This Week’s Favourites
Chatting with Unmesh about building language with LLMs - Martin Fowler Blog
Azure Service Groups - Flexible Resource Organization - John Savill Youtube
How do I get that fire back? - Reddit Experienced Devs
Dotnet, C#, Azure
Getting Started with the Aspire CLI - Microsoft Dotnet Blog
EFCore.Visualizer – View Entity Framework Core query plan inside Visual Studio - Microsoft Dotnet Blog
Fixing an old .NET Core native library loading issue on Alpine - Andrew Lock Blog
The Real Cost of Abstractions in .NET - Milan Jovanovic Blog
MauiReactor: An MVU Approach for .NET MAUI - Microsoft Dotnet Blog
Quick one: Difference between collection expressions and collection initializer - Steven Giesel blog
Song recommendations with F# free monads - Ploeh Blog
Misc
From Black Box to Blueprint - Martin Fowler Blog
A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry - Cloudflare blog
Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development - Martin Fowler Blog
s1ngularity: supply chain attack in Nx packages - Vercel blog
Preparing for the worst: Our core database failover test - Vercel blog
How we accelerated Secret Protection engineering with Copilot - Github Blog
How GitHub Models can help open source maintainers focus on what matters - Github Blog
Home Assistant + Ubiquiti + AI = Home Automation Magic - Troy Hunt Blog
Building your own CLI Coding Agent with Pydantic-AI - Martin Fowler Blog
From Facts & Metrics to Media Machine Learning: Evolving the Data Engineering Function at Netflix - Netflix Tech Blog
Getting Creative With Images in Long-Form Content - CSS Tricks Blog
Baseline for CSS properties now in Chrome DevTools - web.dev Blog
AI Gateway now gives you access to your favorite AI models, dynamic routing and more — through just one endpoint - Cloudflare blog
A Radio Button Shopping Cart Trick - CSS Tricks Blog
Research, Review, Rebuild: Intelligent Modernisation with MCP and Strategic Prompting - Martin Fowler Blog
How to use GitHub Copilot on github.com: A power user’s guide - Github Blog
Anomaly alerts now in limited beta for Enterprise customers - Vercel blog
VS Code Dev Days – Join an event near you to learn about AI-assisted development - Visual Studio
Securing the AI Revolution: Introducing Cloudflare MCP Server Portals - Cloudflare blog
Rediscovering joy in learning: Jason Lengstorf on the state of development - Github Blog
Welcome to AI Week 2025 - Cloudflare blog
Weekly Update 466 - Troy Hunt Blog
Git Worktree: Managing Multiple Working Directories - Meziantou Blog
Build Slack agents with @vercel/slack-bolt - Vercel blog
Safeguarding VS Code against prompt injections - Github Blog
Unmasking the Unseen: Your Guide to Taming Shadow AI with Cloudflare One - Cloudflare blog
Beyond Booleans - Dan Abramov Blog
How a volunteer-run wildfire site in Portugal stayed online during DDoS attacks - Cloudflare blog
Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025 - Cloudflare blog
MoQ: Refactoring the Internet’s real-time media stack - Cloudflare blog
AI-powered prototyping with design systems - Vercel blog
Building your first MCP server: How to extend AI tools with custom capabilities - Github Blog
The No Handoff Methodology: A Practical Playbook for UX Design Leaders - Builder.io Blog
YouTube Videos
SaveChanges Correctly in EF Core - Nick Chapsas Youtube
AsNoTracking Everything in .NET is awesome - Nick Chapsas Youtube
We Need to Talk About Unions in C# - Nick Chapsas Youtube
Azure Top 3 Reliability Actions - John Savill Youtube
Azure Service Groups Quick Overview #johnsavillstechnicaltraining #azure - John Savill Youtube
Azure Update - 22nd August 2025 - John Savill Youtube
HackerNews Posts
Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line - Hacker news
Claude for Chrome - Hacker news
Google to require developer verification to install and sideload Android apps - Hacker news
Ghrc.io Appears to Be Malicious - Hacker news
Romhack.ing’s Internet Archive Mirror No Longer Available - Hacker news
Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor - Hacker news
From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring Progress in Medical Language Understanding [pdf] - Hacker news
Reddit Posts
Best companies that don’t lock you into internal systems/ tools? - Reddit Experienced Devs
Why is the web essentially shit now? - Reddit Web dev
I’m calling it: Identity is the most beginner-unfriendly system out there. - Reddit Dotnet
MathFlow - Reddit Dotnet
Company sends me a suspicious “take-home assignment” - Reddit Web dev
C# 15 Unions - NDepend Blog - Reddit Dotnet
How can an average engineer become that super driven person? - Reddit Experienced Devs
Why do we need CORS? - Reddit Web dev
Coinbase CEO Revealed He Fired Engineers Who Didn’t Use AI Tools - Reddit Web dev
C# 15 Kickoff and Themes - Reddit Dotnet
What would your next move be, in this sinking ship? - Reddit Experienced Devs
mid-2025 staff+ job search report/reflections - Reddit Experienced Devs
I hacked my bedroom lights to talk to Google Fit. If I haven’t moved in 2 hours, it flashes angry red until I get up. - Reddit Web dev
Will Microsoft ever fix hot reload in .NET? - Reddit Dotnet
Management want to take away IntelliJ licenses and mandate Cursor. They have acknowledged productivity will be worse but we need to be “AI aligned”. Am I over-reacting to consider this a deal breaker? - Reddit Experienced Devs
Quoted ₹135k for a custom system… client ran to a ₹10k dev instead 🤷♂️ - Reddit Web dev
We cut Azure hosting costs by 38% on a .NET Core app — exact services we changed + code - Reddit Dotnet
Published .NET 9 Cross-Platform Game (MAUI, open source) - Reddit Dotnet
Best “Idea’s Guy” Story? - Reddit Experienced Devs
AI is not nearly as good as people think - Reddit Web dev