Top Links
- Windows Package Manager Preview (v0.1.41821) (Demitrius Nelon)
 - Jimmy Bogard on AutoMapper and MediatR – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 98 (Jeffrey Palermo)
 - How to get the SyntaxNode of an ISymbol using Roslyn (Jerome Laban)
 - GitHub Actions for UWP apps – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sébastien Lachance)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Fetch the current weather with `weather-js` and display in `react-blessed` and Natively Format JavaScript Dates and Times (Elijah Manor)
 - Build A Secure Node.js API with KoaJS (Nickolas Fisher)
 - Copying Slack’s Brilliant Virtual Scrollbar And Overflow Container In Angular 9.1.12 (Ben Nadel)
 - Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 271 – Azure Functions and secure configuration with Azure Key Vault (Michael Crump)
 - Why I Converted from Vue to React (Brett Fisher)
 - Using Key Vault and Managed Identities with Azure Functions (Damien Bowden)
 - Using Hosted Services in ASP.NET Core to Create a “Most Viewed” Background Service (David Grace)
 - Deploy a Serverless RabbitMQ Cluster on Azure with .NET (Itay Podhajcer)
 - Responsive Svelte (exploring Svelte’s reactivity) (Kevin Bridges)
 - Calling a Web API from a Console App and Creating a Performance Test (Paul Michaels)
 - Node.Js JWT Auth (Pravin Bendre)
 - Eliminating duplicate objects: three approaches (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - ESLint v7.5.0 released (ESLint Team)
 - Getting started with NodeJS and the WebAssembly System Interface (Radu Matei)
 - How I simplified my import paths in TypeScript (Andy Coupe)
 - Conditional imports across Flutter and Web (Antonello Galipò)
 - WebAssembly Used to Extend Life of Flash Legacy Content (Bruno Couriol)
 - Thoughts on the new Twitter API (V2) (Jamie Maguire)
 - A View on New Vue: What to Expect in Vue 3 (Thomas Findlay)
 - Customizing the Auth flow with Auth0 (Jason Farrell)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- DotNetMaui (Xamarin.Forms) is Not a XAML Platform (Nick Randolph)
 - New Preview of WinUI 3, Native UI Platform of Windows, Fixes Stuff (David Ramel)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Understanding F# applicatives and custom operators (Jonathan Channon)
 - Python in Visual Studio Code – July 2020 Release (Claudia Regio)
 - MS Performance HUD – Analyze EventLog Reading Performance In Realtime (Alois Kraus)
 - C# 9: Answering your questions (Dave Brock)
 - C# 8.0 nullable references: supporting older runtimes (Ian Griffiths)
 - C# 9: Range Operators in Switch Constructs and Pattern Matching Expressions (Jonathan Allen)
 - Implementing, Wiring and Debugging Custom MSBuild Tasks (Matthias Koch)
 - Comparing DataEngine to LINQ – Data Transformation (Greg Lutz)
 - Our journey to F#: Relearning using the IDE (Urs Enzler)
 - Adding Newtonsoft JSON back to .NET Core 3.1 and Later and Using Octokit.NET to Integrate Your .NET Core Applications with GitHub (Jason Gaylord)
 - EF Core In depth – Tips and techniques for configuring EF Core (Jon P. Smith)
 - Travis logs and .NET Core console output (Jon Skeet)
 - Exploring the .NET open source hybrid ORM library RepoDB (Scott Hanselman)
 - A new, more simplified setup for X-Ray tracing of .NET applications (Steve Roberts)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Per-machine MSIX with SCCM (Alex Marin)
 - A Deep Dive Into the Transformer Architecture – The Development of Transformer Models (Exxact Team)
 - Managing the Uncertainty of Legacy Code: Part 5 (JB Rainsberger)
 - How To Spot The Signs Of Team Overwhelm (And What To Do About It) (Kat Boogaard)
 - Storing Sensitive Data for your DevOps Pipeline (in GitHub) (Michael Szul)
 - Convert an existing application to use rolling deployments (Mark Harrison)
 - Microsoft Inclusive Design (Julio Madeira)
 - Managing issues in a large-scale open source project (Ray Rischpater)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Pros and Cons of Migrating to React Native at Khan Academy (Sergio De Simone)
 - Swift 5: How to Programmatically Add Images to a UIScrollView (Eric Gustin)
 - Creating a Full-Featured Browser using WebViews in Flutter (Lorenzo Pichilli)
 - Introducing a Super-Fast DataGrid Widget for Flutter (Neelakandan Kannan)
 - How to Build a Personal Dev Server on a $5 Raspberry Pi (Michael Yuan)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Dave Pine on NET 5 and the Docs team (David Giard)
 - Why Flutter? Cracking Google Interview & All the Frequent Questions | Matt Carroll | Full Interview (MTechViral)
 - Merge Conflict 211: Failure To Launch (James Montemagno)
 - Register Now: Azure SQL Bootcamp (LIVE with Bob Ward & Anna Hoffman) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Marisa Brasile)
 - Software Engineering Radio Episode 416: Adam Shostack on Threat Modeling (Justin Beyer)
 - Software Engineering Radio Episode 417: Alex Petrov on Database Storage Engines (Adam Gordon Bell)
 - Xamarin Podcast: Inverter Converter and Xamarin.Forms 4.7 (Matt Soucoup)
 - Coding Blocks Podcast – The DevOps Handbook – Architecting for Low-Risk Releases (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
 - Chatbots and Conversational Software (Michael Szul)
 - The Amp Hour #501 – Discussing the Open Source PDK with Tim Ansell (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
 - How 4th Grade Teacher turned Power Apps expert, Mr. Dang, is helping the next generation of students with the Power Platform | #LessCodeMorePower (Golnaz Alibeigi)
 - FreeCodeSession – Episode 178 (Jason Bock)
 - Serverless Chats Episode #58: Observing Serverless Observability with Erica Windisch (Jeremy Daly)
 - AGL 165: Ravs Kaur (John Rouda)
 - Is software development better than 20 years ago? | Loosely Coupled Show #011 (Derek Comartin & James Hickey)
 - Talk Python to Me #273 – CoCalc: A fully collaborative notebook development environment (Michael Kennedy)
 - ARM Taking Over The World – What The Tech Ep. 476 (Paul Thurrott)
 - How to do a Greenscreen easily in 10 min for $75 with OBS and good lighting (Scott Hanselman)
 
