Dew Drop – April 25, 2023 (#3929)

Top Links

• Join the .NET Team at Microsoft Build 2023! (Mehul Harry)
• Deep dive – Uno Platform Template Wizard – Extensions, Application and Theme (Nick Randolph)
• Donovan Brown is Retiring –  Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 242 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• The era of AI: How the Microsoft Cloud is accelerating AI transformation across industries (Judson Althoff)
• How GPT models work (Bea Stollnitz)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #100 (Sam Basu) – Congratulations on #100!

Web & Cloud Development

• Let’s make our SPA more secure by consuming a Duende BFF with Angular (Tim Deschryver)
• Top 5 Tips for Angular Best Practices (Syncfusion Team)
• 5 JavaScript UI Components to Never Ask “How Do I Build That” Again (Codrops)
• What’s New in Node.js 20 (Craig Buckler)
• Exploring ASP.NET Core C# 7 Razor View vs. Blazor View in Existing Razor Project (David Robertson)
• ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 8 Preview 3: Native AOT Support and More (Robert Krzaczyński)
• React.js Application Structure – Best Practices (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Hide text in CSS pseudo elements from screen readers with this one weird trick (Salma Alam-Naylor)
• Selecting the Best Authorization for Your API Integrations (Alisa Duncan & E. Dunham)
• Serving less data to users with the `prefers-reduced-data` media query (Stephanie Stimac)
• Introducing more customization for published collection documentation (Ankit Jaggi)
• The Postman CLI vs. Newman: choose the right tool for you (Ian Douglas)
• Spotify Reveals Metrics for Success of Developer Portal Backstage (Matt Saunders)
• The State of OpenTelemetry (Sarah Morgan)
• What is a Webhook? (Skyler Holobach)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Using Reactive UI in your .NET MAUI app (Mark Allibone)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Memory leaks in C# (Arun Kumar Palani)
• Why is std::hardware_destructive_interference_size a compile-time constant instead of a run-time value? (Raymond Chen)
• How to Run an Async Method Synchronously in .NET (Code Maze)
• Isolating Side Effects from Wolverine Handlers (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Simplifying Unit Testing in Modern C++ Code That Uses Lambdas with Typemock (Eli Lopian)
• #30DaysOfAzureAI 22. MLOps Accelerator Explained (Setu Chokshi)
• Use Power Automate to update Azure DevOps queries (Erik Reitan)
• How Copilot/AI helps me in my daily work (Rob Bos)
• AI has a metadata problem… (Kin Lane)
• Armchair Architects: How Data is Changing – Part 1 and Part 2 (Ben Brauer & Ariya Khamvongsa)
• Don’t Let Git Issues Slow You Down: Fix Merge Conflicts and More (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Agility and Architecture (Kurt Bittner & Pierre Pureur)
• How to Measure the Health of Your OKR Program (Linsey Lamba)
• Are pull requests bad because they originate from open-source development? (Mark Seemann)
• Writing code with Chat-GPT (Rob Miles)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Photo Picker Everywhere (Yacine Rezgui)
• Power your players’ creativity with User-Generated Content from Unity (Zied Jebali)

Screencasts & Videos

• Generate QR Codes and Other Barcodes with Camera.MAUI in .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
• MassTransit Commute – Endpoint Dependencies (Chris Patterson)

Podcasts

• Revision Path – Dr. Cheryl D. Miller (Maurice Cherry)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes Community Check-up with Paris Pittman (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• Meta Cast 248 – The Role of Ethics in Agile Development (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• The PowerShell Podcast – Talking PowerShell on Ramp with Drew McClellan (James Petty)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 118 – RSA 2023 – How to Protect Your Organization from Cyberattacks in a Time of Political Turmoil (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 605 – CSS Color Functions (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• The Changelog News Podcast – Dataset wars, Bark, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate, StableLM & blind prompting is not prompt engineering (Jerod Santo)
• Azure Podcast Episode 457 – Data API Builder (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Is this the AI renaissance? (Eira May)
• PowerShell News Podcast Episode 048 – Interview with OnRamp Student Jasmine Swint and PowerShell News Podcast Episode 049 – Interview with Jaap Brasser (Mick Pletcher & Harjit Dhaliwal)

Community & Events

• Disney’s latest and biggest round of layoffs has begun (Charles Pulliam-Moore)
• Amy Keating: Why I am Joining the Mozilla Board (Kevin Zawacki)
• Microsoft launches bug bounty program for the new Bing (Maria Diaz)
• Amy Keating Joins the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors (Mark Surman)
• Fill in the ISO C++ Developer Survey (Sy Brand)
• How to become a Microsoft MVP (Thomas Maurer)
• Microsoft earnings preview: Growth slows as tech giant awaits payoff from big AI bets (Todd Bishop)

Database

• Fight for every byte it takes: Storing raw numbers (Oren Eini)
• Exporting SQL Data Compare Results to Excel (Steve Jones)
• Don’t Let Time Series Data Break Your Relational Database (Jessica Wachtel)

Miscellaneous

• Regular Expressions in Zig (Karl Seguin)
• Google Authenticator finally, mercifully adds account syncing for two-factor codes (Chris Welch)
• Retrying a bash command (Gérald Barré)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3693 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-17 (#69) (Michael Eaton)
• Daily Wrap Up – April 24, 2023 (#074) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #552 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Brand Storytelling: Put Customers at the Heart of Your Brand Story (Miri Rodriguez) – Referral Link