Interesting links of the week 2025-38
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (September 8, 2025 - September 14, 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
- Words are not violence - DHH
- Vertical Slice Architecture Is Easier Than You Think - Milan Jovanović
- The scary power of fatigue - RescueTime Blog
- AI & Cognitive Debt 🧠 - Luca Rossi
- The Secret to Building a High-Performing Team - Harvard Business Review
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Performance Improvements in .NET 10 - .NET Blog
- Implementing CQRS with MediatR and FluentValidation in .NET 8 - Developer’s Voice
- Prepare your VBA projects for VBScript deprecation in Windows - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
- Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 1 - .NET Blog
- Microsoft Teams Hacks You Didn’t Know You Needed - Microsoft Community Hub
- Generating and Viewing Mermaid Diagrams with Copilot - Visual Studio Blog
- Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Visual Studio Blog
- Azure mandatory multifactor authentication: Phase 2 starting in October 2025 - Microsoft Azure Blog
- The Value of Custom Exceptions - NimblePros Blog
Other Software Development
- An SSIS Framework Odyssey - Engineer of Data
- Perl programming language rises again – Tiobe - InfoWorld
- Docker Approaches to Multiple Environments - Simple Thread
- 13 reasons SQL has got to go - InfoWorld
- 996 - Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings
- System of Record And Source of Single Truth Are Not The Same - Peter Ritchie’s Blog
- The prompt as documentation: Should AI-generated code include its origin story? - Bart Wullems
- MCP is replacing the browser: Here’s how devs should prepare - LogRocket Blog
- AI Code Refactoring: Names and Patterns Using AI - Testing IL
AI
- How to Harness Skills That AI Can’t Automate - Figma Blog
- 5 Times LLMs Help You Code… and 5 Times They Fail - ShiftMag
- Developer reliance on AI worries IT leaders - CIO Dive
- Survey: Most IT Teams Not Prepared to Manage AI Workloads - DevOps.com
- Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI - MachineLearningMastery.com
- Building AI-Resistant Technical Debt - O’Reilly
- Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub’s Forced Copilot AI Features - Slashdot
- AI Injection Attacks - text/plain
Technology and Science
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Leadership
- The Best Leaders Normalize Emotion at Work - Harvard Business Review
- How Seasonal Affective Disorder Can Wreak Havoc On Your Productivity - Forbes
- How to Keep Your Team’s Spirits Up in Anxious Times - Harvard Business Review
Project Management / Agile
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- The Earliest Known Appearance of the F-Word (1310) - Open Culture
- Here’s what would happen if we seized all wealth from America’s 800 billionaires - Reason
Videos
- Fixing the Biggest Problem With Mechanical Keyboards - YouTube
- Azure Update - 12th September 2025 - John Savill
- Jamie and Adam’s First Contract FORBADE This on MythBusters - YouTube
- How to Manage Dissatisfaction With Your Own Work - YouTube
- Ted Neward on Writing Prose - David Giard
GitHub Repos
- awakecoding/VsDevShell-ps - PowerShell module for launching Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt


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