Interesting links of the week 2025-26
Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (June 16, 2025 - June 22, 2025). Enjoy!
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure - Other Software Dev - AI - 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 surprising power of “microbreaks”: Why small, frequent breaks are the secret to productivity, focus, and well-being - Jory MacKay
- Expert Generalists - Martin Fowler
- In Praise of “Normal” Engineers - Charity Majors
- Five Boring Things That Have A Bigger Impact Than “A.I.” Coding Assistants On Dev Team Productivity - Jason Gorman
- The Road Ahead: How to See the Future in Front of You—and Act on It - J.D. Meier
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- QuietShell – Executing PowerShell without a Console Window - Trevor Jones
- Getting started with Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server - Robert Sheldon
- Upgrade Your Application and Prepare for the Future with .NET Aspire - Mike Yeager
- 7 Underrated C# 12 and C# 13 Features Every Developer Should Know! - Saravanan Madheswaran
- 16 common mistakes C#/.NET developers make (and how to avoid them) - Ali Hamza Ansari
- Monitoring .NET Applications with OpenTelemetry and Grafana - Milan Jovanović
Other Software Development
- No more coding vibes in the efficiency era - James J. Boyer
- 5 Mistakes That Make Your Code Unmaintainable - Derek Comartin
- Modern (Go) application design - Tit Petric
- The Logic, Philosophy, and Science of Software Testing – A Handbook for Developers - Han Qi
- 5 Mistakes That Make Your Code Unmaintainable - Derek Comartin
AI
- Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk - Baldur Bjarnason
- Scrum Smarter, Not Louder: AI Prompts Every Developer Should Steal - Ella Mitkin
- AI thoughts, June 2025 - Jimmy Nilsson
- The Illusion of Vibe Coding: There Are No Shortcuts to Mastery - Frantisek Lucivjansky
- How to Stay Up-to-date in AI/ML Without Losing Your Mind - Frank La Vigne
- 5 tips for using GitHub Copilot with issues to boost your productivity - Klint Finley
- Improve Your Productivity with New GitHub Copilot Features for .NET! - Leslie Richardson
- Copilot, The Good Parts: Efficiency - Rob Conery
Technology and Science
- Streaming Has Finally Replaced Regular TV—Is It Weird I Want Cable Back? - Oluwademilade Afolabi
Leadership
- Managing Up: Debugging the most critical relationship in your work life & Working Better with an imperfect boss - Lena Reinhard
- Diagnose Before You Delegate - Subbu Allamaraju
- In command - Jason Cohen
Project Management / Agile
- Boldly going where no one has gone before? — creating a Discovery backlog. - Mark Dalgarno
- The Evolving Role of Methodologies in Achieving Project Goals - Oleksandr Strukov
- Rethinking the Enterprise Transformation Playbook
- A Place for User Stories and User Stories in Their Place - Greg Kontos
Social Media
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- Software Is Changing (Again) - Andrej Karpathy
- Fighting Perfectionism? Ask Yourself This - Adam Savage
- Azure Update - 20th June 2025 - John Savill
GitHub Repos
- https://github.com/microsoft/azure-devops-mcp
- https://github.com/josefpihrt/orang
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/style-snooper
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