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kohoeric / GoConCanada.md
Last active June 4, 2019 13:28
Some thoughts about the talks at Go Con

WebRPC

Peter Kieltyka

This was a great opening talk. There is a lot of boiler plate involved in writing modern applications. Peter presented a tool that will write this for you.

Inspired by Rails, WebRPC will take a data type definition and generate boilerplate for Go and Typescript. With the monotonus parts of development taken care of there is more time for actually developing your application.

Effective Goroutine Cancellation

Topher Bullock

A highly practical talk for Go developers. Go routines are a light weight concurrency mechanism. Go routines are Go’s main selling point. They allow developers to use increasing core counts of CPUs in a simpler manner compared to most other languages.

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kohoeric / Strange Loop 2019 Summary.md
Last active September 17, 2019 12:52
Observations and thoughts about some talks I saw at Strange Loop 2019

Strange Loop

Held in St. Louis, Strange Loop is a conference with an eclectic line up of speakers dealing with various subjects related to software development. I felt like I learned a lot and it was a fun trip.

Teaching Programming

The opening Key note was on the subject about teaching programming. It was pointed out that programming lacks pedagogical diversity. Teaching language has