Top Links
- Announcing TypeScript 5.8 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
- Microsoft AI (Microsoft) – A new landing page for all things AI at Microsoft
- Building Local AI Agents: Semantic Kernel and Ollama in C# (Laurent Kempé)
- How to profile a .NET MAUI iOS application on macOS (Marco Siccardi)
- Dustin Campbell: C# 13 – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #339 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Announcing AI Shell Preview 2 (Steven Bucher)
Web & Cloud Development
- What are Custom Integrations in .NET Aspire? (Kalle Marjokorpi)
- Extract Colors from an Image for CSS Themes (Zach Leatherman)
- Tailwind v4 with Blazor – It just got easier (Steven Giesel)
- JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back (Allen Pike)
- Why is gRPC so much faster than a JSON-based REST API? (Benjamin Cane)
- Terraform Troubleshooting: Fixing Fails, Errors, and Cloud Chaos and From Chaos to Code: Migrating Legacy Infrastructure to Terraform and Mastering Multi-Cloud: Deploying Across AWS, Azure, and GCP with Terraform (Chris Woodruff)
- Cron Jobs in Next.js App Using Convex (Christian Nwamba)
- Implement Phone verification, 2FA using ASP.NET Core Identity (Damien Bowden)
- New Critter Stack Features (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Zero-Cost Resilience For .NET Apps In Azure (Julio Casal)
- ASP.NET Core Extension Points – Core (Ricardo Peres)
- A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 1) (Temani Afif)
- Docker Engine v28: Hardening Container Networking by Default (Tim Welsh)
- What’s new in Astro – February 2025 (Sarah Rainsberger)
- Integrators Assemble! (E. Dunham)
- My sales pitch for TypeScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Do developers need code samples in API documentation? (Tom Johnson)
- Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting For Developers (Auth0 Team)
- .NET Aspire 9.1 Improves Dashboard Features (Edin Kapić)
- Introduction to Dapr for .NET Developers (Milan Jovanović)
- Build an Automated Appointment Reminder Service with Go and Twilio (Popoola Temitope)
- Introducing Face Check with Microsoft Entra Verified ID (Zachary Cavanell)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Create Self-Signed Certificates on Windows to Sign PDFs in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- C++/WinRT implementation inheritance: Notes on winrt::implements, part 8 (Raymond Chen)
- Reactive monad (Mark Seemann)
- Using MySQL with Entity Framework (Bryan Hogan)
- Unlock Performance Gains in .NET: The Power of Custom Comparers (David McCarter)
AI
- Announcing new models, customization tools, and enterprise agent upgrades in Azure AI Foundry (Asha Sharma)
- Azure AI Speech text to speech Feb 2025 updates: New HD voices and more (GarfieldHe)
- LangGraph Multi-Agent Swarm (Langchain AI)
- GPT-4.5 preview is available in Azure AI Foundry (Vesa Nopanen)
- OCTAVE: the first text-to-speech model that understands what it’s saying (Hume AI Team)
- Analyze your Google Sheets data faster with this AI update | The Keyword (Google)
- Awesome LLM Apps – A curated collection of awesome LLM apps built with RAG and AI agents (Shubham Saboo)
- ElevenLabs is launching its own speech-to-text model (Ivan Mehta)
- Start a rap battle between agents with AutoGen – Using code (Matteo Pagani)
- What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor (Anna Heim)
- Automating Database Migration with Autogen 0.4 (Anton Slutsky)
- Another Way To Visualize Import Mode Semantic Model Partition Refresh Parallelism (Chris Webb)
- What Happened When Conspiracy Theorists Talked to OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo? (EditorDavid)
- How to Enable Github Copilot License and How to Improve the Quality of Suggestions from GitHub Copilot (Mahesh Chand)
- Building new AI skills for developers (Molly Kih)
- The TechCrunch AI glossary (Natasha Lomas & Romain Dillet)
- Harnessing ML.NET for Sentiment Analysis in .NET 9 Applications (Satya Karki)
- Top 4 AI breakthroughs in February: Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet and more (Tula Masterman)
- Release the Agents! SK Agents Framework RC1 (Shawn Henry)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Azure DevOps Basic usage included with GitHub Enterprise (Andrew Brenner)
- Introducing Isolator++ v5: A New Era for C++ Unit Testing with a Language-Based API (Eli Lopian)
- Here’s Why Wearing Many Hats is Important for a Software Developer (Giftmugweni)
- 5 Steps to Build an Effective Research Program (Dr. Serena Hillman)
- Learn Git through Gamification – A Visual Guide to Key Version Control Concepts (Jacob Stopak)
- Personal Effectiveness Principles Cheat Sheet (JD Meier)
- What is Code Refactoring? (Mahesh Chand)
- Integration Tests for Plugin Developers: UI Testing (Maxim Kolmakov)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- With Alexa Plus, Amazon finally reinvents its best product (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy)
Screencasts & Videos
