The Developers' Bakery

Building with AI and curiosity with Ivan Morgillo

Nicola Corti, Marco Gomiero, Paolo Rotolo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

What changes when AI can take care of the tedious parts of building software, and help you try ideas that once felt out of reach?

Today we’re joined by Ivan Morgillo, an Android engineer, indie developer, and longtime tinkerer. Ivan explains why he treats AI as an assistant for the annoying work, from wiring up Home Assistant to managing a fleet of coding sessions from his phone.

We get into his agent workflow: using Claude Code as an entry point, asking several models to review plans and code, and building ship-feature to coordinate the process. Ivan also describes how he added persistent memory with MemPalace, originally to keep a long-running Dungeons & Dragons campaign going across conversations.

The conversation ranges from jailbreaking a Kindle and using a webcam as a feedback loop, to custom hardware controls, fixing memory leaks in the Elgato Stream Deck app, and asking AI to “clean” a Chromecast. We finish with indie app ideas, the story behind Ivan’s Smart Pantry app, and his advice to live an interesting life so you encounter interesting problems to solve.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.33 Episode Start
01.26 Meet Ivan Morgillo
04.31 His AI assistant handles the annoying stuff
08.00 Coding from anywhere with an always-on agent setup
11.21 How Ivan gets AI to plan, build, and review
15.27 Giving AI a memory for a D&D campaign
21.19 How AI helped jailbreak an old Kindle
27.05 Hardware hacking is back (thanks to AI)
38.50 Four models review every code change
43.46 What becomes possible when code gets cheap?
49.13 A pantry problem turns into a profitable app
52.17 The best ideas start with an interesting life

Resources

Ivan Morgillo’s website - projects, writing, and links
@hamen on GitHub
@hamen on X
Ivan Morgillo on LinkedIn
ship-feature - Ivan’s open-source workflow for planning, implementation, and agent reviews
MemPalace - local-first persistent memory for AI agents
Home Assistant
Kindle Gratis - find free Kindle books
Smart Pantry - Ivan’s food and expiry-date tracking app
Code with the Italians - Ivan’s podcast with Sebastiano
MAKE by Pieter Levels - the book about building startups that Ivan mentions

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Android developer verification and the future of sideloading

Nicola Corti, Marco Gomiero, Paolo Rotolo — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0100

Android is introducing developer verification for apps installed on certified devices, including apps distributed outside Google Play. What does that mean for sideloading, open source projects, and the way Android developers share their work?

In this Fresh from the Oven episode, Nicola, Marco, and Paolo discuss the ADV rollout and its goals of making it harder to forge malicious apps. They walk through app registration, identity checks, and the advanced flow users can enable to install unverified apps after a (sadly long) 24-hour wait.

Join us in this episode, as we talk through Play Console stories, account suspensions, the 20-developers requirements, and what it means for Android’s reputation as an open platform.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.33 Episode Start
01.44 What is Android developer verification?
03.43 Identity checks and sharing a home address
04.36 Where and when enforcement starts
05.39 How app and developer verification works
06.15 Google’s safety goals and impersonation scams
07.38 Sideloading, ADB, and the advanced flow
08.38 The 24-hour wait and open source apps
10.03 Android’s promise of an open platform
12.12 The Keep Android Open campaign
13.04 Account suspensions and developer identity
16.04 Play Console warnings and automation
23.13 Limited distribution for students and hobbyists
26.10 Closed testing and the 20 testers requirement
27.35 AI makes building apps faster; distribution remains hard
30.00 Indie apps and the value of open distribution
34.52 Finding testers for closed testing
36.36 Internal apps and enterprise distribution
41.24 What happens next?
42.05 Closing

Resources

Android developer verification.
Building a safer Android ecosystem together - rollout regions, participating stores, and the advanced sideloading flow
Register for limited distribution - Share apps with up to 20 authorized devices
Android developer verification FAQ
Register package names with the Android Developer Console API - API for registering app package names
Keep Android Open - Community campaign and open letter about the policy

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Building developer conferences with Greg Fawson

Nicola Corti, Marco Gomiero, Paolo Rotolo — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0100

What does it take to build a developer conference that still feels like it belongs to its community?

Today we record in person in Berlin, with Greg Fawson, CEO of droidcon Global. Greg is going to share what happens behind the scenes of bit tech conferences: how droidcon grew from a 200-person gathering in 2009 into a global conference series, and why balancing attendees, speakers, sponsors, venues, and logistics is a constant juggling act.

We revisit the post-COVID decline of local meetups, a New York venue whose jet-fuel-powered air conditioning turned into a wind tunnel 🍃, and the ways Android’s evolution changed conference agendas. Greg also describes how AI is affecting talk submissions, session selection, company travel budgets, and the value of meeting other developers in person.

Finally, we look ahead to next.app DevCon, which brings Android, Flutter, iOS, React Native, mobile security, XR, mobile games, and agentic coding together while preserving dedicated spaces for each community.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
01.09 Episode Start
01.38 The hardest part of building a developer conference
04.59 How droidcon started
08.58 droidcon today
12.02 COVID’s impact on developer communities
15.07 Conference mistakes and the New York wind tunnel
21.52 How droidcon and Android changed
25.46 How AI is changing conference talks
28.22 Reviewing AI-generated talk submissions
31.58 AI, ticket sales, and the value of meeting in person
38.38 Building next.app DevCon
44.15 Cross-pollination across mobile communities
50.05 Advice for new conference organizers
52.16 Where to find Greg online
53.06 Closing

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Difftray and the agentic code review loop

Nicola Corti, Marco Gomiero, Paolo Rotolo — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0100

When coding agents can produce changes faster than you can inspect them, what does a useful code review look like?

In this Fresh from the Oven episode, Marco walks us through his agentic development setup. He explains how he reviews plans and architecture before implementation, how he uses fresh contexts and different models to review generated code, and why the signals he looks for are changing as code becomes a commodity.

The core of the conversation is Difftray, Marco’s local-first review desk for Git changes. Marco built it after repeatedly losing track of files that an agent had changed after his first pass.

Difftray remembers which files were reviewed, flags them when their diffs drift, and turns inline review comments into a prompt that can be sent back to the agent.

We also explore Marco’s remote workflow: HTML plans in Obsidian, Codex and Claude Code running on his Mac Studio, Difftray Companion on his phone, Tailscale for private remote access, and plenty of Git worktrees for parallel agents.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.59 Episode Start
01.43 Do we still review agent-written code?
06.01 From prompt to code review
09.08 Marco’s models and coding agents
11.27 Planning with agents
15.36 Why Marco built Difftray
20.04 Turning review comments into prompts
24.42 Reviewing code from a phone
28.36 Marco’s remote agentic setup
32.03 Parallel agents and Git worktrees
34.41 Bringing agent reviews into Difftray
36.43 Do developers still need an IDE?
42.06 FOSDEM 2027
44.26 Recipe of the Week
48.44 Closing

Resources

Difftray - Marco’s local-first review desk for Git changes
Difftray on GitHub
HTML Shelf on GitHub - Marco’s Obsidian plugin for browsing HTML plans on desktop and mobile
Obsidian
Tailscale
OpenCode
FOSDEM 2027
Recipe of the Week:
- Marco: Archify
- Nicola: Zencastr
- Paolo: GitHub stacked pull requests

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Making coding agents your own with Iury Souza

Nicola Corti, Marco Gomiero, Paolo Rotolo — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0100

How much of your coding agent can you make your own? Today we’re recording in person during the GDE Summit, with Iury Souza, a mobile developer and platform engineer who loves tinkering with his dev tools.

Iury takes us through his agentic development setup with OpenCode and Pi, from choosing models for planning and implementation to teaching an agent to build its own extensions. We explore what a harness actually does, how skills and AGENTS.md shape the context a model sees, and why sharing your perfect setup can be just as tricky as sharing your dotfiles.

We also talk about the future of terminal interfaces, the reality of running local models on a laptop, and how to keep up when agents produce more work than you can comfortably review. Iury shares his experiments with annotated plans and his open-source Visual Artifact Renderer, which turns agent output into visual explanations, code reviews, and dashboards.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.09 Yuri’s Introduction
02.00 What is your AI stack?
04.05 Building your own harness
05.57 The first thing you change in your harness
07.45 Sharing your harness customization
10.29 Using Graphical IDEs with AI?
12.32 Local models
15.46 What’s next for agentic development?
19.00 Yuri’s favorite creators
20.25 Where people can find you online?

Resources

OpenCode - Iury’s main coding harness
Pi - the extensible coding agent behind his experiments
Visual Artifact Renderer on GitHub - Iury’s tool for visual explanations, reviews, and dashboards
My 26-Q1 Agentic Coding Workflow - more background on Iury’s setup
@iurysza on GitHub
@iurysza on x
Iury’s Website

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99 episodes, and everything I got wrong

Nicola Corti, Marco Gomiero, Paolo Rotolo — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0100

One hundred episodes. 🎉

When this podcast started back in 2020, as one of those pandemic side projects, I would have never thought we would reach this milestone. Yet here we are, five years later.

To celebrate, we’re turning the format upside down: today I’m the one under the spotlight, and I’m not alone in the bakery. Marco Gomiero, who you might remember from episode #52, and Paolo Rotolo are on stage with me, recorded in person here in Berlin, and they get to ask the questions for once.

We talk about how this show came to be, the six months I spent building the infrastructure before recording a single word, why the “one open source project per episode” rule slowly turned into a cage, the episodes I regret, what it’s like to travel the world with a microphone that looks like a bomb on an X-ray, and why I came very close to stopping at 99.

And then we look ahead. From today Marco and Paolo are officially co-hosts of this show, and the bakery gets two kinds of episodes: Deep Dives with a guest, and Fresh from the Oven, where the three of us pick a topic and dig into it. We’re also opening a new segment, the Recipe of the Week, where each of us shares a small tool or trick we picked up recently.

Thank you to everyone who listened, shared, and came on stage over these 100 episodes. Here’s to the next batch 🍞

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Chapters

00.00 Intro
00.58 Episode Start
03.13 Nico is under the spotlight!
05.33 The origin of the bakery
08.02 Going too niche?
11.57 Evolving this podcast
13.09 Regrets and mistakes
16.09 Travelling with a microphone
19.47 Finding guests
21.26 Tales from OSS maintainers
26.38 What all OSS maintainers have in common?
30.49 AI & Open Source
36.55 New co-hosts and new formats!
40.26 Recipe of the week
45.28 Where people can find us?

Resources

Recipe of the week:
- Nicola: Vowen, a free and fully local alternative to Wispr Flow
- Marco: Code review comments are the rules you forgot to write down, a loop to keep AGENTS.md up to date from past PR review comments
- Paolo: Android CLI, an alternative to token-hungry MCP servers
Mentioned Resources:
- prof18/RSS-Parser on GitHub - 10 years old this June!
- FeedFlow - Marco’s multiplatform RSS reader
- AppIntro/AppIntro on GitHub
- #52 - RSS-Parser with Marco Gomiero

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Android MCP SDK with Jason Pearson

Nicola Corti — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0100

Today we venture in the world of AI with Jason Pearson and the Android MCP (Model Context Protocol) SDK, a new library that allows Android developers to build apps that can communicate with AI models more effectively.

While this library is still in its early days, this solution has a lot of potential to revolutionize how we interact and debug our Android apps. Jason is going to share insights from his with MCP and what it enables for Android developers: from layout inspections, to network debugging and potentially automating and simplifying UI testing for mobile apps!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.16 Jason’s Introduction
02.02 What is the Android MCP SDK?
04.36 MCP Use cases
08.19 Shipping MCPs in production apps
12.32 Installing the MCP SDK
14.36 Project Maturity
16.21 Building a new mental model
22.45 What got into building an MCP server?
25.24 How does the MCP protocol look like?
29.36 Which APIs from the MCP spec have you implemented?
31.18 What’s next for the Android MCP SDK?
34.49 The future of AI
40.42 Futher reading
43.55 Where people can find you online?

Resources

kaeawc/android-mcp-sdk on GitHub
Official Project Documentation
Mentioned Resources:
- Why MCP really is a big deal - Model Context Protocol with Tim Berglund
- AI Code Assistants for Android Engineers
@kaeawc on GitHub
@kaeawc on Twitter
@kaeawc.bsky.social on Bluesky
Jason’s Personal Website

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Compose Hot Reload with Sebastian Sellmair

Nicola Corti — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:00:00 +0100

Since it’s KotlinConf week we do have a special new episode for you folks! 🎁

Today we have on stage Sebastian Sellmair, software engineer at JetBrains, and he’s here to talk about Compose Hot Reload.

With Compose Hot Reload, you can make changes to your Jetpack Compose code and see the results instantly in your app without having to restart it! This means you can iterate faster and get immediate feedback on your changes, which is arguably a huge game-changer!

In this episode, Sebastian will walk us through the story of this project, how it works internally, and why you need a custom JVM to make it work. He’ll also share some insights on how to test Hot Reload and what the future holds for this project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.13 Sebastian’s Introduction
01.58 In case you missed it: what is Jetpack Compose?
03.39 What is Compose Hot Reload?
10.06 How Hot Reload works?
19.05 Watching for file changes
25.57 The story of Hot Reload
32.56 A custom JVM
38.07 Testing Hot Reload
43.09 Who will maintain Compose Hot Reload?
46.05 Hot Reload inside Android Studio
51.29 What’s next for Compose Hot Reload?
53.54 Futher reading
55.22 Where people can find you online?

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Bit with Gilad Shoham

Nicola Corti — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:00:00 +0100

We’re back with a fresh new episode! 🍞🎉

Today, we sit down with Gilad Shoham, Head of Engineering at Bit.dev

In this episode, Gilad will walk us through the fundamentals of Bit, how it enables composable architectures, and how development teams are using it as part of their workflow. We will touch on common challanges that developers are facing nowadays such as scaling teams, enabling them to be independent and move fast, while keeping the integration of the entire platform seamless.

We will also touch on the future of AI-assisted development and how Bit.dev fits in this bigger picture.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.51 Episode Start
01.15 Gilad’s Introduction
02.41 What is Bit?
04.01 Composable Architecture
08.04 Bit & Harmony
13.21 Popular use cases for Bit
20.44 Sharing UI components
22.35 Dependency hell
28.20 Extending Bit beyond JavaScript
30.28 What is open source of bit.dev?
33.52 Who’s using bit.dev?
35.13 How bit.dev started?
37.31 Bit.dev & AI
47.44 Holistic AI
55.14 What AI of the future might look like
58.19 Futher reading
61.15 Where people can find you online?

Resources

teambit/bit on GitHub
Bit.dev Official Website
Bit.cloud Official Website
Mentioned Resources
- @Bitdev Youtube Channel
- Bit Slack Workspace
Gilad Personal Website
@GiladShoham on GitHub
@ShohamGilad on Twitter
Gilad Shoham on LinkedIn

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Aurora Store with Aayush Gupta

Nicola Corti — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0100

We’re back with a fresh new episode at The Developer’s Bakery! 🎉

In this episode, we chat with Aayush Gupta, the maintainer of Aurora Store, a popular alternative to the Google Play Store.

Aayush will share what makes Aurora Store unique, including its features, security measures, and how it compares to other similar stores like FDroid.

We’ll deep dive into some of the technical aspects of Aurora Store, discussing topics such as anonymous login, malware protection, and much more.

As a bonus, Aayush is also a moderator at XDA Developers, one of the biggest Android community out there, and will share his journey getting into it.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.51 Episode Start
01.13 Aayush’s Introduction
02.26 Aayush’s story
03.45 What is Aurora Store?
05.12 Aurora Store vs FDroid
06.10 Aurora Store features
08.48 Trusting Aurora Store
10.58 Anonymous login
13.30 Protecting against malwares
14.48 Where to download Aurora Store?
16.11 GitLab vs GitHub
17.21 Discoverability on GitLab
18.51 The history of this project
24.42 Who’s maintaining Aurora Store now?
25.59 Material Design 3
27.07 Managing Translations
29.01 Contributing Translations
30.26 How to best contribute to Aurora Store?
33.47 The Aurora Store Community
34.48 Telegram Support Group
35.39 What’s next for Aurora Store?
37.24 Further reading
38.41 Being an XDA Moderator
42.44 Where people can find you online?

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http4k with David Denton

Nicola Corti — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Time for a new episode of The Developers’ Bakery! 🎉

In this episode, we dive into the world of http4k with David Denton, exploring how you can treat your server as a function! Thanks to Kotlin expressivity, http4k allows you to develop server applications that are easy to test and maintain.

David created and maintains the http4k together with Ivan Sanchez, and will share his story in creating this framework, which they claim it stands out as the most testable web toolkit. We will also discuss their journey from an open-source project to becoming a full-fledged company.

Tune in to learn everything http4k!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.16 David’s Introduction
03.01 What is http4k?
04.37 Your server as a function
06.38 The http4k ecosystem
08.20 The most testable web toolkit
10.39 Kotlin-specific features in http4k
12.14 http4k vs ktor
14.16 http4k’s performances
15.53 Success stories
19.35 Running http4k on Android
20.37 Plugins and integrations
22.22 The story of http4k
26.46 From an OSS project to a company
29.03 Who’s maintaining http4k?
30.40 Best way to contribute
32.49 http4k v6
35.55 Coroutines support
37.51 http4k and AI
39.55 Further reading
41.47 Where people can find you online?

