Interesting and useful things - March 2021 (#34)

And another pack of articles:

• Pendulum swings
• Pendulum swing: internal by default
• Pendulum swing: sealed by default
• Unobvious (cultural) consequence of cloud's pay-as-you-go model
• Timeout.InfiniteTimeSpan Field
• Advancing failure prediction and mitigation—introducing Narya
• Why Does Entity Framework Reinsert Existing Objects into My Database?
• The Glue Work: is the devil in *these* details?
• Avoid IIS to bind to every IP Address port and other amenities
• The dispassionate developer
• Overview
• Fluent Assertions
• Fluent Validation
• Clean Architecture for ASP.NET Core Solution: A Case Study
• 8 Books to Improve as a .NET Developer

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Interesting and useful things - February 2021 (#33)

And another pack of articles:

• How to build a personal finance app using Azure
• Include IL Offset into Production Exception Stack Traces
• ARCHITECTURE.md
• We need a Yuka for electricity to ease the energy transition
• Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
• Testimony before the North Dakota Senate Industry, Business and Labor Committee
• 10 Reasons Why You Should Write Tests
• Back Door Manipulation
• Wherever I may Roam (& Research): Review
• Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies
• How Can I Calculate CO2eq emissions for my Azure VM?
• Announcing .NET 6 Preview 1
• Generation of illiterate developers

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Interesting and useful things - January 2021 (#32)

And another pack of articles:

• Validation is a mirage
• HTML over the wire
• The proper usages of Exceptions in C#
• Prettier your CSharp with dotnet-format and lint-staged
• Waiting to happen
• Principles of Sustainable Software Engineering
• How we quickly refactored with Resharper more than 23.000 calls to Debug.Assert() into more meaningful assertions
• mermaid
• Windows 10/Server 2016 Graphics Troubleshooting
• Start with a Monolith, NOT Microservices
• Using software for sustainability – How Surfrider protects the oceans with AI
• How To Prioritize Tasks As A Team When Everything Seems Important
• Looking at Parler specs and their architecture
• Parametrised test primitive obsession code smell
• Self-hosted integration tests in ASP.NET
• Pairing Guidelines
• Apostrophe-shaped people
• All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business
• Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 6 years in the industry

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Interesting and useful things - December 2020 (#31)

And another pack of articles:

• Semantic Versioning 2.0.0
• Branching tests
• How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You
• BUILDING ON DEVELOPERS' INTUITIONS TO CREATE EFFECTIVE PROPERTY-BASED TESTS by John Hughes
• The art of Rubber Ducking or Rubber Duck Debugging
• Scott Hanselman's 2021 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
• Does the Language You Choose Change the Carbon Impact of Client UI Apps?

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Interesting and useful things - November 2020 (#30)

And another pack of articles:

• Configure team member’s machines with Chocolatey, PowerShell, and Octopus Runbooks
• Going Remote: Basecamp Walkthrough Livestream with Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
• Take a tour of HEY
• Performance Testing
• C# 9.0 on the record
• HTML 5 data- Attributes
• Announcing .NET 5.0
• How to sink a product/platform business?
• Good names are skin-deep
• Examining the Carbon Footprint of Devices
• Can you smell bullshit jobs around you?
• Name by role
• A heuristic for formatting code according to the AAA pattern
• Apologies In Code

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Interesting and useful things - October 2020 (#29)

And another pack of articles:

• Azure DevOps Server 2020 RTW Release Notes
• Behavior Driven Development for .NET
• SpecFlow - Getting Started with an example
• Introducing the SpecFlow+ LivingDoc Generator
• Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches
• Patterns of Distributed Systems
• Bias for action - a prescription for chaos or …
• Solid Relevance
• Hyrum's Law
• What I've learned about career development (*) (**)
  
  

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Interesting and useful things - September 2020 (#28)

 And another pack of articles:

• Difference between knowing Python and *knowing* Python
• Options, Not Roadmaps
• We need young programmers; we need old programmers
• WRITING BETTER CODE REVIEWS
• Comments that are easy to grok and grep
• The dictate of "old juniors"
• Tech Debt is an unfortunate abstraction, let's not use it
• Technical Debt Doesn’t Exist
• What do good Engineering Managers do? They taste the soup
• Demand Side Sales 101, a new book on sales by Bob Moesta.
• Don't Compare Averages

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