Interesting links of the week 2024-51

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (December 3, 2024 - December 15, 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

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

My Favorite Links from the Week

• Master the Basics - Donn Felker
• Career Chutes and Ladder - Phil Haack
• My $8,000 Serverless Mistake - Kevin Griffing
• Trying and Failing with GitHub Copilot - Jeremy Clark
• Networking For People Who Don’t Network

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Meet TUnit: The New, Fast, and Extensible .NET Testing Framework - Sander ten Brinke
• XAML Basics: Building UI with .NET MAUI and More - Vijay Anand E G
• Swagger dropped from .NET 9: What are the alternatives? - David Grace
• Avoid Using C# Events in ASP.NET Core Applications - Steve Smith
• Writing Queries with Kusto Query Language (KQL) - Henrique Siebert Domareski
• Five Effective Strategies for Managing .NET Versions - Alexandre Nédélec

Other Software Development

• TDD vs. BDD: What’s the Difference? (Complete Comparison) - Antonello Zanini
• 3 Node.js Features You Didn’t Know About - Peter Mbanugo
• 5 JavaScript Libraries You Should Say Goodbye to in 2025 - Alexander T. Williams

Technology and Science

• 15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to - Ethan Mollick
• 5 Technical Trends To Help Web Developers Stand Out in 2025 - Alexander T. Williams
• Do not throw away your old PCs - Rockford Lhotka

Leadership

• The One Way I Know a Team is in Trouble - Suzan Bond
• The 6 Mistakes You’re Going to Make as a New Manager - Matheus Lima
• The Red Beads Experiment - Daniel Good

Project Management / Agile

• How I Learned Scrum Wasn’t Enough
• Scrum Sucks Because You’re Doing It Wrong - Ben Grimwade
• Having a Full Backlog Is Not a Healthy Backlog - Peter Smulovics

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• ‘Polarization’ Is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2024 - Sonja Anderson

Videos

• Unsure What to Do With Your Life? Do This. - Adam Savage
• Azure Update - 13th December 2024 - John Savill

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/axuno/SmartFormat
• https://github.com/spekt/testlogger
• https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

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