Top Links
- Introducing the .NET MAUI Segmented Control for Effortless Selection (Jeyasri Murugan)
 - Join us in shaping the future of multicloud workload identity (Hosam Shahin and Pieter Kasselman)
 - Memory-Mapped Files and Overlaid Structs (Stephen Cleary)
 - Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition: Pre-order today! (Alvin Ashcraft)
 - Exploring the Free Try Azure Cosmos DB Experience (Jay Gordon)
 - Speech-to-speech conversing with OpenAI on Android (Craig Dunn and Kristen Halper)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- CSS Nesting and the Cascade (Jen Simmons)
 - JavaScript: How to Convert Map to an Array of Objects and JavaScript: Format Date to String and JavaScript: Parse a String to a Date (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Astro 3.2: View Transitions improvements (Matthew Phillips, Martin Trapp & Chris Swithinbank)
 - Node v20.8.0 (Current) (Ruy Adorno)
 - Get Started with the Microcks Docker Extension for API Mocking and Testing (Ajeet Singh Raina)
 - Exploring Enhanced Patterns In WordPress 6.3 (Ganesh Dahal)
 - Kubernetes security: best practices for Kubernetes secrets management (John Walsh)
 - How to Create CSS Ribbon Shapes with a Single Element (Temani Afif)
 - An update on web publisher controls (Danielle Romain)
 - Skilling snack: Cloud-based printing with Universal Print (Issa Khoury)
 - Bad API observability (Sonja Chevre)
 - Secure Go APIs with Decentralized Identity Tokens, Part 2 (Robert Kimani)
 - Fleet 1.24 Comes With Project-Specific Code Reformatting, Git Integration Enhancements, and Other Improvements. (Roman Prokashev)
 - Unravelling The Mystery Of Truncated POST Requests On Report URI (Scott Helme)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- 22 C# Best Practices (Code Maze)
 - MSVC Arm64 Optimizations in Visual Studio 2022 17.7 (Hongyon Suauthai)
 - C++/WinRT gotcha: get_strong() will produce a broken strong reference if destruction has already begun (Raymond Chen)
 
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- New Azure DevOps scopes now available for Microsoft Identity OAuth delegated flow apps (Angel Wong)
 - How Generative AI Can Support DevOps and SRE Workflows (Kevin Casey)
 - Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available – Build and Scale Generative AI Applications with Foundation Models (Antje Barth)
 - AI and developer productivity (Bart Wullems)
 - How to create depth in Sketch (Gabrielle van Welie)
 - How we’re responsibly expanding access to generative AI in Search (Hema Budaraju)
 - Satya Nadella Says Copilot Will Be as Significant as the PC and What is Servant Leadership? (JD Meier)
 - The Facade Pattern: A Simplified Beginner Guide (Nick Cosentino)
 - Bootstrap your GitOps-enabled AKS cluster with Terraform: A code sample using the Flux v2 K8s Extension (Paul Yu)
 - Lightning AI Teases App Development Platform — an ‘OS for AI’ (Richard MacManus)
 - LLM Performance Series: Batching (Rinat Abdullin)
 - The 10 Best AI Writing Tools for Content Creation (Rob Pugh)
 - GitHub Learning Pathways: Learn from the best (Robb Mapp)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How can I get a Raspberry Pi 5 before everyone else? (Ashley Whittaker)
 - Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! (Eben Upton)
 - Debugging Improvements in Swift 5.9 (Swift Team)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- An Introduction to Sprint Goals (Dave Prior)
 - What do you hope to accomplish with TechSpark? | One Dev Question (Mike Egan)
 - How to set up centralized, scalable, and secure access for SQL operations personnel | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
 - What I Wish I Knew… about what’s cool about accessible tech (Eleanor Lewis)
 
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Azure and GitHub with April Edwards (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - InfoQ Podcast: Heidi Musser on Enabling Belonging Through Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (Heidi Musser)
 - Unraveling the CSS Revolution, Podcast Growth Tactics, and More – JavaScript Jabber 600 (Charles Max Wood & Dan Shappir)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How To Design Your Coaching Plan, And Progress Towards Successful Scrum Mastery | Lorraine Chambers (Vasco Duarte)
 - Get Interactive with Jupyter Notebook – Adventures in .NET 158 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
 - Rocket 457: Fireside Chat (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
 - AI Frontiers: Measuring and mitigating harms with Hanna Wallach (Hanna Wallach & Ashley Llorens)
 - JS Party Podcast – Reports of Node’s death are greatly exaggerated (Matteo Collina, James Snell, Amal Hussein, Kevin Ball & Christopher Hiller)
 - The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 626 – How to write high-performance SQL for your Postgres database (Eira May)
 - Web Rush Episode 253: AI with Katerina Skroumpelou (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
 - The Happy Engineer Podcast #130: Leading with Vulnerability Superpowers – the Future of Leadership with Jacob Morgan | International Best-Selling Author | Futurist (Max Ahumada)
 - Sync Up Episode 5: I’m Syncing About OneDrive! (Stephen Rice)
 
Community & Events
- Get Ready for JetBrains JavaScript Day 2023 (Aleksandra Aganezova)
 - Massive layoffs expected to hit Epic Games (Ash Parrish)
 - Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2023 (Sy Brand)
 
Database
- SQL Script for SQL Server Table and Column Properties (Hadi Fadlallah)
 - SQL SERVER – Manage Database Size with DBCC SHRINKDATABASE and WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY (Pinal Dave)
 - The Perils Of Change: Max Degree Of Parallelism (Erik Darling)
 - T-SQL Fundamentals: Controlling Duplicates (Itzik Ben-Gan)
 - DZone Trend Report: Data Pipelines – Investigating the Modern Data Stack (Boris Zaikin, Ted Gooch, Miguel Garcia, Tim Spann, Joana Carvalho, Xinran Waibel & G. Ryan Spain)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Introducing Town Halls in Microsoft Teams and Retiring Microsoft Teams Live Events (Amber Waisanen)
 - Introducing Microsoft Lists – MSA Preview for iOS and Android (Garima Wadhera)
 
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23555 (Dev Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
 - How to unlock aka.ms links efficiently for Microsoft portal pages (Dave W. Shanahan)
 - New OneDrive Sync Enhancements (Gali Reznick)
 - Reddit will no longer let you opt out of personalized ads (Jess Weatherbed)
 - Microsoft Learn: Four key features to help expand your knowledge and advance your career (Rishona Elijah)
 - Google’s whiteboarding app is joining the graveyard (Umar Shakir)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3791 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily Reading List – September 28, 2023 (#171) (Richard Seroter)
 - Code Maze Weekly #187 (Vladimir Pecanac)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Apps and Services with .NET 8: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies, 2nd Ed. (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