Community & Events
- Becoming a Remote Worker – Month 4 (Adam Storr)
 - Microsoft is doing its usual fiscal year-end layoffs, but fewer than usual (Mary Jo Foley)
 - An update on our security incident (Twitter)
 - Online Events, Experience From Three Perspectives (Aaron Powell)
 - GitHub Action Hero: Nikita Sobolev (Michelle Mannering)
 
Database
- How to find SQL Server Replication related jobs and T-SQL statements (Liwei Yin)
 - SQL SERVER – Boost SQL Server Priority and SSMS 18 and SQL Azure – Add IP Address to Firewall (Pinal Dave)
 
PowerShell
- Windows Terminal Preview (j2inet)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3039 (Chris Alcock)
 - .NET App Developer Links – 2020-07-20 (Dan Rigby)
 - Double Shot #2643 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - The .NET Stacks #8: functional C# 9, .NET Foundation nominees, Azure community, more! (Dave Brock)
 - Code Maze Weekly #34 (Vladimir Pecanac)
 - Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.07.17 (Steven Murawski)
 - The Overflow #30: Goodwill hunting (Ryan Donovan)
 - Azure Advocate Weekly Round Up with #PowerfulDevs! (Shayne Boyer)
 - C# Digest Issue #320 (Jakub Chodounsky)
 - F# Weekly #29, 2020 – Flips, Fasaani, AlgEff and MemoryVisualizer (Sergey Tihon)
 - GameDev News – July 17, 2020 (Brian Peek)
 - Friday Five: MS Build Recap, Graph API, And More! (MVP Award Team)
 
The Geek Shelf
 The Art of Immutable Architecture: Theory and Practice of Data Management in Distributed Systems (Michael L. Perry) – Referral Link