determining what things are actively mentoring and what things are "I'm just too lazy to go to [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/)." And the difference between them is in a mentor relationship you have that dedicated channel... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, and I think, you know, you should be looking for hooks. "I don't know where to start, point me towards something." But I think that the personal one-on-one is valuable in the vulnerable conditions, right? For example, some of the conversations Brian and I have - I can come to him and express ... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yeah, I think "Where do I start?" is a great question for a public chat, unless you're currently employed and you wanna keep your search private, so definitely pinging somebody privately... And sometimes getting feedback on, for example, my resume... Just like, "Tell me kindly how my resume sucks... |
**Erik St. Martin:** So I'm asking that question too, because I know my resume sucks. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I can help you with your resume, Erik. |
**Erik St. Martin:** I usually just throw stuff in there. It's like "Yeah, I need to add a line item for this job, and here's kind of what I did." Done. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** You don't need a resume anymore. |
**Erik St. Martin:** See? So, I kind of hate that... We all talk about impostor syndrome regularly, right? So when you kind of get like a walk-on job, where like "You're you, and we want you. If you want the job, you're hired" type thing. That really makes impostor syndrome worse too, because you spend a long time conc... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** \[52:06\] I don't know... I think the resume is just a tool for people getting to know you, and even with a resume, they can extrapolate and think that you know more than you know, or think that you know less than you know... And an interview is the point where they take that knowledge, whether i... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, so inviting you for the interview without a resume - I think that's okay. What I'm talking about is like a walk-on job where it's basically like some company loves who you are; they're like, "Carlisia, we listen to the podcast all the time. We love you, we want you to come work for us. Just s... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Just say yes. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Well, but you do wanna have an interview because you wanna interview them at the very least, right? Unless you also know them; in that case, their assessment is probably accurate... If there's mutual knowledge about what both sides do etc. Otherwise, I don't know. If you said "Yeah, sure. It's a ... |
**Chase Adams:** I think I'm in a similar mindset as Carlisia - even if you don't have to do an interview... I know this is deviating a little bit, but there's so much that you just don't know about the people that you're going to work with, and this is -- I don't know, I've never had this happen, but where someone say... |
For me, I don't know, that would make me really nervous, because even if it was a lot of money, something that was just unfathomably better than what I have today, if I'm not gonna be working with people that I think I wanna work with or that I think are gonna be interested in helping me grow, or even... I've always op... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Sometimes it works out in your benefit. I actually met Brian in that very way. I didn't know Brian at the time. This was before all the things Go we do, and he was my boss when we first met, and my interview was him and the director of technology. They took me out to lunch and we had beers, and he ... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That was a long time ago. |
**Erik St. Martin:** It was... I'm feeling old thinking about it. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I was young then... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** You guys are so old... \[laughter\] Seriously. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Alright, so we're starting to run out of time... I think we need to get into some Go news and \#FreeSoftwareFriday love. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Definitely. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** \[55:40\] ...so we could stay on track. I have the coolest Go news. I love me some distributed tracing, and [Ricardo.ch](https://www.ricardo.ch/), which is a Swiss company that got training from Gopher Academy when Gopher Academy was doing training this year - they just released go-tracing, which is... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Oh, nice. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I saw it this morning, and the first thing I did was check it out and install it, and it is perfect; it's just what you need if you want distributed traces, so go get that. It's still missing a few pieces to the API that would make it perfect, but it's really nice, so go get some of that. It's at [g... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Another piece of news it the [Go 1.9RC2](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/lcUUfQalrr4), which just came out yesterday... Or the day before? Well, by the time most people hear this it will have been a week ago, so... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That's true. That's a good question, I could go look at my Go binary and see when it was installed, because I think I installed it at least 30 seconds after it was released. |
**Erik St. Martin:** You've got like a bot that watches Twitter [@Golang](https://twitter.com/golang) and whenever it mentions a release it goes out and installs it for you? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Pretty much. So my binary date for my local Go binary is 7th August at 16:33 PM. So I think it was the morning of the 7th that it was released. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Okay. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I was a little behind that day. |
**Erik St. Martin:** So we talked a little bit about the new change to the GoTime website in the pre-show... So for the benefit of the listeners, do you wanna talk about it, Brian? Because you're like super pumped about it. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I do, it's so exciting! We have transcripts available on the GoTime website now. So if you go to an individual episode, you can see transcripts, and they're generally accurate, if not completely accurate... But they're generally accurate. And they've got the person's name who said the thing, and it'... |
So I love the fact that we're making these episodes text-readable, for people who can't hear them easily, or even text-searchable for Google searchability, because Lord knows, we need to have physical evidence for some of the things I've said on this show. \[laughter\] |
**Erik St. Martin:** Now it's much easier to find than having to listen through the audio. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, just search for "gator" and "BB gun". |
**Erik St. Martin:** Oh, I forgot about that one... \[laughter\] |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, thanks for busting me on that one, Erik. It's okay. PETA is knocking at my door right now. |
I had another project that I found that looks really cool, and it's by Alex Ellis ([github.com/alexellis](https://github.com/alexellis)) and it's called [Faas](https://github.com/openfaas/faas). It is _Functions as a Service_, which is a cool framework that allows you to do serverless - and you can't see the air quotes... |
And there was somewhere in the GitHub repo a link to a document that says basically "Why do I care about serverless?" and it was the first time ever in my life where I said "Holy cow, I understand serverless now! This is why this is important to me." So it was cool, and now I'm gonna stop making fun of serverless, othe... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Oh, now I'll have to read it, because otherwise I'll be the only one still making fun of serverless. \[laughter\] You and I were in it together, Brian. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I know, we were... So you've gotta go read that so we can be together. Good call. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** \[01:00:13.26\] You went to the dark side. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Oh, I wouldn't call it the dark side, I just -- I won't make fun of it anymore. Now I understand it. Now I understand why. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Okay. |
**Chase Adams:** Alex Ellis has done a lot of really great tutorials on Docker and Raspberry Pi, so if you're interested in either of those things together, I think he's like the Docker captain who writes the most about those things. |
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