Top Links
- AI for Developers (Microsoft Developer Team) – The developer home for Microsoft AI resources has been refreshed
- Unlocking insights with Meter Histogram in the Visual Studio profiler (Harshada Hole)
- CES 2025: The year of the Windows 11 PC refresh (Yusuf Mehdi)
- Metalama 2025.0 Generally Available: Support for C# 13 and .NET 9, Aspect Framework Improvements, and More (Gael Fraiteur)
- Introducing the New Angular Chat UI Component (Indrajith Srinivasan)
- Scott & Mark Learn To… Find Joy in Hobbies (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich) – Coming Wednesday, Jan 8th at 12:15pm EST
Web & Cloud Development
- Upcoming CVE for End-of-Life Node.js Versions (Node.js Team)
- ASP.NET Core 9: Discover the new developer Exception page (Anthony Giretti)
- Critter Stack Roadmap for 2025 (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Azure Communication Services Email Configuration and Sending Emails (Koen Verbeeck)
- Top 5 JavaScript Gantt Chart Libraries for 2025 (Mahalakshmi Karthikeyan)
- How to Set Up Basic jQuery Form Validation in Two Minutes (Maria Antonietta Perna)
- TIL: Kubernetes Auto-scaling and Requests vs Limits (Sean Killeen)
- Build Locally, Deploy Globally: Meet Studio Sync for WordPress.com (Wojtek Naruniec)
- Deprecating Redundant Attributes in the Number Insight API (Max Kahan)
- Last Call for Review of Proposed Corrections to EPUB 3.3 and Draft Note: String Searching (W3C)
- Getting ready for Tailwind v4.0 (Oscar Jite-Orimiono)
- Microsoft Entra: Top 50 features of 2024 (Shobhit Sahay)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- C# Lists: What They Are and How to Use Them (Stackify Team)
- What’s New in vcpkg (December 2024) (Augustin Popa)
- .NET 9 upgrade–notnull constraint (Bart Wullems)
- Routing and Topologies – Navigating the Digital Highways (Chris Woodruff)
- Exploring CollectionsMarshal for Dictionary (Gérald Barré)
- How can I tell whether a change to a control was due to the user or due to my program? (Raymond Chen)
- Encapsulating rod-cutting (Mark Seemann)
AI
- Using Azure AI Agent Service with AutoGen / Semantic Kernel to build a multi-agent’s solution (Kinfey Lo)
- AI Killed the Content Creator…Star (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI (Andy Bell)
- The Future of AI-Powered Applications Enabled by Couchbase (Part 2) (Matt Spillar)
- RAG Deep Dive: 10-part live stream series (Pamela Fox)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Reducing PAT usage across Azure DevOps (Angel Wong)
- GitHub Well-Architected Framework (GitHub Team)
- Part 3: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix (Rina Chang & Susie Lu)
- Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale (Varun Khaitan)
- Why it’s critical to get environment promotion right (Nikita Dergilev)
- A guide to understanding program and product managers (Bartosz Jaworski)
- Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector (Martin Thwaites)
- Ultimate guide to CI/CD: Fundamentals to advanced implementation (Sandra Gittlen)
- How to communicate efficiently at work (Prason)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Enabling Neural Rendering in DirectX: Cooperative Vector Support Coming Soon (Cassie Hoef)
- Meta stops selling the Quest Pro (Wes Davis)
- Google is Bringing Gemini to Google TV (Paul Thurrott)
- Xbox and LG to Bring Cloud Gaming to LG Smart TVs (Joe Skrebels)
Screencasts & Videos
- SharpSite – Open Source CMS with C# (Jeff Fritz)
- Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 12 (Jason Bock)
- New Copilot Features coming to Mac (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Team)
Podcasts
- Merge Conflict #444 – Official Family IoT Tech Support (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- InfoQ Podcast: Susan Shu Chang on Bridging Foundational Machine Learning and Generative AI (Susan Shu Chang)
- Azure Cloud Talk 25/1/6 – Woah New Year? Re-introducing Azure Cloud Talk! (Brian Gorman & Alec Harrison)
- Syntax Podcast #865 – CSS Performance × Rate Limiting × Array Sort Behavior – STUMP’d (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast #202 – What Every Engineering Leader Needs to Know About Multitasking with Dave Crenshaw | 2021 Top Episode Replay (Zach White)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Managing Change in Complex Organizational Cultures | Ellen Grove (Vasco Duarte)
- CloudChat Episode #17 – The Source is with Us (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
- The Changelog News Podcast #126 – 10 big predictions for 2025 (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #205 – Cybersecurity Forecast 2025: Beyond the Hype and into the Reality (Anton Chuvakin)
- Only Malware in the Building Episode #8 – Malware metamorphosis: 2024 reflections and 2025 predictions (Selena Larson, Dave Bittner & Rick Howard)
Community & Events
- Open Source in 2025: What Will Matter Most This Year? (Amanda Brock)
- The best stuff we’ve seen at CES so far (Andrew Liszewski)
- How and why I deleted all my tweets (Bruce Lawson)
- Python Is TIOBE Index Language Of The Year 2024 (Mike James)
- Microsoft AI Tour NYC 2025: Redefining Innovation (Peter Smulovics)
Database
- How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: IN and NOT IN (Erik Darling)
- TOP vs. TOP PERCENT: Hidden Costs – SQL in Sixty Seconds 206 (Pinal Dave)
- How to Find Outliers in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
- SQL Server Linked Server Encryption for Network Traffic (Svetlana Golovko)
- Azure SQL Database – Configure Job using Elastic Agents (Praveen Sreeram)
- Create SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric and Integrate into Project (Olivier Van Steenlandt)
- Monday Monitor Tips: Lots of Postgres Options (Steve Jones)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- New Unified Contacts in Microsoft Teams and Outlook, now generally available (Vivek Datir)
- Enhance your productivity with Copilot in OneDrive (Kayla Patterson)
Miscellaneous
- Disney To Merge Hulu + Live TV With Fubo (msmash)
- Microsoft would really like you to stop using Windows 10 this year (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-02 (Michael Eaton)
- Daily Reading List – January 6, 2025 (#466) (Richard Seroter)
- Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 2025 Tech Predictions, Llama 3.3 70B, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, custom billing view, and more (January 6, 2025) (Prasad Rao)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)