Dew Drop – February 7, 2023 (#3874)

Top Links

• Tuesday’s top tech news: a new era for Microsoft’s Bing (Tom Warren)
• Windows App SDK v1.3-experimental1 Release (Gabby Bilka)
• Beyond the Hype: ChatGPT and why it has set the internet alight (Colin Eberhardt)
• An important next step on our AI journey (Sundar Pichai)
• The technology behind GitHub’s new code search (Timothy Clem)
• Update to the .NET language strategy (Kathleen Dollard)

Web & Cloud Development

• A Historical Reference of React Criticism (Zach Leatherman)
• Extracting Key-Value Pairs from Document Form Fields with AWS Textract and .NET (Bryan Hogan)
• Using source-generated regex in ASP.NET Core route constraints (Gérald Barré)
• How To Build A Magazine Layout With CSS Grid Areas (Jennifer Brehm)
• How to setup Built-in Authentication for Azure Static Web Apps with Azure Active Directory (Joey Huang)
• Server-Side Filtering With the Kendo Angular for UI Grid (Peter Vogel)
• Organizing AWS Accounts With Pulumi (Praneet Loke)
• A Button Only Date Picker and JavaScript Date Control Binding (Rick Strahl)
• ElementInternals and Form-Associated Custom Elements (Ryosuke Niwa)
• Introducing Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview—People-centric data protection for a multiplatform world (Christine Barrett)
• OAuth 2.0 Just Got Easier: Introducing Token Refresh and ID Token Support (Giridhar)
• WebAssembly to Let Developers Combine Languages (Loraine Lawson)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Installing .NET Framework 4.5 Targeting Pack (Peter Ritchie)
• PostgreSQL in C# .NET with Npgsql, Dapper, and Entity Framework: The Complete Guide (Michael Shpilt)
• How to (Find the Option to) Enable Separator Lines for C# in Visual Studio (Roland Weigelt)
• Refactoring Bloated Code in C# (Code Maze)
• Myths about F#: C# will become F# anyway, so we don’t need F# and Today’s random F# code: validation (Urs Enzler)
• What the hell is this odd init keyword? (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
• Introducing the Rider Localization EAP for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (Julia Alexandrova)
• Contravariant functors as invariant functors (Mark Seemann)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Leading the Future: The Top 10 Trends Shaping Modern Leadership (J.D. Meier)
• Velocity Management in Agile: A Tactical Guide to Maintaining Consistent Developer Throughput (Tyler Hakes)
• The difference between high-performing and ordinary teams (David Pereira)
• When to Command (and When to Collaborate) (Ted Neward)
• Who is a 10x Engineer? (Adhithi Ravichandran)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• The evolution of Facebook’s iOS app architecture (Dustin Shahidepour)
• Bringing together sign-in solutions and passkeys with Android’s new Credential Manager (Diego Zavala & Lee Campbell)
• Designing a deeper space: Visual effects in Alt Shift’s Crying Suns (Christophe Sauveur)

Screencasts & Videos

• SQL Coding Series – Intermediate Part II (Women Who Code)
• Introduction to Group Policy – (AZ-800 Prep) | IT Ops Talk (Michael Bender)
• Data Loss Prevention across endpoints, apps, & services | Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
• Artemis program with Richard Campbell & Uly | NDC Sydney 2022 (SSW TV)

Podcasts

• Revision Path – Kirk Visola (Maurice Cherry)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Discover how to break free from the trap of thinking you know it all and bring agile success to your team | Bram De Block (Vasco Duarte)
• React Native Radio #258 – Robots coding React Native?!?! (Mazen Chami, Robin Heinze & Jamon Holmgren)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 572 – Polish and Perf (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 107 – How Google Secures It’s Google Cloud Usage at Massive Scale (Anton Chuvakin)
• Meta Cast – Calmness In Layoff Chaos (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• The Changelog – News: OpenAI’s new text classifier, teach yourself CS, programming philosophies are about state, you might not need Lodash & overrated scalability (Jerod Santo)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 535 – The AI that writes music from text (Eira May)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Graph Developer Proxy with Waldek Mastykarz and Sebastien Levert (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)

Community & Events

• A New Era: PM -> SWE (Eric Lawrence)
• Challenging stereotypes about women in the technology sector (New Work Engineers)
• Dell to Lay Off Over 6,600 Employees (Paul Thurrott)
• The frontier of computing: Q&A with IBM quantum computing research (Ryan Donovan)
• Contributor Stories: Taiob Ali (Sherry List)
• Reflections on my first year leading inclusion and diversity at Unity (Tai Wingfield)
• Microsoft announces surprise event for tomorrow with Bing ChatGPT expected (Tom Warren) – Today!

Database

• Use SQL Server and CSS to Generate More Interesting Events Calendar in HTML (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL Server on Azure VMs – the best price-performance gets even better! (Pam Lahoud)
• Using TOP clause in a SELECT statement (Greg Larsen)

PowerShell & Terminal

• How to Open a Tor Brave Window from Command Line (David Walsh)

Miscellaneous

• Introducing Files, version 2.4.30 (Files App Team)
• New Microsoft research illustrates the online risks and value of safety tools to keep kids safer in the digital environment (Courtney Gregoire)
• Getty Images Sues AI Art Generator Stable Diffusion in the US For Copyright Infringement (msmash)
• It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Reading the user’s saved passwords (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3640 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-6 (#58) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #90 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Wrap Up – February 6, 2023 (#024) (Richard Seroter)
• Build5Nines Weekly – February 7, 2023 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Reading Notes #541 (Frank Boucher)

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) – Referral Link