Interesting links of the week 2024-32

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (July 29, 2024 - August 4, 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

• My first few days with Logseq
• July - The Month in Review
• Working in Virtual Machines: Parallels and Azure
• Working in Parallels and Docker on the host
• Question: What is your greatest achievement at your client/job in the last 12 months?
• Weekly goals: Status of last week’s goals, and Goals for the week of August 5

My Favorite Links from the Week

• See list above 👆 😁
• Burning out isn’t worth it: how to avoid it and recover from it - Robin Copple
• Heuristics for Effective Software Development Organizations: A continuously evolving list.* - Allen Hollub

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Power Prompt with Windows Terminal and Oh My Posh - JoeG
• How many API’s does .NET have? - Steven Giesel
• Explore .NET application dependencies by using Dependify tool - Oleksii Nikiforov
• Improving Code Quality in C# With Static Code Analysis - Milan Jovanović
• Davide’s Code and Architecture Notes - Web APIs vs REST APIs vs pseudo-REST APIs - Davide Bellone
• My JetBrains Rider Plugins — July 2024 Edition - JoeG
• There is no mystery over who wrote the Blue Screen of Death, despite what some may want you to believe - Raymond Chen
• New Microsoft Entra Suite - Zachary Cavanell
• Azure Functions Best Practices for Performance, Reliability and Security - Chris Pietschmann
• My Love Hate Relationship With Pattern Matching - Adam Storr
• Critter Stack Roadmap for the Rest of 2024 - Jeremy D. Miller

Other Software Development

• Three data architectures for the server - Mark Seemann
• Thinking Like an Architect - Gregor Hohpe
• What is Continuous Software Development? - Matt Groves
• How Developer Portals Help Prevent API Spraw - Abhijit Dey

Technology and Science

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Leadership

• 10 Strategies to Improve Communication In the Workplace - Suman Agarwal
• Is Your Team Playing It Too Safe? - Abraham Kim

Project Management / Agile

• Agile mindset of daily tasks - Peter Smulovics
• Short Answers to Big Questions about Agile Leaders - Mike Cohn

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• “Authentic” is dead. And so is “is dead.” - Jason Cohen

Videos

• Why Adam Savage Loves Jamie (Really!) - Adam Savage
• Azure Update - 2nd August 2024 - John Savill
• The Worst Set of Drawers Adam Savage’s Built (in a Long Time) - Adam Savage
• A T-SQL Query To Get The Text Between Two Delimiters In SQL Server - Erik Darling
• How To Get Only Letters Or Numbers From A String For Free In SQL Server - Erik Darling

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/LiamMorrow/Oatmilk
• https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
• https://github.com/NinovanderMark/ConsoleRenderer
• https://github.com/bradymholt/cRonstrue
• https://github.com/martincostello/sqllocaldb
• https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

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