Top Links
- Uno Platform 5.6 – 2.5x Perf Improvements, Turbocharged Hot Reload and expanded App Packaging (Uno Platform Team)
- PowerToys Release v0.88.0 (Kayla Cinnamon)
- The value of AI: How Microsoft’s customers and partners are creating differentiated AI solutions to reinvent how they do business today (Judson Althoff)
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Preview 4 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Learning by Shipping #228 – DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here’s Why (History Tells Us) (Steven Sinofsky)
- Iterate across multiple files more efficiently with GitHub Copilot Edits (Preview) (Aaron Yim)
Web & Cloud Development
- The State of WebAssembly – 2024 and 2025 (Matt Mattei)
- ASP.NET Core Pitfalls – Returning a Custom Service Provider (Ricardo Peres)
- How to Customize Your Bluesky Handle with a Custom Domain From WordPress.com (Amanda Coopersmith)
- Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout (Andy Clarke)
- Fractals to Forests – Creating Realistic 3D Trees with Three.js (Dan Greenheck)
- Visualize the Average U.S. Gasoline Price Over Time Using React Line Chart (Gowrimathi S.)
- Hydration and Incremental Hydration in Angular and Creating QR Codes with KendoReact (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Join The Web Component JavaScript Frameworks Party (I Programmer)
- Svelte 5 And The Future Of Frameworks: A Chat With Rich Harris (Frederick O’Brien)
- Wolverine for MediatR Users (Jeremy D. Miller)
- New Features in Azure Container Apps VS Code extension (Misty Miller)
- Managing Schedules with the Blazor Scheduler 4: Specialized Topics (Peter Vogel)
- Top 16 Node.js NPM Packages for Developers (Poorna Theekshana)
- Setting Up Grafana for Monitoring .NET Apps with Docker (Simon Foster)
- WebKit Features in Safari 18.3 (Jen Simmons)
- Differences between ESLint and TypeScript (Josh Goldberg)
- Deploy a server using Go with GitLab + Google Cloud (Claire Champernowne)
- What is observability 2.0? (Sam Suthar)
- Fleet 1.45 Is Here With Auto-Import for Gradle, Improved Preview for Markdown, and More Enhancements (Daniela Bentrup)
- Considerations for making a tree view component accessible (Eric Bailey)
- Stand up to scareware with scareware blocker, now available in preview in Microsoft Edge (Microsoft Edge Team)
- Getting Started With Node Fetch (Stackify Team)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Leveraging Microsoft.Extensions.AI for Tool Calling in C# (Laurent Kempe)
- Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 1 (Kevin Gosse)
- The New LINQ Methods from .NET 6 to .NET 9 (Anton Martyniuk)
- FromSql: Writing SQL Like a Boss in EF Core and Split Queries: Stop the Data Traffic Jam in EF Core (Chris Woodruff)
- The NuGet packages we use to build elmah.io revisited (Thomas Ardal)
- Metalama 2025.1 Will Be Open-Source (Gael Fraiteur)
- A pattern for obtaining a single value while holding a lock (Raymond Chen)
- Supporting multiple .NET SDK versions in analyzers and source generators (Andrew Lock)
AI
- DeepSeek-R1 on Azure Container Apps Serverless GPUs (Cary Chai)
- The Future of AI: Power Your Agents with Azure Logic Apps (Marco Casalaina)
- Run DeepSeek R1 on AWS EC2 Using Pulumi and Ollama (Engin Diri)
- Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products (Martin Fowler)
- Creating a Chatbot with Azure AI Search and OpenAI Studio (Ron L’Esteve)
- Introducing ChatGPT Gov (OpenAI)
- GitHub Copilot – Generate mermaid diagrams to better understand an existing codebase (Bart Wullems)
- Anthropic Builds RAG Directly Into Claude Models With New Citations API (BeauHD)
- Significance of DeepSeek R1 Model: Disruption, Trust, and the Future of AI (Chris Pietschmann)
- Why everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek (Elizabeth Lopatto)
- Inside Perspectives: What does AI mean for Redgate? (Jeff Foster)
- Open source AI is already finding its way into production (Klint Finley)
- DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China (Matt Burgess & Lily Hay Newman)
- Why NotebookLM Matters (Om Malik)
- The Local OLLAMA Gui (Steve Jones)
- Fast-track generative AI security with Microsoft Purview (Steve Vandenberg)
- Using DeepSeek models in Semantic Kernel (Tao Chen)
- Microsoft CEO says AI use will ‘skyrocket’ with more efficiency amid craze over DeepSeek (Taylor Soper)
- DeepSeek defense: Microsoft earnings will offer new chance to detail AI capital spending plans (Todd Bishop)
- Bring your own models on AI Toolkit – using Ollama and API keys (vinayakh)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Changes to provisioning Azure DevOps projects using the Azure DevOps Demo Generator and Upcoming support lifecycle milestones for older on-premises products (Gloridel Morales)
- ImageMagick Latest Release Automatically Published to Winget Repository (Dirk Lemstra)
- Get a PAT in Azure DevOps (Steve Jones)
- How engineering teams can thrive in 2025 (Stack Overflow)
- Here’s how you can use Figma to design an entire website prototype (Parth Shah)
- Application Insights Release annotations – more than deployments (F. Hessen)
- Getting started with GitLab: How to import your projects to GitLab (Abubakar Siddiq Ango)
- Real Git Remote Security Vulnerabilities and How to Mitigate Them (Bryan Grover)
- Is Test Generation There Yet? (Gil Zilberfeld)
- More control over Deployment Freezes: Recurring freezes and freeze by tenant (Huy Nguyen)
- Building a Workplace That Inspires Tech Talent (Robert Ortiz)
- From code to production: A guide to continuous deployment with GitLab (James Wormwell)
