The Developers' Bakery

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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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We reached episode 50! 🎂

Time to celebrate with a special episode.

Today we go from building Open Source Software to building Open Source Conferences!

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.

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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!

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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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