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Dew Drop – April 3, 2025 (#4396)

Top Links

Microsoft partners with Anthropic to create official C# SDK for Model Context Protocol (Mike Kistler & Maria Naggaga)
Celebrating 50 years of Microsoft | (Altair BASIC source released) (Bill Gates)
.NET Conf Focus on Modernization (April 22-23) | Agenda (.NET Conf Team)
Building the Flutter AI Toolkit (Chris Sells)
Dev Proxy v0.26 with improved mocking, plugin validation, and Docker support (Waldek Mastykarz & Garry Trinder)
Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v8.2 (Michael Hawker)

Web & Cloud Development

Aspire: A Platform for Reusable Infrastructure (David Fowler)
Getting Started with the Vonage Video Reference App for React (Chris Tankersley)
Blazor Basics: Exploring Blazor WebAssembly Ahead-of-Time (AOT) Compilation (Claudio Bernasconi)
What’s new in Svelte: April 2025 (Dani Sandoval)
Migrating AzUrlShortener from Azure Static WebApp to Azure Container Apps (Frank Boucher)
Converting between .Net DateTime and JavaScript Date Ticks (j2inet)
Jetpack Account Protection: Effortless Password Security (Ali Uğurlu)
Going Modular: Using htmx with Partial Views in Razor Pages (Chris Woodruff)
Use TypeScript Class instead of Interface or Type (Dave Bush)
Replacing Swagger with Scalar in a Containerized Aspire.NET Project (Oliver Scheer)
Maximize productivity and ROI with Windows 365: New innovations now generally available (Stefan Kinnestrand)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

How to Add a WPF Excel XLSX Viewer to Your Desktop Application (MacKenzie Albitz)
CodeRush for Roslyn: XAML support (Rory Becker)
Never create an IValueConverter again? (Matt Lacey)

Visual Studio & .NET

New ‘Visual Studio Hub’ 1-Stop-Shop for GitHub Copilot Resources, More (David Ramel)
How to Handle File Operations in C# (Mahesh Chand)
A Quick Note About JasperFx’s Plans for Marten & Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
Announcing MassTransit v9 (Chris Patterson)
AutoMapper and MediatR Going Commercial (Jimmy Bogard)
Adding delays to our task sequencer, part 1 (Raymond Chen)
CodeRush for Roslyn: Webinar links and CodeRush for Visual Studio – New Options Layers (Rory Becker)

AI

Our experiment with GitHub Copilot: A practical guide for development teams (Birlla Packiasamy)
Building a streaming DeepSeek-R1 app on Azure (Pamela Fox)
The docs team at Docker is exploring how to optimize our documentation for LLMs and AI agents (Sarah S.)
AI Revolutionizes Search: Key Insights from Microsoft Accelerate (Bing Team)
Co-Imagination (Eleanor Berger)
Strengthening patient data integrity with advanced security and AI solutions (Helia Mohammadi)
Adobe launches Premiere Pro’s generative AI video extender (Jess Weatherbed)
DeepMind’s 145-page paper on AGI safety may not convince skeptics (Kyle Wiggers)
From automation to autonomy: Reshaping enterprise architecture with agentic AI and business capability models (Sarrah Shah)
Not all AI is generative: Efficient scheduling with mathematics (Subbu Sailappan & Sidharth Kumar)
VidTok introduces compact, efficient tokenization to enhance AI video processing (Tianyu He, Junliang Guo & Jiang Bian)
Copyright-Aware AI: Let’s Make It So (Tim O’Reilly)
How to navigate LLM model names (Trevor Royer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The 3 measurement types from Measuring Continuous Delivery and DevOps (Steve Fenton)
Isolator++ v5.1 Released. Now Supporting 32-bit Applications (Eli Lopian)
Secure and safe login and commits with GitLab + Yubico (Fernando Diaz)
Which Problems Design Systems Solve (and Which They Can’t) (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
TFVC Policies Storage Updates (Maria Chmyreva)
Improved refresh and destroy experience for Pulumi IaC (Will Jones)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Flutter 2025 roadmap update (Michael Thomsen)

