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Scott Hanselman
Personal blog · hanselman.com/blogprogrammingcareer
Scott Hanselman's personal blog at hanselman.com covers programming and career. Since 2008, 669 different Hacker News readers have linked it 1,319 times, most often “Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 6 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Scott Hanselman's blog for practical how-to posts on Windows, the command line and developer tools. Commenters point to individual posts as useful and say they like reading the blog.
- Recommended for · 6 comments
- Called a 'good write-up', a 'really handy' post and an 'immensely helpful' tool list; one commenter says a video may be 'of use'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, speaker, technologist, podcaster, writer, inclusion advocate and more.
Most-linked posts?
- Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)24 people · 38 mentions · first linked 2021-02-13
- Microsoft killed my Pappy13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2014-02-22
- Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99%11 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2012-03-07
- Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 1011 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2016-03-30
- Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows9 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2013-12-21
- Everything's broken and nobody's upset9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2012-09-17
- There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2011-10-16
- Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-03-22
- /blog/7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-07-10
- ConEmu - The Windows Terminal/Console/Prompt we've been waiting for?6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2012-06-11
What Hacker News says?
i think the potential for F# just got bigger and better with a brighter future! this pretty much highlights the whole movement at Microsoft +Xamarin: (and directly answers most of the questions in this thread) Microsoft intends to make Xamarin's job a lot easier and realign its developer-oriented strategy in the same direction Scott Hanselman outlines it concisely here ( http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilled…
Comment linking /blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
on “Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform”Submitted I Miss Microsoft Encarta as a story · 1198 points
HN discussionFrom: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETAsOpenSour... "There is a new FREE SKU for Visual Studio for open source developers and students called Visual Studio Community. It supports extensions and lots more all in one download. This is not Express. This is basically Pro."
Comment linking /blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETAsOpenSourceNETOnMacAndLinuxAndVisualStudioCommunity.aspx
on “Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform”Submitted I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora as a story · 902 points
HN discussion15 years is a long time. The culture changes because new people coming in have different ideas and upbringing. People that any company recruits have different ideas about OS than they did 20 years ago. For instance, one of the movers here is Scott Guthrie, who joined MS in 1997: 17 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Guthrie And let's not forget thsi from Hanselman: "I've been here pushing open source and…
Comment linking /blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
on “Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform”Submitted Open Sourcing DOS 4 as a story · 809 points
HN discussionSeeing comments like this “I'll never switch back to MS for what they've done in the past” always reminds me of this post from Hanselman http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
Comment linking /blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
on “Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform”Submitted Everything's broken and nobody's upset as a story · 658 points
HN discussionAccording to Scott Hanselman they are also open sourcing their new RyuJIT and even the GC. Incredible! http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETasOpenSour... or http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Comment linking /blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETasOpenSourceNETonMacandLinuxandVisualStudioCommunity.aspx
on “Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform”Submitted The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air as a story · 601 points
HN discussion.NET Framework 4.6 and its Reference Source source is being relicensed under the MIT license, so Mono (and you!) can use the source code to the .NET Framework. Link: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETasOpenSour...
Comment linking /blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETasOpenSourceNETonMacandLinuxandVisualStudioCommunity.aspx
on “Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform”Submitted How to deal with extreme physical pain as a story · 568 points
HN discussionThey've announced a .NET core CLR for windows, mac and linux - supported by Microsoft - so sounds like there'll be options (either use Microsoft or use Mono)... (source: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETasOpenSour... )
Comment linking /blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETasOpenSourceNETonMacandLinuxandVisualStudioCommunity.aspx
on “Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform”Submitted The code worked differently when the moon was full as a story · 444 points
HN discussionSo how does one actually install this thing? I set up the brand new Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 14295 from MSDN. Hanselman's blog post says: > After turning on Developer Mode in Windows Settings and adding the Feature, run you bash and are prompted to get Ubuntu on Windows from Canonical via the Windows Store... OK, I turned on Developer Mode. Now what? What does "[add] the Feature" mean? http://www.hanselman.com…
Comment linking /blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx
on “Ubuntu on Windows”Submitted Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows as a story · 441 points
HN discussionA Scott Anselman article [1], mentions Clink [2] which appears to be a pretty fully implemented and persistent command line history. Don't know about up / down arrow though. [1]: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MakingABetterSomewhatPrettierB... [2]: http://mridgers.github.io/clink/
Comment linking /blog/MakingABetterSomewhatPrettierButDefinitelyMoreFunctionalWindowsCommandLine.aspx
on “Ubuntu on Windows”Submitted I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019) as a story · 426 points
HN discussionScott Hanselman has a good write-up here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUs... Google Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
Comment linking /blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx
on “Ubuntu on Windows”Submitted Python Tools for Visual Studio as a story · 412 points
HN discussionWho would you prefer doing daily standups or long stretches of remote pair programming with? The one with the low resolution, low contrast, washed out, low fps video that makes it hard to read emotion or even detect where his/her attention is? Or the one with sharp features, pleasant colour rendition, high resolution, and maybe even a pretty bokeh in the background? Humans love pretty pictures. See OKCupids[1] image…
Comment linking /blog/GoodBetterBestCreatingTheUltimateRemoteWorkerWebcamSetupOnABudget.aspx
on “16-inch MacBook Pro”Submitted Announcing .NET 2015 – .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux as a story · 400 points
HN discussionVisual Studio Online "Monaco" code editor from November 14, 2013 seems to be the predecessor: http://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway/a-quick-look-at-the-new-v... (scroll half way down for many screenshots and videos) "This is the Monaco editor component from Erich Gamma's group out of Zurich. It was originally written in JavaScript but gradually rewritten in TypeScript. When Anders speaks about teams within Microsoft bu…
Comment linking /blog/ARichNewJavaScriptCodeEditorSpreadingToSeveralMicrosoftWebSites.aspx
on “Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor”Submitted Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows as a story · 392 points
HN discussionLooks like this might help https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TakeRemoteWorkerEducatorWebca...
Comment linking /blog/TakeRemoteWorkerEducatorWebcamVideoCallsToTheNextLevelWithOBSNDIToolsAndElgatoStreamDeck.aspx
on “OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming”Submitted Announcing .NET Jupyter Notebooks as a story · 367 points
HN discussionYes there’s OBS Virtual Camera and there’s NDI tools See the setup section here: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TakeRemoteWorkerEducatorWebca...
Comment linking /blog/TakeRemoteWorkerEducatorWebcamVideoCallsToTheNextLevelWithOBSNDIToolsAndElgatoStreamDeck.aspx
on “OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming”Submitted Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures as a story · 359 points
HN discussionIf anyone is wondering how they can use this with something like zoom, I found this really handy blog post about it: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TakeRemoteWorkerEducatorWebca...
Comment linking /blog/TakeRemoteWorkerEducatorWebcamVideoCallsToTheNextLevelWithOBSNDIToolsAndElgatoStreamDeck.aspx
on “OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming”Submitted Why the #AskObama tweet was garbled on screen as a story · 322 points
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