Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Scott Hanselman
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Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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.

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    The Xbox Adaptive Joystick with Kaitlyn Jones

    The new Xbox Adaptive Joystick is designed as a companion for Xbox controllers. You can plug directly into your console or PC and customize or adapt your experience with button remapping in software and even 3D print your own shapes and sticks for a custom experience. Microsoft is launching a new $29.99 Xbox Adaptive Joystick early next year with a focus on players with limited mobility. Scott talks to Xbox Accessibility Expert Kaitlyn Jones in this episode!

    34 min
  2. Coding while Blind with Dominic St Pierre

    OCT 17

    Coding while Blind with Dominic St Pierre

    Dominic has been building software systems for the last two decades, and he’s been doing it with failing vision. Most recently he’s started using a screen reader for all his coding tasks. Scott chats with Dominic about how he thinks, visualizes problems and code, and how he uses VS Code in his daily life as a full time coder and CTO.

    34 min
  3. Is it always DNS? with DNSimple's Anthony Eden

    OCT 10

    Is it always DNS? with DNSimple's Anthony Eden

    It’s one thing to joke about how “it’s always DNS” but it’s another to solve the problem by starting your own DNS Hosting and Domain Registration company. Some folks joke, but Anthony Eden started a company - DNSimple. Scott chats with Anthony about how he got started, how DNS works, and why DNSimple does it right.

    36 min
  4. Creating The Crimson Diamond with Julia Minamata

    OCT 3

    Creating The Crimson Diamond with Julia Minamata

    The Crimson Diamond is a mystery adventure video game developed and published by Julia Minamata for the PC. The game features a text parser, requiring players to solve a mystery through inputting instructions via text to the game. Solo developer Julia Minamata designed the game featuring an EGA color palette!

    37 min
  5. The next supercomputer with NVIDIA's Wen-Mei Hwu

    SEP 26

    The next supercomputer with NVIDIA's Wen-Mei Hwu

    In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes 2024 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award recipient Wen-Mei Hwu, Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Wen-Mei discusses the evolution of Moore’s Law and the significance of Dennard Scaling, which allowed for faster, more efficient processors without increasing chip size or power consumption. He explains how his research group’s approach to microarchitecture at the University of California, Berkeley in the 80s led to advancements such as Intel’s P6 processor. Wen-Mei and Scott discuss the early days of processors and the rise of specialized processors and new computational units. They also share their predictions about the future of computing and advancements that will be required to handle vast data sets in real time, and potential devices that would extend human capabilities.

    33 min
  6. Life as an Indie Developer with Joseph Finney

    SEP 19

    Life as an Indie Developer with Joseph Finney

    Joseph Finney is a mechanical engineer by day and a software developer by night. He talks to Scott about how being an indie developer has improved his life, taught him a ton, in how he put applications in the Apple App store, the Google play store, and the Microsoft store. Some of the apps are big and complicated come up and some of the apps are applets, but all of them serve a purpose and solve a specific problem. Joeseph lives experimenting with different ways to solve common problems and have a passion for designing software which makes computers more natural to use.

    33 min
  7. Snapdragon is the future with Qualcomm's Leendert van Doorn

    SEP 12

    Snapdragon is the future with Qualcomm's Leendert van Doorn

    In this episode, Leendert van Doorn discusses the future of Snapdragon technology and its potential to revolutionize various industries. Snapdragon processors are known for their high performance and efficiency, making them a popular choice for smartphones, tablets, and other devices. Van Doorn highlights how Qualcomm is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with Snapdragon, focusing on advancements in AI, connectivity, and power efficiency. He chats with Scott about his passion for this space, and how Qualcomm Snapdragon powers the AI and more in the new Windows Copilot+ PCs!

    32 min
  8. AI Storytelling with Michael Washington

    SEP 5

    AI Storytelling with Michael Washington

    Michael Washington doesn't want AI to write the Great American novel, he wants YOU to write the Great American novel faster and easier. He's created AIStoryBuilders To help you break your stories down into timelines, locations, and characters. He sits down with Scott to talk about how he wrote this application, where retrieval augmented generation comes in, and how he wrote it with web assembly in mind to avoid having to deal with app stores while still having a mobile version.

    33 min
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