Top Links
- Effortless publishing with Azure Functions Flex Consumption (Brady Gaster)
- Visual Studio Code November 2024 Release (Visual Studio Code Team)
- What’s new in Flutter 3.27 (Kevin Chisholm)
- The next chapter of the Gemini era for developers (Shrestha Basu Mallick & Kathy Korevec)
- Immersive productivity with Windows and Meta Quest (Jonathan Lyons)
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Preview 2 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
Web & Cloud Development
- Reducing WASM binary size: lessons from building a web terminal (Jack Nichols)
- W3C Statement on Ethical Web Principles guides the community to build a better web (Daniel Appelquist & Yves Lafon)
- Kubernetes v1.32: Penelope (Matteo Bianchi, Edith Puclla, William Rizzo, Ryota Sawada & Rashan Smith)
- Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) in Auth0 (Andrea Chiarelli)
- Kubernetes v1.32: QueueingHint Brings a New Possibility to Optimize Pod Scheduling (Kensei Nakada)
- Mastering Font Usage in Angular Charts (Gowrimathi S.)
- An Introduction To CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: Scroll And View Progress Timelines (Mariana Beldi)
- Snow Time Like the Present for WordPress.com (Ian Stewart)
- Harnessing .NET and C# for Better SEO: How It Can Boost Your Website Rankings (Jonathan Danylko)
- Build a Stunning Rich Communication Services (RCS) Reminder App with Node SDK & Vonage! (Chuck Reeves)
- WebKit Features in Safari 18.2 (Jen Simmons, Ada Rose Canon, David Degazio, Yoel Hawa, Etienne Segonzac & John Wilander)
- Updated Drafts for Review: W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 and Ethical Web Principles is a W3C Statement (W3C)
- Persisting a Strawberry Shake GraphQL Client for Optimizely’s Content Graph (Nicholas Sideras)
- Every Reason You Should be Getting Started With .NET Aspire (Simon Foster)
- Fluid Superscripts and Subscripts (Lorenz Wöehr)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- XAML Basics: Building UI with .NET MAUI and More – Part 2 (Vijay Anand E G)
Visual Studio & .NET
- The attribute OverloadResolutionPriority in .NET 9 and C# 13 (NDepend Team)
- Meet TUnit: The New, Fast, and Extensible .NET Testing Framework (Sander ten Brinke)
- Efficient searching in .NET with SearchValues (Bart Wullems)
- What is the CONTINUE_IF_FAILED equivalent of RETURN_IF_FAILED? (Raymond Chen)
- Introduction to SOLID Principles in C# (Stackify Team)
AI
- Effective Safety Measures in Peer Evaluation with Azure AI Content Safety (drpeteryau)
- Try Deep Research and our new experimental model in Gemini, your AI assistant (Dave Citron)
- Put AI to work for your product team and Boosting the customer retail experience with GPT-4o-mini (OpenAI Team)
- Gemini 2.0: Our latest, most capable AI model yet | The Keyword and Listen to a deep dive conversation about Gemini 2.0 | The Keyword (Google)
- Observability in the Age of AI (Charity Majors)
- GitHub Models Explained (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Supercharge Your Deep Learning Workflows with NVIDIA Nsight Systems (Priya Kedia)
- Building custom AI Speech models with Phi-3 and Synthetic data (Hyo Choi)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Design Token-Based UI Architecture (Martin Fowler)
- More Testing Tips With C# (Roman Stoffel)
- New Boards Hub Rollout Expectations (Dan Hellem)
- Unlock High Performance with the 3Fs Framework: Focus, Flow, and Fulfillment and 4Vs Framework: Vision, Value, Validate, Velocity (JD Meier)
- Playwright Tutorial: IFrame and Shadow DOM Automation (Miriam Kyoseva)
- Debug Single Jobs in TeamCity Pipelines (Olga Bedrina)
- CodeQL zero to hero part 4: Gradio framework case study (Sylwia Budzynska)
- The state of deployments to Kubernetes in Octopus (Nikita Dergilev)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- New features in Android to help you stay safe from unwanted Bluetooth tracking | The Keyword (Google)
- Microsoft wants to make the Xbox app the home of PC gaming (Tom Warren)
- Generated SDKs for Data Connect (Andrea Wu)
- Announcing Dart 3.6 (Marya Belanger)
Screencasts & Videos
- [Monkey Conf 2024] Using Uno Platform Hot Design (Steve Bilogan)
- Using Aspire with gRPC (Medhat Elmasry)
- Advent of Code: TDD in C# (Day 11) (Brad Wilson)
Podcasts
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – The Boring Edition with Shopify’s Glen Coates (Scott Hanselman)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes v1.32: Penelope, with Frederico Muñoz (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- .NET Rocks! – Event Modeling with Adam Dymirtuk (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Syntax Podcast #859: Streaming Video in 2025 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Software Engineering Radio #646: Matthew Skelton on Team Topologies (Giovanni Asproni)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Co-Creating Vision for Change Success | Sara Caldwell (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- CfP List Updated 2024-12-11 (Dave Aronson)
- How can we teach students about AI and data science? Join our 2025 seminar series to learn more about the topic (Jane Waite)
- We asked our staff for their 2025 predictions (Verge Staff)
Database
- How To Return A Dummy Row Instead Of Empty Results In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- TSQL Tuesday #181 – The first SQL Server Feature that made me go “Wow!” (Louis Davidson)
PowerShell & Terminal
- No Glyph Left Behind: Font Fallback in a WASM Terminal (Daniel Peng)
- December Release: Enhanced session sharing, Warp on Web, AI enhancements, and a new icon (Olivia Johnston)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27764 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Sharing files between your iPhone® and Windows PC rolling out to Windows Insiders (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Apple Intelligence now features Image Playground, Genmoji, and more (Apple Newsroom)
- iA Writer 2.0 for Windows is (Sort of) Now Available in Public Beta (Paul Thurrott)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – December 11, 2024 (#458) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 9, Blazor, and EF Core 9 (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link – My review of Mark’s book is now live on Amazon
