Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

3D Movie Maker Forever with Foone Turing

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Foone Turing is a self-proclaimed "software necromancer" not only bringing classics back to life, but also breathing new life and community into older...

Writing Ballad and Dagger with Daniel José Older

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2014 Daniel José Older was an EMT in New York City, today he's the author of 19 books, the most recent being Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1). ...

Power Platform School with Tricia Sinclair

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tricia has over 10 years of experience in implementing CRM solutions in various roles from Consultant to Architect. The Power Platform School works wi...

Towards Trustworthy AI with Beena Ammanath

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Trustworthy AI is an essential resource on artificial intelligence ethics for business, government, and society at-large.  In her book, Beena Ammanat...

A Software Tester's Career Path with Nicola Lindgren

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

My blog:https://nicolalindgren.comTwitter: @NicolaLindgrenHow Can I Test This?https://leanpub.com/howcanitestthisStarting Your Software Testing Career...

You're not gonna need it with Appsmith's Arpit Mohan

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Appsmith is the first open-source low code tool that helps developers build dashboards and admin panels very quickly. Scott talks to Arpit Mohan about...

Cross-platform UIs with C# and Avalonia with Dan Walmsley

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Considered an open-source cross platform spiritual successor to WPF, Avalonia provides a familiar developer experience allowing you to leverage years ...

Patterns.dev with Lydia Hallie and Addy Osmani

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Patterns.dev is free book on design patterns and component patterns for building powerful web apps with vanilla JavaScript and React. Lydia Hallie is ...

Site Reliability Engineering with PagerDuty's Stevenson Jean-Pierre

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Scott talks to PagerDuty's Stevenson Jean-Pierre about the art and science of Site Reliability Engineering. What's the role of the SRE in today's mode...

How kids learn how to Code with MakeCode's Kiki Prottsman

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kiki Prottsman is a multihyphenate! Computer Science Educator, Artist, Author of several books, and above all, engineer, Kiki has been helping young d...

Pyjion, a JIT compiler for Python using .NET Core with Anthony Shaw

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

From Broadway to Engineering to Product with Liana Leahy

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Standup Comedy is a Real Job with Alex Falcone

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Falcone is making it happen! A Portland comedian who now lives in LA because that's the next step for comedians just released his album "Vanilla"...

What does it take to go fast? with Fastly's Inés Sombra

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Inés Sombra is the VP of Engineering of Core Systems at Fastly, and she knows how to go fast. She talks to Scott about the needs of the product, the ...

Flutter for Windows with Google's Chris Sells

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Flutter for Windows lets you deliver cross-platform, beautiful, tailored apps that are compiled to machine code and run natively on your devices! Scot...

Voice for Everyone with Hillary Juma from Mozilla Common Voice

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Common Voice is a crowdsourcing project started by Mozilla to create a free database for speech recognition software. The project is supported by volu...

Modern Code Generation with Jordan Adler

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Landing Your First UX Design Job with Sharon Onyinye

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ab...

Rachel Lim on Fine Tuning OpenAI

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI has the ability to create custom versions of GPT-3 tailored for a developer’s application. Developers can use these fine-tuned iterations of ...

Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History with Evan Amos

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Evan Amos is a video gaming photographer of high-quality stock photography of video game consoles, which he releases into the public domain. Known for...

Exploring COVID Vaccine response with Shawn Carbonell, MD, PhD

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Carbonell has been a Scientist for decades. He is an evangelist for STEM careers, science communication, and scientist-CEOs. “Learn On TikTok”...

Redefining Imposter Syndrome with Maya Bello

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Maya is a software engineer who has worked at companies like Intuit and Slack. She's also taught game design as well as Java and OOP techniques as a T...

Building Oh My Posh with Jan De Dobbeleer

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 broug...

Quitting your Job to Build a Game Studio with Bria Sullivan

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bria Sullivan is the CTO and Founder of Honey B Games. She took the leap and quit her job at Google to chase her dream full-time! Since then she's cre...

Multi-Platform Apps with Uno Platform's Jérôme Laban

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Uno Platform is an open source cross-platform graphical user interface that allows WinUI and Universal Windows Platform (UWP)-based code to run on iOS...

Race & Gender in Silicon Valley with Stanford's Cynthia Lee

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join us as we go behind the scenes of a year of big headlines about trouble in Silicon Valley. We'll start with the basic questions of who decides who...

