Interesting links of the week 2025-47

Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (November 10, 2025 - November 16, 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

• “Good engineering management” is a fad - Irrational Exuberance
• Needy Programs - Nikita Tonsky
• I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code - Prahlad Yeri

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• A first look at the all‑new UX in Visual Studio 2026 - Visual Studio Blog
• Aspire 13 - Aspireify anything - Aspire Blog
• Are C# 14’s new features worth updating your app to .NET 10? - Round The Code
• What’s Been Fixed in Rider 2025.3 - JetBrains
• The Ardalis Cli - Steve Smith
• Missing security features in .NET 10 - Duende Software
• Capturing Console Output in xUnit.v3 - Steven Giesel
• Exploring C# File-based Apps in .NET 10 - Milan Jovanović
• ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs: Quick Guide to API Versioning - Matthias Guentert
• Why I Use JetBrains Rider for .NET Development - DEV Community

Other Software Development

• Why agents DO NOT write most of our code - a reality check - Octomind
• Software Development in the Time of Strange New Angels - Dave Griffith
• Collaboration sucks - PostHog Newsletter
• The (lazy) Git UI You Didn’t Know You Need - Bartek Płotka
• What Does Bad Code Mean To Developers - JetBrains Qodana
• 5 Strategies to Refactor SQL Code - Simple Talk
• Build better software to build software better - Slack Engineering
• Stop vibe coding your unit tests - Andy Gallagher
• To get better at technical writing, lower your expectations - Sean Goedecke
• The Next Development Discipline Is ADD - Telerik
• Why Databases Still Fascinate Me - SQLServerCentral
• 100% coverage is not that trivial - Mark Seemann

AI

• Your AI Pair Programmer Is Not a Person - O’Reilly
• AI is changing what it means to be a software engineer - Developer Tech
• Unlocking the full power of Copilot code review: Master your instructions files - GitHub Blog
• What to Solve with AI (and What Not To) - JD Meier
• What could possibly go wrong if an enterprise replaces all its engineers with AI? - VentureBeat
• Copilot is gaslighting developers and we’re all pretending it’s fine - DEV Community

Technology and Science

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Leadership

• Four Faces of Resilience - Mike Amundsen
• The Other 80%: What Productivity Really Means - O’Reilly
• Always Do Everything from a Peak State - JD Meier
• I love it when a plan comes together - Bart Wullems
• The 5 Leadership Modes That Separate Great Leaders from Good Ones - JD Meier

Project Management / Agile

• Rework Isn’t Inevitable - Humanizing Work
• Why Agility Matters - DZone

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Videos

• Azure Update - 14th November 2025 - John Savill

GitHub Repos

• ProjectFiles - A C# source generator that provides strongly-typed, compile-time access to project files marked with CopyToOutputDirectory in the .csproj file
• SharpIDE - A modern, cross platform IDE for .NET, built with .NET & Godot

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