The myth of incremental progress (Go Time #232)

06/02/22 • 72 min

During a conversation in the #gotime channel of Gopher Slack, Jerod mentioned that some people paint with a blank canvas while others paint by numbers. In this 8th episode of the maintenance series, we’re talking about maintaining our knowledge. With Jerod’s analogy and a little help from a Leslie Lamport interview, our panel discusses the myth of incremental progress.

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Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
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Flatfile – Data import is broken. We fixed it. Flatfile’s powerful out-of-the-box solution takes the data import burden off your shoulders, freeing you to solve bigger business problems and build products that people love.

Featuring:

Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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Railway.app - Bring your code, we’ll handle the rest.
Notion - One workspace. Every team.

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Michael Jackson – Website, GitHub, X
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Transcript

Transcript for Go Time #232 Kris Brandow:

Welcome, welcome, welcome, gophers! We are here for another episode of Go Time, and this week we're gonna be talking about another interesting little topic in the continuance of our maintenance series... For those of you out there that are counting, this is our eighth episode in the maintenance series. The genesis for this episode was a little chat we had in the Gophers Slack, in the Go Time channel. Shout-out to the Go Time channel; if