Top Links
- Easily Bind SQLite Database and Perform CRUD Actions in .NET MAUI DataGrid (Jayaleshwari N.)
- Android Studio’s 10 year anniversary (Tor Norbye, Jamal Eason & Xavier Ducrohet)
- Announcing Our Work on a Blazor Component for Document Editing and Viewing (Bjoern Meyer)
- .NET MAUI: Deploy an iOS app using hot restart | Microsoft Learn (Dave Britch)
- The First Beta of Android 16 (Matthew McCullough)
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Preview 3 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
Web & Cloud Development
- Advanced Glitch Effect with Sound (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Announcing My New Book: htmx Essentials for ASP.NET Core Developers (Chris Woodruff)
- Revolutionizing Large-Scale AI with Janusgraph and Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra (Dileep Rao)
- SharpSite: An open-source content management system built with .NET and Blazor technologies (Jeff Fritz)
- Tailwind CSS Gets a ‘Ground-Up Rewrite’ for Version 4.0 (Loraine Lawson)
- Building Runtime Agnostic Apps/Packages with JavaScript (Peter Mbanugo)
- Reducing Azure Cloud Cost – My Experience (Pradeep Sahoo)
- Positioning Text Around Elements With CSS Offset (Preethi)
- Migrate from ASP.NET Web Forms to Blazor (Microsoft Learn)
- ASP.NET Core Middleware (Ricardo Peres)
- ESLint v9.19.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
- Template literal types in TypeScript: parsing during type checking and more (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Podman– Command execution failed with exit code 125 (Bart Wullems)
- Vite 6 Released: New Environment API Helps Supporting Edge Use Cases (Bruno Couriol)
- How to build a copy code snippet button and why it matters (Salma Alam-Naylor)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Partial writes, IO_Uring and safety (Oren Eini)
- When will .NET Framework retire? (Steven Giesel)
- 5 Effective Ways to Navigate PDF Pages in C# Using .NET PDF Library (Chinnu Muniyappan)
- DbContext Pooling: The Secret Sauce to Faster EF Core Apps and Compiled Models: The Fast Lane for EF Core Performance (Chris Woodruff)
- How Fast is Microsoft C#? Discover the Advantages (Dave Ward)
- Implementing AES Encryption With C# (Milan Jovanović)
- How to Convert a DataTable to a List of Objects in C# (Shafaet Hossain)
- Optimizing Dictionary Performance in .NET: SortedDictionary vs. Dictionary (David McCarter)
AI
- Announcing OpenAI on JSR (Andy Jiang)
- Memos AI: The ultimate note-taking app (Justin Willis)
- Mermaid AI: Fast and efficient prompt-to-diagram generation. The future of diagramming. (Mermaid Chart Team)
- DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking (Anthony Ha)
- Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API (Anthropic Team)
- Using AI with issue tracking systems (prompt engineering series) (Tom Johnson)
- Two Programming-with-AI Approaches (Eleanor Berger)
- Hacking Around with GPT4o: Life Expectancy Visualiser (Jamie Maguire)
- AI Use Cases in Product Development and AI Use Cases in Healthcare (JD Meier)
- 5 ways to use NotebookLM Plus for your business (Kelly Schaefer)
- Artificial Intelligence Is To The Mind What The Automobile Was To The Body (Kin Lane)
- OpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly doesn’t have the money it needs (Kyle Wiggers)
- Cloud Deployment of AI Models Jumps, Says Data Science Study (Lawrence E. Hecht)
- Microsoft Phi-4 is a Small Language Model Specialized for Complex Math Reasoning (Sergio De Simone)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- 10 unconventional lessons from 10 years working as a software engineer (Pablo Porto)
- Using GitHub Copilot From Inside GitHub Actions (Den Delimarsky)
- 5 Reasons Mocking is Essential for Modern Software Development in 2025 (Eli Lopian)
- A brief and incomplete comparison of memory corruption detection tools (Raymond Chen)
- Poorly Designed Rewards Crush Improvement Efforts (Steve Fenton)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- The future is adaptive: Changes to orientation and resizability APIs in Android 16 (Maru Ahues Bouza)
- Live AI on Meta’s smart glasses is a solution looking for a problem (Victoria Song)
- The 2025 Android upgrade cycle has begun (David Pierce)
- Getting started with Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 (Nate Contino)
- Flutter Vs React Native : Performance Benchmarks you can’t miss ! 🔥⚡️ [Part -1] (Natesh Bhat)
- Build kids app experiences for Wear OS (John Zoeller & Caroline Vander Wilt)
- Apple introduces a new API to support more in-app purchase formats (Ivan Mehta)
- 2025 looks like a great year for Xbox (Tom Warren)
- Lens Studio Cube Bouncer for the confused Unity developer: add a hand menu and Lens Studio Cube Bouncer for the confused Unity developer: controlling the app from the hand menu (Joost van Schaik)
Screencasts & Videos
- Alt Backtick – The Best Visual Studio Shortcut You Didn’t Know About (Visual Studio Team)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 245 – Stargate (The WeWork of AI?) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- SQL will be in force at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman, Rie Merritt & Bob Ward)
- Preventing hearing loss with AI | The Prompt (Trevor Noah)
- Random.Code() – Adding Guid.CreateVersion7() Code Fix to Transpire, and FAWMN-ing AutoDeconstruct (Jason Bock)
- Introducing the JasperFx Software YouTube Channel (Jeremy D. Miller)
Podcasts
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #157 – Getting a developer job in 2025 with Lane Wagner (Quincy Larson)
- Meta Tech Podcast Episode #70 – Bringing Jetpack Compose to Instagram for Android (Pascal Hartig & Summer K.)
