Links - 12/23/2023
Quote of the Day
“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.”
-- Albert Schweitzer
Everyones got one…
Why I won’t use .NET Aspire for now
Software Development
5 Tips for Building Resilient Architecture
Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 2)
Hitchhiker’s Guide To Moving Relational Data To Events
Dealing With Legacy Code – How To Make Anything More Testable
Developer Tools / Libraries
Inside the all-new Edge DevTools user interface
Learn Go This Week: A Language Built for Simplicity and Efficiency
Naming Made Easy: AI-Powered Rename Suggestions
Design an API Specification Using MuleSoft’s Visual API Designer
AI
Semantic Kernel - From semantic functions to prompt functions
Inference Race To The Bottom - Make It Up On Volume?
Future-proof Your .NET Apps With Foundation Model Choice and Amazon Bedrock
What are Some Good Generative AI Prompt Engineering Resources?
Business
Scaling Your Software Team: Development vs. Hiring
Is “Wiring the Winning Organization” a book for you? Read my five takeaways and decide for yourself.
Implications of the failure of the Adobe-Figma deal.
Future of the Cloud: 10 Trends Shaping 2024 and Beyond
Leadership/Management
Time Management Is Dead: How I Actually Boosted My Team’s Productivity
Professional Development
Mentoring software engineers or engineering leaders
How to Start Over After Making a Testing Mistake
Strategic Thinking is the Most Valuable Leadership Skill Today
Don’t Sell Ideas – Debate Them
Personal Development
Web and Cloud Development
Web Development in 2023: JavaScript Still Rules, AI Emerges
Tailwind CSS v3.4: Dynamic viewport units, :has() support, balanced headlines, subgrid, and more
Is Blazor the Future of Everything Web?
Overview of Bun, a JavaScript runtime
Mobile Development
Increase your app’s availability across device types
DotNet
What User Interface Framework Should You Choose for .NET Desktop Applications?
Announcing .NET Aspire Preview 2
MemoizR - Declarative Structured Concurrency for C#
Introduction to Autofac FakeItEasy Package
Updates to the StronglyTypedId library - simplification, templating, and CodeFixes
Playing with the .NET 8 Web API template
How to Register Multiple Implementations of the Same Interface in ASP.NET Core
5 Serilog Best Practices For Better Structured Logging
What’s New in Our Code Coverage Tooling?
Software
9 Reasons Why Your organization needs eSignatures?