Interesting links of the week 2024-4

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (January 15, 2024 - January 21, 2024)

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

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My Favorite Links from the Week

• It’s all a judgment call - Jason Fried
• Balancing Cross-Cutting Concerns in Clean Architecture - Milan Jovanović
• Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Session State - Jimmy Bogard

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Creating Custom Fluent Assertions - Kyle McMaster
• Building a Critter Stack Application: Easy Unit Testing with Pure Functions - Jeremy D. Miller
• Quick Update on Marten 7.0 (and Wolverine 2.0) - Jeremy D. Miller
• Developing & Working with .NET Containers on Windows ARM Devices - James Montemagno
• Working with Dates, Times, and Time Zones - Jeff Fritz

Other Software Development

• Test-Driven Development (TDD), Building ‘Hello World’ in Go - Pushpa Raj Badu
• Query Exercise: Find the Best Time for Maintenance - Brent Ozar
• Continuous Integration - Martin Fowler
• sp_QuickieStore: Find Your Worst Performing Queries During Working Hours - Erik Darling

Technology and Science

• Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history - Dan Goodin
• Why 2024’s Total Solar Eclipse Will Be So Special - Meghan Bartels
• Why Perpetual Motion Machines Never Work, Despite Centuries of Experiments - Colin Marshall
• 7 Guiding Principles for Working with LLMs - Jon Udell

Leadership

• How to Lead Across a Siloed Organization - Jeff Rosenthal and Molly Rosen
• We Need to Talk - Ted Neward
• How to lead a team of senior engineers - Mirek Stanek

Project Management / Agile

• How to Keep Meetings On Track
• Sunsetting Scrum Masters - Stefan Wolpers
• After Agile. - Goerge Stocker

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• How to Tell the Time in Spanish (Complete Guide) - Kelsey Lechner

Videos

• Azure Infrastructure Update - 19th of January 2024 - John Savill
• Worst Thing That Can Happen to Someone Who Gets Famous - Adam Savage / Tested

Podcasts

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/matiassingers/awesome-readme
• https://github.com/mntnr/awesome-contributing
• https://github.com/myles/awesome-static-generators
• https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/

Things I Learned

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

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