
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

Sep 27, 2018 • 32min
Scaling tech apprenticeship with Techtonics's Heather Terenzio
Scott talks to Techtonic's Heather Terenzio about how her company is scaling tech apprenticeship. Techtonic Group is a software services company building web-based and mobile products for start-ups and the Fortune 1000. Four years ago, Heather founded Techtonic Academy to train people with diverse backgrounds how to code using a unique, Department of Labor (DOL) approved Apprenticeship program. Techtonic Group was recently named “2017 Innovative Company of the Year” by the Boulder Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado Legislature.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/culture-killing-diversity-heather-terenzio-mccollester/

Sep 20, 2018 • 30min
.NET Core Global Tools for Developers with Mark Rendle
Mark Rendle is the author of a number of open source projects and most recently he's been creating global tools with .NET Core. Scott and Mark talk about the importance of global tools to today's development process. What kinds of things can you make and how can we tap into this growing ecosystem?
https://github.com/RendleLabs
https://twitter.com/markrendle

Sep 13, 2018 • 32min
Forge Your Future with Open Source and VM Brasseur
VM Brasseur has been a leader in open source for decades and is the Vice President of the Open Source Initiative. Now she's brought her experience together into a booked called "Forge Your Future with Open Source." It's the missing manual of open source contributions and community participation.
https://pragprog.com/book/vbopens/forge-your-future-with-open-source
https://twitter.com/vmbrasseur

Sep 6, 2018 • 34min
Accelerate: The State of DevOps with Dr. Nicole Forsgren
Dr. Nicole Forsgren PhD discusses her report on the state of DevOps, revealing the secrets of high-performing companies and why they deliver software reliably with speed and quality. The podcast covers statistical analysis methods, the importance of testing, adopting cloud computing characteristics for elite performance, scaling challenges in the early days of the internet, and the success of her book 'Accelerate: The Science Behind DevOps'.

Aug 30, 2018 • 34min
How GDPR is affecting the American Legal System with Gary Nissenbaum
There's a huge number of questions swirling around the European Union's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). In this episode Scott sits down with Gary Nissenbaum to try to make sense of it. Since Gary is a lawyer in the United States, we will be mostly focusing how GDPR affects developers in America.
https://www.gdnlaw.com/

Aug 23, 2018 • 35min
Inside Linux on Windows with WSL and Tara Raj
Windows 10 runs Linux natively! How is that possible? Scott talks to Microsoft's Tara Raj, the Program Manager for the Windows Subsystem for Linux. How does this technology work? Tara explains the internals of WSL to Scott in this episode.
https://twitter.com/tara_msft

Aug 16, 2018 • 36min
Container Catharsis with Laura Frank Tacho
Laura Frank Tacho is the Director of Engineering at CloudBees and has been working with Docker almost since its inception. She shares her experiences in running teams that constantly rely on and deploy containers at scale. How have containers changed effectively everything and where are we heading?
https://twitter.com/rhein_wein

Aug 9, 2018 • 33min
Teaching Programming to kids (and everyone else) with Ben Wheeler
Ben Wheeler teaches tech to kids ages 4 to 104. He talks to Scott about how to effectively teach technology, as well as the importance of social context around tech. Everyone's journey to tech is different. How can we as teachers use those journeys to make everyone successful?
Robot Owl Newsletter
https://twitter.com/benjiwheeler
https://education.lego.com/en-us/elementary/intro/c/computational-thinking
https://education.lego.com/en-us/support/wedo
https://scratchx.org/
http://microbit.org/
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/IsTechnologyKillingCuriosity.aspx
https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode-104-barbara-oakley/
https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
https://www.makewonder.com/

Aug 2, 2018 • 33min
Learning how to be a Wizard Programmer with Julia Evans
Julia Evans has been making comics and zines for years. You've likely learned "How to be a wizard programmer" from one of Julia's comics. She's a software developer at Stripe in her day job and on this episode she talks to Scott about how to effectively teach and learn computer concepts.
https://twitter.com/b0rk
https://drawings.jvns.ca/wizard-programmer/
https://gumroad.com/l/bite-size-linux

Jul 26, 2018 • 36min
Blazor brings .NET to Web Assembly with Steve Sanderson
The Blazor project aims to bring .NET to the open Web using Web Assembly. Scott talks to Steve Sanderson about this experiment and it's future plans. How are they compiling C# and .NET to Web Assembly in a way that works everywhere? How does Mono and .NET Standard fit in?
https://blazor.net/
https://twitter.com/stevensanderson
Blazor 0.5 release!