
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

Jan 30, 2020 • 35min
Building a CPU from Scratch with Ben Eater
Ben Eater, creator of educational videos on building a CPU from scratch, discusses his journey from studying computer science to working in the industry. He shares his experience with community building on Reddit and the importance of quality breadboards in CPU construction. The podcast also explores the use of logic analyzers in digital circuit design and the role of Arduino in the 6502 project.

Jan 23, 2020 • 35min
Visualizing Math with Freya Holmér
Freya Holmér, a veteran in the games industry, discusses her passion for math and making it accessible through visualizations. Topics include math for game development, radians, low persistence in VR, motion blur, cross product, and mathematical art.

Jan 16, 2020 • 53min
Myself: It's not weird at all
This episode wasn't supposed to be an episode! I was invited by Jeff Fritz of Twitch fame to talk to his community team of Live Coders on Discord. They recorded it, and mentioned several times that it was useful content! So, why not try something new and make this an episode! Let me know on Twitter if you find my views on community, productivity, and life useful to you!http://Livecoders.devhttp://Github.com/livecoders

Jan 9, 2020 • 33min
Dapr Distributed Application Runtime with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich
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/

Jan 2, 2020 • 33min
Brain Science and Programmers with Dr. Mireille Reece
Dr Mireille Reece is the co-host of the ChangeLog podcast Brain Science and in this episode she sits down with Scott to talk about creativity, staying in your flow, mental health, the power of perspective, and how relationships drive the WE in our workplace!https://changelog.com/brainscience

Dec 26, 2019 • 31min
Being a Complete Engineer and Bryan Liles' Rules to Life
Bryan Liles talks about his Rules to Life and how attitude, structure and personal guidelines have enabled Bryan to level up and manage his anxiety. Bryan's also working on a new open source project called Octant that allows you to move effectively manage your Kubernetes infrastructure. All this, plus Goodie Mob!

Dec 19, 2019 • 34min
Modern Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi's Joe Duffy
Pulumi promises two things "Declare cloud infrastructure using real languages, and enable developers and operators to work better together." Scott talks to Joe Duffy about the goals behind Pulumi and how it relates to other attempts over the years. Do we hide the cloud or bring it front and center? Can YOU deploy your apps and infrastructure easily on any cloud?https://www.pulumi.com

Dec 12, 2019 • 34min
Building a culture of accessibility from step zero with Ayesha Mazumdar
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 disabilitiesCordelia Dillon's Accessibility Bake Off talkAn example of W3's Keyboard Interaction guidelines (link is specifically for Listbox)Ayesha's ReactBoston Scaling Accessibility video and slides

Dec 5, 2019 • 32min
Rust: A language for the next 40 years with Carol Nichols
Carol Nichols, Rust core contributor, discusses the challenges of governance in open source, the impact of Rust on memory safety and industry progress, and Rust's benefits for Firefox's security and performance.

Nov 28, 2019 • 37min
Career Karma's Ruben Harris on engineering bootcamp success
Success in engineering often means you need to engineer success. Career Karma's Ruben Harris and his partners believe they have the formula and they've bottled it into the Career Karma app and community. You can find your squad, get the motivation you need, and make your bootcamp experience successful. He talks to Scott about common misconceptions about bootcamps and how Career Karma smooths the way.https://careerkarma.com/blog/income-share-agreements/https://breakingintostartups.com/about/