Interesting links of the week 2025-33
Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (August 4, 2025 - August 10, 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
- Read That F*cking Code! - Elie Teyssedou
- Live coding sucks - Mustapha Hadid
- How far can we push AI autonomy in code generation? - Birgitta Böckeler
- How to Differentiate When Everyone Has AI - J.D. Meier
- Developers, not operators - Victor Wynne
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Automate your open-source dependency scanning with Advanced Security - Laura Jiang
- Aspire: A Modern DevOps Toolchain - David Fowler
- C# 14.0: Extension Members - Thomas Claudius Huber
Other Software Development
- Full Breadth Developers - Justin Searls
- How to write a good design document - Grant Slatton
- The 5 Most Common REST API Design Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) - Milan Jovanović
- The 5 Best API Docs Tools in 2025 - Phil Sturgeon, Alexander Karan
- Changelogs: Why You Should Have One & Tips for Maintaining It - Suzanne Scacca
- An Outside-In Approach to Discover Unknown Codebases - Yoan Thirion
AI
- No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive - Colton Voege
- Junior developers aren’t obsolete: Here’s how to thrive in the age of AI - Gwen Davis
- Vibe Coding vs. Spec-Driven Development - Rachel Stevens
- 9 habits of the highly ineffective vibe coder - Peter Wayner
- Microsoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw - Tom Warren
- Google is still there when the model lets you down - Oren Eini
- 5 Copilot Chat Prompts .NET Devs Should Steal Today - Wendy Breiding
- Hitting the Brakes on Claude Code - Preslav Rachev
- Caught a vibe that this coding trend might cause problems - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
- Microsoft study shows jobs most — and least — impacted by generative AI - Taylor Soper
- Partner with the AI, throw away the code - Matteo Vaccari
- From Memo to Movement:The non-obvious insights, tactics and workflows Shopify used to bring an ambitious memo to life
- A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge - Phoebe Sajor
- vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering - Patricio Del Boca
Technology and Science
- How Tech Companies Undermine Their Content Marketing - Julia Seidman
- Some Mathematicians Don’t Believe in Infinity - Manon Bischoff
Leadership
- The Best Advice I Got at PagerDuty - David Hayes
- Don’t hide behind AI to trim your belly fat. Start redesigning your workforce - Dana Daher, Phil Fersht
- Future Back Thinking: How to Lead from the Future, Not the Past - J.D. Meier
- Clear Thinking - Michał Poczwardowski
Project Management / Agile
- Estimates Are More Valuable Than You Think - Johanna Larsson
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- The Time Adam Savage “Got Into It” With an ILM Supervisor - Adam Savage
- Azure Update - 8th August 2025 - John Savill
- 16 Cool GitHub Repos You WILL Use (no pressure)


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