Interesting links of the week 2023-11 (#63)

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (March 6, 2023 - March 12, 2023)

As long as I continue to see layoffs, I’m going to include the link to this repository on GitHub. It’s a list of job search and interviewing resources I’ve pulled together over the last few years. I accept PRs if you have anything to add.

My favorites from the Week

• Why Your Desk is the Worst Place to Work, and Other Life Lessons from a Lazy Developer - Holly Cummins
• 10 ways to be a better (technical) interviewer - Me

Software Development

• Partitioning data on Cosmos DB - Chris Wood
• Why Use XML to Transfer Data? - Andy Leonard
• Find a troublesome commit with Git Bisect - Mike Street
• Drawing graphs in GitHub comments with Mermaid diagrams - Andrew Lock
• Health Checks in .NET: 2 ways to check communication with MongoDB - Davide Bellone
• Warnings-as-errors friction - Mark Seemann
• Using docker to write automated tests against a real database - Dennis Doomen
• Local development with PostgreSQL containers - Michael Muesch
• Validating Connection Strings on .NET Startup - Khalid Abuhakmeh
• Transcribing Two Speakers with Amazon Transcribe via Speaker Identification with .NET - Bryan Hogan
• C# 11.0 new features: list pattern matching - Ian Griffiths
• The rough edges of Terraform that I awkwardly stumble over - Matt Basta

Technology and Science

• See the First Complete Map of an Insect’s Brain - Will Sullivan
• Changing Clocks to Daylight Saving Time Is Bad for Your Health - Beth Ann Malow

Leadership

• The 5 Major Steps To Implementing A Successful 4-Day Workweek Trial - Jamie Baxter
• The Foundational Pillars of Site Reliability Engineering - Kyle Robertson
• Being a Leader - Brendan Enrick
• Regularly Ask Your Employees These Six Questions - Eric Jacobson
• Want an unfair advantage in your tech career? Consume content meant for other roles - Matthew Grohman

Project Management / Agile

• Agile vs. Waterfall - JD Meier

Social Media

• Democrats Deride the Twitter Files Reporters as ‘So-Called Journalists’ - Reason

Non-Technology / Random

• Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia
• 500 Core Italian Words for Everyday Conversations (Top 500 Most Used Italian Words) - Alice Cimino

Videos

• What’s the Difference Between Scrum and Agile? - Mike Cohn / Mountain Goat Software
• Azure Infrastructure Weekly Update - 10th March 2023 - John Savill
• The #1 Thing Agile Teams Must Learn: Overlapping Work - Mike Cohn / Mountain Goat Software
• Searls After Dark Playlist - Justin Searls

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/NorthIsUp/alfred-workflow-py3
• https://github.com/ChrisMarinos/FSharpKoans
• https://github.com/bluehands/Switchyard
• https://github.com/jonahandersson/learning-cloud-development-on-dotnet-azure-devops

Things I Learned

• Nothing this week, more coming soon

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