Screencasts & Videos

What is the first thing I should do when starting a .NET MAUI project? | One Dev Question (James Montemagno)
Windows Server Summit 29-30 April 2025 (ITOpsTalk Team)
Allow Ping through Windows 11 Firewall with one line of PowerShell! | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
Unboxing Blazor in .NET 10 Preview 2 (.NET Team)
How to set up Windows 365 (2025 tutorial) (Microsoft Mechanics)
The origin story of Microsoft (Bill Gates)

Podcasts

.NET Rocks! – Measuring LLMs with Jodie Burchell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campell)
The Cloud Pod Episode #298 – BigQuery Gits it With Devops (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Command to Collaboration, An Agile Leadership Team’s Transformation Story | Zvonimir Durcevic (Vasco Duarte)
Matt Lee Discusses Cloud War Games and Elevating Everyday DevOps – Adventures in DevOps Episode #237 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
The Changelog Podcast Episode #635 – The 1000x faster financial database (Joran Dirk Greef & Jerod Santo)
Grammar Girl Podcast – The hidden techniques behind well-paced fiction, with Joshua Essoe (Mignon Fogarty)
Syntax Podcast Episode #890 – Accepting Money on the Internet in 2025 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Practical AI Podcast – Software and hardware acceleration with Groq (Dhananjay Singh, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)

Community & Events

WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff (Sarah Perez)
Join us at Windows Server Summit 2025 and learn more about our latest innovations! (Douglas Phillips)
Bill Gates Celebrates Microsoft’s 50th by Releasing Altair BASIC Source Code (Paul Thurrott)

Database

How to Check Who Created the Table in SQL Server (Burt King)
RavenDB: .NET Aspire integration (Oren Eini)
Things I Wish Inline Table Valued Functions Helped With In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Calculating Matrix Inverse in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) in PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant (Grant Fritchey)
Fabric Database: Advanced Vector Search Features (Dennes Torres)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Interpreter Agent in Teams is in Public Preview (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

Announcing the Process map public preview in Power Automate (Apostolis Papaioannou)
What will the Switch 2 cost after the Trump tariffs? (Dominic Preston)
Nintendo Switch 2 specs: 1080p 120Hz display, 4K dock, mouse mode, and more (Jay Peters)
Built together: How Firefox fans help shape the browser and How Firefox’s vertical tabs came to life with a little help from our community (Jenifer Boscacci)
Report: Amazon put in a bid to acquire TikTok ahead of U.S. ban (Kurt Schlosser)
TRAINING: Complimentary Power BI courses (Kurt Shintaku)
How to leak to a journalist (Laura Hazard Owen)
Trump’s Tariffs Could Reshape the US Tech Industry (Lauren Goode)
Donald Trump announces tariffs that could raise the price of almost everything you buy (Mia Sato)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – April 2, 2025 (#525) (Richard Seroter)
dotInsights | April 2025 (Rachel Appel)

The Geek Shelf

Engineering Management for the Rest of Us (Sarah Drasner) – Referral link

Dew Drop – April 2, 2025 (#4395)

Top Links

AI on Windows: Progress Responses with Phi Silica (Nick Randolph)
Microsoft Contributes to Uno Platform: Dramatically Reducing Testing Time (Uno Platform Team)
Awesome CmdPal – A curated list of awesome things related to PowerToys Command Palette (CmdPal) (Alexandre Nédélec)
ReSharper’s Out-of-Process Journey: Major Progress and Next Steps (Sasha Ivanova)
The latest Azure AI Foundry innovations help you optimize AI investments and differentiate your business (Jessica Hawk)
Advanced Cloud Native Development with .NET Aspire | NDC London 2025 (Scott Hunter & Maddy Montaquila)

