Interesting links of the week 2025-35
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (August 18, 2025 - August 24, 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 of the Week
- The Hidden Cost of Slow Feedback Loops - Revontulet
- Everything I know about good system design - Sean Goedecke
- An obligation to independence - Jason Fried
- You Know What To Do - Stay SaaSy
- AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is ‘dumbest idea’ - The Register
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Enhance your CLI testing workflow with the new dotnet test - .NET Blog
- The Real Cost of Abstractions in .NET - Milan Jovanović
- GPT-OSS - A C# Guide with Ollama - .NET Blog
- What Is .NET Aspire: Relevance and Advantages for Cloud-Native Development - Scand
- Converting an xUnit test project to TUnit - Andrew Lock
- New Agents Panel Brings Copilot Coding Tasks to Visual Studio and VS Code - Visual Studio Magazine
- Top 10 GitHub Copilot Features Every Developer Should Know - C# Corner
- Bring AI to your formulas with the COPILOT function in Excel - Microsoft Tech Community
- Blazor Basics: Exploring Blazor’s Enhanced Navigation - Telerik
- SQL Server Backups: The Basics - DallasDBAs.com
- Kickstarting your libraries with the .NET Library Starter Kit - Dennis Doomen
Other Software Development
- Why Separate Databases? Explaining Like You’re Five - CodeOpinion
- Documents: The architect’s programming language - Stack Overflow Blog
- The value of institutional memory - Tim Harford
- Building HAL 9000 (And It Runs Completely on My Mac) - CODE Magazine
- How to use Playwright for unit testing - Go Make Things
- A Deep Dive into Behavior-Driven Development - DZone
- New and Upcoming CSS Features I’m Excited About - Simple Thread
- Yellow, Purple, and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes” - Stéphanie Walter
- Angular Basics: Setting Up Angular Development Environment - Telerik
- Traps to Developers - qouteall notes
- My Windows 11 Laptop Now Lasts All Day Thanks to These Tricks - MakeUseOf
- How to Free Up and Automatically Manage Disk Space for WSL on Windows 10/11 - freeCodeCamp
- These Windows Shortcuts Save Me Hours Every Week - MakeUseOf
AI
- AI is different - antirez
- Why AI-Driven Client Apps Don’t Understand Your API - O’Reilly
- GPT-5 goes hard on real-world programming - Omer Barnir
- The reality of AI-Assisted software engineering productivity - Addy Osmani
- AI is a Junior Dev and needs a Lead - Parthenon
- The Unbearable Slowness of AI Coding - Joshua Valdez
- The problem with Claude Code and Cursor: The AI Coding “Death Spiral” - Marcelo Bairros
- Pondering About Using AI for Coding - Shawn Wildermuth
- The role of junior developers in the world of LLMs - Ayende Rahien
- Computer Science Graduates Face Worst Job Market in Decades - Final Round AI
- The Next 5 Years of Prompt Engineering: Benefits, Career Paths, and How to Stay Layoff-Proof - C# Corner
- Making AI Agents Work For You (and Your Team) - InfoQ
- The Hidden Cost of AI Pilots that Never Scale - Wandering Technologist
- GPT-5 for coding cheatsheet - OpenAI
Technology and Science
- Who will maintain the future? Rethinking open source leadership for a new generation - GitHub Blog
- I Get All the Free Books I Want, Thanks to These Sites - MakeUseOf
Leadership
- Communication is The Job - Andrew Bosworth
- Professional Development is a Choice - Alex Chesser
- Not only AI: What Else Drives Team Performance Today? - DZone
- How to Make your Customers Happy and Your Engineers Even Happier - 8th Light
- Why software developers burn out, and how to fix it - InfoWorld
- How to Move from Technical Roles to Leadership Positions - IT Pro Today
- From Debate to Decision: 3 Strategies to Get Unstuck When Feedback Goes Sideways - Humanizing Work
Project Management / Agile
- Team OKRs in Action - Martin Fowler
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- Azure Update - 22nd August 2025 - John Savill
GitHub Repos
- github/awesome-copilot - Community-contributed instructions, prompts, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot
- jdhitsolutions/PSTimers - A PowerShell module with a variety of timer and countdown functions
- Cysharp/ConsoleAppFramework - Zero Dependency, Zero Overhead, Zero Reflection, Zero Allocation, AOT Safe CLI Framework powered by C# Source Generator
- loresoft/Privileged - Privileged is an authorization library for restricting resources by action, subject and qualifiers
- leirbag4/VampirioCode - Lightweight Code Editor
- SimonCropp/Polyfill - Source only package that exposes newer APIs, .net features, and C# features to older runtimes
- TimeWarpEngineering/timewarp-nuru - Route-based CLI framework for .NET - Nuru means ‘light’ in Swahili
- jinek/Consolonia - A cross-platform UI framework for .NET
- karpathy/rendergit - Render any git repo into a single static HTML page for humans or LLMs
- coryhouse/lean-devops - Repo for “The Fewer Environments the Better: Lean DevOps Strategies”
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