Jessie Frazelle on Maintaining Open Source, Docker, dotfiles

Jessie Frazelle joins us this week to talk about being an open source maintainer, Docker’s pull request acceptance workflow, dotfiles, getting started with public speaking.

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Featuring:

• Jessie Frazelle – Twitter, GitHub
• Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
• Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• Maintainerati: WONTFIX Cabal
• The Art of Closing
• Jessie’s dotfiles
• GothamGo

Interesting Go Projects and News

• GoBridge Talk Formula
• GoKit: A toolkit for microservices
• Francesc Campoy: Analyzing Go code with BigQuery (blog post)
• The complete guide to Go net/http timeouts (blog post)
• A pipeline-based CI system written in Go
• etcd3
• Changelog Weekly
• Changelog Nightly

Free Software Friday

• Brian ­- jq: command line json tool
• Carlisia ­- Go testing in the browser: goconvey
• Jessie - A simple utility to safely retrieve arbitrary files and Michael Crosby’s world best gists
• Erik ­- Ranger: console file manager with VI key bindings

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!