Category: announcements

Announcing Dew Submitter – Now Accepting Link and Feed Suggestions

I’m excited to announce Dew Submitter, a new web application that makes it easy for my readers to suggest links and RSS feeds for inclusion on The Morning Dew. Whether you’ve found a great article, discovered a new blog, or spotted a podcast episode worth sharing, you can now submit it directly through the web at submit.alvinashcraft.com.

For almost nineteen years, The Morning Dew has been curated entirely by me, which means I’ve had to personally find every link and manage every RSS feed. While I enjoy the work, I know there’s a ton of fantastic content out there that I might miss. Dew Submitter lets the community help. If you come across a blog post, tutorial, release announcement, or screencasts about .NET, Azure, AI, web development, or other tech topics that would be a good fit for my daily roundup, you can now suggest them instantly. Similarly, if you know of a great RSS feed covering software development topics, you can submit feed suggestions to help me discover new sources.

Dew Submitter is built as a Blazor WebAssembly app hosted on Azure Static Web Apps, with an Azure Functions API backend and Table Storage for data persistence. The submission form includes built-in spam protection, auto-detection of page titles and authors, and an admin panel where I can approve, reject, or process your submissions. Sorry, not every suggested link gets included – I still get the final say. I’ve also integrated NewsBlur support so approved RSS feeds can be added directly to my NewBlur list with a single click.

Thanks for continuing to support and read The Morning Dew. Now, head over to submit.alvinashcraft.com and help me discover more great content!

The Dew Submitter icon - featuring a dew drop, a chain link, and a document on a background similar to the classic Windows XP Bliss wallpaper.

Morning Dew Break Coming Up Next Week

The daily Dew Drop posts will be taking a break for about a week and a half. I’m taking some personal time off and unplugging after Friday. So, there will be no daily links from Monday, October 21st through Wednesday, October 30th.

I should be back on the 31st, but I won’t be including most of the blog posts that folks share in that time in-between. If there are any major announcements from Microsoft and other “companies of interest”, I’ll flag those to be included upon my return.

I’m also experimenting with migrating from WordPress to a static site, and I’d like to bring my 4800+ blog posts along with me. If you have any recommendations for static site generators that can build sites of that size without memory heap issues in JavaScript, give me a heads-up. My brief experimentation with Astro didn’t go well. See this GitHub issue for others running into a similar problem. I ran into the issue on Netlify, GitHub Actions, and when building the prod site locally (even with NODE_OPTIONS=–max_old_space_size=8192 set).

Thanks for continuing to follow the daily links on the Morning Dew. We’re coming up to 17 years of sharing links in early November. Cheers!

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