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It's episode 1900! While at Build, Carl and Richard recorded a milestone episode with Scott Hanselman. Scott talks about his goals in the later stages of his career, the ideas and origins of all the podcasts, and what is important to him today. In the second half, Carl pulls out a quiz show for Scott with quotes from shows going back 20 years! Lots of great stories of different conferences, podcasts, and other events - and the things learned along the way. Thanks for listening!

Avalonia UI is an open-source UI framework for building stunning desktop, mobile, web and embedded applications using a .NET single codebase. Scott talks to Avalonia CEO Mike James about the how and why of Avalonia and why it's been so successful. We'll also learn about Avalonia's new "XPF" framework that allows you to take existing WPF applications to macOS and Linux in minutes!

In association with the ACM's Bytecast Podcast, this week Scott talks to Dr. Juan Gilbert. Dr Gilbert was recently awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for his work on inclusive open-source voting systems. Dr. Gilbert is the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and Chair of the Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department at the University of Florida where he leads the Computing for Social Good Lab.

Abubakar Salim is an actor embedded in the video games industry - he voiced Bayek in Assassin’s Creed Origins, and he’s spent his whole life playing games. His new Metroidvania is called "Tales of Kenzera: Zau" and it's fantastic. The game is developed by Surgent Studios - a company Salim founded - alongside EA Originals. In this episode Abubakar chats with Scott about gaming, parents, culture, Afrofuturism, mythology, and much more.

Casey Fiesler is an associate professor in the Department of Information Science (and Computer Science, by courtesy) at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a JD from Vanderbilt Law School. This week she talks to Scott about AI and Ethics!