Interesting links of the week 2025-46

Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (November 3, 2025 - November 9, 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

• Architectural debt is not just technical debt - Frederik Van Brabant
• Why your retrospectives don’t work and how to fix them - Lucas F. Costa
• You Need To Become A Full Stack Person - Den Delimarsky

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• The Idempotent Consumer Pattern in .NET (And Why You Need It) - Milan Jovanović
• xUnit v3’s CaptureConsole Will Save You Hours of Debugging Hell - Guilherme Ferreira
• The Critter Stack Gets Even Better at Testing - Jeremy D. Miller
• Interesting new C# 14 features coming with .NET 10 - Thomas Levesque
• Taming the Billion Dollar Mistake: Maarten Balliauw’s Guide to C# Nullable Reference Types - JetBrains
• .NET 10 breaking changes to keep an eye on when upgrading - Duende Software
• Wolverine Does More to Simplify Server Side Code - Jeremy D. Miller
• AutoMapper 15.1 and MediatR 13.1 Released - Jimmy Bogard

Other Software Development

• Some software bloat is OK - WaspDev Blog
• Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea - Rameerez
• Build better software to build software better - Slack Engineering
• Rethinking SOLID Principles in the Age of AI Development - Composite Code
• Most of What We Call Progress - Yusuf Aytas
• API vs Web Service: Understanding the Differences - Postman Blog
• The Real Role of a Software Architect: Bridging Code and Teams - Composite Code
• Pull Request Templates - Go Make Things

AI

• You Should Write An Agent - The Fly Blog
• The New Calculus of AI-based Coding - Joe Magerramov
• Microsoft AI says it’ll make superintelligent AI that won’t be terrible for humanity - The Verge
• GitHub Copilot CLI 101: How to use GitHub Copilot from the command line - GitHub Blog
• Treat Your AI Assistant Like an Overconfident Junior Developer - ShiftMag
• The real problem with AI coding - Cubic Blog
• Is it worrying that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail? - Sean Goedecke
• GitHub Copilot tutorial: How to build, test, review, and ship code faster (with real prompts) - GitHub Blog
• Stop Citing AI - Stop Citing AI
• How developers tackle complex bugs with AI - ShiftMag
• The AI industry is running on FOMO - The Verge
• The AI ick - Stack Overflow Blog
• 100× Your Software Development Skills: How AI is the Next Big Leap - Chris Pietschmann

Technology and Science

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Leadership

• Context switching: Why jumping between tasks is killing your productivity - RescueTime Blog
• 4 Ways To Thrive In A Changing And Uncertain World - Forbes
• Our universal struggle with motivation - RescueTime Blog
• The Pulse: Amazon layoffs – AI or economy to blame? - Pragmatic Engineer

Project Management / Agile

• How Scrum Masters Boost Team Productivity - DZone
• Nurturing a Self-Organizing Team through the Daily Scrum - Mountain Goat Software

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Videos

• Azure Update - 7th November 2025 - John Savill
• Adam Talks About Screws, Freelancing and Workshop Organization - YouTube
• The Thing Adam Refused to Do When Asked by a MythBusters Producer - YouTube
• How can I get started writing extensions for the Command Pallet in PowerToys? - YouTube

GitHub Repos

• spoilerjs - A framework-agnostic web component for creating beautiful spoiler effects with Telegram-inspired particle animations

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