Reading Notes #440

Cloud

• Azure portal August 2020 update (Angie Doyle) - Wonderful Updates better search, better productivity.Very nice.

• Path based routing in Azure Application Gateway with Azure WebApps (Dominique St-Amand) - Great post that explains how to get the most of our domain name and workaround a little limitation of the portal.

Programming

• How to Develop an ASP.NET Core Application Using Visual Studio Code (Mathankumar Rajendran) - The perfect post to get started without impacting too much (installing heavy software) your computer.

• Configuring Codespaces for .NET Core Development (Justin Yoo ) - This post goes deeper than the usual hello word type of post about Codespace. It really shows an example of configuration.

• Have you built your GitHub Profile README yet? (Mayank Choudhary) - What?! This is super cool, and I didn't know about it.

• How to Work With Client-Side Blazor (Jon Hilton ) - This is a great simple post to get started with Blazor web assembly. Simple enough so all can understand what it is and what's nice about it.

• Introducing Blazor Automatic Kingdom (null) - Interesting of the popular blocky UI/UX with Blazor.

• Introduction to SVELTE (Sohaib Nehal) - As I rediscover JavaScript, it's fascinating to see how much this language as evolve and now have so many great frameworks.

• WSL 2 Support is coming to Windows 10 Versions 1903 and 1909 | Windows Command Line (Tyler) - Yeah! One of my computers is not in the insider program and was still with WSL1... But not anymore.

Podcasts

• 087: Learning Azure with Gwyneth Pena (CloudSkills.fm) - In this episode, you will discover a freshly awarded MVP, a brilliant content creator, and super energetic women. Wonderful.

• Why you should double down on intergration testing with Kent C. Dodds (Software Engineering Unlocked) - Tests are important we all know that (well we should), but there is a shift about the type of tests that are the best one recently... Interesting.

• Working in Public: Open Source Software with Nadia Eghbal (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - A very interesting conversation about the open-source work today. She is the author of the book Working in Public, which looks fascinating.

• #169 – Thinking One Step Ahead to Grow Your Business through PR with Dmitry Dragilev of JustReachOut.io (The Indie Hackers Podcast) - I think this quote used summarize perfectly: Just because you built it doesn't mean people will come. Great discussion.

• The Shorts -- Twindom (The Dirtbag Diaries) - A really touching story of two sisters and a hiking trip that changed her lives.

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Reading Notes #432

Every Monday, I share my "reading notes". Those are a curated list of all the articles, blog posts, podcast episodes, and books that catch my interest during the week and that I found interesting. It's a mix of the actuality and what I consumed.

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Cloud

• Simplifying declarative deployments in Azure (Mark Russinovich) - Great new features that will speed up and simplify our writing time.

Programming

• Parse Markdown Front Matter With C# (Khalid Abuhakmeh) - A nice post that shows the code to parse a Jekyll blob post file in c#
• Learning and relearning Docker commands (Mark Downie) - A nice short post that lists common commands.
• Run Azure Container Instances from the Docker CLI (Thomas Maurer) - Wow, that kind of crazy cool! Pulling and a container instant directly from the native CLI...I love it.
• Using the Blockly visual programming editor to call a .NET Core WebAPI (Scott Hanselman) - Really cool open source project on GitHub.

Podcasts

• 205: Monetization (Merge Conflict) - Nice discussion about the ads in an APP, why we want them why we don't...
• #44: Jen Looper - Women in Tech and Developer Evangelism (The Solo Coder Podcast) - Another great episode of Solo Coder. This time I new the guest, but nevertheless I learn something.
• How to Think Like a Boss with Kate Crocco (Influencer Entrepreneurs with Jenny Melrose) - Creating, building feeling good in a business while being a parent is hard.
• .NET Multi-Platform App UI with Scott Hunter (.NET Rocks!) - Great episode that summarize, tease, and share about everything dotnet.
• 081: Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer (AZ-400) (CloudSkills.fm) - After the revamping of the exams, it was very interesting to ear about Az400. I like DevOps, so that an exam on that path.
• Inside Doist - The Bootstrapped Market Leader (Software Engineering Unlocked) - A very interesting discussion with a an great creator.

Books

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Title: Badass: Making Users Awesome 

Author: Kathy Sierra 

ISBN: 9781491919019

I took me about one year to read that book. Way longer then it should. It was a good book and it is really easy to read. Maybe it's the fact that it was a "real" book and not in my kindle? But I think it was the format. This book look like a comic book with a director cut. There those little story bubbles and there is the text. The content is amazing, but I felt like I was always losing the vibe while transitioning to the text, or the bubbles. 

However, the book is really great