Hanselminutes

Interview with Stack Overflow's Director of Engineering covering high-level details of their engineering stack.

@artimaeis +1 more

Engineering Stack Overflow with Roberta Arcoverde

Jun 30, 2022 · 32m

with Roberta Arcoverde

A kid in Africa used a Nokia feature phone's T9 typing before getting a job doing Android development.

@pjmlp +1 more

Developing ON (not for) a Nokia Feature Phone with Elvis Chidera

Jan 19, 2018 · 30m

with Elvis Chidera

Fun interview with an Age of Empires II modder; anecdotes on performance costs of moving from assembly 2D sprites to 3D.

@richdougherty +1 more

Forgotten Empires, amazing games - Age of Empires is back with Bert Beeckman

Feb 24, 2017 · 31m

with Bert Beeckman

Recent episode on the OpenAPS project, an open-source DIY artificial pancreas system, relevant to building your own glucose devices.

@ruraljuror +1 more

The Open Artificial Pancreas System (OpenAPS) project with Dana M. Lewis

Feb 12, 2016 · 34m

with Dana M. Lewis

Scott Hanselman did a good interview with Rachel Reese from Jet about it, a couple of shows ago.

@ljoshua +1 more

Jet.com scales with Azure, F#, and more with Rachel Reese

Sep 25, 2015 · 33m

with Rachel Reese

His interview on Hanselminutes is a great place to start.

@brudgers +1 more

Learning Code The Hard Way with Zed Shaw

Jan 24, 2014 · 34m

with Zed Shaw

Friendly, wholesome interview where Metcalfe covers Ethernet's rebranded signalling schemes and his geothermal work.

@NortySpock

From Ethernet to Geothermal Energy with Bob Metcalfe

Jul 6, 2023 · 38m

with Bob Metcalfe

Hanselminutes episode on Blazor is really interesting; explains Blazor runs a WASM build of the CLR interpreting .NET DLLs.

@binarynate

Blazor Web Assembly by Example with Toi B. Wright

May 18, 2023 · 28m

Scott Hanselman interviewed one of the paper's authors, who explains the research in a very accessible way.

@petercooper

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

Nov 19, 2020 · 28m

with Isabel Cachola

An interesting podcast about Roblox on Hanselminutes a few weeks ago, covering community building and digital civility.

@asdasdasdasdwd

Roblox's Kelly Mayes on Community Building and Digital Civility

Nov 7, 2019 · 32m

with Kelly Mayes

Recommends a recent episode on coding for the ZX Spectrum, commissioned by the authors of Black Mirror.

@drej

Coding for the ZX Spectrum and Netflix/Black Mirror's Bandersnach with Matt Westcott

Feb 8, 2019 · 32m

with Matt Westcott

Scott Hanselman interviewed the two on his podcast back in January; it was a good program.

@watchdogtimer

Teaching Programming to kids (and everyone else) with Ben Wheeler

Aug 9, 2018 · 33m

with Warren Sande and Carter Sande

Hanselminutes episode 628 with Windows 95 design team members on the Start button and Microsoft user research.

@runjake

A history of the Windows 95 Start Button and User Research at Microsoft with Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem

Apr 20, 2018 · 31m

with Kent Sullivan, Derek Hoiem

Listened to this episode recently: quantum computing as an Azure cloud service is the endgame, with the same simulator code later running on real quantum hardware.

@neilsimp1

Quantum Computing detangled with Dr. Krysta Svore

Feb 9, 2018 · 33m

with Dr. Krysta Svore

Scott Hanselman interviewed Linda Liukas recently on his podcast, well worth a listen.

@teh_klev

Hello Ruby with Linda Liukas

Sep 30, 2016 · 31m

with Linda Liukas

Commenter says the podcast gets into more technical detail than the article, which was written for a CEO audience.

@andreagoulet

Learning to love Legacy Code with Andrea Goulet from CorgiBytes

Aug 5, 2016 · 33m

with Andrea Goulet

It's given more power to the average power user than you can imagine. See Scott Hanselman's interview with Oz du Soleil.

