Interesting links of the week 2025-09

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (February 17, 2024 - February 23, 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

• The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI. - Joan Westenberg
• Unit Testing & The Goal - Gil Zilberfeld
• Software development is… - Jess Kerr
• Judge Your Coworkers
• Getting up to Speed - Paul Osman

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Enabling .NET Aspire for an existing solution - Bart Wullems
• Azure Functions Cost Considerations and Optimization - Chris Pietschmann
• Text Querying with EF Core and SQL Server - Ricardo Peres
• Setting application environment variables in IIS without restarts - Andrew Lock
• Introduction to .NET Aspire - David Ramel
• PowerShell GUI Tutorial: Building Whiteboard Apps With WPF - Brien Posey
• Presenting T-SQL Analyzer CLI - identify anti-patterns in SQL Server scripts with 140+ rules - Erik Ejlskov Jensen
• The Curious Case of .NET ConcurrentDictionary and Closures - Khalid Abuhakmeh

Other Software Development

• Securing Containers with Scratch Images and Multi-Stage Docker Builds - Chad Langston
• Sunsetting Create React App - Matt Carroll and Ricky Hanlon
• React is Deprecating Create React App: What’s Next for React Developers? - Adhithi Ravichandran
• The Controversial Truth about Tech Debt - Raphael Moutard
• Multi-Tenant: Database Per Tenant or Shared? - Derek Comartin
• We switched from Java to Go and don’t regret it - Philip Miglinci, Jakob Steiner, Christoph Enne
• Top 10 Backend Frameworks: The Pros, Cons, and Everything In Between - Agada Truelife
• Bridging the AI Learning Gap - Andrew Stellman
• Stop Advocating Microservices, Bring Back Sanity - Ismail Hamzah
• The Ultimate Guide to API Best Practices - J Simpson

Technology and Science

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Leadership

• 5 things every new manager needs to do - Swetha Pendyala
• The Functional Rock Star Leader Myth - Suzan Bond
• Improving Team Morale is not an Objective - Marc G Gauthier
• How to develop capability in your team

Project Management / Agile

• In defence of multiple WiP - Mark Seemann

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Color Theory for Beginners -

Videos

• How to Transition from 9-to-5 to Freelance - Adam Savage
• Azure Update - 21st February 2025 - John Savill
• Coding standards made easy in Visual Studio

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/AntonBergaker/OutParser
• https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
• https://github.com/xoofx/AsmArm64
• https://github.com/nektos/act
• https://github.com/milanm/DotNet-Developer-Roadmap

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