Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman)

What if you could take your web applications to the next level just by getting the fundamentals right? Scott sits down with ASP.NET expert Layla Porter to talk about her unique teaching style as we go over ASP.NET Basics for Experts!

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/dotnetconf-2022/aspnet-basics-for-experts

Jean Yang has a better way to catch breaking changes. She's been considering software verification, programming language design, type-systems, and type-safety for many years. She understands how to automatically enforce information flow policies and has now turned her eye towards founding Akita Software. They promise to make your APIs and Services easier to understand, map, manage, and maintain.

https://www.akitasoftware.com/

In this episode, Scott interviews Alfredo Deza, a data science engineering and instructor. Alfredo shares his passion for teaching data science, his experience as a former Olympic athlete, and his tips and tricks for learning and applying data science concepts. They also discuss the challenges and opportunities of data science education, the importance of hands-on projects and feedback, and how he focuses on achieving his goals and deals with both success and failure.

Hanna Oh Descher is a data scientist at PlayFab with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience. She is passionate about understanding player behavior to help developers make games more fun. Scott and Hanna talk about what PlayFab allows game developers to do - focus on fun games!

• https://playfab.com/
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/gaming/

Today Scott talks to Erich Gamma and Kai Maetzel about the origin story of VS Code. We'll talk about how it was originally conceived and how it evolved over time. They also discuss some of the challenges they faced while developing VS Code and how they overcame them. An overnight success in 10 years, VS Code was designed to be lightweight and fast, with a focus on extensibility and community. We'll hear about culture and technical architecture as well as what’s next for VS Code and what users can expect in future releases.  

Ben Eater is currently creating educational videos for my YouTube channel and exploring ways to maximize human potential through education online. He's recently become well known for creating an 8-bit CPU from scratch as well as a series on building a 6502 computer on a breadboard.

• https://eater.net/

Nic Steenhout is a long term A11y (accessibility) advocate who works remotely for Knowbility, an Austin, TX based non-profit. In this episode Scott and Nicolas talk about various kinds of accessibility from the web to mobile devices to wheelchair ramps! He's also the host of the A11y Rules podcast.

• https://twitter.com/vavroom
• https://a11yrules.com/

Danielle Boyer is an Indigenous (Ojibwe) robotics inventor and advocate for youth who has been teaching kids since she was ten. She focuses on youth advocacy and creates innovative learning solutions utilizing robots that she invents and donates to make technical education accessible. She sits down with Scott to talk about Robots and Language Preservation, and the intersection of Indigenous Culture and STEM.

• https://www.danielleboyer.org
• https://www.steamconnection.org

Do you dread code reviews? Dr. Michaela Greiler believes they are essential and if done right, can be enjoyable and powerful. She talks about the general practice of code reviews, what goes wrong, and how we can get better at them! What are the responsibilities of the reviewer and the reviewed? Here are the links we discussed in the episode:

• awesomecodereviews.com workshops!
• codereviewbook.io pre-release sign-up for the code review book!
•  https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com/ Dr. Greiler's Podcast
•  https://www.michaelagreiler.com/ all her blog posts about code reviews
•  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNXk_WJzyMI YouTube video on how to give respectful code review feedback
•  https://www.michaelagreiler.com/code-reviews-at-microsoft-how-to-code-review-at-a-large-software-company/ Blog post about code reviews at Microsoft
•  https://twitter.com/mgreiler

Join host Scott Hanselman as he sits down with Faisal Islam, the mind behind the book Kotlin from Scratch. In this engaging episode, they delve into the world of Kotlin, the modern programming language that's making waves in the development community. Faisal shares insights from his journey writing the book, the key features of Kotlin that make it a favorite among developers, and practical advice for anyone looking to get started with or master this powerful language. 

• https://nostarch.com/kotlin-scratch

The Shopify Winter 2025 Edition is out and it's Boring. Scott talks with Shopify VP of Product Development Glen Coates about the need to sometimes slow down and make software better...even if it's boring. Is it boring if it just works? If it's super reliable and does exactly what you want it to do? Glen breaks down how they do software at Shopify on this episode.

https://www.shopify.com/editions/winter2025

Scott talks to Techtonic's Heather Terenzio about how her company is scaling tech apprenticeship. Techtonic Group is a software services company building web-based and mobile products for start-ups and the Fortune 1000. Four years ago, Heather founded Techtonic Academy to train people with diverse backgrounds how to code using a unique, Department of Labor (DOL) approved Apprenticeship program. Techtonic Group was recently named “2017 Innovative Company of the Year” by the Boulder Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado Legislature.

• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/culture-killing-diversity-heather-terenzio-mccollester/

Avalonia is a cross platform XAML Framework for .NET Framework, .NET Core and Mono. Avalonia uses a XAML dialect that should feel immediately familiar to anyone coming from WPF, UWP and Xamarin Forms. Scott talks to Steven Kirk about how Avalonia started, how it's not just "cross-platform WPF." You can start writing cross-platform desktop apps in C# today!

• https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
• https://gitter.im/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
• https://github.com/google/skia
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)

Gustavo Pezzi wants to teach YOU (and everyone) how to code...in 6502 assembly on 40 year old machines! There's something amazing about coding on the absolute metal and owning the entire machine/stack. https://pikuma.com teaches the learn the fundamentals of computer science and mathematics in creative and dynamic ways using older game consoles and teaches things like graphics and physics without large frameworks.

Windows 10 runs Linux natively! How is that possible? Scott talks to Microsoft's Tara Raj, the Program Manager for the Windows Subsystem for Linux. How does this technology work? Tara explains the internals of WSL to Scott in this episode.

• https://twitter.com/tara_msft

Ayesha Mazumdar is a Senior UX Engineer at Optimizely and works to enable everyone to access the web no matter their ability. How does one build a culture at their company that values accessibility from the beginning? Where does a11y factor in when creating design systems, and later component libraries. How much ARIA is enough...or too much?

• Fable and Access Works both let you test your applications with people with disabilities
• Cordelia Dillon's Accessibility Bake Off talk
• An example of W3's Keyboard Interaction guidelines (link is specifically for Listbox)
• Ayesha's ReactBoston Scaling Accessibility video and slides

Customer Empathy is a powerful human resource for positively impacting customer experience excellence. Alex Allwood outlines her customer-centric framework, methods and tools to switch on and scale customer empathy that can be used to solve the common customer experience management problems of low organizational commitment, poor alignment of cross-functional teams, and competing agendas and priorities.

• https://customerempathy.com 

In this episode, Scott Hanselman sits down with Charnelle Asante, the founder of Spoiler Talk. Dive deep into the creation and inspiration behind this cutting-edge app as a Charnelle navigates this space as non-technical founder. Charnelle shares her journey from idea to implementation, discussing the challenges of startup life, the importance of user feedback, and the future of spoiler management in an era of binge-watching. 

• http://thespoilerapp.com/

In this episode of Hanselminutes, Scott Hanselman talks to Nathan Allebach, a writer and advocate for creating walkable cities. Nathan shares his passion for urban design and how it can improve the quality of life, health, and environment of people living in cities. He also discusses some of the challenges and opportunities for making cities more walkable, such as zoning, infrastructure, culture, and policy. Nathan gives examples of successful walkable cities around the world and offers practical tips for anyone who wants to get involved in this movement. Whether you are a city dweller, a planner, or a curious listener, you will find this episode inspiring and informative.

In this special episode of Hanselminutes, co-produced in partnership with ACM ByteCast we welcome Jelani Nelson, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Theory Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Research Scientist at Google. Among his honors, he won the 2014 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He is the creator of AddisCoder, a computer science summer program for Ethiopian high school students in Addis Ababa.

Jelani and Scott discuss his journey from learning HTML when he was 12 to becoming a theoretical computer scientist. They talk about the spectrum between software engineering and theory and how even theoretical CS research can have an impact on industry practice; teaching his Introduction to Algorithms course of more than 700 students; running a highly successful algorithmic boot camp for students in Ethiopia to learn coding; the times he feels most accomplished in his work; and the importance of creating access and awareness of computing opportunities for students.

In this episode Scott talks to Shanea Leven, the co-founder and CEO of CodeSee, a tool that helps developers visualize and understand complex codebases. Shanea shares her journey from being a developer to creating a product that empowers other developers to learn and collaborate more effectively. They discuss the challenges and benefits of code visualization, how CodeSee works under the hood, and how it can help developers of all levels improve their code quality and productivity.

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VM Brasseur has been a leader in open source for decades and is the Vice President of the Open Source Initiative. Now she's brought her experience together into a booked called "Forge Your Future with Open Source." It's the missing manual of open source contributions and community participation.

• https://pragprog.com/book/vbopens/forge-your-future-with-open-source
• https://twitter.com/vmbrasseur

Mohammed Osman strongly believes that blogging greatly improved his my career and encourages everyone to give it a try. Things like content research, learning SEO, hosting your own sites and blogs and lead to job opportunities, speaking opportunities and more! He talks to Scott about how he's used this blog to teach (and learn) Azure and help get folks all over the world Azure Cloud certified!

• The quiz: https://www.smartercode.io/scott/
• The Free Azure certifications guide: https://www.smartercode.io/become-azure-certified-shm

Scott talks to Huma Abidi, the Senior Director of AI Software Products at Intel. Huma leads a team of software engineers and today she sits down and gets deep with Scott on AI, machine learning, deep learning, optimization...and painting! What is the role of silicon and hardware instructions when doing AI and ML? How does Intel interact with the open source community?

