Category: friday links

Friday links 479

  1. Common design patterns at Stripe – DEV Community
  2. Look ma, no Dockerfile! – Publishing containers with the .NET SDK | The blog of a software developer and tester.
  3. New Tab
  4. The Developer’s Guide to SSO — WorkOS
  5. microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners: 18 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/
  6. Marcus’ Blog
  7. ✨ 6 website learning gems you should visit! – DEV Community
  8. Don’t Refactor Like Uncle Bob. Please – Axol’s Blog
  9. Azure OpenAI On Your Data with Semantic Kernel | Semantic Kernel
  10. (1) Milan Jovanović on X: “Here are 9 excellent libraries I use in my projects: 1. MediatR 2. Polly 3. EF Core 4. Refit 5. Testcontainers 6. MassTransit 7. Marten 8. xUnit 9. Dapper Which library would you add to the list? — Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to accelerate your .NET https://t.co/FZe01JbyKJ” / X
  11. Add Non-Production Endpoints in ASP.NET Application
  12. Programmatically monitoring and reacting to resource logs in .NET Aspire
  13. dotnet/Docker.DotNet: :whale: .NET (C#) Client Library for Docker API
  14. Must-have resources for new .NET Aspire developers
  15. Programmatically elevate a .NET application on any platform
  16. Highlight Elements During Testing | Better world by better software
  17. williamtroup/JsonTree.js: A lightweight JavaScript library that generates customizable tree views to better visualize JSON data.
  18. Good Practices | RSCG Examples
  19. 20 Patterns to Master Dynamic Programming
  20. AnandChowdhary/calendar-link: Calendar link generator for popular services

Friday links 478

  1. Understanding the Six PowerShell Profiles – Scripting Blog [archived]
  2. GitHub – tobyscales/ps-gitprofile: Automagically sync your PowerShell profile across Linux, Windows and Azure Cloud Shell.
  3. Tips for Writing Cross-Platform PowerShell Code – PowerShell.org
  4. Securely Synchronizing PowerShell Profiles Across Multiple Computers | xkln.net
  5. dotnet/aspire: An opinionated, cloud ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed applications in .NET
  6. Button – FluentUI Blazor Components
  7. MudBlazor – Blazor Component Library
  8. Unraveling the Power of Property-Based Testing in Unveiling our Own Biases
  9. A restaurant example of refactoring from example-based to property-based testing
  10. The four tenets of SOA revisited
  11. microsoft/dev-proxy: Dev Proxy is an API simulator that helps you effortlessly test your app beyond the happy path.
  12. .NET Data Community Standups | Microsoft Learn
  13. Steven Giesel
  14. Time Zone Database
  15. Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL
  16. Your API Shouldn’t Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
  17. Automated Tests instrumentation via OpenTelemetry and Aspire Dashboard
  18. What’s new for Office Add-ins at Build 2024 – Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
  19. Screenshot Testing with Playwright: Beginner’s Guide
  20. Shawn Wildermuth – Health Checks in Your OpenAPI Specs

Friday links 477

  1. Google Testing Blog: Avoid the Long Parameter List
  2. An Engineering Manager Challenge
  3. QWERTYTILES
  4. dockur/windows: Windows inside a Docker container.
  5. Branded types for TypeScript – Carlos Menezes
  6. 24 Fundamental Techniques for Software Architects
  7. You probably don’t need microservices
  8. jonathanpeppers/dotnes: .NET for the NES game console
  9. The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL | by Tony | Medium
  10. iluwatar/java-design-patterns: Design patterns implemented in Java
  11. Evolution of Monolithic Systems. The Entropy of Software in Tech… | by chubernetes | May, 2024 | Medium
  12. Observe File System Changes with Reactive Extensions for .NET | endjin – Azure Data Analytics Consultancy UK
  13. Thoughts about primary constructors: 3 pros and 5 cons
  14. Identifier names – rules and conventions – C# | Microsoft Learn
  15. Rare things become common at scale
  16. 9 Caching Strategies for System Design Interviews – DEV Community
  17. slash pages
  18. How to read error messages
  19. Three Laws of Software Complexity (or: why software engineers are always grumpy) | mahesh’s blog
  20. Signposting: How to reduce cognitive load for your reader

