Interesting links of the week 2025-40
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (September 22, 2025 - September 28, 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
- It’s striking so quickly the industry forgets that lines of code isn’t a measure of productivity - Mark Seemann
- To vibe or not to vibe - Martin Fowler
- When efficiency isn’t wasteful - Jessica Kerr
- Hire people who give a shit - Alexandr Wang
- How 18 companies measure AI’s impact in engineering - DX Newsletter
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Announcing Aspire 9.5 - .NET Blog
- Batch migrate .sln files to .slnx format across repositories - Meziantou’s blog
- Rider Roadmap: What to Expect From the Upcoming Updates and Releases - The .NET Tools Blog
- Some Thoughts on MS Pulling Back on their “Eventing Framework” - Jeremy D. Miller
- Confirmed, Finally, Again: No Visual Studio IDE for Linux/macOS - Visual Studio Magazine
- Windows 11 is adding another Copilot button nobody asked for - The Verge
- Here’s how to turn off Copilot - Mark Wilkinson
Other Software Development
- Being A Successful Software Developer - Inspiration for Clear Expectations - Peter Ritchie
- Slopsquatting - The Imaginative Universal
- The 10 Foundational UX Principles Every Designer Should Know - Web Designer Depot
AI
- AI isn’t replacing radiologists - Works in Progress
- Don’t Fire Your Developers! What AI-Enhanced Software Development Means For Technology Executives - Forrester
- We’re Optimizing Ourselves Into Oblivion - Coté
- How to Choose Your AI Agent Framework - Nir Diamant
- Is Vibe Coding Just a Cost Cutting Strategy, like Outsourcing/Offshore Development? - Nick’s .NET Travels
- AI Injection Attacks - text/plain
- Why One-Week Sprints Make Vibe Coding Work Better - DZone
- Tim Cook’s Warning Against Tech Without Values - JD Meier
Technology and Science
- When Comics Go Digital-Only, What Happens to Collectors? - How-To Geek
Leadership
- Soft Skills Matter Now More Than Ever, According to New Research - Harvard Business Review
- Focus Point - The New York Times
- Being good isn’t enough - Josh Seid
- How to Motivate Yourself To Do A Thing You Don’t Want to Do - Ashley Janssen
- Useful engineering management artifacts - Bjorg
Project Management / Agile
- Agile Is Both Iterative and Incremental - Mountain Goat Software
- How You Start Is Everything - Humanizing Work
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
Videos
- Azure Update - 26th September 2025 - John Savill
- Did MythBusters Strain Adam’s Relationship With Jamie? - YouTube
- Advice on Weathering Today’s Uncertain, Hostile Times - YouTube
- A message from Kevin Griffin, TechBash 2025 keynote speaker - YouTube
GitHub Repos
- james-gould/azure-keyvault-emulator - An emulator for Azure Key Vault that can be run locally for development and testing purposes


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