Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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'.

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/

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

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

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/

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

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!

April Wensel is the founder of Compassionate Coding, a conscious business that helps technical teams cultivate sustainable, human-­centered software development practices built on a foundation of emotional intelligence. She talks to Scott about how we can apply these concepts to our own software projects. https://twitter.com/aprilwensel https://compassionatecoding.com

Nic Steenhout is a long term A11y (accessibility) advocate who works remotely for Knowbility, an Austin, TX based non-profit. In this episode Scott and Nicolas talk about various kinds of accessibility from the web to mobile devices to wheelchair ramps! He's also the host of the A11y Rules podcast. https://twitter.com/vavroom https://a11yrules.com/

Maurice Cherry is a veteran designer AND veteran podcastee. His award-winning podcast Revision Path has showcased nearly 250 Black Designers and influencers. Scott and Maurice talk about the importance of good design on today's web (AND good podcasts!) Where does Maurice see design going with the rise of cookie-cutter themes. Is it hard to be unique and fresh with the rise of the Visible Designer? https://twitter.com/mauricecherry https://revisionpath.com/