Interesting links of the week 2024-36

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (August 26, 2024 - September 1, 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 some time off and hope to be back with new stuff soon.

My Favorite Links from the Week

• Buy Experiences instead of Possessions to Build Social Connection - Amit Kumar
• Nail it before it rots - Jim McGee
• The One Thing You Control In Every Meeting
• The Impact of Collaborative Note Taking - Casey Ellett
• Manager Antipatterns - Ted Neward
• For what it’ll make of you - DHH
• You Should Blog - Steve Smith

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• (Simple) Unit Testing The Blog Part 1 - Services - Scott Galloway
• Why and How Marten is a Great Document Database - Jeremy D. Miller
• Checked and Unchecked Arithmetic Operations in .NET - Khalid Abuhakmeh
• To Soft Delete or Not to Soft Delete - Steven Giesel
• Introduction to Event Sourcing for .NET Developers - Milan Jovanović
• Using AZD for faster incremental Azure Static Web App deployments in GitHub Actions - John Reilly
• Automated tests - Gérald Barré
• Using Azure Storage Queue messages with Azure Functions and (QueueTrigger) - Andrew Lock
• BinaryFormatter removed from .NET 9 - Immo Landwerth
• Announcing .NET Aspire 8.2 – Goodbye Components, Hello Integrations! - Maddy Montaquila

Other Software Development

• The secret inside One Million Checkboxes - Nolen Royalty
• 4 ways to pay down tech debt by ruthlessly removing stuff from your architecture - Richard Seroter
• About Half Of You Don’t Have Your Databases Under Control. - Brent Ozar
• My Architecture Drivers - Oskar Dudycz
• Feature Flags are more than just Toggles - Derek Comartin

Technology and Science

• Honor the Natural Beauty of These Tremendous Trees With 15 Photographs From the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest - Tracy Scott Forson
• Browse 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs Free Online … and Revisit the History of American Consumer Electronics - Colin Marshall

Leadership

• For years, tech firms were fighting a war for talent. Now they are waging war on talent. - Ross Pettit
• Where in the world is Balsamiq?
• Routines and habit stacking - Tom Johnson
• What conditions make developers thrive most? - Lizzie Matusov
• How to Effectively Manage Low Performers: The CARES Framework - Ro Fernandez

Project Management / Agile

• You Don’t Get Paid to Practice Scrum - Stefan Wolpers
• What I mean when I use the term ‘agile’. - George Stocker

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• 10 Books Turning 50 in 2024 - Lorna Wallace

Videos

• Azure Update - 30th August 2024 - John Savill
• How to Avoid the Death Spiral of Perfectionism - Adam Savage

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon
• https://github.com/dotnet/BenchmarkDotNet
• https://github.com/tomlm/YamlConvert

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