Top Links Hello GPT-4o and* Introducing GPT-4o and more tools to ChatGPT free users (OpenAI Team) * How to Get Started using Semantic Kernel .NET (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey and Roger Barreto) * Richard Campbell: The Future of Software – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 297 (Jeffrey Palermo) * Check out the TechBash 2024 session list! (TechBash Team) * What’s new in Orleans 8 for Scalable Distributed Applications (Mike Kistler) * A Complete .NET Developer’s Guide to Span with Stephen Toub | On .NET (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development* Creating and styling components in Angular (Maksim Dolgikh) * C# in Browser via WebAssembly (without Blazor) (Nick Polyak) * Azure Announcements (Spring 2024) (Dimitar Grozdanov) * The Times You Need A Custom @property Instead Of A CSS Variable (Preethi Sam) * Wolverine’s HTTP Model Does More For You (Jeremy D. Miller) * Using the Result Pattern in .NET Web API (Sławomir Świętoniowski) * Microsoft Entra delivers increased transparency (Shobhit Sahay) * Top 5 VS Code Extensions for React Developers (Peter Mbanugo) * PNPM vs. NPM vs. Yarn: What Should I Choose in 2024? (Nipuni Arunodi) * Next-level IaC: Powering Up Pulumi with Package Ecosystems (Troy Howard) * How to prevent Prettier putting a full stop on a new line after a link (Salma Alam-Naylor)

Visual Studio & .NET* How to avoid conflicts when testing your dotnet templates locally (Gérald Barré) * Use AI-Powered Rename Suggestions to rename your C++ variables in Visual Studio (Sinem Akinci) * Writing “string.IsNullOrEmpty” using pattern matching and comparing the resulting code (Jiří {x2} Činčura) * Before you try to change something, make sure you can change nothing (Raymond Chen) * Code It Any Way You Want: Performance Considerations for Sealed and Internal Classes (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing* OpenAI’s New GPT-4o Immediately Available in Azure Playground (David Ramel) * IBM Open-Sources Its Granite AI Models (BeauHD) * MatterSim: A deep-learning model for materials under real-world conditions (Brenda Potts) * Configure Scheduled Trigger in GitHub Actions using Cron expression (Chris Pietschmann) * Done is Better Than Perfect (Donn Felker) * Why do only a small percentage of GenAI projects actually make it into production? (Eira May) * ChatGPT is getting a Mac app (Emma Roth) * Test Planning vs Test Design – What Is The Difference? (Gil Zilberfeld) * Privacy, Anonymity and Compartmentalization (HotCakeX) * AI brings new life to flexible work with Microsoft Places (Jared Spataro) * OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users (Kylie Robison)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development* What’s next for Flutter? (Jasper Morgan) * Exploring Mixins in Dart — Flutter (Syed Ibrahim) * Say Goodbye to Future.wait([]) in Dart (Andrew Chen) * Meta Quest’s new Travel Mode will put more glassholes on your next flight (Wes Davis)

Screencasts & Videos* OpenAI Spring Update in 5 mins – GPT-4o, desktop apps, and natural conversations ️ (Martin Zikmund) * Pure Virtual C++ 2024 Recordings Now Available (Sy Brand)

Podcasts* Syntax Podcast #768: React 19 is here! (Wes Bos & Scot Tolinski) * The PowerShell Podcast – For the love of PowerShell and Curling with Frank Lesniak (James Petty) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Improving Scrum Daily Stand-Ups That Have Lost Focus And Become Long And Cluttered | Peter Müller (Vasco Duarte) * Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 172 – RSA 2024: Separating AI Signal from Noise, SecOps Evolves, XDR Declines? (Anton A. Chuvakin) * The Changelog News Podcast #94 – Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern (Jerod Santo) * SQL Server Radio Episode 163 – When and Why to HADR (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin) * The Stack Overflow Podcast – Spreading the gospel of Python (Eira May)

Community & Events* Join the Uno Platform team at Microsoft Build 2024! (Uno Platform Team) * Melinda Gates To Resign From Gates Foundation (BeauHD) * Reached 50! A Milestone for the Chart of the Week Blog Series (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar) * How Microsoft Employees Pressured the Company Over Its Oil Industry Ties (EditorDavid)

Database* T-SQL Tuesday #174: Your Favorite Job Interview Question? (Louis Davidson)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams* Retiring SharePoint Framework domain isolated web parts for SharePoint Online (Bert Jansen) * Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option (Emma Roth)

PowerShell* Getting Started With Custom Shortcut Menus in PowerShell (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous* Announcing Files v3.4.1 (Files Team) * Announcement: System Center 2025 is here (Aakash Basavaraj) * Google’s Pixel 9 lineup appears in hands-on photos five months early (Chris Welch) * Choosing a Linux Distribution (Damon M. Garn) * VW releases battery and motor details for upcoming ID Buzz electric microbus (Umar Shakir) * Say hello to the SPORTech collection (Lavinia Sfetcu)

More Link Collections* The Morning Brew #3938 (Chris Alcock) * Interesting links of the week 2024-20 (Michael Eaton) * Sands of MAUI: Issue #144 (Sam Basu) * Daily Reading List – May 13, 2024 (#317) (Richard Seroter) * Reading Notes #603 (Frank Boucher)

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