Interesting links of the week 2024-8

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (February 12, 2024 - February 18, 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 Case Against Clean Architecture - Jeremy D. Miller on Technology and Friends
• How to pay off (technical) debt
• Why Candidates Don’t Trust Recruiting - Ted Neward
• How To Use the Feynman Technique to Learn Things 10X Faster - J.D. Meier
• RSS is still pretty great
• The compounding seeds of creativity - DHH

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Our Vision for .NET 9 - The .NET Team
• Answering Some Concerns about Wolverine - Jeremy D. Miller
• Azure Developer CLI (azd) – February 2024 Release - Grace Kulin
• Visual Studio Tips and Tricks - Erik Dahl
• Mastering the AZ-204 Exam - A Comprehensive Guide to Azure Certification Preparation - Wolfgang Ofner
• LINQ MindMap: .NET 9 Edition - Steven Giesel
• Enhance your .NET Testing #7: 5 best practices to write better tests - Pierre Belin
• Implementing Closing the Books pattern - Oskar Dudycz
• Introducing ASP.NET Core metrics and Grafana dashboards in .NET 8 - James Newton-King

Other Software Development

• What Are the Core Principles of Good API Design? - Charles Humble
• Be a better developer with these Git good practices - Anthony Vinicius
• Popular git config options - Julia Evans
• Visualizing APIs with tree diagrams, partly generated with AI - Tom Johnson

Technology and Science

• The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Venus - Shi En Kim
• Why Incompetent People Think They’re Competent: The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Explained - Colin Marshall
• Best practices for building LLMs - Nitzan Gado & Oren Dar

Leadership

• 5 Principles for Org & Team Structure
• 6 Ways to Weave Radical Candor into Your Company’s Core Values - Jeanna Barrett

Project Management / Agile

• Unfinished Work Every Sprint? 3 Ways to Break the Habit - Mike Cohn
• Does Agile Without Results Even Matter?

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Videos

• Azure Infrastructure Update - 16th of February 2024 - John Savill
• Quit Taking It Personally - Adam Savage

Podcasts

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/milanm/DesignPatternsInUse
• https://github.com/scientistproject/Scientist.net
• https://github.com/DoctorBlue/Zelda-Kata
• https://github.com/guyroyse/htmx-tailwind-vite
• https://github.com/FortuneN/FineCodeCoverage
• https://github.com/kevingosse/WalkHeap
• https://github.com/ardalis/SmartEnum
• https://github.com/capjamesg/cv-book-svg

Things I Learned

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

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