Top Links
- Working with Multiple Dev Containers | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson, Robert Green & Tobias Fenster)
- Vite.js: Build Faster Frontends (Nishani Dissanayake)
- New PowerToys Awake Release With Tray Improvements (Den Delimarsky)
- Windows Dev Chat – Choosing your ideal dev platform (Windows Dev Team)
- Common Practices That Kill Performance in Angular Applications (Erick Zanetti)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Next steps for Open Sauced with Brian Douglas (Scott Hanselman)
Web & Cloud Development
- Astro 5.1 (Matt Kane)
- Get Started Integrating AI in Your ASP.NET Core Applications (Assis Zang)
- Integrating Azure ML with Azure SQL Managed Instance deployed in Reserved IP Ranges (madhup1977)
- What’s next: the Fluent UI Blazor library v5 (Vincent Baaij)
- State of Web Development Report (Netlify)
- Node v23.5.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
- What is Password Authentication Protocol? (Haley Bourke)
- How to redirect across repository websites with GitHub Pages (Marco Siccardi)
- A progress update on reading-flow (Rachel Andrew)
- Elastic observability and search in .NET Aspire (Ross Sandford)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET Community Toolkit Adds Partial Properties Support For MVVM (I Programmer)
- .NET MAUI Community Toolkit v10.0: How to Fix BindingContext Issues with Behaviors (Vijay Anand E G)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Functional C#: Make Dictionaries Functional (Simon Painter)
- C# 13 and .NET 9: Personal Highlights – Breaking Down the Updates That Matter (Smytro Misik)
- Inside STL: The atomic shared_ptr (Raymond Chen)
- Why the F# would I write real code like this? (Matthew Watt)
AI
- Introducing Configurable Metaflow (David J. Berg, David Casler, Romain Cledat, Qian Huang, Rui Lin, Nissan Pow, Nurcan Sonmez, Shashank Srikanth, Chaoying Wang, Regina Wang & Darin Yu)
- Using AI to mine log messages from reference doc builds (Prompt engineering series) (Tom Johnson)
- Celebrating innovation: Gemini API Developer Competition (Lloyd Hightower)
- Coding in the age of AI: Redefining software development (Alois Reitbauer)
- GitHub Copilot Edits (Bart Wullems)
- Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock (Channy Yun)
- Stop Treating Your LLM Like a Database (Sean Falconer)
- 8 ways AI will change how I work in 2025 (Richard Seroter)
- The Little Scripter (Eleanor Berger)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Introducing Annotated Logger: A Python package to aid in adding metadata to logs (Joseph Henrich)
- How to Use Property-Based Testing as Fuzzy Unit Testing (Ben Linders)
- Indexing code at scale with Glean (Simon Marlow & Pepe Iborra)
- The 30 Best Fonts of 2024 (Ben Moss)
- Enhance build security and reach SLSA Level 3 with GitHub Artifact Attestations (Kristina Heidinger)
- Tips to Find Your First Job in Tech (Leomaris Reyes)
- Building Trust into Your Software with Verified Components (Melissa Sussmann)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- UIKit DiffableDataSource API inconsistencies with Swift Concurrency annotations explained (Jesse Squires)
- Learn Game Development with JavaScript and Kaplay (Beau Carnes)
- Connecting a Raspberry Pi Pico W to Microsoft Azure IoT Hub using MicroPython and MQTT (Pete Gallagher)
- Firebase App Hosting: Emulators and a look forward to 2025 (Julia Reid & James Daniels)
- Mixed Reality Link and Windows App on Quest Update! (Andrew London)
Screencasts & Videos
- Advent of Code 2024 Day 16: Reindeer Maze in C# ✅✅ and Advent of Code 2024 Day 17: Chronospatial Computer in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
- Sip and Sync with Azure – Coming in 2025 (Priyanka Vergadia & Microsoft Developer Team)
- Introduction to the source control built-in with SQL database in Fabric | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
- The 12 days of Generative AI | SSW User Groups | SSW TV (Seth Daily)
- Tech News #43 | When AI Lies: OpenAI’s scariest update | SSW TV (Eve Cogan)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show – Modern .NET NuGet Packaging with Scott Harden (Jamie Taylor)
- InfoQ Podcast: Building Effective Engineering Teams and Avoiding Cargo Cult Practices (David Guttman)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Success and Reflection in Agile Teams | Karthiga Seturaj (Vasco Duarte)
- Practical AI Podcast #300 – Mozart to Megadeath at CHRP (Jeff Smith, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Microsoft Research Podcast – Ideas: AI and democracy with Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness (Ginny Badanes)
- The Cloud Pod #284 – Amazon Q uses machine learning to get smarter, but Bond’s Q can turn a wristwatch into a laser beam. Your move, AI. (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
- Lenny’s Podcast – How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Boagworld Podcast – UX Predications for 2025 (Paul Boag)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode 144 – From Data to Gold: Swimming Australia’s Tech-Driven Edge (Sébastien Stormacq)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 498: I’m not ready to start a new streak (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Subscriptions and Monetization are Coming to Bluesky — Here’s How They’ll Work (Kirsti Lang)
- Empowering Women in Tech: How Supportive Communities Transform Lives (Tina Stenderup)
- Independence Blue Cross RiverRink Winterfest Returns to Penn’s Landing for 2024/2025 (Visit Philly)
- The Power Struggle of Social Media Engagement (Maho Pacheco)
- Software Developers Are Becoming Critical Members in The US Space Force (Rachel Brooks)
- Tech Moves: Expedia names CFO; former Microsoft AI VP leads new startup; Avante gets sales VP (Lisa Stiffler)
Database
- Create FTP Task in SQL Server Integration Services (Aradhana Tripathi)
- IF Branching In SQL Server Stored Procedures: Fixing Parameters, Recompiling, And A Good Enough Plan (Erik Darling)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Files Preview v3.8.2 and Announcing Files Preview v3.8.5 (Files Team)
- I Tried Microsoft’s New AI-Focused PCs. Windows Is Exciting Again. (Joanna Stern)
- Feds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe (BeauHD)
- Introducing Radar the Elf (Bing Team)
- Paint.NET 5.1.2 is now available (Rick Brewster)
More Link Collections
- Windows news you can use: December 2024 (Thomas Trombley)
- Daily Reading List – December 19, 2024 (#464) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Unity 2022 by Example: A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link
