We met Tim Corey at Microsoft Build, surrounded by people throwing around acronyms like MCP and pretending we all knew what it meant. Turns out, we weren't alone. In this episode, we talk about the gaps in learning that nobody tells you about, the power of teaching what you just figured out, and how showing your mistakes can be the best way to teach. Tim shares his journey from recording rough YouTube videos for his students to becoming one of the most trusted developer educators on the web. We ...
Oct 16, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 77
The first version of Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! We sat down with Mads Kristensen to explore what's new: Monthly update cadence (faster features, fewer waits) Deeper Copilot integration, including the new Profiler Agent Major performance boosts across startup, large solutions, and RDP/DevBox A modern UI refresh with new themes and cleaner settings Near-seamless extension compatibility from 2022 to 2026 We also talk about bug reports as "gifts," why developer happiness matters more than ...
Sep 09, 2025•50 min•Ep. 76
This episode is packed with stories, insight, and more than a few unexpected turns – and our guest is no exception. We're joined by the always-curious, always-creating John Galloway, who shares his remarkable journey from submarine officer to dev community builder at Microsoft. Whether it's live-streaming labs, shipping AI-powered productivity tools, or winning a car on The Price Is Right (yes, really), John brings heart, humor, and a whole lot of dev wisdom. We talk Blazor, .NET Aspire, the evo...
Jul 28, 2025•59 min•Ep. 75
In this episode, recorded live at Microsoft Build, we sit down with Beth Massi! From community legend to product manager on the .NET MAUI team, Beth joins us for a deep dive into the world of hybrid app development. We unpack the story behind the name "MAUI," the evolution of Xamarin, and how web technologies can blend seamlessly into native apps. Along the way, we explore AI's growing role in developer tooling, the power of open source collaboration, and yes… even Star Trek captains. Whether yo...
Jul 14, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 74
In this episode, recorded live at Microsoft Build, we sit down with the always insightful Anthony Chu, Principal PM at Microsoft, to explore the world of Azure Container Apps. Anthony brings a unique developer-first perspective on simplifying complex cloud infrastructure, weaving together topics like Dapr, serverless GPUs, dynamic sessions, and even a surprising amount of pasta talk. Whether you're new to containers or neck-deep in Kubernetes YAML files, there's something for everyone here, espe...
Jun 26, 2025•56 min
In this episode, we catch up with Damian Edwards at Microsoft Build! We talk about his journey from launching SignalR to shaping .NET Aspire, how performance became a core .NET culture shift, and what it's like being in the room for some of the biggest moments in .NET history. He shares behind-the-scenes stories from the early days of ASP.NET, how Aspire is simplifying cloud-native dev, and even gives us his thoughts on lightsabers, Blazor, and Blu-rays. It's a deep dive into code, performance, ...
Jun 12, 2025•1 hr 7 min
In this episode, we catch up with Maddy Montaquila at Microsoft Build! We talk about her journey from Xamarin and .NET MAUI to becoming the product lead for .NET Aspire. She shares what makes Aspire such a game-changer, dives into the new Copilot integration, talks about her experience with developer tooling, and even gives us a glimpse into her band life outside of tech. This one's packed with insight, laughs, and a few solid puns. Guest: 🎤 Maddy Montaquilla – Product Lead for .NET Aspire at M...
May 29, 2025•44 min
In this episode we talk to Dejan Milicic about the new version of RavenDb that just dropped. We also talk about how importants passion is as a developer. Links from the episode: https://ravendb.net/ Dejan's book https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-RavenDB-Database-Modern-Persistence/dp/1484289188/ Developer Hegemony https://www.amazon.com/Developer-Hegemony-Erik-Dietrich/dp/0692866809 Dejan on the stream codingafterwork.com/YouTube/1e6dS9jSQWo Oren on the podcast codingafterwork.com/episodes/ac39...
Feb 15, 2024•42 min
Leslie gives Jimmy and Jessica a behind the scenes look at keynotes. We talk about teleprompters and backups. We dive into the C# Dev Kit and even more extensions with VisualStudio.Extensibility. Leslie is a product manager on the .NET / C# Developer Experience team and the host of the VS Toolbox show on YouTube, Twitch, and LearnTV. She is focused on improving productivity and the C# and Razor spaces across VS and VS Code, including helping develop and release the new C# Dev Kit productivity ex...
