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.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Have you ever debugged an application using gdb? If yes, you probably know how unfriendly the user interface of gdb is.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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