Interesting links of the week 2025-08
Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (February 10, 2024 - February 16, 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
- Beyond productivity; seeking effectiveness - Jim McGee
- When QA Keeps Finding Bugs - Steve Smith
- Fixing Full-Stack Teams - Doc Norton
- The Art of Breaking Rules: What Separates Good Engineers from Great Ones - Gabe Perez
- Engineers who won’t commit force bad decisions - Sean Goedecke
- Burning out isn’t worth it: how to avoid it and recover from it - Robin Copple
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- C# Dev Kit Updates: .NET Aspire, Hot Reload, and More! - Wendy Breiding
- The 8 Worst Things Microsoft Ever Did to SQL Server - Brent Ozar
- PowerShell 7.5 GA is now available - Jason Helmick
- Simplify your .NET data transfers with the new Azure Storage Data Movement library - Charles Barnett
- Microsoft.Testing.Platform: Now Supported by All Major .NET Test Frameworks - Amaury Levé
- Using Snapshot Testing to validate EF Core schema - Gérald Barré
- C# .NET 9: Deep Dive into the Technical Beast 🚀 - Cyril Canovas
Other Software Development
- Running Apache Kafka in Docker - Bryan Hogan
- DBA Horror Stories - Terri Hurley
- Getter-Setter Pattern Considered Harmful - wolfgang ziegler
- Testing Patterns: Given-When-Then vs Arrange-Act-Assert - Ed Gibbs
- Should all developers learn Infrastructure as Code? - Brian Grant
Technology and Science
Leadership
- Process Standardization Is Stifling My Creativity - Danielle Meinert
- How technical sprints can drive innovation and resolve tech debt through developer empowerment - Owen Hodge
- How to Foster a Continuous Improvement and Learning Mindset in Software Development - Ben Linders
- How to Apply Radical Candor to Hybrid Workplaces - Nahla Davies
Project Management / Agile
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Social Media
- Less Precious - Naz Hamid
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- Why It’s Good to Start Over - Adam Savage
- Azure Update - 14th February 2025 - John Savill
- Staying Ahead of Azure Service Retirements - John Savill
- 5 Questions to Get You Started with UX - David Giard / Burton Smith
GitHub Repos
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