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Dew Drop – December 20, 2024 (#4326)

Top Links

Working with Multiple Dev Containers | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson, Robert Green & Tobias Fenster)
Vite.js: Build Faster Frontends (Nishani Dissanayake)
New PowerToys Awake Release With Tray Improvements (Den Delimarsky)
Windows Dev Chat – Choosing your ideal dev platform (Windows Dev Team)
Common Practices That Kill Performance in Angular Applications (Erick Zanetti)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Next steps for Open Sauced with Brian Douglas (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

Astro 5.1 (Matt Kane)
Get Started Integrating AI in Your ASP.NET Core Applications (Assis Zang)
Integrating Azure ML with Azure SQL Managed Instance deployed in Reserved IP Ranges (madhup1977)
What’s next: the Fluent UI Blazor library v5 (Vincent Baaij)
State of Web Development Report (Netlify)
Node v23.5.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
What is Password Authentication Protocol? (Haley Bourke)
How to redirect across repository websites with GitHub Pages (Marco Siccardi)
A progress update on reading-flow (Rachel Andrew)
Elastic observability and search in .NET Aspire (Ross Sandford)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

.NET Community Toolkit Adds Partial Properties Support For MVVM (I Programmer)
.NET MAUI Community Toolkit v10.0: How to Fix BindingContext Issues with Behaviors (Vijay Anand E G)

Visual Studio & .NET

Functional C#: Make Dictionaries Functional (Simon Painter)
C# 13 and .NET 9: Personal Highlights – Breaking Down the Updates That Matter (Smytro Misik)
Inside STL: The atomic shared_ptr (Raymond Chen)
Why the F# would I write real code like this? (Matthew Watt)

AI

Introducing Configurable Metaflow (David J. Berg, David Casler, Romain Cledat, Qian Huang, Rui Lin, Nissan Pow, Nurcan Sonmez, Shashank Srikanth, Chaoying Wang, Regina Wang & Darin Yu)
Using AI to mine log messages from reference doc builds (Prompt engineering series) (Tom Johnson)
Celebrating innovation: Gemini API Developer Competition (Lloyd Hightower)
Coding in the age of AI: Redefining software development (Alois Reitbauer)
GitHub Copilot Edits (Bart Wullems)
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock (Channy Yun)
Stop Treating Your LLM Like a Database (Sean Falconer)
8 ways AI will change how I work in 2025 (Richard Seroter)
The Little Scripter (Eleanor Berger)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Introducing Annotated Logger: A Python package to aid in adding metadata to logs (Joseph Henrich)
How to Use Property-Based Testing as Fuzzy Unit Testing (Ben Linders)
Indexing code at scale with Glean (Simon Marlow & Pepe Iborra)
The 30 Best Fonts of 2024 (Ben Moss)
Enhance build security and reach SLSA Level 3 with GitHub Artifact Attestations (Kristina Heidinger)
Tips to Find Your First Job in Tech (Leomaris Reyes)
Building Trust into Your Software with Verified Components (Melissa Sussmann)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

UIKit DiffableDataSource API inconsistencies with Swift Concurrency annotations explained (Jesse Squires)
Learn Game Development with JavaScript and Kaplay (Beau Carnes)
Connecting a Raspberry Pi Pico W to Microsoft Azure IoT Hub using MicroPython and MQTT (Pete Gallagher)
Firebase App Hosting: Emulators and a look forward to 2025 (Julia Reid & James Daniels)
Mixed Reality Link and Windows App on Quest Update! (Andrew London)

Screencasts & Videos

Advent of Code 2024 Day 16: Reindeer Maze in C# ✅✅ and Advent of Code 2024 Day 17: Chronospatial Computer in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
Sip and Sync with Azure – Coming in 2025 (Priyanka Vergadia & Microsoft Developer Team)
Introduction to the source control built-in with SQL database in Fabric | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
The 12 days of Generative AI | SSW User Groups | SSW TV (Seth Daily)
Tech News #43 | When AI Lies: OpenAI’s scariest update | SSW TV (Eve Cogan)