- Secure, compliant, and AI-powered: Get to know 3 new GitLab features (Jessica Hurwitz)
- Dependency inversion without inversion of control (Mark Seemann)
- Introducing Mentoss: The fetch mocker (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Mastering Time Management in the Tech Industry: Strategies for Success (Rochelle Sonnenberg)
- Farewell, SpecFlow. Gáspár Nagy Saves the Day with Reqnroll! (Sean Killeen)
- Use “The Big 3” Leadership Framework Alongside Radical Candor to Transform Your Team (Brandi Neal)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Micro Journal (Andrew Gregory)
- The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback (David Pierce)
- Helping users find trusted apps on Google Play (JJ Zou & Scott Lin)
Screencasts & Videos
- Boost Your Productivity with PowerToys Workspaces (Michael Jolley)
- Deepseek R1 Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer and DeepSeek Releases ANOTHER Model – Janus Pro (image gen + multi-modal) (Frank LaVigne)
- Leveraging the power of Microsoft 365 Copilot in Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Team)
- Why is it important to make my apps accessible? | One Dev Question (Rachel Kang)
Podcasts
- The Amp Hour #687 – The RP2350 with the Raspberry Pi Team (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Scott Ambler: The State of Agile – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #334 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Challenge of Breaking Silos, And Building Collaborative Teams Remotely | Antti Horelli and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Three-Day Sprint Planning Nightmare – Learning from Failure | Antti Horelli (Vasco Duarte)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Linkerd, with William Morgan (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- The Changelog News Podcast – DeepSeek-R1’s epic pull request (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #208 – The Modern CISO: Balancing Risk, Innovation, and Business Strategy (And Where is Cloud?) (Anton Chuvakin)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – “Countries are coming online tomorrow, whole countries” (Eira May)
- Azure Cloud Talk 25/1/27 – Jack Davies Cloud Engineering Heating Up? (Alec Harrison)
- RunAs Radio #969 – Querying for Breaches with Mark Morowcyznski (Richard Campbell)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode #205 – Mastering Energy Management in Leadership with Mary Guerdoux-Harries | Transformational Coach (Max Ahumada)
- Python Bytes Podcast #418 – I’m a tea pot (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Syntax Podcast #871 – Coding Agents Cursor + Windsurf Tips (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode #85 – The 16th Annual Trader Joe’s Customer Choice Awards (Trader Joe’s Team)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Building Business Connections – Inside USPS Industry Engagement (United States Postal Service)
Community & Events
- There are plenty of non-men in tech to speak at your conference (Stephanie Stimac)
- Attending Tech Conferences With a Toddler: A DevRel Mom’s Story (Amanda Cavallaro)
- CfP List Updated 2025-01-28 (Dave Aronson)
- Costco, Amazon, Microsoft chart their own DEI paths as Trump targets diversity efforts (Lisa Stiffler)
- Pay Raises Are Shrinking in 2025, CFOs Say (msmash)
- Bluesky adds video to user profiles and Reelo stands out among the apps building a ‘TikTok for Bluesky’ (Sarah Perez)
- Stack Gives Back 2024! (Sasha)
- Vancouver game studio Phoenix Labs lays off ‘majority’ of employees (Thomas Wilde)
- Microsoft + TikTok, 2025 edition: Trump comment stirs new speculation about possible deal (Todd Bishop)
Database
- Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Fixing non-SARGable Predicates and Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Eager Index Spools (Erik Darling)
- Use SQL Server .NET Framework CLR objects with SDK based cross platform .dacpac builds (Erik EJ)
- Creating Time Series Collections in MongoDB (Robert Sheldon)
- Multiple similar Tables in you database, is it possible to run queries etc by pre selecting….. (Henry D.)
- Query editor for Azure SQL DB and Drop roles in Postgres (Josephine Bush)
- Data Retention Management for Lakehouse Files in Microsoft Fabric (Kenneth A. Omorodion)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- What’s New in Excel (January 2025) (Ms Excel)
- ICYMI: Partner Blog | Empowering partners with AI: unveiling Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (Jill Armour)
- What’s new in Microsoft Planner – December 2024 and What’s new in Microsoft Planner – January 2025 (Nancy)
- M365 Developers Update | January 2025 Edition (Justin Royal)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Files Preview v3.8.14 (Files Team)
- Republican Proposal Would Make College Scholarships Taxable Income (Edward Conroy)
- Scientists create mice with two fathers (Allan Rose Hill)
- Kickstart your creativity with new content and creative tools in Clipchamp (Anastasia Passaris)
- Now Apple tells us how to update AirPods (Andrew Liszewski)
- Facebook Flags Linux Topics As ‘Cybersecurity Threats’ (BeauHD)
- PowerToys 0.88 Adds (Not So) New Zoomit Utility (Paul Thurrott)
- All the news about EV charging in the US (Verge Staff)
- January 2025 update of Power Automate for desktop (Yiannis Mavridis)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-05 (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #172 (Sam Basu)
- Daily Reading List – January 27, 2025 (#480) and Daily Reading List – January 28, 2025 (#481) (Richard Seroter)
- Reading Notes #633 (Frank Boucher)
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