
The Unhandled Exception Podcast
Software Development podcast hosted by Dan Clarke (@dracan on Twitter). Slightly bias towards .NET and Azure, but covering lots of other topics such as Git, Docker, Kubernetes, productivity, the list goes on!
Latest episodes

11 snips
May 2, 2022 • 1h 17min
Andrew Lock - ASP.NET, Blogging, Kubernetes, and more!
In this episode, I was honoured to be joined by Andrew Lock, who is probably best known for his amazing ‘must-subscribe’ blog - andrewlock.net. He’s also the author of the Manning ebook, ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition. We covered a lot in this episode - from the different flavours of ASP.NET, to Kubernetes, Blazor, gRPC, testing, Minimal API, MediatR… and more!For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

Apr 25, 2022 • 47min
MiniHack - with Paul Michaels and Kev Smith
In this episode, I was joined by Paul Michaels and Kev Smith, to chat about their monthly online meetup they both run.MiniHack is an online tech-agnostic monthly meetup, where teams of between 3 and 6 people compete to produce the best solution to a given problem. In their own words - “Where we meet monthly to come up with cool solutions to pointless problems”.For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

Mar 31, 2022 • 1h 18min
Geeking out on .NET with Nick Chapsas
In this episode, I was thrilled to be joined by Nick Chapsas! If you’re a .NET developer - then his YouTube channel is an absolute must! Given all the amazing topics he covers on his channel - it would have been a shame to just chat with him about a single topic! So we decided to do a few lightning topics instead! Here’s what we geeked out on….NET 6 Minimal APIThe outdated opinion of some non .NET developers on C# and .NETGitHub CopilotMediatROpen SourceFor a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

Mar 19, 2022 • 38min
Razor Pages - with Mike Brind
In this episode, I was joined by Mike Brind to chat about ASP.NET Core Razor Pages. We also spoke about his Manning MEAP book, ASP.NET Core Razor Pages in Action.For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

Mar 6, 2022 • 60min
Technical Leadership - with Jess White
In this episode, I was joined by Jess White to chat about technical leadership and how to support teams and manage people. Jess provides tons of advice and insights into what makes teams both happy and productive.For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

Feb 16, 2022 • 1h 23min
MassTransit and Open Source - with Chris Patterson
In this episode, I was joined by Chris Patterson to chat about the open-source distributed messaging framework, MassTransit. We also spoke about open-source, event-driven architecture, docker, k8s, testing, Rider, and more!For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

Jan 9, 2022 • 28min
Developer Productivity with (me!) Dan Clarke
Developer productivity is something I’ve been really interested in for quite a few years. So I decided, rather than having a guest on for this topic - it’s one I wanted to cover myself. So in this first episode of the year - I’ve gone solo, and talk about the things I find have made a big difference to my productivity over the years. Also why I think this term “10x developer” is a big understatement!For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

Nov 26, 2021 • 1h 15min
Snapshot Testing with Simon Cropp
In this episode, I was joined by Simon Cropp to chat about a form of testing called Snapshot testing! Simon is the author of Verify, which is a library that I’m quickly discovering is going to save me a HUGE amount of time when writing tests in dotnet! We chatted about snapshot testing in general; the various helper extensions that Verify has, which adds support for lots of different technologies; and also about testing in general. If you’ve ever felt that you spend too much time writing asserts in tests - then this is the episode for you!For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

Nov 3, 2021 • 54min
UX with Jessica Engstrom
In this episode, I was joined by Jessica Engström to chat about UX! A topic that most developers (myself included) need to be more aware of when building UIs! Jessica is also a fellow podcast host, co-hosting the awesome Coding After Work podcast!For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

Oct 24, 2021 • 1h 10min
Visual Studio 2022 - with Kendra Havens
Not long to go until the release of both .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022! But if you can’t wait that long - the preview releases of both can be downloaded right now! In this episode, I was joined by Kendra Havens to chat about what’s new and coming! Kendra is a Program Manager on the .NET and Visual Studio team, and we also chatted a bit in this episode about what software development is like internally at Microsoft, and learn that Microsoft face the same struggles as most other companies! We’re all human after all!For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here