A new kind of STEM learning with Laron Walker
Laron Walker is a technologist and entrepreneur infatuated with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education.
Feb 10, 2017•32 min•Ep. 566
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.
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Discovering WebVR with Ada Rose Edwards
Ada Rose is an engineer and developer advocate for Samsung. Her passion for the open web and VR has led her to explore WebVR deeply. She explains to Scott why this open technology may be the next big thing!
Feb 03, 2017•33 min•Ep. 565
Building Pantsuit: The Hillary Clinton UI Pattern Library with Mina Markham
Mina Markham built "Pantsuit," Hillary for America’s internal design system. The core CSS architecture of Pantsuit is based around a combination of SMACSS and Harry Roberts’ ITCSS, along with his brilliant namespacing patterns. How complex are systems like this? How does a well-documented styleguide and system improve your developer's workflow?
Jan 27, 2017•30 min•Ep. 564
Speech to Text in 2017 with Signl.fm
Most of us started talking to computers with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and were somewhat disappointed. Now with Siri, Cortana, and Alexa it's getting better...fast. Scott talks with Kimberley Hansen about her startup Signl.fm and how they are aiming to change how podcasts to transcripts in the race to 100% comprehension. Check the transcript at https://transcripts.hanselminutes.com/
Jan 20, 2017•32 min•Ep. 563
Vets who Code with Jerome Hardaway
Jerome Hardaway left the Air Force and saw an add for Code.org on Facebook. Working his way through CodeAcademy tutorials and online courseware he's turned himself into a polyglot developer. What kinds of strengths can vets bring to the world of code?
Jan 13, 2017•32 min•Ep. 562
Checking in with Joel Spolsky who says I suck at Excel
I'm in New York this week checking in with Joel Spolsky from StackExchange/StackOverflow. Big things are happening in Joel's world. They've just hired Anil Dash to be the CEO of FogCreek and launched a new product. What's it like to be Joel and what's it like to NOT suck at Excel?
Jan 06, 2017•32 min•Ep. 561
Is it OK to build websites that require JavaScript? with Nolan Lawson
Nolan Lawson sparked a niche debate with his statement "In 2016, it’s okay to build a website that doesn’t work without JavaScript." In this show Nolan explains what he meant by this, and dissects the concept of Progressive Enhancement in web apps today. Where will the next billion web surfers come from and what do their apps look like?
Dec 30, 2016•33 min•Ep. 560
Including Automation in your Definition of Done with Angie Jones
Angie Jones is a Consulting Automation Engineer who advises several agile teams on automation strategies and has developed automation frameworks for countless software products. She challenges us to consider including Automation earlier in the product development cycle. Is Automation included in your company's "Definition of Done?"
Dec 23, 2016•30 min•Ep. 559
Visualizing Mathematics with 3D Printing and Henry Segerman
Dr. Henry Segerman works at Oklahoma State University in the Department of Mathematics. He's looking at interesting ways to visualize mathmatics using 3D printing! Is this a new idea or a new take on an old one? Is tactile 3D math easier to pick up and understand?
Dec 16, 2016•34 min•Ep. 558
Rethinking Front End Design and Development with Una Kravets
Una Kravets is front-end developer who works at Digital Ocean, has worked for IBM, spoken all over, and likes to rethink things. She's written about rethinking everything from JavaScript to Responsive Design to Harry Potter! She also wonders if we need JavaScript! She educates Scott in this episode about all things webby.
Dec 09, 2016•33 min•Ep. 557
Being a Polyglot Programmer with Amir Rajan
You may know Amir from his #1 AppStore Game "A Dark Room." Amir is a programmer who has learned (and continues to learn) multiple programming languages. Is being a polyglot programmer a good idea for all programmers? Which languages should you start with?
Dec 02, 2016•34 min•Ep. 556
Alcohol and the Tech Industry with Victor Yocco
Does the tech industry have an alcohol problem? Perhaps, or perhaps not. Does the alcohol have a place on the job? At parties? How far does one go? Scott talks to Victor Yocco about a way to think about drinking in the workplace.
Nov 25, 2016•33 min•Ep. 555
Interactive Computing Experiences with nteract and Safia Abdalla
Scott talks to Data Scientist Safia Abdalla about the rise of python notebooks and new ways to think about interactive computing, both online and off. What is "interactive literate coding" and how does it change computing for both the technical and not-quite-technical user? All this and Safia teaches Scott about the "nteract" project.
Nov 18, 2016•32 min•Ep. 554
Mob Programming with Woody Zuill
You've pair programmed but have you tried Mob Programming? Woody Zuill and his team "discovered" programming as a group and it changed their whole process. Woody joins Scott and explains how they stumbled on this, how they refined it, and how Mob Programming may make your programming life better.
Nov 11, 2016•36 min•Ep. 553
Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn with Sandi Metz
Sandi Metz and Scott explore the art and science of teaching. How to people learn? How can we be better teachers? When presenting information, what's the best way to get it from your brain into the students? Why am I phrasing everything like a question? All this and more on this week's episode.
Nov 04, 2016•34 min•Ep. 552
Should Developers Design with Iheanyi Ekechukwu
Iheanyi Ekechukwu is a Product Engineer with Digital Ocean. He has a background in both design and development. Are such people unicorns? How closely should designers work with developers? Are these truly separate practices...and how separate?
