Go Time and fallthrough Podcasts

For eight years and 340 episodes Go Time provided a rich source of information about Go, demonstrating the talent and diversity across the Go community. Transcripts from the Go Time podcasts are available on a GitHub repository. Go Time was a set of podcasts managed by Changelog, which also publishes a technology newsletter for developers and technology entrepreneurs.

fallthrough is picking up where GoTime left off, with continued discussion of Go software engineering topics.

What’s new in Go 1.24. fallthrough podcast from February 10, 2025. Carlana Johnson, Johnny Boursiquot, and Kris Brandow discuss what’s new with Go version 1.24.

What’s new in Go 1.22 In this recording from February 7, 2024, Carlana Johnson, Johnny Boursiquot, and Ian Lopshire to discuss what was new with Go version 1.22:

Go for Beginners. Jon Calhoun, David Valentine, and Ashley Willis (McNamara) joined host Carmen Andoh to discuss courses aimed at beginning programmers in Go. This is the Go Time recording of their discussion from May 2019:

The Tools We Love This is the Go Time podcast from July 19, 2023: A discussion with Mat Ryer, Kris Brandow, Jon Calhoun, and Andy Walker.

Go Code Organization Best Practices. In April 2022, Ian Lopshire, Kris Brandow, and Johnny Boursiquot discussed best practices in building reusable Go code, such as a tool chest of personal utilities:

Debugging Go. Natalie Pistunovich and Ian Lopshire welcome Liran Haimovitch and Tiago Queiroz to a November 2022 show for a discussion focused on debugging Go programs.

Who owns our code? Parts 1 and 2. Natalie Pistunovich, Angelica Hill, and Kris Brandow are joined by tech lawyer Luis Villa to explore intellectual property issues, which are a special concern of open-source developers. The first recording comes from October 2022. The second from January 2023, following new developments associated with large language models and ChatGPT:

Of Prompts and Engineers. Bram Adams, Natalie Pistunovich, Mat Ryer, and Johnny Boursiquot suggest tips, tricks, and best practices in prompt engineering for large language model APIs. This session was recorded in June 2023:

The Files and Folders of Go Projects Guests Ben Johnson and Chris James join hosts Mat Ryer and Kris Brandow to talk about the files and folders of your Go projects, big and small. Does the holy grail of the perfect structure exist? Or are we doomed to be figuring this out for the rest of our lives? This is the recording from May 2023:

Foundations of Go Performance From February 2024, hosts Johnny Boursiquot and Ian Lopshire are joined by Miriah Peterson and Bryan Boreham to discuss Go performance.

Ship Software, Not Code From April 2024, Natalie Pistunovich interviews Carlos Becker, a Brazil-based software developer who maintains GoReleaser. They highlight the advantages of Go as an environment for developing and delivering reliable, cross-platform software systems.

Creating Art and Visualizations with Go From February 2024, Angelica Hill interviews Anthony Sparks to discuss creating code, art, and visualizations with Go. Sparks maintains a number of public repositories on GitHub, including utilities for creating slide decks for presentations.

Visit the Go Time site for additional recordings of interest to gophers.

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