Friday links 476

  1. pandoc/pandoc-action-example: using the pandoc document converter on GitHub Actions
  2. pandoc / pandoc-ci-example · GitLab
  3. Who pays you? And why?
  4. Being Glue — No Idea Blog
  5. The Story of Three Bricklayers – A Parable About The Power of Purpose – Sacred Structures by Jim Baker : Sacred Structures by Jim Baker
  6. James Shore: A Software Engineering Career Ladder
  7. Link Rot and Digital Decay on Government, News and Other Webpages | Pew Research Center
  8. Coding my Handwriting — Amy Goodchild
  9. Separation
  10. Making engineering strategies more readable | Irrational Exuberance
  11. Lissy93/dashy: A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!
  12. Software Architecture Guide
  13. Exiting The Zone of Pain – Static Analysis with NDepend – Scott Hanselman’s Blog
  14. scientistproject/Scientist.net: A .NET library for carefully refactoring critical paths. It’s a port of GitHub’s Ruby Scientist library
  15. Neo Kim on Substack: “If you want to master system design, then learn these case studies: 15. How to Scale an App to 10 Million Users on AWS: https://newsletter.systemdesign.one/p/aws-scale 14. How Stripe Prevents Double Payment Using Idempotent API: https://newsletter.systemdesign.one/p/idempote…”
  16. ACID vs BASE Databases – Difference Between Databases – AWS
  17. Software Architecture Monday | Developer to Architect | Mark Richards
  18. Activation Key Class Library – CodeProject
  19. Fix Missing OpenAPI Elements From ASP.NET Core Minimal API Apps | Khalid Abuhakmeh

Friday links 475

  1. Basic writing and formatting syntax – GitHub Docs
  2. Claim-Check Pattern with AWS Message Processing Framework for .NET and Aspire
  3. Petar Ivanov on Substack: “14 company engineering blogs you must read to enhance your software design skills. If you want to improve your system design skills, read these company engineering blogs: 14) Stripe Engineering https://buff.ly/46GYysM 13) Pinterest Engineering https://buff.ly/3qeSgQB 12)…”
  4. Google Testing Blog: Don’t DRY Your Code Prematurely
  5. How I turned my open-source project into a business
  6. myshell-ai/OpenVoice: Instant voice cloning by MyShell.
  7. davidfowl/WaitForDependenciesAspire
  8. How GitLab automates engineering management
  9. .NET API Catalog
  10. davidfowl/AspireSwaggerUI: An aspire resource for showing swagger ui
  11. .NET Aspire is the best way to experiment with Dapr during local development
  12. Instrumenting System.CommandLine-based .NET applications
  13. Development With A Dot – ASP.NET Core API Versioning
  14. Efficient Long Polling Techniques in .NET – DEV Community
  15. 10 Cool CodePen Demos (March 2024) – DEV Community
  16. 10 Cool CodePen Demos (April 2024) – DEV Community
  17. How to document design system components
  18. Google Testing Blog: Test Failures Should Be Actionable
  19. Managing High Performers | Stay SaaSy
  20. Use Identity to secure a Web API backend for SPAs | Microsoft Learn

Friday links 474

  1. zakirullin/cognitive-load: Cognitive Load is what matters
  2. Software Friction
  3. How to Promote your Open Source Project with SEO | ITNEXT
  4. Google Testing Blog: Use Abstraction to Improve Function Readability
  5. 24 Fundamental Techniques for Software Architects
  6. Communicate like a Senior: Use clear deltas
  7. SWE laws of power
  8. pnp/copilot-prompts: Examples of prompts for Microsoft Copilot
  9. scalar/scalar: Beautiful API references from OpenAPI/Swagger files ✨
  10. Build modern music notation apps for web, desktop and mobile | alphaTab
  11. How to document your JavaScript package
  12. Serialising ASP.NET method calls for later execution | johnnyreilly
  13. Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content
  14. Don’t Give Every Minute a Job
  15. Caching In: Defining, Optimizing, and Invalidating Your Cache
  16. 24 Fundamental Techniques for Software Architects
  17. Build: Elements of an Effective Software Organization | Swarmia
  18. Unexpected Anti-Patterns for Engineering Leaders
  19. Desktop installation – Jan
  20. How I run a software book club | notes.eatonphil.com

Friday links 473

  1. The unspoken skill of finesse – Wes Kao’s Newsletter
  2. Ten Types of Software Engineering Waste – by Mirek Stanek
  3. Design Docs at Google
  4. Design docs – A design doc
  5. Adventures serializing absolutely everything in C# – isadora
  6. This TypeScript Trick Will Blow Your Mind
  7. OpenVoice/docs/USAGE.md at main · myshell-ai/OpenVoice
  8. I quit my job to work full time on my open source project
  9. Modern Educayshun – YouTube
  10. It Took Me 20+ Years To Learn This Lesson About Dev – DEV Community
  11. The drinking fountain button is tragically misunderstood – The Verge
  12. 37 Tips from a Senior Frontend Developer – DEV Community
  13. Neo Kim on Substack: “If you want to master system design, then learn these case studies: 17) How Tinder Scaled to 1.6 Billion Swipes per Day: https://newsletter.systemdesign.one/p/tinder-architecture 16) How Cloudflare Supports 55 Million Requests per Second With 15 Postgres Clusters: https://ne…”
  14. Neo Kim on Substack: “GitHub has more than 207 million repositories. But only a fraction of them are valuable resources for specific niches. Here are 9 of my favorite repositories that will help you grow as a programmer: 1) System design: https://github.com/systemdesign42/system-design 2) Tech i…”
  15. Code Review Comment Prefixes for Clearer Feedback
  16. Global Exception Handling in ASP.NET Core – IExceptionHandler in .NET 8 [Recommended] – codewithmukesh
  17. Create custom resource types for .NET Aspire – .NET Aspire | Microsoft Learn
  18. Development Containers Simplified – ISE Developer Blog
  19. copy/v86: x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser

