The Developers' Bakery

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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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We’re back with another bonus episode of The Developers’ Bakery!

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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