• https://www.unite.ai/huma-abidi-senior-director-of-ai-software-products-at-intel-interview-series/
• https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2019/02/01/intel-ai-women-intc.html
• https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21120470/enabling-ai-with-intels-deep-learning-boost

Sam Rose creates visual introductions to computer science topics. Each post takes about a month to make, and he tries to cover foundational topics in a way that's accessible to beginners. Scott chats with Sam about the how and why of making such bespoke and sophisticated blog posts.

• Visit Sam Rose's site!
  • Load Balancing
  • Memory Allocation
  • Hashing
  • Retries
  • Bloom Filters
  • Numbers
  • Queueing
• Bartosz Ciechanowski's Mechanical Watch
• Andy Matuschak

In this episode, we talk to Oren Eini from RavenDB. RavenDB is a NoSQL document database that offers high performance, scalability, and security. Oren shares his insights on why performance is not just a feature, but a service that developers and customers expect and demand. He also explains how RavenDB achieves fast and reliable data access, how it handles complex queries and distributed transactions, and how it leverages the cloud to optimize resource utilization and cost efficiency!

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Ash Hynie created CountrPT as to bridge the gap between manager perception and employee impact. Folks are tired, folks feel micro-managed, there's all this talk about return to office (RTO). Did we hire grown adults or not? What's the right way to manage technical teams, remote or other wise? How do we build relationships within our teams and with our managers where we can get direct and clear feedback about the needs of the business while still respecting that humans have feelings?

• https://countrpt.io/

This episode of Hanselminutes is in partnership with the ACM Bytecast podcast!  In this episode, we have a special guest: Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, co-founder of 3Com, and recipient of the 2022 Turing Award. Bob joins us to share his insights on the history and future of computer networking, and his current work in geothermal power!

• https://learning.acm.org/bytecast 

Shaundai Person is an engineer and career switcher who is using the skills from her previous career to be successful in her new one! She's also a mom and is applying all of this to learn how to teach! She's a blogger and trainer and has been deliberate in her journey to teaching and sharing her experiences. She shares her techniques and styles with Scott in this episode!

• Shaundai's Blog
• How Potty Training Shaped My Tech Teaching Style

Sarah Cooper spent a decade working in tech at companies like Yahoo! and Google when she stopped it all to focus on comedy! Since then she's become a best selling author, comedian, writer, speaker and general trash-talker. Her book "100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings" is fantastic and her new book "How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings" has some amazing 1-star reviews from people who have no humor in their lives.

• http://sarahcpr.com/books/

Huda is the Founder and CEO of Dot Health, a real-time personal health data platform. She joins Scott to discuss real-time personal health data and its implications for consumers and the health industry worldwide. Huda explains how real-time data can help individuals track and manage their health more effectively, and how healthcare professionals can also use it to provide more personalized and effective care. She also discusses the potential challenges and risks of health data, such as data privacy and security concerns, and how Dot Health is addressing these issues.  

The Surface Pro X is thin, light, and is absolutely silent because it has no fans! It uses a power-sipping ARM processor rather than an Intel processor. Jeremy Sinclair schools Scott on why it's significant that Windows can run on ARM now. We'll also learn what this means for developers and tools like Visual Studio Code. Can this ARM machine also emulate x86 processors? Will your next laptop run ARM?

One of the best parts of having a podcast is having smart people explain stuff to you! Scott talks to Dr. Sam Scott, the CTO of https://www.osohq.com/ about what the average developer should know about Cryptography. SSL, TLS, public/private key, certs, PKIs, hashing, encryption, salts, algorithms, sessions, bearers, oh my!

Have you thought about being a freelancer? Starting your own thing? What's keeping you? Where do you start? Scott talks to Kelly Vaughn about her freelancing journey and her new book "Start Freelancing Today."

• https://startfreelancing.today

In The Five Forces That Change Everything, Steve Hoffman, venture capitalist and CEO of Founders Space, takes you on a journey to see what the most brilliant minds of our age are dreaming up. Hoffman reveals how new scientific breakthroughs and business ventures are poised to reshape our lives and turn science fiction into fact.

• The Five Forces That Change Everything

Leonard Tramiel shares his memories of growing up in the computer industry, working on various projects such as the Commodore PET, the Atari ST, and the Jaguar. He also discusses his current involvement in the Computer History Museum and his passion for education and science outreach. Listen to this fascinating conversation and learn more about the history and legacy of some of the most iconic computers and games of all time. Leonard has a PhD in Physics from Columbia University and these days is most interested in improving the image and understanding of science and critical thinking.

