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Quote of the Day

“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible..”
-- Francis of Assisi

I dont know where this goes but it is good

Questions for 2024

Software Development

Has Your Architectural Decision Record Lost Its Purpose?

Sprint Review: More Than Just A Demo

Developer Tools / Libraries

Pursuit of wicked smartness in VS Code

AI

Introducing v1.0.0 Beta6 for the .NET Semantic Kernel SDK

Business

Building Software Is Hard, Change Is Harder

Wait, is cloud bad?

Groups of Customers Lie to You

Failure suuuuucks

Do Superachievers Read Business Books?

Leadership/Management

The Illusion of Velocity — The Effect of Unsuitable Practices on Agility

Planning With Outcome Roadmaps

The Human Side of Software Engineering Teams

Professional Development

Announcing Microsoft Applied Skills, the new credentials to verify in-demand technical skills

Web and Cloud Development

What is gRPC?

A better image reset for your CSS

Why You Should Migrate to OAuth 2.0 From API Keys

DotNet

Removing allocations by reducing closure scopes using local variables

ConfigureAwait in .NET 8

Fix missing tokens when using downstream APIs and Microsoft Identity in ASP.NET Core

Analyzing Performance Issues in Microsoft .NET 8

Python

15 Python Libraries You Should Know About in 2023

Database

Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 2: Data Binning

Quote of the Day

“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Software Development

Where Is This API Gateway Thing Going?

Here’s What a Software Architect Does in an Agile Team

Developer Tools / Libraries

DevToys–A swiss army knife for developers

AI

Assistants: a first look into using OpenAI Assistants with Semantic Kernel

The art of prompting

Leadership/Management

Manager Toolkit: Useful Manager Phrases for 1:1s

Professional Development

The #1 trait of the most valuable engineers

Personal Development

How to Become a Better Strategic Thinker

Web and Cloud Development

Introducing Angular v17

A story about HTTP status codes and why you should read documentation

DotNet

Authentication with multiple identity providers in ASP.NET Core

The .NET Tools Blog

Removing allocations by reducing closure scopes using local variables

ASP.NET Core Basics: Creating Apps with More Accessibility

TimeProvider makes it easier to mock time in .NET 8

How To Easily Create PDF Documents in ASP.NET Core

Pipes and Filters Architectural Pattern in C#

Database

3 Best Database DevOps Tools for 2023

Quote of the Day

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
-- Douglas Adams

Software Development

Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery

AI

Assistants: the future of Semantic Kernel

Business

Look back less

Professional Development

Break the ice blocking your job search

138: Stop Stagnation and Grow Faster | Peak Performance Multiplier

Productivity

Web and Cloud Development

Angular.dev and Version 17—I Told You the Renaissance was Here

Twilio Makes for a Nice and Clean Example of APIs.json

DotNet

The .NET Extension Method You Should Know About

Everything you need to know about configuration and secret management in .NET

Database

Unpivoting Multiple Sets of Columns in SQL Server using CROSS APPLY

Quote of the Day

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Software Development

On Architecture – Part 1: High Level Communication

Vertical Slice Architecture, not Layers!

Anti-patterns in event modelling - Clickbait event

Developer Tools / Libraries

From Monorepo Mess to Monorepo Bliss: Avoiding Common Mistakes

Personal Development

“Be Water My Friend” — Bruce Lee’s Mindset for Adaptability and Flow

DotNet

Redux Pattern in Blazor

ASP.NET Vertical Slice Project Template – How To Start Easily

The Missing Piece of Your .NET Logs

How to Add a UI or Dashboard as Middleware in your .NET Web API

Vertical Slice Architecture

Quote of the Day

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”
-- Michael John Bobak

Software Development

RefinementCodeReview

Why Infrastructure as Code Is Vital for Modern DevOps

Developer Tools / Libraries

Performance Testing a DevDrive on Windows 11 LIVE and RAW with ZERO EDITS

AI

Hello, Semantic Kernel!

Leadership/Management

McKinsey Developer Productivity Review

Professional Development

😳 Allowing Yourself to Screw Up

Surviving the Structured Interview

Personal Development

Friday essay: what is ‘time activism’ – and why do we desperately need it?

You can’t control time, but you can change your relationship with the clock

Why do high IQ people stagnate in their careers? Emotional intelligence

Is ‘flow’ the secret to painless productivity?