Web & Cloud Development

.NET on Heroku: Now Generally Available (Rune Soerensen & Terence Lee)
Docker Image Layers – What They Are & How They Work (James Walker)
Mastering Blazor Authentication and Authorization (David Ramel)
AWS or Azure? My Team Can’t Decide (Brien Posey)
CRUD Made Easy: Building Dynamic Apps with htmx and ASP.NET Razor Pages (Chris Woodruff)
Step Up Performance in Angular: Pure Pipes vs. Memoization (Christian Nwamba)
Azure Linux 3.0 now Generally Available with Azure Kubernetes Service v1.32 (Flora Taagen)
Code signing on Windows with Azure Trusted Signing (Sudara)
Top 5 React Stock Chart Libraries for 2025 (Nishanthi Panner Selvam)
Docker Desktop 4.40: Model Runner to run LLMs locally, more powerful Docker AI Agent, and expanded AI Tools Catalog (Yiwen Xu)
Connect Calls Using the Vonage Voice API and How to Get Started with Vonage Network APIs in 2025 (Amanda Cavallaro)
Node v23.11.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
March 2025 Updates: What’s New in Auth0 (Developer Edition) (Ana Cidre)
Bun 1.2 Improves Node Compatibility and Adds Postgres Client (Bruno Couriol)
Crafting Strong DX With Astro Components and TypeScript (Bryan Robinson)
Go 1.24.2-1 and 1.23.8-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
Wasp: The first full-stack framework powered by an LLM – running on vibes, not a compiler (Matija Sosic)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

WinUI3Localizer – A NuGet package that helps you localize your WinUI 3 app (AndrewKeepCoding)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Add a WinForms Rich Text Editor in a C# .NET App (Aastha Gupta)
Linear Support Vector Regression from Scratch Using C# with Evolutionary Training (James McCaffrey)
Top 5 Real-World Applications for TX Text Control Document Processing Libraries (Bjoern Meyer)
Supporting Companies That Use Microsoft .NET (David McCarter)
Ports and fat adapters (Mark Seemann)
MediatR 12.5.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
Modernizing push notification API for Teams (Rudolf Kurka & Frantisek Kaduk)

AI

Introducing Rook AI (Oren Eini)
AST Grep and Transform (Peli de Halleux)
GitHub Copilot – Change the Narrative (Rob Bos)
Not Everything is an Agent (Ariya Hidayat)
OpenAI Releases Improved Image Generation in GPT-4o (Anthony Alford)
Understand and Code DeepSeek V3 (Beau Carnes)
Automating PowerPoint Generation with AI: A Learn Live Series Case Study (bethanyjep)
Making Sense of the AI Developer Tools Ecosystem (Colin Eberhardt)
Agentic AI and Platform Engineering: How They Can Combine (Jennifer Riggins)
How we built the new family of Gemini Robotics models (Joel Meares)
How to Use Copilot for Code Commenting and Documentation (Mahesh Chand)
Refactoring and Optimizing Code with GitHub Copilot (Mark Heath)
Introduction to Agents (Michael Gannotti)
Vibe Coding: Buy Now, Pay Later—The Fast Track to Product Debt (Teon Beijl)
Gemma 3 for Beginners: An Introduction to Google’s Open-Source AI (Vladislav Guzey)
Enhancing Healthcare AI with Model Context Protocol and Semantic Kernel (Tressha)
OpenAI Accused of Training GPT-4o on Unlicensed O’Reilly Books (msmash)

Design, Methodology & Testing

MSIX Flat Bundle Application Packages: Definition, Creation, Deployment and What Is a VSIX Package and How Does It Work? (Alex Marin)
Important Update: Server Name Indication (SNI) Now Mandatory for Azure DevOps Services (Soo Stahl)
Creating SBOM attestations in GitHub Actions (Andrew Lock)
GitHub found 39M secret leaks in 2024. Here’s what we’re doing to help (Erin Havens)
Building and Deploying Microservices With Spring Boot and TeamCity (Olga Bedrina)
Attack of the Clones – The War on Code Duplication (Gil Zilberfeld)

