Interesting links of the week 2024-30

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (July 16, 2024 - July 21, 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

• The coming week: Must Do, Should Do, Could Do
• Why aren’t we better at this?
• Things I Learned #23: History of commands in PowerShell
• Internal interviews as a consultant
• The Week in Review: Must Do, Should Do, Could Do - How did I do?
• Importing WordPress content to Jekyll (moving from WordPress, part 4)

My Favorite Links from the Week

• See list above 👆 😁
• Why Do Developers Lose 1 Day a Week to Inefficiencies? - Jennifer Riggins
• What senior developers do - Nick Hodges
• The case for conferences in 2024 - Forrest Brazeal

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• .NET 6 will reach End of Support on November 12, 2024 - Rahul Bhandari
• Building Your First Use Case With Clean Architecture - Milan Jovanović
• How to Choose Between Azure Cosmos DB for Table and Azure Table Storage - Chris Pietschmann
• .NET Aspire vs Docker. - Phil Haack
• Aspiring Links for Period Ending July 14, 2024 - Peter Ritchie
• How not to benchmark! - Steven Giesel
• Composing Linq Queries - Shawn Wildermuth
• Making Visual Studio a bit more visual - Mads Kristensen

Other Software Development

• Finding the command used to start a Docker container - Bryan Hogan
• Docker Volume Location on Windows - JoeG
• Docker Best Practices: Choosing Between RUN, CMD, and ENTRYPOINT - Jay Schmidt
• Don’t talk about non-functional requirements, talk about quality attributes - Bart Wullems
• Is Vertical Slice Architecture better than Clean Architecture or Ports and Adapters? - Derek Comartin
• Rethinking Our Job as Software Testers: We Should Try to Test as Little as Possible - Joel Montvelisky
• Embracing Quality: The Integral Role of Software Testing in Development - Deepika Kale

Technology and Science

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Leadership

• Why Most Teams Underperform
• What do developers perceive as productive days? - Lizzie Matusov
• Leadership for Results and Peace of Mind - Subbu Allamaraju
• Inversion - Mental Model - Michał Poczwardowski
• Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly - Ben S. Kuhn
• Advantages of incompetent management - Yossi Kreinin

Project Management / Agile

• User Stories: How to Create Story Maps - Mike Cohn
• Variance: The Heartbeat of Agile Metrics - Adrian Baker
• Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues - Barry Jones

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• 100 of the Greatest Posters of Celebrities Urging You to Read

Videos

• Why Adam Savage Will Never Open This Package - Adam Savage
• Entra Suite Overview - John Savill
• Azure Update - 19th July 2024 - John Savill
• Prompt Engineering with GitHub Copilot [EPISODE 819] - David Giard with Esteban Garcia
• The Best Practical Effect EVAR - Adam Savage
• The lost art of accomplishment without burnout - Cal Newport

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/mono/taglib-sharp
• https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
• https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust

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