Interesting links of the week (2022-51)

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, and GitHub repositories I've run into over the last week (December 12, 2022 - December 18, 2022)

Here is my C# Advent entry for December 16!

My Favorites from the Week

• If I Die Tomorrow, I Won’t Have To Do That Thing With That Guy (David Todd McCarty)

Software Development

• Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.
• Protocol: A beautiful starting point for your next API documentation site
• How your “Sr.” Devs incurred Technical Debt
• Array, List, Collection, Set, ReadOnlyList - what? A comprehensive and exhaustive list of collection-like types
• Building Minesweeper - Showing Why Logic Should Not Be in the UI (Brendan Enrick)
• 'Is WPF Dead?' Some Devs Claim 'Yes' as Microsoft Relegates Issues/PRs to the Community
• Ultimate Tools for Developers
• How to Close a Pull Request - Merge Commit vs Squash vs Rebase on GitHub
• Super Useful CSS Resources
• Testing In Dotnet
• Share on Mastodon button for Jekyll
• 7 Examples of Quality API Design Style Guides
• A Debugging Manifesto

Technology

• Toaster-friendly alternative web protocol Gemini attracts criticism for becoming exclusive clique
• Recommended Approach to Encryption in SQL Server
• 6 Command Line (PowerShell & CLI) Tips & Tricks for Microsoft Azure you should know about!
• Should You Be Worried About AI Taking Your Job?

Leadership

• How Leaders Build Trust
• The Best Leaders Practice and Model Self-Care
• Three simple ways to tackle problems better as a leader
• Ten Common Mistakes New Managers Make
• Doing “No” Better
• Encouraging autonomy within engineering teams (may require a login)

Project Management / Agile

• 5 Practices To Start Scaling Agile

Social Media

• Twitter bans promotion of accounts on other social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Truth Social

Non-Technology / Random

• Who’s Afraid of a Four-Day Work Week?
• Selfish Writing
• ‘You’ll never see Michael Caine blink’: An oral history of The Muppet Christmas Carol at 30

Videos

• Azure Infrastructure Weekly Update - 16th December 2022 (John Savill)
• Kickstart Your Neovim Config (Elijah Manor)
• John Denver and the Muppets sing 12 Days of Christmas

GitHub Repos

Lots of Christmas-related repos this week!

• https://github.com/sergiolepore/ChristBASHTree
• https://github.com/chicolucio/terminal-christmas-tree
• https://github.com/plainoldcheese/MerryChristmas
• https://github.com/atheobold/twelvedays
• https://github.com/hcodes/snowflakes
• https://github.com/skanehira/christmas.vim
• https://github.com/gleich/ctree
• https://github.com/valignatev/python-snowterm
• https://github.com/rhysd/vim-syntax-christmas-tree

Things I Learned

• Nothing this week, more coming soon