#131 What Scott Hanselman learned from 900 podcast interviews with devs
The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Quincy Larson
5.0 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Scott Hanselman. Scott's a developer at Microsoft, a prolific teacher, and has hosted the Hanselminutes podcast for nearly two decades.
We talk about:
- How he leads a fully-remote team from his home of Portland, Oregon
- His 11-year journey to getting his degree
- What he learned from teaching programming at community college
- What he's learned about software development from recording 980 podcast interviews across 20 years
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1994 punk song.
Also, I want to thank the 9,779 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Scott's Hanselminutes Podcast: https://www.hanselman.com/podcasts
- A personal tour of Lotus Notes founder Ray Ozzie's computer artifacts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4awQH6WhP4
- Scott on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shanselman
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Swiss Army knife is a great analogy because it's kind of bad at everything, but it's also kind of like kind of good at stuff. |
| 0:07.5 | It's got like a tiny knife and a tiny scissors and a tiny, you know, tiny, you know, tiny tweezers. |
| 0:12.1 | It's not a perfect at everything thing, but it's got a real good general sense and it'll let you survive. |
| 0:20.9 | So I want people to become a Swiss Army Knife developer. |
| 0:57.3 | Yeah. Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of FreecodeCamp.org. |
| 1:06.7 | Each week we're bringing you insight from developers, founders, and ambitious people getting into tech. This week, we're joined by none other than Scott Hanselman. |
| 1:12.2 | Scott's a developer at Microsoft, a prolific teacher, and he's hosted the Hanselman's podcast for nearly two decades. |
| 1:20.7 | Scott, how's it going, man? |
| 1:22.8 | Chillin. |
| 1:23.2 | How are you, sir? |
| 1:24.1 | I am thrilled to finally sit down and talk with you on the podcast. I was actually |
| 1:28.6 | in Portland a while back, and it just happened to be a time that you weren't in Portland, so we |
| 1:34.0 | couldn't record in person. But now we switched to video podcasts and just recording remotely. So |
| 1:41.0 | I'm thrilled to finally have you on the show. Yeah, it's my pleasure. Thanks for hanging out. What do you got going back there behind you? |
| 1:47.0 | You're on a track mode on your Super Nintendo? |
| 1:50.2 | I do have a Super Nintendo back there, but Jeff Atwood gave me this arcade box. |
| 1:55.7 | It's like basically a main machine type thing, and it just has a lot of arcade emulators. |
| 2:00.7 | So I like to put different games on in the background. Okay. a main machine type thing, and it just has a lot of arcade emulators. |
| 2:03.1 | So I like to put different games on in the background. |
| 2:09.2 | This is an audio podcast for some, and maybe a video for others, but I'm holding up a see-through monster joysticks, basically an acrylic maim machine. |
| 2:15.8 | I've got a maim machine behind me. |
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