Time Management Won’t Save You

DotNet

Five is for 5X productivity. Announcing Uno Platform 5.0

.NET 8’s Final RC Release Ties up Some Blazor Loose Ends

Flowing State in Blazor 8

Enforcing Software Design Rules with Architecture Tests

Database

How To Use Dynamic SQL To Fix SQL Server Performance Problems Part 2

Quote of the Day

“Impossible is just an opinion.”
-- Paulo Coelho

Software Development

Software is Complicated, Given Enough Time

Process Bloat: The Silent Killer of Developer Productivity

Predictions 2024: Software Development Adapts To TuringBots, Ajar Source, And Backstage

The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices

Our Take on Verifiable Credentials

Developer Tools / Libraries

Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform · An open platform for building developer portals

Infrastructure as Code in Any Programming Language

Tips to git good with git

Leadership/Management

The Secret to Delivering Outsized Results

Tell Us Why We’re Doing This

Always cheer

Developer Productivity Engineering at Netflix

7 Types Of Management Styles For Effective Leadership

Professional Development

How I Get Things Done

10 Ways to Prove You’re a Strategic Thinker

How to Get Past Professional Failures and Mistakes

Measure Developer Joy, Not Productivity, Says Atlassian Lead

Personal Development

3-Minute Method for Happiness: Count Your Blessings and the Cause

Web and Cloud Development

Exploring an Idea for an APIs.json Defined Workflow

🤖 A Real World Approach to Playwright

DotNet

Avoiding flaky tests with TimeProvider and ITimer

Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Consider Using String.Contains() Instead of String.IndexOf()

Publish .NET Docker images using .NET SDK and GitHub Actions

Uno Platform 5.0: C# Is Now All You Need

.NET MAUI - 3 ComboBox Dropdown Alternatives for User-Friendly Item Selection within a Mobile App

Database

How To Use Temp Tables To Fix Parameter Sniffing Problems In SQL Server

Trying out MongoDB with EF Core using Testcontainers

Software

Discover What’s New in PowerToys v0.75.0: Environment Variables, Peek Updates, and More

Quote of the Day

“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.”
-- Charles Kettering

Software Development

Events are an API. Treat them that way!

Internal and private events, or how to design event-driven API

.NET Rocks!

Business

5 Tactics To Motivate Your Hybrid Team

ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook

Web and Cloud Development

DotNet

How to use Testcontainers with .NET Unit Tests

How Guard Clauses Can Make Your Code Better

Anatomy of a .NET devcontainer

Smart Home

2023.11 To-do: Add release title

Quote of the Day

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
-- T.S. Eliot

Software Development

What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity

Process Bloat: The Silent Killer of Developer Productivity

Business

Dev First Founder Toolkit

Professional Development

How to Stop Taking Work So Personally

DotNet

The Testing Technique Everyone Should Use in .NET

The Brand New Way to do Fault Handling in Polly V8

How to use Testcontainers with .NET Unit Tests

Enums in .NET 8 Are FAST, but Mine Are Faster!

Quote of the Day

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
-- Michael Jordan

Software Development

Premature Infrastructure is the Root of All Evil

Principles of Lean Software Development

CQRS Pattern With MediatR

Domain Model first by Mark Seemann

Monads, part three

Designing a microservices architecture with DDD | Is DDD still useful?

Security: The Impact of Time

On Importance of Naming in Programming

AI

Privacy in the age of generative AI

Leadership/Management

Fair but Unequal

Professional Development

Make Learning a Part of Your Daily Routine

Web and Cloud Development

How to Write Blazor Unit Tests With bUnit and xUnit

DotNet

.NET 8 Top 10 New Features

A little F# Event Sourcing library.

3 Reasons to Delay Adopting .NET 8 and 10 to do it ASAP

.NET Data Community Standup - Complex types as value objects in EF8

Software

The Free Software Media System

bastienwirtz/homer

Quote of the Day

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
-- Steve Jobs

I dont know where this goes but it is good

How to Make Miles Davis’s Famous Chili Recipe

AI

A year of ChatGPT: six ways everyday people are using it

What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing

Professional Development

Why storytelling may be the secret to success at work

Personal Development

5 nonnegotiable morning routines successful people use to win the day

Web and Cloud Development

CRUD w/ Blazor in .NET 8 🔥 All Render Modes (SSR, Server, Wasm, Auto), Entity Framework & SQL Server