Sharon Steed is a corporate empathy and communications consultant as well as an international keynote speaker. Sharon has spoken at companies on improving team communication and collaboration; at tech conferences on vulnerability as an asset; and has given a TEDx talk on empowering insecurities. She talks to Scott about operationalizing empathy!

• https://www.communilogue.co/
• https://www.communilogue.co/tedx

F# empowers everyone to write succinct, robust and performant code. Today Scott talks to Don Syme, the designer and architect of the F# programming language, described by a reporter as "the most original new face in computer languages since Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ in the early 1980s." How can F# help join both the .NET and JavaScript ecosystems? 

• .NET Conf Focus Day
• Announcing F# 5.0
• F# 6.0 Tasks RFC
• Resumable code
• High Perf Immutable Data
• F# for Apache Spark
• F# for Azure Functions
• Don and Guido's Dojo Material
• Tasks F# 6.0 Design Discussion
• .NET Conf - Focus on F#
• Don's recommended "Learn F#" course ($)  
• F# Community home page
• F# Microsoft home page

Kate Kalcevich is Head of Accessibility at Fable. Fable is an accessibility company that enables the development of digital products that work for everyone. She sits down with Scott to talk about how to drive and measure accessibility in your applications and websites.

• How successful accessibility leaders measure progress

I love a great command prompt and so does Jan De Dobbeleer. Building on the "Oh My" naming style, Jan started On My Posh on PowerShell and later brought it to all shells. Scott talks to Jan about open source, Go, and the fun in bootstrapping a community.

• OhMyPosh.dev
• Scott and Jan create a new Segment for OhMyPosh that interfaces Nightscout for Diabetics

Nithya Ruff serves as an at-large director on the Linux Foundation's board of directors. In her day job she is the Head of Comcast's Open Source Office. Nithya has been guiding companies' open source strategies for many years and in this episode she and Scott talk about how to introduce Open Source to more "traditional" companies.

• http://innovationfund.comcast.com/
• http://comcast.github.io
• https://todogroup.org

Dr. Riham Mansour is the Principal Engineering Manager running the Language Understanding Service (LUIS), which is the product offering from the Machine Teaching Innovation Group. LUIS has been the entry point of Microsoft in the Machine Teaching market. Riham founded LUIS in collaboration with the Machine Teaching Group in Microsoft Research in 2015.

• https://www.luis.ai/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/luis/what-is-luis

Scott talks with Kris Nova who has been building and scaling Hachyderm, a Mastodon instance that began in her basement and is now moving into the cloud. Nova shares her extensive knowledge on the technical challenges and solutions involved in creating and maintaining Hachyderm, as well as her insights on the importance of building and maintaining a welcoming and inclusive online community.

• Watch the YouTube Video version of this episode here!

Shipping product is hard. Kickstarting hardware products is hard. Scott talks to Palo Alto Innovation's Alex Tramiel whose team is shipping the Sandman Doppler Alarm Clock. How does a new product go from concept to your nightstand? What's inside a smart alarm clock like the Sandman Doppler? How does one make a decision like USB-C or not, when a product has a multi-year development cycle? All this and more, this week on Hanselminutes!

• https://www.sandmanclocks.com/pages/doppler

In an episode Scott sits down with career big tech PM Dare Obasanjo to explore the intricacies of the technology industry from an insider’s perspective. Dare has worked at Microsoft and Meta and has opined on Tech (both Big and Small) on Social Media for two decades. Together they delve into the evolving landscape of tech, discussing the impact of emerging trends and the future of innovation. 

Ali Spittel is a software engineer and developer advocate at DEV.to. Before that, she was a lead instructor at General Assembly teaching their Web Development Immersive course. She also teaches Python. In this episode, Ali and Scott talk about how new programmers learn to code, the questions they have, and what we can do to make their experience more welcoming and successful!

• https://dev.to/aspittel

Marlene Mhangami is a Python Software Foundation Director and the co-founder of ZimboPy, a Zimbabwean non-profit that empowers women to pursue careers in tech. Marlene is also the current chair of Pycon Africa, the first pan-African gathering of the Python community. Today she talks with Scott about working and creating with constraints, as well as her views on the incredible technology talent promise of the African Continent.

Dr. Kate Miltner is a researcher and lecturer in data ai and society at the information school at the University of Sheffield. Her work explores issues of power and inequality in digital systems and cultures. She's currently slowing "who's coding?" and how did they start coding, as she examines coding boot camps across the US and UK.

• https://www.whoscoding.com
• https://katemiltner.com

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Nicole Archambault believes we can scale back on learning to code and we should ramp up on learning problem solving. She believes this so much she's launched a whole online course - Newbie Coder Problem Solving School - that teaches tons of problem solving skills...with not a single line of code! Is this possible? A good idea? We find out this week!

