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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss the Reddit thread telling someone to quit their bad manager -- and why I push back on the all-or-nothing framing, plus what to actually try first.
Discover when to use proxy pattern in C# with decision criteria for virtual, protection, and caching proxies plus guidance on simpler alternatives.
This week takes a deep tour of LINQ in C# covering grouping, aggregation, set operations, joins, deferred execution, and element access, plus complete guides to the proxy, flyweight, and bridge design patterns. The video lineup tackles context switching, generational dynamics on engineering teams, and where AI tooling actually fits in a real developer workflow.
Master LINQ element access in C# -- First, Last, Single, Chunk, and TryGetNonEnumeratedCount for safer, faster .NET 6+ collection queries.
Compare flyweight vs singleton pattern in C# with side-by-side code examples, key structural differences, and guidance on when to use each for instance management.
Understand LINQ deferred execution in C# -- when queries actually run, multiple enumeration bugs, and when to materialize with ToList for correctness.
