The tools we love

The Go ecosystem has a hoard of tools and editors for Gophers to choose from and it can be difficult to find ones that are a good fit for each individual. In this episode, we discuss what tools and editors we’re using, the ones we wish existed, how we go about finding new ones, and why we sometimes choose to write our own tools.

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Featuring:

• Andy Walker – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub
• Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Where we find tools
  • r/sysadmin
  • r/programming
  • Golang Weekly Newsletter
  • Watching screencasts and live streams
• Collaboration
  • Pop
• Equipment
  • Time to upgrade your monitor
• Assorted Reading
  • The Gift of Fear by Gavin DeBecker
  • Procedural Memory
  • XKCD Is It Worth the Time?
  • Ink & Switch
  • The Chatsworth Banana
• Videos
  • GopherCon 2016: Ivan Danyliuk - Visualizing Concurrency in Go
  • PDE: A different take on editing code
• Editors
  • VSCode
  • NeoVim
  • GoLand
• Shell Scripting
  • Charm_
  • Charm GitHub Organization
  • Charm_ Gum
  • Bubble Tea
  • mvdan/sh
  • script (not mentioned in episode)
• Terminal Emulators
  • WezTerm
  • kitty
  • warp
• Build Tools
  • Bazel
  • Task
  • Mage
• Documentation Tools
  • Dash for macOS
  • pkg.go.dev
• Terminal Multiplexers
  • tmux
  • Zellij
• Application Launchers
  • Alfred
  • Raycast
• Knowledge Tools
  • Notion
  • Obsidian
  • MindNode
  • Bike Outliner
  • Workflowy
  • Muse
• Miscellaneous Tools
  • The F*ck
  • fzf

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - It's Go Time!
(00:45) - Andy Walker
(02:39) - Finding tools
(07:28) - Anti-syntax highlighing
(15:39) - Watching screencasts
(19:45) - Apple Vision
(24:00) - Subconscious programming
(31:48) - Writing tools myself
(35:50) - Shell or CLI
(40:31) - Tools doing too much
(46:47) - Neovim
(49:11) - Charm
(52:13) - Tools shaping design
(57:47) - Terminal emulators
(1:00:12) - The F***
(1:02:20) - Build process tools
(1:05:38) - sh
(1:06:42) - Documentation tools
(1:08:47) - Terminal multiplexer
(1:09:49) - Application launchers
(1:12:05) - Non-development tools
(1:13:38) - Bike
(1:16:54) - Muse
(1:18:43) - Unpopular opinions!
(1:19:02) - Bananas
(1:21:19) - Jon's unpop
(1:23:03) - Andy's unpop
(1:25:56) - Mat's unpop
(1:27:39) - Kris' unpop
(1:35:35) - Last words
(1:36:23) - Outro