Top Links* The Hanselminutes Podcast – Hachyderm’s Kris Nova on running a Mastodon Server (Scott Hanselman) * LastPass: Notice of Recent Security Incident (Karim Toubba) * Saving Christmas with Functional C# – Part One – Definite Loops (Simon Painter) * How the heap verification mode helps with debugging heap corruption (Maoni Stephens) * Accelerate ML.NET training with Intel oneDAL (Luis Quintanilla)

Web & Cloud Development WebStorm 2022.3.1 Is Available (Ekaterina Ryabukha) * Azure Maps as a Source to Syncfusion Maps (Hari Venkatesh E.) * Azure Functions OpenAPI Extension Update (Justin Yoo) * How to Host a WordPress Site in Azure (rtripurani) * A Complete Guide to Creating a Mind Map Using Angular Diagram Component (Sarathkumar V.) * As GitHub Quits Atom for VS Code, GitLab Revamps Web IDE (Based on VS Code) (David Ramel) * Implementing Validations in .NET Core API (Baskar Rao) * Beating Traffic with Bing Maps’ Route Optimization APIs and* HO HO HO! Microsoft and Bing Maps help NORAD track Santa! (Bing Team) * Auth0 SDK for NextJS v2.0 released! (Juan Cruz Martinez)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML Introducing the Sixth Set of .NET MAUI Controls and* Introducing the New .NET MAUI Rating Control (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan) * Uno Platform 2022 in Review (Uno Platform Team)

Visual Studio & .NET* F# Tuple (Jin Vincent Necesario) * C# 11.0: Raw String Literals (Thomas Claudius Huber) * MailMerge: Working with Image Placeholders (Bjoern Meyer) * Is there a fixed virtual address that the system promises never to use for anything, so I can use it? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing* Don’t Do DevOps Just So You Can Say You Do DevOps (LeadingAgile Team) * Learnings from Applying Psychological Safety Across Teams (Ben Linders) * Playwright 1.29 is out! Watch the Overview. (Playwright Team) * Things I Learned #17: Another git trick (Michael Eaton) * EXE or MSI Installer – What suits your business best? | Differences and Recommendations (Radu Popescu) * 12 Days of Holiday Hacking (PreEmptive Team) * How to make the most of Color Variables (Sketch Team) * GitLab 15.7 released introducing the GitLab CLI and with browser-based DAST GA (Dilan Orrino) * 2022: The Year AI Came to Coding (Loraine Lawson) * Deciphering the legacy software bottlenecks: How re-architecting reduces it? (Tejas Kaneriya)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Surface Duo: Happy Holidays 2022 (chatgpt & Craig Dunn) * $5 at Yankee Candle: What No One Understands About Indie Game Development (Todd Mitchell) * Free gamedev tools and art packs to kick-start your next project (Joachim Pefferkorn)

Screencasts & Videos* How to build a real-time leaderboard for the Soccer World Cup with Azure SQL & Redis | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman) * Visual Studio for Mac vs. Visual Studio Code vs. JetBrains Rider for new C# Developers (Aaron LaBeau)

Podcasts* Learning How To Learn – Adventures in DevOps 142 (Jillian Rowe, Jonathan Hall & Will Button) * The Work Item #59 – Building On Your Own, with iOS Developer Donny Wals (Den Delimarsky) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Focusing Agile teams on “the most important thing”, a retrospective format | Stacey Taurah (Vasco Duarte) * Rocket 417: Techno Vice (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort) * Hachyderm.io, from Side Project to 38,000+ Users and Counting (Heather Joslyn) * CppCast – Holiday Special with Phil Nash and Timur Doumler (Rob Irving & Jason Turner) * Software Defined Talk Episode 393: 10 Years of Project Sputnik, with Barton George (Cote) * WebAuthn With Dan Moore – JavaScript Jabber 562 (AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood) * Talk Python to Me #395: Tools for README.md Creation and Maintenance (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events* Mastodon: The Open-Source Social Network Taking on Big Tech (Russell Smith) * Read Microsoft’s response to the FTC’s Activision Blizzard lawsuit (Mitchell Clark)

Database* Should You Use SQL Server 2022’s GREATEST and LEAST? (Brent Ozar) * DataGrip 2022.3.2 (Maksim Sobolevskiy)

Miscellaneous Questions to consider before choosing an email newsletter tool (Annet Mathews) * DuckDuckGo Will Block Google’s ‘Invasive, Annoying’ Sign-In Popups and* ‘Easily’ Replaceable Batteries May Soon Be Required By EU Law (BeauHD) * YouTube lands NFL Sunday Ticket in major shake-up of sports streaming (Jay Peters) * Best IDEs and Code Editors for Python (Lucero del Alba) * Hackers stole encrypted LastPass password vaults, and we’re just now hearing about it (Mitchell Clark) * Having an Immutable Mastodon Handle (Nicolas Fränkel)

More Link Collections* The Morning Brew #3614holidays (Chris Alcock) * Collective #744 (Mary Lou) * Code Maze Weekly #153 (Vladimir Pecanac)

The Geek Shelf The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox (Evan Amos) – Referral Link