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Quote of the Day

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Software Development

Avoiding long-running HTTP API requests

API naming principle: If there is no direct object, then the direct object is the source object

Testing

TDD. You’re Doing it Wrong

Continuous Delivery on Google Cloud with Gitlab CI/CD and Cloud Deploy

Developer Tools / Libraries

8 reasons developers love Go—and 8 reasons they don’t

Power Prompt with Windows Terminal and Oh My Posh

AI

No More AI Costs: How to Run Meta Llama 3.1 Locally

How to build user authentication into your gen AI app-accessing database

Control LLM costs with context caching

Business

Heuristics for Effective Software Development Organizations: A continuously evolving list.*

Professional Development

Question: What is your greatest achievement at your client/job in the last 12 months?

Beyond Tech: What makes a great developer?

When Your Boss Suddenly Reduces Your Scope

Personal Development

Burning out isn’t worth it: how to avoid it and recover from it

DotNet

Adding .NET Aspire to your existing .NET apps

Simplify Your .NET Aspire Caching With Metalama

The Memento Design Pattern in C#, Practically With Examples [2024]

Software

Use sprints to be more Agile in Planner

Quote of the Day

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be"
- Abraham Lincoln

Software Development

Is Vertical Slice Architecture better than Clean Architecture or Ports and Adapters?

Developer Tools / Libraries

Microsoft Previews AI Prompt Playground for VS Code: Prompty

AI

Software Architecture in an AI World

Title:Retrieval Augmented Generation or Long-Context LLMs? A Comprehensive Study and Hybrid Approach

Business

The Guide to Going Multi-Product: 11 Tactics for Tackling Your Next Bet

(People on) Nice Teams Finish Last

Is AWS Lambda a Halo Product?

Leadership/Management

Is Your Team Playing It Too Safe?

When Asking Too Many Questions Undermines Your Leadership

DotNet

How to Cancel an HTTP Request on Leaving a Blazor Component

Design a Timer App using .NET MAUI Radial Gauge and Timer Picker

Quote of the Day

“The greatest gift anyone can give another person: believing in them.”
-- Jim Valvano

Everyones got one…

The rise and fall of Stack Overflow

Software Development

Three data architectures for the server by Mark Seemann

How to review code effectively: A GitHub staff engineer’s philosophy

Testing

Snapshot Testing in .NET with Verify

Developer Tools / Libraries

Try Full Line Code Completion in JetBrains Rider 2024.1.4

More enjoyable Code Reviews with Gemini

Open source AI coding assistance with the Granite models

AI

Introducing Agents in Semantic Kernel

Building A Generative AI Platform

Business

I Like Dumb Plans

Is It Time to Pivot Your Strategy?

Launching a landmark partnership to support AI startups with Y Combinator

Leadership/Management

Are You a Micromanager or Too Hands-Off?

Personal Development

How to Ask for Help Without Making Yourself Look Bad

DotNet

.NET 8 Data Annotations Validation

Caching HttpClient Requests

Adding Serilog to ASP.NET Core: a practical guide

.NET Aspire : Supercharge your .NET DX

The Singleton Pattern in C# Today Is Not Your Dad’s One!

Custom config sections using static virtual members in interfaces

What’s New in .NET Aspire 8.1: A Game-Changer for Cloud-Native Development

My Love Hate Relationship With Pattern Matching