Home automation with Go

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Join Johnny as he dives into the world of home automation with Ricardo Gerardi & Mike Riley, two tinkerers who’ve taken the plunge with Go. We explore the challenges (and the fun) they encounter along the way. If you’re interested in automating your home (or working with micro controllers) come learn how to get started!

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Featuring:

• Ricardo Gerardi – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Mike Riley – Website, GitHub, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Automate your home with Go from Pragmatic Publishers
• Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go from Pragmatic Publishers
• TinyGo - A Go Compiler For Small Places
• Gitea - Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:00:46)

https://coder.com/

3. Introducting the guests (00:04:00)

4. Micro-controllers (00:05:18)

5. Ops (00:08:22)

6. What are the steps? (00:11:12)

7. Sponsor: Fly,io (00:20:42)

https://fly.io/

8. Not Go? (00:23:48)

9. The coolest project (00:28:00)

10. Performance (00:36:19)

11. Sponsor: NordVPN (00:41:53)

https://nordvpn.com/practicalai

12. How does this help my career? (00:43:22)

13. Most challenging project (00:47:02)

14. What's next? (00:48:36)

15. Unpopular Opinions (00:52:06)

16. Mike's unpop (00:52:30)

17. Ricardo's unpop (00:53:02)

18. Johnny's unpop (00:53:50)

19. Outro (00:55:01)