Interesting links of the week 2025-52
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (December 15, 2025 - December 21, 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
- 30 Lessons from 30 Years in Software Development (Plus two extra) - This link is for Medium Subscribers
- 30 Lessons from 30 Years in Software Development (Plus two extra) - This link is for everyone else
My Favorite Links of the Week
- AI will replace you at your job if you let it - Justin
- Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work - Simon Willison
- Being an architect isn’t the sum of skills. It’s the product. - The Architect Elevator
Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure
- Critter Stack Roadmap for 2026 - Jeremy D. Miller
- Streams Record Truth. Queues Do Work: A .NET Way To Keep Them Straight - Christopher Johnson
- Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot - Azure DevOps Blog
- One Minute Knowledge: Is ToArrayAsync or ToListAsync faster for Entity Framework? - Steven Giesel
- The New .NET SLNX Solution File Format - Henrique Siebert Domareski
- Assembly Fixtures - The Best New Feature in xUnit v3 - Guilherme Ferreira
- Digital Authentication and Identity validation - Damien Bowden
Other Software Development
- Tell us what you really, really… do not want to spend time working on - Stack Overflow
- Do Long Technical Posts Work? - lucalp
- 5 engineering dogmas it’s time to retire - Anton Zaides
- If You’ve Never Broken It, You Don’t Really Know It - O’Reilly
- Why Blogs Are Still Relevant Today for Developers and IT Pros - Chris Pietschmann
- 10 Platform engineering predictions for 2026 - Platform Engineering
- Things You Thought You Didn’t Need To Care About That Have a Big Impact On Your Job - Holly Cummins
- The Specification Renaissance? Skills and Mindset for Spec-Driven Development - Scott Logic
- Vibe Coding is a Technical Debt Factory - HackerNoon
AI
- How To Not Be Replaced by AI - Max Berry
- Why AI agents failed to take over in 2025 - ZDNet
- What’s next in AI: 7 trends to watch in 2026 - Microsoft News
Technology and Science
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Leadership
- The Science of Strong Business Writing - Harvard Business Review
- Busy vs. productive: A mindset shift for the new year - RescueTime Blog
- How To Build Career Optionality Through A Side Hustle In 2026 - Forbes
- Designing Team Traditions That Actually Fit Your Team - The Boomerang IC
Project Management / Agile
- Developing and Presenting Estimates/Predictions - StickyMinds
- Why Teams Matter More Than Ever for Innovation - Mountain Goat Software
- How to Do Quarterly Planning That Holds Up Past Week Three - Humanizing Work
Social Media
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Non-Technology / Random
- Nothing this week; more coming soon
Videos
- Myths Viewers Say Adam Got Wrong (and His Response) - YouTube
- Azure Update - 19th December 2025 with Christmas Song - John Savill
GitHub Repos
- VS-ProjectRenamifier - A Visual Studio extension that allows you to safely - and COMPLETELY - rename a Project from within Visual Studio
- Mole - Deep clean and optimize your Mac
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