
Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
Hanselminutes is Fresh Air for Developers. A weekly commute-time podcast that promotes fresh technology and fresh voices. Talk and Tech for Developers, Life-long Learners, and Technologists.
Latest episodes

Mar 10, 2022 • 36min
What does it take to go fast? with Fastly's Inés Sombra
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 business, and the engineering team and explains the processes needed for YOUR organization to go fast.

Mar 3, 2022 • 31min
Flutter for Windows with Google's Chris Sells
Flutter for Windows lets you deliver cross-platform, beautiful, tailored apps that are compiled to machine code and run natively on your devices! Scott talks to Google's Chris Sells about Flutter for Windows, how it works, how it's architected, and how it can help you!- https://medium.com/flutter/announcing-flutter-for-windows-6979d0d01fed

Feb 24, 2022 • 32min
Voice for Everyone with Hillary Juma from Mozilla Common Voice
Common Voice is a crowdsourcing project started by Mozilla to create a free database for speech recognition software. The project is supported by volunteers who record sample sentences with a microphone and review recordings of other users. Community Manager Hillary Juma talks to Scott about how the system works and why it's so important to enable all languages and voices with the power of Open Source!

Feb 17, 2022 • 35min
Modern Code Generation with Jordan Adler
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.

Feb 10, 2022 • 32min
Landing Your First UX Design Job with Sharon Onyinye
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/booksLanding Your First UX Design Job

Feb 3, 2022 • 26min
Rachel Lim on Fine Tuning OpenAI
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 GPT-3 subsets to efficiently produce results specific to their workloads with a single command. Scott talks to Rachel Lim from OpenAI about how these large language models work, what they are useful for, and why tuning them is so important!https://openai.com/api/

Jan 27, 2022 • 41min
Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History with Evan Amos
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 contributing these images to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, Amos has recently release The Game Console 2.0, a book with extremely high-quality photos of classic (and modern) consoles. Why is it so important to share and preserve history in this way?The Game Console 2.0Find Evan Amos onlineThe Vanamo Online Game Museum

Jan 20, 2022 • 34min
Exploring COVID Vaccine response with Shawn Carbonell, MD, PhD
Dr. Carbonell has been a Scientist for decades. He is an evangelist for STEM careers, science communication, and scientist-CEOs. “Learn On TikTok” Creator. He is Oxford-educated with both an MD and PhD as well as Post-doctoral work. He dropped out of Brain Surgery to focus on curing brain cancer and a drug he invented is being tested now!Check out his lab tests on his own body where he explores his response to the COVID booster weekly on TikTokFind Shawn at:Brazen Bio: https://brazen.bioBrazen Capital: https://brazen.capitalCure Glioblastoma: https://www.cureglioblastoma.orgTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brainsurgerydropoutHis socials: https://beacons.ai/brainsurgerydropout

Jan 13, 2022 • 31min
Redefining Imposter Syndrome with Maya Bello
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 Tutor at UCSD. She runs a successful YouTube channel and often mentors newbies. However, she's struggled with Imposter Syndrome. In this chat with Scott, Maya asks "why not me?" and considers how to redefine Imposter Syndrome and make it a superpower rather than a problem.Subscribe to Maya on YouTube!

Jan 6, 2022 • 39min
Building Oh My Posh with Jan De Dobbeleer
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.devScott and Jan create a new Segment for OhMyPosh that interfaces Nightscout for Diabetics