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.

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, WebsiteKris Brandow – Twitter, GitHubJon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteMat 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!

Twitter Mentions