Interesting links of the week 2023-35 (#87)

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (August 21, 2023 - August 27, 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

• How to Write a Technical Blog That Gets Read
• Balancing Learning with Practical Application in Programming: A Deep Dive - Nick Cosentino
• Writing Component Specs - Rob Eisenberg
• Prototyping, an underestimated design skill - Oskar Dudycz
• Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Cataloging - Jimmy Bogard

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Simplified Code Refinement and Debugging with GitHub Copilot Chat - Mark Wilson-Thomas and Mark Downie
• Why to Modernize with Blazor? A Winning Strategy for Your Next Application - Jon Hilton
• Introducing Python in Excel: The Best of Both Worlds for Data Analysis and Visualization - Stefan Kinnestrand
• Do More using GitHub Copilot with AI and VS Code - John Papa
• Why Do You Have to Return “Task” Whenever You “await” Something in a Method in C#? - Jeremy Clark
• Safely use secrets in HTTP requests in Visual Studio 2022 - Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

Other Software Development

• Python 101 – Expanding Paths and Variables - Mike Driscoll
• The cost of convenience

Technology and Science

• What’s the World’s Oldest Language? - Lucy Tu
• ai.txt: A new way for websites to set permissions for AI - Cullen Miller
• AI and the automation of work - Benedict Evans

Leadership

• If you want to address tech debt, quantify it first - Ryan Donovan
• Why the performance review is dying out—including at companies like Apple and Microsoft - Benham Tabrizi
• Anything But Tech Debt - Emily Nakashima

Project Management / Agile

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Social Media

• Mastodon Status Check - Tim Bray

Non-Technology / Random

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Videos

• Clocks around the world: how other languages tell time
• Azure Infrastructure Weekly Update - 25th August 2023 - John Savill

Podcasts

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/bradymholt/cron-expression-descriptor
• https://github.com/madskristensen/ImagePreview
• https://github.com/andrewbanchich/forty-jekyll-theme
• https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp
• https://github.com/estruyf/vscode-front-matter
• https://github.com/anonrig/calendar

Things I Learned

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

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