Dew Drop – February 18, 2025 (#4364)

Top Links

• EPISODE 10 – Scott & Mark Learn To… Zoomit (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich) – Premiering Wednesday at 12:15pm EST
• Presenting T-SQL Analyzer CLI – identify anti-patterns in SQL Server scripts with 140+ rules (Erik EJ)
• Back to the Beginning: Chatting with the Team That Made the First Make: Magazine (Dale Dougherty)
• How to use DeepSeek R1 with Langchain (Marlene Mhangami)
• Authenticating HTTP requests with cookies from an embedded WebView2 browser in WPF (Anthony Simmon)

Web & Cloud Development

• Top 10 Backend Frameworks: The Pros, Cons, and Everything In Between (Agada Truelife)
• Hash Functions Deep Dive (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site: 19 Quick Fixes for Instant Results (Jen Swisher)
• How and when to use JavaScript arrow functions (Joe Attardi)
• FHIR TL;DW: 6 Rules for Successful Interoperability Projects (René Spronk)
• The What If Machine: Bringing the “Iffy” Future of CSS into the Present (Lee Meyer)
• Spring Cloud Azure updates and troubleshooting tips for Java on AKS (Moary Chen)
• Array type notation: T[] vs. Array<T> in TypeScript and Symbols in TypeScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Starlight 0.32 (Chris Swithinbank)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Leveraging Tuples in C#: Real-World Use Cases (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• API design note: Beware of adding an “Other” enum value (Raymond Chen)

AI

• What role does LLM reasoning play for software tasks? (Martin Fowler)
• How much faster can coding assistants really make software delivery? (Sichu Zhang)
• Boost Developer Productivity: Use Our Multilingual AI Assistant Effectively (Clarisse Ng)
• GitHub Copilot–New models added (Bart Wullems)
• What the US’ first major AI copyright ruling might mean for IP law (Kyle Wiggers)
• OpenAI vs. DeepSeek: Which AI Understands Kotlin Better? (Vera Kudrevskaia)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The Controversial Truth about Tech Debt (Raphael Moutard)
• How to securely deploy GitHub ARC on OpenShift (Chris Peters & Chris Keller)
• Software development is… (Jessica Kerr)
• Managed Services at Thoughtworks: How to be best prepared for your interview process (Gabriela Alves)

Screencasts & Videos

• Introducing the Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog | Get control of your data | Microsoft Mechanics (Daniel Hidalgo & Jeremy Chapman)
• Rethinking traditional approaches to release notes — recording of WTD Australia presentation (Tom Johnson)
• First Start Experience in an app (Jeff Fritz)

Podcasts

• Merge Conflict #450 – AI Agents, Hottest Reloading, & Apple Notes in 2025 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• The Changelog News Podcast #132 – AI is stifling tech adoption (Jerod Santo)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #211 – Decoding the Underground: Google’s Dual-Lens Threat Intelligence Magic (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Why is it so hard for companies to protect your privacy? (Eira May)
• Fragmented, A Software Podcast #255 – Data Oriented Programming (Kaushik Gopal)
• Python Bytes Episode #420 – 90% Done in 50% of the Available Time (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
• Syntax Podcast #877 – Tailwind 4 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)

Community & Events

• Virtual Event: Preparing for Your Organization’s AI Workloads – Feb 20th (Microsoft Events)
• The View from Warsaw: Microsoft’s Support for Trans-Atlantic Investment, Trade, and Economic Growth (Brad Smith)
• Introducing Akka.NET Bootcamp 2.0 (Aaron Stannard)

Database

• SQL Server 2022 CU Updates and Error Code 0x851A0043 (Ben Johnston)
• The State of the Database 2025 (Louis Davidson)
• RavenDB 7.1: Shared Journals (Oren Eini)
• The State Of Table Variables In 2025 (Erik Darling)

Miscellaneous

• US blackmailed Ukraine in Munich: Either sign minerals deal or no meeting with US vice president (Serhiy Sydorenko & Mariya Yemets)
• Why Trump’s Metal Tariffs Won’t Lead to the All-American iPhone (Andrew Williams)
• The war on DEI is a smoke screen (Gaby Del Valle)
• DOGE is trying to access the IRS’s data on millions of taxpayers (Nathan Edwards)
• X is blocking links to Signal, a secure messaging platform used by federal workers and Trump fires hundreds of air traffic support staff as SpaceX visits FAA command center (Rebecca Bellan)
• New Kindle jailbreak opens all models and Ink Console is a portable e-ink gamebook console (Rob Beschizza)

More Link Collections

• Interesting links of the week 2025-08 (Michael Eaton)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Developer Day, Trust Center, Well-Architected for Enterprises, and more (Feb 17, 2025) (Channy Yun)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #175 (Sam Basu)
• Reading Notes #636 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Programming APIs with C# and .NET: Develop high-performance APIs that ensure seamless application communication and enhanced security (Jesse Liberty & Joseph Dluzen) – Referral Link