Interesting links of the week 2025-50
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (December 1, 2025 - December 7, 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
- What is more important to learn - Design or Coding? - Coding Is Like Cooking
- How good engineers write bad code at big companies - Sean Goedecke
- Building Personal Software: Crafting Your Own Tools for Success - Allen Hutchison
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- .NET 10 Validation - Development With A Dot
- How to Structure a .NET Solution That Actually Scales: Clean Architecture Guide - DEV Community
- Data Access in .NET: Comparing ORMs and Mapping Strategies (Part 2 - Dapper, Raw SQL, and Hybrid Approaches) - Mostly Lucid
- Data Access in .NET: Comparing ORMs and Mapping Strategies (Part 1 - Entity Framework Core) - Mostly Lucid
- DbContext is Not Thread-Safe: Parallelizing EF Core Queries the Right Way - Milan Jovanović
- Why changing keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio isn’t as simple as it seems - Visual Studio Blog
- AutoMapper 16.0.0 and MediatR 14.0.0 Released with .NET 10 Support - Jimmy Bogard
- Creating a custom MSBuild SDK to reduce boilerplate in .NET projects - Meziantou’s blog
- Domain-Driven Design Misconceptions - CodeOpinion
Other Software Development
- Seven coding domains no developer really understands - InfoWorld
- What Is The Right Atomic Unit For Knowledge? - Adjacent Possible
- Don’t Refactor Like Uncle Bob (Second Edition) - Axol’s Blog
- 10 tiny UI fixes that make a big difference - Medium
- Transforming Documentation: Treat It Like a Product - Composite Code
- The next era of React has arrived: Here’s what you need to know - LogRocket Blog
- Reducing Bugs by Using the Model View Update Pattern - The Software Mentor
- Why you should set up CI/CD from day one for your apps - LogRocket Blog
- Fizzy is our fun, modern take on Kanban (and we made it open source!) - DHH
- Treat test code like production code - Mark Seemann
AI
- What skills become most valuable when developers work with AI agents? - RDEL
- Applying AI where it matters - DX Newsletter
- Leaders Assume Employees Are Excited About AI. They’re Wrong. - Harvard Business Review
- Introducing Stack Overflow AI Assist—a tool for the modern developer - Stack Overflow
- When “Good” Becomes “Bad”: Why Your AI Tests Go Stale - TestinGil
- Getting Back to Basics - Let’s Not Forget the Foundations of Machine Learning - Simple Thread
- How to exclude specific content when using GitHub Copilot - Bart Wullems
- MCP Is Broken and Anthropic Just Admitted It - Medium
- What is an MCP? - Rockford Lhotka
Technology and Science
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Leadership
- How to Lead When Things Feel Increasingly Out of Control - Harvard Business Review
- Writing Is An Act Of Courage - Writers Write
Project Management / Agile
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- Azure Update - 5th December 2025 - 10% more fancy edition - John Savill
- Is It Cheaper To Leave The Lights On Than To Turn Them Off? - MythBusters - YouTube
- Adam Savage’s Favorite Things of 2025! - YouTube
GitHub Repos
- fizzy - Kanban as it should be. Not as it has been
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