Interesting links of the week 2025-20
Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (May 5, 2024 - May 11, 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 rise of the 4-day workweek - Zara Abrams
- How Writing RFCs Changed the Way I Build Software - Lewis Nelson
- AI-Enabled vs. AI-First — A Strategic Divide - J.D. Meier
- My second rule of testing - Matt Lacey
- Why new when? - Jason Fried
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Avoid T-SQL anti-patterns with the free T-SQL analysis tool - Erik Ejlskov Jensen
- What’s new with Postgres at Microsoft, 2025 edition - Claire Giordano
- Event-Driven Architecture in .NET with RabbitMQ - Milan Jovanović
- How to handle errors in Minimal API apps
- Why You Should Try .Net Aspire - Chris Vanderplank
- Getting Started with OpenTelemetry: Observability Made Easy - Simon Foster
- Why should I use .NET Aspire? - Christian Nagel
- C# 14 – Exploring extension members - Kathleen Dollard
Other Software Development
- The Growing Medium for API Ecosystems - Mike Amundsen
- Zero to One: Learning Agentic Patterns - Phil Schmid
- Build a RAG system for your codebase in 5 easy steps - Karl Weinmeister
- Knowing when to use AI coding assistants - Bill Doerrfeld
- MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters—Part 1 - Addy Osmani
- How to Write Good API Documentation - Okoro Emmanuel Nzube
- Tweeting New Jekyll Posts From Github Actions - Part 1 - Jaco Pretorius
- Tweeting New Jekyll Posts From Github Actions - Part 2 - Jaco Pretorius
- CRUD APIs are Poor Design - Derek Comartin
Technology and Science
- Be Blown Away by These 15 Images of Beautiful Butterflies - Tracy Scott Forson
Leadership
- What “managing up“ really means: A Practical Guide to Working with Your Manager - Busra Koken
- Playbook for Effective 1:1s - Joshua Herzig-Marx
- Avoiding Delegation Theater with the Team Empowerment Map
- Return to Office: A Human-Centered Approach Rooted in Radical Candor - Brandi Neal
Project Management / Agile
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- Hard Before Fun, or Fun Before Hard? - Adam Savage
- Azure Update - 9th May 2025 - John Savill
GitHub Repos
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