go podcast()

I asked Delaney Gillilan to return to go podcast() to revisit datastar, a very impressive tool that enable backend to push changes to the frontend of a web application. In episode 54 we covered the "what is datastar", in this episode I wanted to dive a little deeper since I personally finally started to jump and use the library in projects. I have been a dedicated user of HTMX and Alpine for a long time already and once I tried datastar I found myself capable of great interactions between the frontend and backend and mostly keep the state that made sense in the backend. It's hard to explain, you'd have to test it to realize it's true power.
Links:
Datastar website

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This week I try to keep an open mind and we talk LLMs and AI with Markus Wüstenberg. Markus is a friend of the show and I noticed he was using a lot of LLM lately, I basically learn a lot by doing these podcast interviews, so I was interested to hear about what Markus is using LLM and AI in the systems he ships and also how does he uses AI as a software engineer in the day-to-day.
Personally my experience so far is very mixed, sometimes it's good other it's pretty frustrating with LLMs either integrating functionalities augmented by LLMs or trying to integrate a coding agent in my day-to-day, let's just say that I'm not there yet. But I wanted to hear about someone that do have real production experiences using these things, and Markus gives a solid fundation to demistified some aspects, at least for me ;).
Links:
gomponents + Datastar:
Markus's Claude Code skills
Markus's own LLM abstraction layer in Go called GAI
Andy Masley on AI and the environment
Charm's AI library in Go
Markus's website
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Jon helped a lot of teams improve their software engineer processes. We talk about the importance of testing, having sane Ci and CD pipeline, pairing and a lot of other extreme programing concepts.
Links:
Tuple pair programming guide:
The Mob Tool
Pop — Screen sharing for remote teams
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My desire to run a sustainable software business started somewhere near 2003 in the Business of Software forum. I've built, sold, and acquired a dozen of products since that time, with I have to admit the majority of failures.
I've seen three distincts era for software companies, we're definitably in the 3rd one, one that still has to be identified as good or bad.
Software companies, especially calm company is excruciably hard to be successful at. But when you're honest and define what is success to you and set out realistic goals, there's ways to succeed even without have $2m in ARR.
Go is of course a great choice to build a SaaS, but software product has almost zero to do with technology, especially at first and you'll most certainly end up rewriting to a v2 at some point after learning what the product really need to be. So the good old advice of use what you're most proficent in to write code is most often than not the correct answer.
I talk about my experiences trying to run a sustainable software company for the last 17 years.
Links:
My last course Zero to Gopher with a discount for listeners
Support the show on Patreon

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I retried Podman to replace a production service and did not wanted to re-installed Docker, mainly for security reasons. The fact that podman runs containers on the user-level and completely isolated from the system is a great alternative to the Docker deamon.
I'm trying something new for this episode, I'll try and get audio clips from people to add more dynamism to the episodes, if you can join the Slack channel and also I've started a Patreon if you want to chip in and help me keep the mic on.
Links:
My new course Zero to Gopher (50% off for listeners)
Blog post to view commands and the back story
Build SaaS apps in Go
Build a Google Analytics in Go

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