Personal updates and recaps from Dev Leader, including weekly episodes and blog roundups covering career reflections, AI experiments, and recent C# content.
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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I dig into a Reddit thread about getting your manager to prioritize tech debt -- why it almost always loses to shipping features, the two forces working against you, and how to reframe the conversation in the language the business actually cares about.
This week is a full walkthrough of the SOLID principles in C# -- single responsibility, open/closed, Liskov substitution, and interface segregation -- plus design pattern guides for the mediator, iterator, and memento patterns. There's also practical ASP.NET Core Web API coverage on deploying to Azure and Docker and writing integration tests, with new videos on engineering management, plugin architecture, and tech debt.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I dig into a Reddit thread about the management trap -- why engineering management is a fundamentally different job than being an IC, how I think about absorbing chaos so my team can stay focused, and what you actually need to understand before you take that management promotion.
This week digs into building ASP.NET Core Web APIs: controllers, minimal APIs, model validation, error handling, versioning, and JWT auth. Plus a full run through the iterator, mediator, and chain of responsibility patterns in C#, with new videos on engineering careers, testing, and single points of failure.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I share my honest take on a Reddit thread about ADHD, anxiety, and depression in software engineering -- and the concrete things I've learned about prioritization, burnout, and structuring engineering work around how your brain actually operates.
This week covers the chain of responsibility design pattern in C# end-to-end with the complete guide, implementation, decision guide, and best practices, plus the template method pattern with a real-world example, best practices, and a strategy pattern comparison. On the reflection side, we have expression trees as a reflection alternative, UnsafeAccessor for private member access, Native AOT safety with DynamicallyAccessedMembers, reflection vs source generators, and how DI containers use reflection internally. Rounding it out: the complete ASP.NET Core Web API guide and a deep look at ASP.NET Core routing.
