Interesting links of the week 2023-15 (#67)

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (April 3, 2023 - April 9, 2023)

As long as I see layoffs continue, I will include the link to my job search resources repository on GitHub. It’s a list of great resources I’ve gathered over the last few years, and I accept PRs if you have anything to add.

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure - Other Software Dev - Tech and Science - Leadership - Project Management / Agile - Social Media - Non-Tech / Random - Videos - Podcasts - GitHub Repos - Things I Learned

My Favorite Links from the Week

• Never Staff to the Peak - Justin Searls
• Architects: The Case for Software Leaders - Jeffrey Palermo
• Why IT projects still fail - Mary K. Pratt

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Running .NET Console Apps in Azure Container Instances - Mark Heath
• Looking at C# 12 Proposals and Beyond - Michael Shpilt
• Improving code readability in functional C# using Linq to Monad - Amin Mousavi

Other Software Development

• Greenfield Project? Start HERE! - Derek Comartin
• Writing Tips for Improving Your Pull Requests - Jeff Mueller
• Build and deploy a service with Go - Tyler Aldrich

Technology and Science

• MariaDB.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
• Everything You Need to Know About the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

Leadership

• Slack - Martin Fowler
• Escape the matrix - I. M. Wright
• Being the most senior engineer doesn’t make you a CTO - Jonathan Hall
• Should Every Incident Get a Retrospective? - Lex Neva
• On hiring - Robbie Clutton
• Leadership Tip 21: How to Know if People Are Working Hard - Johanna Rothman
• Be a thermostat, not a thermometer - Lara Hogan
• As a Software Engineer, learn this one fundamental skill - Samudra Banerjee
• Listen - Leif Babin
• Accountability is Not Blame - Kent Beck
• The Influence of Organizational Structure On Software Quality: An Empirical Case Study - Microsoft Research

Project Management / Agile

• On Managing Expectations of Methodologies & Frameworks - Mike Cottmeyer
• 4 Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation - Mike Cottmeyer
• What Will Come After Agile? - Mike Harris

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Videos

• Azure Infrastructure Weekly Update - 7th April 2023 - John Savill
• The unexpected key to boosting your productivity

Podcasts

• Newsflash: You’re a Software Company! - ArchitectNow

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/damienbod/SendingEncryptedData
• https://github.com/emilybache/StrangeCharacter-TestDesign-Kata
• https://github.com/maxboeck/webring
• https://github.com/Akuli/python-tutorial
• https://github.com/shushrutsharma/Data-Structures-and-Algorithms-Python

Things I Learned

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

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