Interesting links of the week 2023-45 (#97)

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (October 30, 2023 - November 5, 2023)

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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

• Look back less - Jason Fried
• Don’t Bet Against the Cloud - Kendall Miller
• Shaping Patterns - Esther Derby
• Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery - Charity Majors
• Productivity - Sam Altman

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Low Ceremony Web Service Development with the Critter Stack - Jeremy D. Miller
• Vertical Slice Architecture - Milan Jovanović
• Generative AI for .NET - Part 5 Streaming - Aaron Powell
• Elevate Your .NET Testing Strategy #5: Integration tests with Docker.DotNet - Pierre Belin
• Everything you need to know about configuration and secret management in .NET - Sander ten Brinke
• What Should I Dispose with .NET Database Connections? - Khalid Abuhakmeh

Other Software Development

• Do we really need a backend now? Can we build applications without backend with Next.js 14? - Nouman Rahman
• Top 7 Ways to Write CSS in Your React or Next.js App - Prasad Lakshan
• Multi-account support on GitHub.com

Technology and Science

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Leadership

• Conflict Resolution: Navigating Disagreements with Soft Skills - Peter Smulovics
• 6 Management Styles Every Successful Leader Understands and 1 They Avoid - Brandi Neal
• How to Get Past Professional Failures and Mistakes - Suzanne Scacca

Project Management / Agile

• Five Simple but Powerful Ways to Split User Stories - Mike Cohn
• Private Estimates, Public Progress - Kent Beck

Social Media

• Current thoughts on social media - Martin Fowler

Non-Technology / Random

• Hear Classic Readings of Poe’s “The Raven” by Vincent Price, James Earl Jones, Christopher Walken, Neil Gaiman & More

Videos

• Building Awesome .NET Console Applications with Spectre.Console - Me
• Azure Infrastructure Update - 3rd November 2023 - John Savill

Podcasts

• Me discussing things that matter more than coding with Taylor Desseyn - Guidance Counselor 2.0

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/dadhi/FastExpressionCompiler
• https://github.com/SimonCropp/WinDebloat
• https://github.com/calcom/cal.com
• https://github.com/steven-tey/dub

Things I Learned

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

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