Interesting links of the week 2025-36

Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (August 25, 2025 - August 31, 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

• Legacy tech is hard to kill - FastForward
• Do the simplest thing that could possibly work - Sean Goedecke
• There Has Never Been a Better Time to be a Junior Developer - And It Won’t Last Forever - Aaron Stannard
• The Hidden Cost of Slow Feedback Loops - Revontulet
• Communication is The Job - Andrew Bosworth

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Standalone Aspire Dashboard Setup for Distributed .NET Applications - Milan Jovanović
• Writing isolated (integration)tests with TestContainers - Tim Deschryver
• Azure DevOps: merging pull requests with conventional commits - John Reilly
• Getting Started with the Aspire CLI - .NET Blog
• EFCore.Visualizer - View Entity Framework Core query plan inside Visual Studio - .NET Blog
• Zero-Trust Architecture in Practice with .NET and Azure - Developer’s Voice
• Why Azure Teams Are Moving from ARM Templates to .NET - Pulumi Blog
• Use .NET Aspire with Application Insights - Microsoft Learn
• TechBash 2025 Schedule Posted - Jason N. Gaylord

Other Software Development

• Outbox Pattern Survival Guide - Thomas Pierrain
• Making continuous learning work at work - Stack Overflow
• Git Worktree: Managing Multiple Working Directories - Meziantou’s blog
• The Number One Productivity Killer for Devs? Finding Information! - ShiftMag
• 7 Things I Do In the Terminal Instead of My Browser - How-To Geek
• Why Your Prompts Don’t Belong in Git - Towards Data Science
• The Power of Playwright! Scaling UI Testing for Robust Application Delivery - PGHDOTNET
• Product shouldn’t decide what to build - WillMartian
• Just people in a room - BonnyCode

AI

• Under the hood: Exploring the AI models powering GitHub Copilot - The GitHub Blog
• AI’s Impact on Entry-Level IT Jobs - IT Pro Today
• Vivaldi rejects AI browsing: ‘Humans over hype’ - PCWorld
• Stanford reports 6% job loss for workers in AI‑exposed roles - Windows Central
• How To Integrate a Local LLM Into VS Code - The New Stack
• New workers lose ground as AI reshapes hiring - Staffing Industry Analysts
• Who are we designing for now? Between Humans and AI - Prototypr
• 25 Useful ChatGPT Prompts for Web Designers - Web Designer Depot
• AI development guidelines - AlignedDev
• The Benefits of AI Micromanagement - DZone
• Bring AI to your formulas with the COPILOT function in Excel - Microsoft Tech Community
• Build vs Buy in the Age of AI - Silicon Valley Product Group
• The Bubble That Knows It’s a Bubble - Craig McCaskill
• An unusual consequence of AI coding - Praful Mathur
• Think First, Then AI - Tomorrow’s Blueprint
• Are people’s bosses really making them use AI tools? - Piccalilli
• Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development - Martin Fowler
• No engineering productivity gains, and no jobs lost due to AI - ShiftMag

Technology and Science

• Don’t throw away your printed books: A meta-analysis on the effects of reading media on reading comprehension - ScienceDirect
• 7 Essential Financial Charts for Personal Finance Visualization - Syncfusion Blogs

Leadership

• RDEL #106: What happens when organizations display individual metrics vs team metrics? - RDEL
• Passed Over for Promotion — Now What? - IT Pro Today
• Why Aren’t People Going to Local and Regional In-Person Events Anymore? - Brent Ozar
• Engineering lead failure modes - Lior Neu-ner
• The Management Skill Nobody Talks About - Terrible Software

Project Management / Agile

• 2 AI+Backlog Pitfalls to Watch Out For - Humanizing Work

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Why Do People Want Mental Illness Diagnoses These Days? - Elizabeth M. Ellis, Ph.D.
• How Book Nooks Bring Magic Little Worlds to Your Bookshelves - Mental Floss

Videos

• The Power of Playwright! Scaling UI Testing for Robust Application Delivery - PGHDOTNET
• Azure Update - 29th August 2025 - John Savill
• The MythBusters Episode Adam Savage Regrets Making - YouTube

GitHub Repos

• PSModule/WoW - A PowerShell module containing utilities for World of Warcraft.
• github/awesome-copilot - Community-contributed instructions, prompts, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot.
• MicrosoftLearning/AZ-104-MicrosoftAzureAdministrator - Training materials for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification.

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