David Copperfield's History of Magic - in partnership with Microsoft Outside In

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft has an internal lecture series called Outside in where interesting people come to talk about cool things they are working on. I got to speak...

Becoming a Digital Unicorn with Trice Johnson

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The continuous wave of digital disruptions is demanding something new from each of us, whether you work for a large corporation or a small business, o...

Web Assembly's hidden talent with WasmCloud's Kevin Hoffman

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

WebAssembly-based wasmCloud is a Sandbox Project for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Cosmonic COO Kevin Hoffman is convinced it's the...

Understanding Windows 11 new security requirements with David Weston

18 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David Weston is Director of Enterprise and OS Security for Windows at Microsoft. Today he sits down with Scott to get some real answers about the hard...

Looking at Azure Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow with Jason Zander

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Zander, EVP of the Azure Team joins Scott Hanselman to celebrate the 8th anniversary of Azure Friday. In this special crossover episode with Han...

Climbing high while staying grounded with Annyce Davis

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Scott talks with Annyce Davis, Senior Engineering Director at Meetup, about how to advance in your engineering career while maintaining a hold on the ...

Dr. Jelani Nelson - in partnership with ACM Bytecast

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode of Hanselminutes, co-produced in partnership with ACM ByteCast we welcome Jelani Nelson, Professor of Electrical Engineering a...

The next generation of AI Dungeon with Latitude's Nick Walton

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

AI Dungeon took the tech world by storm in 2019 when it was released as a free-to-play single-player and multiplayer text adventure game that uses art...

Building 0 A.D. a free, open-source game of ancient warfare

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

0 A.D. is a free and open-source real-time strategy video game under development by Wildfire Games. It is a historical war and economy game made an in...

Back to the Technology Future Again with Eric Newcomer

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is everything old new again? Scott chats with Eric Newcomer about the recurring patterns he's seen as the CTO of WSO2 and across his career as a techn...

Teach Little Hackers to Code Without a Computer with Brandon Tory

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Little Hackers is a new book from Google engineer and multi-hyphenate Brandon Tory that launched on Kickstarter this week! It's designed to teach kids...

Finding Your Path to Technology with Krystal Maughan

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

PhD candidate and researcher Krystal Maughan didn't plan her career, but instead focused on being present and in the moment as events and opportunitie...

Scaling the Metaverse with Roblox CTO Daniel Sturman

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"Roblox’s vision for the metaverse is to create a platform for immersive co-experiences, where people can come together within millions of 3D experi...

Exploring the brain with music and science with Dr. Simón(e) Sun

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Simón(e) Sun, PhD is a scientist, musician, and artist in the J. Tollkuhn Lab at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and a Senior Fellow at the Center...

Powering Cloud gaming with Rainway's Andrew Sampson

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Recently Seattle-based startup Rainway came out with big news - the tech behind its web-based gaming platform powers the PC and iOS versions of Micros...

Climbing the Engineering Ladder with Amal Hussein

26 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Amal Hussein is an engineer, community organizer, podcaster and budding entrepreneur. She is currently a Principal Software Engineer at Indigo, where ...

Tech Startup Life in a Pandemic with QuirkChat's Bee Law

19 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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, g...

DevSecOps or SecDevOps with Wabbi's Brittany Greenfield

12 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Maximizing machine learning performance with OctoML and Luis Ceze

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Learn F# to write Succinct, Performant, and Correct Code with Don Syme

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

F# empowers everyone to write succinct, robust and performant code. Today Scott talks to Don Syme, the designer and architect of the F# programming la...

The next generation of Data Visualization with Observable's Anjana Vakil

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We've come a long way from simple pie charts created on the server side. Today's browsers support complex interactive visualizations and it's technolo...

New Ways to Teach Computer Science with Maria Naggaga

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Maria Naggaga and her team have been reconsidering how we teach computer science and coding? Is a console app with "Hello World" the best way? What ab...

Engineering Servant Leadership with Carbon Health's Claire Hough

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Claire Hough started her career at Netscape and has been leading engineering teams to success ever since. Today she serves as the CTO of Carbon Health...

Electronics for Everyone with AdaFruit's Limor Fried

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Limor Fried is an electrical engineer and owner of the electronics company Adafruit Industries. She started Adafruit in her MIT dorm room and has neve...

