Interesting links of the week (2022-42)

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, and GitHub repositories I've run into over the last week (October 10, 2022 - October 16, 2022)

Technology

• The DevOps reading list
• Why Bad Code Exists
• TDD and 'Discipline'
• Simplified Project Setup for Python in Visual Studio Code
• Adding validation to strongly typed configuration objects using FluentValidation
• Performance gains when specifying a List’s capacity
• Performance gains when specifying a List’s capacity – Part 2
• Beginners’ crash course to build apps for Teams using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
• Git commands nobody has told you
• Writing for Engineers

Leadership

• Skip-Level Meetings
• 16 Amazon Leadership Principles for Innovation and Positive Impact
• How To Improve Your Critical Thinking by Practicing Evidence Questions
• How to plan?

Project Management / Agile

• 8 Reasons Scrum Is Hard to Learn (but Worth It)
• The Memorable Power of Agile Storytelling
• These 10 Most Misunderstood Parts of the Scrum Guide Ruin Your Team
• Top 5 Pointless Agile Practices that Make Your Team Miserable.
• Estimation: Story points vs. hours
• How to run an effective retrospective

Non-Technology / Random

• 6 Steps for Setting Measurable Goals to Avoid “Productivity Paranoia”

Videos

• Never Re-Throw Exceptions in C# Do This Instead - DevChatter
• Vicksburg in Crisis: Don't Let its Impact Erode
• 2-minute Tmux Tour

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll
• https://github.com/emilybache/Yatzy-Refactoring-Kata