A little more than usual this week. Some tips for Entity Framework, more reasons to quit Spotify, an American scientific brain drain, and more.

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.NET

• Using Entity Framework: Smart Decisions That Save You Later - Siddhesh Y
• AutoMapper and MediatR Commercial Editions Launch Today - Jimmy Bogard
• Testcontainers Best Practices for .NET Integration Testing - Milan Jovanović
• Adding test description for data-driven tests in xUnit - Steven Giesel

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Web Development

• Building a Lightweight Reactive State Manager with JavaScript Proxies - Loren Stewart
• The time is right for a DOM templating API - Justin Fagnani
• Web components don't need a constructor() - Chris Ferdinandi
• Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens - Alex Russell

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General Development

• How I build software quickly - Evan Hahn
• Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck - Pedro Tavares

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The Internet

• How email tracking works behind the scenes - Justin Duke

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Technology

• Why We Quit Spotify - Ryan Dombal

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AI

• How much (little) are the AI companies making? - Cory Doctorow

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Science

• American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history - Ethan Siegel

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Space

• A colossal explosion sent antimatter heading toward us at nearly the speed of light - Philip Plait

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Business & Finance

• Vanguard will soon crush fees for even more investors - The Economist
• Trump Wants to Expand Nuclear Power. It Won’t Be Easy. - Josh Ulick & Jennifer Hiller

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Sports

• Debacle in the desert: will the Athletics’ $1.75bn stadium on the Vegas Strip ever be built? - David Lengel

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Podcasts

• The Indicator: Can you afford to evacuate ahead of a disaster?
• Make Me Smart: The New Era of Warfare
• Techdirt Podcast: The Political Power Of Mockery

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Media & Entertainment

• How a Show About Truly Terrible People Became the Defining American Sitcom - M.H. Miller

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Politics

• Who Goes MAGA? - Mike Masnick

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A Song to Leave You With

John Williams - Anakin vs. Obi-Wan