The Five Forces with Captain Hoff - Steve Hoffman

24 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 br...

Get Busy Living with Abel Wang

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Abel Wang is having quite a year. A few years back he was diagnosed with cancer, and this year it's back and he has been given a number - 14%. Now he ...

Learning to Teach with Shaundai Person

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Design Systems with Jina Anne

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jina Anne is a Designer and Advocate with a passion for Design Systems and Design Tokens. What are Design Systems? Are they limiting or are they freei...

Leslie Lamport - in partnership with ACM Bytecast

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this collaboration with ACM ByteCast and Hanselminutes, Scott welcomes 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Leslie Lamport of Microsoft Research, be...

Developers and Security with Rey Bango

20 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There's Developers, and there's Infosec, right? Folks that sling code, and the security people that complain about the coders. Rey Bango talks to Scot...

Automating all the Things with Home Assistant's Paulus Schoutsen

13 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Home Assistant allows you to control all your devices without storing any of your data in the cloud. The project was started as a Python application b...

Social Robots with De'Aira Bryant

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

De’Aira Bryant is a doctoral student in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research areas span the fiel...

Customer Empathy with Alex Allwood

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Customer Empathy is a powerful human resource for positively impacting customer experience excellence. Alex Allwood outlines her customer-centric fram...

Intersection of Medicine and Technology with Dr. Divya Dhar Cohen

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Divya Dhar Cohen has reinvented herself at least 3 times! She started as a social activist, then a doctor, then a product manager at Google! She's...

Doing Open Source with Brian Douglas

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Douglas is a Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub. He talks to Scott about his journey (and YOUR journey) into Open Source and community! Anyone c...

API Observability with Akita Software's Jean Yang

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jean Yang has a better way to catch breaking changes. She's been considering software verification, programming language design, type-systems, and typ...

Attracting and Retaining Diverse Tech Talent with April Christina Curley

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

April Christina Curley is a Diversity Specialist and Educator who recently left Google where she focused on increasing hires from Historically Black C...

Outside In: The Innovation Stack with Jim McKelvey

25 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode of Hanselminutes, Scott shares a discussion with Jim McKelvey, a glassblower and also the co-founder of Square! This conversat...

From Astronomy Graduate Student to Senior Software Engineer with Nicholas Hunt-Walker

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Hunt-Walker loves the stars. So much so that he got a Master's degree in Astronomy...and now works as a Software Engineer! How did that happe...

It's time for a new kind of calculator with NumWorks' Romain Goyet

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's 2021 and Scott's sons were asked to buy TI-83 calculators for their classes. Are there truly no better choices? Romain Goyet asked the same quest...

George Li is launching MiTEE Cube Satellites and making TikToks

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

George Li is a photographer, TikToker, and is currently working on the MiTEE 2 satellite platform at the University of Michigan with NASA and JPL. As ...

Observability beyond buzzwords with New Relic's Tori Wieldt

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Let's move beyond buzzwords and talk about observability and DevOps in large systems. Observability is the ability to measure the internal state of a ...

Lisette Sutherland shows us a Handbook for Working Remotely

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lisette is a remote-working German-born American living in the Netherlands who is totally jazzed by the fact that it’s possible to work from anywher...

Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothmann

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Johanna Rothman has been in software and management for many years and she's taken what she knows about managing teams and put it into a great three-v...

Can networking be simple? with Tailscale's Avery Pennarun

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Double NAT? Triple NAT? Opening Ports, punching holes in firewalls, it's all so complex, right? Does it have to be? Scott talks to Tailscale's Avery P...

The myth of turning your hobby into a job with writer Aley Arion

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One day multi-hyphenate creative Aley Arion tweeted "one day I’m going to talk about the myth of turning your hobby into a job & how it can actually...

Cryptography 101 with Oso's Dr. Sam Scott

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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/...

Exploring Event Modeling with Adam Dymitruk

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Event Modeling was coined by Adam Dymitruk by building on long-running process specifications that Greg Young used in CQRS/ES systems. Scott sits down...

Living through 2020 as a Remote Developer with Amanda Silver

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

2020 has been hard on everyone. Not to mention we're all suddenly remote developers. Scott talks to Developer Division VP and long-time developer Aman...

