Interesting links of the week 2024-5

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (January 22, 2024 - January 28, 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

• The benefit of seniority ought to be bandwidth - DHH
• Seven Blockers From Being Senior Software Engineer - Ivan Osipov
• https://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/our-collective-struggle-over-technical-debt - J. B. Rainsberger
• 7 Unintended Barriers to Innovation - J.D. Meier
• Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Session State - Jimmy Bogard

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Security Best Practices for GenAI Applications (OpenAI) in Azure - Freddy Ayala
• Three new LINQ methods in .NET 9 - Steven Giesel
• How to Build a URL Shortener With .NET - Milan Jovanović
• Elevate Your Git and GitHub Skills in Visual Studio with the Intermediate and Advanced Series - Jessie Houghton
• .NET 8 — New Data Annotations - Henrique Siebert Domareski
• Building a Critter Stack Application: Resiliency - Jeremy D. Miller
• How To Build a Powershell Random Password Generator - Brien Posey
• Command Pattern in C# – What You Need to Implement It - Nick Cosentino
• Gentle introduction to Generic Repository Pattern with C# - Karen Payne

Other Software Development

• Free your HTTP API. Misconceptions are holding you back! - Derek Comartin
• New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’ - David Ramel
• inside .git - Julia Evans
• Rider 2024.1 Roadmap - Sasha Ivanova

Technology and Science

• How to Find and Change the IP Address on Your Mac - Ben Stegner
• Amazon Offers Free AI Courses, Aiming to Help 2 Million People Build AI Skills by 2025

Leadership

• How To Fix Broken Teams

Project Management / Agile

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Social Media

• Running a Mastodon instance entirely free forever - Joshua Byrd

Non-Technology / Random

• What Are Learning Styles and Why Are They Important for Presenters? - Alexis (Lexi) Rodrigo
• 5 Reasons People Get Laid Off - Marlo Lyons
• How to Be Asked to Write More Technical Articles - Karl Hughes

Videos

• Azure Infrastructure Update - 26th of January 2024 - John Savill
• .NET Testing Best Practices - Rob Richardson (at Cleveland C# User Group)

Podcasts

• Sharing Knowledge [EPISODE 789] - Technology and Friends (David Giard talking to me)

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/ardalis/EditorConfig
• https://github.com/MoienTajik/AspNetCore-Developer-Roadmap
• https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
• https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps
• https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes

Things I Learned

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

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