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Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Scott Hanselman 1000 Episodes Aug 21, 2026

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.

Episodes

Compile after Class Crossover Episode
Compile after Class Crossover Episode Aug 21, 2026 00:46:40 A young man who's a sophomore in high school emailed me to come on his podcast that he does with his friend, and I had so much fun. I decided to make it a crossover episode. Check out "Compile after Class" on this week's episode! https://www.youtube.com/@shreemanickaraja
Robots, Nukes, and AI: A Career at the Frontier with Maynard Holliday
Robots, Nukes, and AI: A Career at the Frontier with Maynard Holliday Aug 13, 2026 00:35:37 Maynard Holliday spent 30+ years at the intersection of robotics, nuclear security, and defense technology, most recently serving as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Critical Technologies. He's worked on everything from helping remediate Three Mile Island to securing tons of Soviet nuclear material in post-Cold War Ukraine to overseeing the Pentagon's critical technology portfolio including
Language Model Builder with Felix Rieseberg
Language Model Builder with Felix Rieseberg Aug 6, 2026 00:35:47 Felix Rieseberg came to computing through poetry, and that background gives him a unique lens for explaining language models. A longtime engineer, Felix now gets to watch AI evolve from the inside. In this episode, Scott and Felix explore why language models are surprisingly easy to understand despite feeling magical, what it's like to train a model from noise to coherence, and the bigger philosop
AI and the Software Supply Chain with Endor Lab's Varun Badhwar
AI and the Software Supply Chain with Endor Lab's Varun Badhwar Jul 30, 2026 00:31:46 Varun Badhwar, CEO and Co-Founder of Endor Labs, joins Scott to explore the expanding software supply chain risk in the age of AI-generated code. They discuss how developers have gone from writing code to assembling it from layers of dependencies like open source, third-party libraries, and now the outputs of AI...and what all this means for security. From hallucinated npm packages that could be s
Stack Overflow for the Agent Era - with VP of Product Alex Lato
Stack Overflow for the Agent Era - with VP of Product Alex Lato Jul 23, 2026 00:33:10 Alexandra Lato, VP of Product at Stack Overflow, joins Scott to talk about how Stack Overflow is evolving for the age of AI agents. They explore the new "Stack Overflow for Agents" feature, where a single prompt bootstraps an agent with all the knowledge and APIs of Stack Overflow, and what it means for how developers, agents, and communities share and verify knowledge together. https://agents.s
Who is left behind when AI moves fast? with Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo
Who is left behind when AI moves fast? with Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo Jul 16, 2026 00:34:51 Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo is the Founder and Scientific Director of Technecultura and a consultant for the United Nations and the World Bank. She talks with Scott about the yawning gap between AI's pace of development and policymakers' ability to understand it. She also discusses what it means to do AI governance research with a focus on Global Majority communities that are too often left out of the co
The space between the Commits with Zed and DeltaDB's Nathan Sobo
The space between the Commits with Zed and DeltaDB's Nathan Sobo Jun 18, 2026 00:33:35 Scott talks with Nathan Sobo, CEO and co-founder of Zed, about what comes after the traditional code editor. They start with Zed’s vision for a fast, collaborative, AI-native development environment, then go deeper on DeltaDB: a new approach to versioning software at the operation level, not just at the commit level. Nathan explains why so much important software work happens “between commits,” ho
Braille Is Freedom with Bristol Braille's Ed Rogers
Braille Is Freedom with Bristol Braille's Ed Rogers Jun 11, 2026 00:38:53 On this episode of Hanselminutes, Scott talks with Ed Rogers of Bristol Braille Technology about the Canute project and the long road toward affordable multiline Braille. Most refreshable Braille displays show a single line at a time; Canute changes the experience by giving readers nine lines and 360 cells of spatial context. Ed shares how multiline Braille opens up new possibilities for reading,
"Observabilitying" the Future of Software with Charity Majors
"Observabilitying" the Future of Software with Charity Majors Jun 4, 2026 00:32:00 Charity Majors is the co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb.io, where she pioneered the concept of modern observability for distributed systems. Before Honeycomb, she spent years at Parse (acquired by Facebook), Facebook, and Linden Lab building Second Life. She is the co-author of "Observability Engineering" and "Database Reliability Engineering" (O'Reilly). She writes at charity.wtf. Whatever she and
Cloud Commitments Without the Lock-In with Archera's Aran Khanna
Cloud Commitments Without the Lock-In with Archera's Aran Khanna May 14, 2026 00:31:40 Scott talks with Aran Khanna, co-founder and CEO of Archera, about a new category of cloud financial tooling: "Insured Commitments." Instead of locking into 1- or 3-year reserved instance contracts and hoping your usage matches, Archera offers commitments as short as 30 days. They get into the economics of cloud purchasing, how AI workloads are changing capacity planning, and what FinOps looks lik
How IBM Z Is Modernizing Mainframes with Skyla Loomis
How IBM Z Is Modernizing Mainframes with Skyla Loomis May 7, 2026 00:31:43 Scott talks with Skyla Loomis, General Manager of IBM Z Software, about the ongoing relevance of mainframes in 2026. They discuss the enduring power of mainframes, how generative AI is transforming COBOL modernization, and why enterprise infrastructure still runs on IBM Z. Skyla shares insights on developer experience, compliance challenges, and the misconceptions about mainframe technology in a c
Making opinionated AI tooling decisions with Nimbalyst's Greg Hinkle
Making opinionated AI tooling decisions with Nimbalyst's Greg Hinkle Apr 30, 2026 00:31:34 Greg Hinkle, co-founder of Nimbalyst and former VP of Software Engineering at Salesforce, joins Scott to discuss the future of AI-assisted development. They explore the challenges of managing multiple AI coding agents, finding flow state in an agentic world, and why visual workspaces matter. Greg shares Nimbalyst's opinionated approach to integrating tools like Excalidraw, task management, and ses

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