July 2018 Meetup

Meetup #51. Please RSVP at Meetup.

We get started at 6:30 pm.

Sponsors

Venue provided by Startup Edmonton.

Food sponsored by Bellstone Engineering.

Talks

Hugo Tidbits

Anthony Fok

Behind the scenes with a contributor to Hugo.

What's new in Hugo

Nathan Youngman (slides)

Hugo is a static site generator useful for blogs, marketing websites, and so on. We’ll take a quick look at Hugo Pipes, the new asset pipeline, and how it simplifies deployment.

Workshop

Build and deploy a tiny website with Hugo.

You will need:

• A laptop (or make a friend who has one and pair program).
• An idea for a small website that you want to build.
• Some familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and the command line.
• Willingness to learn, ask questions, and lookup documentation.

Try to come prepared:

• Install Hugo Extended from gohugo.io. Use Homebrew on macOS: brew install hugo
• Signup for an account with Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, or Netlify.

Expect to learn:

• Why use SASS: CSS with superpowers
• Hugo themes with Go templates
• Automating deployments with CircleCI 2.0
• Basic design principles for non-designers

News & Articles

• Go 1.11 beta 2
• Go modules have landed (vgo)
• Taking Go modules for a spin by Dave Cheney
• Go modules by Xavier Lucas
• Using Go modules with Travis CI by Dave Cheney
• Using Go for WebAssembly Applications by Sebastian Holstein
• Go 1.11: WebAssembly for the gophers by Nicolas Lepage
• Web Assembly and Go: A look to the future by Brian Ketelsen
• Getting to Go: The Journey of Go’s Garbage Collector by Rick Hudson

Jobs

• Software Developer at Yardly (Edmonton)
• The Go Team at Google (relocation required)
• Dev Tooling at ActiveState (Vancouver, potentially remote)
• Senior Backend Developer at Ardan Labs (remote)

Events

• GopherCon UK - Aug 1-3 (scholarships)
• GopherCon - Aug 27-30 (scholarships)
• Monthly Hack Day - Sep 8
• Startup Week - Oct 15-19 (workshop)
• Edmonton Go Meetup - August