Interesting links of the week 2024-29
Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (July 8, 2024 - July 14, 2024). Enjoy!
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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
- Busting common leadership myths, part 2: Extroverts only!
- What will you change?
- You never completely control the arc of your career
- How I moved away from WordPress (to something much better), part 1
- Creating an Azure Static Web app (moving from WordPress, part 2)
- Day-to-day management (moving from WordPress, part 3)
My Favorite Links from the Week
- See list above 👆 😁
- Let’s Stop Asking “Why Do You Want To Work for Us?” in Interviews - Nelson Figueroa
- How To Be More Resilient: 6 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard - Eric Barker
- From Microservices to Modular Monoliths - Steve Smith
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Aspiring Links for Period Ending July 14, 2024 - Peter Ritchie
- C# 13: Explore the latest preview features - Kathleen Dollard
- Should interfaces be asynchronous? - Mark Seemann
- Network Round Trips are Evil - Jeremy D. Miller
- Microsoft’s Notepad gets spellcheck and autocorrect 40 years after launch - Tom Warren
- Snapshot Testing in .NET with Verify - Khalid Abuhakmeh
- Does code rot over time? - Oren Eini
- Modernizing your WPF application with the Fluent theme - Bruno Sonnino
- Event Sourcing on PostgreSQL in Node.js just became possible with Emmett - Oskar Dudycz
- Building Your First Use Case With Clean Architecture - Milan Jovanović
Other Software Development
- The technical networking knowledge that every programmer should have - Gerson Azabache Martínez
- API Testing: Does My API Work-Work? - Gil Zilberfeld
- CSS Image Styling Techniques - Chris Pietschmann
- Unit tests longer than the code? - Dave Aronson
- 8 reasons developers love Go—and 8 reasons they don’t - Peter Wayner
- Why Ruby on Rails Is Still Worth Your While as a Developer - David Eastman
- A Brief Comparison of Modern Programming Languages - TypeScript vs Golang vs Elixir vs Rust vs F# - Hamilton Greene
- Why toggle switches suck (and what to do instead) - Adam Silver
- Checkboxes: Design Guidelines - Maddie Brown
Technology and Science
Leadership
- What Is Empathy In the Workplace? (Not to Be Confused with Ruinous Empathy) - Indiana Lee
- The Overlooked Aspects of Successful Development Teams - Denis Čahuk
- Leadership for Results and Peace of Mind - Subbu Allamaraju
- Managing Underperformers - Jack Danger
Project Management / Agile
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Jimi Hendrix Unplugged: Two Great Recordings of Hendrix Playing Acoustic Guitar - Josh Jones
- Months of the Year in Spanish with Audio - Yaren Fadiloglulari
- Saying “No” in Spanish: How to Use “No” and Other Negatives - Kelsey Lechner
- Stop Undervaluing Community Engagement Skills! – Communities Die Without Them - Richard Millington
- Microdosing Creativity: How a Creative Practice Can Reduce Anxiety and Improve Well Being - Katie Marshall
- The Math of Card Shuffling - Fred Hohman
Videos
- Azure Update - 12th July 2024 - John Savill
- Bill Sempf on Trends in Application Security EPISODE 816 - David Giard
- Drilling a Hole the Width of a Human Hair? - Adam Savage
GitHub Repos
- https://github.com/DevBetterCom/DevBetter.JsonExtensions
- https://github.com/fluentribbon/Fluent.Ribbon
- https://github.com/microsoft/coyote
- https://github.com/vipentti/dotnet-check-updates
- https://github.com/kjpgit/SmallestCSVParser
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