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| -**Jerod Santo:** \[00:08:31.11\] So maybe a little context for our listeners, if you're just getting caught up and you're like "What the -- what?! This is the last episode of Go Time?" Yes, it is. You are now caught up. This will be the finale of Go Time. 340 episodes. And this is not a cancellation or a failure of Go Time. Go Time has been very strong, I think, ever since we put it on reboot, and we've been putting out episodes pretty much every week for a long time, and we have a lot of listeners, a lot of loyal listeners, a lot of friends that we've made along the way, and a lot of people who are undoubtedly not happy about Go Time going away, because it's something that they love... And myself, and Adam, my partner in crime at Changelog, are well aware of that. I'm a podcast junkie. I've had my favorite show disappear. I know what that feels like. But this is not just a Go Time thing, this is actually a Changelog-wide decision that we made, to refocus on the main thing, which is the Changelog podcast. And we're actually stopping production of not just Go Time, but JS Party, and Ship It, and Practical AI... Everything that's not the Changelog. And the reasons for that - they are varied. But in brief, we've built out this portfolio of shows to a point where we're putting out seven episodes every single week. And we did that, to the best of our ability, for years now. And I think we did an alright job, but we got to the point where we couldn't really do anything else, because we had seven episodes to put out every single week... And the fact is that Adam and I want to spend time doing other things, experimenting, exploring... I want to write more code than I currently was writing... And so this was a decision that he and I made in order to help that become a reality. |
| 59 | +**Jerod Santo:** \[08:31\] So maybe a little context for our listeners, if you're just getting caught up and you're like "What the -- what?! This is the last episode of Go Time?" Yes, it is. You are now caught up. This will be the finale of Go Time. 340 episodes. And this is not a cancellation or a failure of Go Time. Go Time has been very strong, I think, ever since we put it on reboot, and we've been putting out episodes pretty much every week for a long time, and we have a lot of listeners, a lot of loyal listeners, a lot of friends that we've made along the way, and a lot of people who are undoubtedly not happy about Go Time going away, because it's something that they love... And myself, and Adam, my partner in crime at Changelog, are well aware of that. I'm a podcast junkie. I've had my favorite show disappear. I know what that feels like. But this is not just a Go Time thing, this is actually a Changelog-wide decision that we made, to refocus on the main thing, which is the Changelog podcast. And we're actually stopping production of not just Go Time, but JS Party, and Ship It, and Practical AI... Everything that's not the Changelog. And the reasons for that - they are varied. But in brief, we've built out this portfolio of shows to a point where we're putting out seven episodes every single week. And we did that, to the best of our ability, for years now. And I think we did an alright job, but we got to the point where we couldn't really do anything else, because we had seven episodes to put out every single week... And the fact is that Adam and I want to spend time doing other things, experimenting, exploring... I want to write more code than I currently was writing... And so this was a decision that he and I made in order to help that become a reality. |
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63 | 63 | **Mat Ryer:** Well, thank you very much, Jerod. I really appreciate that. I think it's worth saying, Go Time wouldn't exist without Changelog, and Go Time has been a big part of the Go community, and helping shape that community. I think we were able to put voices out that you wouldn't perhaps otherwise hear from sometimes... We got loads of technical content together... There's some really actionable knowledge episodes... This is a big resource, and it's still relevant, thanks to Go's backward compatibility promise. There's a lot of the content. And a lot of it also isn't specifically about language syntax, which may change over time. It's all still relevant. So it's like this big corpus now of knowledge that we've put together.
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| -**Johnny Boursiquot:** \[00:12:06.15\] Yeah. Hear, hear. For me personally, GoTime was definitely a way for me to dive deeper into the world of Go. It gave me an opportunity to share my passion for the language, for the community, and it was always amazing whenever I'd go to a Go conference, and people would come up and say "Hey, you're Johnny from Go Time, right?" I'm like "Yeah..." Or somebody would hear my voice... They would be having a conversation somewhere, they'd hear my voice, they'd turn around and be like "I know that voice. Where do I know your voice from?" I'm like "Do you happen to listen to a podcast on Go?" "Yeah, that's you!" It would be amazing to get those sort of interesting situations, where people would put a face and a name and everything else, and to kind of see the impact. You don't think about it. We get on these podcasts and do these recordings every week... And oftentimes we do them and we enjoy each other's company while we record, but we don't often think about sort of the downward impact of the people who then download it, and then listen to it... We don't think of how far that sort of reaches, that domino effect. And sort of seeing that and hearing about the impact of the show over the years... It's been an incredible journey, an amazing journey. And I personally thank the Changelog team for reaching out to me all those years ago and saying "Hey, we're putting together this podcast. Here's a capacity in which you can contribute." |