Oct 28, 2016•33 min•Ep. 551
Infrastructuralism with Truss
What is Infrastructuralism and how can it help you think differently about software and large problems? Scott sits down with Everett Harper, CEO of Truss. They talk about how applying some old ideas in new ways helped them fix healthcare.gov.
Oct 21, 2016•31 min•Ep. 550
Orchestrating and automating deployments with Octopus Deploy and Damian Brady
We first interviewed Paul Stovell a few years back when he started a micro-ISV he was calling "Octopus Deploy." Now it's a fully formed and successful company whose flagship product Octopus Deploy is used all over. Damian Brady joins Scott and explains why deployment is more subtle then you think.
Oct 14, 2016•31 min•Ep. 549
Cake Build - A C# Make cross platform build automation system with Patrik Svensson
Patrik Svensson had an idea in 2014 for a build automation system that had C# at its heart. Fast-forward to 2016 and Cake Build has a thriving group of core contributors, a large group of "contrib" plugins, and it's joined the .NET Foundation. How does Cake work, and how does one build an open source project into a success?
Oct 07, 2016•31 min•Ep. 548
Hello Ruby with Linda Liukas
Linda Liukas is a Finnish computer programmer, children's writer and programming instructor. In 2014, her Hello Ruby coding book for children raised $380,000 on Kickstarter becoming the platform's most highly funded children's book. She talks to Scott about how it all started and where teaching coding to kids is going!
Sep 30, 2016•31 min•Ep. 547
The State of Virtual Reality 2016 with Scott Anderson
Scott Anderson works at Funomena on Virtual Reality games. He's currently working on Luna, a unique tactile VR puzzle game. Do you need many thousands of dollars and a super-powered computer to experience VR? Scott Anderson gives us a tour from Google Cardboard to Oculus and beyond.
Sep 23, 2016•34 min•Ep. 546
An overnight success in 13 years! Luvvie Ajayi is Judging You!
Luvvie Ajayi has been writing. She's been writing for YEARS. She has been blogging for 13 years! She's a noted humorist, techie, digital strategist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She's spoken all over (including The White House!) and taught classes worldwide. Today she joins Scott to talk about her brand, her tech, and her hilarious new book "I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual"
Sep 16, 2016•32 min•Ep. 545
Archiving Digital Experiences using Emulation with Jason Scott
Jason Scott is the internet's historian and archivist. He is the creator and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems. In 2011 he proposed that the MAME arcade emulator be ported to JavaScript and the next half decade changed how we think about old software and hardware on the internet.
Sep 09, 2016•40 min•Ep. 544
Becoming a more social developer with Daphne Chong
Daphne Chong has had a great year. While she's been a professional developer for many years, this year she's organized user groups, spoken at a number of conferences, and generally pushed herself out of her comfort zone. How did she do it?
Sep 02, 2016•33 min•Ep. 543
Exploring Code Smells in code written by Children with Dr. Felienne
Felienne is always learning. In exploring her PhD dissertation and her public speaking experience it's clear that she has no intent on stopping! Most recently she's been exploring a large corpus of Scratch programs looking for Code Smells. How do children learn how to code, and when they do, does their code "smell?" Is there something we can do when teaching to promote cleaner, more maintainable code?
Aug 26, 2016•32 min•Ep. 542
Building with the Microsoft Bot Framework with Dan Driscoll
Scott sits down with Dan Driscoll to talk bots. What happened in 2016 that made bots more intelligent and more relevant than ever before? Why now, and what can YOU do with your own bot written in Node.js, .NET, or using their REST API?
Aug 19, 2016•32 min•Ep. 541
Creating a new GPU Texture Compressor with Binomial with Stephanie Hurlburt
Stephanie Hurlburt and her co-founder at Binomial see a problem with how graphics and assets make their way from the CPU to the GPU and on to your screen. Now they're creating a new texture compressor and GPU Transcoder that will improve how your games look and play!
Aug 12, 2016•31 min•Ep. 540
Learning to love Legacy Code with Andrea Goulet from CorgiBytes
Andrea Goulet and her business partner Scott Ford love legacy code. No one is supposed to LIKE legacy code, right? Andrea and the team at CorgiBytes believes people are more than just makers - they are also menders. So how does one approach an old code base?
Aug 05, 2016•33 min•Ep. 539
A .NET IDE for the iPad? - Exploring Continuous with Frank Krueger
Frank Krueger is well known for his popular iOS applications like iCircuit and Calca. Frank creates his apps with Xamarin and C# or F#. But why not write these apps for the iPad *on the iPad?* Frank just released the incredible new apps Continuous for iOS. You CAN write .NET on an iPad, productively. Today. Scott asks Frank how he did it!
Jul 29, 2016•36 min•Ep. 538
New Development on Old Systems: Exploring the NES in 2016 with Rachel Simone Weil
Rachel Simone Weil thinks in 6502 Assembly and loves to program on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Yes, that's the NES and yes, it's 2016! She's created a number of amazing NEW apps including the world's first connected Twitter client for NES.
Jul 22, 2016•37 min•Ep. 537
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