My Gopherfest Talk on go-alexa
Talk
I recently had the opportunity to perform a “lightening talk” at San Francisco’s Gopherfest 2016, a conference about the Go programming language, about my go-alexa library to create Amazon Alexa skills.
Still no word on when the video of my talk will be released, but I’ve embedded my slides below:
I love speaking to groups on fun topics like this and it’s something I hope to do more of in the near future. Let me know if you’d like me to talk to a group of people you know of…like a conference, or people waiting for the bus…whatever.
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