Interesting links of the week 2025-29
Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (July 7, 2025 - July 13, 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 Nature Fix: The Three-Day Effect - Florence Williams
- Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck - Pedro Tavares
- Technical debt is just an excuse - Nick Hodges
- The one question that transforms every coaching session - Bart Wullems
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- AutoMapper and MediatR Roadmaps - Jimmy Bogard
- Critter Stack Futures for the rest of 2025 - Jeremy Miller
- This One Windows 11 Function Is Killing Your Battery—Here’s How to Disable It - Yadullah Abidi
Other Software Development
- How I build software quickly - Evan Hahn
- You should delete tests - André Arko
- Think before you cache - Guido Medina
- React Still Feels Insane And No One Is Talking About It - Mario Brizic
- A new era of Stack Overflow - Prashanth Chandrasekar and Jody Bailey
- 16 little UI design tips that make a big impact - Adham Dannaway
- Why React Is No Longer the Undisputed Champion of JavaScript - Alexander T. Williams
- Distributed Systems Mistakes Nobody Warns You About: Consistency - Derek Comartin
- 30 Years of JavaScript: 10 Milestones That Changed the Web - Richard MacManus
AI
- The hidden cost of AI reliance
- Automating oral argument - Adam Unikowsky
- Why I’m Building My Own AI Twin — And You Should Too - Fabian Hennek
- BREAKING NEWS: AI coding may not be helping as much as you think - Gary Marcus
- Beyond prompt crafting: How to be a better partner for your AI pair programmer - Christopher Harrison
- How I use LLMs to learn new subjects - Sean Goedecke
- How to use GenAI as an Executive Assistant - Lak Lakshmanan
- Quality-focused prompts for the vibe coding addict - Richard Seroter
- The End of Code as We Know It - Shayne Sweeney
- 3 best practices for building software in the era of LLMs - Salman Ladha
Technology and Science
- The broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management - Daniel Sada
- When Streaming Won’t Cut It and You Need the DVD - Marc Tracy
Leadership
- CTOs Reveal How AI Changed Software Developer Hiring in 2025 - Kaustubh Saini
- Stop forcing AI tools on your engineers - Anton Zaides
- Why “I’m Sorry” Are Two of the Strongest Words for Leaders - Harry M. Kraemer
- Why Senior Leaders Should Stop Having So Many One-on-Ones - Ron Carucci
- How to Communicate with Your Team When Business Is Bad - Rebecca Knight
- How Leaders Fight Back Against Overwork - Melissa Swift
- How to keep a workplace functioning in the face of layoffs - Gwen Moran
Project Management / Agile
- Stakeholder Management Doesn’t Have to Be So Painful
- The Agile Paradox - Stefan Wolpers
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- This Monsters Inc Story Gives Adam Savage Goosebumps - Adam Savage
- How to Stay Motivated When You’re DRAINED - Adam Savage
- Azure Update - 11th July 2025 - John Savill
GitHub Repos
- https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge
- https://github.com/peteraritchie/EffectiveExtensions
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