Screencasts & Videos

Uno Platform Live Coding: Let’s run an Uno app on Android on Ubuntu on #WSL on Windows! (Uno Platform Team)
C#, Web, SharpSite (Jeff Fritz)
Modern Observability and Event Driven Architectures – NDC London 2025 (Martin Thwaites & Ian Cooper)
GitHub Accounts in Visual Studio Just Got Way AWESOME! (Ruben Rios)
Azure AI Talk and Watch, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
New reasoning agents: Researcher and Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Microsoft Mechanics)
Introduction to secret leaks with GitHub (GitHub Team)
OpenAI’s New Image Generator: An AI Revolution! (Frank LaVigne)
Closing FROZEN APPS On Windows 11 Is Now SUPER EASY (Windows Developer Team)
Trying out .NET Aspire with CosmosDB and more | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)

Podcasts

Developer Tea – Meta Models – Logarithmic Returns (Jonathan Cutrell)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Context Diagramming, Helping Agile Teams See Their Complex Communication Network | Zvonimir Durcevic (Vasco Duarte)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO), with Jesse Butler and Nic Slattery (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
RunAs Radio Episode #978 – GitHub Copilot for SysAdmins with Jessica Deen (Richard Campbell)
The AI Fix Episode #44 – AI-generated malware, and a stunning AI breakthrough (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
Software Engineering Radio Episode #662 – Vlad Khononov on Balancing Coupling in Software Design (Jeff Doolittle)

Community & Events

Meet the AWS News Blog team! (Channy Yun)
What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 (Brendan Burns)
Apple starts accepting GitHub sponsorships for Swift (Paul Hudson)
New Character Limit Now Available! (Bluesky Team)
Discover new tools, skills, and best practices with Microsoft MVPs and Developer Influencers (Molly Kih)
The return of Building 7 (Raymond Chen)
Inside the Microsoft Archives: How the tech giant preserves, shares, and learns from its history (Todd Bishop)
Vanishing Culture: Cultural Preservation and Queer History (Brooke Palmieri)
30 Surprising Facts About Microsoft (Dan Lewis) – I’ve heard that a few of these are myth or no longer true
Explore how to secure AI by attending our Learn Live Series (Shirleyse Haley)

Database

Release Announcement of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v 10.1 (Aravind)
What’s New in SQL Server 2025 (Brent Ozar)
An Experiment with Copilot: On Azure SQL DB Security (Karen Lopez)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Microsoft Graph APIs for permanent deletion of mailbox items now available (Thomas Mechelke)

PowerShell

Most Used PowerShell Commands for Application Packaging & Deployment (Alex Marin)

Miscellaneous

Thousands of federal health workers are losing their jobs in the US (Justine Calma)
In 2011, NPR executives “drafted a secret plan for the worst” (Laura Hazard Owen)
Tip: Use Wintoys to Customize Windows 11 (Paul Thurrott)
PowerToys v0.90.0 is here… and it’s a big release with a great new launcher module (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
Trump advisor reportedly used personal Gmail for ‘sensitive’ military discussions (Wes Davis)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – April 1, 2025 (#524) (Richard Seroter)
Radar Trends to Watch: April 2025 (Mike Loukides)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor: A practical guide to building interactive UIs with C# 12 and .NET 8 (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral link

Dew Drop – April 1, 2025 (#4394)

Top Links

Part 2 – Babylon.js 8.0: Audio, Gaussian Splat and physics updates (Jason Carter & Thomas Lucchini)
The 50 best things Microsoft has ever made (Verge Staff)
Tutorial: Create a WinUI app (Microsoft Learn) – A new getting started tutorial for Windows devs on Learn
Expanding Copilot+ PC experiences across AMD, Intel and Snapdragon powered devices (Navjot Virk)
EPISODE 13 – Scott & Mark Learn To… YAP (Scott Hanselman) – Premiering tomorrow
GitHub for Beginners: How to get LLMs to do what you want (Kedasha Kerr)
PowerToys Command Palette utility – Now available in v0.90 (Microsoft Learn) – Get PowerToys 0.90 here

