Top Links
- Announcing: Azure Developers – .NET Day (Mehul Harry)
- Join the Microsoft Developers AI Learning Hackathon and Win Up to $10K in Prizes! (Lee Stott)
- Python Kernel Updates: A Closer Look at Our Redesigned Plugin and Function Integration (Evan Mattson)
- The Download: How GitHub Uses GitHub Copilot, FFMmpeg 7, Fallout TV Show and more (Christina Warren)
- Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date (Meta)
- Introducing Meta Llama 3 Models on Azure AI Model Catalog (Thasmika Gokal & Sharmila Chockalingam)
Web & Cloud Development
- Shopping for a Javascript Meta-Framework (Andrew Webb)
- Electron 30.0.0 (Keeley Hammond & Calvin)
- Syncfusion Prepares for MS Build 2024 with Cloud-Ready Solutions on Azure Marketplace (Ginger R.)
- Attackers exploiting new critical OpenMetadata vulnerabilities on Kubernetes clusters (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team)
- Did Signals Just Land in React? (Paul Scanlon)
- Using GitHub and NextAuth.js for Single Sign-on in Next.js (Peter Mbanugo)
- Default Azure Credentials Under the Hood (Tor Nestenius)
- 10 Fleet Shortcuts to Boost Your Productivity (Daniela Bentrup)
- Google Service Weaver is a Bad idea (Derek Comartin)
- New Wasm Project Brings Web Components to Backend Languages (Loraine Lawson)
- 4 Big Developments in WebAssembly (Matt Butcher)
- Introducing the Edge 2024 web platform top developer needs dashboard (Alex Russell)
- API Key Authentication Middleware In ASP NET Core – A How To Guide (Nick Cosentino)
- How to Diagnose and Repair a Slow-Loading Website (Suzanne Scacca)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Archive NuGet Packages from GitHub (Andrew Rady)
- Stop Debugging and Start Running in Visual Studio (Steve Smith)
- VS Code C++ Extension 1.19 Release: 3.6x faster Go To Symbol & 1.5x faster colorization (Alexandra Kemper)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Navigating the Edges of Technology in Software Development: Bleeding, Leading, and Rusting (Steve Smith)
- What is Quantization? Quantizing LLMs (Exxact Team)
- Meta is adding real-time AI image generation to WhatsApp (Emma Roth)
- A policy proposal on our approach to deepfake tools and responsible AI (Jesse Geraci)
- Build Intelligent RAG For Multimodality and Complex Document Structure (Manoranjan Rajguru)
- Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
- Building for our AI future (Sundar Pichai)
- Elevating customer insights with generative AI (Sydne Mullings)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Posting binary data using HttpClient on Android (Rocky Lhotka)
- See the Unity 2022 LTS updates to two of our biggest e-books: URP and HDRP for advanced users (Eduardo Oriz & Shanti Zachariah)
Screencasts & Videos
- Build Great AI Apps using Azure SQL DB Hyperscale | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
- IoTCT Webcast Episode 205 – Big Things Come in TinyML (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Show off your localhost web apps with Visual Studio Dev Tunnels (Martin Zikmund)
- How did the social media interactions work for .NET conf? | One Dev Question (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
- Microsoft Build Unplugged, Episode One: Registration is LIVE! (Scott Hanselman & Leslie Richardson)
- Tech News #38 | Adam Cogan | Everyone is doubling down on AI (SSW TV)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show – Building Secure Software: Unveiling the Hidden Dependencies with Niels Tanis (Jamie Taylor)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Foundations of Design for Developers with Kathryn Grayson Nanz (Scott Hanselman)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Beyond The Process Ceremonies, The Necessary Evolution Of Scrum Master Success Over Time | Tom Baldwin (Vasco Duarte)
- JS Party Podcast – The boring JavaScript stack (Kelvin Omereshone & Jerod Santo)
- Beyond the Hype: Are Data Mesh and Data Fabric just Marchitecture? (Colin Eberhardt)
- Web Development Revolution with Shai Reznik – JavaScript Jabber 628 (Charles M. Wood)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Why configuration is so complicated (Eira May)
- UX Podcast – The rule of three with Ellen Lupton (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- Web Rush Episode 277: AI-powered UI Controls (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – How to become a supercommunicator, with Charles Duhigg (Mignon Fogarty)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 463: Phishing License (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Google is combining its Android and hardware teams — and it’s all about AI (David Pierce)
- Announcing the Top Three Teams of the 2024 Imagine Cup! (Maddy Epstein)
- Stability AI lays off roughly 10 percent of its workforce (Emilia David)
- Tell us your thoughts at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference and earn a $20 gift card (Nicole Hill)
Database
- The How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly Cheat Sheet: Views And Common Table Expressions Are The Same Thing (Erik Darling)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- ChatGPT is coming to Nothing’s earbuds (Chris Welch)
- NEWS: Hottest Job in Corporate America? The Executive in Charge of A.I. (Kurt Shintaku)
- Vivaldi is Bringing Its Browser to Windows on Arm Too (Paul Thurrott)
- Quincy’s 5 freeCodeCamp Resources Worth Your Time Email – You Need to Re-subscribe Real Quick (Quincy Larson)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3922 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – April 18, 2024 (#300) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft)