2020
A pandemic side project
Nicola starts the show to hear the stories behind the tools developers rely on every day.
About
Welcome to the bakery
The Developers' Bakery is a podcast about developer tooling and the people who build and use it. Every episode asks the same question in a different way.
What are developers using to bake today's software, and what did they learn along the way?The question behind every episode
How we got here
Five years, two seasons
#1–#99
99 open source stories
One project per episode, from tiny libraries built by one person to tools used by millions. All still in the archive.
#100 →
Three hosts, looser rules
Marco and Paolo join. A guest no longer needs to maintain a project: we want the setup, the tool built out of frustration, the conference that almost didn't happen.
Two kinds of bread
The formats
Deep Dive
A guest, a story
Conversations with someone building or using developer tools, built around one story.
Fresh from the Oven
The three of us
Just the hosts, on a topic we can't stop talking about: news, setups, hot takes, conference recaps.
Recipe of the Week
Many episodes end with each of us sharing one small tool or trick. Episodes are recorded remotely and, whenever we can, in person at conferences and meetups.
The bakers
Your hosts
Nicola Corti
Founder · Android GDE
Nicola started the Developers' Bakery in 2020 and hosted the first 99 episodes on his own. He's an Android GDE and works on Android infrastructure for React Native at Meta, based in London. He has founded and run developer communities across Europe, and in his free time he bakes real bread.
Marco Gomiero
Co-host since #100 · Android GDE
Marco was the guest of episode 52 and is now on the other side of the microphone. He's a software engineer at Airalo and a Google Developer Expert for Android, and he builds apps and the agent tooling that builds them, like FeedFlow and Difftray. Ask him about his agentic setup at your own risk.
Paolo Rotolo
Co-host since #100
Paolo is a regular at developer conferences around Europe, where most of the conversations that led to Season 2 happened. He brings the questions the other two forgot to ask.
Got a story worth baking?
We're looking for Deep Dive guests. You don't need to maintain an open source project.
106episodes and counting, all still on the shelf
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