Interesting links of the week 2023-32 (#84)

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (July 31, 2023 - August 6, 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

• Where are all the laid-off software developers going? - Scott Carey
• Struct memory layout and memory optimizations - Oren Eini
• Speed Up, Level Up: Why Speed Matters in Your Work - J.D. Meier

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• .NET Conf 2023 – Celebrating the Release of .NET 8! Save the Date! - Mehul Harry
• Demystifying IOptions in .NET Core — A Gateway to Efficient Configuration Management - Alexis C. Gridel
• Introduction to Bicep – The Evolution of ARM Templates - Claudio Bernasconi
• Test-driving the pyramid’s top - Mark Seemann
• Generate Sitemaps for All of ASP.NET Core - Khalid Abuhakmeh
• Things I use most in my PowerShell scripts - Harm Veenstra
• What are developers building with Azure Cosmos DB? - Michal Toiba
• Getting Started With REST APIs in PowerShell - Brien Posey

Other Software Development

• The Fall of Stack Overflow, Explained - Priyam Mohanty
• Introducing a new lint rule for React Testing Library - Dale Karp / Josh Justice
• Postman’s guide to 5 essential API testing techniques - Pooja Mistry

Technology and Science

• Medium is for human storytelling, not AI-generated writing - Scott Lamb
• These are the terms that publishers sell audiobooks and ebooks to libraries in 2023 - Michael Kozlowski
• Big 5 License Terms as of July 2023
• Paste Without Style - Craig Hockenberry
• A Background ‘Hum’ Pervades the Universe. Scientists Are Racing to Find Its Source - Jonathan O’Callaghan

Leadership

• Culture interviews: Setting your team up for success - David Jarvis
• Engineering API Governance - Adron Hall
• Drifting into Consensus - Angie Ham
• The Future of Remote Work

Project Management / Agile

• Everyone Needs A Coach. Every Delivery Team Needs A Technical Coach - Chris Pitts
• When Do Agile Teams Make Time for Innovation? - Mike Cohn
• Resistance - Ross Pettit
• Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy - Stefan Wolpers

Social Media

• Fediverse: The archipelago of digital freedom - Arnel Šarić

Non-Technology / Random

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Videos

• The origin of the Universe’s oldest stars - The Royal Society
• Your way is better than theirs - 37Signals
• Why Einstein is a “peerless genius” and Hawking is an “ordinary genius” - Albert-László Barabási
• Azure Infrastructure Weekly Update - 4th August 2023 - John Savill
• What’s Next in C#

Podcasts

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/Finbuckle/Finbuckle.MultiTenant
• https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo
• https://github.com/microsoft/azurechatgpt

Things I Learned

• Things I Learned #21: Running specific Azure Functions in a solution that has multiple - Me

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