• https://www.lavieencode.net/launchpad

Sharon Onyinye is a Product Designer, UX Specialist, and Educator. She's released an e-book "Landing Your First UX Design Job" and chats with Scott about how to think about design, how to get started, as well as the differences between UX, UI, PhotoShop, Figma, and other tools in the space. How do designers most successfully, ahem, "interface" with front end developers?

• Learn from Sharon, here's here list of resources/books
• Landing Your First UX Design Job

Ben Wheeler teaches tech to kids ages 4 to 104. He talks to Scott about how to effectively teach technology, as well as the importance of social context around tech. Everyone's journey to tech is different. How can we as teachers use those journeys to make everyone successful?

• Robot Owl Newsletter
• https://twitter.com/benjiwheeler
• https://education.lego.com/en-us/elementary/intro/c/computational-thinking
• https://education.lego.com/en-us/support/wedo
• https://scratchx.org/
• http://microbit.org/
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• https://www.hanselman.com/blog/IsTechnologyKillingCuriosity.aspx
• https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode-104-barbara-oakley/
• https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
• https://www.makewonder.com/

WebAssembly-based wasmCloud is a Sandbox Project for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Cosmonic COO Kevin Hoffman is convinced it's the next big thing in computing. He talks to Scott about why WebAssembly is so significant and considers it through a historical lens of decades of building distributed systems. Should you build your functions and services in the language you want and run them securely everywhere with WebAssembly?

• https://wasmcloud.dev/
• https://cosmonic.com/

For years ScummVM has allowed us all to play classic point-and-click adventure games by providing a runtime for the original data files. Most recently the classic "Blade Runner" was rescued after a herculean effort by the ScummVM team and is now available for purchase on GOG.com. Scott talks to Eugene Sandulenko about why ScummVM is NOT an emulator, how it works, and why it's so important.

• Download Blade Runner (1997) from GOG
• https://www.scummvm.org/

April Wensel is the founder of Compassionate Coding, a conscious business that helps technical teams cultivate sustainable, human-­centered software development practices built on a foundation of emotional intelligence. She talks to Scott about how we can apply these concepts to our own software projects.

• https://twitter.com/aprilwensel
• https://compassionatecoding.com

What if you couldn't play video games? Most controllers require not just two hands but also fine motor skills and exact motions. The Xbox Accessibility Controller aims to open up gaming for everyone. It's not trying to be the controller for everyone, but rather than controller platform for everyone! Scott talks to John Alexander about how he games with the Xbox Accessibility Controller.

• https://www.quadstick.com/shop/quadstick-fps-game-controller
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/3drudder-foot-controller/90lh5fwnx6t8/lbxg?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab
• https://www.ablenetinc.com/technology/switches
• https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessories#assistive
• https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/
• http://yourcpf.org/
• http://www.ablegamers.org/
• https://warfighterengaged.org/

Like Programming, Mathematics has language and culture. Jeremy Kun has written A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics as a way to bridge these two worlds and make the power and magic of mathematics available and understandable to programmers everywhere.

• https://pimbook.org
• https://github.com/pim-book
• https://medium.com/@jeremyjkun/on-self-publishing-a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics-1472b7511c99

Patterns.dev is free book on design patterns and component patterns for building powerful web apps with vanilla JavaScript and React. Lydia Hallie is a full-time software engineering consultant and educator that primarily works with JavaScript, React, Node, GraphQL, and serverless technologies and Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. Together they teamed up with some web friends from around the world to bring us a new way to think about Patterns in JavaScript on the modern open web.

https://www.patterns.dev

Ox optimizes fulfillment operations by automating manual tasks and increasing workforce efficiency. Ox's CEO Charu Thomas started thinking about this space in college and then ended up founded a company in Northwest Arkansas!

As a second-year undergraduate, Charu took her concept to Thad Starner, a professor in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, who also was the technical lead/manager for Google Glass. The resulting research won the Best Paper Award at the 2018 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Symposium on Wearable Computers.

This episode was produced in partnership with the ByteCast!

Taylor Poindexter, a software engineer and engineering manager, joins Scott Hanselman in this episode of the podcast to discuss her journey as a manager and her advice for emerging managers. Taylor shares her experiences of growing and learning in her role and discusses the challenges and rewards of managing a team. She offers advice on how to develop leadership skills, manage conflict, and support the growth and development of individual team members. Taylor also shares her thoughts on the importance of inclusion in engineering teams, and how managers can foster a culture of belonging,

John Warner is the author of "Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay" and six other books on writing. He's the editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and the Biblioracle. John is also a professor of creative writing but most recently he's becoming concerned that Artificial intelligence can crank out passable student essays in seconds. What are we going to do? Is ChatGPT the end of writing assignments?

