Interesting links of the week (2022-43)
Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, and GitHub repositories I've run into over the last week (October 17, 2022 - October 23, 2022)
Technology
- Five steps for managing legacy code
- Where Your Money Is Lost in Testing
- Guiding principle: cross-pollination over imposed standards
- Unit testing best practices – Simplicity avoids confusion
- How to Build a Url Shorter with C# Minimal APIs and Azure
- OpenSilver Gets Closer to Open Source Parity with Long-Dead Microsoft Silverlight
- Microsoft is bringing a HOSTS file editor to PowerToys along with a settings backup option
- On the critical importance of accepting and working with invalid data
- Conway's Law
- A repository wrapper around Azure Cosmos DB
- Differences between .NET Collection Interfaces
Leadership
- 5 Things High-Performing Teams Do Differently
- 10 Ways Managers are Wasting Their Developers' Potential
- Managers don’t think like developers
- Bucketing your time
- How Do We Get Speed, Innovation and Engagement?
Project Management / Agile
- 7 Estimation Anti-Patterns
- What are story points? Six easy steps to estimate work in Agile
- unSAFe at any speed
- Make Meetings Work
- Free Art of Agile Development Practices Available
- Tips to Make Your Retrospectives Meaningful
- Why is Everything So Slow? Measuring and Optimising How Engineering Teams Deliver
Non-Technology / Random
- What Counts as a Bestseller?
- The 20 Most Popular Halloween Songs, According to Spotify
- Skyrocket your productivity with the ‘touch it once’ rule
Videos
- Access Disk Usage from the Terminal (Elijah Manor)
- Stop Indenting Your Code. Use Guard Clauses Instead (DevChatter)
- Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Update - 23rd October 2022 (John Savill)
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