Dew Drop – April 27, 2023 (#3931)

Top Links

• Get Started with OpenAI Completions with .NET (Luis Quintanilla)
• New ways to manage your data in ChatGPT (OpenAI Team)
• Top 8 JavaScript Libraries for Data Visualization in 2023 (Nipuni Arunodi)
• Introducing cloud.microsoft: a unified domain for Microsoft 365 apps and services (Microsoft 365 Team)
• Build a no-code GraphQL service with Azure API Management (Adrian Hall)

Web & Cloud Development

• Create your own Validationattribute in ASP.NET Core (Steven Giesel)
• What’s Next: WebStorm 2023.2 Roadmap (David Watson)
• Some basic query support for System.Text.Json – (JSONPath inspired) (Josef Ottosson)
• #30DaysOfAzureAI 24. Machine Learning for Beginners (Bethany Jepchumba)
• How we built it: the Postman CLI (Pooja Mistry)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Welcome to Hell – Windows Publishing with .NET MAUI (Joachim Leonfellner)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Remove Duplicates from Excel XLSX Using C# .NET and VB.NET (Mackenzie Albitz)
• Documentation for C++20 Ranges (Sy Brand)
• One way to defer work when a re-entrant call is detected (Raymond Chen)
• Extending LINQ to Objects With MoreLINQ Library (Code Maze)
• ReSharper and Rider 2023.1.1 – Bug Fixes Are Here (Sasha Ivanova)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Using ChatGPT as a technical writing assistant (Martin Fowler)
• Google Adds Code Generation To Bard (Kay Ewbank)
• The worst coder in the world tries an AI sidekick (Ben Popper)
• Semantic Kernel + Qdrant = Persistent Memories Powered By Open Source (John Maeda)
• How to fix Not a Git Repository (Or Any of the Parent Directories) error? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Is it Imperative to be Declarative? (Ian Miell)
• CLI tricks every developer should know (Kedasha Kerr)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Coming soon: Recipes for popular visual effects using the Universal Render Pipeline (Eduardo Oriz)
• Swift.org: Foundation Package Preview Now Available (Tony Parker)

Screencasts & Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 153 – Why Techno Tribalism Sucks! (Iot Coffee Talk)
• LazyVim: Linting and Formatting (Elijah Manor)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – Cypress 12 with Ely Lucas (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Tackling Tech: new podcast on the latest Microsoft capabilities (Harjit Dhaliwal)
• Everything Remult with Noam Honig and Yoni Rapoport – JavaScript Jabber 579 (Dan Shappir)
• Layered API Security with Ted Spence –  Adventures in .NET 143 (Shawn Clabough)
• The Changelog – Hard drive reliability at scale (Andy Klein & Adam Stacoviak)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 124: Juniors For Life (Ben Nadel)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 098: Create Belonging and Inclusion with Genesis Amaris Kemp | Author and DEI Advocate (Max Ahumada)
• Talk Python to Me #413: Live from PyCon 2023 (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Engineering Radio 561: Dan DeMers on Dataware (Jeff Doolittle)
• Women in Technology Podcast – Nici and the Chocolate Factory (WiT Team)

Community & Events

• Mastodon Is Doomed (Justin Garrison)
• Amazon begins its latest round of layoffs — read memos from execs sent to employees and Internal FAQ: What Amazon is telling employees before they return to the office next week (Taylor Soper)
• Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition blocked by UK regulators (Tom Warren)

Database

• How to Go Live on SQL Server 2022 (Brent Ozar)
• Capitalize on your investments with the new centrally managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server (Frederico Pravatta Rezende)
• Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server failover across regions without connection string changes (Brian McKerr)
• Public Preview : Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Data Encryption with Customer Managed Keys (Azure Team)
• Fight for every byte it takes: Nibbling at the costs (Oren Eini)
• Why Learn PostgreSQL? (Steve Jones)
• Announcing New Templates for Microsoft Access: Northwind 2.0 is here! (Michael Aldridge)

Miscellaneous

• Phone Link for iOS is now rolling out to all Windows 11 customers (Ali Akgun)
• GM killed the Chevy Bolt — and the dream of a small, affordable EV (Dan Seifert)
• Getting ready to take a Microsoft Certification exam (Sarah Kong)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3695 (Chris Alcock)
• This Week In React #143: RSC Quiz, useFormStatus, Panda CSS, useLayoutEffect, Million.js, Super Apps, React-Three-Fiber, Vite… (Sebastien Lorber)

The Geek Shelf

 Apple AirPods (2nd Generation) Wireless Earbuds with Lightning Charging Case Included (Apple) – Referral Link