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Hacking with Andrew and Brad: tip.golang.org

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What it is

A roughly hour-long live hacking session in which Go team members Andrew Gerrand and Brad Fitzpatrick write the new version of tip.golang.org, the site serving leading-edge Go documentation. It is unedited pair programming on a real Go project.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN people point to it as a rare chance to watch skilled developers write real code live, pair programming and explaining as they go.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Best video I have found to date is”

    Best programming video the commenter has found.

    Nebbers, 2019-04 · Recommendation · in “Orange_slice: Research Kernel and Hypervisor in Rust”

  2. “It's just something to watch the pros doing live coding.”

    Go team members live coding.

    diehunde, 2020-09 · Recommendation · in “YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills”

  3. “these two pair programming videos of Andrew Gerrand and Brad Fitzpatrick working on Go related projects”

    Pair programming videos of two Go developers.

    otras, 2022-10 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Where to watch skilled developers writing code and explaining ideas?”

  4. “Andrew Gerrand (previously on the Go core team) uses Vim without syntax highlighting.”

    Example of coding in Vim without syntax highlighting.

    ryanolsonx, 2024-03 · Recommendation · in “:syntax off (2016)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: golang, pair programming, live coding, web services, brad fitzpatrick

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