Resources

http4k/http4k on GitHub
http4k Official Website
@http4k on Twitter
http4k/http4k-android-examples on GitHub
Mentioned Resources:
- Server as a Function in Kotlin - Video from KotlinConf 2018
- Exploring the Testing Hyperpyramid with Kotlin and http4k - Video from KotlinConf 2023
- Introduction to http4k - Video by Dmitry Kandalov
- Pairing with Duncan McGregor playlist
@daviddenton on GitHub
David on Clockwork
David Denton on LinkedIn

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Astro with Elian Van Cutsem

Nicola Corti — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode of The Developers’ Bakery, we explore Astro, the modern web framework, with Elian Van Cutsem, one of its maintainers. Elian will walk us through Astro’s content-first approach, how it compares to other web frameworks, and its support for server-side/hybrid rendering.

We also dive into Astro’s governance model and the challenges of maintaining an open-source project at this scale. Elian will also share his insights on the latest Astro 5 release and what’s next for the project.

Finally, we chat about FOSDEM! We’ll share some of our personal anecdotes from the conference which just happened in Brussels, so you don’t want to miss this episode!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.07 Elian’s Introduction
01.58 What is Astro?
03.16 What does it mean to be content-first?
05.41 Astro’s main use case
06.28 Astro vs other static-site-generator
07.37 Server side rendering with Astro
10.15 Hybrid Rendering
11.01 The Island architecture
12.57 Astro’s performances
14.45 Where do you deploy your applications?
16.00 Astro success stories
19.41 Astro’s governance model
23.03 How did you feel when you became a maintainer?
24.08 Maintainers vs Core team member
25.40 The biggest challenge of maintaining Astro
29.09 Getting funding
31.17 What’s new in Astro 5?
33.35 What’s next for Astro?
35.26 What brings you to FOSDEM?
36.48 FOSDEM vibe and anecdotes
40.54 Further reading
43.41 Where people can find you online?

Resources

withastro/astro on GitHub
Astro Official Website
Mentioned Resources:
- Getting Started with Astro
- Astro Themes Gallery
- Astro Studio - All Secrets Reveiled - Video from React Alicante
@ElianCodes on GitHub
@ElianCodes on Twitter

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KotlinPoet with Egor Andreevich

Nicola Corti — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Let’s kickoff 2025 with a fresh new episode of The Developers’ Bakery! 🎉

Today, we talk about KotlinPoet with Egor Andreevich. KotlinPoet is a library from Square used to generate Kotlin code. It’s a great tool to generate code at compile time, and it’s used by many libraries and frameworks for Android and not only.

Egor has been involved with KotlinPoet for multiple years and today will share with us how KotlinPoet works, when to use it, and how to contribute to the project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.07 Egor’s Introduction
02.07 What is Kotlinpoet?
06.34 KotlinPoet use case
08.43 When to use code generation?
13.58 Templates vs KotlinPoet
17.32 Generating code that definitely compiles
19.46 Kotlin Poet 2.0
24.13 The challenges of KotlinPoet
27.44 Doing OSS at Square
32.55 Who’s maintaining KotlinPoet?
34.01 How to contribute to KotlinPoet?
36.53 How Egor got involved with KotlinPoet?
38.48 What’s next for KotlinPoet?
42.05 Further reading
43.38 Where people can find you online?

Resources

square/kotlinpoet on GitHub
KotlinPoet Official Website
Exploring Kotlin Symbol Processing: A Practical Guide - Video From Droidcon London
@Egorand on GitHub
@egorand.dev on Bluesky
Egor’s Blog

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Daytona with Ivan Burazin

Nicola Corti — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000

We’re back with another episode about developer tools! Today, we’re diving into Daytona 🚀, a self-hosted and secure open source development environment manager.

I’m thrilled to have on stage Ivan Burazin, CEO and co-founder of Daytona, to tell us more about this project.

Do you recall how much time it takes you to have your development environment ready? Think about how many hours you spend setting up your machine, installing dependencies, and configuring your IDE. Daytona aims to solve exactly this problem by providing a development environment that can get you up to speed in seconds!

In addition, Ivan will walk us through the story of Daytona: how it started and what’s next for this tool.

Ivan also has a lot of experience in conference organization. In this episode, we’ll touch on what he learned from creating tech conferences and how that skills helped him build Daytona today.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.22 Ivan’s Introduction
02.43 What is Daytona?
04.20 How developers would use Daytona?
06.46 Running Daytona
10.55 Browser based IDEs vs Daytona
12.03 Accessing shared environments
14.27 Using Daytona with Open Source projects
17.53 Pricing
21.02 Who’s funding Daytona?
24.04 The story of Daytona
29.51 From organizing conferences to building tools
33.57 The hardest part of organizing a conference
39.51 What’s next for Daytona?
45.31 Further reading
46.48 Where people can find you online?

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Excalidraw with Aakansha Doshi

Nicola Corti — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Today we’re going to talk about Excalidraw 🎨, a web tool to sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn style.

I’m glad to have on stage Aakansha Doshi, one of the maintainer of Excalidraw, to tell us more about this project. Aakansha will tell us the story of Excalidraw, how it evolved over time, and its secret to achieve the distinctive hand-drawn style.

We’ll also talk about the community around Excalidraw, and Aakansha will share some tips on how to start contributing to your first open-source project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.13 Akansha’s Introduction
02.21 What is Excalidraw?
03.51 Excalidraw’s hand-written style
06.32 Storing and sharing diagrams
09.16 excalidraw.com vs OSS
10.10 The Excalidraw tech stack
11.12 Your story with Excalidraw
14.42 Who’s maintaining Excalidraw?
16.22 Suggestions for getting started with open source
19.04 How to contribute to Excalidraw?
21.33 Isn’t Excalidraw feature complete?
25.20 How do you test Excalidraw?
26.27 Biggest challenge in maintaining Excalidraw
30.32 Refactoring Excalidraw
32.11 What’s next for Excalidraw?
35.33 AI & Excalidraw
37.08 Further reading
39.17 Where people can find you online?

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Chucker with Nicola Corti

Nicola Corti — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0100

It’s time for another special episode, 90!

Together with our own Nicola, we’re diving into the world of Chucker, an open-source library that helps you debug network requests in Android.

With Chucker you can simply inspect the HTTP and GraphQL requests and responses, visualize the body such as JSON or images, and even export them to share with your team.

Nicola will tell us the story of how this library was born, how it evolved over time, and how you can use it in your projects.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.38 What is Chucker?
04.13 Installing Chucker
06.51 Chucker features
13.44 v4
17.03 Crash reporting?
19.51 Configuring Chucker
22.34 From Chuck to Chucker
33.04 Use Chucker to catch-em-all!
34.14 Supporting Chucker
37.22 Further reading

Resources

ChuckerTeam/chucker on GitHub
TheBakery Official Website
Mentioned Resources
- Use Chucker to Catch ‘Em All - Video from Droidcon Berlin
- Debugging Network Requests in Android with Chucker: A Comprehensive Guide
@cortinico on GitHub
@cortinico on Twitter

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Language Servers with Gorkem Ercan

Nicola Corti — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0100

We’re back with another episode about developer tooling and this time we’re diving into the world of Language Servers!

We have the pleasure to have on stage Gorkem Ercan, the CTO of Jozu and member of the Eclipse Foundation Board. Gorkem will walk us through his journey in the world of Language Servers, from writing Visual Studio Code plugins to building both the Java and the YAML Language Server.

We’ll also talk a lot about Eclipse IDE, the Eclipse Foundation, and we’ll touch also on his new project: Kitops.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.55 Episode Start
01.19 Gorkem’s Introduction
02.55 What are Language Servers?
05.05 Gorkem’s language servers journey
10.50 Writing Visual Studio Code plugins
12.42 Syntax Highlightning vs Language Servers
14.33 Challenges of writing a Language Server
17.47 The YAML Language Server
20.16 YAML vs Java
23.22 Moving to the Eclipse Foundation
25.02 Life in the Eclipse Foundation
28.50 Being a member of the board
30.17 Eclipse IDE today
33.46 What is Jozu?
38.21 From Language Servers to ML models handoff?
42.14 Takeaways from writing Language Servers
44.13 OSS in Startups vs Foundations
47.54 Further reading
50.21 Where people can find you online?

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Charty with Himanshu Singh

Nicola Corti — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0100

It’s time to spotlight another amazing Android library in this episode of The Developers’ Bakery! Today, I’m joined by Himanshu Singh, author and maintainer of Charty.

Charty is a chart library entirely written for Jetpack Compose. In this episode, Himanshu will walk us through the complexities of building custom UI libraries and his passion for open-source.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.19 Himanshu’s Introduction
02.19 What is Charty?
03.43 What is Jetpack Compose
05.43 The story of Charty
08.54 MPAndroidChart vs Charty
10.27 Writing libraries for Compose
12.28 The challenges of building a chart library
14.53 Learning to say no
17.34 The most requested feature
18.48 Making Charty multiplatform
19.53 Charty 2.0.0?
22.21 How to contribute to Charty?
26.22 How open-source accelerated your career
29.59 Which other libraries are you maintaining?
31.46 Further reading
33.12 Where people can find you online?

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Redpanda with Christina Lin

Nicola Corti — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0100

We keep on exploring the world of data with another amazing guest: Christina Lin, Developer Advocate at RedPanda.

RedPanda is a data streaming platform, entirely built with C++ that aims to be faster and more efficient than Kafka. In this episode, Christina tells us all about RedPanda, its features, and how it’s different from other streaming platforms.

Christina also shares her journey into Developer Advocacy, and share some of her tips to create engaging content for developers.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.10 Christina’s Introduction
02.01 What is RedPanda?
03.04 RedPanda in action
05.46 RedPanda features
09.53 Picking C++
13.41 Attracting C++ contributors
15.20 How faster is RedPanda?
17.10 Self-hosting vs Cloud
20.11 Single binary architecutre
22.29 The history of RedPanda
24.59 Who’s maintaining RedPanda?
26.35 How Christina got involved in RedPanda
28.29 Being a DevRel
31.18 The best way to reach developers
33.39 The art of drawings
35.42 DevRel success metrics
37.38 From SWE to DevRel
39.21 Further reading
40.42 Where people can find you online?

Resources

redpanda-data/redpanda on GitHub
Redpanda Official Website
Mentioned Resources:
- Redpanda Youtube Channel
- Redpanda University
@weimeilin79 on GitHub
@Christina_wm on Twitter
Christina Lin on Linkedin

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Dagster with Sandy Ryza

Nicola Corti — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0100

Today is time to talk about Data Pipelines and Data Engineering. I’m really excited to have on stage Sandy Ryza, Lead Engineer of Dagster.

If you’re a software engineer and you’re afraid of dealing with data pipelines, fear no more! Sandy is on a mission to make data pipelines easier to handle for software engineers. Join us in this episode to learn more about Dagster, and how it can make it easier for you to build and manage your data assets.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.09 Sandy’s Introduction
02.29 What is Dagster?
05.14 How is Dagster affecting software engineers?
06.13 Data engineering as software engineering
11.34 Cloud vs Self-hosted
13.42 Dagster Plus vs Dagster Plus Pro
14.41 The history of Dagster
19.43 Who’s maintaining Dagster?
20.59 Contributing to Apache Spark
24.42 Being an Open Source Data Scientist
29.18 Speaking a different language than SWE
31.44 Moving from SWE to Data Scientist
34.38 Approaching the Data Scientist world
35.59 What’s next for Dagster
37.53 Further reading
39.46 Where people can find you online?

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Kotlin Multiplatform at Google I/O with Marcello Galhardo

Nicola Corti — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0100

Welcome to a special in-person episode of The Developers’ Bakery, recorded live in Berlin at Google I/O Connect 2024!

There, I had the privilege of having on stage Marcello Galhardo, Software Engineer at Google. Marcello is working in the AndroidX team responsible for adding Kotlin Multiplatform support for several popular AndroidX libraries.

If you’re an Android Developer, you probably used one of those libraries in your projects, such as Lifecycle or Room. Marcello is going to walk us through the latest announcements about Kotlin Multiplatform at Google I/O, and how they’re going to impact the way we build Android apps.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.50 Episode Start
01.37 Marcelo’s Introduction
02.18 What is Kotlin Multiplatform?
03.11 KMP @ Google IO
04.00 KMP announcement excitement
05.32 Convince us to use KMP for a new app
07.20 KMP support in AndroidX libraries
08.29 Migrating from Android to KMP
09.02 Which library has you contributed to?
09.27 Which library was the hardest to KMP migrate?
10.28 How many developers are involved in KMP compatibility?
11.28 alpha and versioning for AndroidX libraries
12.57 Where is the AndroidX source code?
13.42 KMP compatible vs KMP supported
15.19 Google’s stance on cross-platform
16.59 How is Google is using KMP?
17.53 Marcello’s journey
18.19 Foldable devices and large screens
20.17 Which IDE to use for KMP?
22.25 AI and KMP
25.49 Further reading
26.42 Where people can find you online?

Resources

Kotlin Multiplafrom Mobile Overview
Mentioned Resources:
- Android Support for KMP Announcement
- Making development across platforms easier for developers
- Kotlin Multiplatform in Google Workspace by Jason Parachoniak - Video from KotlinConf
@marcellogalhardo on GitHub
@marcellogalhard on Twitter
Marcello’s Website

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System Initiative with Adam Jacob

Nicola Corti — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0100

Today we talk about a completely new topic: DevOps and System configuration. I’m really excited to have on stage Adam Jacob, CEO and Co-founder of System Initiative.

Adam is challenging the status quo of DevOps tools with a completely new approach to system configuration. While System initiative looks like a no-code tool at first, it comes with all the power of TypeScript to let you build and manage your infrastructure in a completely new way.

We will talk about the history of System Initiative, the challenges of building a new tool in a crowded space, and the future of DevOps.

Adam is also the co-founder of Chef, a really popular configuration management tool, and he will share with us some of the lessons learned from that previous experience.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.03 Adam’s Introduction
03.19 What is a System Initiative?
07.54 What are the System Initiative feature?
11.16 Is this a drag-n-drop tool to create AWS infras?
14.37 No-code tools & quality of their output
20.12 Frontend engineers doing DevOps?
23.06 How is System Initiative doing Open Source?
25.18 The history of System Initiative
34.10 From demo to production
36.13 AI & DevOps
39.18 What you learned from building Chef?
43.51 Further reading
45.06 Where people can find you online?
46.07 Sysadmin in disguise

Resources

systeminit/si on GitHub
System Initiative Official Website
System Initiative Discord server
Talk at Config Mgmt Camp 2023 - What if Infrastructure as Code never existed
@adamhjk on GitHub
@adamhjk on Twitter
@adamhjk on Mastodon

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Hasura with Tanmai Gopal

Nicola Corti — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0100

Hi everyone, today is time to talk about GraphQL! We have on stage Tanmai Gopal, CEO and co-founder of Hasura.

Hasura is an open-source GraphQL engine that helps you build and scale your GraphQL APIs, basically ‘without’ limits! We’ll talk about the history of Hasura, how it works, and what’s next for this project. Join us in this episode as Tanmai will tell us his story founding Hasura and how they’re building a vibrant ecosystem around this project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.09 Tanmai’s Introduction
02.04 What is a Hasura?
04.12 Exposing DBs via GraphQL
07.41 Self-hosting Hasura
13.00 Subscriptions in Hasura
16.07 Hasura Supergraph
21.15 Single Point of Failure
23.51 The history of Hasura
33.12 Founding Hasura
35.22 Haskell in the backend
40.12 Doing Open Source at Hasura
43.50 What’s next for Hasura?
50.27 Further reading
52.47 Where people can find you online?

Resources

hasura/graphql-engine on GitHub
Hasura Official Website
Mentioned Resources:
- Getting Started with Hasura
- Hasura Discord server
@coco98 on GitHub
@tanmaigo on Twitter
Tanmai Gopal on Linkedin

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Mautic with Ruth Cheesley

Nicola Corti — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:00:00 +0100

Time for a brand-new topic today, as we’re going to talk about Marketing Automation.

I’m excited to have on stage Ruth Cheesley, who’s going to tell us all about Mautic. Mautic is a marketing automation software, that helps you manage your email campaigns, track your user engagement, and much more. It’s fully open-source (written in PHP 🐘) and works either as self-hosted or as a cloud solution.

But we’re also going to talk about another crucial topic in open-source: governance models. Ruth has been supporting the Mautic community for years, and helped them navigate through a governance model change. She’s going to share what worked and what not for Mautic and give us some tips on how to manage a community project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.14 Ruth’s Introduction
03.08 What is a Mautic?
04.27 Mautic competitors
05.29 Self-hosting Mautic
07.22 The open-source and business model
10.02 Who’s working full-time for Mautic?
11.35 The history of Mautic
14.01 Tech Stack
15.23 How Ruth got involved in this project?
19.09 Collecting metrics about Mautic
21.29 Mautic on mobile
22.13 Growing a community
25.58 Testing at Mautic
28.00 Using Gitpod to help contributions
29.22 Governance models
39.20 Voting in the open
43.56 Who can vote?
45.08 Ruth’s suggestions on doing governance
48.36 Code of conducts
49.47 Woman in Open Source
52.04 Further reading
54.30 Where people can find you online?

Resources

mautic/mautic on GitHub
Mautic Official Website
Mentioned Resources:
- Mautic on YouTube
- Lead Scoring Best Practices with Mautic
@RCheesley on GitHub
@RCheesley on Twitter
Ruth Cheesley on LinkedIn
Ruth’s Website

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Fleet with Zach Wasserman

Nicola Corti — Wed, 08 May 2024 13:00:00 +0100

Today we touch on a brand-new topic: device management! I’m excited to have on stage Zach Wasserman, co-founder and CTO at Fleet.

