Making Indie games with PIGSquad's Dylan Bennett
In this Part 2 on tiny Game Development, we talked to Dylan Bennett from the Portland Indie Game Squad (PIG Squad). He's made a great 72-page zine about doing game development with PICO-8. The zine assumes you have never done game development before. However, there are sections specifically for people who have done game development before, but would like to do so in PICO-8.https://mboffin.itch.io/gamedev-with-pico-8-issue1
3 Okt 201932min
Tiny games with the PICO-8 Fantasy Console and Joseph White
PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. It feels like a regular console, but runs on Windows / Mac / Linux. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a commandline, a suite of cartridge creation tools, and an online cartridge browser. Scott talks to creator Joseph White about the joy of creating tiny games.https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
26 Sep 201936min
On Being Productive with Cantilever's Ty Fujimura
Ty Fujimura is the founder of Cantilever, website design and development consultancy. He's always thinking about balance. Trying to find that balance between productive and healthy. Ty and Scott compare notes on productivity and what it means to "Get things done."https://cantilever.co https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmansCompleteListOfProductivityTips.aspx
19 Sep 201934min
Learning CircuitPython with Scott Shawcroft
CircuitPython is a programming language designed to simplify experimenting and learning to code on low-cost microcontroller boards. The history of CircuitPython begins with MicroPython, a Python interpreter written from scratch for embedded systems by Damien George starting in 2013. Three years later, Adafruit hired Shawcroft to port MicroPython to the SAMD21 chip they use on many of their boards. The Scott talks about how to lower the barrier to entry and how to enable beginners to be productive with CircuitPython.https://circuitpython.orghttps://www.adafruit.com/?q=circuitpythonhttps://twitter.com/tannewthttps://github.com/chickadee-tech/pygbhttps://circuitpython.org/board/gb_m4
12 Sep 201934min
Relationship Hacks 2019 with Scott's Wife Mo
Welcome to the 700th episode of Hanselminutes! Doing this many episodes wouldn't be possible without the support of my Wife Mo, so she's my guest on this special episode! We're in a mixed marriage - she's not a computer person - so we'll talk about how we get along and how we've done it for 20 years!https://www.hanselminutes.com/567/the-return-of-mo-lessons-from-scotthttps://www.hanselminutes.com/403/geek-relationships-2013-with-scotts-wife-mohttps://www.hanselminutes.com/314/more-relationship-hacks-with-scotts-wifehttps://www.hanselminutes.com/216/geek-relationship-tips-with-scotts-wife
5 Sep 201935min
Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success with Cheryl Contee
Cheryl Contee is the award-winning CEO of the digital agency Do Big Things. She's the cofounder of Attentive.ly, the first tech startup with a black female founder to be acquired by a NASDAQ company, and she's the national board chair for Netroots Nation. She talks to Scott about her new book, Mechnical Bull: How you can achieve Startup Success. BOOK: Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success Learn more at www.dobigthings.today
29 Aug 201931min
Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction with Dr. Saleema Amershi
Dr. Saleema Amershi and researchers at Microsoft have published 18 guidelines for Human-AI Interaction that prescribe how an AI system should behave upon initial interaction, as the user interacts with the system, when the system is wrong, and over time. Scott talks with Dr. Amershi about the how and why of these rules and why they are so important. Guidelines for Human AI Interaction Design Guidelines for Human AI Interaction Design - PDF
22 Aug 201929min
Managing the Burnout Burndown with Dr. Aneika Simmons
Dr. Aneika L. Simmons teaches courses about leadership, organization behavior, and human resources at Sam Houston State University. She completed her doctorate degree in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at Texas A&M University. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Dr. Simmons worked for Accenture and Cap Gemini Ernst and Young as an information technology consultant. She also has a Masters degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Houston. She talks to Scott about burnout and the science behind managing it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2dgOfedI3A
15 Aug 201932min