- Merge Conflict #447 – Whoops, I Lost My Keystore (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Geekwire Podcast – Stargate, OpenAI and Microsoft; BlueSky in Seattle; and Madrona’s big new funds (Todd Bishop)
- Meta Cast – Turning Leadership Dreams into Reality (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Exploring Micro Frontend Architecture with Florian Rappel – React Round Up Episode #283 (Lucas Paganini, Florian Rappl, Paige Niedringhaus & TJ VanToll)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Overcoming the Part-Time Product Owner Trap | Ville Reijonen (Vasco Duarte)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – How the internet changed in 2024 (Eira May)
- Lenny’s Podcast – An operator’s guide to product strategy | Chandra Janakiraman (CPO at VRChat, ex-Meta, Headspace, Zynga) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast #77 – Fallthrough & Friends (Matthew Sanabria, Kris Brandow & Jerod Santo)
- AGL 401: Jim Matuga of InnerAction Media (John Rouda)
Community & Events
- MVP’s Favorite Content: Copilot, FinOps, SharePoint, Maturity Model (Rie Moriguchi)
- Get Ready For Google Summer Of Code 2025 (Sue Gee)
- CfP List Updated 2025-01-24 (Dave Aronson)
- Welcome Jessica Nunn To Our Board of Directors! (Charity Majors)
- Bill Gates Began the Altair BASIC Code in His Head While Hiking as a Teenager (EditorDavid)
- Threads is testing ads in the U.S. and Japan (Ivan Mehta)
- Xbox Developer_Direct 2025 Recap: Everything We Announced (Joe Skrebels)
- Getting Left Behind Makes Me Irrationally Angry (Kin Lane)
- Meta’s censoring of abortion information is nothing new (Mia Sato)
- New to open source? Here’s everything you need to get started (Mike Melanson)
- The importance of preserving history on International Holocaust Memorial Day (Rowan Barnett)
- Take on Apple Intelligence at Unwrap Live 2025 (Paul Hudson)
Database
- Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Predicate Key Lookups (Erik Darling)
- Vector Databases: The Foundation of AI Agent Innovation (Andre Zayarni)
- The Shapes of Data (Ted Neward)
- Calculate Distance Between Two Points with SQL (Sebastiao Pereira)
- Temporary Tables (Joe Celko)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- INFO: Automatic archival of unlicensed OneDrive user accounts beginning January 27, 2025 (Kurt Shintaku)
PowerShell & Terminal
- How To Create PowerShell Progress Bars for External Tasks (Video Tutorial) (Brien Posey)
- Enabling the Logic Apps PowerShell Connector for performing Azure tasks (John Scott)
- Warp vs. Ghostty: Which Terminal App Meets Your Dev Needs? (David Eastman)
Miscellaneous
- Oracle and US Investors (Including Microsoft) Discuss Taking Control of TikTok in the US (EditorDavid)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3000 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4805 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Perplexity submits a new bid for TikTok (Anthony Ha)
- Rust’s Superpower: Speed Meets Smarts (Chris Woodruff)
- Top 10 Programming Language Stories of 2024 (ITPro Today Staff)
- What Makes TikTok’s Algorithms So Effective? (Joab Jackson)
- ‘I’m good for my $80 billion’: What Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella really meant by his Stargate zinger (Todd Bishop)
- DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside (Vittoria Elliott)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #4, 2025 – F# Language Design squad (Sergey Tihon)
- Links For You (1/25/25) (Raymond Camden)
- Daily Reading List – January 24, 2025 (#479) (Richard Seroter)
- Azure Weekly #500 – 26th January 2025 (The Editor)
- Reading List 334 (Bruce Lawson)
The Geek Shelf
From Zero to Hero: Deploying .NET Applications to Azure | Dometrain (Mohamad Lawand) – Referral Link