@pcblues

Data Literacy and the usefulness of Excel with Oz du Soleil

Jun 17, 2016 · 33m

with Oz du Soleil

Listening to this podcast atm; interesting stuff. The commenter recommends the Hanselminutes episode with Ben Adams on Age of Ascent.

@terry526

Inside Age of Ascent with Ben Adams

Jan 8, 2016 · 37m

with Ben Adams

Another brief overview of the serialization landscape is on Hanselminutes episode with Kenton Varda, Cap'n Proto's author.

@AmrEldib

Your Personal Cloud Platform with Sandstorm.io and Kenton Varda

Oct 16, 2015 · 33m

with Kenton Varda

Recently had an interview with Jacob Krall about the history of Wasabi; found it quite interesting.

@sixothree

Killing Off Wasabi - A 20yr old VBScript problem solved with 2015 Roslyn tech

Sep 18, 2015 · 32m

with Jacob Krall

Hanselminutes did an excellent interview with the engineer who created StaffPad; thoroughly covers how it was conceived and coded in C#/C++.

@restlake

Developing StaffPad, a new class of music notation application with Dr. Matthew Tesch

May 1, 2015 · 35m

with Dr. Matthew Tesch

Might be of interest as well: the episode on space and the next IT decade with Tom Soderstrom from JPL.

@noselasd

Space and the next IT decade with Tom Soderstrom from JPL

Sep 5, 2014 · 37m

with Tom Soderstrom

Scott Hanselman's interview with Katherine Moss is pretty good and describes her combination-of-tools approach, which is still current for the tech stack.

@brudgers

I'm a Blind Software Technician - Ask Me Anything! with Katherine Moss

Mar 7, 2014 · 38m

with Katherine Moss

An older but interesting interview with the "world's most quantified man" on the quantified self.

@softawre

Chris Dancy, the world's most quantified man, explains the Quantified Self

Nov 29, 2013 · 33m

with Chris Dancy

Scott Hanselman recently interviewed one of the Python tools team, well worth a listen

@teh_klev

Python Tools for Visual Studio with Dino Viehland

Aug 16, 2013 · 34m

with Dino Viehland

Good podcast interview with Scott Hanselman about the future and past of computing with Dan Bricklin.

@brudgers

The Future and Past of Computing with Dan Bricklin

Jul 4, 2013 · 36m

with Dan Bricklin

A really good interview with GitHub's Paul Betts and Justin Spahr-Summers that covers Hubot.

@tomorgan

On Culture and Remoteness at GitHub with Paul Betts and Justin Spahr-Summers

Jun 14, 2013 · 34m

with Paul Betts and Justin Spahr-Summers

Scott Hanselman has an interesting podcast interviewing someone who works on the Azure services that power Halo 4.

@ajanuary

Halo 4 - Services in Azure with Caitie McCaffrey

Feb 8, 2013 · 33m

with Caitie McCaffrey

Scott Hanselman hosted Kyla McMullen on how difficult it feels to break into tech when no one looks like you. I enjoyed it a lot.

@Permit

Dr. Kyla McMullen on Diversity in Computer Science and Spatial Audio

Feb 1, 2013 · 32m

with Dr. Kyla McMullen

Scott Hanselman got Tim Clem and Phil Haack talking about developing GitHub for Windows on a recent podcast.

@noselasd

Developing GitHub for Windows with Phil Haack and Tim Clem

May 18, 2012 · 32m

with Phil Haack, Tim Clem

Really great episode where Scott Hanselman interviews Jon Skeet at CodeMash, with fascinating insight into how he ticks.

@junto

Being a Phony with Jon Skeet

Jan 18, 2012 · 40m

with Jon Skeet

Search for Scott Hanselman's Penny Pinching blog series, which details running high-volume sites as cheaply as possible on Azure.

@gabrielrdz

Inside the Design Process - Redesigning Scott's blog with Jeremy Kratz

Aug 25, 2011 · 36m

I would strongly recommend listening to the Hanselminutes episode on Women in Technology in the Muslim World.

@metasean

Women in Technology in the Muslim World

Feb 27, 2010 · 35m

Worth a listen just for the story of how Hanselman got his first computer, a C64.

@brudgers

Scott Interviews His Dad

Jan 24, 2008 · 37m

with Scott Hanselman's father