• In order to help instructors deal with the existence of ChatGPT without making its existence omnipresent in the classroom, or capitulating to a surveillance and detection approach, John has developed a new, self-paced digital course: Teaching Writing in an Artificial Intelligence World.
• Read John's thoughts at The Biblioracle

Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, an original signer of the Agile Manifesto, and the author of the Extreme Programming book series, and a proponent of Test-Driven Development. Today he's chatting with Scott about how "test && commit || revert" might offer us a new programming workflow to explore!

• https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd756864

Join us for this very special episode as Scott's wife Mo returns for a 2024 check in. Mo and Scott are coming up on 25 years of marriage. How do they make it happen? Do they consider themselves a mixed marriage - and is it cultural or is it just that Scott is a weird computer person?

DevSecOps vs. SecDevOps vs. DevOpsSec: Is there really a difference in these secure DevOps terms? We all agree we need to not only secure DevOps but we want secure software to pop out the other side of our ops pipelines. Folks often have 'security teams' that are separate...how important is it to get not just a segment in the DevOps pipeline but really integrated end to end? Scott chats with Wabbi's Brittany Greenfield about the future of DevOps+Security.

Pelonomi Moiloa is a South African entrepreneur and founder of Lelapa AI which is an AI startup that aims to help Africa lure back its AI talent. In this episode, Scott and Pelonomi discuss how AI can be used for both good and bad purposes and how we can protect it from being used for evil. Lelapa aims to do this by working on problems African AI researchers care about, and by allowing them to work closer to the people and places important to them.

Joseph Finney is a mechanical engineer by day and a software developer by night. He talks to Scott about how being an indie developer has improved his life, taught him a ton, in how he put applications in the Apple App store, the Google play store, and the Microsoft store. Some of the apps are big and complicated come up and some of the apps are applets, but all of them serve a purpose and solve a specific problem. Joeseph lives experimenting with different ways to solve common problems and have a passion for designing software which makes computers more natural to use.

https://joefinapps.com

Patricia Aas is a C++ programmer working on the Vivaldi Browser where she has currently taken on platform integration of media. She has previously worked at Opera Software on their Desktop Browser and at Cisco on their Telepresence Hardware Endpoints, primarily on Linux. In this episode she and Scott tackle the hard questions around C++ - Is it getting a bad wrap? Patricia always waxes philosophic on the browser wars!

• https://twitter.com/pati_gallardo
• http://patricia.no
• http://patricia.no/2017/06/15/linux_browser_sandboxes.html
• http://patricia.no/2017/11/16/linux_browser_sandboxes.html
• http://patricia.no/2018/04/23/isolating_gpu_access.html
• http://patricia.no/2017/09/13/cpp_for_java_devs.html
• http://patricia.no/2017/11/16/cpp_for_java_devs.html

Jordan Adler is Head of Developer Engineering at OneSignal and has a deep interest in code generation. He has helped migrate large systems from Python 2 or Python 3 using code generation and code transformation. Using tools like Yellicode, Python Future, and others, Jordan's team has been able to accelerate software development. We'll also talk about OpenAPI-generator, a tool that takes OpenAPI/Swagger and generates idiomatic SDKs in any language.

Ralph Hempel leads the firmware development team here at LEGO, working together with the electronics, mechanics, and front end teams to build products such as Boost, StarWARS Boost, the CITY Train, App Controlled Batmobile, and of course all the new App Controlled Technic products. He's been writing embedded firmware for 35 years, and have written new firmware for every LEGO MINDSTORMS brick since the RCX. He talks to Scott about the new LEGO Education SPIKE Prime Set! Spike is the go-to STEAM learning tool for grade 6-8 students!

• https://education.lego.com/

Foone Turing is a self-proclaimed "software necromancer" not only bringing classics back to life, but also breathing new life and community into older software and hardware. Foone and Scott recently worked with Microsoft to get Microsoft 3D Movie Maker released as Open Source. We'll hear about Foone's plans for 3D Movie Maker going forward, as well as why the community has such strong feelings for this funny 27 year old piece of software!

• https://github.com/foone/3DMMForever

Scott chats with engineer, community leader, and Developer Relations Lead at Okta Corey Weathers on this episode. Shares his story about how he became interested in technology, we get a glimpse into his daily work and how he manages his teams and nurtures the next generation of developer advocate.

Eden Full Goh is the CEO and Founder of Mobot, a venture-backed company that automates testing of mobile apps using robotics technology. Previously, Eden built products that spanned the energy, healthcare and government sectors at Palantir Technologies and Butterfly Network. Eden studied Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton University.

Nell Shamrell-Harrington is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft and as a Board Director at the Rust Foundation. Rust is a low-level statically-typed multi-paradigm programming language that’s focused on safety and performance. In a world of C and C++, why should you use Rust? Why does Rust shine and what problems does it solve?

