Great talk on Language Server Protocol from Adrian Hesketh and how to implement in #golang Also very grateful for Go's native type system having glanced at so much TypeScript for 40 mins 😅 #GopherConUK

Honoured to be speaking at this year's GopherCon UK and looking forward to another exciting event!

Last-minute slide tweaks ⌛ Good Luck card from 3-year old for inspiration 🙌 Can't wait for GopherCon UK! #gopherconuk #gopherconuk24

Gopher merch on-point again this year GopherCon UK! 👌🎩 #gopherconuk24 #gopherconuk

Don't miss out on the last keynote of #gopherconuk24! We have Adam Scholey (Adam Scholey) a senior backend engineer at Benefex, sharing his talk "AI is coming for your job". Join us in the Porter Tun at 16:15!

Great keynote by Adam Scholey is ai coming for your job. Nice end to the first day of #gopherconuk24

Great clarification from Beth Anderson [email protected] on the definitions of AI / ML / Gen AI GopherCon UK - they're not interchangeable! #gopherconuk24 #gopherconuk

Great illustration from Andrew Wormald re. outbox pattern to solve the problem of high latency in read replication. Ensures the change is fully propagated by the time we eventually hit the event streamer. GopherCon UK #gopherconuk24 #gopherconuk

Nice separation of concerns from Luno workflow package. Builder composes self-contained functional steps which automates progression through state machine Andrew Wormald GopherCon UK #gopherconuk24 #gopherconuk

The benefits of learning at #gopherconuk24 with thejetdev 🎓

Great talk from Mark Bradley (@[email protected]) on consumer-driven testing using Pact Clients define only the subset of fields they use == Reduces risk of breaking changes to contracts == Move fast and *not* break things! GopherCon UK #gopherconuk24 #gopherconuk

Another fantastic GopherCon UK wrapped up 🙌 Talks, catering and venue the Brewery exceptional as always and loved catching up with so many familiar faces. Very blessed to be part of such a wonderful community 🙏 See you next year! #gopherconuk24 #gopherconuk

The GopherCon UK is already publishing some videos from last week's conference! There is already a lot of good stuff there: youtube.com/playlist?list=… My talk and others from Matt Boyle Cameron Balahan Liam Hampton ✈️ ☁️ Michale Pratt Adam Scholey Beth Anderson [email protected] and Andrew Wormald

"AI is Coming for Your Job" 🤖 Watch Adam Scholey's (Adam Scholey) keynote from #gopherconuk24. Where he explores the impact of AI on the tech industry, addressing both its potential and the challenges it poses for software engineers in a rapidly evolving landscape. Watch

Thanks to djatlantic for sharing the opinion. 👇 I quoted this tweet as i feel like it sums up how most moderate people feel... irritated. I think that the biggest issue is that when David aka David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz speaks, he has an authority that goes beyond pretty much anyone else in

Back at The Brewery! GopherCon UK #gopherconuk25

Whistle-stop tour from Daniel Marti of what's in Go1.25... synctest pkg - no more waiting for async ops to complete when running tests ⏳ json/v2 - major upgrade which underpins v1 for free 😎 testing.TB - key/val attrs on tests can be correlated with prod logs 🔍 #gopherconuk25

Great talk on latency reduction loveholidays "If your code optimisations break the business you're in a lot of trouble" - David Vella on being selective, changing one thing at a time and the need for robust test coverage and observability before touching anything #gopherconuk25

Bad abstractions kill projects! Don't force them - let them emerge organically from your code. And if you think you've found a good one, check with your team that you have all the context before deploying to prod. Wise words from CrowdStrike's John Cinnamond 🙏 #gopherconuk25

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