Top Links
- Dramatically faster package restores with .NET 9’s new NuGet resolver (Jeff Kluge)
- Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code update – November 2024 (Junjie Li)
- Transform your debugging experience with GitHub Copilot (Wendy Breiding)
- Dev Proxy v0.23 with inspecting cloud API requests (Waldek Mastykarz)
- Azure SDK Release (November 2024) (Hector Norzagaray)
- .NET Rocks! – Static Websites in 2025 with Stacy Cashmore (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Web & Cloud Development
- Using CSS Gap To Control Margins In Website Copy (Ben Nadel)
- Stripe Rearchitects Its Observability Platform with Managed Prometheus and Grafana on AWS (Rafal Gancarz)
- W3C Invites Implementations of Vibration API and First Public Working Draft: Decentralized Identifier (DID) Resolution and DID URL Dereferencing v1.0 and First Public Working Draft: Pointer Events Level 4 (W3C)
- Azure Managed Redis (Preview): The Next Generation of Redis on Azure at Microsoft Ignite 2024 (Ricky Diep)
- Microservices Architecture Challenges and Solutions (Albert McQuiston)
- The Microservices Book – Learn How to Build and Manage Services in the Cloud (Adekola Olawale)
- WordPress Multi-Multisite: A Case Study (Scott Fennell)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- How to disable iOS 18 tab transition animation with .NET MAUI (Marco Siccardi)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Audit Trails in EF Core (Ricardo Peres)
- Updates for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.12 (Sy Brand)
- Metalama Performance Improvements Analysis [Updated for 2025.0] (Gael Fraiteur)
- Checking whether a URI refers to a Web site root and Why does my program successfully take foreground only when running under the debugger? (Raymond Chen)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.12.2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
AI
- The verdict is in: Windows Recall is great, actually (Zac Bowden)
- GraphRAG using Langchain and Oracle Graph on Oracle Database 23ai (Part 1) (Rahul Tasker)
- Using TensorFlow on Azure Web App (theringe)
- ElevenLabs’ new feature is a NotebookLM competitor for creating GenAI podcasts (Ivan Mehta)
- No, Microsoft isn’t using your Office docs to train its AI (Jess Weatherbed)
- Copilot Improves Code Quality (Sue Gee)
- Why Developers Should Try Predictive AI (Loraine Lawson)
- Ocean Prompting Process: How to get the results you want from an LLM (Mark Calleja)
- Benchmark LLM Application Performance with LangChain (Oladimeji Sowole)
- Cursor AI — The Good, The Bad, The Ugly! (Shariq Ahmed)
- Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for ‘Machine Learning Research’ (Samantha Cole)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Inclusive Engineering at Redgate (Graham McMillan)
- Pulumi + uv: Fast Python Package and Project Management (Julien Poissonnier)
- Microbenchmarks are experiments (Vyacheslav Egorov)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Create a Flutter Column Chart to Visualize the World’s Largest Wind Power Producers (Natrayan Ramalingam)
- Build a Smart Thermostat With Oxocard Connect Innovators Kit Make: Edition (Keith Hammond)
- Surface Duo Dual Experience ( AOSP | Android 15 | Treble GSI ) (Aruna)
Screencasts & Videos
- GCast 188: Creating a Copilot Agent with Copilot Studio (David Giard)
- This Month in Copilot Studio: November Advancements, Agent Types, and Security Features (Dona Sarkar, Kendra Springer & Diganta Kumar)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime: Insider Perspectives from a Former FBI Agent (Eric O’Neill)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How To Help Agile Teams Own Their Work, And Be Independent | Aliona Zapanovici and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Helping Agile Teams Be Passionate About Their Products, A Product Owner Superpower | Aliona Zapanovici (Vasco Duarte)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast – Waymos make bad neighbors (Changelog++ ) (Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- AGL 393: Andrey Kudievskiy from Distillery (John Rouda)
- The Cloud Pod #283: You’ve Got Re:Invent Predictions (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
- The Changelog Podcast #619 – Let’s archive the web (Nick Sweeting, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 495: The most honorable of mentions (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
- Syntax Podcast #853: The State of Frontend (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Software Engineering Radio #643: Tim McNamara on Error Handling in Rust (Gavin Henry)
Community & Events
- Netherlands Here We Come (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Google launches the London AI Campus (Debbie Weinstein)
- Open Source Software and “the Church of England’s problem” (Matt Lacey)
- 27 Years of Excellence (MVP) (Elizabeth P.)
- Solve Advent of Code 2024 Puzzles in Rust and Win Prizes (Ilia Afanasiev)
- All Things Open 2024 Takeaways, Part 3: Freedom vs. Sustainability (Marissa Keller Outten)
- Breaking down the DOJ’s plan to end Google’s search monopoly (Lauren Feiner)
- Inspiring the next generation of women engineers (Nicole McWilliams)
- Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’ (Sarah Perez)
- Advent of Code in Rust for the Rest of Us (Vitaly Bragilevsky)
- Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark (Ryan Dahl)
Database
- Automatically Generate Restore Database SQL Server Scripts (Nisarg Upadhyay)
- Auto Adapting Configuration Parameters in MySQL (Ramakrishnan Kamalakannan)
- When Profiling SQL Server Stored Procedures Goes Wrong (Erik Darling)
- Learning SEQUENCE in SQL Server (Naveen Kumar)
- Getting Started with Azure SQL Database (Gideon Ngetich)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
PowerShell
- PowerShell – The profile for the user is a temporary profile (Bart Wullems)
Miscellaneous
- Free Programming Books – List of Free Learning Resources In Many Languages (eBook Foundation)
- GM eliminated Apple CarPlay and Android Auto from its EVs — this upgrade adds them back (Andrew J. Hawkins)
- Paint.NET 5.1.1 Beta (build 9098) (Rick Brewster)
- Announcing Rust 1.83.0 (Rust Release Team)
- Windows 11 Hotpatch: RebootLess Updates (Rudy Ooms)
More Link Collections
- Reading List 330 (Bruce Lawson)
- Daily Reading List – November 27, 2024 (#450) (Richard Seroter)
- Collective #885 (Manoela Ilic)
The Geek Shelf
Let’s Build It: URL Shortener in .NET | Dometrain (Gui Ferreira) – Referral Link