Interesting links of the week 2025-34
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (August 11, 2025 - August 17, 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 of the Week
- An Engineer’s Perspective on Hiring - Justin
- No, AI is Not Making Engineers 10x as Productive - Colton
- The Most Underrated Performance Enhancer: Having Fun - The Growth Equation
- Why Writing Matters (to the Technical Professional) - Ted Neward
- If you’re Remote, Ramble - Steph Ango
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Visual Studio’s Next Act: Faster, Smarter, More AI-Driven - Visual Studio Magazine
- Building Generative AI Applications With GitHub Models and .NET Aspire - Milan Jovanović
- Build a Reusable .NET Aspire API Template in Minutes - Julio Casal
- AutoMapper vs. Manual Mapping in .NET - Vitor Gomes
- The Complete Playwright End-to-End Story, Tools, AI, and Real-World Workflows - Microsoft
- Continuous Testing with AI & Deep Isolation in 2025 - Typemock
- Messaging Made Simple: Choosing the Right Framework for .NET - Visual Studio Magazine
- Newtonsoft.Json vs System.Text.Json: The Battle That’s Reshaping .NET APIs - Yaseer Arafat
- C# 14 Extension Members: Also Known as Extension Everything - NDepend Blog
- Aspire Roadmap 2025: Code-first DevOps, Polyglot, and AI - Victor Frye
- How I Organize My Microsoft Teams Chats (Without Losing My Mind) - DEV Community
Other Software Development
- What to Look for in Code Reviews - Franco Fernando
- Git Branching Strategies - Sahil Malik
- JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language - Paul Krill
- The Death of the Click: How Scrolling Took Over the Web - Alex Harper
- It’s time for modern CSS to kill the SPA - Jono Alderson
- Securing Your Software Supply Chain: A .NET Architect’s Guide to SBOMs and NuGet Auditing - Sudhir Mangla
- Do Not Interrupt Developers, Study Says - ShiftMag
- Software Architecture Fundamentals - System of Record - Peter Ritchie
- Reflections on the React Community - Lee Robinson
- 10x Engineers Myth: Why You Really Need a 10x Organization - ShiftMag
- I Know When You’re Vibe Coding - Alex Kondov
- Vibe code is legacy code - Steve Krouse
- Coding for the Future Agentic World - Addy Osmani
- The Value of Institutional Memory - Tim Harford
AI
- From Bootcamp to Bust: How AI is Upending the Software Development Industry - Reuters
- No AGI in Sight: What This Means for LLMs - Kenneth Wolters
- GPT-5 Prompting Guide - OpenAI
- Don’t Assume AI Will Take Your Job. Learn To Be A Superworker - Caroline Castrillon
- Why Does AI Feel So Different? - nilenso
- Building My Offline AI Workspace - InstaVM
- MCP Vulnerabilities Every Developer Should Know - Composio
- Why LLMs Can’t Really Build Software - Zed
- How LLMs See the World - ByteByteGo
- Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling - Anu
- Research: The Hidden Penalty of Using AI at Work - Harvard Business Review
- I Was Using ChatGPT to Study All Wrong Until This Prompt Fixed It - MakeUseOf
- Should CIOs Care About New AI Models? - CIO Dive
- GPT-5 Broke AI Apps: What Devs Must Do Now - Docker
- Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises - Julien Simon
- Your Brain on ChatGPT - MIT Media Lab
Technology and Science
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Leadership
- 6 Ways to Practice Everyday Courage - Harvard Business Review
- Effective Positioning for Engineering Managers - Mario Caropreso
- Reclaiming the Architect’s Role in the SDLC - DZone
- Tech Debt? I Don’t Believe It Exists - David Adrian
Project Management / Agile
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- The Valuable Lesson Adam Savage Learned From His Wife - YouTube
- This Myth Generated the Most Personal Backlash Against Adam Savage and Jamie - YouTube
- Azure Update - 15th August 2025 - John Savill
GitHub Repos
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