Dew Drop – April 1, 2025 (#4394)

Top Links

• Part 2 – Babylon.js 8.0: Audio, Gaussian Splat and physics updates (Jason Carter & Thomas Lucchini)
• The 50 best things Microsoft has ever made (Verge Staff)
• Tutorial: Create a WinUI app (Microsoft Learn) – A new getting started tutorial for Windows devs on Learn
• Expanding Copilot+ PC experiences across AMD, Intel and Snapdragon powered devices (Navjot Virk)
• EPISODE 13 – Scott & Mark Learn To… YAP (Scott Hanselman) – Premiering tomorrow
• GitHub for Beginners: How to get LLMs to do what you want (Kedasha Kerr)
• PowerToys Command Palette utility – Now available in v0.90 (Microsoft Learn) – Get PowerToys 0.90 here

Web & Cloud Development

• Writing resilient Angular Component tests (that use HttpResource) with HttpTestingController (Tim Deschryver)
• Node.js Test CI Security Incident (Node.js Team)
• marker.js 3 Updates: New Markers, Shadows, Panning, and Fixes (Alan Mendelevich)
• Real-Time Magic: Live Updates with htmx and ASP.NET Razor Pages (Chris Woodruff)
• Boost Your Productivity with 5 Built-in React Grid Features (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• Can ChatGPT build an ASP.NET Core login form in 10 minutes? (David Grace)
• What’s new in Astro – March 2025 (Sarah Rainsberger)
• WebKit Features in Safari 18.4 (Jen Simmons, Saron Yitbarek, Jon Davis, Razvan Caliman, Karl Dubost, Brady Eidson, Elika Etemad, Youenn Fablet, Matthew Finkel, Simon Fraser, Timothy Hatcher, David Johnson, Anne van Kesteren, Daniel Liu, Keith Miller, Rupin Mittal, Tim Nguyen, Pascoe, Abrar Rahman Protyasha, Richard Robinson, Lily Spiniolas, Brandon Stewart, John Wilander & Luming Yin)
• HTTP APIs and GraphQL, Event-Driven, and Model Control Protocol (Kin Lane)
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Releases 2025 State of Dapr Report Highlighting Adoption Trends and AI Innovations (kthornhill)
• Worlds Collide: Keyframe Collision Detection Using Style Queries (Lee Meyer)
• Building a Network Vulnerability Scanner with Go (Rez Moss)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Video: Improving XAML in your real app! (Joseph Finney)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Metalama status update, March 2025 (Gael Fraiteur)
• If one program blocks shutdown, then all programs block shutdown, revisited (Raymond Chen)
• TX Text Control Core vs. Classic Performance Comparison Plain Text to DOCX and PDF (Bjoern Meyer)

AI

• NVIDIA Open Sources KAI Scheduler To Help AI Teams Optimize GPU Utilization (Frederic Lardinois)
• Humanity in Focus (Chris Palazzo)
• Building a Custom RAG Solution with Azure OpenAI and Multi-Backend Support (Leonard Lobel)
• AI-3026: Develop AI agents on Azure, releasing at the end of April. (Mindy Rosenthal)
• Google Introduces Gemini Canvas (Kay Ewbank)
• How AI Agents Are Quietly Transforming Frontend Development (Alexander T. Williams)
• Integrating AI with External APIs: Building a Marvel MCP Server (Dan Wahlin)
• ChatGPT’s Projects Feature Brings Order to Your AI Chaos (David Nield)
• How To Argue Against AI-First Research (Vitaly Friedman)
• An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For (Matt Burgess)
• Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser (Maxwell Zeff)
• AI Coding Challenge Major Fail – Part 2 using Grok to get innermost string between strings (Mark Pahulje)
• Personalizing education and enhancing administration with AI (Microsoft in Business Team)
• Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Release an ‘Open Weight’ AI Model This Summer (Will Knight)
• Mistral AI Launches API for LLM-Based OCR of Multimodal Documents (Sergio De Simone)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• View and manage git tags (Sebastian Hernandez)
• Start coding in minutes with the Quick-start Development Toolkit (Brady B.)
• Runtime Signature Checking Threat Model and Defensive Technology: Windows Filtering Platform (Eric Lawrence)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• 32feet – Bluetooth LE Device Discovery on iOS (Peter Foot)
• Swift 6.1 Released (Swift Team)
• The Gemini API and the Internet of Things (Paul Ruiz)
• Introducing the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift (Developer Preview) (Vera Xia)
• Apple Intelligence comes to Apple Vision Pro today with visionOS 2.4 (Apple)

