Bristol Meetups

GoBoy (Go Gameboy Emulator) & MemGuard (In Memory Security)

Hello Bristol Gophers ๐Ÿ‘‹!

More talks, more fun, more food ๐Ÿ• and more drinks ๐Ÿป. You Gophers know the drill!

Speakers:

๐Ÿ—ฃ Awn Umar - Protecting sensitive information in memory with MemGuard

Awn will introduce us to the act of protecting sensitive information in memory, going over naive solutions and their problems, and then the solution implemented in MemGuard. How it works internally, and how to use it.

Awn is a student at UoB and codes Go in his free time, mainly
low-level and security stuff.

๐Ÿ—ฃ ๏ปฟHumphrey Shotton - GameBoy Emulation in Go

Over the past two years Humphrey has been coding GoBoy: a Nintendo GameBoy Color emulator written in Go from scratch. This talk will look at how a GameBoy emulator works, taking a dive into the GameBoy internals, approaches and learnings when emulating it using Go, and showing how Go isn't just limited to server side applications. Humphrey is a Software Engineer at Sparx, an Exeter-based education technology company. He enjoys coding Go for work and taming gophers on personal Go projects in his spare time.

We are looking for speakers! ๐Ÿ“ฃ If you or anyone you know would like to speak, please let us know! We welcome all topics, we can even help you with ideas! In the meantime, we are open to better June puns, so if you have a better idea tweet us @golangbristol.

๐Ÿบ As always, afterwards we will be heading to a pub for a little .

๐Ÿ“ฃ We are looking for help with organising! If you or anyone you know would like to help, give us a shout! As you can see, our pun game especially is in dire need of a

๐Ÿ“ฃHelp us grow! JetBrains offers free licences to meet-ups with attendance greater than 30. If we can reach this, we will apply and be handing it out as a prize at events.

Thank you to everyone who was involved in organising, our amazing hosts and glorious sponsors.

๐Ÿ“ - Brightpearl
๐Ÿ• - SR2