Podcasts

The Modern .NET Show – Modern .NET NuGet Packaging with Scott Harden (Jamie Taylor)
InfoQ Podcast: Building Effective Engineering Teams and Avoiding Cargo Cult Practices (David Guttman)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Success and Reflection in Agile Teams | Karthiga Seturaj (Vasco Duarte)
Practical AI Podcast #300 – Mozart to Megadeath at CHRP (Jeff Smith, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Microsoft Research Podcast – Ideas: AI and democracy with Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness (Ginny Badanes)
The Cloud Pod #284 – Amazon Q uses machine learning to get smarter, but Bond’s Q can turn a wristwatch into a laser beam. Your move, AI. (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
Lenny’s Podcast – How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng) (Lenny Rachitsky)
Boagworld Podcast – UX Predications for 2025 (Paul Boag)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 144 – From Data to Gold: Swimming Australia’s Tech-Driven Edge (Sébastien Stormacq)
Software Defined Talk Episode 498: I’m not ready to start a new streak (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

Subscriptions and Monetization are Coming to Bluesky — Here’s How They’ll Work (Kirsti Lang)
Empowering Women in Tech: How Supportive Communities Transform Lives (Tina Stenderup)
Independence Blue Cross RiverRink Winterfest Returns to Penn’s Landing for 2024/2025 (Visit Philly)
The Power Struggle of Social Media Engagement (Maho Pacheco)
Software Developers Are Becoming Critical Members in The US Space Force (Rachel Brooks)
Tech Moves: Expedia names CFO; former Microsoft AI VP leads new startup; Avante gets sales VP (Lisa Stiffler)

Database

Create FTP Task in SQL Server Integration Services (Aradhana Tripathi)
IF Branching In SQL Server Stored Procedures: Fixing Parameters, Recompiling, And A Good Enough Plan (Erik Darling)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Files Preview v3.8.2 and Announcing Files Preview v3.8.5 (Files Team)
I Tried Microsoft’s New AI-Focused PCs. Windows Is Exciting Again. (Joanna Stern)
Feds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe (BeauHD)
Introducing Radar the Elf (Bing Team)
Paint.NET 5.1.2 is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

Windows news you can use: December 2024 (Thomas Trombley)
Daily Reading List – December 19, 2024 (#464) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example: A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 12, 2024 (#4320)

Top Links

Effortless publishing with Azure Functions Flex Consumption (Brady Gaster)
Visual Studio Code November 2024 Release (Visual Studio Code Team)
What’s new in Flutter 3.27 (Kevin Chisholm)
The next chapter of the Gemini era for developers (Shrestha Basu Mallick & Kathy Korevec)
Immersive productivity with Windows and Meta Quest (Jonathan Lyons)
Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Preview 2 release notes (Microsoft Learn)

Web & Cloud Development

Reducing WASM binary size: lessons from building a web terminal (Jack Nichols)
W3C Statement on Ethical Web Principles guides the community to build a better web (Daniel Appelquist & Yves Lafon)
Kubernetes v1.32: Penelope (Matteo Bianchi, Edith Puclla, William Rizzo, Ryota Sawada & Rashan Smith)
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) in Auth0 (Andrea Chiarelli)
Kubernetes v1.32: QueueingHint Brings a New Possibility to Optimize Pod Scheduling (Kensei Nakada)
Mastering Font Usage in Angular Charts (Gowrimathi S.)
An Introduction To CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: Scroll And View Progress Timelines (Mariana Beldi)
Snow Time Like the Present for WordPress.com (Ian Stewart)
Harnessing .NET and C# for Better SEO: How It Can Boost Your Website Rankings (Jonathan Danylko)
Build a Stunning Rich Communication Services (RCS) Reminder App with Node SDK & Vonage! (Chuck Reeves)
WebKit Features in Safari 18.2 (Jen Simmons, Ada Rose Canon, David Degazio, Yoel Hawa, Etienne Segonzac & John Wilander)
Updated Drafts for Review: W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 and Ethical Web Principles is a W3C Statement (W3C)
Persisting a Strawberry Shake GraphQL Client for Optimizely’s Content Graph (Nicholas Sideras)
Every Reason You Should be Getting Started With .NET Aspire (Simon Foster)
Fluid Superscripts and Subscripts (Lorenz Wöehr)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

