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Automating all the Things with Home Assistant's Paulus Schoutsen

May 13, 2021 00:33:36 32.34 MB Downloads: 0

Home Assistant allows you to control all your devices without storing any of your data in the cloud. The project was started as a Python application by Paulus Schoutsen in September 2013 and has turned into a massively popular series of projects that span hundreds of devices! Plus, they like to keep your privacy private!https://www.home-assistant.io/

Social Robots with De'Aira Bryant

May 07, 2021 00:36:50 35.44 MB Downloads: 0

De’Aira Bryant is a doctoral student in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research areas span the fields of human-robot interaction and artificial intelligence. Recently she programmed a report for the HBO movie "Superintelligence." She talks to Scott about how robots and can cater to specific audiences, especially children.

Customer Empathy with Alex Allwood

April 29, 2021 00:33:07 31.87 MB Downloads: 0

Customer Empathy is a powerful human resource for positively impacting customer experience excellence. Alex Allwood outlines her customer-centric framework, methods and tools to switch on and scale customer empathy that can be used to solve the common customer experience management problems of low organizational commitment, poor alignment of cross-functional teams, and competing agendas and priorities.https://customerempathy.com 

Intersection of Medicine and Technology with Dr. Divya Dhar Cohen

April 22, 2021 00:33:18 31.97 MB Downloads: 0

Dr. Divya Dhar Cohen has reinvented herself at least 3 times! She started as a social activist, then a doctor, then a product manager at Google! She's founded and built products, been a physician in New Zealand and even got an MBA along the way. She talks to Scott about the intersection of all these things that interest her and more!

Doing Open Source with Brian Douglas

April 15, 2021 00:32:01 30.81 MB Downloads: 0

Brian Douglas is a Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub. He talks to Scott about his journey (and YOUR journey) into Open Source and community! Anyone can do it!

API Observability with Akita Software's Jean Yang

April 08, 2021 00:32:19 31.02 MB Downloads: 0

Jean Yang has a better way to catch breaking changes. She's been considering software verification, programming language design, type-systems, and type-safety for many years. She understands how to automatically enforce information flow policies and has now turned her eye towards founding Akita Software. They promise to make your APIs and Services easier to understand, map, manage, and maintain.https://www.akitasoftware.com/

Attracting and Retaining Diverse Tech Talent with April Christina Curley

April 01, 2021 00:35:40 34.32 MB Downloads: 0

April Christina Curley is a Diversity Specialist and Educator who recently left Google where she focused on increasing hires from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). We talk about the problems of hiring in tech, the challenges faced by underrepresented groups, what companies need to focus on to retain top talent, and her thoughts talent that remains untapped by tech.

Outside In: The Innovation Stack with Jim McKelvey

March 25, 2021 00:39:46 38.24 MB Downloads: 0

In this special episode of Hanselminutes, Scott shares a discussion with Jim McKelvey, a glassblower and also the co-founder of Square! This conversation was previously published as a episode of Microsoft's internal interview series "Outside In." Jim's team and our friends at Microsoft have encouraged us to share the episode where we discuss innovation and entrepreneurship.Read Jim McKelvey's book The Innovation Stack

From Astronomy Graduate Student to Senior Software Engineer with Nicholas Hunt-Walker

March 18, 2021 00:37:50 36.31 MB Downloads: 0

Nicholas Hunt-Walker loves the stars. So much so that he got a Master's degree in Astronomy...and now works as a Software Engineer! How did that happen? Nicholas shares his passionate path to software, both front-end and back-end programming and how solving problems with software was a family affair.

It's time for a new kind of calculator with NumWorks' Romain Goyet

March 11, 2021 00:32:27 31.23 MB Downloads: 0

It's 2021 and Scott's sons were asked to buy TI-83 calculators for their classes. Are there truly no better choices? Romain Goyet asked the same question...and did something about it. Numworks is the graphing calculator that makes everyone a math person. Open Source through and through, powerful, color, AND is allowed on major tests like the SAT, AP, PSAT and other College Board tests. It also runs a Python shell! How can such a wonderful thing exist? Scott finds out this week.https://www.numworks.com/

George Li is launching MiTEE Cube Satellites and making TikToks

March 04, 2021 00:32:42 31.47 MB Downloads: 0

George Li is a photographer, TikToker, and is currently working on the MiTEE 2 satellite platform at the University of Michigan with NASA and JPL. As an R&D member of the Communications subteam, we is currently developing a microwave communications power splitter system for the MiTEE 2 Satellite platform. Today he talks to Scott about all things CubeSat!MiTEE CubeSat Home PageGeorge Li on TikTokAll About CubeSats at NASAConcept Art of a Cube SatCubeSat to test using Earth's magnetic field for propulsionThe MiTEE inside a test chamber

Observability beyond buzzwords with New Relic's Tori Wieldt

February 25, 2021 00:32:22 31.15 MB Downloads: 0

Let's move beyond buzzwords and talk about observability and DevOps in large systems. Observability is the ability to measure the internal state of a system only by its outputs, but often those outputs are hundreds of log files spread across dozens of systems. The cloud has only made these large systems harder to understand and manage. Scott talks to New Relic's Tori Wieldt about the benefits of formalizing how you think about distributed systems and the tools available to make things easier.

Lisette Sutherland shows us a Handbook for Working Remotely

February 18, 2021 00:35:49 34.45 MB Downloads: 0

Lisette is a remote-working German-born American living in the Netherlands who is totally jazzed by the fact that it’s possible to work from anywhere. In fact, it’s not just possible; it’s completely, productively workable—if you do it right. She talks to Scott about remote work before, during, and after the pandemic!Work Together Anywhere - A Handbook on Working Remotely Remote Workshops on how to work better…remotely!

Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothmann

February 11, 2021 00:32:25 31.1 MB Downloads: 0

Johanna Rothman has been in software and management for many years and she's taken what she knows about managing teams and put it into a great three-volume set "Modern Management Made Easy." She covers not just managing organizations, managing teams, but also managing yourself. Scott talks to Johanna about the trials and tribulations of management and how Johanna's insights can help.https://www.jrothman.com/Buy the 3 pack of Modern Management Made Easy

Can networking be simple? with Tailscale's Avery Pennarun

February 04, 2021 00:33:53 32.52 MB Downloads: 0

Double NAT? Triple NAT? Opening Ports, punching holes in firewalls, it's all so complex, right? Does it have to be? Scott talks to Tailscale's Avery Pennarun and asks "can networking be simple?" Avery and his team believes it can with a new take on networking. Personal mesh-style VPNs with tech like WireGuard over a faster, leaner, cleaner, and simpler way to share your network with your team.