Baking bread and software engineering: how do they fit together? Bread is sacred to Germans. Some people refer to Germany as the bread nation. April 21st is even German Bread Day. There are so many things. It all sounds complicated, but the basic ingredients are quite simple: flour, water, salt and a little time. Maybe that's why so many people want to try it at home and bake their own bread. And it seems to me that a disproportionate number of them are from the software sector. One person who wants to "democratize bread baking" is Hendrik Kleinwächter. As a trained software engineer, he overengineers the whole thing a bit and makes it more accessible to all of us. He was on the HackerNews homepage for a long time with bread baking recipes, and he uses A/B tests to try to find the best baking method: einkorn or emmer wholemeal flour? Oiled loaf pan or loaf pan with parchment paper? Sourdough fermentation using fruit flies? He visualizes the baking process with flowcharts and has written a book about sourdough bread and made it available under an open source license on GitHub. That's as bizarre as it sounds. And we have questions about that. It's about baking bread with a software engineering mindset. Bonus: New in the offer, the Finkenwerder Scholle You can find our current advertising partners at https://engineeringkiosk.dev/partners Quick feedback on the episode: 👍 (top) (https://api.openpodcast.dev/feedback/...) 👎 (so-so) (https://api.openpodcast.dev/feedback/...) Feedback • EngKiosk Community: https://engineeringkiosk.dev/join-dis... • Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/engineer... • Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) • LinkedIn: / engineering-kiosk • Mastodon: https://podcasts.social/@engkiosk • Twitter: / engkiosk We would also be happy to include your audio feedback in one of the next episodes, just send the audio file by email (https://engineeringkiosk.dev/kontakt/) to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) . Links • Hendrik Kleinwächter: https://www.hkleinwaechter.com/ • theBread.code(); https://www.the-bread-code.io/ • The Sourdough Framework: https://www.the-sourdough-framework.com/ • The Bread Code on YouTube: / @the_bread_code • dyve Purpose Company: https://dyve.agency/de/steward-ownership • The Bread Code on GitHub: https://github.com/hendricius/the-bre... • Pizza Dough on GitHub: https://github.com/hendricius/pizza-d... • The Sourdough Framework on GitHub: https://github.com/hendricius/the-sou... • OMR Podcast: https://omr.com/de/podcast • Kassenzone Podcast: https://www.kassenzone.de/ • Simple Flatbread Recipe: https://www.the-sourdough-framework.c... Jump marks (00:00:00) Baking bread with Hendrik Kleinwächter (00:06:35) With bread baking on HackerNews and GitHub (00:09:24) What's wrong with modern bread baking? (00:14:18) Democratizing bread baking with the help of YouTube (00:16:34) The Bread Code: Baking bread and software engineering (00:23:10) AB testing when baking bread (00:32:54) Popularity of bread baking on YouTube (00:37:34) Open source book on baking bread: Flow charts and UML diagrams (00:51:46) Troubleshooting guide for baking bread (01:00:37) The most minimal setup for baking bread Hosts • Wolfgang Gassler (https://mastodon.social/@woolf) • Andy Grunwald ( / andygrunwald ) Feedback • EngKiosk Community: https://engineeringkiosk.dev/join-dis... • Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/engineer... • Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) • LinkedIn: / engineering-kiosk • Mastodon: https://podcasts.social/@engkiosk • Twitter: / engkiosk