Fleet is a Mobile device management (MDM) software, that helps you manage your device fleet. It’s fully open-source and works either as self-hosted or as a cloud solution. Zach is going to guide us through the world of fleet management, talking about challenges such as managing vulnerabilities and updating devices.

If you ever worked with a managed device, you’ll be amazed to learn some of the secrets from the device management world!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.14 Zac’s Introduction
02.04 What is a Fleet?
05.57 Fleet vs other MDM tools
08.08 Fleet vs chef
10.40 Challenges in building MDM software
12.21 The journey of a new device
15.53 Updating OS version
17.50 Integrating with user’s calendar
18.55 Incident Stories
21.17 Who’s using Fleet?
23.15 Self-hosting vs cloud
24.14 Handling malwares
26.25 The history of Fleet
30.12 Introducing osquery
31.48 Being part of the Linux Foundation
34.56 Being part of a steering commitee of a an OSS project
37.04 What’s next for Fleet?
39.17 Provisioning Vision Pros
40.03 Integrating AI?
41.12 Further reading
42.46 Where people can find you online?

Resources

fleetdm/fleet on GitHub
Fleet Official Website
Open Source GitOps for Detection Engineering - Video from BSides Las Vegas 2023
Collect First, Ask Questions Later - Video from GopherCon 2022
@zwass on GitHub
@thezachw on Twitter
Zach Wasserman on LinkedIn

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OpenCollective with Xavier Damman

Nicola Corti — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0100

It’s time for another bonus episode of The Developers’ Bakery! 🎉

Today, I’m extremely excited to have on stage Xavier Damman, co-founder of OpenCollective!

If you’ve been doing open source for a while, you’ve probably heard about OpenCollective. It’s a platform that helps open-source projects and communities to raise funds and manage their finances transparently. But OpenCollective is much more than just a way to support open-source projects, as you can support and fund all sorts of community initiatives.

In this episode we’ll talk about the story of OpenCollective, how it all started, and how it grew to become the platform we all know today. We’ll also discuss the challenges of running a platform like OpenCollective, the future of open-source funding, and much more!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.34 Xavier’s Introduction
05.08 What is a Open Collective?
09.41 Xav’s role in OpenCollective today
11.49 What is a Fiscal Host?
15.44 It’s all about transparency
18.15 The challenges of kicking off OpenCollective
22.12 Fees and running the platform
23.46 How many donations has OpenCollective processed?
26.02 GitHub Sponsors vs OpenCollective
27.35 Is OSS sponsorship broken?
35.33 DAOs
37.58 The new economic model
42.07 Further reading
45.18 Where people can find you online?

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Aptabase with Guilherme Oenning

Nicola Corti — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0100

I’m excited to welcome on stage our next guest Guilherme Oenning, creator of Aptabase!

Aptabase is an open-source tool to collect and analyze analytics from your users. The key feature is that it’s designed with privacy in mind, as all the events are stored anonymously. It’s fully GDPR-compliant and it’s available either as a cloud service or as a self-hosted solution.

Join us in this episode, where Guilherme will tell us the story of how Aptabase grew from a side project to successful product!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.09 Guilherme’s Introduction
02.23 What is Aptabase?
06.55 Aptabase main fatures
09.50 Where Aptabase works?
11.40 Users opting out of analytics
13.38 Anonymous vs pseudo-anonymous
18.29 Educating users on anonymous data
21.10 Cloud vs Self-hosting
23.43 Where are the analytics stored?
25.34 Aptabase free tier
27.57 How many users are on Aptabase?
29.47 Aptabase success stories
31.22 Promoting a side project
33.49 Aptabase biggest challenge
36.02 The tech stack
38.08 Who’s maintaining Aptabase?
41.17 What’s next for Aptabase?
43.56 Further reading
45.17 Where people can find you online?

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Roborazzi with Takahiro Menju

Nicola Corti — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

We’re back in the Android development space with an episode about screenshot testing. I’m excited to have on stage Takahiro Menju, Android GDE and author of Roborazzi.

With Roborazzi, you can easily run screenshot tests for your Android app, without having to run a device at all. That’s possible because Roborazzi relies on Robolectric, which allows you to run Android tests directly on the JVM.

Join us in this episode as Takahiro walk us through the story of this library and how it can incredibly simplify screenshot testing for our Android apps.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.09 Takahiro’s Introduction
01.58 What is Roborazzi?
03.55 Roborazzi’s features
04.51 What Robolectric brings?
05.25 Running on the JVM vs Emulator
06.37 Saving CI and developers time
07.54 Who’s using Roborazzi?
09.09 DroidKaigi Conference App
10.23 Comparing screenshots with Robolectric
11.02 Challenges in building Roborazzi
13.43 Who’s maintaining Roborazzi?
14.29 The Android testing strategy
17.25 What’s broken in Android testing?
20.23 Screenshot Testing in other ecosystems
21.58 The story of Roborazzi
23.31 How to contribute to Roborazzi?
25.04 What’s next for Roborazzi?
26.40 Further reading
28.22 Where people can find you online?

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XWiki with Vincent Massol

Nicola Corti — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Today we talk about wikis! And I’m excited to have on stage Vincent Massol, CTO of XWiki.

XWiki is an open-source tool to create wikis for your team, your project, or your company. Think of it as a competitor for Confluence. The key feature of XWiki is its extensibility, thanks to its various number of plugins that allow you to cover a variety of use cases, from documentation to knowledge base.

Join us in this episode where Vincent will tell us the story of XWiki and how it grew to be used by companies like Amazon & Airbus among others. Oh, and did you know they commit directly to main? Let’s find out more about that!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.11 Intro
00.57 Episode Start
01.16 Vincent’s Introduction
03.20 A Confluence alternative
07.12 XWiki features
10.49 Cloud vs Self-hosting
12.43 XWiki Business Model
15.02 Who’s using XWiki
17.02 Extending XWiki
21.03 Plugins
22.44 The Stack & Scripting Languages
25.33 Converting to Kotlin?
27.31 The Story of XWiki
29.59 How Vincent got involved in XWiki?
34.27 When a Jira competitor?
35.11 The XWiki Community
38.43 Committing directly to main
42.36 Project Cristal
47.06 Further reading
49.00 Where people can find you online?

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fast-check with Nicolas DUBIEN

Nicola Corti — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Time for a new episode of The Developers’ Bakery! Today we’re back talking about testing, but we’ll have the opportunity to learn a new approach we haven’t talked about in this podcast yet: Property Based Testing.

Joining us today is Nicolas DUBIEN, creator of fast-check, a library to write property-based tests for TypeScript and JavaScript.

Nicolas will guide us through the world of property-based testing, explaining how fast-check can help us to write tests that are offering better coverage of our code.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.09 Nicolas’ Introduction
02.17 What is fast-check?
03.41 Property based testing
05.36 Generating inputs
08.57 Who can use fast-check?
11.11 Real world usages
14.22 fast-check to test fast-check
18.25 Readability of tests
20.43 Onboarding on property-based testing
22.57 The fast-check ecosystem
25.51 The history of fast-check
29.58 Who’s maintaining fast-check?
32.12 Growing fast-check
33.01 Good first issues
35.18 What’s next for fast-check?
39.50 Further reading
41.38 Where people can find you online?

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Docuseal with Pete Matsyburka

Nicola Corti — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Time for a fresh new episode! This time we’ll touch on a really different topic: Digital Signing. Joining us today is Pete Matsyburka, co-founder of Docuseal.

Docuseal lets you sign documents online in a secure and easy way, similar to other popular alternative such as Docusign. The killer feature of Docuseal is that it is open source, and you can either self-host it or use the hosted version.

Join us in this episode where Pete will tell us about his journey, how they bootstrapped Docuseal, and the future of the project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.11 Intro
00.57 Episode Start
01.15 Pete’s Introduction
01.50 What is Docuseal?
03.22 Is Docuseal free?
05.40 How is Docuseal better than Docusign?
08.16 How does a e-signature works?
11.50 Stealing identity and e-signature
13.05 Self hosting and trust
16.30 Which programming language have you used?
17.55 Docuseal success stories
19.07 The story of Docuseal
21.49 Growing the company
22.58 The biggest challenge in building Docuseal
25.19 Docuseal & OSS
27.54 Why Ruby on Rails?
29.12 Building Web Apps as fast as possible
29.56 What’s next for Docuseal?
32.30 Further reading
33.29 Where people can find you online?

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Pieces with Tsavo Knott

Nicola Corti — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Welcome back to another freshly baked episode, today we talk about the trending topic in the industry: AI. I’m excited to have on stage Tsavo Knott, CEO of Pieces.

Pieces is your AI-enabled workflow copilot, and developers are going to love this tool! Tsavo will walk us through the features, advantages, and the unique ecosystem that Pieces is building. With Pieces, you can search, share, and reuse your code snippets, through your favorite tools and IDEs.

Tsavo is also going to share the challenges of building a company on developer tools and how to handle developers as customers, there is so much wisdom in this episode, I’m sure you will love it!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.11 Intro
00.57 Episode Start
01.28 Tasvo’s Introduction
03.21 What is Pieces?
10.01 Local vs Cloud
12.39 Pricing Model
15.27 Is Pieces just a smart clipboard?
18.56 Pieces ecosystem
20.22 Offline AI
24.10 What is Pieces OS Client?
28.24 Pieces Ecosystem
30.35 Customizing Pieces with own’s data
32.59 Developers as a a customer
35.39 Building OSS vs Building a Company
37.59 Developers’ high bar
39.13 The Pieces Community
40.33 Further reading
41.37 Where people can find you online?

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Tea with Max Howell

Nicola Corti — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000

It’s time to kickoff 2024 with an amazing new episode! Joining us is the mind behind Homebrew: Max Howell.

We’re not here to talk about Homebrew today though (get back to Ep. 55 for that). Max is here to tell us about his latest project: Tea 🍵

Tea is a new protocol to sponsor open source. Tea works as a decentralized network that allows you to sponsor the projects on your dependency tree.

Join us in this episode as we walk through the possibilites that Tea unlocks, and we won’t miss the chance to talk a bit about the story of Homebrew as well.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.11 Max’s Introduction
04.21 What is Tea?
10.12 OSS Sponsorship is broken
14.05 How to join the Tea network?
17.47 How to donate on the Tea network?
23.09 Donating to the dependency tree
24.31 Tea test net
25.59 Tea vs Thanks.dev
28.12 Tea & crypto bad press
32.09 What have you learned from building Homebrew?
38.16 From pkgx to tea
41.46 The story of homebrew
50.42 Further reading
52.39 Where people can find you online?

Resources

Tea Official Website
@teaprotocol on Twitter
Mentioned Resources:
- The Tea WhitePaper
- pkgxdev/pkgx on GitHub
@mxcl on GitHub
@mxcl on Twitter
Max’s Website

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QuackAI with François-Guillaume Fernandez

Nicola Corti — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Welcome back to another episode of The Developers’ Bakery. Today we have on stage FG Fernandez, the founder of QuackAI.

QuackAI is a VS Code Extension that helps your contributiors when they’re typing to make sure their contributions won’t fail to comply with your project guidelines.

Moreover, FG had the opportunity to join the YCombinator program with QuackAI as a sole contributor. Today he will tell us his story with this tool and what’s next for it!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.17 FG’s Introduction
02.24 What is QuackAI?
03.13 How can I use QuackAI?
07.33 Defining contribution rules
10.07 IDE Extension & PR Automation
15.07 What happens when I type with QuackAI?
18.44 What is Open Source in QuackAI?
20.56 How do you do telemetry?
26.40 The story of QuackAI
30.39 Funding from YCombinator
36.51 Being a sole contributor at QuackAI
39.00 What’s next for QuackAI?
43.27 Further reading
45.00 Where people can find you online?

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Godot with Emilio Coppola

Nicola Corti — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Are you ready to level up your knowledge on game development? Today, we have Emilio Coppola, Executive Director of the Godot Foundation. He’s here to tell us about Godot, the open-source game engine that’s been making waves in the development world.

Especially with the latest changes in the Unity pricing model, Godot is becoming a viable alternative for many developers. In this episode, Emilio will tell us about the history of Godot, how it compares to other engines, and how to get started with it.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.16 Emilio’s Introduction
02.38 What is Godot?
03.35 How Godot started?
05.03 Popular games in Godot
06.10 Godot vs Unreal/Unity
09.46 Godot & the Unity install fees
17.16 Who’s supporting Godot?
22.10 Hiring full time engineers
23.59 What does a Foundation Executive Director does?
27.37 Godot and Go?
30.21 Handling OSS traffic at Scale
34.01 How to contribute to Godot?
36.57 Getting into the core contributors team
40.14 What’s next for Godot?
43.34 Further reading
46.16 Where people can find you online?

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The educator's path with Marcin Moskała

Nicola Corti — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000

We’re back with another bonus episode of The Developers’ Bakery! Back in episode 60 we talked about content creation with Effective Android.

Today, we double down on a similar topic as we do have Marcin Moskała on stage! Marcin is the author of Effective Kotlin, a collection of Kotlin best practices, and Kotlin Coroutines, a book about Kotlin’s concurrency model.

In this episode, Marcin will walk us through the path to becoming an educator, what are the skills required, and how to make it profitable. Marcin has plenty of experience in this space, both as a book author, a workshop organizer, and a conference speaker.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.23 Marcin’s Introduction
03.36 The various paths in engineering
06.16 The educator’s path
14.09 The educator’s skillset
19.43 Making education profitable
25.25 Is it worth to write a book?
27.08 Marcin’s writing tips
34.19 Publishing a book
38.06 AI and education
41.55 Give it forward
43.59 Where people can find you online?

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compose-rules with Nacho Lopez

Nicola Corti — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0100

We’re back talking about static analysis today here at The Developers’ Bakery! We’re really excited to have on stage Nacho Lopez to talk about Compose Rules.

This project is a collection of linting and inspection rules for Jetpack Compose, which prevents you from making common mistakes and helps you write better and more performant UI code. You can use this rule with either KtLint or Detekt.

In this episode, we’ll also touch on how this project started inside Twitter, and now ends up living into Nacho’s personal fork.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.03 Nacho’s Introduction
04.21 What is compose-rules?
08.39 Compose Antipatterns
13.47 How to use compose-rules?
15.28 Writing custom rules
19.56 The Twitter drama
29.23 Living in a fork
36.09 What’s next for compose-rules?
42.39 Further reading
44.41 Where people can find you online?

Resources

mrmans0n/compose-rules on GitHub
Compose Rules Official Website
Mentioned Resources:
- What is the PSI?
- PSI Cookbook
@mrmans0n on GitHub
@mrmans0n on Twitter
@nacho on Mastodon

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Pandas and Polars with Marco Gorelli

Nicola Corti — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0100

Time for a brand-new topic today here at The Developers’ Bakery: Data Science! We’re really excited to have on stage Marco Gorelli, core contributor of both pandas and polars, two of the most popular data science libraries in the Python ecosystem.

In this episode, we’ll talk about how pandas became so popular in the data science space. Then we’ll move on to talk about polars, a new data science library written in Rust, and how its performances compare to pandas.

Finally, we’ll have the opportunity to touch on a very interesting and unique topic: the Dataframe Consortium, a multi-company effort to standardize the data science API across the ecosystem.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.14 Intro
01.00 Episode Start
01.30 Marco’s Introduction
02.14 What is pandas?
03.27 Why do I need pandas?
05.19 pandas’ competitors
07.24 pandas’ popularity
10.12 What’s your role with pandas?
12.39 How to become a pandas maintainer?
13.50 From data scientist to open source maintainer
16.02 What is polars?
21.22 Can pandas and polars co-exist?
24.25 Performance benchmarks
26.21 The learning curve
29.11 Naming anecdotes
30.51 The Dataframe Consortium?
40.12 Marco’s role in the consortium
43.40 What’s next for polars?
46.50 How to start contributing?
50.56 Further reading
53.33 Where people can find you online?

Resources

pandas-dev/pandas on GitHub
pola-rs/polars on GitHub
Pandas Official Website
Polars Official Website
Dataframe API Consortium Official Website
Mentioned Resources:
- Pandas User Guide
- Polars User Guide
- Dataframe API Standard definition
- What polars does for you - Video from EuroPython
- H2O Benchmark
- Polars - TPCH Benchmark
@MarcoGorelli on GitHub
Marco Gorelli on LinkedIn

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Effect with Michael Arnaldi

Nicola Corti — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0100

It’s time to talk again about Functional Programming (or maybe not?!) with today’s episode! I’m glad to have on stage Michael Arnaldi, author and maintainer of Effect.

Effect is a Functional Programming library for TypeScript, that offers primitives to support error management, concurrency and much more. But Effect is also an entire ecosystem of integrations with existing and frameworks and libraries, which makes adopting Effect so much easier.

Join us in this episode as Michael walk us through on his take on Functional Programming and the story behind Effect.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.07 Nicolò’s Introduction
02.37 What is Effect?
04.39 Is this a Functional Programming library?
09.18 Effects
20.11 Effect and Concurrency
30.29 The Effect ecosystem
37.30 The history of Effect
42.30 1.0?
45.45 Further reading
50.29 Where people can find you online?

Resources

Effect-TS/effect on GitHub
Effect Official Website
@EffectTS_ on Twitter
Effect Discord Community
Mentioned Resources:
- Ethan Niser’s Youtube Channel
- Introduction to Effect - Video from WorkerConf 2022
- Effect ful computations with Fibers - Video from React Alicante
@mikearnaldi on GitHub
@MichaelArnaldi on Twitter

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Babel with Nicolò Ribaudo

Nicola Corti — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0100

Today we have the honor to spotlight a fundamental tool of the web ecosystem: Babel. If you don’t know Babel, it’s a JavaScript compiler that allows you to write next generation JavaScript and compile it to a version that is compatible with all the browsers.