Nov 06, 2023•51 min•Ep. 69
In this episode, Jimmy and Jessica talk to Nick Chapsas. Nick is a Content Creator focusing on C# & .NET and an Author and Founder of the educational platform Dometrain. His YouTube channel has reached over 200k subscribers quickly, so we naturally wanted to hear about his secret. https://www.11ty.dev/ https://teachable.com/ https://dometrain.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@nickchapsas https://kit.co/nickchapsas We want to thank our sponsor Progress Telerik. They have amazing Blazor UI control...
Jul 10, 2023•57 min•Ep. 68
In this episode, Jimmy and Jessica talk to Evelyne Wauters about UX, dark patterns, and falcons. Evelyne is still in a quarter-life crisis at 34 years old, living near Antwerp with her boyfriend and two cats. She has previous experience in (java) development and a major in engineering/architecture. In her free time, she goes skydiving in the summer weekends and is a falconer in the winter.
Dec 07, 2022•54 min•Ep. 67
In this episode, we talk to Nico Vermeir about his experiences writing multiple books, brewing beer, and .NET. @NicoVermeir https://www.martinasbieren.be/
Sep 15, 2022•44 min•Ep. 66
At NDC London we sat down with Steve Sanderson and talked about the origin story of Blazor, some of the upcoming things in .NET 7, and what Steve is working on right now. @stevensanderson
Jul 17, 2022•36 min
In this episode, we talk to Maria Naggaga about some of the projects she has been involved in like .NET interactive, try .NET, and Minimal APIs. https://try.dot.net/ https://github.com/dotnet/interactive https://www.instagram.com/hippypotter/ @ladyNaggaga https://engstromjimmy.com/post/2022-06-09-MinimalAPIs
Jun 15, 2022•55 min•Ep. 64
Johan, together with other parents set out to help create a better app for the parents in Stockholm, Sweden. But the municipal responded in a very strange way, to say the least. Johan shares their story with expensive "encryption", promises that never came to be, and police reports. https://github.com/kolplattformen/skolplattformen https://github.com/kolplattformen/fantomenkrypto Little Steering wheel documentation (In Swedish) https://docplayer.se/4568511-Lilla-ratten-stockholms-stads-projektmo...
Feb 23, 2022•53 min•Ep. 63
In this episode, we talk to Oscar Andersson about contributing to Stack Overflow, GitHub vs Azure DevOps, and geek-out on various things. https://www.ogglas.com/ https://stackoverflow.com/users/3850405/ogglas https://codingafterwork.com/ @ogglas Sponsors: Progress Telerik https://bit.ly/blazorui If Insurance: https://bit.ly/ifdev NDC Conference https://www.ndcoslo.com
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr
In this episode, we talk to Oren Eini about RavenDB. https://ayende.com/blog/ https://ravendb.net/ @ayende Sponsors: Progress Telerik https://bit.ly/blazorui If Insurance: https://bit.ly/ifdev NDC Conference https://www.ndcoslo.com
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 22 min
In this episode, we have invited Jeff Fritz back to the show to talk about what's new in .NET 6. May contain traces of total green screen geek out. https://www.twitch.tv/csharpfritz https://twitter.com/csharpfritz Sponsors: NDC Conference https://www.ndcoslo.com Progress Telerik https://bit.ly/blazorui If: https://bit.ly/ifdev...
Aug 30, 2021•59 min
In this episode, Jimmy and Jessica talk to Egil Hansen about bUnit, test-driven development, and Sci-fi. https://bunit.dev/ https://twitter.com/egilhansen https://github.com/egil https://www.linkedin.com/in/egilhansen/ https://www.twitch.tv/egilhansen Make sure to test Progress Telerik's amazing UI for Blazor http://prgress.co/blazor_ui...
Jul 18, 2021•1 hr 12 min
In this episode, Jimmy and Jessica talk to Carl Franklin about Blazor, Podcasting, and his love for Music. https://www.youtube.com/user/carlfranklin https://www.dotnetrocks.com/ https://blazortrain.com/ Support us by testing Telerik amazing UI for Blazor https://www.telerik.com/campaigns/blazor/free-trial-1?utm_source=jimmyengstrom&utm_medium=cpm&utm_campaign=blazor-trial-codingafterwork-podcast...
