Interesting links of the week 2025-27
Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (June 23, 2025 - June 29, 2025). Enjoy!
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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
- There’s a Fine Line Between Increasing Productivity and De-skilling - Matt Blodgett
- New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal - Julia Evans
- AI and Tech Jobs: More Evidence That Panic Isn’t Justified - Heather Joslyn and Lawrence E Hecht
- SLA vs SLO - Alex Ewerlöf
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- 10 Powerful PowerShell Select-String Examples - Bijay Kumar
- New Default Model for Visual Studio Copilot, So How Do You Choose? - David Ramel
- Better Models, Smarter Defaults: Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-4.1, and More Control in Visual Studio - Rhea Patel
- LINQPad 9 Early Preview - Joseph Albahari
- Using Certificates for Authentication with Microsoft Identity Library - JoeG
- .NET Aspire 1: What Is .NET Aspire? - Dave Brock
- Mastering LINQ in C# - Divyansh Gupta
- Upgrading SQL Server in a Container - Steve Jones
- Azure DevOps: pull requests and dynamic required reviewers - John Reilly
- Testcontainers Best Practices for .NET Integration Testing - Milan Jovanović
- You can’t use switch expressions in Blazor (sometimes) - Steven Giesel
- Running External Commands in C# and Wait Until They Finish - Emanuele Bartolesi
- .NET Channels as a In-Memory Message Bus – Beware! - Derek Comartin
Other Software Development
- The Three Most Common OAuth Implementation Mistakes - Albert Starreveld
- Senior developers reframe a complex problem, juniors run into it heads-on - Oren Eini
- Vite 7.0 is out!
AI
- Why AI Works in Isolation But Fails at Scale
- From pair to peer programmer: Our vision for agentic workflows in GitHub Copilot - Tim Rogers
- Why developer expertise matters more than ever in the age of AI - Laura Lindeman
- MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters—Part 4 - Addy Osmani
- Report Confirms Microsoft’s Copilot Struggles - Paul Thurrott
- Please Don’t Write Your Own MCP Authorization Code - Den Delimarsky
- The tough task of making AI code production-ready - Matt Asay
- Stop pontificating about other people losing their jobs to AI and worry about your own job - Phil Fersht
Technology and Science
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Leadership
- I don’t care if my manager writes code - Sean Goedecke
- We Tried That
- Why Engineers Hate Their Managers (And What to Do About It)
Project Management / Agile
- Lessons From Launch - Robert Beatty
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- Jeremy Miller on Lessons Learned from Building a Public Open-Source Tool
- Was I Wrong About Blazor? : Coding Shorts 111 - Shawn Wildermuth
- Why Celebrities Have to Say No - Adam Savage
- Azure Update - 27th June 2025 - John Savill
GitHub Repos
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