Freeman and Forrest is the first influencer marketing service focused on enterprise tech. After running developer relations, product marketing, and community teams at companies like AWS, Google, Microsoft, and startups, Emily Freeman and Forrest Brazeal have now assembled a dream team of influencer partners across many niches like cloud to security and even generative AI. Today Emily talks to Scott Hanselman about the rise of the technology influencer.

• https://www.freemanandforrest.com/

Melanie Ensign is the Security + Privacy Communications Lead for Uber and has worked with DEF CON, and Facebook. She and Scott talk about security and privacy on today's internet. Where is the happy medium between user experience, expectation, and real security? How do we leap the uncanny valley of privacy?

Meka Egwuekwe is Executive Director of CodeCrew, an innovative, mentorship-based youth coding initiative guiding young people in Memphis to be tech producers.  Scott talks to Meka about CodeCrew's multifaceted plan to fill the pipeline through summer camps, after school programs, and Code School for adults learning to code!

• https://www.code-crew.org/

Tsedal Neely is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School and founder of the consulting firm Global Matters. Her book The Language of Global Success can give you the tools you need to understand how language shapes multinational and multicultural organizations. She talks to Scott about her upcoming book "Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere.: How will virtual work and global work change how YOU work?

• Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere

Freya Holmér makes educational math visualizations, does live game development on Twitch, as well as creates videos and Unity tools! She's been in the games industry for 10 years, working on things like Shader Forge, a node-based shader editor for Unity, and Budget Cuts, a VR stealth game made at Neat Corp. She talks to Scott about her love of math and making math accessible using a number of custom visualization tools.

• Math for Game Dev - An Improvised Live Course
• Visual Guide to Radians
• Low persistence in VR!
• Motion blur - useful even at 60 fps
• the area of a circle is τr²/2
• cross product - visualized
• A collection of my mathematical art and visualizations
• http://www.acegikmo.com/
• https://www.patreon.com/acegikmo
• https://www.twitch.tv/acegikmo

In this episode Scott talks to developer Anthony Shaw about Pyjion (pronounced "Pidgeon" like the bird) a JIT compiler for Python that uses .NET Core technology for speed! We discuss the concept of JIT'ers in general, look at the Python JIT ecosystem, and explore the work that Anthony is doing to make Python as fast as possible by any means necessary! 

• www.trypyjion.com 
• https://live.trypyjion.com/  in-browser compiler!
• https://github.com/tonybaloney/Pyjion  source repo!
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4nkgJdVZFA PyCon talk “Why is Python slow?”

Denis started at Sun Microsystems and Oracle where he worked on JVM/JDK and led one of the Java development groups. After learning Java from the inside, he joined the world of distributed systems and databases, where he's remained ever since. He talks to Scott about how to build large horizontal cloud apps that are geo-distributed and truly global.  

Cloud availability zones and regions are not immune to outages. The zones go down regularly, and regions become unavailable during natural disasters or human-caused incidents. If an availability zone or a larger area goes down, so does your application…unless the application functions across multiple geographic locations. We'll discuss availability and reliability patterns used by architects whose apps managed to withstand major cloud outages. 

Kevin Scott is the CTO of Microsoft...but how did he get there? Scott talks to Kevin about his experience from early teens through his successful foray at LinkedIn and beyond. Where does Kevin see technology going and how do we help get more people involved in the future of technology?

Bee Law has been starting up her startup for years...and it's happening! She talks to Scott about Tech Startup Life, the realities of raising money, growing a team, and taking opportunities as life gives them to you while creating https://www.quirkchat.com/

Regine Gilbert is a user experience designer, educator, and international public speaker with over 10 years of experience working in the technology arena. She has a strong belief in making the world a more accessible place—one that starts and ends with the user. 

Regine is an Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, teaching User Experience Design to students in the Integrated Digital Media Program. In addition, she teaches the part time User Experience Design course at General Assembly. Regine is passionate about making websites and apps that work for everyone!

• https://twitter.com/reg_inee
• http://reginegilbert.com/
• https://equalentry.com/
• https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/incredibles-2-strobe-light-warning-1202848920/
• https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/regine-gilbert/6945
• https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-bills-jets-game-is-complete-torture-for-color-blind-people/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a11y-why-you-should-pay-attention-regine-gilbert/
• https://webaim.org/
• https://www.gilbertconsultinggroup.co/

Dr. Safiya U. Noble is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School of Communication. She's the author of a best-selling book called Algorithms of Oppression. Today she talks to Scott about how commercial search engines have algorithmic bias that shape how we see the world. How can we identify biases in our search results and still find the information we need?

• https://safiyaunoble.com/

Michael Washington doesn't want AI to write the Great American novel, he wants YOU to write the Great American novel faster and easier. He's created AIStoryBuilders To help you break your stories down into timelines, locations, and characters. He sits down with Scott to talk about how he wrote this application, where retrieval augmented generation comes in, and how he wrote it with web assembly in mind to avoid having to deal with app stores while still having a mobile version.

