Top Links* PowerToys Awake Now Has Icons And Helpful Tooltips (Den Delimarsky) * What’s coming next? Summer / Fall roadmap for Semantic Kernel (Matthew Bolanos) * Design a Timer App using .NET MAUI Radial Gauge and Timer Picker (Jeyasri Murugan) * How to add machine learning to your web application with ONNX Runtime (ONNX Runtime Docs) * Using Web Authentication (OAuth2) to access Figma from Windows and Uno Platform Application (Nick Randolph) * There is no mystery over who wrote the Blue Screen of Death, despite what some may want you to believe (Raymond Chen)
Web & Cloud Development* Introducing Instagram API with Instagram Login (Charles Jiang & Sairaj Bharath Yalamanchili) * Angular Testing Library with Vitest (Tim Deschryver) * Davide’s Code and Architecture Notes – Web APIs vs REST APIs vs pseudo-REST APIs (Davide Bellone) * ASP.NET Core Basics: Working with JSON (Assis Zang) * Best Practices for Mail Merge and Form Field Processing in ASP.NET Core C# Applications (Bjoern Meyer) * How to Cancel an HTTP Request on Leaving a Blazor Component (Gergő Vándor) * Critter Stack Roadmap for the Rest of 2024 (Jeremy D. Miller) * ASP.NET Core 8 using DataTables.net – Part 8 – Select rows (Mark Pelf) * Getting Started with Web Accessibility (Keith Fung) * GoLand 2024.2 Release Candidate is Out! (Ruslan Akhmetzianov)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML* Fix .NET MAUI MissingEntitlement and Provisioning Profiles Issues (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Visual Studio & .NET* Creating source-only NuGet packages (Andrew Lock) * C# Beating Non-Stop PHP Framework: The Ultimate Guide (Dave Ward) * Compiling OpenSSL for JavaCard on Windows with Visual Studio (j2inet)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing* Instead of restricting AI and algorithms, make them explainable (Martin Fowler) * AI Beyond Chatbots and Assistants: Adaptive Applications (Matthew D. Groves) * Microsoft Previews AI Prompt Playground for VS Code: Prompty (David Ramel) * Vector Image Search using Azure OpenAI & AI Search: A Technical Guide (Elad Tal) * Configure GitHub Artifact Attestations for secure cloud-native delivery (April Yoho) * Lessons from Crowdstrike’s outage (Bob Walker) * UX writing: Crafting user-centric content (Chinwe Uzegbu) * OpenAI starts rolling out its Her-like voice mode for ChatGPT (Jay Peters) * How GitHub harnesses AI to transform customer feedback into action (Mariana Borges) * Generative AI requires massive amounts of power and water, and the aging U.S. grid can’t handle the load (Katie Tarasov)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Mastering Dynamic Editing in Flutter Charts (Lavanya Anaimuthu) * Announcing Swift Homomorphic Encryption (Fabian Boemer, Karl Tarbe & Rehan Rishi)
Screencasts & Videos* Introduction to Blockman – Visual helper extension for VS Code | Open at Microsoft (Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza & Levan Katsadze) * Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen Desserts Corner – AI in Education (John Maeda) * Generate a report with generative AI | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman) * When Windows Hit The Wall: Reinventing a Dominant Product in a Changing Market with Steven Sinofsky (Postman Team)
Podcasts* The Cloud Pod Episode 269: Crowdstrike: Does Anyone Know the Graviton of this Situation? (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn) * The Breakpoint Show Episode 025 – 10X Platform – DBOS – Postgres & TypeScript with Harry Pierson (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff) * Python Bytes Podcast #394 – Python is easy now? (Michael Kennedy) * RunAs Radio #943 – Microsoft Cloud PKI with Richard Hicks (Richard Campbell) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – When Agile Teams Sprint into Burnout, and How to Avoid the Burnout Trap! | Karina Margole (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events* Schedule and Cross-Post with Buffer (Bluesky Team)
Database* Check Constraints And Query Performance In SQL Server (Erik Darling) * Get Free Access to Azure SQL Database for a Lifetime (Rajendra Gupta) * Connecting Microsoft Azure Blob Storage with Data Cloud (Dave Norris) * SQL Local Variables and Performance Issues (Jared Westover)
Miscellaneous* Can online classes change the game for some students? (Bill Gates) * Microsoft will give employees a one-time special cash award on top of annual bonuses (Todd Bishop) * Microsoft’s cloud revenues rule again in Q4, as Surface continues to dip (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections* The Morning Brew #3993 (Chris Alcock) * Windows 11 news you can use: July 2024 (Thomas Trombley) * Daily Reading List – July 30, 2024 (#366) (Richard Seroter)
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