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Quote of the Day

“Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.”
-- Jack Canfield

I dont know where this goes but it is good

Bad Software, Written Badly

Software Development

donnemartin/system-design-primer

LegacySeam

Domain Modeling Gone Wrong – Part 1

7 Deadly Sins of Agile: Greed 

Observability in 2024: More OpenTelemetry, Less Confusion

Developer Tools / Libraries

Developer Productivity in 2024: New Metrics, More GenAI

Coding at Google

AI

4 Steps for Building Event-Driven GenAI Applications 

Semantic Kernel - The new planners introduced in 1.0

Business

Amazon’s Silent Sacking

This Is the Person Selling Your Product

Leadership/Management

How Would Your Manager Whiteboard You?

Building trust with an open-door policy

Professional Development

A Job at Microsoft: Getting and Passing the Interview

Personal Development

Giving back as a developer

Web and Cloud Development

Why LinkedIn chose gRPC+Protobuf over REST+JSON: Q&A with Karthik Ramgopal and Min Chen

DotNet

Implementing Distributed Transactions with the Saga Pattern on Azure

C# Advent: The Joy of Immutable Update Patterns

Broker Architectural Pattern in C#

HttpClientHandler in C# - Easy Guide

Database

Eager Aggregation in SQL queries

Quote of the Day

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
-- Henry David Thoreau

I dont know where this goes but it is good

Free Certifications

Developer Tools / Libraries

Heynote

Safely use secrets in HTTP requests in Visual Studio 2022

AI

Exploratory Data Analysis with F#, Plotly.NET, and ML.NET DataFrames

Leadership/Management

Escaping the Bikeshed

Personal Development

Commit to competence in this coming year

DotNet

Top 6 Performance Tips when dealing with strings in C# 12 and .NET 8

Tim Deschryver

Dark side of the primary constructors in C# 12

Some New Features in C# 12 and .NET 8 You Will (Probably) Use for the ASP.NET Core Development

Implement compliance in a cloud-native .NET 8 application

Value Objects in .NET (DDD Fundamentals)

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

Let Code Speak for Itself

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

Focusing attention is a skill

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

morelinq.ipynb

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

Discriminated Unions in C#

5 Serilog Best Practices For Better Structured Logging

Scan and FindIndex

What’s New in Our Code Coverage Tooling?

Software

9 Reasons Why Your organization needs eSignatures?

What’s in Windows Terminal 1.19 Preview

Microsoft Clipchamp—easy and quick video creation