Interesting links of the week 2025-43

Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (October 13, 2025 - October 19, 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

• I’m in Vibe Coding Hell - Boot.dev
• I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code - Prahlad Yeri
• 996 Is Not Your Competition - Nikunj Kothari

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• PowerToys 0.95 is here: new Light Switch utility, faster Command Palette, and Peek with Spacebar - Windows Command Line
• Migrations the “Critter Stack” Way – The Shade Tree Developer - Jeremy D. Miller
• Coding Azure 19: Writing Messages to a Storage Queue - Telerik
• 6 Steps for Setting Up a New .NET Project the Right Way - Milan Jovanović
• Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2 - .NET Blog

Other Software Development

• You Still Need to Think - Calv
• Most of What We Call Progress - Yusuf Aytas
• How I Reversed Amazon’s Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked - Pixelmelt
• The cost of design iteration in software engineering - Ayende @ Rahien
• Default Isn’t Design. Why familiar feels right but often… - Medium
• Developers are replacing IDEs with terminals 🖥️ - Refactoring.fm

AI

• Is the Vibe Coding Bubble Starting to Burst? - Final Round AI
• Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5 - Anthropic
• The AI Mandate - Go Make Things
• Share Copilot Prompts and Instructions Across Teams Using Rider and VS Code - MSicc’s Blog
• Difference Between Prompt Engineering and Context Engineering - C# Corner
• GitHub Copilot: Faster, smarter, and built for how you work now - The GitHub Blog

Technology and Science

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Leadership

• Are You Defining Your Contribution Too Narrowly? - Humanizing Work
• The Inverse Law of Conference Speaking - On my Om
• Specialization Is For Insects - Stay SaaSy

Project Management / Agile

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• The Surprising Power of Boredom: It Lets You Confront Big Questions & Give Life Meaning - Open Culture
• Why I gave the world wide web away for free - The Guardian

Videos

• Azure Update - 17th October 2025 - John Savill
• Did MythBusters Save Builds for Future Episodes? - YouTube
• Adam Savage’s Worst-Case Career Scenario - YouTube

GitHub Repos

• grate - grate - the SQL scripts migration runner
• EnterprisePhonebook-TestDesign-Kata - For practicing integration testing
• RandomSkunk.StructuredLogging - Modern structured logging extensions for .NET

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