Top Links* Tuesday’s top tech news: a new era for Microsoft’s Bing (Tom Warren) * Windows App SDK v1.3-experimental1 Release (Gabby Bilka) * Beyond the Hype: ChatGPT and why it has set the internet alight (Colin Eberhardt) * An important next step on our AI journey (Sundar Pichai) * The technology behind GitHub’s new code search (Timothy Clem) * Update to the .NET language strategy (Kathleen Dollard)
Web & Cloud Development* A Historical Reference of React Criticism (Zach Leatherman) * Extracting Key-Value Pairs from Document Form Fields with AWS Textract and .NET (Bryan Hogan) * Using source-generated regex in ASP.NET Core route constraints (Gérald Barré) * How To Build A Magazine Layout With CSS Grid Areas (Jennifer Brehm) * How to setup Built-in Authentication for Azure Static Web Apps with Azure Active Directory (Joey Huang) * Server-Side Filtering With the Kendo Angular for UI Grid (Peter Vogel) * Organizing AWS Accounts With Pulumi (Praneet Loke) * A Button Only Date Picker and JavaScript Date Control Binding (Rick Strahl) * ElementInternals and Form-Associated Custom Elements (Ryosuke Niwa) * Introducing Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview—People-centric data protection for a multiplatform world (Christine Barrett) * OAuth 2.0 Just Got Easier: Introducing Token Refresh and ID Token Support (Giridhar) * WebAssembly to Let Developers Combine Languages (Loraine Lawson)
Visual Studio & .NET Installing .NET Framework 4.5 Targeting Pack (Peter Ritchie) * PostgreSQL in C# .NET with Npgsql, Dapper, and Entity Framework: The Complete Guide (Michael Shpilt) * How to (Find the Option to) Enable Separator Lines for C# in Visual Studio (Roland Weigelt) * Refactoring Bloated Code in C# (Code Maze) * Myths about F#: C# will become F# anyway, so we don’t need F# and* Today’s random F# code: validation (Urs Enzler) * What the hell is this odd init keyword? (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas) * Introducing the Rider Localization EAP for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (Julia Alexandrova) * Contravariant functors as invariant functors (Mark Seemann)
Design, Methodology & Testing* Leading the Future: The Top 10 Trends Shaping Modern Leadership (J.D. Meier) * Velocity Management in Agile: A Tactical Guide to Maintaining Consistent Developer Throughput (Tyler Hakes) * The difference between high-performing and ordinary teams (David Pereira) * When to Command (and When to Collaborate) (Ted Neward) * Who is a 10x Engineer? (Adhithi Ravichandran)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development* The evolution of Facebook’s iOS app architecture (Dustin Shahidepour) * Bringing together sign-in solutions and passkeys with Android’s new Credential Manager (Diego Zavala & Lee Campbell) * Designing a deeper space: Visual effects in Alt Shift’s Crying Suns (Christophe Sauveur)
Screencasts & Videos* SQL Coding Series – Intermediate Part II (Women Who Code) * Introduction to Group Policy – (AZ-800 Prep) | IT Ops Talk (Michael Bender) * Data Loss Prevention across endpoints, apps, & services | Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman) * Artemis program with Richard Campbell & Uly | NDC Sydney 2022 (SSW TV)
Podcasts* Revision Path – Kirk Visola (Maurice Cherry) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Discover how to break free from the trap of thinking you know it all and bring agile success to your team | Bram De Block (Vasco Duarte) * React Native Radio #258 – Robots coding React Native?!?! (Mazen Chami, Robin Heinze & Jamon Holmgren) * Syntax Podcast Episode 572 – Polish and Perf (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky) * Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 107 – How Google Secures It’s Google Cloud Usage at Massive Scale (Anton Chuvakin) * Meta Cast – Calmness In Layoff Chaos (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson) * The Changelog – News: OpenAI’s new text classifier, teach yourself CS, programming philosophies are about state, you might not need Lodash & overrated scalability (Jerod Santo) * The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 535 – The AI that writes music from text (Eira May) * Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Graph Developer Proxy with Waldek Mastykarz and Sebastien Levert (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Community & Events A New Era: PM -> SWE (Eric Lawrence) * Challenging stereotypes about women in the technology sector (New Work Engineers) * Dell to Lay Off Over 6,600 Employees (Paul Thurrott) * The frontier of computing: Q&A with IBM quantum computing research (Ryan Donovan) * Contributor Stories: Taiob Ali (Sherry List) * Reflections on my first year leading inclusion and diversity at Unity (Tai Wingfield) * Microsoft announces surprise event for tomorrow with Bing ChatGPT expected (Tom Warren) – Today!*
Database* Use SQL Server and CSS to Generate More Interesting Events Calendar in HTML (Aaron Bertrand) * SQL Server on Azure VMs – the best price-performance gets even better! (Pam Lahoud) * Using TOP clause in a SELECT statement (Greg Larsen)
PowerShell & Terminal* How to Open a Tor Brave Window from Command Line (David Walsh)
Miscellaneous* Introducing Files, version 2.4.30 (Files App Team) * New Microsoft research illustrates the online risks and value of safety tools to keep kids safer in the digital environment (Courtney Gregoire) * Getty Images Sues AI Art Generator Stable Diffusion in the US For Copyright Infringement (msmash) * It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Reading the user’s saved passwords (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections* The Morning Brew #3640 (Chris Alcock) * Interesting links of the week 2023-6 (#58) (Michael Eaton) * Sands of MAUI: Issue #90 (Sam Basu) * Daily Wrap Up – February 6, 2023 (#024) (Richard Seroter) * Build5Nines Weekly – February 7, 2023 (Chris Pietschmann) * Reading Notes #541 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link