Dew Drop – May 23, 2023 (#3949)

Top Links

• How to watch Microsoft’s Build 2023 conference (Tom Warren)
• Governance of superintelligence (Sam Altman, Greg Brockman & Ilya Sutskever)
• Announcing: Contoso Real Estate JavaScript Composable Application Reference Sample (Nitya Narasimhan, Natalia Venditto & Wassim Chegham)
• Microsoft Build 2023: all the news and announcements from the developer conference (Emma Roth)
• Early Bird Tickets On Sale for TechBash 2023 (Jason Gaylord)

Web & Cloud Development

• Good (Blazor) Components are… ? (Jon Hilton)
• How to create a REST API with Node.js and Express (Akshaya Srikanth)
• Leveling up Pulumi AI with the Pulumi Registry (Aaron Friel)
• Apache Pulsar 3.0 Delivers a New LTS Version and Efficiency Improvements (Andrea Messetti)
• Reuse Angular Document Editor Instances in Bootstrap Tabs (Bjoern Meyer)
• How to Create a Custom Debounce Hook with React (John Au-Yeung)
• Could WebAssembly Be the Key to Decreasing Kubernetes Use? (Loraine Lawson)
• Announcing Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro (Matt McCleary)
• Automatically run and monitor performance tests in Azure Load Testing (Nagarjuna Vipparthi)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Is WPF Dead? – The Current State of WPF [2023] (Claudio Bernasconi)

Visual Studio, Windows & .NET

• Common C# exceptions and how to fix them (Carlos Schults)
• retrowin32: async, DLL loading, tracing execution, and Zig (Evan Martin)
• How to Use AI to Create Your Own ‘Super Macro’ VS Code Extensions (David Ramel)
• Different Ways to Initialize a String in C# (Code Maze)
• How to Get Current Date In C#? (Naresh Beniwal)
• Understanding IOptions, IOptionsMonitor, and IOptionsSnapshot in .NET 7 (Davide Bellone)
• 6 useful extensions for IEnumerable (Steven Giesel)
• The Importance of Removing Unnecessary Expression Values in Code in Microsoft .NET (David McCarter)
• Detect Globalization-Invariant mode in .NET (Gérald Barré)
• Speeding up the insertion of a sorted (or mostly-sorted) key list into a std::map or other ordered associative container (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Inside DevOps with Dale Francis from Climavision (Joanna Wyganowska)
• Best Practices for Building Inclusive User Interfaces (Carter Harris)
• What Your Software Can Learn From The Ingenious Design of ATMs (Justin Etheredge)
• Modern work requires attention. Constant alerts steal it (Ryan Donovan)
• Plugging into Jira from Semantic Kernel (Vivien Hung)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Designing for Wear OS: Getting started with designing inclusive smartwatch apps (Matthew Pateman, Mallory Carroll & Josef Burnham)

Screencasts & Videos

• ChatGPT-Like Experience inside Visual Studio! (Isaac Levin)
• Using FFImageLoading with .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
• Introduction to Azure Redis | Open at Microsoft (Ricky Diep & Roberto Perez)
• Career Nav #46: Going from Engineering Management to Founder/CTO (Women Who Code)

Podcasts

• Smashing Podcast Episode 61 With Rachel Andrew: What Is Web Platform Baseline? (Drew McLellan)
• Revision Path – Morgan Bissant (Maurice Cherry)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – OpenAI ChatGPT, Azure Communication Services and Microsoft Graph with Dan Wahlin (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• The PowerShell Podcast Episode 66 – Help me PowerShell. You’re my only hope. (James Petty)
• Made by Google Podcast – Android Goes Big: Meet Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet (Rachid Finge)
• PPP 380 | How to Navigate Stressful Conversations With That Friend (or Stakeholder) You Don’t Agree With, with guest Mónica Guzmán (Andy Kaufman)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 122 – Firewalls in the Cloud: How to Implement Trust Boundaries for Access Control (Anton Chuvakin)
• Changelog News Podcast – Trogon, StableStudio, life after Apple, Google’s problematic new TLDs & how to discuss programming languages (Jerod Santo)
• The Amp Hour #633 – Engineering Optimization (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 573 – For those who just don’t Git it (Eira May)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast #102: Stop Being a Lazy Career Workaholic (Kae Lynne Sapino)
• Talk Python to Me #416: Open Source Sports Analytics with PySport (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• TechBash 2023 Early Bird registration is now open. Sign up early and save! (TechBash Team)
• Syncfusion: Come See Us at Microsoft Build 2023! (Graham High)
• Navigating Microsoft Build for born in the cloud companies (Neelay Thaker)
• AI Activists to Target Microsoft at Build 2023 (Paul Thurrott)
• Gates Foundation launches AI ‘Grand Challenge,’ as it weighs risk and reward in the developing world (Todd Bishop)

Database

• Fast and Efficient Way to Monitor and Solve SQL Server Performance Issues (Rajendra Gupta)
• How DynamoDB queries behave compared to relational databases (James Gregory)
• How to Choose the Right Database Monitoring Tool and Time Machine Advice: What I Wish I Knew When Starting with Databases (Pinal Dave)
• Configure SQL Auditing to Storage Account using Managed Identity for SQL Managed Instance. (Sravani Saluru)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Introducing Favorites in the Microsoft 365 app for Android (Ajay Sodhi)
• New Microsoft Power Automate features to develop and orchestrate automation (Stephen Siciliano)

PowerShell

• How to run PowerShell scripts on Azure VMs with Terraform (Vinicius Apolinario)

Miscellaneous

• Lawsuit Accuses DoorDash of Charging iPhone Users More For Identical Orders and TikTok Is Suing Montana Over Law Banning the App In the State (BeauHD)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25370 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Amazon Kindle Scribe gets lasso select, cut and paste, native crosswords, and other features (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3711 (Chris Alcock)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #104 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Reading List – May 22, 2023 (#094) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #556 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 When They Win, You Win: Being a Great Manager Is Simpler Than You Think (Russ Laraway) – Referral Link