Interesting links of the week 2024-15
Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (March 31, 2024 - April 7, 2024)
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure - Other Software Dev - Tech and Science - Leadership - Project Management / Agile - Social Media - Non-Tech / Random - Videos - Podcasts - GitHub Repos
My Favorite Links from the Week
- Vision - Matt Blodgett
- 17 Minutes of Charles Schulz Drawing Peanuts (Charlie Brown)
- What is retrieval-augmented generation, and what does it do for generative AI? - Nicole Choi
- Ruby on Rails Is Not Dead and May Even Be AI Panacea for Devs - Richard MacManus
- Thoughts on “Modular Monoliths” - Jeremy D. Miller
- The Essential Qualities of a Successful Software Architect - Peter Smulovics
- Not everything is a service. - Derek Comartin
- What I think about when I edit - Eva Parish
- No time like the present - I.M. Wright
- Discover Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Getting the Timezone in Windows Using a Simple PowerShell Command - Edward van Biljon
- Develop Microsoft Teams multi-tenants application that enables access to a legacy software running on-premises - Julien Corioland
- Vacations, leaky abstractions, and modeling concerns, oh my! - Oren Eini
- Primary Constructor and Logging Don’t Mix - Adam Storr
- Just for Fun: A Five-Card Poker Library Using C# - James McCaffrey
- How to use Comments to Prompt GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio - Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza & Laurent Bugnion
- Improve Performance With Source-Generated RegEx in .NET - Ivan Gechev
- PowerShell Error Handling: Learn These Key Techniques - Brien Posey
- Responsive Images Crash Course for ASP.NET Core Developers - Khalid Abuhakmeh
- How to Validate a GUID in C# - Osman Sokuoglu
- Getting the Method Name from a Task in C# - Bryan Hogan
- Azure Static Web App - Pass authentication info to your linked API - Bart Wullems
- Pattern matching and the compiler can be surprising - Steven Giesel
- Configure Azure Functions to use Identity Based Connections - Mark Heath
- How to Retrieve the Number of CPU Cores in C# - Lennart Pries
- Azure Cosmos DB: container items and generics - John Reilly
- Visual Studio — Tips to Increase Productivity - Henrique Siebert Domareski
- Json schema validation in .NET - Gérald Barré
Other Software Development
- Overview of webpack, a JavaScript bundler - John Reilly
- Developers with AI assistants need to follow the pair programming model - Ryan Donovan
- A Comprehensive Kotlin Learning Guide for All Levels - Clara Maine
- Tips and Tricks to Make Your Web Apps Crazy Fast - Thomas Findlay
- How to correctly review a pull request - Jim Bennett
- Git: Merge Repositories with History - Chris Pietschmann
- 5 Rules for DTOs - Steve Smith
- Going Platinum: How to Make A Hit API - Bill Doerrfeld
- Thoughts on Pair Programming - Shahar Kedar
- Why UI designers should understand Flexbox and CSS Grid - Christine Vallaure
Technology and Science
- Is prompt engineering’s party over? - Lindsey Wilkinson
- GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack - Dan Goodin
Leadership
- Don’t queue for the ski jump if you don’t know how to ski - Ross Pettit
- How To Know Who You Can Trust: 6 Secrets From Research - Eric Barker
- Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy - Jason Cohen
- Using the Platform Engineering Maturity Model to Understand the Commitment Required for an Internal Developer Platform - Sooraj Shah
- How to talk about deadlines at work - Wes Kao
- Using Metrics to Measure Individual Developer Performance - Laura Tacho
Project Management / Agile
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Marie Howe’s Stunning Hymn of Humanity, Animated - Maria Popova
- Cultivate a Positive Mindset - Leo Babauta
Videos
- How Hackers Can Hide PowerShell in Environment Variables - John Hammond
- The Impossible Day Of The Week Logic Puzzle
- Adam Savage’s Favorite Novel-to-Movie Adaptation - Adam Savage
- Azure Update - 5th April 2024 - John Savill
Podcasts
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
GitHub Repos
- https://github.com/SimonCropp/XunitContext
- https://github.com/mikependon/RepoDB
- https://github.com/eventflow/EventFlow
- https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp
- https://github.com/TheJoeFin/MagickCrop
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