- The Download: GPT-4o Copilot, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Create React App’s deprecation (GitHub Team)
- TypeScript types can run DOOM (Michigan TypeScript)
- How I built a ZX Spectrum emulator from scratch using C# and Blazor | NDC London 2025 (Jimmy Engström)
- GPT 4.5 – not so much wow (Frank LaVigne)
- Adding a Child Domain at the Windows Server 2025 functional level to an Active Directory forest | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
- Random.Code() – Fixing Rocks Bugs (Yet Again) (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #162 – How to become a developer in your 30s with Anjana Vakil (Quincy Larson)
- Merge Conflict #452 – Building a 2MB iOS app in Swift & Xcode (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- React Native Radio #323 – Static Hermes with Tzvetan Mikov (Tzvetan Mikov, Mazen Chami, Jamon Holmgren & Robin Heinze)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Defensive to Collaborative Product Ownership | Season Hughes and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS: How To Build Trust and Manage Conflict | Maria Arpa (Vasco Duarte)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast – The Uno Platform and Hot Design – with Jérôme Laban (Dan Clarke)
- Lenny’s Podcast – The creator of WordPress opens up about becoming an internet villain, why he’s taking a stand, and the future of open source | Matt Mullenweg (founder and CEO, Automattic) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast #82 – Kaizen! Pipely goes BAM (Gerhard Lazu, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – The New Face of Shadow IT: A Directions on Microsoft Brainstorm (Mary Jo Foley)
- Azure Cloud Talk 25/3/3 – 🚀 Accidental CTO & The Love for Brownfield 🏗️ Kevin Griffin (Alec Harrison & Brian Gorman)
- AGL 406: Conscious Conversations with Chuck Wisner (John Rouda)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode #210 – The 3 Levels of Mentorship and Why Engineers Struggle to Find Mentors (Max Ahumada)
Community & Events
- 1,000 Scientist AI Jam Session: Advancing science with the U.S. national labs (OpenAI Team)
- Canada watchdog probing X’s use of personal data in AI models’ training (Ryan Patrick Jones)
- What to expect at MWC 2025 (Dominic Preston)
- Global AI Bootcamp – Week 1 (Hank Boelman)
- Zapier says someone broke into its code repositories and may have accessed customer data (Jay Peters)
- Musk’s DOGE fires federal tech team that built free tax-filing site (Raphael Satter)
- Apply for Google Summer of Code 2025 and Contribute to the Kotlin Ecosystem (Ksenia Shneyveys)
- Why I Loved the Tabasco Factory Tour on Avery Island (Nedra McDaniel)
- Bluesky-based Instagram alternative Flashes launches publicly (Sarah Perez)
- Apply to Speak at TechCrunch All Stage 2025 (TechCrunch Events)
- The Verge hires Tina Nguyen as senior reporter to cover the Trump administration (Verge Press Room)
- New email tells federal employees to list recent accomplishments weekly (Wes Davis)
- slava ukraini (Wil Wheaton)
- Google sets long-term plan to exit Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, consolidate in South Lake Union (Todd Bishop)
Database
- All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Formatting (Erik Darling)
- When to Choose Zone Redundancy in Azure SQL Managed Instance (Nevena Nikolic)
- Data Normalization vs. Denormalization Comparison (Tim Rottach)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- The next chapter: Moving from Skype to Microsoft Teams (Jeff Teper)
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | February 2025 (Pete Daderko)
- Transform Your Inbox: Mastering Outlook’s Powerful Features for Ultimate Productivity (Tiffiany Law)
- What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Feb 2025 (Seth Patton)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Warp Keyboard Shortcuts (Warp Docs)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27802 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3360 (Dev and Beta Channels) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.5015 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- Announcing Files Preview v3.9.2 (Files Team)
- The SEC Is Abandoning Its Biggest Crypto Lawsuits (Joel Khalili)
- Can TrapC Fix C and C++ Memory Safety Issues? (EditorDavid)
- Skype is dead. What happened? (Om Malik)
- Paint.NET 5.1.5 Beta (build 9191) (Rick Brewster)
- Active Directory at 25: Complex, loathed, indispensable, improving? (The Stack)
- Discover USB Settings and Notifications in Windows 11 (Ugan S.)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #9 2025 – .NET 10 Preview 1 (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – February 28, 2025 (#502) (Richard Seroter)
- Azure Weekly #505 – 2nd March 2025 (The Editor)
- Links from around the web: vibecoding, 60-hour work weeks, smaller internet communities, ethical compromises, and expertise (Tom Johnson)
- Reading list 336 (Bruce Lawson)
- Reading Notes #637 (Frank Boucher)
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