Top Links
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Blogging for Developers with Mark Downie (Scott Hanselman)
- Announcing a free GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio (Rhea Patel)
- Introducing Operator (OpenAI)
- The Price of Intelligence – Three risks inherent in LLMs (Mark Russinovich, Ahmed Salem, Santiago Zanella-Béguelin & Yonatan Zunger)
- Innovating with .NET Core and Blazor Across Platforms with Jeff Fritz – Adventures in .NET #214 (Shawn Clabough, Caleb Wells & Wai Liu)
- DocumentDB: Open-Source Announcement (Abinav Rameesh)
Web & Cloud Development
- Red Hat Connectivity Link now generally available (Vamsi Ravula & Jaya Christina Baskaran)
- Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database (David Ramel)
- Mastering JavaScript Memory Leaks: Detect, Fix, and Prevent (A. Yohan Malshika)
- Edit MS Word DOCX Files in .NET C# and ASP.NET Core (Bjoern Meyer)
- What’s in the New Node.js, and How Do You Install It? (Jack Wallen)
- Wringing More Scalability out of Event Sourcing with the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Configuring a React Application with Honeycomb For Frontend Observability (Ken Rimple)
- Using Your Organization’s Theme with Your Telerik and Kendo UI Components (Peter Vogel)
- Effortless React Animation: A Guide to Framer Motion (Prashant Yadav)
- Automatically select the right Microsoft Entra tenant (Tim Deschryver)
- Vonage Knowledge Quest Returns for 2025! Will You Accept Your Mission? (Lucinda Abberley)
- Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web (Harry Roberts)
- How to Start Learning TypeScript – A Beginner’s Guide (Akande Olalekan Toheeb)
- Some Things You Might Not Know About Custom Counter Styles (Geoff Graham)
- Understanding the Prior Authorization API: Requirements, deadlines, benefits and trends (Rich Almeida)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Level Up Your Skills: Learning Rust as a C# Dev (Chris Woodruff)
- Memory corruption from outside the process looks like space aliens (Raymond Chen)
- What’s New in vcpkg (January 2025) (Augustin Popa)
- The ReSharper and Rider 2024.3.4 Bug-Fix Updates Are Now Available (Sasha Ivanova)
AI
- Using Operator in line with our policies and Computer-Using Agent and Operator System Card (OpenAI)
- Meet Junie, Your Coding Agent by JetBrains (Andrew Zakonov)
- Announcing a New Collaboration Between eBay and OpenAI (eBay News Team)
- Using Copilot as a neurodivergent marketer (Kayla Patterson)
- Unlocking the Power of Synthetic Data for Fine-Tuning and Evaluation (Priya Kedia)
- Hugging Face claims its new AI models are the smallest of their kind (Kyle Wiggers)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- TeamCity Is Now Available on AWS Marketplace (Olga Bedrina)
- How-to: GitLab Single Sign-on with SAML, SCIM, and Azure’s Entra ID (Rob Jackson)
- Distributed Systems and Organization Design (Ted Neward)
- Building High-Performance Software Development Teams: 7 Tips (Brian Wald)
- How To Write User Stories: A Beginners Guide (Ben Grimwade)
- Data Privacy Week 2025: Spotlight on Securing Applications (Ben Nettleton)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Epic Games To Cover Developer iOS Fees (BeauHD)
- Android 16’s first public beta adds Google’s more limited take on live lock screen notifications (Dominic Preston)
- Intercepting Web Popups in Flutter InAppWebView (Joe Meyer)
- Flutter’s Integration with Native Platforms (The Flutter Way)
- Capacitor 7 has hit GA! (Conner Simmons)
- A Pi Pico Breakout Board and Rediscovering Pi Pico Programming with an IR Detector (j2inet)
- Apple finally admits next-gen CarPlay isn’t coming in 2024 (Jess Weatherbed)
Screencasts & Videos
- Introduction to PowerShell Debugging – October 9, 2019 | Gainesville PowerShell User Group (Kirk Munro)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show S07E11 – The Security Expert Speaks: Tanya Janca on Learning to Code Securely (Jamie Taylor)
- Real-World Testing: Insights from Rainforest QA Expert AJ Funk – Adventures in DevOps #231 (Will Button & Warren Prasad)
- InfoQ Podcast: Cultivating Healthy Engineering Cultures: Insights from Sophie Weston (Sophie Weston)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How To Use Agile Retrospectives To Help Teams Focus On Continuous Growth | Ville Reijonen (Vasco Duarte)
- The Changelog Podcast #625 – From open source to acquired (Ashley Jeffs, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Practical AI Podcast #301 – Video generation with realistic motion (Paras Jain, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- The Well Pod – The Drop – Part 25: In Memoriam, David Lynch (Anson Mount & Branan Edgens)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #503 – Maybe Puppies Solve Everything (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Boagworld Podcast – Enhancing the Experience of Using AI (Paul Boag)
Community & Events
- Jeff Bezos deletes ‘LGBTQ+ rights’ and ‘equity for Black people’ from Amazon corporate policies (Nina Joudeh)
- Hello, Developer Division (Den Delimarsky)
- Everything we saw at Xbox’s Developer Direct 2025 (Ash Parrish)
- The ultimate Microsoft 365 community event is back (Jeff Teper)
- That’s a wrap: GitHub Innovation Graph in 2024 (Kevin Xu)
- Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Ditching Human Fact-Checkers (Lauren Goode, Michael Calore & Zoë Schiffer)
- Threads rolls out a post scheduler, ‘markup’ feature, and more (Sarah Perez)
- Red, White & Blue To-Do in Philadelphia (Visit Philly)
Database
- Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Unpredictable Searches (Erik Darling)
- Understanding Precision in SQL Server Calculations (Jayeshkumar Sahani)
- Things I Wish I Knew as a DBA (Eric Blinn)
- A Powerful and Secure Alternative to SSIS and Build SQL Server APIs Rapidly (Jason Gilmore)
- JSON Data Type in Azure SQL Database (Koen Verbeeck)
- Checking table size in Postgres (Josephine Bush)
Miscellaneous
- Introducing More Ways for Players to Repair their Xbox Consoles, Reduce Waste and Save Energy (Trista Patterson)
- CBS weather reporter fired after Elon Musk ‘Nazi salute’ comments (Lauren Peacock)
- Linux 6.14 Adds Support For The Microsoft Copilot Key Found On New Laptops (BeauHD)
- Under Trump, US Cyberdefense Loses Its Head (Lily Hay Newman)
- Vivaldi 7.1 Arrives on Desktop with Even More Personalization (Paul Thurrott)
- Microsoft rumored to launch a smaller Surface Pro and Surface Laptop soon (Richard Lawler)
- Download these free Windows themes before Microsoft closes the download page forever (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Evolving the Windows User Model – A Look to the Past (spoofy)
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