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Support us by testing Telerik amazing UI for Blazor https://www.telerik.com/campaigns/blazor/free-trial-1?utm_source=jimmyengstrom&utm_medium=cpm&utm_campaign=blazor-trial-codingafterwork-podcast In this episode, Jimmy and Jessica talk to Carl Rippon about his book on React and .NET 5, they talk about React and also how to compare it to Blazor. https://www.carlrippon.com/ https://www.amazon.com/ASP-NET-Core-React-Full-stack-development/dp/180020616X...
Mar 22, 2021•36 min
Support us by testing Telerik amazing UI for Blazor https://www.telerik.com/campaigns/blazor/free-trial-1?utm_source=jimmyengstrom&utm_medium=cpm&utm_campaign=blazor-trial-codingafterwork-podcast In this episode, Jimmy and Jessica talk to Shawn Wildermuth about diversity in tech and his movie Hello World. @shawnwildermuth Tiktok: shawnwildermuth https://wildermuth.com/ https://helloworldfilm.com/ https://imfinefilm.com/
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 15 min
Support us by testing Telerik amazing UI for Blazor https://www.telerik.com/campaigns/blazor/free-trial-1?utm_source=jimmyengstrom&utm_medium=cpm&utm_campaign=blazor-trial-codingafterwork-podcast In this episode, Jimmy and Jessica talk to Jérôme Laban about the Uno platform, why AOT is awesome, and toast https://twitter.com/jlaban https://twitch.tv/jeromelaban https://jaylee.org/ https://platform.uno/ https://twitter.com/nventive https://twitter.com/unoplatform
Jan 15, 2021•50 min
Our sponsor Progress Telerik Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/CodingAfterWork YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-2_3wUueE0DwE3qDRGCnOQ In this episode, Jimmy and Jessica talk to Andy Morrell about remote working, streaming on Twitch, and racing simulators Links: https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/ https://obsproject.com/ Chroma green screen color: #00b140 PMS:354c http://featured.chat/ https://www.twitch.tv/luckynos7evin https://twitter.com/thes7evin...
Nov 08, 2020•57 min
In this episode, Jimmy and Jessica talk to David Ortnau about what was announced at Microsoft Build 2020 and what is happening in the world of cross-platform development. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-multi-platform-app-ui/ Guest: David Ortinau (@davidortinau)
Jul 03, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Jimmy and Jessica talk to Bryan Costanich about the Meadow, a small chip that can run .Net. They also talk about Bryans IoT Beehive. Guest: Bryan Costanich(@bryancostanich) @wildernesslabs https://www.wildernesslabs.co/ Instagam: wildernesslabs
Jun 15, 2020•59 min
Jimmy and Jessica talked to Mads Kristensen about building extensions, home automation and his passion for cooking. Blog https://madskristensen.net/ Visual studio blog https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/ Visual Studio Remote office hours https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLReL099Y5nRem6UA4w849hTfd0LzBIsAk Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChqrDOwARrxdJF-ykAptc7w Guest:Mads Kristensen (@mkristensen)...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 8 min
So far we have had one episodes that ran for over an hour, this is our second one. Why, you ask? Both episodes have something very important in common. User Experience. In this episode Jimmy and Jessica talk to Mark Miller about the Science of a great UI, what goes into building a Visual Studio productivity extension, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Guest: Mark Miller (@MillerMark) Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/Coderushed https://www.twitch.tv/DragonHumpers Live Coders: https://www.twitch.tv/t...
Mar 04, 2020•1 hr 28 min
Jimmy end Jessica talk to Daniel Roth about Blazor, past, present, and future. Guest: Daniel Roth (@danRoth27) Web Window https://blog.stevensanderson.com/2019/11/18/2019-11-18-webwindow-a-cross-platform-webview-for-dotnet-core/ Blazor component vendors https://www.devexpress.com/blazor/ https://www.telerik.com/blazor-ui https://www.syncfusion.com/blazor-components https://www.radzen.com/features/ https://www.infragistics.com/products/ignite-ui-blazor The epic Dan Roth pillow https://www.youtube...
Dec 09, 2019•54 min
At Microsoft Ignite Jimmy And Jessica met up with Mads Torgersen to talk about what goes into designing a language, the difference open-source has made for Microsoft and his journey from Java and Aarhus to C# and Seattle. Guest: @MadsTorgersen
Nov 18, 2019•50 min
