Top Links
- Exploring Microsoft’s Phi-3 Family of Small Language Models (SLMs) with Azure AI (Lee Stott)
- The History of .NET with Richard Campbell – Adventures in .NET 187 (Caleb Wells, Wai Liu, Shawn Clabough & Charles M. Wood)
- Introducing Plans on Microsoft Learn (Kaberi Bell)
- Snipping Tool and Paint updates begin rolling out to Windows Insiders (Brandon LeBlanc)
- TLS server authentication: Deprecation of weak RSA certificates (Niara Patterson)
- Join the .NET Team at Microsoft Build 2024! (Mehul Harry)
Web & Cloud Development
- Blazor Basics: 9 Best Practices for Building Blazor Web Applications (Claudio Bernasconi)
- The Forensics Of React Server Components (RSCs) (Lazar Nikolov)
- What is a Web Application Firewall (WAF) for WordPress? (Jen Swisher)
- Performance Optimization in React Pivot Table with Data Compression (Manikandan Murugesan)
- Wasm vs. Docker: Performant, Secure, and Versatile Containers (Savannah Ostrowski)
- Introducing ESLint Compatibility Utilities (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Astro 4.8 (Erika, Emanuele Stoppa, Matthew Phillips, Nate Moore, Bjorn Lu & Sarah Rainsberger)
- Node v20.13.1 (LTS) (Marco Ippolito)
- New developments in Microsoft Entra ID Protection (Alex Weinert)
- I’ve Got Passkeys Working in My App! But How Do I Manage Them? (Carla Urrea Stabile)
- Continue on Error in the Pulumi CLI (Thomas Gummerer)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- Building your C++ Code with CMake in VS Code (Alexandra Kemper)
- Controlling Parallelism with Wolverine Background Processing (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Support Corner: Dotfuscator and Strong Named Assemblies (Ben Nettleton)
- General Performance Tip: Type Conversion (David McCarter)
- Asking for a DispatcherQueue from a GUI thread you created (Raymond Chen)
- Generate QR Codes With QRCoder in .NET (Ryan Miranda)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Keeping Up with Tech as a T-Shaped Dev (Keith Fung)
- All the Copilots: Microsoft Explains ‘The Ecosystem Is Larger than You Think’ (David Ramel)
- How Do You Measure Developer Experience? (Jennifer Riggins)
- How AI enhances static application security testing (SAST) (Nicole Choi)
- Communication Training: The Most Overlooked (and Most Important) Workplace Training (Radical Candor Team)
- Testing Stencil Components with Ease using Playwright (Stencil Team)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Flutter vs React Native: An In-Depth Comparison (Juan Reyes)
- I built the same app with Flutter, React Native, and Ionic (Francisco Magalhaes)
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 208 – 4th Year Anniversary!! (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- MongoDB Performance: Patterns and Best Practices (MongoDB Team)
- Using ESLint and Prettier in Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- How do I get started with the C# Dev Kit? | On .NET (Leslie Richardson)
- Key Mirroring to Azure SQL Database in Fabric Benefits | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
Podcasts
- Shift AI Podcast: How AI is evolving in 2024, with Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Pablo Castro (Boaz Ashkenazy)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Open Core Open Source with Mermaid Chart’s Knut Sveidqvist (Scott Hanselman)
- Embracing Angular’s Evolution with Santosh Yadav – JavaScript Jabber 631 (Charles M. Wood)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Guiding Agile Teams to Independence, Tips For Scrum Masters | Mike Lyons (Vasco Duarte)
- JS Party Podcast #322 – From Shoelace to Web Awesome (Cory LaViska, Amal Hussein & Jessica Sachs)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Between hyper-focus and burnout: Developing with ADHD (Eira May)
- Jamstack Radio Episode #147 – Secure Local Dev Environments with Chris Stolt and Ben Burkert of Anchor (Brian Douglas)
- Web Rush Episode 280: How Secure is Your AI? (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
- Talk Python to Me #461: Python in Neuroscience and Academic Labs (Michael Kennedy)
- The Python Show Episode 40 – Open Source Development with Antonio Cuni (Mike Driscoll)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 466: Great Grammarly (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- BASIC at 60: How This Simpler Language Impacted Programming (Todd R. Weiss)
Database
- I’m Getting Antsy for SQL Server vNext. (Brent Ozar)
- User Experience Under Different Isolation Levels In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- SQL Server Networking troubleshooting documentation expanded (Joseph Pilov)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 Start menu with floating widgets and Microsoft’s new Xbox mobile gaming store is launching in July (Tom Warren)
- Meet the new GroupMe: Copilot AI, Reactions, 1-1 calling, and more! (GroupMe Team)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3936 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – May 9, 2024 (#315) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Escape Velocity: Better Metrics for Agile Teams (Doc Norton) – Referral Link