Web & Cloud Development

Writing resilient Angular Component tests (that use HttpResource) with HttpTestingController (Tim Deschryver)
Node.js Test CI Security Incident (Node.js Team)
marker.js 3 Updates: New Markers, Shadows, Panning, and Fixes (Alan Mendelevich)
Real-Time Magic: Live Updates with htmx and ASP.NET Razor Pages (Chris Woodruff)
Boost Your Productivity with 5 Built-in React Grid Features (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
Can ChatGPT build an ASP.NET Core login form in 10 minutes? (David Grace)
What’s new in Astro – March 2025 (Sarah Rainsberger)
WebKit Features in Safari 18.4 (Jen Simmons, Saron Yitbarek, Jon Davis, Razvan Caliman, Karl Dubost, Brady Eidson, Elika Etemad, Youenn Fablet, Matthew Finkel, Simon Fraser, Timothy Hatcher, David Johnson, Anne van Kesteren, Daniel Liu, Keith Miller, Rupin Mittal, Tim Nguyen, Pascoe, Abrar Rahman Protyasha, Richard Robinson, Lily Spiniolas, Brandon Stewart, John Wilander & Luming Yin)
HTTP APIs and GraphQL, Event-Driven, and Model Control Protocol (Kin Lane)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Releases 2025 State of Dapr Report Highlighting Adoption Trends and AI Innovations (kthornhill)
Worlds Collide: Keyframe Collision Detection Using Style Queries (Lee Meyer)
Building a Network Vulnerability Scanner with Go (Rez Moss)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Video: Improving XAML in your real app! (Joseph Finney)

Visual Studio & .NET

Metalama status update, March 2025 (Gael Fraiteur)
If one program blocks shutdown, then all programs block shutdown, revisited (Raymond Chen)
TX Text Control Core vs. Classic Performance Comparison Plain Text to DOCX and PDF (Bjoern Meyer)

AI

NVIDIA Open Sources KAI Scheduler To Help AI Teams Optimize GPU Utilization (Frederic Lardinois)
Humanity in Focus (Chris Palazzo)
Building a Custom RAG Solution with Azure OpenAI and Multi-Backend Support (Leonard Lobel)
AI-3026: Develop AI agents on Azure, releasing at the end of April. (Mindy Rosenthal)
Google Introduces Gemini Canvas (Kay Ewbank)
How AI Agents Are Quietly Transforming Frontend Development (Alexander T. Williams)
Integrating AI with External APIs: Building a Marvel MCP Server (Dan Wahlin)
ChatGPT’s Projects Feature Brings Order to Your AI Chaos (David Nield)
How To Argue Against AI-First Research (Vitaly Friedman)
An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For (Matt Burgess)
Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser (Maxwell Zeff)
AI Coding Challenge Major Fail – Part 2 using Grok to get innermost string between strings (Mark Pahulje)
Personalizing education and enhancing administration with AI (Microsoft in Business Team)
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Release an ‘Open Weight’ AI Model This Summer (Will Knight)
Mistral AI Launches API for LLM-Based OCR of Multimodal Documents (Sergio De Simone)

Design, Methodology & Testing

View and manage git tags (Sebastian Hernandez)
Start coding in minutes with the Quick-start Development Toolkit (Brady B.)
Runtime Signature Checking Threat Model and Defensive Technology: Windows Filtering Platform (Eric Lawrence)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

32feet – Bluetooth LE Device Discovery on iOS (Peter Foot)
Swift 6.1 Released (Swift Team)
The Gemini API and the Internet of Things (Paul Ruiz)
Introducing the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift (Developer Preview) (Vera Xia)
Apple Intelligence comes to Apple Vision Pro today with visionOS 2.4 (Apple)

