Interesting links of the week 2024-35

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (August 19, 2024 - August 25, 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

• I took a week off and hope to be back with new stuff soon.

My Favorite Links from the Week

• Serverless Sucks? - Derek Comartin
• Agile is not a process. - George Stocker
• Software estimates have never worked and never will and Merchants of complexity - DHH

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Using Kafka with .NET - Bryan Hogan
• Low Ceremony Sagas with Wolverine - Jeremy D. Miller
• Automate shrink database in Azure SQL - Sakshi Gupta
• Microsoft is finally removing the FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11 - Tom Warren
• Simplify development with Dev Container templates for Azure SQL Database - Carlos Robles
• Implementing CQRS with MediatR in .NET 8: A Complete Guide - Adrián Bailador
• Supercharge your testing experience with MSTest.Analyzers - Jakub Jareš

Other Software Development

• Should Developers Curb Their Enthusiasm for Generative AI? - Richard Gall
• Book Review: The Nature of Code - Ted Neward
• The 3 Most Common Security Mistakes Developers Make
• Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder - James Shore
• A plea for the lost practice of information architecture - Vicky Teinaki
• I stopped an interview because I couldn’t solve some difficult problems involving technology I haven’t used in years. What could I have done instead?

Technology and Science

• Fire, Ready, Aim - Patrick Sharbaugh
• Retro: Setting up a BBS Using Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and Mystic - Jamie Magquire

Leadership

• My Next Word to Retire is ‘Prioritization’ - Richard Mironov
• One on One Meeting Format Ideas - Marc Gauthier

Project Management / Agile

• Who Benefits from Agile processes? - George Stocker

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Videos

• So You Want To Implement Soft Deletes In SQL Server - Erik Darling
• Search Your Code in Seconds with this Visual Studio Feature
• Azure Update - 23rd August 2024 - John Savill
• What’s Behind the Star Wars Prequels Backlash? - Adam Savage

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/DbUp/DbUp
• https://github.com/microsoft/DevSkim
• https://github.com/stevensrmiller/AvaloniaWithoutXAML
• https://github.com/riganti/dotvvm
• https://github.com/mrange/minesweeper2024
• https://github.com/dockpanelsuite/dockpanelsuite

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