Microsoft dev talk after the build.
Coding After Work Podcast follows practical software conversations from the Microsoft developer ecosystem, with recent episodes built around Build-area interviews. The show moves between Visual Studio, .NET MAUI, Aspire, Azure Container Apps, RavenDB, Copilot, and the human side of learning in public.
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Coding After Work Podcast is a developer conversation show rooted in the Microsoft ecosystem. Its recent run reads like a map of current .NET-adjacent work: Visual Studio 2026, .NET MAUI, Azure Container Apps, SignalR, Aspire, Blazor, RavenDB, GitHub Copilot, and the constant churn of new acronyms. The show’s strength is not only the topic list. It is the way those topics are handled. Technical features are usually tied back to developer experience, feedback loops, compatibility, tooling friction, and the small daily annoyances that shape whether software work feels smooth or exhausting. A Visual Studio conversation can turn on startup speed, cleaner settings, extension behavior, and the idea that bug reports are useful signals. A MAUI conversation can move from hybrid app architecture into nightlies, NuGet packages, regression testing, and how teams decide when breaking changes belong in major versions. Azure Container Apps becomes a way to talk about Kubernetes complexity, Dapr, dynamic sessions, MCP, serverless GPUs, and the pace of AI-related platform change. Aspire brings in Discord feedback, GitHub issues, Playwright, Copilot integration, and the messy work of making new tooling fit real development environments. The show also makes room for the psychology of programming. Tim Corey’s episode turns on learning gaps, imposter syndrome, debugging in public, and the value of connective tissue in technical teaching. Jon Galloway’s episode connects Blazor, .NET Aspire, AI-assisted drafting, live streams, accessibility, and communication. Damian Edwards’ appearance brings SignalR, Razor, ASP.NET Core, .NET Core, performance, architecture, and long memory inside the platform. Dejan Milicic’s episode adds RavenDB, sharding, document databases, teaching, and the scale where simple interfaces need serious internal machinery. The tone is relaxed and nerdy without losing the thread. Geek culture tangents are part of the texture, not the destination. Coding After Work Podcast suits listeners who want software talk that stays close to the tools, teams, and tradeoffs behind modern Microsoft development.
Made for: Suits a listener who follows .NET, Visual Studio, Azure, developer tooling, and AI-assisted coding from a practical builder’s angle. It also fits developers who like technical conversations with enough room for learning anxiety, product tradeoffs, and geek culture detours.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by mixing platform-level Microsoft developer topics with candid discussion of friction: confusing acronyms, compatibility, feedback channels, review time, and the work behind developer happiness. Recent episodes feel close to the people building and teaching the tools, especially around Microsoft Build.
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Tim Corey turns acronym anxiety and self-taught gaps into a grounded conversation about how developers keep learning.
Coding After Work Podcast starts with a Build problem many developers will recognize: MCP keeps coming up, and no one quite wants to admit they need the basics.
Visual Studio 2026 frames a snappier IDE around a practical case for developer happiness.
Visual Studio 2026 comes across as a focused argument for making developer happiness part of the product brief. Mads Christensen is connected to the kinds of changes that tend to matter most in daily use: faster startup, quicker solution load, refreshed themes, clearer settings,…
A former submarine officer turned Microsoft community builder connects Copilot, developer communication, and the habits that make AI useful.
John Galloway's route from submarine officer to developer community builder at Microsoft gives Coding After Work a sturdy frame for a conversation about how software work keeps shifting.
A grounded look at .NET MAUI hybrid apps, release discipline, Copilot's XAML progress, and the GitHub feedback loop behind open-source development.
Hybrid app development gets a clear, practical treatment in this Microsoft Build conversation with Beth Massey, a product manager on the .NET MAUI team responsible for hybrid app experiences.
A practical, developer-first look at Azure Container Apps and the cloud demands emerging around AI.
Azure Container Apps gets a clean, developer-first review as Anthony Chu, Principal PM at Microsoft, presents it as a serverless way to deploy microservices.
Power Platform news with practical static.
At Microsoft Build, Coding After Work Podcast and Tim Corey keep coming back to MCP, RAG, and the feeling of being out of place when acronyms pile up.
Coding After Work Podcast talks with Mads Christensen about the first public preview of Visual Studio 2026, monthly shipping, and why the team is chasing developer happiness.
John Galloway talks about moving from submarine officer and nuclear power school to Microsoft’s DevDiv community team, where he works on .NET Conf, the .NET blog, and Microsoft for Developers.
Coding After Work Podcast's Microsoft Build interview with Beth Massey focuses on bringing web tech into .NET MAUI hybrid apps.
Recorded live at Microsoft Build, Anthony Chu says Azure Container Apps is a serverless platform for deploying microservices on top of Kubernetes.
Damian Edwards of Microsoft's .NET team traces SignalR from long polling and early GitHub experimentation with David Fowler to its use in PowerPoint collaboration, Halo, and Blazor Server.
At Microsoft Build, Maddy Montaquilla explains how her move from Xamarin and .NET MAUI led to becoming product lead for .NET Aspire.
Coding After Work Podcast hosts discuss RavenDB 6 with Dejan Milicic, including sharding for databases above roughly 10 terabytes and the new CoreX indexing engine.
Leslie Richardson, a senior product manager at Microsoft, discusses C# Dev Kit, Visual Studio extensibility, Razor productivity, and keynote production.
Coding After Work Podcast interviews Nick Chapsas about building a C# education business, growing a YouTube channel, and choosing technical topics that viewers can understand.
Evelyne Wauters, an architect-turned-developer and UX consultant living near Antwerp, explains how she studies workplaces before designing software.
Coding After Work Podcast interviews Nico Vermeir, a Belgian .NET application architect and Microsoft MVP, about .NET 6, technical books, GitHub Copilot, and software community work.
Steve Sanderson of Microsoft explains how Blazor evolved from a WebAssembly UI experiment into a .NET framework for browsers, servers, desktop, and mobile through MAUI.
Maria Naggaga, a Microsoft product manager and co-creator of .NET Interactive and Try.NET, explains how notebooks let developers combine C#, F#, JavaScript, SQL, and other formats in VS Code.
Coding After Work Podcast interviews Johan Öbrink about the Open School Platform, a parent-focused open-source app created to access Stockholm's failing school system.
An interview with a long-time Microsoft developer about his career and the company's evolution.
An interview with Azure UX team members about designing the user experience for Microsoft's cloud platform.
Hosts interview Microsoft engineers about their work, Azure adoption, and combining coding with manga art.
Hosts meet Brady Gaster at Ignite to discuss his work at Microsoft improving developer experiences across teams.