XAML Basics: Building UI with .NET MAUI and More – Part 2 (Vijay Anand E G)

Visual Studio & .NET

The attribute OverloadResolutionPriority in .NET 9 and C# 13 (NDepend Team)
Meet TUnit: The New, Fast, and Extensible .NET Testing Framework (Sander ten Brinke)
Efficient searching in .NET with SearchValues (Bart Wullems)
What is the CONTINUE_IF_FAILED equivalent of RETURN_IF_FAILED? (Raymond Chen)
Introduction to SOLID Principles in C# (Stackify Team)

AI

Effective Safety Measures in Peer Evaluation with Azure AI Content Safety (drpeteryau)
Try Deep Research and our new experimental model in Gemini, your AI assistant (Dave Citron)
Put AI to work for your product team and Boosting the customer retail experience with GPT-4o-mini (OpenAI Team)
Gemini 2.0: Our latest, most capable AI model yet | The Keyword and Listen to a deep dive conversation about Gemini 2.0 | The Keyword (Google)
Observability in the Age of AI (Charity Majors)
GitHub Models Explained (Hassan Djirdeh)
Supercharge Your Deep Learning Workflows with NVIDIA Nsight Systems (Priya Kedia)
Building custom AI Speech models with Phi-3 and Synthetic data (Hyo Choi)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Design Token-Based UI Architecture (Martin Fowler)
More Testing Tips With C# (Roman Stoffel)
New Boards Hub Rollout Expectations (Dan Hellem)
Unlock High Performance with the 3Fs Framework: Focus, Flow, and Fulfillment and 4Vs Framework: Vision, Value, Validate, Velocity (JD Meier)
Playwright Tutorial: IFrame and Shadow DOM Automation (Miriam Kyoseva)
Debug Single Jobs in TeamCity Pipelines (Olga Bedrina)
CodeQL zero to hero part 4: Gradio framework case study (Sylwia Budzynska)
The state of deployments to Kubernetes in Octopus (Nikita Dergilev)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

New features in Android to help you stay safe from unwanted Bluetooth tracking | The Keyword (Google)
Microsoft wants to make the Xbox app the home of PC gaming (Tom Warren)
Generated SDKs for Data Connect (Andrea Wu)
Announcing Dart 3.6 (Marya Belanger)

Screencasts & Videos

[Monkey Conf 2024] Using Uno Platform Hot Design (Steve Bilogan)
Using Aspire with gRPC (Medhat Elmasry)
Advent of Code: TDD in C# (Day 11) (Brad Wilson)

Podcasts

The Hanselminutes Podcast – The Boring Edition with Shopify’s Glen Coates (Scott Hanselman)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes v1.32: Penelope, with Frederico Muñoz (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
.NET Rocks! – Event Modeling with Adam Dymirtuk (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Syntax Podcast #859: Streaming Video in 2025 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Software Engineering Radio #646: Matthew Skelton on Team Topologies (Giovanni Asproni)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Co-Creating Vision for Change Success | Sara Caldwell (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

CfP List Updated 2024-12-11 (Dave Aronson)
How can we teach students about AI and data science? Join our 2025 seminar series to learn more about the topic (Jane Waite)
We asked our staff for their 2025 predictions (Verge Staff)

Database

How To Return A Dummy Row Instead Of Empty Results In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
TSQL Tuesday #181 – The first SQL Server Feature that made me go “Wow!” (Louis Davidson)

