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Ash Hynie created CountrPT as to bridge the gap between manager perception and employee impact. Folks are tired, folks feel micro-managed, there's all this talk about return to office (RTO). Did we hire grown adults or not? What's the right way to manage technical teams, remote or other wise? How do we build relationships within our teams and with our managers where we can get direct and clear feedback about the needs of the business while still respecting that humans have feelings?https://countrpt.io/

9 Jan 32min

Tomáš Herceg is the CEO of Riganti and his company focuses on .NET and modernization. He chats with Scott about the excitement around updating to .NET 8 and 9. There's so many benefits to modern .NET but there's a lot of confusion about what's possible. Can you really update 5, 10, 20 year old apps and bring them into a modern cloud environment? Tomáš has written a new book on .NET Modernization that is available now!https://www.modernizationbook.com - Hanselminutes listeners can get 10% off with coupon HANSELMINUTES10 from Jan 10 to April 1, 2025https://www.riganti.cz/https://www.dotvvm.com/

2 Jan 30min

Maggie Appleton makes visual essays about programming, design, and anthropology. She's been thinking about how we interact with computers - and AI - longer than you've know about AI. She sits down with Scott to discuss how we interact with our computers through an anthropological lens.https://maggieappleton.com

26 Dec 202435min

Brian Douglas is the founder and CEO of Open Sauced where he works on increasing the knowledge and insights of open-source communities. In the past he’s lead Developer Advocacy at GitHub by fostering a community of early adopters through content creation showcasing the newest Github features. Open Sauced just joined the Linux Foundation and we learn how and why that move happened on this episode!https://opensauced.pizza/blog/bridging-the-gap-organizational-insights

19 Dec 202433min

The Shopify Winter 2025 Edition is out and it's Boring. Scott talks with Shopify VP of Product Development Glen Coates about the need to sometimes slow down and make software better...even if it's boring. Is it boring if it just works? If it's super reliable and does exactly what you want it to do? Glen breaks down how they do software at Shopify on this episode.https://www.shopify.com/editions/winter2025

11 Dec 202437min

Join us for this very special episode as Scott's wife Mo returns for a 2024 check in. Mo and Scott are coming up on 25 years of marriage. How do they make it happen? Do they consider themselves a mixed marriage - and is it cultural or is it just that Scott is a weird computer person?

5 Dec 202436min

Let's hear about .NET Aspire from a real-world practitioner! Anthony Simmon has been using .NET Aspire at as a Staff Software Developer at Workleap and he's been blogging his experiences and improvements! Let's talk to Anthony about what he likes and doesn't like about .NET Aspire and how it's making his multi-container development better on his local machines!https://anthonysimmon.com/

28 Nov 202434min

Dante Lex saw a problem with developers losing track of - and sometimes checking in secrets - so he and his team started Onboardbase to make secret management easy and secure from project creation to production. Scott chats with Dante about his philosophy of systems design, why secrets management is the next frontier in software, and why Onboardbase is for everyone. https://www.onboardbase.com/

21 Nov 202431min