Interesting links of the week 2025-31
Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (July 21, 2025 - July 27, 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 Individual is the New Economic Unit of Value - J.D. Meier
- The Forced Use of AI is Getting out of Hand
- The Inner Operating System for a Better Life: Think Better, Feel Better, Do Better - J.D. Meier
- What kind of work I want (in 2025) - Sean Goedecke
- Specificity: A weapon of mass effectiveness - Jason Cohen
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Ask Mode vs Agent Mode – Choosing the Right Copilot Experience for .NET - Wendy Breiding
- Integration testing for Go applications using Testcontainers and containerized databases - Abhishek Gupta
- Microsoft’s constant layoffs risk creating a culture of fear - Tom Warren
- Supercharge Your Dev Containers on Windows - Mike Evans-Larah
- Example of Using Alba for HTTP Testing - Jeremy Miller
- Named Query Filters in EF 10 (multiple query filters per entity) - Milan Jovanović
- Azure Container Options: Matching Services to Operational Responsibility
Other Software Development
- The Reworked Terminal Becomes the Default in 2025.2 - Ekaterina Valeeva
- How I Prioritize OSS Bugs - Jeremy Miller
- A Friendly Introduction to SVG - Josh Comeau
- Focusing on Capabilities Is a Win - Mike Amundsen
- Technical Debt Is Not Free: Chad Green on Making the Invisible Visible - David Ramel / Chad Green
- Never write your own Date Parsing Library - Zach Leatherman
- Database Migration Strategies - Derek Comartin
- Why I’m Writing Pure HTML & CSS in 2025 - Joel Dare
- TODOs aren’t for doing - Sophie Alpert
- Why Input Validation for APIs Matters in the AI Age - J Simpson
AI
- How I keep up with AI progress (and why you must too) - Atharva Raykar
- Death by AI - Dave Barry
- Why I’m Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) - Utkarsh Kanwat
- Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update)
- Some employees feel so pressured to use AI, they’re pretending they are - Wayne Williams
- Stop Prompting, Start Designing: 5 Agentic AI Patterns That Actually Work - Paolo Perrone
Technology and Science
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Leadership
- Five Kinds of Organizational Debt - Suzan Bond
- Goals Take Practice - John Cutler
- Building competency is better than therapy - DHH
- Social Capital: The Compound Interest of Your Engineering Career - Rafa Páez
- Underused Techniques for Effective Emails - Michael Lynch
Project Management / Agile
- Modern Data Projects Need Agile Thinking — Not Just Tech - Pabitra Saikia
- Unlocking high software engineering pace: Build less, ship frequently, learn faster - Jim Grey
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Checklists are hard (but still a good thing) - Chris Siebenmann
- One Columbus Man Read 5,000 Books Over 6 Decades. Here’s What He Left Behind - Chelsea Wiley
Videos
- Azure Update - 25th July 2025 - John Savill
- From Layoff to Job in 19 days w/Sr. Engineer Michael Eaton - Taylor Desseyn and Me!
- Adam Savage’s Favorite Mode of Conveyance BAR NONE - Adam Savage
GitHub Repos
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