Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - July 20

Published on Monday, July 21, 2025

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Open-source

How I Prioritize OSS Bugs by Jeremy D. Miller

.NET

Microsoft Resiliency Extensions and Polly Part 1 - Building Your First Resilience Pipeline by Jeff Zuerlein

Unexpected inconsistency in records by Jon Skeet

C# 14 extension members; AKA extension everything by Andrew Lock

Aspire Dashboard by Joseph Guadagno

PDF Reporting in .NET With HTML Templates and PuppeteerSharp (and it's free) by Milan Jovanović

Domain Driven Design

EventStorming: enhancing knowledge transfer in complex domains by Alizée Gottardo

Agile/Work Life

Microsoft says AI saved it $500 million - despite it also confirming massive job cuts by Craig Hale

A Week of Mondays by Sarah Dutkiewicz

REST/APIs

OpenAPI Spec 3.2 is coming by Alexander Karan

10+ Signs You Might Need API Governance by Bill Doerrfeld

Why ownership is the key to successful APIs by Daniel Kocot

Focusing on Capabilities Is a Win by Mike Amundsen

Azure

Build reliable Go applications: Configuring Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK for real-world scenarios by Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Windows

You can use a file as a synchronization object, too by Raymond Chen

AI

AI coding tools can slow down seasoned developers by 19% by Gyana Swain

Computing

The case of the invalid instruction exception on an instruction that should never have executed by Raymond Chen

Asynchrony is not Concurrency by Loris Cro