Interesting links of the week 2025-18/19

I missed a post due to eye surgery, so this is a double-edition! My eye still isn’t 100%, but it’s better than it was.

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (April 21, 2024 - May 4, 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

• Don’t let an LLM write your unit tests - Matt Blodgett
• Motivation - Jason Fried
• Let’s End Toxic Productivity - Jennifer Moss
• Learning to Love your Legacy Codebase - Tom Hurtt
• API Evangelist Is Just Saying No To Artificial Intelligence - Kin Lane
• The many fallacies of ‘AI won’t take your job, but someone using AI will’ - Sangeet Paul Choudary
• Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI - Addy Osmani
• Inversion - Richard Lawrence

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Secure Remote MCP Servers With Entra ID And Azure API Management - Den Delimarsky
• Model. Run. Ship. The New Way to Build Distributed Apps - David Fowler
• GitHub Copilot–3 misconceptions why people don’t use it - Bart Wullems
• Which AI model should I use with GitHub Copilot? - Cassidy Williams
• Your SQL Server Needs Spring Cleaning, Too. - Brent Ozar
• Event-Driven Architecture in .NET with RabbitMQ - Milan Jovanović

Other Software Development

• If You’re Not Threat Modeling, Your API Is Already Vulnerable - Rashan Dixon
• Avoiding Breaking Changes in APIs: Lessons from the Field - Alex Staveley
• Augmented Coding: an Experience Report - Jess Kerr
• What the heck is MCP and why is everyone talking about it? - Cassidy Williams
• Building With MCP? Mind the Security Gaps - Bill Doerrfeld
• The New MCP Authorization Specification - Den Delimarsky
• Clean Code – How Simple Is That? - Gil Zilberfeld
• The 9 best Create React App alternatives - Nefe Emadamerho-Atori
• A Brief Introduction to React - Mark Mahoney
• Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work - Addy Osmani
• 15 Reasons I Love Go - Christoph Berger
• How to write error messages that actually help users rather than frustrate them - Amy Hupe

Technology and Science

• Code Your Own Llama 4 LLM from Scratch - Beau Carnes
• Python is the Most Wanted Job Skill for AI
• Redis Is Open Source Again - Frederic Lardinois
• When constraints sparked creativity - Ian Batterbee
• How to avoid sleepwalking into irrelevance in the age of AI - Irina Stanescu

Leadership

• Leading From The Front
• (My) three core values to set up an organization for success - Hans De Leenheer
• Too many meetings? - Richard Lawrence
• The four F’s of active reviewing
• What is Architecture? - James Heward
• Optimize the whole organization not the different parts - Bart Wullems
• It Depends: 7 viral Engineering Management dilemmas - Anton Zaides
• We’ll always need junior programmers - DHH
• Why high performers make assertions: The difference between insights, suggestions, and assertions - Wes Kao
• Build or Adopt: Stop Building Your Own Plumbing - Shawn Wildermuth

Project Management / Agile

• Prioritization Techniques Compared — Part 1 - Itamar Gilad
• Three Keys to Productive Backlog Refinement

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Videos

• How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome - Adam Savage
• Azure Update - 25th April 2025 - John Savill
• Azure Update - 2nd May 2025 - John Savill

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/jennifermarsman/MultiagentResearch
• https://github.com/sebastienros/fluid
• https://github.com/csharpfritz/Fritz.Components
• https://github.com/KallDrexx/DotnetSnes
• https://github.com/belav/csharpier
• https://github.com/Azure-Samples/remote-mcp-functions-dotnet

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