Top Links
- Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines are now generally available (Arun Kishan & Rani Borkar)
- How we build GitHub Copilot into Visual Studio (Anson Horton)
- .NET 9.0 LINQ Performance Improvements (NDepend Team)
- Improve your debugger game with editable expressions (Junyu Wang)
- New Hugging Face Models on Azure AI: Phi-3 Variants from the Community (Nitya Narasimhan, Chhavi Nijhawan & Thasmika Gokal)
- .NET Aspire Community Toolkit | Microsoft Learn (Aaron Powell & David Pine)
Web & Cloud Development
- Electron 33.0.0 (Charles Kerr)
- Wolverine 3.0 is Live! (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Connect Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL to your ASP.NET Core application. (Brian Kemboi)
- Docker Best Practices: Using ARG and ENV in Your Dockerfiles (Jay Schmidt)
- Introducing Recommendations: Bing Webmaster Tools’ Next Evolution in Analytics and SEO and Announcing the Limited Private Preview of the New Copilot in Bing Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools Extends Search Performance Data to 16 Months (Bing Team)
- Add a Static Marketing Page to Your Blazor App in .NET 9 (Jon Hilton)
- Node v23.0.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
- Node v22.10.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
- Implementing an OAuth client credentials flow with ADFS–Part 3–Debugging the flow (Bart Wullems)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Integrating AI-Powered Smart Location Search in WPF Maps (Muniappan Subramanian)
- Create a WPF Multi-Bar Chart to Visualize U.S. vs. China Superpower Status (Saiyath Ali Fathima M.)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Effects of classic return address tricks on hardware-assisted return address protection (Raymond Chen)
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 Preview 3 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
AI
- Google Releases Gemini Code Assist Enterprise (Kay Ewbank)
- Coming in November: AI-3022: Implement AI Skills in Azure AI Search (Mindy Rosenthal)
- Parents Take School To Court After Student Punished For Using AI (BeauHD)
- The Architect’s Guide to Interoperability in the AI Data Stack (Brenna Buuck)
- Mozilla’s research: Unlocking AI for everyone, not just Big Tech (Christopher Hilton & Maximilian Gahntz)
- Get Started With Meta’s Llama Stack Using Conda and Ollama (David Eastman)
- Anthropic’s CEO thinks AI will lead to a utopia — he just needs a few billion dollars first (Kylie Robison)
- Building a Contextual Retrieval System for Improving RAG Accuracy (Manoranjan Rajguru)
- Llamafile v0.8.14: a new UI, performance gains, and more (Stephen Hood)
- Overcoming AI Fatigue: Building Real-World AI Software Solutions (Steve Hennegan)
- AI leadership: Elevating productivity, privacy, and security (Terrell Cox)
- Copilot Pages (Vesa Nopanen)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Introducing Pull Request Annotation for CodeQL and Dependency Scanning in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (Michael Omokoh)
- API Error Messages for a GOOD Developer Experience (Derek Comartin)
- Code signing a VSIX Package with a certificate from DigiC**t (Matt Lacey)
- Close, Exit, Cancel: How to End User Interactions Well (Preethi)
- Bridging the Digital Divide: Our Enduring Commitment to Global Connectivity (Teresa Hutson)
- Escalating cyber threats demand stronger global defense and cooperation (Tom Burt)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
Screencasts & Videos
- GCast 185: Using Copilot Pages (David Giard)
- Candidly Copilot Episode 1 (Michael Gannotti)
Podcasts
- Syntax Podcast #835: How to Pick a JavaScript Framework (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The Cloud Pod #278: Azure is on a Bender: Bite my Shiny Metal FXv2-series VMs (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Leading Change in a Large Scaled Agile Organization | Jelena Vucinic (Vasco Duarte)
- Made by Goolge Podcast S6E6 – Android: Outsmarting Phone Thieves with AI (Sandra Guo & Rachid Finge)
- The Rework Podcast S2E127 – Say No by Default (Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Feeling stuck? Anne Lamott’s here to kickstart your writing! (Anne Lamott & Mignon Fogarty)
- .NET Rocks! – Mobile, Augmented Reality, and AI with Chris Sells (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Exploring Rails Productivity and Language Trade-offs – JavaScript Jabber #653 (Charles Max Wood & Dan Shappir)
Community & Events
- Save the date for Firebase Demo Day ‘24 (Yasmin Gehman)
- Morning Dew Break Coming Up Next Week (Alvin A.)
- Rider Reveal Livestream: Big News for .NET and Game Devs (Alexandra Kolesova)
- Open-sourcing of WinAmp Goes Badly As Owners Delete Entire Repo (msmash)
- CfP List Updated 2024-10-16 (Dave Aronson)
- Meta is laying off employees at WhatsApp, Instagram, and more (Alex Heath)
Database
- A Little About FORCESEEK Hints In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Azure Database for MySQL – September 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap (Shreya Aithal)
- How To Migrate From Couchbase Server to Couchbase Capella (Couchbase Team)
- How Many Indexes Is Too Many? (Brent Ozar)
- Creating Views in MongoDB (Robert Sheldon)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- This trick frees your Windows PC from Microsoft’s hellbent ‘New Outlook’ imposition — permanently (Rahul Naskar)
- Microsoft 365 control spotlight: Information security risk management (Leana Gerrard)
Miscellaneous
- Search Talk Python from your address bar (Michael Kennedy)
- Analogue’s 4K Nintendo 64 launches next year for $249 (Andrew Webster)
- Microsoft Store October 2024 update rolling out to Windows Insiders (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe takes another step toward pen and paper and Amazon finally has a color Kindle, and it looks pretty good (David Pierce)
- Amazon discontinues the last Kindle with physical buttons (Jay Peters)
- Another toy: the Snapdragon Dev Kit (Michael Niehaus)
- Amazon unveils first-ever color Kindle in new lineup, along with faster Paperwhite and AI-powered Scribe (Wayne Williams)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – October 16, 2024 (#420) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
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