Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Scott Hanselman has been hosting Hanselminutes since the mid-2000s, and with over 1,000 episodes in the archive, it is one of the longest-running developer podcasts still in active production. Scott works at Microsoft but the show is not a Microsoft product. It covers the full technology spectrum, from programming languages and frameworks to accessibility, open source, and emerging tech. The tagline is Fresh Tech Talk from Fresh Faces, and Scott lives up to it by consistently bringing on guests who are doing genuinely interesting work. A recent episode featured Chris Lattner (creator of Swift and LLVM) talking about Mojo, a language built for AI workloads that blends Python ergonomics with C-level performance. Other recent topics include Postgres internals, Docker sandboxing for AI, and esoteric programming languages. Scott has an NPR-style interviewing approach that is concise, well-prepared, and respectful of the listener time. Episodes run about 30 minutes, which makes them easy to fit into a commute or lunch break. Transcripts are available for every episode, which is a thoughtful accessibility touch. Scott also produces This Developer Life (a more narrative-style show) and maintains a popular blog and YouTube channel. If you want a podcast that reliably surfaces interesting people and ideas from across the software world without ever feeling like a sales pitch, Hanselminutes has been doing exactly that for nearly two decades.