Dew Drop – May the 4th Be with You (#3936)

Top Links

• Angular v16 is here! (Minko Gechev)
• Introducing Bob’s Used Books—a New, Real-World, .NET Sample Application (Steve Roberts)
• Creating Accessible Apps with Semantic Properties in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Visual Studio Code April 2023 (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Tutorial–Create a recommendation app with .NET MAUI and ChatGPT (Microsoft Learn)
• Announcing the next wave of AI innovation with Microsoft Bing and Edge (Yusuf Mehdi)

Web & Cloud Development

• Using useCallback Correctly in a Simple Next.js 13 Component and AI-driven Built-in Degradation and Enhancement in Next.js React Apps on Vercel (Peter Kellner)
• What happens when you navigate to the “same page” in Blazor? (Jon Hilton)
• Move to Azure with a Web App (Amy Colyer)
• Empowering Users: A Developer’s Guide to Interactivity with the Telerik HTML5 Report Viewer (Peter Vogel)
• Node v20.1.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
• Native AOT libraries with TypeScript (Eric Sink)
• OpenTelemetry demystified: a deep dive into distributed tracing (Jay Swamidass)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Identify If a String is a Number in C# (Code Maze)
• ReSharper 2023.2 Roadmap and Rider 2023.2 Roadmap (Sasha Ivanova)
• Mail Merge: Conditional Data Shaping in Merge Blocks (Bjoern Meyer)
• What can I do if I don’t want my file version number to be a sequence of four integers? (Raymond Chen)
• Minimal API growing with .NET 7 (Christian Nagel)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How Are Nullables Different From Mocks? (James Shore)
• Don’t panic! A playbook for managing any production incident (Ben Matthews)
• Framework vs. Mental Model: Understanding the Differences and How to Use Them Effectively and 10 Favorite Frameworks I Used at Microsoft to Achieve Greater Impact (JD Meier)
• How to Distinguish Between Strategies and Tactics (Karl Scotland)
• White House rolls out plan to promote ethical AI (Makena Kelly)
• More than meets the pull request: maintainers talk contributions (Mike Melanson)
• Generative AI Solution Architecture (Oliver Cronk)
• Experiments with GitHub CoPilot (Steve Jones)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Creating Your Own Media Plugin For Capacitor: An iOS Tutorial (Logan Brade)
• Announcing Capacitor 5.0 (Conner Simmons)

Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Eldert Grootenboer on Azure Service Bus (David Giard)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 154 – Taking the Stupid Out of IoT! (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
• Beyond comment driven development with GitHub Copilot X (GitHub Team)
• Advice for Building a Startup | Demiplane x TitletownTech (Microsoft Developer Team)
• Part 2 – How to build your first app using Power Apps | Power Fx & Power Automate basics (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Presentation: Moving .NET Apps to the Cloud (Irina Scurtu, Martin Thwaites, Guilherme Ferreira, Scott Hanselman & Renato Losio)
• The A.I. Dilemma (Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – Supporting Open Source with Joseph Finney (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Cross Platform App Development with Simon Grimm – JavaScript Jabber 580 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Dan Shappir)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 125: What’s On Your Workbench? (Ben Nadel)
• Complete Developer Podcast – File Transfer Protocols (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 099: The 4 Mandatory Mindsets of Peak Performance with Dr. Ruth Gotian | #1 Emerging Thinker in Management Worldwide by Thinkers 50 (Max Ahumada)
• Software Engineering Radio 562: Bastian Gruber on Rust Web Development (Philip Winston)

Community & Events

• Get ready for I/O ‘23: start planning your sessions, and take a look at some of Android’s favorite moments! (Maru Ahues Bouza)
• Microsoft’s OpenAI Hackathons: Fostering Continuous Learning and Innovation (Anshika Goyal)
• Discord is growing up, so everyone needs to pick a new username (Emma Roth)
• Ready to try Mastodon? Here’s how to get started (Kristina Bravo)
• JetBrains .NET Day Online 2023 – Call for Speakers (Maarten Balliauw)
• Unity Lays Off 600 Staff Members, Prepares To Close Half of its Offices (msmash)

Database

• Classing Up SSMS is as Easy as 1, 2, 3. (Brent Ozar)
• The first two chapters of my book are available! (James Serra)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Announcing the Microsoft Graph Early Adopter recognition program (Waldek Mastykarz)

Miscellaneous

• Rust: Stabilizing async fn in traits in 2023 (Niko Matsakis & Tyler Mandry)
• Photos app for Windows 11 update brings improvements for Windows Insiders (Brandon LeBlanc)
• The Surface Duo needs to step aside for the Microsoft Launcher (Kareem Anderson)
• Google Announces Rollout of Passkeys as a New, More Secure Way to Sign In (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Validate Data Cleanliness Using Asserts in Python (Pinal Dave)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3699 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – May 3, 2023 (#081) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Purely Functional Data Structures (Chris Okasaki) – Referral Link