Nicolò Ribaudo, one of the Babel maintainers, is on stage to tell us the story of this project, how it became so popular, and its role in the daily life of a web developer.

We’ll touch also on the topic of funding and sponsoring, and learn how Babel managed to hire engineers with Open Source donations!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.32 Nicolò’s Introduction
02.53 What is Babel?
06.15 How Babel became so popular?
10.28 The web ecosystem speed
13.56 Browserlist
16.49 Babel & Performances
20.09 Continous Benchmarking
22.42 Extending Babel
27.20 Build tools integrations
30.07 How Nicolò got involved with Babel?
33.30 Who’s maintaining Babel?
35.33 Who’s funding Babel?
38.19 Hiring engineers with donation
40.39 Call for donations
42.29 Babel will never be done
44.35 Babel 8
47.11 How to get involved?
50.34 Further reading
53.23 Where people can find you online?

Resources

babel/babel on GitHub
Babel Official Website
Mentioned Resources:
- @babel/how-to - Video from HolyJS 2019
- Babel Videos Page
- nan.fyi - Rebuilding Babel: The Tokenizer
@nicolo-ribaudo on GitHub
@nic on Mastodon

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WebdriverIO with Christian Bromann

Nicola Corti — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0100

It’s time to talk about testing again, but this time we’ll talk about cross-platform UI testing. I’m glad to have on stage Christian Bromann, the lead maintainer of WebdriverIO.

With WebdriverIO, you can write UI tests for your web, mobile, desktop application and much more. WebdriverIO relies on the Webdriver protocol, a Web standard to support test automation, so you can use the programming language you prefer to easily test your apps wherever you want.

Moreover, WebdriverIO is a project hosted by the OpenJS foundation. Together with Christian we’ll touch on what it means being part of a foundation and what this meant for the success of this project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.35 Dmitry’s Introduction
02.53 What is WebdriverIO?
04.53 Testing Browser and Mobile applications
06.16 The Webdriver protocol
08.58 How to write tests with WebdriverIO?
10.56 WebdriverIO competitors and unique features
13.15 Handling flakiness
16.46 Running WebdriverIO in the cloud
20.25 Why should I use WebdriverIO vs my native testing framework?
22.32 How you got involved with WebdriverIO?
25.50 Who’s funding WebdriverIO?
29.03 Being part of the OpenJS foundation
31.16 Governance model
37.31 How to contribute to WebdriverIO?
40.11 What’s next for WebdriverIO?
42.15 Further reading
43.58 Where people can find you online?

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LivePlugin with Dmitry Kandalov

Nicola Corti — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0100

In this episode of The Developers’ Bakery, we have the pleasure of hosting Dmitry Kandalov, the author of LivePlugin. With LivePlugin you can easily create IDE Plugins for IntelliJ (and other JetBrains IDEs) in the blink of an eye, you won’t need to restart your IDE anymore!

If you’re looking to supercharge your productivity and make your IDE truly yours, this episode is a must-listen. Dmitry will inspire you with his passion for plugin development and reveal the secrets behind his IDE customizations.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.07 Intro
00.53 Episode Start
01.35 Dmitry’s Introduction
03.18 What is LivePlugin?
04.23 How do you create an IntelliJ plugin?
05.14 No need to restart your IDE
07.09 Can I ship a LivePlugin to prodcution?
09.25 Plugins as a single Kotlin file
10.48 LivePlugin success stories
13.22 IDE Plugin vs CLI
19.31 Debugging a plugin
22.03 Dmitry’s favorite plugins
23.53 IDE Customization
25.19 Dark themes
26.09 IJKL
27.38 How you got into plugin development?
31.56 Have you tried writing plugins for other IDEs?
33.21 How to contribute to LivePlugin?
36.24 What’s next for LivePlugin?
38.52 Paid Plugins
42.16 Limited Work in Progress
46.23 Further reading
47.56 Where people can find you online?

Resources

dkandalov/live-plugin on GitHub
Sane Intellij Plugin Development With Live Plugin - Dmitry’s Blog
Mentioned Resources:
- dkandalov/quick-fix on GitHub
- Quick Fix on Jetbrains Marketplace
- dkandalov/ijkl-shortcuts-plugin on GitHub
- IJKL Shortcuts on Jetbrains Marketplace
- dkandalov/limited-wip on GitHub
- Limited WIP on Jetbrains Marketplace
- Dmitry’s IDE Settings
- Extending IntelliJ-based IDEs at runtime - #4 from Busy Plugin Developers
- Live Coding Kotlin/Native Snake by Dmitry Kandalov - Video from KotlinConf 2018
- PSI Viewer on Jetbrains Marketplace
Jetbrains Marketplace on Slack
@dkandalov on GitHub
@dmitrykandalov on Twitter
@dkandalov on Mastodon
Dmitry’s Website

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Modern Android Development with Boris Farber and Tomáš Mlynarič

Nicola Corti — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0100

Welcome to a special in-person episode of The Developers’ Bakery, recorded live in Amsterdam at Google IO Connect.

There, I had the privilege of having on stage Boris Farber and Tomáš Mlynarič from Google and they will tell us What’s New in Android. As I’m a big fan of build tool, in this episode we’re going to delve into some of the updates for popular devtools for Android: Android Studio, Android Gradle Plugin (AGP), Gradle KTS and much more.

We’ll have also the opportunity to discover Baseline Profiles, a new mechanism to boost the performance of your Android apps.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.39 Tomáš’ Introduction
02.22 Boris’ Introduction
02.47 What’s New in Android?
04.02 Gradle KTS
05.51 Gradle Version Catalog
08.06 Android Gradle Plugin (AGP)
10.02 Java 17
12.21 Alpha, beta and stable releases
15.18 What are Baseline Profiles?
19.08 What does a Baseline Profile look like?
20.29 How to create a Baseline Profile?
22.51 Which flows to include in a Baseline Profile?
25.28 Baseline Profiles for Library Authors
27.53 Performance wins
28.49 Where is the Android code?
30.47 How to contribute to Android?
33.33 Reporting a bug for Android
35.07 Too many bug reports!
37.03 Effective triaging
38.32 Reproducers
39.21 Which future for Gradle on Android?
40.53 Further reading
42.44 Docs for KTS migration
43.54 Where people can find you online?

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Marathon with Anton Malinskiy

Nicola Corti — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0100

In today’s episode, we talk about a problem that most Mobile developers faced in their career flaky tests, and we do it with Anton Malinskiy, joining us to talk about Marathon, the Mobile UI Test runner.

We all know that ensuring high quality and reliability of our mobile apps is key to our success and to a 5-star rating. That’s why mobile testing is so important. Marathon helps us in this endeavour, orchestrating our test execution in a smart way to parallelize our tests and reduce flakiness.

Anton is going to guide us with us through Marathon’s capabilities, its unique features, and the challenges it solves in the realm of UI testing.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.02 Anton’s Introduction
02.48 What is Marathon?
06.15 Why UI testing for mobile is hard?
09.35 What are the features of Marathon?
12.39 Handling flakyness
15.51 Learning from other test runs
17.07 Running adb commands during tests
19.21 Optimizing for parallelism
23.08 How does Marathon compares to similar tools?
29.17 Why GPL 2.0?
31.53 License switching
33.45 Marathon Cloud
38.03 Running tests under 15 minutes
41.20 Marathon Cloud for OSS
42.08 Further reading
45.02 Where people can find you online?

Resources

MarathonLabs/marathon on GitHub
Marathon Official Docs
Marathon Official Blog
Marathon Cloud Website
Mentioned Resources:
- Blogpost Series: I want to run any number of Android UI tests on each PR. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
- Blogpost Series: Marathon Early Design. Part 1 Part 2
- Example of optimal setup of Marathon
Inspirational Resources:
- How SQLite Is Tested
- Development at the Speed and Scale of Google
- Testing @ Google - Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4
Connect with Marathon:
- Marathon on Slack
- @marathontestrunner on Telegram
@Malinskiy on GitHub
@anton_malinskiy on Twitter
@Malinskiy on Telegram

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KDE with Niccolò Venerandi

Nicola Corti — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0100

I’m really excited for today’s episode as we’re going to talk about Linux Desktop Environments with Niccolò Venerandi, a KDE contributor.

Niccolò has been contributing to KDE Plasma for multiple years. He’s going to tell us how the KDE project is working, how it’s funded and how it is possible to contribute to it.

He also runs a popular YouTube channel about KDE & Linux that he’s using to found his Open Source work!

In this episode, we’re going to learn his secrets and how he’s planning to grow his engagement with KDE through this channel.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.10 Intro
00.56 Episode Start
01.12 Niccolò’s Introduction
02.31 What is KDE?
04.49 What is your role within KDE?
05.51 KDE Plasma on a Steam Deck
06.44 Which Linux distro are you using?
07.12 Which Linux distro are you recommending?
07.54 How you got involved with KDE?
10.37 Where is KDE’s code?
11.11 Mentoring in the KDE community
12.22 Whick programming languages are used for KDE?
14.21 GNOME vs KDE
16.55 How is KDE funded?
20.13 How anarchy sometimes work
22.34 Meeting the KDE community
24.10 Different ways of doing Open Source
29.10 How to start contributing to KDE?
31.22 What KDE needs right now?
32.06 kNaming
34.05 Nicco Loves Linux
36.47 Sustaining Open Source via YouTube
39.39 Marketing is hard
42.34 Further reading
44.35 Where people can find you online?

Resources

KDE on GitLab
KDE official website
Get involved with KDE
Mentioned Resources:
- Nate Graham’s Blog
- How anarchy sometimes work
Mentioned Linux YouTubers:
@niccoloveslinux on YouTube
@veggero on GitHub
@veggero on Twitter
Niccolò’s Blog

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Effective Android with Jorge Castillo

Nicola Corti — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0100

It’s time for another bonus episode of The Developers’ Bakery! This time, we dive into the world of content creation with Jorge Castillo. Jorge is the author of the blog & newsletter Effective Android and the author of Jetpack Compose internals book.

In this episode we’ll talk about his journey building a newsletter, writing blog posts, preparing courses, and writing books. Join us as we and discover the secrets behind his success.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.19 Jorge’s Introduction
03.13 What is Effective Android?
04.01 Kicking off a newsletter
05.19 From RSS to your Inbox
06.42 How to monetize a newsletter?
07.41 Effective Interviews
10.01 How an interview is built
12.01 Podcast vs written interviews
14.02 Where do you find the time?
16.36 Jetpack Compose courses
18.56 Cohort based courses
21.05 Communities around courses
23.00 The business of online courses
24.33 The challenges of building a course
26.51 The book: Jetpack Compose Internals
32.04 The book: The Good Teammate
32.54 Leanpub
34.58 Maintaining Arrow
41.05 Further reading
44.19 Where people can find you online?

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Voyager with Adriel Café

Nicola Corti — Mon, 29 May 2023 13:00:00 +0100

Joining us today is Adriel Café, the creator and maintainer of Voyager. We’ll be delving into the depths of Navigation with Jetpack Compose, touching on topics such as tab navigation, nested navigation and deep-links. Also, Voyager let’s you build navigation experiences which are fully cross-platform thanks to its support for Android, iOS, Web and Desktop.

Adriel is also a former Web engineers and is going to tell us what he loves and hates between the two worlds.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.13 Intro
00.59 Episode Start
01.32 Adriel’s Introduction
02.54 What is Voyager?
06.07 What’s the story behind Voyager?
12.22 How hard is navigation across platforms?
14.23 Bottom bar, tabs and other navigation patterns
16.38 Deeplinks
18.35 Nested Navigation
20.40 Multi-module Navigation
22.47 1.0.0 when?
23.58 The most requested feature
25.04 Who’s maintaining Voyager?
27.50 Which future for Voyager?
29.34 Android vs Web
33.26 Android engineers do it better
34.47 Web vs Mobile IDEs
36.45 Further reading
38.40 Where people can find you online?

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Confetti with John O'Reilly and Martin Bonnin

Nicola Corti — Mon, 15 May 2023 13:00:00 +0100

In today’s episode, join me with Martin Bonnin and John O’Reilly as we explore Confetti, a Kotlin Multiplatform Conference App.

Tune in as Martin and John discuss the story behind Confetti, its architecture, and how they managed to hit both the Play Store and the App Store using Kotlin Multiplatform.

Confetti was also presented recently at KotlinConf 2023. We’ll be talking about John’s and Martin’s experience at KotlinConf and their favorite session from this edition.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.08 Intro
00.54 Episode Start
01.30 John’s Introduction
02.04 Martin’s Introduction
03.08 What is Confetti?
04.24 What’s the story behind Confetti?
07.57 Are conference apps the new TODO lists?
09.47 Confetti’s Architecture
12.24 Confetti’s UI Stack
15.45 How much code is shared between Android & iOS?
17.35 SwiftUI vs Compose for iOS
21.21 Takeaways from KotlinConf
24.35 John’s favorite session
28.15 Confetti @ KotlinConf
32.02 Confetti vs KotlinConf App
34.51 Confetti on a watch
38.47 New features for Confetti
40.30 Whitelabelling
42.48 Further reading
45.17 Where people can find you online?

Resources

joreilly/Confetti on GitHub
Confetti on the AppStore
Confetti on the PlayStore
Mentioned Resources:
- apollographql/apollo-android on Github
- ExpediaGroup/graphql-kotlin on Github
- The Developers’ Bakery #13 - Apollo GraphQL with Martin Bonnin
- Confetti: building a Kotlin Multiplatform conference app in 40min - Video from KotlinConf
- KotlinConf Video Playlist
@joreilly on Twitter
@joreilly on GitHub
John’s Blog
@martinbonnin on Github
@martinbonnin on Twitter
Martin’s Blog

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Qwik UI with Giorgio Boa

Nicola Corti — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0100

We’re back in the frontend space to talk about Qwik and Qwik UI, a web framework to build superfast web application. From their readme: Instant-loading web apps, without effort. Qwik UI is their UI library, which offers a variety of components that you can use to kickstart your application.

Today we do have Giorgio Boa on stage, one of the maintainers of Qwik UI, to talk about the project, the motivation behind it, and how this project is evolving.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.08 Intro
00.54 Episode Start
01.28 Giorgio’s Introduction
02.31 What is Qwik?
08.55 What is Qwik UI?
11.49 Getting started with Qwik
13.38 Single Page Application vs Server Side Rendering
16.30 SPA ans SEO
17.45 CSS and Customizations
19.16 How Giorgio got involved with Qwik UI?
21.14 Maintaining Qwik UI
24.46 Building connections through Open Source
27.41 Onboarding Juniors to Open Source
29.09 Giorgio’s Mentoring Campaing
31.33 Recurrent vs One-off mentoring
33.16 The future of Qwik UI
35.29 Further reading
37.00 What made you move to Qwik?
38.53 Where people can find you online?

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GlotDict, Wordpress and Mozilla with Daniele Scasciafratte

Nicola Corti — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0100

Today I’m excited to have on stage Daniele Scasciafratte, the Open Source Multiversal Guy. Daniele is involved all over the places: he’s a WordPress core contributor, a Mozilla contributor, and the author of the book “Contribute to open source: the right way”.

In this episode, we start from GlotDict, a browser extension Daniele wrote to support WordPress translators. But that’s just the starting point! We’ll touch on what is means to be a WordPress core contributor, how Mozilla is different from WordPress and the love/hate relationship we all have with PHP.

Daniele also wrote an Open Source book: “Contribute to open source: the right way”. This book is like a survival guide for any Open Source newcomer. We’ll talk about how the book came to be and what are the main takeaways from it.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.08 Intro
00.54 Episode Start
02.36 Daniele’s Introduction
04.25 What is Glotdict?
08.48 WordPress and the modern web
15.07 What does it mean to be a WordPress core contributor?
21.46 PHP
26.12 Daniele & Mozilla
32.28 Writing an Open Source book
41.56 One takeaway from Daniele’s book
47.38 Further reading
52.57 Where people can find you online?

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Homebrew with Mike McQuaid

Nicola Corti — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0100

If you’re developing on macOS, then you probably know what we’re going to talk about: Homebrew 🍺 the most popular package manager for macOS.

If you don’t know Homebrew, it’s a command-line tool that allows you to install software on your Mac. We could call it “the missing app store” for your console. But Homebrew is much more than that! There is an entire ecosystem of contributors that maintain formulas to make it easy to install software on your Mac.

Today I have the honor to speak with Mike McQuaid, the Homebrew project leader. In this episode we’re going to talk about how Homebrew started, how it works internally, how it’s funded, and how you can contribute to it. I’m glad I also had the chance to touch on some more contentious topics like telemetry and handling burnout in the OSS space.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.11 Intro
00.57 Episode Start
01.32 Mike’s Introduction
02.31 What is Homebrew?
03.07 The history of Homebrew
06.56 Have you ever felt you were done with Homebrew?
10.58 What happens when you brew install?
12.45 What is a formula?
15.55 Rolling release package manager
17.04 What is a cask?
20.01 Brew bundle
21.34 Where is so much software stored?
23.32 Homebrew trust model
27.57 What’s the most downloaded package?
29.27 Telemetry & Open Source
32.50 Opt-in vs Opt-out telemetry
40.33 Entitelment in the OSS space & handling burnouts
43.20 How is Homebrew funded?
48.18 Homebrew & Legal entity
50.28 How to become a Homebrew maintainer?
52.39 Do-ocracy
53.53 Engaging with the Homebrew community
54.49 What’s next for Homebrew?
57.17 Further reading
58.53 Where people can find you online?

