Interesting links of the week 2025-21
Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (May 12, 2024 - May 18, 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
- “AI-first” is the new Return To Office - Anil Dash
- Why we coach the system, not just the team - Doc Norton
- Quieting the Mental Clutter - Justin Etheredge
- In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships
- What nobody tells developers about documentation - Ian Vanagas
- Pull Request Etiquette - Scott DePouw
- Coding should be a vibe! - DHH
- Speaking up and calling out BS when you see it - Tom Johnson
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- How to install and use Ollama to run AI LLMs on your Windows 11 PC - Richard Devine
- Entra ID Authentication for Azure PostgreSQL
- Agent mode has arrived in preview for Visual Studio
- ASP.NET 10: Validating incoming models in Minimal APIs - Tim Deschryver
- Celebrating 50 Million Developers: The Journey of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code - Amanda Silver
- Announcing Native Azure Functions Support in Azure Container Apps - Nitesh Jain
- Wolverine 4 is Bringing Multi-Tenancy to EF Core - Jeremy D. Miller
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – May 2025 - Kristen Womack
- CQRS Pattern the Way It Should’ve Been From the Start - Milan Jovanović
- Use C# 14 extensions to simplify enum Parsing - Gérald Barré
Other Software Development
- A new look for what’s next - Prashanth Chandrasekar, David Longworth
- Learning Kubernetes: A Beginner’s Journey - Simon Foster
- To Vibe or Not to Vibe? When and Where To Use Vibe Coding - Alexander T. Williams
- The Vanishing Junior Dev and the High Cost of Ignored Unit Tests - Eli Lopian
- Best Practices Are Really Not - Gil Zilberfeld
- Documentation done right: A developer’s guide - Brittany Ellich & Sam Browning
- Become a certified Generative AI Leader with a first-of-its-kind credential from Google Cloud. - Erin Rifkin
- Whether AI is a bubble or revolution, how does software survive? - Ryan Donovan
- AI for Developers: How To Start, What To Use and Why It Matters - Ankit Awasthi
- Coding LLMs from the Ground Up: A Complete Course - Sebastian Raschka
- Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained - Per Jacobsson
- 10 Years of Software Architecture: Best And Worst Decisions - Derek Comartin
Technology and Science
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Leadership
- A Pyramid-shaped Career - Jack Danger
- Why developers and their bosses disagree over generative AI - Jennifer Riggins
- How To Get Good at Strategy - Claire Lew
- AI Won’t Kill Junior Devs - But Your Hiring Strategy Might - Addy Osmani
- What does a Technical Lead do? - Brian Grant
- The high-performance playbook: How great product teams deliver results - Jagbir Singh Lehl
- Reading “Business” Books Is A Waste Of Time
Project Management / Agile
- Be Productively Pessimistic - Dave Schwantes
- Four Common Scrum Master Mistakes–and How to Fix Them - Mike Cohn
- Beyond speed: Measuring engineering success by impact, not velocity - Phoebe Sajor
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- Azure Update - 16th May 2025 - John Savill
- Why read Azure SQL Revealed 2nd edition? - Bob Ward
- Introducing agent mode in Visual Studio
- Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces - Simplify the dev experience - John Savill
- Brain training: 7 puzzles to challenge your mind!
GitHub Repos
- https://github.com/openai/codex
- https://github.com/dotnet/docs-aspire
- https://github.com/logseq
- https://github.com/TestableIO/System.IO.Abstractions
- https://github.com/csharpfritz/AspirePlaywrightDemo
- https://github.com/AaronFriel/qmodem-4.51
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