Interesting links of the week 2023-12 (#64)

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (March 13, 2023 - March 19, 2023)

As long as I continue to see layoffs, I will 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

• Eliminate these 11 phrases that ‘make people question your credibility,’ says public speaking expert - Christina Helena
• Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery - Charity Majors
• Stop doing sprints? That’s outrageous, egregious, preposterous! - Me

Software Development

• NoSQL vs. relational: Which database should you use for your app? - Michal Toiba
• System.Text.Json Serializing Hierarchical Data - Christian Nagel
• Limitations and websites - Dave Rupert
• How Async/Await Really Works in C# - Stephen Toub
• Adding Dependency Injection to a Console App in .Net 7 - Paul Michaels
• Building a full-stack app for learning Italian: Supabase vs. Wasp - Mihovil Ilakovac
• Building Functional .NET Applications: a Guide for Choosing between F# vs C# - Nahla Davies
• Write your own AutoMapper in C# - Steven Giesel
• Why does everyone “suddenly” hate Single Page Apps? - Simon MacDonald
• How to Learn SQL in 2023: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners - Mark O’Neill
• ConfigureAwait FAQ - Stephen Toub

Technology and Science

• Google Docs and Gmail Are Getting AI Writing Features - Corbin Davenport
• Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams - Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton
• We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams. - Tim Anglade

Leadership

• 7 Tips for Giving Humble Feedback - Kim Scott
• 7 Better Habits of Sustainable High Performance - J.D. Meier
• High trust and low trust organizations - Jade Rubick

Project Management / Agile

• How to Be a PM That Engineers Don’t Hate - Stay SaaSy
• Breaking the SAFe: Why Did SAFe Break the Product Owner Role? - Ryan Ripley
• User Stories: How to Create Story Maps - Mike Cohn
• 12 Reasons Organizations Adopt Agile - Mike Cottmeyer
• How does scrum help leadership teams pick the most valuable work to focus on? - Martin Hinshelwood
• Sprint Pre-Planning: A Panacea for Poor Performance? - Tyler Hakes

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Dear Conservatives, I Apologize - Naomi Wolf

Videos

• Unconditional Code • Michael Feathers • GOTO 2018 - Michael Feathers
• Azure Infrastructure Weekly Update - 17th March 2023 - John Savill
• Control access with an API Gateway in .NET - LaylaCodesIt
• How 99% of Ancient Literature was Lost
• What are the advantages of .NET in an isolated worker model?

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/KirillOsenkov/SourceBrowser
• https://github.com/Azure/static-web-apps-cli
• https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-dotnet
• https://github.com/ErikEJ/SqlQueryStress
• https://github.com/microsoft/calculator
• https://github.com/thangchung/awesome-dotnet-core
• https://github.com/StefH/AnyOf

Things I Learned

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

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