PowerShell & Terminal

No Glyph Left Behind: Font Fallback in a WASM Terminal (Daniel Peng)
December Release: Enhanced session sharing, Warp on Web, AI enhancements, and a new icon (Olivia Johnston)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27764 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
Sharing files between your iPhone® and Windows PC rolling out to Windows Insiders (Brandon LeBlanc)
Apple Intelligence now features Image Playground, Genmoji, and more (Apple Newsroom)
iA Writer 2.0 for Windows is (Sort of) Now Available in Public Beta (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – December 11, 2024 (#458) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 9, Blazor, and EF Core 9 (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link – My review of Mark’s book is now live on Amazon

Dew Drop – December 2, 2024 (#4312)

Top Links

Bring Holiday Cheer to Friends & Family: Build a Cross-Platform Advent Calendar App for Every Device (Agnes Zitte)
Loading Knowledge into Copilot AI Agents with Power Automate (Mark Trinder)
.NET MAUI 9: Introducing the HybridWebView Project Template (Vijay Anand E G)
AI Audio Descriptions – Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to assist in the process of generating an Audio Description track (Saqib Shaikh)
Building Microfrontends with Firebase (Andrew Evans)
Announcing the Public Preview of OpenID Connect external identity provider support for Microsoft Entra External ID (Bora Ozbayburtlu)

Web & Cloud Development

If Not React, Then What? (Alex Russell)
Advent of Svelte (Svelte Team)
Integrations with .NET Aspire for AWS (AWS Team)
Deploy your ASP.NET Core Web API with the help of GitHub Copilot for Azure in Visual Studio Code. (Brian Kemboi)
Using ASP.NET Core with Azure Key Vault (Damien Bowden)
Building a background remover with Vue and Transformers.js (Emmanuel John)
Azure Quick Review (azqr): A Practical Overview (Gregor Suttie)
Syncfusion Essential® UI Kit for Angular: Accelerate UI Development with Customizable Blocks (Hari Venkatesh E)
From Code to Cloud: Deploy Your Java Apps to Azure in Just 2 Steps! (KenTao0903)
Monitoring C# Azure Functions in the Isolated Worker Model – Infrastructure & Configuration Deep Dive (Tomasz Pęczek)
IdentityServer in Docker Containers: Networking (Part 2) (Tore Nestenius)
Building an Azure Storage Data Integrity Checker with .NET (wernerrall)
Vite 6.0 is out! (Vite Team)
Prettier 3.4: A lot of bug fixes (Sosuke Suzuki)
ESLint v9.16.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
What’s new in Astro – November 2024 (Sarah Rainsberger)
WWWizzard Checks the WWW while you ZZZ! (Dave Aronson)
Ingesting JSON Logs From Containers With the OpenTelemetry Collector (Martin Thwaites)
Using the ‘:not()’ pseudo-class to remove styles from ‘:last-child’ (Stephanie Stimac)

Visual Studio & .NET

Run Cli Commands with F# and Reflection for testing serialization (Kevin Logan)
What’s the Difference Between .NET, .NET Core ASP.NET, etc? (Pablo Aguirre de Souza)
C# 13–Implicit index access and Visual Studio 2022 17.12- Show inline return values while debugging (Bart Wullems)
Short-circuiting an asynchronous traversal (Mark Seemann)
Installing .NET 9 Alongside Older Versions on Ubuntu 22.04 (Georg Dangl)
How to Connect a SQLite Database to EF Core (Muhammed Saleem)
Bending .NET – ReadLine Patterns (Nietras)
Release Notes for .Unit.net v3 0.7.0-pre.15 [2024 November 30] (xUnit.net Team)
Transactional Emails: A long term view (Jeremy)
Assessing the attack complexity of a race condition security vulnerability (Raymond Chen)
Boost Your .NET Projects: Unleashing the Power of Spargine’s String Extension Methods (David McCarter)
Having fun with ValueTuple (Steven Giesel)
DI-Cluttering Your Code (John Waters)

AI

Secure Adoption of Copilot in Organizations (Dela Nakhaei)
AWS Amplify AI Kit (Sébastien Stormacq)
Enhance AI System Accuracy using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) (Chris Pietschmann)
New APIs in Amazon Bedrock to enhance RAG applications, now available (Veliswa Boya)

