Top Links
- What does a modern, AI-assisted developer workflow built around Google Gemini look like? Let’s explore. (Richard Seroter)
- Introducing CoreAI – Platform and Tools (Satya Nadella)
- Cosmos DB Embeddings Generator Sample (Mark Brown)
- Angular 2025 Strategy (Minko Gechev)
- Real-Time Communication: Effective Data Exchange with Sockets (Chris Woodruff)
- James Montemagno: .NET Aspire with Azd – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode 332 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Web & Cloud Development
- Local inter-process communication over named pipes with ASP.NET Core or StreamJsonRpc in .NET (Anthony Simmon)
- Containerd vs. Docker: Container Runtimes Comparison (James Walker)
- Using Entra Managed Identities with Web Apps to Connect to Azure SQL Database (Joey Dantoni)
- ASP.NET Core Distributed Tracing (Ricardo Peres)
Visual Studio & .NET
- The memory leak in ConcurrentQueue (Oren Eini)
- Comparing Records, Structs, and Classes in C#: When to Use What? (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Document Comparison using Image-Based Pixel Matching in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- HSTS for HttpClient in .NET (Gérald Barré)
- Recawr Sandwich (Mark Seemann)
- A simplified overview of ways to add or update elements in a std::map (Raymond Chen)
- Enhanced Change Signature in C++ (Mryam Girmay)
AI
- OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint (OpenAI Team)
- robots.txt for AI (Larry Clarkin)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Introduction To BDD using SpecFlow (Claudio Bernasconi)
- How to Remove a Secret Token from Your Git History (Yonatan Kra)
- Top 5 GitHub Alternatives: Find the Right Development Platform (Bryan Grover)
- US Employee Engagement Sinks To 10-Year Low (msmash)
- Software Development Productivity Crisis Costing Companies Millions (Sean Michael Kerner)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Wonderful Dart Full-Stack Experience: Serverpod Framework Designed Specifically for Flutter (Yii Chen)
Screencasts & Videos
- Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 18 (Jason Bock)
- Get started with AI application templates | Open at Microsoft (Liam Hampton & Kristen Womack)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Building Green Software with Anne Currie and Sara Bergman (Anne Currie & Sara Bergman)
- React Component Tests for Humans with Miroslav Nikolov – React Round Up #282 (TJ VanToll & Paige Niedringhaus)
- Angular Elements, Annex & Storybook with Brad McAlister – Adventures in Angular #439 (Alyssa, Chris & Brooks)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – From “august” to “August.” Why the union is always “strong.” Nee nee (Susan K. Herman & Mignon Fogarty)
- Syntax Podcast #867 – Zero Sync is the Future of Data Loading (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – CTO Series: Bridging Innovation and Strategy as CTO of CrateDB With Sergey Gerasimenko (Vasco Duarte)
- SQL Server Radio Episode 171 – Clueless about SQL Server 2025 (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #206 – Paying the Price: Ransomware’s Rising Stakes in the Cloud (Anton Chuvakin)
- Azure Cloud Talk 25/1/13 – Battling Burnout with Arlene Cohen Miller (Alec Harrison & Brian Gorman)
- The Changelog News Podcast #127 – The new $30,000 side hustle (Jerod Santo)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Robots building robots in a robotic factory (Eira May)
- Python Bytes Podcast #416 – A Ghostly Episode (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
Community & Events
- Mastodon announces transition to nonprofit structure (Ivan Mehta)
Database
- How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: Views vs Common Table Expressions (Erik Darling)
- SSMS and Execution Timeout – SQL in Sixty Seconds 209 (Pinal Dave)
- PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024 (Hannah Stewart-Beattie)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Pop out Chat, Copilot, and Notes panes in Teams meetings (Manya Garg)
- New Unified Contacts in Microsoft Teams and Outlook, now generally available (vivekdatir)
- Write more effective emails with Copilot in Outlook (Kayla Patterson)
- How to Install Microsoft 365 on Mac (Kenelle Moore)
PowerShell & Terminal
- PowerShell Universal v5.2 (Adam Driscoll)
- WSL–Getting started experience (Bart Wullems)
Miscellaneous
- Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed and Supreme Court Allows Hawaii To Sue Oil Companies Over Climate Change Effects (BeauHD)
- A major data broker hack may have leaked precise location info for millions (Wes Davis)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-03 (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #170 (Sam Basu)
- Daily Reading List – January 13, 2025 (#471) (Richard Seroter)
- Reading Notes #631 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf
Real-World Web Development with .NET 9: Build websites and services using mature and proven ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API, and Umbraco CMS (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link
