Interesting links of the week 2024-18
Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (April 22, 2024 - April 28, 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
- FTC bans all new non-compete clauses and strikes down most existing agreements - Lisa Stiffler
- Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Authentication - Jimmy Bogard
- Why we suck at estimating software projects - Nick Hodges
- Let your brain settle down - Robin Copple
- The gift of ambition - DHH
- A quick look back at Windows 3.1 which hit the RTM stage 32 years ago this week - John Callaham
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Wolverine’s New PostgreSQL Messaging Transport - Jeremy D. Miller
- Will Visual Studio Be Migrated to .NET Core and Become Multi-Platform?
- Hacking together an AsciiMath parser for .NET - Andrew Lock
- Enhance your .NET Testing #8: Contract tests with Verify - Pierre Belin
- Does readonly make your code faster? - Steven Giesel
- Don’t Do This With Extension Methods - Adam Storr
- Mastering SOLID Principles in C#: A Practical Guide - A. Yohan Malshika
- Refactor your C# code with primary constructors - David Pine
- Dev Home 0.13 is out with improved widgets and new Windows customization - Taras Buria
- What’s new for .NET in Ubuntu 24.04 - Richard Lander
- How to Create a Zip File in Memory in C# - Matjaz Prtenjak
Other Software Development
- How GitHub Actions can turn your code into a Docker daemon - Andrew Coleman
- Today I Learned: LibYear - Cameron Presley
- Async APIs - don’t confuse your events, commands and state - David Hope
- The guide to Git I never had. - Jake Page
- Securing millions of developers through 2FA - Mike Hanley
- Explaining Trunk Based Development - Mahesh Mallikarjunaiah
Technology and Science
- Get Better at Using Prompts With Deliberate Practice: One technical writer’s little experiment - Diana Cheung
- Ten Amazing Facts About Tornadoes, Explained - Catherine Duncan
- What Would Happen If a Nuclear Bomb Hit a Major City Today: A Visualization of the Destruction - Colin Marshall
Leadership
- What to Focus On in 1-on-1s
- How to calculate the real ROI of offshore consulting
- The Tarzan Method - James Stanier
Project Management / Agile
- Short Answers to Your Big Questions about User Stories - Mike Cohn
- WIP is waste - Jared Turner
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- What are the chances of YOU existing? A biologist explains
- Azure Update - 26th April 2024 - John Savill
- Adam Savage’s Weird Staplers Collection!
- GenAI in the Enterprise w/ Michael Eaton, Principal Consultant
Podcasts
GitHub Repos
- https://github.com/Cysharp/Ulid
- https://github.com/jonwagner/Insight.Database
- https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh
- https://github.com/SteeltoeOSS/Steeltoe
- https://github.com/aaubry/YamlDotNet
- https://github.com/shouldly/shouldly
- https://github.com/microsoft/go-sqlcmd
- https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
- https://github.com/kant2002/MetadataDumper
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