Screencasts & Videos

• Micro exercises for Developers | Adam Cogan (SSW TV)
• Blazm and StageCoder Extensions for Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Jimmy Engstrom)
• You Don’t Know Git – NDC London 2025 (Edward Thomson)
• Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Key To Agentic AI (Frank LaVigne)
• Prompt engineering essentials: Getting better results from LLMs | Tutorial (GitHub Team)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Dennis Doomen (Isaac Levin)

Podcasts

• Syntax Podcast Episode #889 – Planning A Build (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Boots on the ground: Holistic AI and Audioshake at HumanX (Eira May)
• The Changelog News Podcast Episode #138 – The idealization of farming by tech (Jerod Santo)
• Azure Cloud Talk 25/3/31 – MVP Summit Brain Dump (Alec Harrison)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Establishing Communication Channels, Lessons From a Scrum Master’s Failure | Zvonimir Durcevic (Vasco Duarte)
• The PowerShell Podcast – From Proper Football to Databases with Jess Pomfret (James Petty)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #217 – Red Teaming AI: Uncovering Surprises, Facing New Threats, and the Same Old Mistakes? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• Meta Cast – The Mistakes That Shaped Us as Leaders (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #105 – AI’s Coding Breakthrough: Unstructured to Understood – Andreas Wänqvist (Rick & Oscar)
• Pioneers of Computing: A Journey Through Tech History with Bob Martin – JavaScript Jabber Episode #671 (Charles Max Wood)
• Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #75 – The Outbox Pattern – with Tomek Masternak and Szymon Pobiega (Dan Clarke)
• Meta Tech Podcast Episode #73 – Mobile GraphQL at Meta in 2025 (Pascal Hartig & Sabrina W.)
• Only Malware in the Builder Episode #11 – Hello? Is it malware you’re looking for? (Selena Larson & Dave Bittner)
• Microsoft Research Podcast – Ideas: Accelerating Foundation Models Research: AI for all (Gretchen Huizinga, Evelyne Viegas, Muhammed Idris & Cesar Torres Jr.)
• The Modern .NET Show – 2025-04-01-final-final-FINAL-V2.go (Jamie Taylor)
• Talk Python to Me #499 – BeeWare and the State of Python on Mobile (Michael Kennedy)
• Grammar Girl Podcast – Why don’t we say the L in ‘walk’? Never use ‘always.’ PABST (Mignon Fogarty & Karen Lunde)
• Python Bytes Podcast #426 – Committing to Formatted Markdown (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)

Community & Events

• Our People ❤️ to Give (Kate Behncken)
• April 1-7: Global AI Bootcamp 2025 Local Event Information (Rie Moriguchi)
• Remembering Microsoft’s other co-founder: How Paul Allen’s vision sparked a software revolution (Todd Bishop)
• Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
• The newest recipients of Google.org’s AI Opportunity Fund (Maggie Johnson)
• Apple fined $162 million for hurting app developers with ‘excessively complex’ privacy options (Emma Roth)

Database

• AI Integration in RavenDB – Embeddings Generation (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft’s DocumentDB is Back (Karen Lopez)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• What’s new and what’s next for Microsoft Graph connectors (Danny Yao)
• What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | March 2025 (Seth Patton)

Miscellaneous

• Oracle Reportedly Warns Health Customers of Patient Data Breach (Bloomberg News)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.5160 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
• The Proud Boys and Militias Come to Tesla’s Defense (David Gilbert)
• Streaming service Plex rolls out a revamped mobile app (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD and it might change to black (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting links of the week 2025-14 (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #181 (Sam Basu)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, Amazon QuickSight, AWS Amplify, and more (March 31, 2025) (Esra Kayabali)
• Windows news you can use: March 2025 (Thomas Trombley)
• Daily Reading List – March 31, 2025 (#523) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #642 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)