Top Links
- PowerShell 7.4 Release Candidate 1 (Sydney Smith)
- How to Add a Blazor WebAssembly Project to an ASP.NET Core App (Satheeskumar S.)
- Discover What’s New in PowerToys v0.75.0: Environment Variables, Peek Updates, and More (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Creating Animated Login UI in .NET MAUI with Lottie (Leomaris Reyes)
- .NET 8: What’s New for Authentication and Authorization (Andrea Chiarelli)
- Deep Dive Analysis: Why did this dll increase in file size by 50%? (Keith Mahoney)
Web & Cloud Development
- E-Sign: Validating Signature Hashes Generated from Vector Data in ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Assume breach and minimize the impact with network security groups (Patrick van Kleef)
- Authenticating Users with Appwrite and Vue (Ezekiel Lawson)
- What Exactly is “Modern” CSS? (Geoff Graham)
- Wolverine and Serverless (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Docker Desktop 4.25: Enhancements to Docker Desktop on Windows, Rosetta for Linux GA, and New Docker Scout Image Analysis Settings (Mihaela Stoica)
- Blazor Unit Testing Tutorial – How to Master with Practical Examples in C# (Nick Cosentino)
- Rust + WebAssembly: building infrastructure for Large Language Model ecosystems (Sam Liu & Miley Fu)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Strangler Fig Architectural Pattern in C# (Code Maze)
- A C# port of validation with partial round trip (Mark Seemann)
- Publish .NET Docker images using .NET SDK and GitHub Actions (Laurent Kempe)
- Metalama Status Update, October 2023 (Gael Fraiteur)
- What are the dire consequences of not removing all the properties that were set via SetProp? (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Azure DevOps Workload Identity Federation (Emmanuel Knafo)
- AI.gov – Making AI Work for the American People (U.S. Govt.)
- Learn about Azure OpenAI Model Version Upgrades (Keiji Kanazawa)
- How to Determine URL a Local Git Repository was Originally Cloned From (Chris Pietschmann)
- All treats, no tricks: 6 solutions to common developers challenges (Google for Developers Team)
- Passkeys: A No-Frills Explainer on the Future of Password-Less Authentication (Neal Fennimore)
- The architecture of today’s LLM applications (Nicole Choi)
- Conflict Resolution: Navigating Disagreements with Soft Skills (Peter Smulovics)
- How AI Can Supercharge Observability (Tomer Levy)
- Semantic Kernel-Powered OpenAI Plugin Development Lifecycle (Vivek Garudi)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- MonoGame, the order of things! (Simon Jackson)
Screencasts & Videos
- Exploring Postman’s VS Code Extension | Postman Intergalactic (Postman Team)
- Visual Studio Miniseries – Interviews with the tool makers! (Visual Studio Team)
- #MSIgnite Coffee Break with Rick Claus (ITOpsTalk Crew)
Podcasts
- Revision Path – Manny Ikomi (Maurice Cherry)
- Merge Conflict 382: Let’s Talk Dark Forces Remastered (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- The Changelog News Podcast – What will React come up with Next? (Jerod Santo)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Why Stack Overflow is embracing Svelte (Eira May)
- The PowerShell Podcast – DSC, Community, and PowerShell: A conversation with Michael Greene (James Petty)
- Syntax Podcast Episode 686: We Need Your Help With The Secret Sauce (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksi)
- Meta Cast – The Art of Effective Communication (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Matthew Casperson: Platform Engineering – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 269 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Community & Events
- Apple ‘Scary Fast’ Mac launch event: the 4 biggest announcements (Emma Roth)
- Highlights in gRPConf 2023: Customer Showcase, Developer Engagement, Birds of Feathers Discussions and more. (gRPC Team)
- Philly Is One of the Best Cities in the World to Visit in 2024, Says Lonely Planet (Visit Philly)
Database
- Change the default SQL Server locations for database data files, transaction log files and backup files (Nisarg Upadhyay)
- Why IF Branching Causes Performance Problems In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- SQL SERVER – An In-Depth Look at MIXED_PAGE_ALLOCATION and Changes in Page Allocation (Pinal Dave)
- Part 5 – Unlock the Power of Azure Data Factory: A Guide to Boosting Your Data Ingestion Process (John Folberth & Joe Fitzgerald)
- Scraping Database Metrics from Couchbase Capella with Prometheus (Chris Malarky)
- How we reduced our DocumentDB cost by nearly 50% and optimized performance (Divyanshu Singh)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
PowerShell & Terminal
- OhMyPosh and CascadiaCode not working on PowerShell? How to fix it in Windows 10 and Windows 11 Integrated Terminal (Davide Bellone)
- How To Find a File’s Path in PowerShell (Brien Posey)
Miscellaneous
- X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it (Alex Heath)
- Mastodon’s latest update makes it easier to follow the news (Jay Peters)
- Windows CE Reaches End of Life, If Not End of Sales (msmash)
- Rethinking “code-adjacent” talks (Matt Lacey)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3813 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting links of the week 2023-44 (#96) (Michael Eaton)
- Daily Reading List – October 30, 2023 (#193) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Happy publication day! Get your Kindle or print copy today. Watch for giveaways online and at TechBash too.
