Hanselminutes - Fresh Talk And Tech For Developers

Kevin Scott is the CTO of Microsoft...but how did he get there? Scott talks to Kevin about his experience from early teens through his successful foray at LinkedIn and beyond. Where does Kevin see technology going and how do we help get more people involved in the future of technology?

Ire Aderinokun is a self-taught UI/UX Designer and Front-End Developer working in Lagos, Nigeria. She is currently the Technical Lead at Big Cabal Media. She says the Next Billion Users are coming online now and they'll be outside Western countries and they'll be mobile first. What do we need to know as Web Developers to create great apps and sites for the Next Billion?

We talked to Arlan Hamilton two years ago (almost to the day) as she was starting her Venture Fund for underrepresented founders. What's changed since then? Arlan Hamilton's Backstage Capital has invested more than $4M+ in over 80 companies led by underrepresented founders. How has she gone from Homeless to VC in just a few years? Arlan also recently started Project Cover to give micro-grants to driven creatives. Scott catches up with Arlan to hear about how she's continued to build her team and her fund and BUILD COOL STUFF. And also - what's the right way to eat string cheese? https://hanselminutes.com/524 http://backstagecapital.com http://projectcover.org

Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem were some of the original hires at the User Research Labs at Microsoft. The worked on the exploratory user research that produced the taskbar and Start menu, as well as the iterative research that helped nail down the details. How did the Start Menu and Start Button come to be? https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/11/10923808/microsoft-windows-start-menu-20-years-visual-history https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/localizability/mirroring-awareness http://becuriouswith.us/ https://measuringu.com/usability-history/

Dan Curry was a Visual Effects Supervisor, Visual Effects Producer, Second Unit Director, Director and Main Title Designer for Star Trek’s Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise and Next Generation series. He spent 18 years doing Star Trek and pioneering visual and practical effects. On this episode he talks to Scott about his time and inspiration for a number of the props you've seen in the show you love! Even better, some of his collection is being auctioned on April 15th, 2018. Dan Curry on Heritage Auctions Heritage Auctions - April 15th, 2018 The Dan Curry Papers at UCLA Dan Curry teaching stunt people how to use the Bat'leth at DC Stunt Coalition's Escape Velocity 2016

Christine Spang started her tech journey contributing to Debian while still a teenager. She went on to MIT, then worked on Ksplice, helping the Linux kernel stay up-to-date without rebooting. From there working as a Principal Developer at Oracle, Christine when on to co-found Nylas where she's currently the CTO. Scott talks to Christine about her experience, her thoughts on going from Dev to CTO, leading teams, and their product suite at Nylas. https://www.nylas.com/ https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/12/01/new-zine--so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard/

Matt Phillips didn't just creating a brand-new Sega Megadrive/Genesis Game in 2018 called Tanglewood. He did it using the original dev kit, computers, and software from 1995. You can experience Tanglewood today and buy it with a proper cartridge, box, and manual! http://tanglewoodgame.com https://bigevilcorporation.itch.io/tanglewood-demo-0104

Scott digs into the SAFE Stack with Krzysztof Cielak. SAFE is an end-to-end, functional-first stack for cloud-ready web development that emphasizes type-safe programming. Is this your next programming paradigm? https://safe-stack.github.io/ https://github.com/SAFE-Stack https://suave.io/ http://fable.io/ https://elmish.github.io/elmish/ https://azure.com/free

Scott talks to Cecil Phillip about how cloud architecture is changing everything. But what's IaaS, PaaS, then FaaS, and now serverless? How will being billed for usage affect software architecture? http://www.clearlytech.com/2014/01/04/12-factor-apps-plain-english/ http://cecilphillip.com http://awayfromthekeyboard.com/

Marc Durdin has been working on the same open source project more or less since he was 14! Today Keyman is a thriving open source project that supports over 1000 languages and works on Windows, Mac, Phones, and the Web! http://keyman.com http://keymanweb.com https://marc.durdin.net/2018/03/the-case-for-keyman/

Sarah Squire is a Senior Technical Architect at Ping Identity. So much has happened since "Identity 2.0" so Sarah catches Scott up to date. OpenID, OAuth and beyond, what's new and what direction is the web heading?

Scott teams up with Pursuit Podcast's Jessica Rose for a collaboration. Jessica asked her audience "What's the worst advice you've ever received?" We took their audio clips and turned it into a two-part discussion! You can check out Part 2 at The Pursuit Podcast https://twitter.com/pursuitpod http://hyperurl.co/zukdmh

Ryan Kazanciyan is the Chief Security Architect at Tanium, and in his spare time worked as Technical Consultant for Mr. Robot alongside writer and producer Kor Adana. Why is Mr. Robot so unique in the quality of its on-screen hacks? How does one make a hack both real AND entertaining a technical and non-technical audience? Is there a lot of pressure knowing that Reddit will screenshot every frame and analyze it? All this and, how afraid should we be of our compromised computers?

What is Quantum Computing and will it change everything? Scott talks to Dr. Krysta Svore about why the future is Quantum and why YOU should be thinking about how Quantum Computing can help your applications today.

Sarah Kunst is a long-time technologist, angel investor, talent scout, and now CEO and Founder of Proday.co. A member of the Forbes 30 under 30, Sarah's experience is broad and deep. She attributes much of that to empathy and specifically empathy in technical product development. In this episode she talks to Scott about the importance of truly understanding your customer and market and why empathy in design is just the start.

Fable is an F# to JavaScript compiler powered by Babel, designed to produce readable and standard code. Alfonso chats with Scott about how Fable and F# fit into the larger JavaScript ecosystem and how you can experience the best of .NET with the best of node and JavaScript.

In 2012, Elvis Chidera wrote his first app on a Nokia feature (J2ME) phone. He wrote the Java App ON the phone (literally writing the Java code with T9 text on a numeric keypad.) Today, he's an Android developer at dotlearn.io who has worked on over 50 apps and currently works for an MIT startup. He chats with Scott about the Nigerian mobile market, how feature phones work, and where Android is headed.

Troy Hunt runs HaveIBeenPwned.com as a service to us all, but it's also a massive learning playground for him. He schools Scott on all things security and privacy. Is your password known? Let's ask Troy.

Scott checks in with Alena (Lena) Hall about her thoughts around F#, functional programming, microservices, Kubernetes and containers in the cloud. Where are we heading and are we moving too fast? Is F# well-positioned for the cloud-based future?

Scott talks to Docker Captain and Open Source programmer Alex Ellis about the rise of Kubernetes, Serverless, and his project "OpenFaas." Alex also shares details on the obsession (and usefulness) of Raspberry Pi clusters for learning large systems development.