AI How to ride the shifting tide of AI correctly The author proposes that we can either be the dinosaur staring at the oncoming meteor or we can be the surfer riding the large wave. AI has gone through several…
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Professional Development – 2025 – Week 21
AI The Copilot Delusion “Copilot is like a thoughtless yet high-functioning, practically poor intern.” The article covers some areas where tools like GitHub Copilot can be quite helpful. The author makes arguments about how we have the potential to cede…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 19 & 20
.NET The Massive Testing Update of .NET 10 You can expose a .NET API to the network to help with UI tests. Apparently there was some issue with getting Playwright to interact with things (he went over this quickly with…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 18
.NET Null is Changing AGAIN in C# and it’s Awesome! The null conditional operator (?.) now works with assignment (e.g., customer?.Age = newAge only makes the assignment if customer is not null. AI AWS re:Invent 2024 – How Principal Financial…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 17
Software engineering LLMs Reduce Development Friction. Is That a Good Thing? The author has solid points about several second order effects of not having an easy-button. Sometimes the reason something is challenging is because a conversation needs to be had…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 16
Career Want to Use AI as a Career Coach? Use These Prompts. This post provides example prompts for the following: career clarity & direction, resume & LinkedIn optimization, job search strategy, interview preparation & salary negotiation, leadership & career growth,…
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A friend of mine recently got a 3d printer and wanted a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles item to go on a memorabilia shelf. This took me about 2-3 hours to plan and execute. Here’s a gallery with 25 pictures. Things…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 15
AI Quotation about Discipline from Dr. Malcolm in Jurassic Park I frequently think about this line — the post shows the movie script and original book versions. It feels like we’re so busy trying to use AI for everything —…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 14
Development / Testing Testing In React Tutorial – Jest and React Testing Library (video) An overview of how to render components and interact with them to verify state and behavior. Jest Testing: A Helpful, Introductory Tutorial A separate tutorial that…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 13
Career How to Build Career Resilience in Uncertain Times