| 67 | +**Johnny Boursiquot:** \[12:06\] Yeah. Hear, hear. For me personally, GoTime was definitely a way for me to dive deeper into the world of Go. It gave me an opportunity to share my passion for the language, for the community, and it was always amazing whenever I'd go to a Go conference, and people would come up and say "Hey, you're Johnny from Go Time, right?" I'm like "Yeah..." Or somebody would hear my voice... They would be having a conversation somewhere, they'd hear my voice, they'd turn around and be like "I know that voice. Where do I know your voice from?" I'm like "Do you happen to listen to a podcast on Go?" "Yeah, that's you!" It would be amazing to get those sort of interesting situations, where people would put a face and a name and everything else, and to kind of see the impact. You don't think about it. We get on these podcasts and do these recordings every week... And oftentimes we do them and we enjoy each other's company while we record, but we don't often think about sort of the downward impact of the people who then download it, and then listen to it... We don't think of how far that sort of reaches, that domino effect. And sort of seeing that and hearing about the impact of the show over the years... It's been an incredible journey, an amazing journey. And I personally thank the Changelog team for reaching out to me all those years ago and saying "Hey, we're putting together this podcast. Here's a capacity in which you can contribute." |
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69 | 69 | And yeah, it's been one of those great things that I'm very proud of to have been able to be a part of. I'm definitely going to miss it... But everything comes to an end. So perhaps this particular door closes, but other things will open up. We already know that Fallthrough is spinning out of that; that's going to be fun and interesting, I'm sure, and new things are going to emerge out of that. So this ending, so to speak, is not happening on a sad note; I'm definitely happy about that. This is not because this show and others in the Changelog catalog were failures. I think Changelog has done such an amazing job of creating these communities around these shows, and by proxy, just furthering those communities and helping them sort of grow. So definitely lots of gratitude there to the Changelog. And Jerod, he was doing that production work even before he brought on Jason to help with that... Week after week, scheduling, and all the things that have happen behind the scenes, that people have no idea about. All that work, and all that labor... And I definitely think you and the rest of the Changelog team do deserve a bit of a break, and to try and find time to sort of explore and see what's next and what's new. But yeah, overall, I'm quite happy with what we accomplished together, for sure.
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107 | 107 | **Mat Ryer:** Yeah, but still... Nice. They were Go programmers, so... You've got to have a certain level of intelligence.
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| 109 | +**Jerod Santo:** \[16:16\] Well, you also get to go out there at the GopherCon stage, and sing unpopular opinions with the crowd, didn't you? I mean, that had to be a moment for you, Mat... |
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243 | 243 | **Angelica Hill:** No, I ironically have not been to GopherCon EU. But I hope to go at some point. Not yet, but I hope to. No, but I go to GopherCon, and all the other ones, the US-based ones. But I've heard great things...
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| -**Mat Ryer:** \[00:32:20.09\] Yeah. No, there's definitely something in that. I remember -- I mean, I think having different perspectives, I think that's in itself really useful, because you learn so much, and it's usually very surprising stuff. It was also nice for -- sometimes the experts didn't know the answer. And I think that was also quite nice for people to also witness. In fact, I heard people talk to me about this, that they heard -- we had somebody on that was an expert in something, and one of the questions, they were like "Oh, I have no idea. I'd have to go and dig in and find out." And they talked a bit about how they would find out. And that was actually really useful, because that's kind of the skill. It's not knowing all the things, it's really knowing how to figure out, how to find out those things. |
| 287 | +**Mat Ryer:** \[32:20\] Yeah. No, there's definitely something in that. I remember -- I mean, I think having different perspectives, I think that's in itself really useful, because you learn so much, and it's usually very surprising stuff. It was also nice for -- sometimes the experts didn't know the answer. And I think that was also quite nice for people to also witness. In fact, I heard people talk to me about this, that they heard -- we had somebody on that was an expert in something, and one of the questions, they were like "Oh, I have no idea. I'd have to go and dig in and find out." And they talked a bit about how they would find out. And that was actually really useful, because that's kind of the skill. It's not knowing all the things, it's really knowing how to figure out, how to find out those things. |
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| 321 | +**Mat Ryer:** \[36:06\] Well, I heard great things for that, from people at conferences, that came up and identified as neurodiverse, and said that was just a real big surprise, to just have that subject laid out and just discussed openly. So that really did resonate. You can tell the ones that do, because you will hear back, in-person, usually. Those people remember it, and it stays with them. So that's really nice to see. And I wasn't even part of that episode, but obviously, I took credit in the moment, because... Otherwise it's really awkward. Like, I'm saying, "Oh no, you've been really nice, but I reject that. It should go towards Angelica." I'm not going to do that, am I? I'm going to say "Thank you very much." |
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| 399 | +**Kris Brandow:** \[40:11\] I mean, I don't think we should be talking about killing near Central Park right now, but... |
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481 | 481 | **Angelica Hill:** I think there was a number of times where you had to like sandwich in positives after something like a little bit dodgy happened... I think that happened a lot, where individuals would say something about certain individuals in the community, and then you'd have to be like "Yeah, but they also are great at this. And I think that they're actually wonderful... And shout-out, actually, to them."
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| 483 | +**Kris Brandow:** \[44:26\] That feels targeted, Angelica. |
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| 821 | +**Mat Ryer:** \[56:08\] It should be an SLO for how much you're allowed to spend on your horn... You can spend it all in one go, but that's it. Then you have to shut up for the rest of the week. |
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