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conc with Camden Cheek

Nicola Corti — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Today we talk about Golang! On stage we have Camden Cheek, the creator of conc a library for structured concurrency in Go.

Camden will walk us through what are the common pitfalls of Go’s concurrency model and how conc can help you to write better and safer goroutines. We will touch on how this library started within Sourcegraph and how it gained so much popularity so quickly.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.15 Camden’s Introduction
01.50 What is Conc?
03.00 The most common mistake for Go developers
04.44 Wrapping the go std
07.32 Camden’s favorite API
09.19 Why is this library not part of Go already?
11.55 How is golang evolving?
12.58 The golang team
13.48 What inspired conc?
16.20 Concurrency in other programming languages
18.36 Conc & the fail fast philosophy
24.15 The history of Conc
25.47 Who’s using conc?
26.47 Who’s maintaining conc?
27.45 How Camden got started with OSS?
30.32 #1 suggestion for new contributors
31.08 What’s next for conc?
32.39 Having a public roadmap?
34.53 Onboarding extrenal maintainers
36.37 Further reading
38.01 Where people can find you online?

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thanks.dev with Armin Nehzat

Nicola Corti — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Today we don’t talk about a specific Open Source project, but about a tool that can help us build a more sustainable ecosystem: thanks.dev.

I have the pleasure to have on stage Armin Nehzat, Growth Officer of thanks.dev, a donation and sponsoring platform for open-source projects.

The key feature of thanks.dev is how it manages to scan your dependency tree and discovers all the projects you build on top, so you can split your donations to all of them. Similarly as a maintainer, you can get a fraction of a donation, even if you’re down in the dependency chain of someone else.

Join us in this episode as Armin walk us through the challenges of connecting donors with maintainers in a sustainable way.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.27 Armin’s Introduction
02.43 What is thanks.dev?
03.46 The model behind thanks.dev
05.45 Donating to transitive dependencies
07.38 Single donors vs companies
09.51 Microdonations
11.02 Why should a maintainer join thanks.dev
12.50 Transfering donations
13.49 Which languages you support?
15.25 Kotlin & the dependency graph
17.20 Renovate bot
18.13 Is thanks.dev open source?
19.07 How many maintainers joined thanks.dev?
20.00 Finding maintainers
21.41 Maintainers and self promotion
23.04 Big players already on the platform
24.10 The story behind thanks.dev
25.47 The ‘Open Source Support’ fee
26.54 How is developing thanks.dev?
27.59 The future of thanks.dev
30.50 Premium features for supporters
35.04 Further reading
36.36 Burnout in the OSS community
39.07 Where people can find you online?

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RSS-Parser with Marco Gomiero

Nicola Corti — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000

We’re back in the Kotlin world with Marco Gomiero and his library RSS-Parser for, you guessed it, parsing RSS feeds.

Marco will walk us through how this library helped him to get started in the OSS world and helped him land his first job!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.26 Marco’s Introduction
03.18 What is RSS-Parser?
04.44 How RSS-Parser is different from a XML parser?
07.03 Whick Kotlin features have you used?
09.21 Using coroutines from Java
10.54 JVM vs Android libraries
12.20 RSS-Parsing in the Multiplatform world
14.05 Any design decision you regret?
17.22 What’s the history of this library?
23.05 How Marco got started with OSS?
24.39 Publishing to Maven Central
30.32 Meaningful external contributions
33.13 Sponsorships
33.53 What’s next for this library?
35.09 Further reading
36.36 Where people can find you online?

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MetalLB with Federico Paolinelli

Nicola Corti — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Today we talk about cloud ☁️ as we have on stage Federico Paolinelli from Red Hat to talk us about MetalLB.

MetalLB is a load balancer for Kubernetes instances deployed on bare metal. If you like me are curious to learn what this means, what is Kubernetes, why do you need a load balancer and why would you deploy on bare metal… don’t miss this episode!

Federico will walk us through this project, explaining how he became a maintainer of a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, what are its use cases and its challenges.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.19 Federico’s Introduction
07.30 What is MetalLB?
08.07 What is Kubernetes?
10.23 What is a Load Balancer?
12.16 Running Kubernetes on bare metal
15.16 Load Balancing Internals
20.07 Unexpected use cases
22.02 What’s the history of MetalLB?
24.23 The RedHat model
26.19 CI and Testing
28.45 Go vs Rust?
33.37 What does it mean to join the CNCF?
37.12 How is this project funded?
39.42 The future of MetalLB
40.55 Further reading
42.45 Where people can find you online?

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Open Source Day with Schrödinger Hat

Nicola Corti — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000

We reached episode 50! 🎂

Time to celebrate with a special episode.

Today we go from building Open Source Software to building Open Source Conferences! We have on stage Davide Imola and Lorenzo Pieri directly from the Schrödinger Hat community.

They’re among the organizers of Open Source Day a Tech Conference about Open Source. The beauty of this conference is that everything is built in the open in their Github repo. It’s amazing to see how the OSS philosophy can be used to develop events beyond just software.

Join us in this episode as we walk through the challenges of organizing a tech conference in 2023.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.48 Lorenzo’s Introduction
02.37 Davide’s Introduction
03.19 What is Schrödinger Hat?
07.29 What is Open Source Day?
11.26 What is making OS day unique?
15.18 Building conference as Open Source software
17.58 The Website
23.50 The Venue
25.00 The Call for Paper
26.41 The Sponsors
31.47 The Tickets
36.31 What’s your biggest fear when organizing a conference?
41.30 What have you learned for 2021 edition?
48.32 Are you inspired by any other conference?
53.11 How to contribute?
55.09 Where people can find you online?

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Espanso with Federico Terzi

Nicola Corti — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000

It’s time to expand our horizons in the text expander realm with Espanso! Today we have Federico Terzi on stage to present his project, a cross-platform text expander entirely written in Rust 🦀.

If you’re into automating every workflow, you probably know how crucial a text expander can be in helping you. Espanso is much more than a simple text expander, with support for complex patterns, forms, regexes and even a Hub where you can share your patterns with others!

I’m sure you’re going to love it! Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.07 Intro
00.53 Episode Start
01.30 Federico’s Introduction
02.21 What is Espanso?
03.30 What does Espanso mean?
03.58 A bit of history
06.39 Espanso’s killer features
09.15 Federico’s daily routines
10.32 Canned responses
11.29 Espanso internals
12.51 How to replace the user’s input
14.44 Using Rust
16.43 Text expansion on Mobile
19.21 Elegant websites
23.27 The Espanso Hub
25.23 Hub’s hall of fame
29.13 The r/espanso Subreddit
31.04 Who is maintaining Espanso?
35.03 What’s next for Espanso?
36.02 Configuration: YAML vs UI
38.04 The current UI
41.18 Further reading
43.08 Where people can find you online?

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MockK with Mattia Tommasone

Nicola Corti — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000

It’s time to talk about Fake vs Mock once for all!

Today, we do have Mattia Tommasone on stage to talk about MockK a popular mocking framework for Kotlin.

MockK allows you to write elegant tests thanks to its idiomatic DSL. Mattia had the opportunity to take over the maintainance of this library and he’s going to explain us how it works internally.

But do we even need to mock at all? In this episode we’ll touch on when mocking is useful and when you should think twice before using it.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.13 Intro
00.58 Episode Start
01.28 Mattia’s Introduction
05.34 Mocking on the JVM
09.24 What is MockK?
11.41 Why the need for a new mocking library?
14.31 How mocking works internally?
18.50 Testing a mocking framework
21.49 MockK’s Performances
24.46 Multiplatform support
27.03 Fake vs Mock
31.40 Auto-detecting what to don’t mock
32.51 What’s next for MockK?
35.26 Looking for new maintainers
38.32 Hacktoberfest
40.29 Further reading
45.16 Where people can find you online?

Resources

mockk/mockk on GitHub
MockK Official Website
Mentioned Resources:
- Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests
- From Objects to Functions
- On mocking value objects:
  - Test Smell: Everything is mocked
  - Don’t mock value objects - Mockito Docs
@Raibaz on Twitter
@Raibaz on GitHub

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MotionScape with Amos Gyamfi

Nicola Corti — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000

It’s time to talk again about beautiful UI animations, but this time for iOS 🍎!

It’s my pleasure to have Amos Gyamfi on stage to talk about MotionScape.

Amos has a long history of building animations for iOS, and today he’s with us to talk about the challenges of building animation. Thanks to MotionScape, you can easily preview and customize your animations on desktop and get the SwiftUI code to run it in your iOS app.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.19 Amos’s Introduction
03.33 What is Motionscape?
07.09 What is SwiftUI?
08.49 Animating in the iOS world
11.56 How Amos got involved with animations?
15.21 The challenges of writing animations
18.17 How is this project related to Stream?
21.13 Are you looking for contributors?
21.48 Desktop app in SwiftUI?
23.36 Cross-platform support
25.12 Do you have tests?
27.44 What future for MotionScape?
29.36 Animation Interchange Format
33.01 How Amos got involved with Open Source?
34.52 Documentation
36.14 Effects Library & Spring Animation Parameter
39.21 Animation Island
41.00 Further reading
43.30 Where people can find you online?

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Storybook with Norbert de Langen

Nicola Corti — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Today we talk about tools to build beautiful Web UIs! 💫

How often have you written custom components that are hard to test or visualize as they’re complex and have multiple states? Components such as graphs, lists, checkboxes, list items, can be really hard to develop in isolation.

Here Storybook comes to the rescue! Storybook lets you test and develop your UI components through all it’s possible states. Norbert De Langen is on stage to tell us more about how he got involved in this project, and how to improve your development flow with it!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.17 Intro
01.03 Episode Start
01.39 Norbert’s Introduction
02.51 What is Storybook?
05.29 From top down to bottom up
08.27 Accidentally duplicating components
10.25 Who’s Storybook for?
12.23 Storybook for native platforms?
14.34 Storybook’s history
18.25 How Norbert became a maintainer of Storybook?
20.49 What is a Story?
22.07 The most requested feature
24.11 Can you use Storybook at runtime?
25.57 Building design systems with Storybook
29.30 UI Testing with Storybook
32.31 Connecting developers and designers
33.22 What is Chromatic?
35.33 The Play function
36.46 Who’s using Storybook?
39.26 Storybook supporters
40.57 Moving the ecosystem
45.12 Maintaining big projects
50.16 Elegant documentation
52.34 Further reading
54.09 Where people can find you online?

Resources

storybookjs/storybook on Github
Storybook Official Website
Chromatic Official Website
Mentioned Resources:
- Why Storybook
- What’s a Story
- Storybook on OpenCollective
- Storybook Discord server
- Developing, Documenting, and Testing your Vite app with Storybook - Ian VanSchooten - Video from ViteConf 2022
@NorbertdeLangen on Twitter
@ndelange on Github

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Balloon with Jaewoong Eum

Nicola Corti — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0100

Elegant Android UI libraries are the mastery of today’s guest! Please welcome Jaewoong Eum on stage to talk about Balloon 🎈.

Balloon is a library to display tooltips on Android apps. Display tooltips might sound easy, but it turns out that there is much complexity under the hood.

Jaewoong will walk us through this project, and will share his experience as a sole maintainer of this and other popular Android libraries.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.14 Jaewoong’s Introduction
02.19 What is Balloon?
02.52 Use cases
03.33 Missing features
04.46 Jetpack Compose Support
05.45 What it takes to render a Tooltip?
09.01 The Android API you hate the most
10.01 Who’s using Balloon?
11.57 Balloon on iOS?
12.56 The history of balloon
15.40 What drives you to do Open Source?
17.30 Where do you find the time for Open Source?
18.05 Burnout and Open Source Maintainers
18.50 Tips for sole maintainer?
19.48 Onboarding external maintainers
20.46 Bringing a library to success
23.08 Jaewoong’s recipe for crafting new libraries
24.37 Promoting your libraries
25.43 The future of Balloon
26.40 Looking for maintainers
27.15 Donating a project
30.57 Further reading
32.02 Where people can find you online?

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OpenStreetMap with Said Turksever

Nicola Corti — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0100

It’s not just open source that we showcase on the Developers’ Bakery. Today we’ll talk about open data.

We’re glad to have on stage Said Turksever to talk about his experience with OpenStreetMap.

If you’ve ever built a product that displays a map, you know what we’re talking about. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free and editable geographic database of the world. It relies on contributions from individuals to be up to date and reliable.

In this episode Said will tell us about his experience with OSM, how the community works, and how you can contribute as well.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.27 Said’s Introduction
02.00 What is OpenStreetMap?
03.45 Community of Communities
04.55 The history of OSM
08.19 What’s the OSM license?
09.23 Where is the map stored?
10.45 How is the map stored?
12.49 The challenges of maintaining OSM
15.07 How fast is the map updated?
18.33 Using OSM in your apps
21.17 OsmAnd
22.17 How to contribute to OSM?
25.30 Contributing while walking, driving and running
27.21 OSM for humanitarian support
32.15 How Said got started with OSM?
37.55 The State of the Map Conference
42.00 Street Level Images on OSM
43.21 The tech for image mapping
46.50 Further reading
48.52 Where people can find you online?

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KaMPKit with Kevin Galligan

Nicola Corti — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0100

Today we venture in the mobile cross-platform world with Kevin Galligan from TouchLab.

Kevin has been using and advocating Kotlin Multiplatform since the early days! Together with TouchLab they’ve released tools and libraries that are crucial to the development of the Kotlin Multiplatform ecosystem.

Today, Kevin in on-stage to talk to us about KaMPKit, a collection of samples and tools to get you started quickly with Kotlin Multiplatform.

We’re going to touch on where Kotlin Multiplatform is placed today and how TouchLab released the Droidcon NYC app with 100% (for both Android & iOS!).

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.27 Intro
01.13 Episode Start
01.40 Kevin’s Introduction
03.24 What is KamMPKit?
06.23 What is Kotlin Multiplatform?
09.11 KMP vs KMM
10.36 How can KaMPKit help you?
14.06 The biggest friction with adopting KMP
18.33 The biggest selling point for KMP
23.18 Shared UI with Kotlin Multiplatform
32.35 KMP in production at TouchLab
36.04 Biggest players in the KMP space
40.27 Brownfield applications and KaMPKit
45.59 Which future for KaMPKit?
48.54 How can people contribute to KaMPKit?
51.19 Further reading
54.44 Where people can find you online?

Resources

touchlab/KaMPKit on Github
TouchLab Official Website
Mentioned Resources:
- Blogpost - Droidcon NYC iOS app with Compose
- touchlab/DroidconKotlin on Github
@kpgalligan on Github
@kpgalligan on Twitter

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Kscript with Marcin Kuszczak

Nicola Corti — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0100

As teased in episode 40, today we’re going to have on stage Kscript and Marcin Kuszczak!

Kscript brings the power of Kotlin to the scripting world. It makes writing scripts a pleasure thanks to the elegant Kotlin APIs, and allows you to directly use tons of libraries and dependencies from the Maven ecosystem.

Kscript recently moved under the kscripting organization and Marcin is here on stage to tell us about the future of this project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.01 Marcin’s Introduction
01.40 What is Kscript?
02.33 Why using Kotlin for scripting?
04.08 Brief history of Kscript
06.31 Differences between Kscript and Kotlin Scripting
08.19 How portable is Kscript?
11.08 Compiled languages & Caching
13.51 What happens when you invoke Kscript?
15.48 Why using Kscript?
17.34 @DependsOn external libraries
19.56 IDE Support
22.26 kscript –idea
23.37 Who’s maintaining Kscript today?
25.17 How you got involved in this project?
28.45 The kscripting org and new projects
32.27 Invoking external commands
34.56 What’s next in the future of Kscript?
37.09 Where to connect with other Kscript users?
38.14 What’s the best way to contribute to Kscript?
40.36 Further reading
41.28 Where people can find you online?

Resources

kscripting/kscript on Github
Kscript User Guide
Kscripting Discussion Board
#scripting on Kotlinlang Slack (get an invite here).
Talk: Scripting Enhancements for Kotlin - KotlinConf 2017
- Slides
- Video
@aartiPl on Github

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FlowRedux with Gabriel Ittner and Hannes Dorfmann

Nicola Corti — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0100

Today we have the pleasure to host two amazing guests on stage: Gabriel Ittner and Hannes Dorfmann.

Gabriel and Hannes have been working on FlowRedux, an MVI architecture library for Android and beyond.

FlowRedux offers a beautiful DSL to represent the state machine of your application and is built on top of first class Kotlin API such as Flow and Coroutines.

Join us in this episode where Gabriel and Hannes will walk us through the history and the internals of this library.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.04 Gabriel’s Introduction
01.31 Hannes’ Introduction
01.50 What is FlowRedux?
03.31 Gabriel’s favorite architecture
04.51 DSL & State Machines
07.25 Coroutines, Flow and Kotlin specific features
12.02 How FlowRedux works under the hood?
15.23 What’s the story of this library?
19.49 Why you rewrote yet another MVI library?
22.59 FlowRedux on iOS
25.34 Are you using FlowRedux also at OneFootball?
29.40 How you got involved with Open Source?
31.59 What’s the future for FlowRedux?
36.36 Further reading
38.04 Where people can find you online?

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thebakery.dev with Nicola Corti

Nicola Corti — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0100

As with every 10 episodes, we’re back with a special episode! 🎁

Today we’re talking about an open-source project which is a bit atypical: thebakery.dev. Exactly, we’re going to walk through the website and the infrastructure that is powering The Developers’ Bakery.

