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Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did – The Pragmatic Engineer 5 Things I Learned From 5 Years At Vercel | Lee Robinson The Productivity Paradox of AI Coding Assistants | Cerbos List of common misconceptions about science, technology, and mathematics – Wikipedia HTML5 Canvas Konva Animation Tutorial |…

The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office” How I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years | DBOS You should delete tests Coherence Blog — Will All User Interfaces Become AI Chat? Why I do programming microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners: 12 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents awesome-copilot/instructions/csharp.instructions.md at main · github/awesome-copilot Keeping…

awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers Chris’s Wiki :: blog/tech/OpenSourceTwoWorlds I am not a supplier | Musings about software Tee-Object (Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility) – PowerShell | Microsoft Learn How to Deal With a Toxic Top-Performer | by Dave Bailey | Jun, 2025 | Medium…

Managing Up: Debugging the most critical relationship in your work life & Working Better with an imperfect boss — Lena Reinhard 7 Open Source Diagram-as-Code Tools You Should Try | by Prateek Jain | Jun, 2025 | Medium Convert Text to SVG Path | Text-To-SVG.com LLM prompts and AI IDE setup • Angular How to…

The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers spaghettidba/WorkloadTools: A collection of tools to collect, analyze and replay SQL Server workloads, on premises and in the cloud Expert Generalists The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes — Zed’s Blog Lessons From 9 More Years of Tricky Bugs | Henrik Warne’s blog How I’ve been…

How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes Aspire Resource Model: Concepts, Design, and Authoring Guidance hotheadhacker/no-as-a-service: No-as-a-Service (NaaS) is a simple API that returns a random rejection reason. Use it when you need a realistic excuse, a fun “no,” or want to simulate being turned down in style. How…

The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com (9) The Thing You Are Expert at Will Be Your Career Downfall (9) No Thanks: My 7 Non-Negotiables for a Fair Interview Process C# Experimental Attribute. – JetBrains Guide Using the new AI template to create a chatbot about a website Use C# 14 extensions to simplify enum Parsing…

The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo Emit logs on-demand with log buffering – .NET Blog Why Open Source Maintainers Thrive in the LLM Era | Mike McQuaid (9) The Prompt Engineering Playbook for Programmers 32 MCP Servers You Need To Check Out Now – KDnuggets The Art of Writing Readable Python Functions – KDnuggets VERT-sh/VERT:…

Ithy “ZLinq”, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET | by Yoshifumi Kawai | May, 2025 | Medium Cysharp/ZLinq: Zero allocation LINQ with LINQ to Span, LINQ to SIMD, and LINQ to Tree (FileSystem, JSON, GameObject, etc.) for all .NET platforms and Unity, Godot. public-apis/public-apis: A collective list of free APIs Avoiding reflection in C# in…

Falsehoods software teams believe about user feedback NSG650/LinuxInExcel DORA | Capabilities Getting things “done” in large tech companies | sean goedecke Fifty Years of Microsoft Developer Tools | by Rico Mariani | Apr, 2025 | Medium (9) Playbook for Effective 1:1s – by Josh – Vision and Values Harnessing the Power of Jitter: Enhancing Retry…