2020 sucked - A year-end wrap-up with Scott's Wife, Mo

31 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mo is back! It's the 2020 wrap-up with Scott's wife. Be sure to check out her previous shows. Mo and Scott  celebrated 20 years of marriage in the mi...

Beyond The Queen's Gambit with Chess.com's Danny Rensch

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Queen's Gambit on Netflix has reinvigorated the world's interested in chess. Or has it? Chess.com has been slowly but surely developing online che...

Building eBay's Web API ecosystem with Tanya Vlahovic

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Shipping the Sandman Doppler with Palo Alto Innovation's Alex Tramiel

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Shipping product is hard. Kickstarting hardware products is hard. Scott talks to Palo Alto Innovation's Alex Tramiel whose team is shipping the Sandma...

Succeeding from Anywhere: The Remote Work Revolution with Tsedal Neeley

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tsedal Neely is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School and founder of the consulting firm Global Matters. Her book The ...

A self-driving AI and Raspberry Pi powered Trash Bin with Ahad Cove

26 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Why NOT make a self-driving AI and Raspberry Pi powered Trash Bin? Programmer Ahad Cove saw a problem and he took it upon himself to solve it. Ahad an...

TL;DR - Extreme Summarization as a service with Isabel Cachola

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Isabel currently a PhD student studying Computer Science at Johns Hopkins. Previously she was a Pre-Doctoral Young Investigator at the Allen Institute...

Growing the next generation of technologists with CodeCrew's Meka Egwuekwe

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Meka Egwuekwe is Executive Director of CodeCrew, an innovative, mentorship-based youth coding initiative guiding young people in Memphis to be tech pr...

Programmatic Problem Solving with Nicole Archambault

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 l...

Creating with Constraints with Python Africa's Marlene Mhangami

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Marlene Mhangami is a Python Software Foundation Director and the co-founder of ZimboPy, a Zimbabwean non-profit that empowers women to pursue careers...

Greatly Accelerating Machine Learning with Intel's Huma Abidi

22 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 g...

Virtual Desktop is what VR needs - with Guy Godin

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Why can't I control a Virtual Desktop of my PC from my VR headset? Guy Godin asked this question...and made the answer. Is VR Desktop VR's killer app?...

Normalizing Failure with Susana Benavidez

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Susana Benavidez has had an interesting path into technology and she wants to normalize that path. Sometimes it's not straight and narrow, sometimes i...

Enjoyable Code Reviews with Dr. Michaela Greiler

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 gene...

Start Freelancing Today with The Taproom's Kelly Vaughn

24 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 free...

A new way to learn about technology with Disco's Saron Yitbarek

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

CodeNewbie founder Saron Yitbarek is now producing beautifully designed,  easy-to-digest audio courses! Is it an audiobook? They're not webinars or l...

Leaning into Learning in Public with Monica Powell

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Monica Powell is a software engineer who is passionate about making contributing to open-source more approachable. She works with The New York Public ...

Document Databases and Mongo with Engineer Joe Karlsson

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Scott talks with Joe Karlsson about Document Databases like MongoDB and how they differ from classic Table-based (ER) databases. Can this next generat...

Building a More Ethical Immersive Web with VR Engineer Diane Hosfelt

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Diane is a research engineer and the security and privacy lead for Mozilla's Mixed Reality (VR/MR) project. She and Scott talk about the consideration...

A Programmer's Guide to Computer Science with Dr. William Springer

20 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Have you failed a job interview because you don't know computer science? William Springer has a PhD in computer science and his books takes you throug...

Working in Public: Open Source Software with Nadia Eghbal

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nadia Eghbal is the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. She is a writer and researcher who likes to under...

A Brief History of The Deficit Myth with Dr. Stephanie Kelton

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Stephanie Kelton is the most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory - the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades. ...

Cybersecurity for Executives in the Age of Cloud with Teri Radichel

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With the rising cost of data breaches, executives need to understand the basics of cybersecurity so they can make strategic decisions that keep compan...

Managing remotely with Asana Engineering Manager Kate Reading

23 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Scott talks to Engineering Manager Kate Reading from Asana about her experiences as a new remote worker during the pandemic. How do you manage standup...

How the OBS Project changed video forever with lead Hugh Bailey

16 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hugh Bailey just wanted to make a nice open source app to stream Starcraft. It's been just 8 years since the OBS project started and it's taken video ...