Friday links 472

  1. German submarine U-1206 – Wikipedia
  2. Note by Neo Kim on Substack: “Here are some cloud design patterns that you should know as a senior engineer: 15. Retry Pattern: Automatically retry failed operations to improve the chances of success. 14. Cache-Aside pattern: Loading data into a cache on-demand to improve data access times and reduce ser…”
  3. StephenCleary/LocalTelemetry: Local dashboards for telemetry collection.
  4. Best Icon Libraries for a Dev in 2024 – DEV Community
  5. DevToys-app/DevToys: A Swiss Army knife for developers.
  6. Typed-xlsx | Feature-rich Type-safe Excel Reporting
  7. Building pipelines with System.Threading.Channels
  8. Don’t Do This With Extension Methods | Powered by Coffee
  9. 10x Engineers
  10. 4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
  11. The Tarzan Method – The Engineering Manager
  12. analysis-tools-dev/static-analysis: ⚙️ A curated list of static analysis (SAST) tools and linters for all programming languages, config files, build tools, and more. The focus is on tools which improve code quality.
  13. Velato
  14. Web Check
  15. Good Ideas in Computer Science ・ Daniel Hooper
  16. goksan/statusnook: Effortlessly deploy a status page and start monitoring endpoints in minutes
  17. microsoft/typespec
  18. 5 symptoms of a project with a tech debt problem
  19. My 25-Year Engineering Career Retrospective

Friday links 471

  1. Shared post – “If this one guy got hit by a bus, the world’s software would fall apart.”
  2. Simplifying Dynamic SQL Queries with Dapper – CodeProject
  3. 11 Philosophical Razors to Simplify Your Life
  4. Build & test resilient apps in .NET with Dev Proxy – .NET Blog
  5. What is Dev Proxy? – Dev Proxy | Microsoft Learn
  6. Streamline your container build and publish with .NET 8 – .NET Blog
  7. Technology Radar | An opinionated guide to today’s technology landscape | Thoughtworks
  8. cloudevents/sdk-csharp: CSharp SDK for CloudEvents
  9. How I turned my open-source project into a business
  10. Implementing a Custom IConfiguration Provider with MS SQL Server in C# – CodeProject
  11. Referencing external Docker containers in .NET Aspire using the new custom resources API
  12. Tyrrrz/CliWrap: Library for running command-line processes
  13. Blazor Basics: Templating Components with RenderFragments
  14. How to send progress updates – Slava Akhmechet
  15. Why you need a “WTF Notebook”
  16. Do best practices really matter? | Trevor Elkins Blog
  17. Basic Things
  18. Recommended learning resources for C# and .NET in 2024. | by Dr Milan Milanović | Apr, 2024 | Medium
  19. matthiasjost/dotnet-content-creators: ⚡A list of .NET content creators
  20. Creating a Deep Observer in TypeScript – I Like Kill Nerds

Friday links 470

  1. airbnb/javascript: JavaScript Style Guide
  2. 10 things software developers should learn about learning
  3. Database Fundamentals
  4. The Death of the Mathematics I Knew | by Sunil Singh | Medium
  5. vb-consulting/NpgsqlRest: Automatic REST API for PostgreSQL Database as .NET8 Middleware
  6. A Programmer with Microsoft tools – A programmer journey through code, books and tools
  7. Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
  8. Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey, Part 2
  9. timonkrebs/MemoizR: Declarative Structured Concurrency for C#
  10. How to Answer a System Design Interview Problem
  11. C# Guide – .NET managed language | Microsoft Learn
  12. systemdesign42/system-design: Building the best system design resource in the internet
  13. EF8 – Row SQL returning Non-entities – CodeProject
  14. Using GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices – The GitHub Blog
  15. Support automatic transient dependency packaging for source generators · Issue #17775 · dotnet/sdk
  16. Exactly what to say in code reviews – by Jordan Cutler
  17. Integer overflow vulnerabilities in .NET – Jason’s Blog
  18. Useful features in Entity Framework Core 8 for your application
  19. Simple Ways to Show Appreciation at Work
  20. Brilliant Jerks in Engineering

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