Interesting links of the week 2024-37

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (September 2, 2024 - September 8, 2024). Enjoy!

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

• If you’re going to block your time, do this, too

My Favorite Links from the Week

• Scrum Tensions: Code Review - Matt Blodgett
• Time is a Flat Circle - Jeremy D. Miller
• The Problem With Sprinting - George Stocker
• The hidden cost of speed - Brayden A. Hord
• Why We Shouldn’t Romanticize Failure - Jessica Love

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• 5 Easy Methods to Download Files Using PowerShell - Richard Deszo
• Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server and Entra Groups - Josephine Branch Bush
• Incorporate GitHub Copilot into your daily flow
• Keeping cross-cutting concerns out of application code - Mark Seemann
• Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Turning Off the Lights - Jimmy Bogard
• Working with tar files in .NET 8 - Andrew Lock

Other Software Development

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Technology and Science

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Leadership

• 5 Common Mistakes When Answering Questions Under Pressure (And How to Avoid Them)​
• You really like this, don’t you? - Carien Moolman
• Optimize for bio cores first, silicon cores second - DHH
• What I Gave Up To Become An Engineering Manager - Suresh Choudhary
• Giving feedback on something subjective - Claire Lew
• Technical Coherence - Jack Danger

Project Management / Agile

• Why Most Scrum Masters Are Failing and What They Should Know - Martin Hinshelwood

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Ultraprocessed foods are everywhere. How bad are they?

Videos

• Is Adam Savage’s Ruler Tattoo Still Accurate? - Adam Savage
• Azure Update - 6th September 2024 - John Savill
• Mistakes I’ve Made with Relational Databases as a Developer - Kevin Griffin

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/dotnet/project-system-tools
• https://github.com/icsharpcode/CodeConverter
• https://github.com/liamg/shox

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