Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History with Evan Amos Jan 27, 2022

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Evan Amos is a video gaming photographer of high-quality stock photography of video game consoles, which he releases into the public domain. Known for contributing these images to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, Amos has recently release The Game Console 2.0, a book with extremely high-quality photos of classic (and modern) consoles. Why is it so important to share and preserve history in this way?

Exploring COVID Vaccine response with Shawn Carbonell, MD, PhD Jan 20, 2022

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Dr. Carbonell has been a Scientist for decades. He is an evangelist for STEM careers, science communication, and scientist-CEOs. “Learn On TikTok” Creator. He is Oxford-educated with both an MD and PhD as well as Post-doctoral work. He dropped out of Brain Surgery to focus on curing brain cancer and a drug he invented is being tested now!

Check out his lab tests on his own body where he explores his response to the COVID booster weekly on TikTok

Find Shawn at:

Brazen Bio: https://brazen.bio
Brazen Capital: https://brazen.capital
Cure Glioblastoma: https://www.cureglioblastoma.org
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brainsurgerydropout
His socials: https://beacons.ai/brainsurgerydropout

Redefining Imposter Syndrome with Maya Bello Jan 13, 2022

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Maya is a software engineer who has worked at companies like Intuit and Slack. She's also taught game design as well as Java and OOP techniques as a Tutor at UCSD. She runs a successful YouTube channel and often mentors newbies. However, she's struggled with Imposter Syndrome. In this chat with Scott, Maya asks "why not me?" and considers how to redefine Imposter Syndrome and make it a superpower rather than a problem.

Subscribe to Maya on YouTube!

Building Oh My Posh with Jan De Dobbeleer Jan 06, 2022

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I love a great command prompt and so does Jan De Dobbeleer. Building on the "Oh My" naming style, Jan started On My Posh on PowerShell and later brought it to all shells. Scott talks to Jan about open source, Go, and the fun in bootstrapping a community.

Quitting your Job to Build a Game Studio with Bria Sullivan Dec 30, 2021

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Bria Sullivan is the CTO and Founder of Honey B Games. She took the leap and quit her job at Google to chase her dream full-time! Since then she's created a number of successful mobile games including Milk Tea Mania and Boba Barista Idle. She talks to Scott about taking that leap, how she did it, and how she plans to grow in 2022.

https://www.bubbleteagame.com/

Multi-Platform Apps with Uno Platform's Jérôme Laban Dec 23, 2021

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Uno Platform is an open source cross-platform graphical user interface that allows WinUI and Universal Windows Platform (UWP)-based code to run on iOS, macOS, Linux, Android, and WebAssembly. Scott talks to Jérôme Laban about the importance - and the flexibility - of this Uno Platform and what it can do for you.

https://platform.uno/

Race & Gender in Silicon Valley with Stanford's Cynthia Lee Dec 16, 2021

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Join us as we go behind the scenes of a year of big headlines about trouble in Silicon Valley. We'll start with the basic questions of who decides who gets to see themselves as "a computer person," and how do early childhood and educational experiences shape our perceptions of our relationship to technology? Scott talks with Stanford CS Professor Dr. Cynthia Lee about this and more.

-https://bit.ly/racegenderinsiliconvalley

David Copperfield's History of Magic - in partnership with Microsoft Outside In Dec 09, 2021

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Microsoft has an internal lecture series called Outside in where interesting people come to talk about cool things they are working on. I got to speak to Magician David Copperfield inside his secret magic museum in Las Vegas. He's written a new book called History of Magic that's a wonderful exploration of the last 500+ years of magic. We talk about his career and the fascinating parallels between technology and magic.

I want to personally thank David for his generosity and for letting us amplify his message on this YouTube and on the Hanselminutes Podcast.

Watch this interview on YouTube!

Becoming a Digital Unicorn with Trice Johnson Dec 02, 2021

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The continuous wave of digital disruptions is demanding something new from each of us, whether you work for a large corporation or a small business, own a startup, or are a recent graduate looking to break into the industry. Trice explains to Scott that your ability to think beyond what's possible and solve problems with a different lens is the secret sauce that will set you apart - and increase your uniqueness in the market.

https://www.becomingadigitalunicorn.com/

Web Assembly's hidden talent with WasmCloud's Kevin Hoffman Nov 25, 2021

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WebAssembly-based wasmCloud is a Sandbox Project for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Cosmonic COO Kevin Hoffman is convinced it's the next big thing in computing. He talks to Scott about why WebAssembly is so significant and considers it through a historical lens of decades of building distributed systems. Should you build your functions and services in the language you want and run them securely everywhere with WebAssembly?