Did you know that this podcast is fully open-source, self-hosted and running on GitHub pages?

In this episode, I will walk you through all my secrets and automations that help me publish a podcast every other week!

Do you have any feedback on the show so far? If so, drop me a message either on the website or on Twitter.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.11 Intro
00.57 Episode Start
01.40 thebakery.dev?
03.38 Jekyll
04.13 Github Pages
04.59 Minimal Mistakes
07.35 Formspree
08.54 Renovate
11.10 podcast.xml
16.29 The hosting
23.53 Podtrac
28.44 Automations
31.54 Ideas for the future
36.12 Looking for feedback :)

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Docusaurus with Sébastien Lorber

Nicola Corti — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0100

The topic of today’s episode is all about Static Website Generators. I’m really excited to have on stage Sébastien Lorber to talk about Docusaurus 🦕.

There is nothing better than great software, than great software with great documentation!

That’s why having a great documentation website is crucial for the success of a project. Docusaurus helps you build a great website for your project with great features such as full-text search, localization & versioned docs.

In this episode, Sébastien will walk us through the project and will give a sneak previous of the release of Docusaurus v2!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.11 Intro
00.57 Episode Start
01.27 Sébastien’s Introduction
02.46 Curating a Newsletter
05.51 What is Docusaurus?
08.28 Docusaurus’ killer features
11.29 Versioned Docs
12.37 Docusaurs vs Gatsby, Hugo & Jekyll
14.48 What is missing in Docusaurus?
18.19 Beyond simple Markdown
23.03 MDX
27.10 Docusaurus 1 vs 2
29.58 Brace yourself: v2 Stable is coming!
32.06 Let’s spotlight some great website
34.57 How Sébastien got involved in the project
37.55 What’s up next in the future of Docusaurus?
43.06 Further reading
44.51 Where to find Sébastien online?

Resources

facebook/docusaurus on Github
Docusaurus Official Website
Docusaurus Discord Server
Mentioned Features:
Mentioned Projects:
- Commonmark
- MDX
- Remark JS
This week in React Newsletter
Sébastien’s Website
@slorber on GitHub
@sebastienlorber on Twitter

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ProGuard with James Hamilton

Nicola Corti — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0100

If you ever shipped an Android App to production, you probably know about ProGuard, a tool to optimize, shrink and obfuscate your Java/Kotlin code.

Today we have James Hamilton on stage, to tell us about how it works internally and why you should never forget to enable it in your builds.

If you’re wondering what are the differences between ProGuard, DexGuard and R8, make sure to don’t miss this episode!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.11 Intro
00.57 Episode Start
01.31 James’s Introduction
02.52 What is ProGuard?
04.07 What is DexGuard?
05.44 Is ProGuard obfuscation secure enough?
06.58 Who is using DexGuard?
08.23 ProGuard vs ProGuard-code
10.31 ProGuard vs R8
13.46 How is the obfuscation working?
15.42 Obfuscation and 3rd party libraries
16.49 Deobfuscation
18.03 Shrinking and Tree shaking
19.02 How much space is ProGuard making us save?
20.04 ProGuard & Reflection
21.38 ProGuard and Runtime optimizations
23.48 ProGuard Rules
25.56 ProGuard Configuration Debugging
27.17 ProGuard Playground
28.19 Which language is used for Rules?
29.20 Beyond Android
30.46 Obfuscating Kotlin vs Java
37.06 Kotlin Metadata and Playground
38.19 Who is developing ProGuard?
40.01 Which type of contributions do you normally receive?
41.05 What’s up next in the future of ProGuard?
43.33 Further reading
44.40 Where to find James online?

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Lottie with Gabriel Peal

Nicola Corti — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0100

Who doesn’t like animations?

Thanks to Lottie, we can experience beautiful smooth animations on our mobile devices! Today we have on stage Gabriel Peal, maintainer of Lottie Android, to tell us about this project.

We will start from how this project started, as a simple proof of concept inside AirBnB to become the industry standard for animations on mobile.

We will discover how Lottie works internally and what’s coming next in the future of this project. Finally, as Gabriel is not at AirBnB anymore, we’ll talk about the challenges of maintainers and companies supporting OSS projects.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.14 Intro
01.00 Episode Start
01.31 Gabriel’s Introduction
02.33 What is Lottie?
03.52 What’s the story of Lottie?
08.39 Lottie Success Recipe
10.07 Lottie Internals
11.24 Challenges on Android
15.32 AfterFX feature support
17.10 If you were to rewrite Lottie, what would you do differently?
21.24 Lottie on other platforms
23.37 Who’s maintaining Lottie?
26.43 OSS projects coming from companies
29.48 Sponsorship stories
32.32 Lottie Foundation?
37.56 Upcoming features?
42.54 Further reading
44.31 Where to find Gabriel online?

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Duck Duck Go with Marcos Holgado

Nicola Corti — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0100

It’s time to talk about search engines with Marcos Holgado and Duck Duck Go. Marcos is one of the developers of the Duck Duck Go Privacy Browser, a browser for Android designed with privacy first.

As you can imagine, developing a web browser is no easy task. In this episode, Marcos will walk us through some of the challenges they’re facing daily and how they go from Github to the Play Store and beyond.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.20 Marcos’ Introduction
02.17 What is Duck Duck Go?
03.50 What is Duck Duck Go Privacy Browser?
05.46 The history of the name
06.57 Convince us to use Duck Duck Go rather than other search engine
09.58 Bangs
12.03 How is Duck Duck Go Android Browser different?
14.04 How the app works internally?
15.58 WebViews WebViews WebViews
20.29 Do you share code with iOS?
25.14 How would you rewrite the app differently?
28.31 How your release process looks like?
34.12 Employee vs External Contributors
37.20 Major features coming from the community
38.50 How to contribute to Duck Duck Go?
40.10 Future Projects
43.21 Further reading
45.06 Where to find Marcos online?

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ktlint-gradle with Jonathan Leitschuh and Yahor Berdnikau

Nicola Corti — Mon, 30 May 2022 13:00:00 +0100

I’m really excited to have on stage Jonathan Leitschuh and Yahor Berdnikau, maintainers of ktlint-gradle.

ktlint-gradle is a Gradle Plugin that allows you to lint and reformat your Kotlin code during a Gradle build. We’re going to touch and what are the challenges of building such a tool and a bit of the story of this project.

Moreover, we’ll discuss on a topic which is really crucial in the OSS community: Sustainability. Most of us struggle to find new maintainers. It’s crucial to understand how we can foster a sustainable ecosystem and what are the risks of unmaintained projects.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.15 Intro
01.01 Episode Start
01.32 Jonathan’s Introduction
02.07 Yahor’s Introduction
02.59 What is Ktlint?
05.25 What is Ktlint-gradle?
08.06 What are the challenges of writing a formatter?
09.01 How hard was to integrate with Gradle?
12.25 Pros & Cons of having separate repos
15.26 Why Kotlin is lacking a 1st party formatter?
19.11 Openrewrite & Mass code refractoring
21.32 Naming is hard
25.31 How you got involved in this project?
30.19 Open Source Sustainability
35.43 How to seek new maintainers?
40.06 Github Sponsorships
43.02 The event-stream incident
46.08 Further reading

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gdb-dashboard with Andrea Cardaci

Nicola Corti — Tue, 17 May 2022 13:00:00 +0100

Have you ever debugged an application using gdb? If yes, you probably know how unfriendly the user interface of gdb is. That’s why Andrea Cardaci developed gdb-dashboard, a graphical interface for gdb.

Today, we’ll walk through how this project started and we’ll talk about some of the challenges of developing graphical applications for terminal.

Andrea is also an Application Security Specialist. In this episode, he’s going to share of security tips & stories with all of us.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.13 Intro
00.59 Episode Start
02.10 Andrea’s Introduction
04.52 What is an Application Security Specialist doing daily?
08.05 Security Tips for every developer
11.21 What is gdb?
13.38 What is gdb-dashboard?
18.45 Why gdb-dashboard is not by default inside gdb?
23.45 So this project is just 2K lines of code… how comes?
27.08 What are the Ncurses libraries?
29.25 Why you developed gdb-dashboard?
34.41 Tests and external contribs
39.32 What’s your most popular CVE?
47.02 Andrea’s Terminal Setup
50.01 Further reading
51.48 Where to find Andrea online?

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Sentry SDK with Manoel Aranda Neto and Roman Zavarnitsyn

Nicola Corti — Mon, 02 May 2022 13:00:00 +0100

We’re back at talking about Monitoring, Profiling and Instrumentation with folks from the Sentry SDK. I’m excited to have on stage Manoel Aranda Neto and Roman Zavarnitsyn to talk as a bit about their Android SDK.

The Sentry Android SDK goes beyond just monitoring. It’s able to auto-instrument your code, using bytecode manipulation (which sounds both scary and cool). Join me in this episode, while the folks from Sentry tell us how this works internally and how Sentry can help you improve your application performances.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.23 Manoel’s Introduction
01.45 Roman’s Introduction
02.31 What is Sentry?
03.20 Is Sentry only for Mobile?
03.52 Which languages and SDKs are you supporting?
04.50 How is Sentry SDK working internally?
06.46 Sentry & the NDK
08.07 Symbolicating Native Stacktraces
10.16 Monitoring & Performance Impact
11.04 Sentry’s Killer Feature
13.10 What makes Sentry different from other platforms?
14.38 The Sentry Gradle Plugin
16.11 Tracing Auto-Instrumentation
18.55 How is Auto-Instrumentation working?
22.16 Bytecode Manipulation
26.03 Which features are you instrumenting?
27.51 New ideas for automatic instrumentation?
29.54 Sentry & Open Source
31.15 The New Github Projects
32.33 External Contributors
34.08 The feature of Sentry
35.56 How you got involved with Sentry?
38.06 Further reading

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Testcontainers with Sergei Egorov

Nicola Corti — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0100

It’s time to talk about Docker 🐳 and how it can help you improve your integration tests, with Sergei Egorov and Testcontainers.

Testcontainers make easy to start instances of DBs, web browsers, or any other tool that can be containerized to help you write integration tests. This will allow you to test your code against real dependencies and not fake/mocks anymore.

Sergei will guide us throgh this project and will share some insights on his experience in Open Source.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.35 Sergei’s Introduction
03.20 What are Testcontainers?
06.34 Testcontainers with Java, Go, Node and more
09.28 Are Testcontianers just a wrapper on top of Docker?
11.38 Stopping containers
15.16 How do you handle resources?
21.16 Built-in modules for popular DBs
26.27 Integrating Testcontainers in your tests
29.46 What is AtomicJar and Testcontainers Cloud?
35.21 Flakyness when testing on the cloud
38.45 Java Champions
43.02 What do you think about Kotlin?
46.53 Sergei’s OSS journey
50.35 Suggestions for new contributors
54.51 Where to find Sergei online?

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Dependency Analysis Android Gradle Plugin with Tony Robalik

Nicola Corti — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0100

We’re back to talk about Gradle 🐘 with Tony Robalik and the Dependency Analysis Android Gradle Plugin (DAAGP).

Tony wrote this plugin to help you with unused and misused dependencies and save yourself from some depenceny hell. We will learn about the story of this plugin and some of the internals. Tony is a great source of knowledge about Gradle and he’s also one of the member of the Gradle Fellowship program.

In this episode we’re going to touch on his opinion about Gradle as a tool. Moreover we will also learn more about Tony’s background as a urban planner and how it made him a better engineer.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.18 Intro
01.05 Episode Start
01.38 Tony’s Introduction
03.18 What is the Dependency Analysis Android Gradle Plugin?
07.22 What is Gradle?
11.48 Do we finally get to use some graph theory?
16.10 Which projects are supported by this plugin?
18.13 How is plugin working internally?
21.51 How being an urban planner helped you being a better software engineer?
24.21 What’s your opinion about Gradle as a tool?
28.00 Do you feel that Gradle gives you too much freedom?
32.25 Gradle & Documentation
36.03 The Gradle Fellowship
38.27 What have you learned from open source?
42.57 Do you have suggestions for firstimers to Open Source?
46.03 Further reading
48.09 Where to find Tony online?

Resources

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Detekt with The Detekt Maintainers

Nicola Corti — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Today, we celebrate episode #30 of the Developers’ Bakery 🥐🎉

We do so with a special episode and three special guests: Brais Gabin, Chao Zhang and Markus Schwarz.

They are, together with Nicola, some of the maintainers of Detekt, the Kotlin static analyzer.

In this episode we will walk you through some of the features of Detekt, how it integrates with Android & Kotlin Multiplatform projects and much more. You’ll get to hear some hidden gems like the maintainers favorite rules or some stories about the history of this project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.14 Intro
01.00 Episode Start
01.54 Markus’ Introduction
02.33 Chao’s Introduction
03.07 Brais’ Introduction
04.56 What is Detekt?
08.10 How to use Detekt?
10.31 Extending Detekt
14.25 Markus’ Favorite Rules
15.43 Brais’ Favorite Rules
17.33 Chao’s Favorite Rules
19.48 Nicola’s Favorite Rules
22.56 What is Type Resolution?
26.44 Using Detekt with Android & Kotlin Multiplatform
29.38 Detekt’s Documentation Pipeline
34.04 What is SARIF?
37.48 How Chao got involved in this project
39.50 How Markus got involved in this project?
43.04 How Brais got involved in this project?
46.14 How Nicola got involved in this project?
48.52 How Detekt started?
51.22 How to get involved in this project?
55.17 Where to start contributing from?
61.34 What would like in the future of Detekt, Brais?
63.05 What would like in the future of Detekt, Chao?
64.44 What would like in the future of Detekt, Markus?
66.48 What would like in the future of Detekt, Nicola?
71.36 Further reading
74.37 Where people can find you online?

Resources

detekt/detekt on Github
Detekt Official Website
#detekt on Kotlinlang Slack (get an invite here)
Mentioned Resources:

Maintainers’ Contacts

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Kodein with Salomon Brys

Nicola Corti — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Today we have the pleasure to host another popular Dependency Injection framework at the Developers’ Bakery.

Please welcome Kodein-DI and Salomon Brys on stage! Kodein is an acronym for KOtlin DEpendency INjection, a framework to help you handle your dependencies in your Kotlin code (on all the platforms!).

But Kodein is not only a DI framework. There is an entire ecosystem of libraries that can help you such as a DB, a logging library and a mocking framework. In this episode, Salomon is going to tell us how Kodein was born and how the whole Kodein initiative kicked off.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.18 Intro
01.05 Episode Start
01.33 Salomon’s Introduction
02.26 Board games & French
04.14 What is Kodein?
05.49 The Kodein Framework and library naming
07.38 What is Kodein Koders?
10.08 Kodein vs Dagger
12.33 Dagger error messages
14.23 Compile-time safety vs Unit-test safety
20.51 Testing with Kodein
23.08 MockKMP
27.57 Kodein vs Koin
30.54 The most requested feature
33.15 Is Kodein Multiplatform ready?
36.53 Upcoming features
38.39 Who is maintaining Kodein?
41.39 Is Kodein a good project to start doing open-source?
43.55 Further reading
45.42 Where to find Salomon online?

Resources

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Stream SDK with Filip Babić

Nicola Corti — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Building a chat client is hard.

Sending messages, uploading attachments, and handling reactions are all tedious and quite complicate tasks that are common to a wide variety of apps. Those are the foundation of the Android Stream SDK. With Stream you can build a customized chat experience for your mobile apps. The various SDKs are completely open-source and are available for several platforms (Web, iOS, Android and even gaming platforms).

Today we have Filip Babić on stage, Android UI Team Lead at Stream, to walk us through their Android SDK. Specifically, Stream is offering both an Android XML SDK and a Compose SDK. We’re going to talk about the differences between the two, and the challenges of building a chat SDK to serve millions of messages.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.09 Intro
00.55 Episode Start
01.10 Filip’s Introduction
02.20 What is Stream?
04.14 Stream SDK Offering
06.50 The killer features
10.14 The Jetpack Compose SDK
15.17 The biggest challenge when building the Stream SDK
18.07 Protecting the API surface
23.26 Offline mode
27.51 End-to-end encryption
31.14 Kotlin language feature in the SDK
34.06 The Maker plan
39.12 Everything is open-source
40.47 The most requested feature
45.21 How can people contribute to the Stream SDK?
47.58 Further reading
50.43 Where to find Filip online?

Resources

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Krabs with Michele Riva

Nicola Corti — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode of The Developers’ Bakery we touch on Next.js and a middleware to overcome one of its missing capability with Michele Riva and Krabs 🦀

Krabs is a Express.js/Fastify middleware that will help you deploying multi-tenancy application on Next.js. We’re going to walk through what this tool does and why it was even needed in the first place.

Michele is also a book author and has a lot of opinion on programming languages. We’re going to hear a bit about his experience writing a book and some of his lessons learned.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.09 Intro
00.55 Episode Start
01.28 Michele’s Introduction
02.31 What is Krabs?
03.36 What is NextJS?
05.25 What is multi tenancy?
08.05 Is Krabs used in production?
11.00 FLIP - Functional-like Imperative Programming
12.37 Native Multi-tenancy support in Next.js
14.30 Upcoming features for Krabs?
16.57 Who is currently maintaining the project?
17.58 Who is sponsoring this project?
19.07 Could you imagine doing OSS full-time?
20.47 What’s your experience as a book author?
23.51 Real-world Next.js
26.17 If you were to rewrite Krabs, what would you do differently?
29.11 If you were to rewrite your book, what would you do differently?
31.36 Further reading
33.41 Bonus: What is your favourite programming language?
35.54 Bonus: …and why it’s not Javascript?
40.46 Where to find Michele online?

