Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Top Links

• 10 reasons why application packaging isn’t going anywhere (Ronald Vonk)
• Previewing More Copilot+ Experiences with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel (Amanda Langowski)
• How to Use AI Tools Like ChatGPT, Claude AI, Llama, and Perplexity for Coding Effectively (Eli Lopian)
• Phi Silica, small but mighty on-device SLM (Vivek Pradeep)
• What’s new in Microsoft Entra – November 2024 (Shobhit Sahay)
• Christmas MadLib using C# and Spectre.Console (2024 C# Advent) (Michael Eaton)
• Windows UI Kit for Figma (Nick Randolph)

Web & Cloud Development

• 5 JavaScript Libraries You Should Say Goodbye to in 2025 (Alexander T. Williams)
• Using Entra External ID with an Auth0 OpenID Connect identity provider (Damien Bowden)
• Knowing CSS is Mastery to Frontend Development (Geoff Graham)
• What’s New in React 19 (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Are Your ASP.NET Core Routes and Query Strings Culture-Invariant? (Jeremy Clark)
• A poor mans dependency injection for F# and AWS Lambda (Tristian Barrett)
• Build Resilient Systems with Wolverine’s Transactional Outbox (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Immediate Discontinuation of Azure Passes (Mindy Rosenthal)
• 3 Node.js Features You Didn’t Know About (Peter Mbanugo)
• HTML Tables: The Layout Hack That Somehow Worked (Simon Sterne)
• IdentityServer in Docker Containers: HTTPS and SameSite (Part 3) (Tore Nestenius)
• Swagger dropped from .NET 9: What are the alternatives? (David Grace)
• Collect IIS logs from multiple locations into Sentinel Log Analytics Workspace. (Santosh Pargi)
• How to secure access to FHIR data: users, clients and permissions (Tim Prudhomme)
• What Is CNAPP (Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform)? (PreEmptive Team)
• Why is every startup’s website so darn useless? (Jessica Kerr)
• You can pay for that: How web browser features get built (Stephanie Stimac)
• Release Vite 6.0 (Onix React)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Get started with Phi Silica in the Windows App SDK (Microsoft Learn) – Hope we’ll see these APIs in the SDK soon!

Visual Studio & .NET

• Extracting Icons From A Windows DLL Or EXE With C# (Den Delimarsky)
• LINQ might get a “left join” operator in .net 10 (Steven Giesel)
• Chain of Responsibility Design Pattern in C# (Ahsan Ullah)
• Using vectorization in C# to boost performance (Brant Burnett)
• MSVC Compiler Language Updates in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12 (Cameron DaCamara)
• Getting Started with EF Core Couchbase DB Provider (Jeff Morris)
• Minimizing cognitive load in F# (Michael Winch)
• Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Nonsensical errors from a function declaration (Raymond Chen)
• Sep 0.6.0 – CSV Trim Support, .NET 9 and New Benchmarks incl. Apple M1 (Nietras)
• Boost Your .NET Projects: Unleashing the Power of Spargine’s Type Extension Methods (David McCarter)
• Why IActorRef.Tell Doesn’t Return a Task (Aaron Stannard)
• Object Pools in C#: Examples, Internals and Performance Benchmarks (Alexey Fedorov)

AI

• Introducing ChatGPT Pro: The Ultimate Assistant Tool for Coders (Alex Harper)
• Recall overview (Microsoft Learn)
• Extracting Handwritten Corrections with Azure AI Foundry’s Latest Tools (John Carroll)
• 6 AI trends you’ll see more of in 2025 (Paul Nyhan)
• GenChess – Make Your Next Move a Masterpiece (Google Labs)
• Click to Do: do more with what’s on your screen (Microsoft Support)
• Let Copilot be your holiday helper and 7 great Copilot prompts for the holiday season (Anne Fernando)
• UCLA offers comp lit course developed by AI (Anthony Ha)
• Custom instructions when using GitHub Copilot (Bart Wullems)
• Trying and Failing with GitHub Copilot (Jeremy Clark)
• Strengthen your responsible AI stance with Microsoft Learn Plans (lannateh)
• NLIP: Redefining Secure Communication Between Natural Language AI Models (Peter Smulovics)
• Why AI will eat the browser (Om Malik)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How to Write Unit Tests in Go (Temitope Taiwo Oyedele)
• The Importance Of Graceful Degradation In Accessible Interface Design (Eleanor Hecks)
• Building an Effective Internal Developer Platform (Mor Paz)
• Having a Full Backlog Is Not a Healthy Backlog (Peter Smulovics)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• User-Agent Reduction on Android WebView (Mike Taylor & Mihai Cîrlănaru)
• Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now (Eben Upton)
• Raspberry Pi Connect for Organizations, plus full-screen support (Gordon Hollingworth)
• Architecting self-coordinating IoT systems for reliability and resilience with .NET and SignalR (Fiodar Sazanavets)
• A Game in F#? Why, yes indeed. The making of Truffle Wizard. (Tim Knauf)

Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Christina Aldan on Changing Careers (David Giard)
• Advent of Code 2024 Day 6: Guard Gallivant in C# ✅✅ and Advent of Code 2024 Day 7: Bridge Repair in C# ✅✅ and Advent of Code 2024 Day 8: Resonant Collinearity in C# ✅✅ and [Monkey Conf 2024] How We Build an Open-Source Cross-Platform Framework in .NET (Martin Zikmund)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 574 (Jason Bock)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 238 – Genius Level Stupidity (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Advent of Code 2024: TDD in C# (Day 7) and Advent of Code 2024: (Not?) TDD in C# (Day 8) (Brad Wilson)

Podcasts

• Merge Conflict #440: Future of GPTs? Mac Desktops? Headphones? (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• GeekWire Podcast: Amazon Nova, the future of AI, and more from the AWS re:Invent show floor (Todd Bishop)
• Blockchain on Azure  – Adventures in .NET #208 (Stefano Tempesta, Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
• Syntax Podcast #857: How to Look and Sound Good at $10, $100 and $1000 With Producer Randy (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• TypeScript Success: Integration, Type Checking, and Generics  – JavaScript Jabber #660 (Charles Max Wood & Matt Pocock)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – When Sprint Goals Are Missing, The Consequences of a Task-Driven Product Owner  | Ramya Shastri (Vasco Duarte)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – From bugs to performance to perfection: pushing code quality in mobile apps (Eira May)
• Lenny’s Podcast – Seth Godin’s best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Tools & Weapons Podcast – Norma Kamali on AI: From canvas to code, redefining creativity with AI (Brad Smith)

Community & Events

• Mozilla Announces ‘JavaScriptmas’ – Daily Coding Challenges with a Chance at Prizes (EditorDavid)
• Starter Packs with OPML and RSS (Luis Quintanilla)
• MVP’s Favorite Content: SQL, AI, Microsoft 365, Azure (Rie Moriguchi)
• My Favorite Announcement at Ignite (that wasn’t) (Joey Dantoni)
• “Pwned”, The Book, Is Now Available for Free (Troy Hunt)
• SQLBits is Coming Back to London in June 2025! (Brent Ozar)
• Bluesky Banner – Show your BlueSky statistics directly in your banner (Csaba Kissi)

Database

• MySQL Retrospective – Forgotten Functions (Frederic Descamps)
• MySQL Retrospective – The Middle Years and MySQL Shorts Revisited – Functions Galore (Scott Stroz)
• Simulating WAITFOR In Scalar UDFs In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
• Develop SQL Server databases on RHEL with Podman Desktop (Louis Imershein)
• DuckDB vs. Snowflake vs. Databricks (Noa Shavit)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Boost your Microsoft 365 app performance: Introducing tree shaking in TeamsJS (Adam Li)
• 7 reasons Excel will never be replaced (Parth Shah)

PowerShell & Terminal

• How To Install Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11 (Jack Wallen)

Miscellaneous

• Easily Install and Update Apps on Your Home PC (Home Updater Team)
• Kids Id Kit (Rockford Lhotka, Art Bergquist & Jurgen Volders)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4580 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
• Microsoft Discontinues Its $4,500 All-in-One Desktop, ‘Surface Studio’ and Linux 4.19, the Last Supported Kernel of the Linux 4.x Series, Finally Reaches EOL (EditorDavid)
• A Dozen Programmer Utilities (Jesse Liberty)
• Bird Flu Has Been Found in Raw Milk − A Reminder of How Pasteurization Protects Health (Kerry E. Kaylegian)
• The top 10 gifts for the developer in your life (Lavinia Sfetcu)
• What are meme coins? (Mahesh Chand)
• Elon Musk donated more than $260 million to elect Donald Trump (Rebecca Bellan)

More Link Collections

• F# Weekly #49, 2024 – Write F# and win PXL-CLOCK! (Sergey Tihon)
• Azure Weekly Issue #496 – 8th December 2024 (Azure Weekly)
• Collective #887 (Manoela Ilic)
• Daily Reading List – December 6, 2024 (#455) (Richard Seroter)

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