Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - July 6

Published on Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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Open-source

How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies by The GitHub Blog

6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week by The GitHub Blog

Software Architecture

Addition by subtraction in software design by Oskar Dudycz

.NET

Validation in FastEndpoints: Pipelines, Pitfalls, and Patterns by Barret Blake

Closed class hierarchies by Andrew Lock

Visual Studio June Update - Track Your Usage, Trust Your Tools by Visual Studio Blog

A Big Week for the Critter Stack by Jeremy D. Miller

MCP Beyond the Chat Window: Build Diagnostics in CI by .NET Team

5 EF Core Performance Anti-Patterns That Entity Framework Extensions Eliminates by Chris Woody Woodruff

Add vs AddRange in EF Core: The Performance Myth You Need to Stop Repeating by Chris Woody Woodruff

Build Your Own VPN With Tailscale by Milan Jovanovic

EF Core UseIdentityColumns by Karen Payne

Software Design

Worse is better: JSON versus XML by Mark Seemann

REST/APIs

Query Is Here by Alexander Karan

Bringing Legacy Standards Into the Modern API Age by Chris Woody Woodruff

API Governance Is 75% People Work by Karen Payne

Azure

Upcoming Change: NTLM Removal in Git (libcurl) by Azure DevOps Blog

Azure SDK Release (June 2026) by Azure SDK Blog

Need a different partition key in Azure Cosmos DB? Pick the right approach by Azure Cosmos DB Blog

See our new Azure Cosmos DB Design Patterns by Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Software Development

The Plight of Women in Tech 20+ Years Later by Sarah Dutkiewicz

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