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GopherCon India 2015

I came to GopherCon India not knowing what to expect, but from the moment I arrived it was nothing short of spectacular. I talked to amazing people who genuinely appreciated that members of the global community came to India to participate in the event.

Data mining with Go

What is the idea behind Gopher Gala project heatingeffect? Heating Effect provides a visual representation of the raw notice data from (chillingeffects.org). The Chilling Effects database collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law.

Go and the Secure Shell protocol

What is the Secure Shell protocol? Many of us use ssh(1) everyday to administer servers around the world. The Secure Shell protocol, however, allows us to do much more than open secure shells.

The world's first Go distributed hackathon.

Registration is now open for the Gopher Gala - the world’s first Go distributed hackathon. You may have heard of the Rails Rumble, Node Knockout, or Django Dash.

Cron as a file system

9p I read The Styx Architecture for Distributed Systems over a decade ago. The central idea of the paper is that “representing a computing resource as a form of file system, [makes] many of the difficulties of making that resource available across the network disappear”.

The Other Side of Go: Programming Pictures, the Read, Parse, Draw Pattern

The other side of Go: Programming Pictures, the Read, Parse, Draw Pattern Go has proven to be extremely versatile and well suited to back-end tasks, but sometimes you need a picture, and I’ve found that Go works well for generating visuals as well.