Compile after Class Crossover Episode
A young man who's a sophomore in high school emailed me to come on his podcast that he does with his friend, and I had so much fun. I decided to make it a crossover episode.
Podcast profile
Hanselminutes
By 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.
Latest episode
Compile after Class Crossover Episode
47 min
- Cadence
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 33 min
- Latest release
- Aug 21
- Language
- EN-US
- Activity
- Inactive — no release in the last 30 days
Podcast Classification
Topics
Programming Languages
Language design, runtimes, compilers, syntax, and language-specific engineering practice.
Software Architecture
Application architecture, modularity, APIs, maintainability, and technical design decisions.
AI Agents
Autonomous and semi-autonomous AI systems that plan, use tools, and execute multi-step work.
Formats
Technical Deep Dive
Detailed technical, architectural, or research-oriented examination.
Commentary & Analysis
Interpretation, opinion, debate, review, and analytical discussion.
Audience level
Advanced
Regularly assumes specialist knowledge and discusses implementation, architecture, protocols, code, or research in depth.
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Maynard Holliday spent 30+ years at the intersection of robotics, nuclear security, and defense technology, most recently serving as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Critical Technologies.
Language Model Builder with Felix Rieseberg
Felix Rieseberg came to computing through poetry, and that background gives him a unique lens for explaining language models. A longtime engineer, Felix now gets to watch AI evolve from the inside.
AI and the Software Supply Chain with Endor Lab's Varun Badhwar
Varun Badhwar, CEO and Co-Founder of Endor Labs, joins Scott to explore the expanding software supply chain risk in the age of AI-generated code.
Stack Overflow for the Agent Era - with VP of Product Alex Lato
Alexandra Lato, VP of Product at Stack Overflow, joins Scott to talk about how Stack Overflow is evolving for the age of AI agents.
Who is left behind when AI moves fast? with Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo
Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo is the Founder and Scientific Director of Technecultura and a consultant for the United Nations and the World Bank. She talks with Scott about the yawning gap between AI's pace of development and policymakers' ability to understand it.
The space between the Commits with Zed and DeltaDB's Nathan Sobo
Scott talks with Nathan Sobo, CEO and co-founder of Zed, about what comes after the traditional code editor. They start with Zed’s vision for a fast, collaborative, AI-native development environment, then go deeper on DeltaDB: a new approach to versioning software at the operation level, not just at the commit level.
Braille Is Freedom with Bristol Braille's Ed Rogers
On this episode of Hanselminutes, Scott talks with Ed Rogers of Bristol Braille Technology about the Canute project and the long road toward affordable multiline Braille.
"Observabilitying" the Future of Software with Charity Majors
Charity Majors is the co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, where she pioneered the concept of modern observability for distributed systems. Before Honeycomb, she spent years at Parse (acquired by Facebook), Facebook, and Linden Lab building Second Life.
Cloud Commitments Without the Lock-In with Archera's Aran Khanna
Scott talks with Aran Khanna, co-founder and CEO of Archera, about a new category of cloud financial tooling: "Insured Commitments." Instead of locking into 1- or 3-year reserved instance contracts and hoping your usage matches, Archera offers commitments as short as 30 days.