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Material UI Swing with Vincenzo Palazzo

Nicola Corti — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0000

This time, we fly up to Mars with Vincenzo Palazzo and the Material UI Swing.

Vincenzo is the maintainer of this library, a custom theme for Swing which is bringing a material look-n-feel to the Swing UI toolkit. While this might sound boring at first, Material UI Swing is currently used on JMars (Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing) 🪐 and sponsored by the Arizona State University.

In this episode Vincenzo will tell us the challenges of having to deal with Swing, and what it means to have a University sponsoring your open-source project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.09 Intro
00.55 Episode Start
01.48 Vincenzo’s Introduction
04.24 What are you favourite programming languages?
06.21 What is Material UI Swing?
10.20 How about JMars?
14.03 A bit of project history
17.07 What was the impact of being sponsored by a University?
24.16 Vincenzo goes to Arizona
30.26 Swing and Themes
37.44 Would you rewrite it in Kotlin?
41.07 What’s up in the future for this library?
44.27 Further reading
47.13 Where to find Vincenzo online?

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Realm with Christian Melchior

Nicola Corti — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Let’s start this new year venturing inside the realm of mobile databases, with Christian Melchior and the Realm Kotlin SDK.

Realm is an on-device database, that helps you handle your app state with a lot of convenient built-in features such as lazy loading, encryption, and cloud synchronization.

In this episode, Christian is guiding us through the Realm SDK for Android developers. When using Realm on Android, you have the freedom to pick between the Java SDK and the Kotlin SDK. During the show, we will look through the offering of the two and how Kotlin Multiplatform is going to shape the future for Realm.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.17 Intro
01.04 Episode Start
01.35 Christian’s Introduction
02.20 What is Realm?
03.55 Which platforms are supported?
05.21 Why a separate Java and a Kotlin SDK?
09.01 Why pick Realm over Room?
11.54 Modelling domains that are relationship heavy
12.51 Native encryption support
14.52 Multiuser support
16.59 Realm Sync and offline-first apps
19.15 Multiplatform support
20.33 Kotlin Multiplatform to take over C++?
22.53 Is Realm KMP production ready?
24.31 How you got involved with Realm?
25.22 How is the releationship with the OSS community?
27.48 Which contribs are the most common?
29.44 The Mongo acquisition & OSS
31.29 Any OSS app that is using Realm to use as inspiration?
32.43 Where do you interact with the Realm community?
34.36 Async vs Sync comms
36.09 How do you handle the incoming flow of Github issues?
37.53 The Realm roadmap
40.13 Further reading
41.09 Where to find Christian online?

Resources

Realm Kotlin Multiplatform:
Realm Java:
- realm/realm-java on Github
- Realm Java Documentation
Talks and Podcasts about Realm:
@cmelchior on Github
@chrmelchior on Twitter

Show links

Datadog for Android with Xavier F. Gouchet

Nicola Corti — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode we are going to meet Xavier Gouchet and the Datadog Android SDK 🐶.

Datadog helps you monitor and track problems with your mobile applications, such as crashes and ANR. The Android SDK offers a large variety of plugins that helps you track the health of your app with integration for popular libraries such as Timber, Glide, Jetpack Compose or the Android NDK.

In this episode, Xavier will walk us through their SDK and what are the most challenging tasks for a monitoring SDK such as this one.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.17 Intro
01.04 Episode Start
01.38 Xav’s Introduction
02.54 What is Datadog?
03.20 What mobile engineers can do with Datadog?
04.22 How Datadog works on Android?
05.50 What are the complexity of a monitoring SDK?
08.25 Which type of monitoring is it offering?
10.21 What’s the performance impact of a monitoring SDK?
12.51 Which OSS applications are you using for benchmarking?
13.56 What was the most complex plugin to develop?
17.00 Are you also giving suggestions to developers?
19.33 Machine Learning and App Crashes
21.09 The most common performance pitfall
23.03 How do you handle collection of personal information?
27.56 Integrations with popular Android libraries
32.51 Can people contribute to Datadog SDK?
35.05 Reproducible builds and SDKs
36.23 What’s in the future for this SDK?
38.45 How can people contribute to this project?
39.46 Further reading
41.09 Where to find Xav online?

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PlusPlugins with Miguel Beltran

Nicola Corti — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0000

It’s been since episode #07 that we haven’t talked about Flutter 💙, so today we have Miguel Beltran on stage to talk about one of the most important library for it: Plus Plugins.

Miguel is one of the maintainer of this popular collection of plugins. Plus plugins offer multiplatform capability to access informations such as battery, connectivity, sensors and more across a variety of platforms: Android, iOS, Web, MacOS, Windows & Linux!

In this episode we will talk about the story of this project, how it evolved from Google to Flutter community, and how people can contribute to such a critical piece of the Flutter ecosystem.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.21 Miguel’s Introduction
02.26 What are the Plus Plugins?
04.55 Who owns the Plus Plugins?
08.56 Flutter Plugin Ecosystem
11.00 Contributing to Flutter
12.13 Miguel’s favorite plus plugin
14.31 Are plus plugins offering also UI?
15.34 The hardest plus plugin to maintain
17.37 Multiplatform support
19.40 The monorepo
24.05 What makes a plugin a plus plugin?
27.20 How you got involved in this project?
30.20 How do you handle oss contributions?
32.08 How to contribute?
33.55 How do you keep docs and code on sync?
35.55 Do you version your docs?
37.36 Further reading
38.44 Where to find Miguel online?

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Gitpod with Geoffrey Huntley

Nicola Corti — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode we’re back on the topic of Cloud IDEs with Geoffrey Huntley to talk us about Gitpod 🚀.

First, I had the pleasure to ask Geoff some insights on his van life ⛺️. Geoff is living remote work at its finest, working from his van in Australia and apparently enjoying it a lot (make sure to checkout his blogposts about it)!

But Geoff is also highly involved with Gitpod, a tool that will help you spin-up development environment and get you up to speed in seconds. They’re also extremely supportive towards the open-source ecosystem, offering free licenses for OSS projects.

In this epidesode we walk through Gitpod, how it can help you in your daily development and what the future of Cloud IDE might look like.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.12 Geoff’s Introduction
01.55 Working from a van
03.41 Funny stories from a camping life
05.05 Living without abstraction
07.11 What is Gitpod?
09.15 What makes Gitpod unique?
12.33 Prebuilt workspaces
14.15 The gitpod.io magic URL
16.50 Development workflow with Gitpod
19.08 VS Code @ Gitpod
21.52 OpenVSX
23.09 What are the major blockers to cloud IDEs adoption?
25.04 Developing daily on a iPad
26.33 Mobile development in the cloud
30.53 It works on my machine
32.23 Deplyoing GitPod to your infrastructure
35.22 Geoff’s Browser setup
36.28 How you go involved with Gitpod?
38.24 How to contribute to Gitpod?
40.42 Further reading
43.05 Where to find Geoff online?

Resources

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Firefox for Android with Sebastian Kaspari

Nicola Corti — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0100

You don’t get to build a browser every day right? Today we have Sebastian Kaspari on stage to talk us about Firefox for Android 🦊.

Together we will walk through what it takes to write a mobile browser, and we will discover some of the open-source projects in the Mozilla ecosystem such as Firefox Focus, GeckoView and Mozilla Android Components.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.13 Intro
00.59 Episode Start
01.24 Sebastian’s Introduction
02.12 What is Fenix?
03.11 The big rewrite
04.42 Code sharing between Mobile and Desktop
07.26 Feature parity
09.34 From monorepo to separate repos
12.29 The story of Firefox for Android
18.23 What is needed to build a browser?
20.06 GeckoView
22.15 WebViews vs GeckoViews
24.01 Mozilla Android Components
26.34 Specific Browser Components
27.46 From Github to the PlayStore
29.12 Nightly, Alpha, Beta and Stable
31.01 Reproducible Builds
33.56 Firefox Focus
37.31 Firefox Tech Stack and Architecture
40.56 How many engineers are behind Firefox for Android?
42.05 External Contributors to Firefox
43.36 How to start contributing to Firefox?
46.24 Further reading
47.48 What’s the future for Firefox on Android?

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Running with Enrique López-Mañas

Nicola Corti — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0100

So we made it to Episode 20! 🎂.

If you’ve been enjoying this podcast so far, please consider making a small donation to my London Marathon 2021 fundaraising. You’ll be supporting Mencap, the voice of Learning Disabilities 🙏 Thank you so much.

We’re celebrating this milestone with a special episode. The tool we’re going to talk about today is not a Github library, but a sport that is getting more and more popular in the developer community: Running 🏃‍♂️.

I’m excited to have on stage Enrique López-Mañas, GDE for Kotlin & Android, Maitnainer of Kotlin Weekly and (Ultra) Marathon runner.

Enrique will share with us his passion for running and will tell us how software engineers can benefit from this sport. He has also been successufully running Kotlin weekly for the last 5 years, so he has a lot to tell about endurance as well.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
03.18 Enrique’s Introduction
04.28 How you got into running?
08.51 How hard is to run a marathon?
11.49 Aren’t you bored of running?
16.37 Any memorable run to share?
24.19 Running the New York Marathon
27.39 Meeting new people while running
29.34 The psychology of running a marathon
33.02 What software developers can learn from running?
37.18 Running a marathon vs running a newsletter: Kotlin Weekly
46.29 Have you ever fundraised for a race?
52.06 What would you suggest to new runners?
57.56 Where to find Enrique online?

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Arrow with Simon Vergauwen

Nicola Corti — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0100

Today we venture into the realm of Functional Programming with Arrow 🏹 and Simon Vergauwen.

Arrow is the functional companion library for Kotlin. It makes writing FP code easier thanks to classes and extensions to the Kotlin standard library. In this episode we talk about the story of this library and what is offering nowadays to Kotlin developers.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.25 Intro
01.11 Episode Start
01.28 Simon’s Introduction
02.17 What is Arrow?
03.10 Let’s talk about Functional Programming
05.51 Examples of FP
07.23 Kotlin vs other FP languages
08.55 What is Arrow providing on top of Kotlin?
11.28 Extensions and Classes from Arrow
13.37 Arrow Core and other Arrow libraries
15.21 The story of Arrow
17.18 The learning curve
20.13 Do I need to know FP before using Arrow?
21.47 What’s the prospective of the Arrow community?
23.26 Arrow Optics and Arrow Meta
25.10 Monorepo in the Arrow org
27.17 What is 47 Degrees?
28.47 How to see FP to a customer?
30.35 How is 47 Degrees supporting Arrow?
31.57 How you got involved with Arrow?
33.19 How is Arrow maintained?
34.45 How to contribute to Arrow?
36.22 Further reading
37.52 The future of Arrow

Resources

arrow-kt/arrow on Github
Official Resources:
Mentioned Projects:
- MarioAriasC/funKTionale on Github
- 47deg/kategory-intro on Github
@arrow_kt on Twitter
#arrow on Kotlinlang Slack (get an invite here)
47 Degrees Website
@nomisRev on Github
@vergauwen_simon on Twitter

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code-server with Joe Previte

Nicola Corti — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:00:00 +0100

Are you ready to relocate your IDE to the cloud ☁️?

In this episode we welcome on stage Joe Previte to talk about code-server, the solution to run VS Code in your browser. Joe is also working for coder.com, an enterprise service that offers code-server deployment ready to use.

Today he will tell us about his journey with cloud IDEs, through shiny features and the current limitations. We even get to run VS Code on his mobile phone 😬!

If you want to get a glimpse of how the IDE experience might look like in some years, make sure to don’t miss this episode!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.13 Intro
00.59 Episode Start
01.24 Joe’s Introduction
02.51 What is code-server?
04.24 Who had the idea of having an IDE in the browser?
06.22 Keeping developers in flow
08.50 What is coder.com
11.27 Convince us that cloud IDEs are the future
14.17 Limitations of cloud IDEs
15.43 Backend development in the cloud
17.03 With browsers getting slower, do you want your IDE there?
20.43 What is blocking a wider adoption?
23.25 What to invest for a cloud IDE setup?
26.13 code-server internals
28.54 Why typescript?
30.02 VS Code extensions
32.45 Keyboard shortcuts
41.05 code-server vs Github Codespaces
43.43 How can we contribute to code-server?
48.59 Which future for code-server?
50.49 Are we all doomed to develop on our smartphones?
54.09 Further reading
55.23 Where to find Joe online?

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Strawberry with Patrick Arminio

Nicola Corti — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 13:00:00 +0100

Today we touch a bit on the Python 🐍 world as I have the honor to have on-stage Patrick Arminio, author and maintainer of Strawberry 🍓.

Strawberry is a GraphQL library for Python 3. It comes with a lot of nice features built on top of language feature such as dataclasses and type hints.

Patrick is also doing an amazing work in building a vibrant community around this project. In this episode he will walk us through the story of this project, and some of the community initiatives he started to support this project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.13 Intro
00.59 Episode Start
01.26 Patrick’s Introduction
02.09 Patrick’s background
03.23 What is Strawberry?
04.37 The story of Strawberry
06.50 Strawberry’s selling point
07.52 A new release for every pull-request
08.57 Building communities around side projects
10.53 Who is maintaining the project?
12.11 Meeting with the contributors
14.01 Is it worth to organize a meeting?
15.24 Where to find time for open source?
17.01 Weekly reporting your contributions
18.45 Release Twitter cards
22.22 A retrospective on the community health
24.09 Why Strawberry vs other popular libraries?
25.44 Strawberry’s upcoming features
27.37 When to 1.0?
29.06 Strawberry on Twitch
30.09 Roadmap to beyond 1.0
32.15 Onboarding new contributors
33.52 Further reading
37.06 Sponsoring the project
39.53 Where to find Patrick online?

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FastHub with Kosh Sergani

Nicola Corti — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 13:00:00 +0100

Today I have the honor to host on-stage Kosh Sergani, author and maintainer of FastHub.

If you don’t know FastHub yet, it’s one of the most popular Github client for Android. It’s obviously fully open-sourced and Kosh has been developing it from day 1. Today he’s sharing with us the story of this project, how it started and how it evolved.

Make sure you don’t miss this episode as we’re going to talk about a lot of topics: the the FastHub business model, how Kosh handled piracy problems and what is the future for this project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.11 Intro
00.56 Episode Start
01.26 Kosh’s Introduction
02.21 What is FastHub?
03.17 The story of FastHub
05.11 The tech stack
08.29 Was FastHub open-sourced from day 1?
09.28 Community contributions
11.36 Deploying to the Play Store
13.10 Reproducible builds
15.16 Piracy problems
20.11 Who is maintaining FastHub?
22.18 The business model
25.16 FastHub vs Github Native App
28.53 Is FastHub v5 happening?
30.52 Are you looking for contributors?
31.56 Further reading
33.14 The burden of a maintainer
36.07 Your passion for open source
37.32 Open source impact on career growth
39.48 Where to find Kosh online?

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Deep-clean with Sebastiano Poggi

Nicola Corti — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:00:00 +0100

☢️☢️☢️ When Gradle or the IDE let you down, just --nuke all them caches ☢️☢️☢️

Today’s project is basically a script: deep-clean.

This script is the last resort to unblock yourself when your Android/JVM/Gradle builds are damn broken. deep-clean will take care of cleaning up your build caches. If you’re really stuck, you should also look into the --nuke option to purge every possible cache and start from a clean environment.

Its author, Sebastiano Poggi, is on stage to tell us the story behind it.

As a bonus, we also talk a bit about Seb’s new journey with Twitch: CodeWithTheItalians 🍕.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.19 Intro
01.05 Episode Start
01.36 Seb’s Introduction
03.35 What is deep-clean?
05.36 What is deep-clean cleaning?
08.31 deep-clean as a last resort
11.25 From a script to a popular project
13.30 Kotlin as a scripting language
15.35 How do you distribute deep-clean?
18.05 Community contributions
19.59 deep-clean on Brew?
22.43 kscript vs Kotlin Scripting
25.08 Command line parameters
26.34 Do you have tests?
30.02 Further reading
33.16 Bonus: Code with the Italians
43.48 Where to find Seb online?

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Anvil with Ralf Wondratschek

Nicola Corti — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0100

“When all you have is an anvil, every problem looks like a hammer.” - Abraham Maslow

So it starts the Anvil 🔨 README.

Anvil is a plugin to make your dependency injection with Dagger 2 easier.

We have the pleasure to host Ralf Wondratschek, Mobile Engineer @ Square. He’s going to tell us how Anvil can make your life with Dagger 2 easier and faster.

Did you know that this project was originally called Hephaestus? Make sure to don’t miss this episode if you want to learn this and other stories behind this project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.19 Intro
01.05 Episode Start
01.31 Ralf’s Introduction
02.21 What is Anvil?
02.51 What is Dagger?
05.20 Ralf’s opinion on Dependency Injection
07.27 Any bad experiences with Dagger?
08.41 What problem is Anvil solving?
14.03 Is Anvil useful if I have only one Android project?
15.47 What’s the story of Anvil?
17.56 Anvil Internals
22.12 How stable is Anvil?
25.00 Anvil vs Hilt
28.57 What do you recommend using in a fresh Android project?
34.37 Tips for project naming
36.56 Shiny new features
37.24 Anvil & Dagger @Binds
38.29 Anvil & Dagger Factories
40.51 Anvil extensibility
44.53 What to expect for Anvil in the future?
47.18 Further reading
48.35 Where to find Ralf online?

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Apollo GraphQL with Martin Bonnin

Nicola Corti — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0100

Today we have on stage Martin Bonnin, Android Engineer at Apollo GraphQL 🚀.

