Top Links
- TechBash 2024 is One Week Away; Tickets Still Available (Jason Gaylord)
- Understanding the behavior of the XAML Designer with abstract base classes (Peter Spada)
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and agents (Jared Spataro)
- Announcing Copilot Pages for multiplayer collaboration (Megan Dohnal)
- Building Retrieval Augmented Generation on VS Code & AI Toolkit (Vinayak Hegde)
- How to run .NET apps natively on Arm64 devices (Mark Downie)
Web & Cloud Development
- Blazorise 2.0: Plans and Vision for the Future (Mladen Macanović)
- Blazor – Drag and Drop Modal (Byte217)
- ASP.NET Core 9 RC 1: Keep-alive Timeouts for Websockets, Improved SignalR Tracing, and More (Arthur Casals)
- 5 ways Microsoft Azure can reimagine student experiences and streamline operations (Microsoft Education Team)
- Vue Basics: Deep Dive into Nuxt DevTools (Nada Rifki)
- React Styling: Essential Tips and Tricks for Designers (Prashant Yadav)
- How to Avoid These Common Deceptive Design Mistakes in Your Cookie Consent Banner (Sammi Reinstein)
- ESLint v8.57.1 released (Milos Djermanovic)
- TypeScript 5.6 Tightens Truthy And Nullish Checks (Ian Elliot)
- WebKit Features in Safari 18.0 (Jen Simmons)
- A Smarter Search Dropdown with HTMX (Scott Galloway)
- Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure (Archie Gunasekara)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Xamarin Forms Exported Needs to Be Explicitly Specified for Element and ClassNotFoundException Didn’t Find Class SplashActivity on Path (Iris Classon)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Logistic Regression with Batch SGD Training and Weight Decay Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 Preview 2 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
AI
- Introducing o1: OpenAI’s new reasoning model series for developers and enterprises on Azure (Steve Sweetman)
- An Update on Our Safety & Security Practices (OpenAI Team)
- DuckDuckGo Joins AI Chat, Promises Enhanced Anonymity (Andy Wolber)
- Article Series: Practical Applications of Generative AI (Anthony Alford)
- Major updates to the Copilot Success Kit (Cynthia Johnson)
- GenAI tools don’t increase coding efficiency (Ian Barker)
- Embracing AI: Transforming the Future of Design and Creativity (Jeff Mielke)
- Grab Your Board and Catch a Wave… Copilot Wave 2 That Is (Michael Gannotti)
- Slack is Adding AI Agent Capabilities (Paul Thurrott)
- Secure by Design for AI: Building Resilient Systems from the Ground Up (Rachel Taylor)
- Llama 3 in Action: Deployment Strategies and Advanced Functionality for Real-World Applications (Tingyi Li)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Can you make us agile? (Ben Linders)
- Prioritizing deployments (Susan Pan)
- Introducing Reporting and Entra ID Authentication for Microsoft Playwright Testing (Vansh Singh)
- Boosting Azure DevOps Security with GHAS Code Scanning (Debjyoti Ganguly)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- iOS 18 is a smart upgrade, even without the AI (Allison Johnson)
- Boost your Flutter app with the newest Dart version (Exxeta Team)
- 10 amazing Raspberry Pi Zero projects | #MagPiMonday (Rob Zwetsloot)
- Exploring New Dimensions: The Release of visionOS 2 for Apple Vision Pro (Peter Smulovics)
- Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA clearance (Emma Roth)
Screencasts & Videos
- Smashing Hour With Lynn Fisher (Geoff Graham)
- Windows UI Frameworks with Alvin Ashcraft | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 562 (Jason Bock)
- Looking Ahead: GenAI is a Journey | The Azure Enablement Show (Uli Homann & Vijay Mital)
- Don’t Build Windows Apps Without This! (Michael Jolley)
- How to add .NET Aspire to existing an project (Authorised Territory)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: A Primer on AI for Architects with Anthony Alford (Anthony Alford)
- Merge Conflict #428: Our Favorite VS Code Extensions (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- The .NET on AWS Show, featuring Jim Bennett! (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche)
- Syntax Podcast #822: Receipt Printer with JavaScript (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Building Modern PowerShell Solutions: Justin Grote on TUIs, .NET, and Module Magic (James Petty)
- The Changelog News Podcast #112 – Why GitHub actually won (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #190 – Unraveling the Security Data Fabric: Need, Benefits, and Futures (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast – GitHub Actions – With Scott Sauber (Dan Clarke)
- Gone Mobile Podcast #119: In App Purchasing Pain (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Do words like ‘mandate’ and ‘cockamamie’ come from words for men? Grammatical dopplegangers. A pair of teeth. (Samantha Enslen & Edwin L. Battistella)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Looking under the hood at the tech stack that powers multimodal AI (Eira May)
Community & Events
- The $100,000 Astro Ecosystem Fund Fall Update (Fred Schott)
- Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week (Jay Peters)
- Announcing the New Pulumi Partner Program (Tejitha Raju)
- Philly’s 100+ Biggest Events & Fests for Fall 2024 & Beyond (Visit Philly)
- Microsoft will make 50 grants of $50k each in Washington state for its 50th anniversary (Todd Bishop)
Database
- What is Change Management and the SQL Server DBAs Role (Terry Hurley)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: AI Innovations in SharePoint and OneDrive (Adam Harmetz)
- Unlock the power of Copilot in Excel, now generally available (Catherine Pidgeon)
- See what’s possible with Copilot in Excel (part 5) and Python in Excel – Available Now (Ms. Excel)
- Microsoft 365 Copilot onboarding hub—where onboarding AI is as intuitive as using it (Julie Hersum)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Warp’s SOC 2 Type 2 report is available now (John Rector & Jeff Lloyd)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Files v3.7.7 (Files Team)
- Return to Office (Threddy)
- Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.4955 to Beta and Release Preview Channels (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Important changes to the Windows enrollment experience coming soon (Intune Support Team)
- Microsoft Has Scrapped Edge’s Big UI Refresh With Rounded Tabs and Linux Kernel 6.11 is Out (msmash)
- Some notes on Win32 carets (Raymond Chen)
- Enhanced data protection with Windows and Microsoft Copilot (Reanne Wong)
- Windows 12.1 is everything Windows 11 should be — and the Microsoft operating system we need! (Wayne Williams)
More Link Collections
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- Reading Notes #619 (Frank Boucher)
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