What Scott Hanselman learned from doing 900 podcast interviews with devs [Podcast

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: www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
· Scott's Hanselminutes Podcast: www.hanselman.com/podcasts
· A personal tour of Lotus Notes founder Ray Ozzie's computer artifacts: • 2021 CHM Fellow Awards...
· Scott on Twitter: / shanselman
Chapters
⌨️ (0:00:00) Introduction and Retro Gaming
⌨️ (0:11:06) The Longevity of the Hanselman Podcast
⌨️ (0:15:59) Living and Working in Portland
⌨️ (0:27:14) The Value of Practical Knowledge and Systems Thinking in Tech
⌨️ (0:33:33) Preserving Computer History - A Passion for Understanding How Things Work
⌨️ (0:50:09) From Small Business to Tech Job - Building a Diverse Portfolio
⌨️ (0:53:52) The Swiss Army Knife Kid and Helping Others
⌨️ (0:58:49) Encouraging Kids' Interests and Individual Paths
⌨️ (1:02:42) Navigating Comparison and Self-Perception
⌨️ (1:06:18) Curating a Positive Online Experience
⌨️ (1:10:07) Preparing for a World of Comparison
⌨️ (1:13:59) Learning C# as a First Language
⌨️ (1:18:01) Microsoft Learn - A Valuable Resource for Learning

[@aryabp]

We got swiss multi purpose tutorial before gta VI?

[@quincylarsonmusic]

GTA VI release date is more than a year away. Luckily, lots of interviews with devs to tide you over. 🏕

[@akhileshdeshmukh1115]

​@@quincylarsonmusic😊

[@YoungGrizzly]

Commenting off the intro, but it’s hard for a Swiss army developer. You learn so many frameworks, libraries, and methods that you look attractive on a resume. Then when you get interviewed you forget old knowledge that you can easily lookup and get refreshed on but you trip over during an interview. It’s hard for things to align.

[@bogbec]

The Offspring - Gotta Get Away 🤘

[@quincylarsonmusic]

@@bogbec you got it 🛹

[@vedprakash-zz6hb]

Where are the plastic box sold ? For the custom joy stick box

[@mariadelgado4393]

The AppleII computer, my first love!❤️ Working from home as a professional translator, I hard to mark accents in Spanish with my pen…🎉🎉🎉

[@mariadelgado4393]

Ok! Now, I would like you to to take into account that time changes society across the years: Society changed. Why feeling so under the weather because we are not at the same level as the others. Who are younger and well prepared? I feel so excited to see that I am part of history.

[@capitaopacoca8454]

Bro i thought he was gonna mention touhou at the start when he talked about japanese shmups lmao

[@StefanHanrath]

Great idea, but you likely also have to be a specialized non-swiss army knife developer that can do all the leetcode problems to get through the interview funnel at microsoft 😅

[@shaheer_]

❤

[@rishiraj2548]

🎉

[@Foralluhaterz]

Its okay but nobody uses the other features of the knife. Its jist there to add to it and its what makes it unique.

[@it-kz3mo]

Karl Elsener - is a Swiss army knife creator.......

[@shaheer_]

First

[@mariadelgado4393]

In our day and time, academic achievements were not as relevant as nowadays!

[@bavuongluong9060]

I want to leave Vietnam please

[@someshwartripathi8446]

why bro