Top Links
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Hachyderm’s Kris Nova on running a Mastodon Server (Scott Hanselman)
 - LastPass: Notice of Recent Security Incident (Karim Toubba)
 - Saving Christmas with Functional C# – Part One – Definite Loops (Simon Painter)
 - How the heap verification mode helps with debugging heap corruption (Maoni Stephens)
 - Accelerate ML.NET training with Intel oneDAL (Luis Quintanilla)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- WebStorm 2022.3.1 Is Available (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
 - Azure Maps as a Source to Syncfusion Maps (Hari Venkatesh E.)
 - Azure Functions OpenAPI Extension Update (Justin Yoo)
 - How to Host a WordPress Site in Azure (rtripurani)
 - A Complete Guide to Creating a Mind Map Using Angular Diagram Component (Sarathkumar V.)
 - As GitHub Quits Atom for VS Code, GitLab Revamps Web IDE (Based on VS Code) (David Ramel)
 - Implementing Validations in .NET Core API (Baskar Rao)
 - Beating Traffic with Bing Maps’ Route Optimization APIs and HO HO HO! Microsoft and Bing Maps help NORAD track Santa! (Bing Team)
 - Auth0 SDK for NextJS v2.0 released! (Juan Cruz Martinez)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Introducing the Sixth Set of .NET MAUI Controls and Introducing the New .NET MAUI Rating Control (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
 - Uno Platform 2022 in Review (Uno Platform Team)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- F# Tuple (Jin Vincent Necesario)
 - C# 11.0: Raw String Literals (Thomas Claudius Huber)
 - MailMerge: Working with Image Placeholders (Bjoern Meyer)
 - Is there a fixed virtual address that the system promises never to use for anything, so I can use it? (Raymond Chen)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Don’t Do DevOps Just So You Can Say You Do DevOps (LeadingAgile Team)
 - Learnings from Applying Psychological Safety Across Teams (Ben Linders)
 - Playwright 1.29 is out! Watch the Overview. (Playwright Team)
 - Things I Learned #17: Another git trick (Michael Eaton)
 - EXE or MSI Installer – What suits your business best? | Differences and Recommendations (Radu Popescu)
 - 12 Days of Holiday Hacking (PreEmptive Team)
 - How to make the most of Color Variables (Sketch Team)
 - GitLab 15.7 released introducing the GitLab CLI and with browser-based DAST GA (Dilan Orrino)
 - 2022: The Year AI Came to Coding (Loraine Lawson)
 - Deciphering the legacy software bottlenecks: How re-architecting reduces it? (Tejas Kaneriya)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Surface Duo: Happy Holidays 2022 (chatgpt & Craig Dunn)
 - $5 at Yankee Candle: What No One Understands About Indie Game Development (Todd Mitchell)
 - Free gamedev tools and art packs to kick-start your next project (Joachim Pefferkorn)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- How to build a real-time leaderboard for the Soccer World Cup with Azure SQL & Redis | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
 - Visual Studio for Mac vs. Visual Studio Code vs. JetBrains Rider for new C# Developers (Aaron LaBeau)
 
Podcasts
- Learning How To Learn – Adventures in DevOps 142 (Jillian Rowe, Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
 - The Work Item #59 – Building On Your Own, with iOS Developer Donny Wals (Den Delimarsky)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Focusing Agile teams on “the most important thing”, a retrospective format | Stacey Taurah (Vasco Duarte)
 - Rocket 417: Techno Vice (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
 - Hachyderm.io, from Side Project to 38,000+ Users and Counting (Heather Joslyn)
 - CppCast – Holiday Special with Phil Nash and Timur Doumler (Rob Irving & Jason Turner)
 - Software Defined Talk Episode 393: 10 Years of Project Sputnik, with Barton George (Cote)
 - WebAuthn With Dan Moore – JavaScript Jabber 562 (AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
 - Talk Python to Me #395: Tools for README.md Creation and Maintenance (Michael Kennedy)
 
Community & Events
- Mastodon: The Open-Source Social Network Taking on Big Tech (Russell Smith)
 - Read Microsoft’s response to the FTC’s Activision Blizzard lawsuit (Mitchell Clark)
 
Database
- Should You Use SQL Server 2022’s GREATEST and LEAST? (Brent Ozar)
 - DataGrip 2022.3.2 (Maksim Sobolevskiy)
 
Miscellaneous
- Questions to consider before choosing an email newsletter tool (Annet Mathews)
 - DuckDuckGo Will Block Google’s ‘Invasive, Annoying’ Sign-In Popups and ‘Easily’ Replaceable Batteries May Soon Be Required By EU Law (BeauHD)
 - YouTube lands NFL Sunday Ticket in major shake-up of sports streaming (Jay Peters)
 - Best IDEs and Code Editors for Python (Lucero del Alba)
 - Hackers stole encrypted LastPass password vaults, and we’re just now hearing about it (Mitchell Clark)
 - Having an Immutable Mastodon Handle (Nicolas Fränkel)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3614holidays (Chris Alcock)
 - Collective #744 (Mary Lou)
 - Code Maze Weekly #153 (Vladimir Pecanac)
 
The Geek Shelf
 The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox (Evan Amos) – Referral Link