• https://aistorybuilders.com/
• https://documentation.aistorybuilders.com/
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Scott talks to engineering manager Liana Leahy about her journey from Broadway to Technology...and why it was the absolute right and most obvious move! How does Liana's stage and screen experience make her a better more empathetic technologist?

How do you find the perfect questions to ask in your job interview? How do you know if this is the right company for you? Do they share your values? Interviews are a two way street. This week Scott talks to Lynne Tye about what she created KeyValues.com and how it might help you find your next work home.

• https://www.keyvalues.com/culture-queries

Dr. Howard has over 20 years of R&D experience covering a number of projects that have been supported by various agencies including: NASA, ExxonMobil, Intel, and the Grammy Foundation. She continues to produce research focused on assistive robots in the home to therapy gaming apps to remote robotic exploration of extreme environments. Scott talks to Dr. Howard about her thoughts on new ways to teach STEM and challenges our idea of what a "robot" should look like.

• Zyrobotics Apps on the iOS App Store
• http://zumolearning.com/

The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations. When was the last time you coded something that fit in 4k? How about just 1024 bytes? Bilgem Çakır is one of many folks still making the Commodore 64 sing and do things you'd never expect, 40 years after the computer was released. Why is this kind of coding important or interesting in 2022? Bilgem offers his perspective as game studio CTO, long time demoscener, and C64 demo record holder.

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at http://betterhelp.com/hanselminutes and get on your way to being your best self.

Ramón Huidobro is a Developer Relations Strategist, Developer Educator and Public Speaker with over a decade of experience in Software Engineering. He talks to Scott about how to learn - and fail - safely and comfortably in public.

Scott Hanselman chats with Damian Edwards about the benefits of building your own PC. Damian designed an upgraded PC from parts for Scott and they built it online live and streamed to YouTube. They explore how building your own PC can be a fun and rewarding experience, help you better understand how computers work, and even how it can save you money in the long run. 

• Scott's PC parts at PC Part Picker

Karen Catlin was a vice president of engineering at two public software companies, and served as the CEO of an early-stage startup. Today she's a leadership coach and author who is helping folks cultivate ally skills. Most recently she wrote "Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces."

• http://betterallies.com

Amal Hussein is an engineer, community organizer, podcaster and budding entrepreneur. She is currently a Principal Software Engineer at Indigo, where she is focused on building global agricultural transportation software to annually save the planet millions of gallons of fuel. When she isn’t working on saving the universe from itself, you find her podcasting on JS Party or The Web Platform Podcast.

We talked to Arlan Hamilton two years ago (almost to the day) as she was starting her Venture Fund for underrepresented founders. What's changed since then? Arlan Hamilton's Backstage Capital has invested more than $4M+ in over 80 companies led by underrepresented founders. How has she gone from Homeless to VC in just a few years? Arlan also recently started Project Cover to give micro-grants to driven creatives. Scott catches up with Arlan to hear about how she's continued to build her team and her fund and BUILD COOL STUFF. And also - what's the right way to eat string cheese?

• https://hanselminutes.com/524
• http://backstagecapital.com
• http://projectcover.org

Journey Foods is a SaaS company that supports product management and intelligence services for food businesses. They are changing food science inefficiencies and problematic supply chains. Scott talks to biologist turned multi-hyphenate entrepreneur Riana Lynn about our food supply, how we understand it, how it's analyzed and thought about, and how it can be improved with software.

• https://rianalynn.io/
• https://journeyfoods.io/

Scott sits down with Ted Neward to talk about the history and shape of data. From mainframes to ER diagrams to SQL Server to Object Databases and Document Databases, why has the way we access and store data changed over the years and what we can learn from this history? 

David Scott Bernstein is a passionate programmer with over 40 years experience, and he has just written a book that teaches you the art of prompt writing. He actually coauthored the book with ChatGPT itself. He sits down with Scott Hanselman to offer us a one-of-a-kind journey into the realm of AI language models. He's created a a practical and results-driven roadmap for engineering your prompts in such a way that you can tackle complex topics with ease.

Learn more at https://passprog.com/

Open Telemetry plays a pivotal role in monitoring, tracing, and understanding complex distributed systems. From practical applications to real-world examples, Scott and Dr. Sally break down the how and why of Open Telemetry, offering a perspective to harnessing its power for perf and troubleshooting. 

Dapr is a an event-driven, portable runtime for building microservices on cloud and edge. In this episode Scott talks to Azure CTO Mark Russinovich about what this means and why you should care? What are the responsibilities of a microservice, and what should YOU worry about and what a responsibilities better delegated to an open source project like Dapr?

• https://dapr.io/