Interesting links of the week 2024-26

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (June 17, 2024 - June 23, 2024). Enjoy!

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure - Other Software Dev - Tech and Science - Leadership - Project Management / Agile - Social Media - Non-Tech / Random - Videos - GitHub Repos

Here are some posts I’ve written in the past week

• The Joy of Reading
• Career flashback: One Gig, High WTF Count
• Want to reduce stress and be happier? Do these 5 things.
• Busting common leadership myths, part 1: You definitely don’t need this to lead
• What’s your biggest career accomplishment?

My Favorite Links from the Week

• See list above 👆 😁
• If I Ever Get a Dog, I’ll Name It Rover: A Brief Introduction to Microsoft Bob
• I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again - Nikhil Suresh
• How to create software quality. - Will Larson
• The most productive part of the day - Robin Copple

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• When does the try, catch and finally code blocks run in C#? - David Grace
• Are my EF LINQ to SQL queries safe? - Steven Giesel
• Health Checks in Your OpenAPI Specs - Shawn Wildermuth
• Efficiently Handling Stored Procedures in EFCore: Practical Solutions - Pierre Belin
• Exploring the generated code: List<T> and fallback cases - Andrew Lock
• The Anatomy of .NET Aspire Application - Fiodar Sazanavets

Other Software Development

• Tied Up In Docs - Luke Abel
• Docker Logging Guide Part 1: Basic Concepts and Importance - Bravin Wasike
• How to automatically setup pgAdmin with a Docker database - Oskar Dudycz

Technology and Science

• How to Fix “AI’s Original Sin” - Tim O’Reilly

Leadership

• Why an Engineering Manager Should Not Review Code - Emily Dresner
• The real 10x developer makes their whole team better - Eira May
• What Really Motivates You at Work? - Carrie Ott-Holland
• Being who you are, while becoming better - Jason Cohen
• To make anything happen, start small - Robin Copple

Project Management / Agile

• SPIDR: Five Simple but Powerful Ways to Split User Stories - Mike Cohn

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• What tiny towns in rural America can teach the cities about adaptation - Patrick Wood / Alejandra Marquez Janse Patrick Jarenwattananon

Videos

• Why is a metric that is consistently at 100% probably broken? - Raymond Chen
• Savage Travel Hacks - Adam Savage
• Gettysburg Animated Map - Minute-By-Minute Troop Movements
• Azure Update - 21st June 2024 - John Savill

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/JetBrains/habitat-detector
• https://github.com/patriksvensson/fantasma
• https://github.com/erikdarlingdata/DarlingData

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