Screencasts & Videos

Micro exercises for Developers | Adam Cogan (SSW TV)
Blazm and StageCoder Extensions for Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Jimmy Engstrom)
You Don’t Know Git – NDC London 2025 (Edward Thomson)
Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Key To Agentic AI (Frank LaVigne)
Prompt engineering essentials: Getting better results from LLMs | Tutorial (GitHub Team)
Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Dennis Doomen (Isaac Levin)

Podcasts

Syntax Podcast Episode #889 – Planning A Build (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Boots on the ground: Holistic AI and Audioshake at HumanX (Eira May)
The Changelog News Podcast Episode #138 – The idealization of farming by tech (Jerod Santo)
Azure Cloud Talk 25/3/31 – MVP Summit Brain Dump (Alec Harrison)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Establishing Communication Channels, Lessons From a Scrum Master’s Failure | Zvonimir Durcevic (Vasco Duarte)
The PowerShell Podcast – From Proper Football to Databases with Jess Pomfret (James Petty)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #217 – Red Teaming AI: Uncovering Surprises, Facing New Threats, and the Same Old Mistakes? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
Meta Cast – The Mistakes That Shaped Us as Leaders (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #105 – AI’s Coding Breakthrough: Unstructured to Understood – Andreas Wänqvist (Rick & Oscar)
Pioneers of Computing: A Journey Through Tech History with Bob Martin – JavaScript Jabber Episode #671 (Charles Max Wood)
Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #75 – The Outbox Pattern – with Tomek Masternak and Szymon Pobiega (Dan Clarke)
Meta Tech Podcast Episode #73 – Mobile GraphQL at Meta in 2025 (Pascal Hartig & Sabrina W.)
Only Malware in the Builder Episode #11 – Hello? Is it malware you’re looking for? (Selena Larson & Dave Bittner)
Microsoft Research Podcast – Ideas: Accelerating Foundation Models Research: AI for all (Gretchen Huizinga, Evelyne Viegas, Muhammed Idris & Cesar Torres Jr.)
The Modern .NET Show – 2025-04-01-final-final-FINAL-V2.go (Jamie Taylor)
Talk Python to Me #499 – BeeWare and the State of Python on Mobile (Michael Kennedy)
Grammar Girl Podcast – Why don’t we say the L in ‘walk’? Never use ‘always.’ PABST (Mignon Fogarty & Karen Lunde)
Python Bytes Podcast #426 – Committing to Formatted Markdown (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)

Community & Events

Our People ❤️ to Give (Kate Behncken)
April 1-7: Global AI Bootcamp 2025 Local Event Information (Rie Moriguchi)
Remembering Microsoft’s other co-founder: How Paul Allen’s vision sparked a software revolution (Todd Bishop)
Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
The newest recipients of Google.org’s AI Opportunity Fund (Maggie Johnson)
Apple fined $162 million for hurting app developers with ‘excessively complex’ privacy options (Emma Roth)

Database

AI Integration in RavenDB – Embeddings Generation (Oren Eini)
Microsoft’s DocumentDB is Back (Karen Lopez)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s new and what’s next for Microsoft Graph connectors (Danny Yao)
What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | March 2025 (Seth Patton)

Miscellaneous

Oracle Reportedly Warns Health Customers of Patient Data Breach (Bloomberg News)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.5160 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
The Proud Boys and Militias Come to Tesla’s Defense (David Gilbert)
Streaming service Plex rolls out a revamped mobile app (Sarah Perez)
Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD and it might change to black (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Interesting links of the week 2025-14 (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #181 (Sam Basu)
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, Amazon QuickSight, AWS Amplify, and more (March 31, 2025) (Esra Kayabali)
Windows news you can use: March 2025 (Thomas Trombley)
Daily Reading List – March 31, 2025 (#523) (Richard Seroter)
Reading Notes #642 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)

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