
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

Jul 4, 2019 • 31min
Burning Rocket Fuel and exploring careers in STEM with Dr. Corey Frazier
Dr. Frazier is an Engineering Manager at Intel's High Performance Computing group, and previously worked at the United Space Alliance working on 13 safe and successful Space Shuttle missions. He and Scott talk about his experience in engineering and science and what motivates him to give back.
Dr. Frazier's Thesis
Corey on Twitter

Jun 27, 2019 • 34min
Hanselminutiae 19 with Richard Campbell
Scott and Richard Campbell talk often and when they do they think, "we should have recorded this!" Hanselminutiae are those shows! In this episode they talk about the PyPortal from AdaFruit, rewiring your house for ethernet, how .NET transformed itself, and more!

Jun 20, 2019 • 33min
Methods to Organize Your Learning Process with Lourdes Montano
As developers we need to learn new technologies fast, and often. Scott talks to Lourdes Montano about her learning process and how she's formalized her learning process to more effectively learn JavaScript and CSS.
Methods to Organize Your Learning Process in CSS - CascadiaFest 2016

Jun 13, 2019 • 33min
Saving the SpaceOrb360 with open source hardware and software with Vic Putz
Vic Putz continues to carry a torch for the SpaceOrb, as do I, except he's actually doing something about it. Vic has been working on a new version called the Orbotron 9001 for the last few years that is an interface for the SpaceOrb to modern systems. Scott talks to Vic about their shared love of this 25 year old controller and why the world is missing out on the magic of 6 degrees of freedom.
http://www.thingotron.com
https://www.x360ce.com
https://playoverload.com
https://www.dxx-rebirth.com

Jun 6, 2019 • 30min
How to build an inclusive conference with Saron Yitbarek
Saron Yibarek started the CodeNewbie community because it was hard to find truly welcoming places for new coders. Now she's made CodeLand and let me tell you, it's an amazing developer conference that sets a new bar for what it means to be welcoming. How did she do it and why?
http://codelandconf.com

May 30, 2019 • 33min
The magic of Software Defined Radio with Ben Hilburn
Ben Hilburn is the Director of Engineering at DeepSig Inc., which is commercializing the fundamental research behind deep learning applied to wireless communications and signal processing. He also runs GNU Radio, the most widely used open-source signal processing toolkit in the world, serving as Project Lead and President of The GNU Radio Foundation. Ben talks to Scott about why Software Defined Radio is magical and they talk about how SDR can be used to teach STEM and solve interesting engineering problems.
https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/wireless-networks-and-cancer-rates
https://bhilburn.org/software-radio-all-the-things/
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Spectrogram/
https://shinysdr.switchb.org/
Fourier series
http://visual-dsp.switchb.org/

May 23, 2019 • 32min
Solving real problems with software and the Human Utility with Tiffani Ashley Bell
Tiffani Ashley Bell saw a problem on the internet. With just a tweet she took action, and unlike so many people today she continued to take action. The Detroit Water Project became The Human Utility and she and the team have helped hundreds of our most vulnerable with their water bills. How did this happen and how can we help?
https://twitter.com/HumanUtility
https://www.detroitwaterproject.org

May 16, 2019 • 32min
Avalonia is a cross platform XAML Framework for .NET Framework, .NET Core and Mono with Steven Kirk
Avalonia is a cross platform XAML Framework for .NET Framework, .NET Core and Mono. Avalonia uses a XAML dialect that should feel immediately familiar to anyone coming from WPF, UWP and Xamarin Forms. Scott talks to Steven Kirk about how Avalonia started, how it's not just "cross-platform WPF." You can start writing cross-platform desktop apps in C# today!
https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
https://gitter.im/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
https://github.com/google/skia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)

May 9, 2019 • 34min
Copyright, Trademarks, Patents, and Branding yourself online with Yasmine Salem Hamdan
Yasmine focused her studies in law school on entrepreneurship, intellectual property, and dispute resolution and now runs the YSH Law Firm as Managing Attorney & Counselor at Law where she helps busineses with Trademark and Brand Protection. In this episode, Yasmine educates Scott on copyrights, trademarks, patents and more!
http://yasminesalemhamdanlaw.com/
http://yasminesalemhamdanlaw.com/newsblog/

May 2, 2019 • 34min
The Problem with Software by Adam Barr
Scott talks to engineer Adam Barr about why there is so much bad software—and why academia doesn't teach programmers what industry wants them to know. In his new book "The Problem with Software," Adam examines the proliferation of bad software, explains what causes it, and offers some suggestions on how to improve the situation.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/problem-software