Interesting links of the week 2023-52 (#104)

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (December 18, 2023 - December 24, 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

• Don’t Let ChatGPT Write Your Code - Louis Lazaris
• Challenging the guardians of the paradigm - DHH
• 5 Tips for Building Resilient Architecture - Derek Comartin
• Commit to competence in this coming year - DHH
• Picking a purpose - DHH
• Escaping the Bikeshed - Matt Blodgett

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Counting more efficiently - Aaron Bertrand
• API testing with .http files in Visual Studio - Mark Downie
• Top 6 Performance Tips when dealing with strings in C# 12 and .NET 8 - Davide Bellone
• .http Files in Visual Studio - Henrique Siebert Domareski

Other Software Development

• Learn Go This Week: A Language Built for Simplicity and Efficiency - Clara Maine
• The Power of Atomic Commits in Git: How and Why to Do It - Emanuele Bartolesi
• 7 REST API Best Practices for Designing Robust APIs

Technology and Science

• More than 10k scientific papers were retracted in 2023 - Lonni Besançon

Leadership

• The problems with flat out - Seth Godin
• Don’t Sell Ideas – Debate Them - Charlie Kindel
• Mentoring software engineers or engineering leaders - Gergely Orosz

Project Management / Agile

• Accepting Work - C J Silverio

Social Media

• Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real - Jason Koebler

Non-Technology / Random

• Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle - Jennifer Jenkins

Videos

• Azure Infrastructure Update - 22nd of December 2023 - John Savill
• The science of snowflakes with Professor Brian Cox - The Royal Society

Podcasts

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/Finbuckle/Finbuckle.MultiTenant
• https://github.com/heyman/heynote
• https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love
• https://github.com/cloudcommunity/Free-Certifications

Things I Learned

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

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