Interesting links of the week 2025-44

Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (October 20, 2025 - October 26, 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

• Let’s End Toxic Productivity - Harvard Business Review
• Karpathy is wrong. Write that post, build that slide deck! - João Alves
• The Interview Question That Changed How I Think About System Design - Milan Jovanović

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Wolverine 5.0 is Here! - Jeremy D. Miller
• Integration Testing with Testcontainers - ISE Developer Blog
• Running .NET Applications that Communicate Over a Network Using Docker Compose - No Dogma Blog
• Using connection colors in SQL Server Management Studio to prevent database disasters - Bart Wullems
• Simple Way to Calculate Running Totals in SQL Server - MSSQL Tips

Other Software Development

• Is It Still Worth Learning Coding in the Age of AI? - IEEE Spectrum
• Code Generation and the Shifting Value of Software - O’Reilly
• Technical Debt vs. Architecture Debt: Don’t Confuse Them - The New Stack
• It’s Not Your Tests, It’s Your Testability - TestinGil
• Epistemology of software - Mark Seemann
• Authorization: Domain or Application Layer? - CodeOpinion
• Pixels of the Week – October 26, 2025 - Stéphanie Walter

AI

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Technology and Science

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Leadership

• Time Management At Work: Efficiency Should Be Rewarded, Not Punished - Forbes
• Steve Jobs: “Don’t be a career.” - Z Fellows on X
• HP’s Innovation Spirit and How It Died - Phil McKinney
• Leveling Up Teams Fast and Slow - Stay SaaSy

Project Management / Agile

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Modern Humans May Have More Neanderthal DNA Than Previously Thought - Smithsonian Magazine

Videos

• Did Jamie Mind Adam’s Jokes About Him on MythBusters? - YouTube
• Azure Update - 24th October 2025 - John Savill

GitHub Repos

• Enums.NET - High-performance type-safe .NET enum utility library
• tiny8 - A tiny CPU simulator written in Python

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