Top Links* Azure Developer CLI (azd) – January 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski) * Debugging Encoded Text (Mark Downie) * Welcome to the new Microsoft Q&A – Release Notes (Microsoft Learn) * Learn how to create Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) for Microsoft Viva Connections and Viva Home (Vesa Juvonen) * The ReadME Podcast Episode 3 – Taking Das Blog into the future with Scott Hanselman & Mark Downie (Kathy Korevec & Brian Douglas) * Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4.4 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

Web & Cloud Development* High Satisfaction Among JavaScript Developers (Ian Elliot) * SQL Server vs Oracle: Connect from Visual Studio 2019 ASP.NET Core Web Application (Pablo Echeverria) * Managing the Cost of Kubernetes (Aaron Newcomb) * Task Scheduling and Markers in Blazor Gantt Chart (Alan Sangeeth) * How to Destructure Props in Vue (Composition API) (Dmitri Pavlutin) * Windows Virtual Machine in Azure Portal (Radhika Tripurani) * Passwordless deployments to the cloud (Chris Reddington) * :has is an unforgiving selector (Geoff Graham) * Build eSignature Workflows with Postman and Signeasy (Karthikeyan KC) * 5 Ways to Improve Your Web Application and API Security (Hillary Nyakundi) * Getting Creative with Infinite Loop Scrolling (Manoela Ilic) * Migrating to Isolated Durable Functions (Mark Heath)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML* Pairing with Mac to Run iOS Apps in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET* What does it mean when I get a mismatch from MSVC for _COROUTINE_ABI? (Raymond Chen) * Cryptography Implementations in .NET (Alvaro Montoya)

Design, Methodology & Testing* Best of Sources of Insight 2022 (J.D. Meier) * DevOps and platform engineering (Steve Fenton) * 9 Best Practices to Safely Deploy and Keep Your Application Healthy at Scale (Michael Shpilt) * Modular Test Design for Automated Test Strategy Success (Amy Reichert)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Cozy assets for your cozy games (Unity Asset Store Team) * No one cares about your authentication flow…until you get it wrong (Jacklin Altman) * Roblox’s new Creator Hub could make things a lot easier for developers (Jay Peters)

Screencasts & Videos* Build your first AI Chat Bot App using Flutter & ChatGPT (Codepur) * 3 features now in Microsoft Teams chat (Microsoft Teams) * Creating videos programmatically with Remotion on The Download (Christina Warren) * ONNX 1.13 Release Review (Cassie Breviu & Przemyslaw Wysocki)

Podcasts* .NET Rocks! – Azure API Management with Tom Kerkhove (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell) * Working Code Podcast – Episode 109: Best Of 2022 (Ben Nadel) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Learning what we can change, and working to implement it with the team | Omar Perez (Vasco Duarte) * The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 526 – Taming multiple design systems with a single plugin (Ryan Donovan) * How to Scale Yourself Podcast – Scale Your Knowledge with Matt Eland (Leo Guinan)

Community & Events Parler’s Parent Company Lays Off Majority of Its Staff and* DirecTV Lays Off Hundreds of Managers As Cord Cutting Accelerates (BeauHD) * A look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projects (Chris Aniszczyk) * Microsoft is set to offer unlimited paid time off – is that a bad thing? (Kip Kniskern) * Bill Gates talks AI, climate, Microsoft, the new season of ‘White Lotus’ and more in Reddit ‘AMA’ (Kurt Schlosser) * Meet the Skilling Champion Jonas Rapp (Rie Moriguchi) * Experiencing Both Sides (Will Curry) * Employee experience company Limeade laying off 15% of workforce; CFO to resign (Taylor Soper)

Database* SQL Server Function Examples with JSON Files (Rick Dobson) * Cosmos DB Patterns for Performance Efficiency (Marco Cardoso)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams* Using JavaScript Gantt Chart in SharePoint Web Parts for Effective Project Management: Part 1 (Alan Sangeeth) * Microsoft 365 Basic set to launch featuring 100 GB of storage and more at $1.99 per month (Kevin Okemwa) * How Microsoft Teams empowers your retail workers to do more with less (Nicole Herskowitz)

PowerShell* PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 18 (Sydney Smith)

Miscellaneous #Rust – Working with threads and joining thread handles (Bruno Capuano) * Apple might finally make a touchscreen Mac and* Apple’s Music and TV apps for Windows are now available in preview (Mitchell Clark)

More Link Collections* The Morning Brew #3622 (Chris Alcock) * Daily Wrap Up – January 11, 2023 (#007) (Richard Seroter)

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