Reading Log ForOctober 27, 2025 (#145)
Two weeks worth of articles and podcasts this week.
.NET
- Using and authoring .NET tools - Andrew Lock
- The Gaps and Richness of the .NET Ecosystem - Sam Basu
- Entity Framework Core Isn’t Slow; You’re Just Using It Wrong - Odumosu Matthew
- The Value of Custom Exceptions - Scott DePouw
Web Development
- A better future for JavaScript that won't happen - Drew DeVault
- React Won By Default - And It’s Killing Frontend Innovation - Loren Stewart
- Taking a shot at the double focus ring problem using modern CSS - Eric Bailey
- Finally, safe array methods in JavaScript - Matt Smith
- One List To Rule Them All - Adam Argyle
- Moving off of TypeScript - Chander Ramesh
- The silent shift to Vite: What it means for your stack - Elijah Asaolu
- forced-color-adjust: none is an unavoidable foot gun - Sarah Higley
- The killer feature of Web Components - Dave Rupert
General Development
- Why do software developers love complexity? - Kyrylo Silin
- Do the simplest thing that could possibly work - Sean Goedecke
- Successive Prototypes Bridge the Gap Between Idea and Reality - Jim Nielsen
- Do the simplest thing that could possibly work - Sean Goedecke
Design
- “Your” vs “My” in user interfaces - Adam Silver
The Internet
- Why Wikipedia works - Cory Doctorow
- You do not need “analytics” for your blog because you are neither a military surveillance unit nor a commodity trading company - Leon
Technology
- Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data - Andy Greenberg & Matt Burgess
- How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs - Anil Dash
Cybersecurity
- Why ad blockers are a top security and privacy defense for everyone - Zack Whittaker
AI
- The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
- No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive - Colton Voege
- Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI - Samantha Cole
- What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer - Joseph Cox
Sports
- Why Are There Still Pirates Fans? - Keith Paradise
Podcasts
- Techdirt Podcast: The New Generation Of Independent Journalists
- The Distraction: The Most Difficult Job In The World, With Seth Wickersham
- Coffee & Open Source: Jamie Taylor
Media & Entertainment
- Podcasts Are Not Television - Alex Sujong Laughlin
Journalism
- Bari Weiss - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Politics
- Trump steals $400b from American workers - Cory Doctorow
Everything Else
- Why aren’t you a good fit? - Anton Iokov
- There’s Now a Casino in Everyone’s Pocket. For Some Young Men, It’s a Near-Fatal Gamble. - Paul Solotaroff & Eli Senor