Martin has the amazing opportunity to work full time for an open-source project: Apollo Android, probably the most popular GraphQL client for Android.

In this episode Martin will tell us his experience with GraphQL, how he got involved with Apollo and how it is to work full time on a oss project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.21 Intro
01.07 Episode Start
01.38 Martin’s Introduction
02.59 What is GraphQL?
06.31 Can you convince us that GraphQL is better than REST?
09.38 What do you feel is blocking a wider GraphQL adoption?
12.50 What is offered by Apollo?
15.07 What is Apollo Android?
16.45 The internals of Apollo Android
20.17 Are the APIs inspired by OkHTTP or Retrofit?
23.19 The Normalized Cache
26.35 How you got involved in Apollo?
28.25 How do you feel working fulltime for open-source?
31.03 Who are the Apollo Android maintainers?
33.09 Project governance
35.08 Company open-source vs Fully open-source
36.16 What’s next in 3.0?
38.22 How to contribute to Apollo?
39.33 Where to find examples?
41.17 Further readings
42.22 Where to find Martin online?

Resources

apollographql/apollo-android on Github
Apollo GraphQL Website
#apollo-android on Kotlinlang Slack (get an invite here)
Official Documentation:
Mentioned Resources & Projects:
@martinbonnin on Github
@martinbonnin on Twitter
Martin’s Blog

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refreshVersions with Louis CAD

Nicola Corti — Mon, 31 May 2021 13:00:00 +0100

Have you ever ventured inside the dependency hell 😈? Louis CAD has for sure. Today we’re talking about refreshVersions, a Gradle plugin to help you keep your third-party dependencies up to date.

The killer feature of refreshVersions is the possibility to see all the available versions as comments in your versions file. They’re just a ⇧ + down keystroke away to update:

Louis will also tell us his personal experience with pair programming in the open-source ecosystem. If you’re looking for a peer to get into open-source, make sure you send Louis a message!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.25 Intro
01.11 Episode Start
01.41 Louis’ Introduction
02.56 What is refreshVersion?
04.56 The Dependency Hell problem
05.54 API breaking changes
06.35 The cost of bumping dependencies
07.25 Dependency bundles and versions alignment
09.27 The history of this project
13.18 How the find newer versions?
15.05 A new dependency notation
16.46 How to use refreshVersions?
19.14 New versions as comments
19.51 Java Properties vs JSON/YAML
22.24 refreshVersions vs Gradle Version Catalog
26.33 refreshVersions vs Dependabot
29.42 How to contribute to refreshVersions?
32.13 Pair programming in open source
35.36 Have you ever had bad experiences with pair programming?
37.59 Tools for pair programming
39.31 How to pair program with Louis?
42.02 What’s next for refreshVersions?
43.38 Where to find Louis online?

Resources

refreshVersions on Github
Dependency hell on Wikipedia
Official Documentation
Contribution Guide
#gradle-refresh-versions on Kotlinlang Slack (get an invite here)
Other mentioned projects:
- ben-manes/gradle-versions-plugin on Github
- LouisCAD/Splitties on Github
Pair programming resources:
@LouisCAD on Github
@Louis_CAD on Twitter

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MoshiX and KSP with Zac Sweers

Nicola Corti — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0100

It’s time to talk about meta-programming, annotation processors and compiler plugins 🧙‍♂️. Today we have Zac Sweers on stage, Mobile Engineer @ Slack and maintainer of Moshi, a popular Json library.

Zac is the author of MoshiX, a set of extensions for Moshi. Between those, one that caught my attention was moshi-ksp. KSP (Kotlin Symbol Processing API) is set to revolutionize the landscape of annotations processors in Kotlin. Join us on this deep dive on code generation and more.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.18 Intro
01.05 Episode Start
01.28 Zac’s Introduction
03.03 What is Metaprogramming?
04.42 What is KSP?
05.26 What about KAPT
08.20 Overcoming KAPT costs
09.50 Beyond KAPT
11.26 KSP API & Features
15.02 Your story of Moshi
17.46 Kotlin Metadata
19.16 Generating Moshi Adapters
20.18 What is MoshiX?
23.44 MoshiX & KSP
25.07 Adopters and Success Stories
28.02 From MoshiX to Moshi
30.57 Kotlin Compiler Plugins
36.20 Compiler Plugin opportunities
38.53 A Moshi Compiler Plugin?
41.00 Metaprogramming beyond Java/Kotlin
45.06 What’s next for MoshiX?
54.44 Further reading
60.15 Where to find Zac online?

Resources

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Press with Saket Narayan

Nicola Corti — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0100

🎂 We’re happy to celebrate our 10th episode! 🎂

And today we have on stage, Saket Narayan, Android Engineer at Square. Saket is an master of Android UI and Custom Views and today is on stage to talk to us about Press.

Press is a beautiful App for taking notes as markdown. The app is completely open source and is a great inspiration for minimal yet elegant UI.

Moreover, Press is developed with Kotlin Multiplatform. This project is a great example of how you can share Kotlin code between Android, iOS and MacOS. Make sure to don’t miss it.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00:13 Intro
00:59 Episode Start
01:35 Saket’s Introduction
02:34 What is Press?
03:45 What makes Press special?
05:40 What is Kotlin Multiplatform?
07:27 Flutter vs Kotlin Multiplatform?
08:37 How much code where you able to share?
09:50 What are the challenges of shipping iOS/MacOS apps?
11:51 From Mobile to Desktop
12:45 Shipping to ChromeOS?
13:20 What’s your Multiplatform Stack?
14:12 Network in a Multiplatform environment
15:12 KTor as a client library
16:08 How have you wrote the UI?
17:05 What are the benefits of Custom Views
19:12 Is Jetpack Compose on the horizon?
21:05 Which IDE for iOS?
21:59 What is missing in AppCode?
24:40 What would you do differently?
26:22 Are you looking for contributors?
28:37 Missing features?
29:34 Further reading
30:39 Where to find Saket online?

Resources

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JaCoCo with Evgeny Mandrikov

Nicola Corti — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:00:00 +0100

This episode is going to be all about testing and code coverage 🧪 as we have Evgeny Mandrikov on stage!

He’s going to tell use the story behind JaCoCo, aka Java Code Coverage, one the most popular code coverage library for Java, Kotlin and the JVM.

If you’re curious to learn how a code coverage tool works internally, make sure to don’t miss this episode.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00:15 Intro
01:02 Episode Start
01:42 Evgeny’s Introduction
02:45 What is JaCoCo?
03:52 One tool for one function
04:59 Is JaCoCo in “maintenance” mode?
07:03 Convince us that coverage is important
09:59 JaCoCo as a debugging tool
11:50 Where to use code coverage?
14:11 Patch vs total coverage
18:04 How JaCoCo works?
21:57 Source based instrumentation
24:54 Pattern matching and code coverage
26:54 Is JaCoCo ever failing?
29:57 Kotlin inline functions
34:30 Integrating with JaCoCo
36:00 JaCoCo vs IntelliJ Code Coverage?
39:57 Is a mailing anachronistic?
42:28 How to contribute to JaCoCo?
45:13 What’s the future for JaCoCo?
48:07 Evgeny’s dream about JaCoCo
49:53 Learning Material
51:04 Where to find Evgeny online?

Resources

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Tuist with Pedro Piñera Buendía

Nicola Corti — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000

You don’t need a tooling team

That’s Tuist motto, and if you’re an iOS Developer 🍎 you really don’t want to miss it.

Today we have Pedro Piñera Buendía on stage. He’s the author and maintainer of Tuist, a tool to help you maintain and generate your XCode Projects. Pedro will tell us about the history of this tool and how it plays with monorepo and dependency management.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00:18 Intro
01:05 Episode Start
01:46 Pedro’s Introduction
03:04 What is Tuist?
05:36 Tuist vs Gradle
10:59 “Focused” projects
14:26 XCode’s pain points
15:42 3rd party dependencies
18:10 Monorepos
21:44 How you came up with Tuist?
25:25 The Tuist Core Team
27:06 Major adopters
29:09 What’s the future for Tuist?
31:23 Collecting Build Metrics
32:53 Tuist Internals
35:35 How to contribute to Tuist?
39:16 Slack and Tuist community
41:31 Documentation and Material
43:49 Where to find Pedro online?

Resources

Pedros’s Contacts

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VelocityX and Flutter with Pawan Kumar

Nicola Corti — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Do you know Flutter 💙 ? I bet you do, if you’re into mobile development. Today, we have Pawan Kumar on stage, he’s a Flutter & Dart GDE and he is on stage to advocate for cross-platform development.

Pawan is the author of VelocityX, a framework that will make your UI development experience even faster. He will tell us more about this framework, how it started and what the inspiration came from.

Also, make sure to don’t miss the bonus question Kotlin vs Dart (39:50) ⁉️

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00:37 Intro
01:12 Episode Start
02:02 Pawan’s Introduction
03:00 What is Flutter?
05:11 Android Native vs Flutter?
08:12 Kotlin Multiplatform vs Flutter?
10:43 What is VelocityX?
15:51 VelocityX Key Features
18:12 State Management & VelocityX
20:41 Who is using VelocityX?
22:58 Open-source examples?
24:50 What inspired VelocityX?
28:30 Is VelocityX production ready?
30:02 What’s missing in VelocityX?
32:35 Contributing to VelocityX
34:50 VelocityX’s future
37:36 Learning Material
38:50 Where to find Pawan online?
39:50 Bonus question: Kotlin vs Dart?

Resources

VelocityX on Github
VelocityX Official Documentation
VxToast #1 - Flutter Meets VelocityX
PortfolioX Sample App
Other mentioned frameworks and packages:

Pawan’s Contacts

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Koin with Arnaud Giuliani

Nicola Corti — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we talk about Dependency Injection 🗡. We have Arnaud Giuliani on stage, Kotlin GDE and author of Koin, a popular dependency injection framework for Kotlin.

Koin works well for Android projects, but it can be used also in backend projects and the Multiplatform support is just behind the corner.

Arnaud will tell us the story of this framework: how it started, how it grew and how its feature will look like.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00:36 Intro
01:11 Episode Start
01:46 Arnaud’s Introduction
03:20 What is Koin?
04:47 Reified Types & Annotations
08:48 The path to success
11:42 Koin’s killer feature
13:47 What is missing in Koin?
15:21 Compile time verification
18:35 The DI ecosystem
20:56 Koin in the Android world
23:56 Koin in the Multiplatform world
28:10 Koin internals
31:00 Kotlin’s feature used by Koin
32:08 What’s new in Koin 3.x
35:16 Breaking API Changes
39:24 Koin 4.x?
42:35 How to contribute to Koin?
46:46 Learning Material
49:41 Where to find Arnaud online?

Resources

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Starship with Matan Kushner

Nicola Corti — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we shift a bit from Mobile & Kotlin to talk about shells, prompts and Rust! 🦀

Today we have Matan Kushner with us on stage to talk about Starship 🚀. From their website: The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

Still confused? A picture is worth a thousand words:

Starship in action, from starship.rs

If you’re curious to know more about shells, prompts, customizations and what are the challenges behind Starship, make sure you don’t this episode.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00:27 Intro
01:13 Episode Start
01:53 Matan’s Introduction
03:05 What is Starship?
04:20 Supported shells
05:27 The idea behind writing a prompt
08:49 Matan’s favourite plugin
10:02 Missing features and space for improvements
11:44 What is your current setup?
13:36 Is there a “prompt market”?
15:19 Would you write it again in Rust?
17:07 Challenges of a prompt author
19:40 Where is Starship collecting information?
21:05 Async support
22:37 Which shell is the hardest to work with
24:14 The secret to build a vibrant community
26:16 Communities and Discord
29:41 What’s the future for Starship?
32:16 Roadmap and Vision
33:33 How to contribute?
35:18 Translating Starship
36:34 Learning Material
37:40 Where to find Matan online?

Resources

starship/starship on Github
Starship Official Documentation
The Rust Book
Other mentioned prompts:
- romkatv/powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme
- IlanCosman/tide - The ultimate Fish prompt
@StarshipPrompt on Twitter
@matchai on Github
@matchai on Twitter

Show links

Jetpack Compose Desktop with Sebastian Aigner

Nicola Corti — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Today, I’m more than excited to welcome on stage Sebastian Aigner, Developer Advocate at JetBrains.

Sebastian is with us to talk about Jetpack Compose Desktop, a new declarative UI framework for Desktop applications written in Kotlin.

Jetpack Compose Desktop is the porting of Jetpack Compose, the declarative UI framework for Android. JetBrains took the Compose to the next level offering a lot of new APIs and tools to make Desktop UI development a pleasure again. The project gained a lot of popularity recently on Github.

Sebastian is here to talk about his experience with the tool, how to write your first Compose Desktop application and how to contribute to the framework.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00:27 Intro
01:13 Episode Start
01:44 Sebastian’s Introduction
03:14 What is Jetpack Compose Desktop?
04:37 Jetpack Compose for Android
05:35 Desktop and UIs
07:30 Why not Jetbrains UI?
09:12 It just works TM
09:42 Package naming
10:21 Supported platforms
11:43 Migrating existing applications
13:42 The next Compose Desktop app from JB?
14:39 How to contribute to Ccompose Desktop?
16:49 What is the current project direction?
18:35 Where to provide feedback?
19:49 Where to find support?
20:55 Official Compose Desktop Examples
23:17 Seb’s experience with Compose Desktop
28:49 What is still missing in Compose Desktop?
30:07 Push notifications on Desktop
31:44 What’s the future for Compose Desktop?
33:01 Compose for Web!?
34:41 Learning material
36:30 Where to find Seb online?

Resources

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Danger with Franco Meloni

Nicola Corti — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Let’s kickoff 2021 with a great open-source tool: danger ⚠️! Danger’s motto is Stop saying “You forgot to…” in code review and it definitely delivers greatly on promises. With Danger, you can automatize recurrent and tedious tasks that affect your pull-requests.

Today, we have Franco Meloni on stage, one of the maintainer of danger/swift & danger/kotlin that will tell us the recipe for a friction-less pull code-review process.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00:20 Intro
01:06 Episode Start
01:54 Franco’s Introduction
03:23 What is Danger?
06:05 Danger setup in a nutshell
07:16 Dangerfiles
09:35 Danger and package managers
11:01 What Danger can do to your Pull-requests
12:56 Which version of Danger to pick?
16:35 Franco’s memorable automation
20:56 Running Danger offline
22:24 Extending Danger
25:39 Franco’s Top Plugins
27:51 How Franco got involved in Danger?
32:47 Github & Sponsorships
34:27 What is missing in Danger?
38:00 How to contribute?
40:10 Further readings
40:51 Where to find Franco online?

Resources

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Coil with Colin White

Nicola Corti — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we welcome on stage Colin White to introduce us Coil, COroutines Image Loader. Coil is an Android image loading library that recently hit the 1.0 milestone, completely written in Kotlin and with first class support for Kotlin Coroutines. In this episode, Colin tells us challenges, fun facts and future projects for this library.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00:20 Intro
01:06 Episode Start
02:00 Colin’s Introduction
02:45 What is Coil?
04:12 How you came up with Coil?
08:05 Coil <3 Kotlin
09:36 The challenges of image loading
13:08 What’s the faster library?
16:17 Screenshot Testing
17:48 We all love animated GIFs
19:53 Coil & Jetpack Compose
21:30 What’s the roadmap for Coil?
23:31 Debug Tools
25:32 Prefetching and Animating
28:58 Challenges in the Open Source ecosystems
30:42 How to contribute?
32:24 The future of Coil
34:09 Learning Coil
35:17 Where to find Colin online?

Resources

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Gradle Doctor with Nelson Osacky

Nicola Corti — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we talk about Gradle Doctor with its author Nelson Osacky. Gradle doctor helps you fix performance problems and errors in your Gradle build. The tool works as a Gradle plugin - emitting prescriptions for all the problems found. Nelson tells us how he came up with the idea behind this tool, and what the future is for Gradle Doctor.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

0:20 Intro
1:06 Episode Start
1:49 Nelson’s Introduction
04:22 What is Gradle Doctor?
08:44 Remote build cache
16:19 JAVA_HOME madness
21:36 The most common mistake in your build.gradle
24:34 Gradle Doctor and performance
31:17 Extensibility
33:12 The future of Gradle Doctor
39:56 Where to find Nelson online?

Resources

runningcode/gradle-doctor on Github
Gradle Doctor Documentation
How fast does my internet need to be to use the Gradle Remote Build Cache? - Part 1 and Part 2
The Secrets of the Build Scan Plugin and the internals of Gradle - Video from Android Makers
@nellyspageli on Twitter
Nelson’s Website

Show links

Show Trailer

Nicola Corti — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Show Notes

Hi everyone and welcome to the Developers Bakery 👋

A podcast about open-source projects, tools and libraries for software developers.

If you ever developed any kind of software, you probably know that a significant amount of code is not the one you wrote but the one others wrote. Frameworks, Libraries and SDKs are the building blocks to write great software for our end users. It’s just unthinkable to reinvent the wheel every time, right?

In this show we will meet authors and maintainers of libraries that are used worldwide to bake great software every day. We will hear stories from the open source community and learn what is happening behind the scenes of famous tools and projects.

My name is Nicola Corti and I’ll be your host for this show.

Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on either Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or directly from the website thebakery.dev. To be notified of the latest episodes, you can follow the show as @thebakerydev on twitter.

And if you have a tool or a library to share, feel free to drop me a message on the contact form on the website.

That being said, enjoy the show! 🎙