Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Nithya Ruff serves as an at-large director on the Linux Foundation's board of directors. In her day job she is the Head of Comcast's Open Source Office. Nithya has been guiding companies' open source strategies for many years and in this episode she and Scott talk about how to introduce Open Source to more "traditional" companies. http://innovationfund.comcast.com/ http://comcast.github.io https://todogroup.org

Eileen Uchitelle is a Senior Systems Engineer at GitHub and a member of the Rails Core Team. They recently upgraded GitHub two major versions to the latest Rails. How do you manage such a large upgrade and the technical debt underneath - with no downtime? How do you also move improvements in GitHub's own branch upstream into Rails so everyone can benefit! Eileen explains it all to Scott in this episode. Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2

Digital Nomad Jenny Shen aims to design software for a Global Audience. Are you creating software that includes everyone? Does it consider not just internationalization but also culture and how people think? We'll discuss design across culture in this week's episode. http://jennyshen.com/mentorship.html https://diverseui.com/ https://blog.prototypr.io/ux-design-across-different-cultures-part-1-1caa12a504c0 https://uxplanet.org/ux-design-across-different-cultures-part-2-761c911e875

What if you couldn't play video games? Most controllers require not just two hands but also fine motor skills and exact motions. The Xbox Accessibility Controller aims to open up gaming for everyone. It's not trying to be the controller for everyone, but rather than controller platform for everyone! Scott talks to John Alexander about how he games with the Xbox Accessibility Controller. https://www.quadstick.com/shop/quadstick-fps-game-controller https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/3drudder-foot-controller/90lh5fwnx6t8/lbxg?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab https://www.ablenetinc.com/technology/switches https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessories#assistive https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/ http://yourcpf.org/ http://www.ablegamers.org/ https://warfighterengaged.org/

How do you find the perfect questions to ask in your job interview? How do you know if this is the right company for you? Do they share your values? Interviews are a two way street. This week Scott talks to Lynne Tye about what she created KeyValues.com and how it might help you find your next work home. https://www.keyvalues.com/culture-queries

Animator Wahyu Ichwandardi, also known as Pinot, has been documenting his attempt to capture Childish Gambino's "This Is America" choreography since the beginning of June...using MacPaint and MacroMind Video on original Mac 128k hardware! Why did he do this? How did he do this? Macintosh 128K with MacPaint 1.5 & Summagraphics MacTablet. Macintosh SE with MacroMind VideoWorks & Apple 1GB External SCSI hard drive. BMOW Floppy Emu for data transfer via SD card. http://twitter.com/pinot https://www.instagram.com/pinot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pXm2NqfHMs https://mashable.com/article/this-is-america-retro-animation-pinot-mac

Charles Petzold taught many of us to code Windows, but now he's turning his attention to a new book he's been working on for over a decade! This week Scott talks to Charles about Analog Computing and the Computer of the Tides. He's exploring an extended history of an early analog computer invented by Scottish scientist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), and its role in the 19th century Darwin Wars. http://www.charlespetzold.com/books/

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/

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

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