Interesting links of the week 2025-07
Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (February 3, 2024 - February 9, 2025). 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
- Dealing with strong opinions
- What’s still here? - Jason Fried
- Reflections on an Involuntary Sabbatical - Ted Neward
- Software Engineer Career Levels at Companies You’ve Heard Of - Matt Blodgett
- Software development topics I’ve changed my mind on after 10 years in the industry - Chris Kiehl
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Using .NET on Linux - Bryan Hogan
- .NET 9 Networking Improvements
- Persistence Ignorance is Overrated - Derek Comartin
- Simplify Your Integration Testing with Test Containers - Clément Sannier
- LINQ MindMap: .NET 10 Edition - Steven Giesel
- Microsoft Entra Authentication for Azure PostgreSQL - Arun S.
- Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# - Part 2 - Kevin Gosse
- Authentication best practices with the Azure Identity library for .NET
- The 6 Best Things Microsoft Ever Did to SQL Server - Brent Ozar
- Apply effective naming conventions in Azure using the Azure Naming Tool - Bart Wullems
- Azure Data Studio Retirement
Other Software Development
- D2: like Mermaid, but better. Syntax, installation, and practical usage tips - Davide Bellone
- The 10 Best Architecture Diagramming Tools you need in 2025 - Guilherme Ferreira
- The Interface Is Always There - Christopher Butler
- The End of Programming as We Know It - Tim O’Reilly
- It’s OK to hardcode feature flags
Technology and Science
- The Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of Microplastics, New Research Suggests - Sarah Kuta
- Disabling This iOS 18 Setting Helped Improve My iPhone’s Battery Life - Aryan Surendranath
Leadership
- How not to waste a senior engineering hire - Luka Staudacher
- 5 Levels of Listening According to Stephen Covey - J.D. Meier
- A pragmatic approach to solution architecture
- Stop apologizing for reasonable business decisions - Wes Kao
- Managing Your Time as a Middle Manager - Claire Lew
Project Management / Agile
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- Azure Update - 7th February 2025 - John Savill
- The Very First Two Hours Of MTV
- Why you’ll never “get on top of everything”
- Fired From Your Job? Adam Savage Has Some Advice - Adam Savage
GitHub Repos
- https://github.com/MrDave1999/dotenv.core
- https://github.com/Structed/PdfMerge
- https://github.com/jhaygood86/PeachPDF
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