Interesting links of the week 2025-48
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (November 17, 2025 - November 23, 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
- Why Does Development Slow? - Kent Beck
- Using Metrics to Measure Individual Developer Performance - Laura Tacho
- tree-me: Because git worktrees shouldn’t be a chore - Phil Haack
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- LINQPad 9 - LINQPad
- No more public partial class Program in .NET 10 - Steven Giesel
- Migrating from Microsoft Learn to aspire.dev - David Pine
- Introducing the Visual Studio Code Private Marketplace - VS Code Blog
- Metrics, Logs, and Traces: the three pillars of Observability - Code4IT
- A step-by-step guide to modernizing .NET applications with GitHub Copilot agent mode - .NET Blog
- Spend Less Time Upgrading, More Time Coding in Visual Studio 2026 - Visual Studio Blog
- Database Features in Rider - JetBrains
- Visual Studio 2026 First Look: Evolution, Not Revolution - The New Stack
- Companies complaining .NET moves too fast should just pay for post-EOL support - Andrew Lock
Other Software Development
- Making Your APIs AI-Ready - Mike Amundsen
- What Technical Debt Means To IT Professionals - Forrester
- Shadow work in engineering teams - Manager.dev
- What process inefficiencies have the biggest impact on developer satisfaction? - RDEL
- Legibility - Matt Blodgett
- Build to Last - O’Reilly
- The Best Application Hardening Techniques - PreEmptive
- What are Microservices? - Postman Blog
- Know the problem you are solving - Doc Norton
- Reverse Vibe Coding - Rob Miles
AI
- AI is writing your code, but who’s reviewing it? - TechTalks
- The Future of Quality Assurance: Why the QA Role Isn’t Going Anywhere - StickyMinds
- I caught Google Gemini using my data—and then covering it up - unbuffered_stream
- The Dawn of the 10x Team - Sentry Blog
- Critical Thinking in the Age of AI - Capgemini Engineering
- How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories - GitHub Blog
- Microsoft enrages developers with cringe tweet that reckons Copilot can finish your code before you finish your coffee - Windows Central
- Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders - Windows Latest
- AI Code Doesn’t Survive in Production: Here’s Why - The New Stack
- Your Million-Dollar AI Advantage (for Leaders) - JD Meier
- AI Productivity Divide: Are Some Devs 5x Faster? - Docker Blog
Technology and Science
- Windows turns 40 — here’s the 20 best (and worst) moments in Windows history - Tom’s Guide
- 5 CPUs that are officially too old for gaming in 2025 - How-To Geek
- I tried a command-line music player — and it made Spotify feel bloated - MakeUseOf
Leadership
- Why top firms paradoxically fire good workers - University of Rochester
- Pareto Principle: The Significant 20% - Perspectiveship
- Researchers said we’d only need to work 15 hours/week. What happened? - RescueTime Blog
- You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why. - Harvard Business Review
- How To Set Deadlines That Feel Real - RescueTime Blog
- Explore. Envision. Execute for Better, Faster Execution - JD Meier
- The Benefits of Single Tasking - Julie Yack
- Speak So They Can Hear You - Jessica Kerr
Project Management / Agile
- Rethink the Refinement Session: Less Time, Better Outcomes - Mountain Goat Software
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Why Overconfidence Is Our Most Dangerous Cognitive Bias - Open Culture
- How Your Writing Tool Shapes Your Text - Writers Write
Videos
- How Adam Savage Lost the Weight From His MythBusters Days - YouTube
- Azure Update - IGNITE SPECIAL - 21st November 2025 - John Savill
- How MythBusters Disposed of “Unusual” Materials - YouTube
GitHub Repos
- Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller - Remove large amounts of unwanted applications quickly
- DotNetCompress - An .NET compression tool. Supported file formats are Brotli and GZip
- ThoughtForTheDay PowerShell Module - PowerShell Gallery
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