Interesting links of the week 2023-49 (#101)

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (November 27, 2023 - December 3, 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

• How To Master Your Ego with the Third Person Point of View - J.D. Meier
• A tool to help contributing to many Git repos - Peter Ritchie
• The Developer Ecosystem in 2023: Key Trends for C# - Rachel Appel
• How Microsoft Taught Me to Test Things and Try Things to Learn Better - J.D. Meier
• Focusing on “Entities” leads nowhere good. - Derek Comartin
• Make Your Thing Work Like the Thing Everyone Knows - Matt Blodgett

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Creating MAUI UI’s in C#
• Building a Critter Stack Application: Marten as Event Store - Jeremy D. Miller
• Building a Critter Stack Application: Marten Projections - Jeremy D. Miller
• Building a Critter Stack Application: Integrating Marten into Our Application - Jeremy D. Miller
• 4 Cmdlets To Display Text on the PowerShell Console Screen - Brien Posey
• Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 3: Distributed counter - Jay Gordon
• How to Identify Copilot Bullsh*t - Loryan Strant
• 5 Awesome C# Refactoring Tips - Milan Jovanović
• Creating Zip Files in Azure Blob Storage - Mark Heath

Other Software Development

• A Few Ways CSS Is Easier To Write In 2023 - Geoff Graham

Technology and Science

• 5 of the Greatest Natural History Hoaxes of All Time - Daniel T. Ksepka
• Exploring Generative AI - Birgitta Böckeler

Leadership

• How to Lead with Gratitude
• How To Transform Your Perspective And Lead With Positivity
• How Quickly You Decide to Trust…and Why You’re Likely Wrong - Randy Conley

Project Management / Agile

• 7 Technical Reasons Why Software Product Engineering Projects Fail - Hiren Dhaduk
• Understanding the waterfall methodology - David Theil

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Videos

• Azure Infrastructure Update - 1st of December 2023 - John Savill
• What does space smell like? - The Royal Society
• Turning the Pages of the Royal Society’s 17th century flap book - The Royal Society

Podcasts

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
• https://github.com/microsoft/azure-openai-design-patterns
• https://github.com/jordan-cutler/path-to-senior-engineer-handbook
• https://github.com/google/comprehensive-rust

Things I Learned

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

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