Design, Methodology & Testing

There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0 (Charity Majors)
What is Burnout? and Burnout Symptoms: How to Recognize Emotional and Physical Signs Early and Burnout Explained: Freudenberger’s Model and Why It Matters Today (JD Meier)
Implementing the Saga Pattern With MassTransit (Milan Jovanović)
Command vs Control (Jessica Kerr)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Finished Course: iPhone Apps for Complete Beginners with Swift, SwiftUI & iOS17 (PacktPub) (Marco Siccardi)
Deploying Ultralytics YOLO models on Raspberry Pi devices (Naush Patuck)
CubeBouncer revisited – setting up Mixed Reality for Quest 3 with MRTK3 and Unity 6 (Joost van Schaik)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Joe Sharmer on Migration, Modernization and Entra (David Giard)
IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 237 – Tech History Repeats Itself (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
Get ready for Advent of Code 2024 in 5 minutes! and Advent of Code 2024 Day 1: Historian Hysteria in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 572 and Random.Code() – Allowing Mock Types To Having Different Visibility in Rocks (Jason Bock)
GitHub Copilot code review | New feature announcement (GitHub Team)

Podcasts

React and Beyond: The Importance of Learning DOM APIs – JavaScript Jabber #659 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Steve Edwards)
The PowerShell Podcast – Jordan Returns: A Fun Dive into Life, PowerShell, and Beyond (James Petty)
JS Party Podcast #348 – WYSIWYG (Kent C. Dodds, Theo Browne, Kevin Ball & Nick Nisi)
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast #582 – The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe Book Club (with James Wynn, Craig Brewer) (David Barr Kirtley)
Practical AI Podcast #297 – Clones, commerce & campaigns (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Lenny’s Podcast – Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at Google Ventures) (Lenny Rachitsky)
Talk Python to Me #487 – Building Rust Extensions for Python (Michael Kennedy)
Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – Pam and Nora find technology as a way of expressing artistry (Pam Selle)
Syntax Podcast #854: Animating the Web With Matt Perry: Exploring motion.dev (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
GeekWire Podcast – AI, Google Docs, and the messiness of innovation, with Microsoft Deputy CTO Sam Schillace (Todd Bishop)

Community & Events

Deno vs Oracle: Who Really Owns JavaScript? (Abraham Dahunsi)
Bluesky promises more verification and an ‘aggressive’ approach to impersonation and Y Combinator’s Demo Day is back in person (Anthony Ha)
Angular Christmas Calendar 2024 (Daniel Glejzner & Pawel Kubiak)
Ensuring Hachyderm’s Future: Improving Safety & Resilience through Strategic Placement of Infrastructure (Hachyderm Team)
C# Advent Calendar 2024 (Matt Groves)
Advent Of Code 2024 Now Underway (Lucy Black)
Bluesky implements a ‘more aggressive’ impersonation policy (Mariella Moon)
Bluesky Passes Threads for Active Website Users, But Confronts ‘Scammers and Impersonators’ (EditorDavid)
The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky (Bluesky Team)
MVP’s Learnings from Microsoft Ignite 2024 (Rie Moriguchi)
GitHub Deceased User Policy (GitHub Docs)

Database

MySQL Retrospective – The Early Years (Scott Stroz)
Performance Pains With NOT IN And NULLable Columns In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Overlapping Ranges in Subsets in PostgreSQL (Lee Asher)

Miscellaneous

The Great Gift Guide for the Holidays: Top Amazon Picks for 2024 (J.D. Meier)
Files is now available on WinGet (Files Team)
Airlines redesigned the way you choose your seat—and raked in $12.4 billion in the process (Hunter Schwarz)
Ship’s Crew Suspected of Deliberately Dragging Anchor for 100 Miles To Cut Baltic Cables and Google Offered Millions To Ally Itself With Trade Body Fighting Microsoft (msmash)
Paint.NET 5.1.1 Beta (build 9098) (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

F# Weekly #48, 2024 – Tomorrow is the first day of #FsAdvent (Sergey Tihon)

The Geek Shelf

Manning’s Math for Programmers 2024 Book Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link

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