Interesting links of the week 2025-16
Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (April 7, 2024 - April 13, 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
- Seniors and Juniors - Mike Loukides
- Software Architecture for Developers - Dick Dowdell
- How strong engineers break the rules and get away with it - Sean Goedecke
- Doing what you think, not what you thought - Jason Fried
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Using F# to read/write files and databases
- Spectre.Console 0.50 released!
- Tap Tap Tap – Short, Silent SQL Server Tutorials - Brent Ozar
- Mastering Error Handling in PowerShell: Try, Catch, and Finally - Patrick Gruenauer
- From Windows to Mac: Hosting Azure SQL locally without missing SSMS - Matthias Güntert
Other Software Development
- Shift Left: Bringing Developers into the Design Process Earlier - Teon Beijl
- New Docker Extension for Visual Studio Code - Remy Suen
- What does it mean to “design” an app? - Matt Lacey
- Claude Code and the Art of Test-Driven Development - David Eastman
- Vibe Coding: Revolution or Reckless Abandon? - Addy Osmani
- What is Vector Search? A Concise Guide - Milan Jovanović
- Lessons from a Decade of Complexity: Microservices to Simplicity - Hoang (Eric) Nguyen
Technology and Science
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Leadership
- Make the Right Things Easy - Richard Lawrence
- AI is the future, but most companies’ plans are short-term - Chris McClellen
- 3 Buckets of Work Time - Cory Miller
- How to simplify complex decisions by cleaving the facts - Jason Cohen
- Time Management - Mike Fisher
- Your Strengths Are Your Weaknesses - Matheus Lima
- Why Don’t Our Leaders Care About How We Work? - John Cutler
- The Power of Defining the Problem - Annie Vella
Project Management / Agile
- Retrospective Training Bundle: Fix Broken Retros for Good - Mike Cohn
- Product 101: Eliminate Churn with a Healthy Backlog - Traverse Clayton
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Why Old Car Stereos Were Better - How-To Geek
- Master these 5 productivity fundamentals before you try another tip, tool, or hack - Daniel Rose
Videos
- Why Seesaw Saga Was SO Dangerous - Adam Savage
- When to Admit Defeat - Adam Savage
- Azure Update - 11th April 2025 - John Savill
- Model Context Protocol Overview - Why You Care! - John Savill
- Test out .NET 10 Previews in Dev Containers & Codespaces in Minutes!
GitHub Repos
- https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
- https://github.com/lofcz/FastCloner
- https://github.com/xoofx/markdig
- https://github.com/atifaziz/LinqPadless
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