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?

Resources

• Effective Android on Substack
• Mentioned Resources:
  • Jorge’s Blog
  • Jetpack Compose and internals course
  • Book: Jetpack Compose internals
  • Book: The Good Teammate
• @JorgeCastilloPrz on GitHub
• @JorgeCastilloPR on Twitter
• @jorge on Mastodon

Show links

• Podcast Website
• The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify
• The Developers’ Bakery on Apple Podcasts
• The Developers’ Bakery on Google Podcasts
• @thebakerydev on Twitter
• @cortinico on Twitter