Still have a lot of my RSS feeds to go through after vacation, but I did read a bit while in Aruba.

Software Development & Design

• Bun: lessons from disrupting a tech ecosystem - Gergely Orosz
• How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA) - Gergely Orosz
• Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship - Jeff Sandberg
• Don't Use "Task.WhenAll" for Interdependent Tasks - Jeremy Clarke
• How I stay motivated as a solo-creator - Herman Martinus
• Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on... - Tom Hacohen
• Feature Flags 101: A Guide for ASP.NET Core Developers - Davide Bellone
• The convenience of .NET - Richard Lander
• A new way of doing reflection with .NET 8 - Steven Giesel
• Should you use the .NET 8 Identity API endpoints? - Andrew Lock

Technology & the Internet

• NY Times Tried To Block The Internet Archive - Glyn Moody
• Dear Mailchimp Users - Buttondown.email

Science

• NASA should consider commercial alternatives to SLS, inspector general says - Eric Berger

Gaming

• Microsoft completes $69B Activision Blizzard deal, its biggest merger ever - Kevin Purdy

Business & Finance

• Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall - Zeke Faux
• Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system? - The Economist
• How can a film make almost $1 billion at the box office but still “lose” money? - Janet Nguyen

Sports

• That’s More Like The Marlins We All Know And Ignore - Ray Ratto
• Stop whining about MLB’s playoff system. Phillies, Astros show how to have October success - Jayson Stark

Media & Entertainment

• The Problem with Jon Stewart cancellation highlights a problem for Apple’s content - Samuel Axon

A Song to Leave You With

The Menzingers - Try