Top Links
- AI for Developers (Microsoft Developer Team) – The developer home for Microsoft AI resources has been refreshed
 - Unlocking insights with Meter Histogram in the Visual Studio profiler (Harshada Hole)
 - CES 2025: The year of the Windows 11 PC refresh (Yusuf Mehdi)
 - Metalama 2025.0 Generally Available: Support for C# 13 and .NET 9, Aspect Framework Improvements, and More (Gael Fraiteur)
 - Introducing the New Angular Chat UI Component (Indrajith Srinivasan)
 - Scott & Mark Learn To… Find Joy in Hobbies (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich) – Coming Wednesday, Jan 8th at 12:15pm EST
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Upcoming CVE for End-of-Life Node.js Versions (Node.js Team)
 - ASP.NET Core 9: Discover the new developer Exception page (Anthony Giretti)
 - Critter Stack Roadmap for 2025 (Jeremy D. Miller)
 - Azure Communication Services Email Configuration and Sending Emails (Koen Verbeeck)
 - Top 5 JavaScript Gantt Chart Libraries for 2025 (Mahalakshmi Karthikeyan)
 - How to Set Up Basic jQuery Form Validation in Two Minutes (Maria Antonietta Perna)
 - TIL: Kubernetes Auto-scaling and Requests vs Limits (Sean Killeen)
 - Build Locally, Deploy Globally: Meet Studio Sync for WordPress.com (Wojtek Naruniec)
 - Deprecating Redundant Attributes in the Number Insight API (Max Kahan)
 - Last Call for Review of Proposed Corrections to EPUB 3.3 and Draft Note: String Searching (W3C)
 - Getting ready for Tailwind v4.0 (Oscar Jite-Orimiono)
 - Microsoft Entra: Top 50 features of 2024 (Shobhit Sahay)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- C# Lists: What They Are and How to Use Them (Stackify Team)
 - What’s New in vcpkg (December 2024) (Augustin Popa)
 - .NET 9 upgrade–notnull constraint (Bart Wullems)
 - Routing and Topologies – Navigating the Digital Highways (Chris Woodruff)
 - Exploring CollectionsMarshal for Dictionary (Gérald Barré)
 - How can I tell whether a change to a control was due to the user or due to my program? (Raymond Chen)
 - Encapsulating rod-cutting (Mark Seemann)
 
AI
- Using Azure AI Agent Service with AutoGen / Semantic Kernel to build a multi-agent’s solution (Kinfey Lo)
 - AI Killed the Content Creator…Star (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
 - The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI (Andy Bell)
 - The Future of AI-Powered Applications Enabled by Couchbase (Part 2) (Matt Spillar)
 - RAG Deep Dive: 10-part live stream series (Pamela Fox)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Reducing PAT usage across Azure DevOps (Angel Wong)
 - GitHub Well-Architected Framework (GitHub Team)
 - Part 3: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix (Rina Chang & Susie Lu)
 - Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale (Varun Khaitan)
 - Why it’s critical to get environment promotion right (Nikita Dergilev)
 - A guide to understanding program and product managers (Bartosz Jaworski)
 - Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector (Martin Thwaites)
 - Ultimate guide to CI/CD: Fundamentals to advanced implementation (Sandra Gittlen)
 - How to communicate efficiently at work (Prason)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Enabling Neural Rendering in DirectX: Cooperative Vector Support Coming Soon (Cassie Hoef)
 - Meta stops selling the Quest Pro (Wes Davis)
 - Google is Bringing Gemini to Google TV (Paul Thurrott)
 - Xbox and LG to Bring Cloud Gaming to LG Smart TVs (Joe Skrebels)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- SharpSite – Open Source CMS with C# (Jeff Fritz)
 - Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 12 (Jason Bock)
 - New Copilot Features coming to Mac (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Team)
 
Podcasts
- Merge Conflict #444 – Official Family IoT Tech Support (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
 - InfoQ Podcast: Susan Shu Chang on Bridging Foundational Machine Learning and Generative AI (Susan Shu Chang)
 - Azure Cloud Talk 25/1/6 – Woah New Year? Re-introducing Azure Cloud Talk! (Brian Gorman & Alec Harrison)
 - Syntax Podcast #865 – CSS Performance × Rate Limiting × Array Sort Behavior – STUMP’d (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
 - The Happy Engineer Podcast #202 – What Every Engineering Leader Needs to Know About Multitasking with Dave Crenshaw | 2021 Top Episode Replay (Zach White)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Managing Change in Complex Organizational Cultures | Ellen Grove (Vasco Duarte)
 - CloudChat Episode #17 – The Source is with Us (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
 - The Changelog News Podcast #126 – 10 big predictions for 2025 (Jerod Santo)
 - Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #205 – Cybersecurity Forecast 2025: Beyond the Hype and into the Reality (Anton Chuvakin)
 - Only Malware in the Building Episode #8 – Malware metamorphosis: 2024 reflections and 2025 predictions (Selena Larson, Dave Bittner & Rick Howard)
 
Community & Events
- Open Source in 2025: What Will Matter Most This Year? (Amanda Brock)
 - The best stuff we’ve seen at CES so far (Andrew Liszewski)
 - How and why I deleted all my tweets (Bruce Lawson)
 - Python Is TIOBE Index Language Of The Year 2024 (Mike James)
 - Microsoft AI Tour NYC 2025: Redefining Innovation (Peter Smulovics)
 
Database
- How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: IN and NOT IN (Erik Darling)
 - TOP vs. TOP PERCENT: Hidden Costs – SQL in Sixty Seconds 206 (Pinal Dave)
 - How to Find Outliers in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
 - SQL Server Linked Server Encryption for Network Traffic (Svetlana Golovko)
 - Azure SQL Database – Configure Job using Elastic Agents (Praveen Sreeram)
 - Create SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric and Integrate into Project (Olivier Van Steenlandt)
 - Monday Monitor Tips: Lots of Postgres Options (Steve Jones)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- New Unified Contacts in Microsoft Teams and Outlook, now generally available (Vivek Datir)
 - Enhance your productivity with Copilot in OneDrive (Kayla Patterson)
 
Miscellaneous
- Disney To Merge Hulu + Live TV With Fubo (msmash)
 - Microsoft would really like you to stop using Windows 10 this year (Tom Warren)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-02 (Michael Eaton)
 - Daily Reading List – January 6, 2025 (#466) (Richard Seroter)
 - Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 2025 Tech Predictions, Llama 3.3 70B, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, custom billing view, and more (January 6, 2025) (Prasad Rao)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)

