Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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How kids learn how to Code with MakeCode's Kiki Prottsman Apr 07, 2022

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Kiki Prottsman is a multihyphenate! Computer Science Educator, Artist, Author of several books, and above all, engineer, Kiki has been helping young developers level up with computers for as long as she can remember. Scott talks to Kiki about how kids learn, the importance of Systems Thinking, the fact that coding with Blocks is not given enough respect, and that jumping into code is far easier and more accessible than most folks realize!

http://makecode.com
http://arcade.makecode.com

Pyjion, a JIT compiler for Python using .NET Core with Anthony Shaw Mar 31, 2022

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In this episode Scott talks to developer Anthony Shaw about Pyjion (pronounced "Pidgeon" like the bird) a JIT compiler for Python that uses .NET Core technology for speed! We discuss the concept of JIT'ers in general, look at the Python JIT ecosystem, and explore the work that Anthony is doing to make Python as fast as possible by any means necessary!

www.trypyjion.com
https://live.trypyjion.com/ in-browser compiler!
https://github.com/tonybaloney/Pyjion source repo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4nkgJdVZFA PyCon talk “Why is Python slow?”

From Broadway to Engineering to Product with Liana Leahy Mar 24, 2022

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Scott talks to engineering manager Liana Leahy about her journey from Broadway to Technology...and why it was the absolute right and most obvious move! How does Liana's stage and screen experience make her a better more empathetic technologist?

Standup Comedy is a Real Job with Alex Falcone Mar 17, 2022

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Alex Falcone is making it happen! A Portland comedian who now lives in LA because that's the next step for comedians just released his album "Vanilla" that you can enjoy on streaming services everywhere! How is this a real job? Scott talks to Alex about the creative process, running out of jokes, and the power of friendship.

https://alexfalcone.ninja/

What does it take to go fast? with Fastly's Inés Sombra Mar 10, 2022

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Inés Sombra is the VP of Engineering of Core Systems at Fastly, and she knows how to go fast. She talks to Scott about the needs of the product, the business, and the engineering team and explains the processes needed for YOUR organization to go fast.

Flutter for Windows with Google's Chris Sells Mar 03, 2022

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Flutter for Windows lets you deliver cross-platform, beautiful, tailored apps that are compiled to machine code and run natively on your devices! Scott talks to Google's Chris Sells about Flutter for Windows, how it works, how it's architected, and how it can help you!

- https://medium.com/flutter/announcing-flutter-for-windows-6979d0d01fed

Voice for Everyone with Hillary Juma from Mozilla Common Voice Feb 24, 2022

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Common Voice is a crowdsourcing project started by Mozilla to create a free database for speech recognition software. The project is supported by volunteers who record sample sentences with a microphone and review recordings of other users. Community Manager Hillary Juma talks to Scott about how the system works and why it's so important to enable all languages and voices with the power of Open Source!

Modern Code Generation with Jordan Adler Feb 17, 2022

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Jordan Adler is Head of Developer Engineering at OneSignal and has a deep interest in code generation. He has helped migrate large systems from Python 2 or Python 3 using code generation and code transformation. Using tools like Yellicode, Python Future, and others, Jordan's team has been able to accelerate software development. We'll also talk about OpenAPI-generator, a tool that takes OpenAPI/Swagger and generates idiomatic SDKs in any language.

Landing Your First UX Design Job with Sharon Onyinye Feb 10, 2022

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Sharon Onyinye is a Product Designer, UX Specialist, and Educator. She's released an e-book "Landing Your First UX Design Job" and chats with Scott about how to think about design, how to get started, as well as the differences between UX, UI, PhotoShop, Figma, and other tools in the space. How do designers most successfully, ahem, "interface" with front end developers?

Rachel Lim on Fine Tuning OpenAI Feb 03, 2022

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OpenAI has the ability to create custom versions of GPT-3 tailored for a developer’s application. Developers can use these fine-tuned iterations of GPT-3 subsets to efficiently produce results specific to their workloads with a single command. Scott talks to Rachel Lim from OpenAI about how these large language models work, what they are useful for, and why tuning them is so important!