Interesting links of the week 2025-37
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (September 1, 2025 - September 7, 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
- Use One Big Server - Speculative Branches
- We only hire the trendiest - Dan Luu
- Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck - ordep.dev
- The Post-Developer Era - Josh W. Comeau
- Engineering excellence starts on edge - DHH
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Standalone Aspire Dashboard Setup for Distributed .NET Applications - Milan Jovanović
- From AutoMapper Profiles to Mapster: Centralizing your mapping logic - Bart Wullems
- C# Tip: injecting and testing the current time with TimeProvider and FakeTimeProvider - Code4IT
- dotnet actions: C# scripting to the rescue - Daniel Cazzulino
- Boost Your Copilot Collaboration with Reusable Prompt Files - Visual Studio Blog
- .NET Aspire - Why We Should Consider It And How To Get Started - NimblePros Blog
- Secure Your SQL Estate: Best Practices for Azure SQL Security - SQLServerCentral
Other Software Development
- The babysitter problem - chrisbeckman.dev
- Seven little habits for writing better code - InfoWorld
- What Exactly is “Production Ready” in 2025? - The CTO Advisor
- Is A Shell All You Need? - Den Delimarsky
- Saying NO is not a free action in the world of software engineering - ShiftMag
- Understanding API Gateways: The Core of Modern Microservice Communication - Sampath Adepu
- Why Do Software Engineers Procrastinate? - ShiftMag
- Is writing a test a good contribution to an open source project? - Matt Lacey
- Composing Data from Multiple Services - CodeOpinion
- Divide and Conquer the Database - Steven Giesel
- How to Give a Good Talk - SIGPLAN Blog
AI
- Your next job will require AI skills - Growth Unhinged
- The Lost Soul of Software: Meaning Beyond Code and Artificial Intelligence - Ergin Akin
- MIT says AI isn’t replacing you… it’s just wasting your boss’s money - Interview Query
- Where’s the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don’t Add Up - Mike Loves Robots
- 5 Ways AI Prototypes Mess With Your Brain - Humanizing Work
- Vibe coding is not the same as AI-Assisted engineering - Addy Osmani
- Is Vibe Coding Putting Us All at Risk? - C# Corner
- AI Combined With Agile Lets Developers Focus on Craft - The New Stack
- I’m an AI hater - Go Make Things
- Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development - Martin Fowler
Technology and Science
- Making continuous learning work at work - Stack Overflow
- Behold an Anatomically Correct Replica of the Human Brain, Knitted by a Psychiatrist - Open Culture
Leadership
- Why “‘no’ is a complete sentence” is dangerous advice - Wes Kao
- Going direct - James Stanier
- No, you don’t want to hire “the best engineers” - Otherbranch
- Why rational humans make irrational decisions - Bart Wullems
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect: The Leadership Paradox Among Tech Teams - Forbes
- Why Your Biggest Fears Shrink When You Face Them - Sources of Insight
Project Management / Agile
- Prioritizing your backlog - Mark Wilkinson
- How to Use AI to Enhance Scrum Ceremonies - DZone
- How to Make Meetings Work - Luca Rossi
- Being A Successful Software Developer - Agilely Managing Expectations - Peter Ritchie
- Sprints Balance Consistent Delivery With Optimal Value - Matt Blodgett
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C# - Mads Torgersen
- Azure Update - 5th September 2025 - John Savill
- Adam Savage Wishes the News Would Cover This Subject - Adam Savage
- Most MISERABLE Myth to Film - Adam Savage
- Won’t Try This at Home - Adam Savage
- The Power of Playwright! Scaling UI Testing for Robust Application Delivery - PGHDOTNET
GitHub Repos
- inmve/coding-with-ai - Techniques for coding with AI tools: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc. Gathered from real developer experiences.
- smourier/AppSettingsStudio - A GUI for centralizing .NET appsettings.json management. Provides a unified view to edit, validate, and apply changes across multiple projects and/or binaries, including WSL on Windows, with support for live updates.
- linkdotnet/Blog - A blog (engine) completely written in C# and Blazor. It aims to be a simple use and easy to extend platform. Blogposts are written in Markdown and are rendered to HTML. This gives all the flexibility needed to express yourself but also have an easy way of creating posts in the first place.
- searlsco/imsg - Export your iMessages into a portable web archive
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