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“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
-- Henry David Thoreau

I dont know where this goes but it is good

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Developer Tools / Libraries

Heynote

Safely use secrets in HTTP requests in Visual Studio 2022

AI

Exploratory Data Analysis with F#, Plotly.NET, and ML.NET DataFrames

Leadership/Management

Escaping the Bikeshed

Personal Development

Commit to competence in this coming year

DotNet

Top 6 Performance Tips when dealing with strings in C# 12 and .NET 8

Tim Deschryver

Dark side of the primary constructors in C# 12

Some New Features in C# 12 and .NET 8 You Will (Probably) Use for the ASP.NET Core Development

Implement compliance in a cloud-native .NET 8 application

Value Objects in .NET (DDD Fundamentals)

Quote of the Day

“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.”
-- Albert Schweitzer

Everyones got one…

Why I won’t use .NET Aspire for now

Software Development

Let Code Speak for Itself

5 Tips for Building Resilient Architecture

Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 2)

Hitchhiker’s Guide To Moving Relational Data To Events

Dealing With Legacy Code – How To Make Anything More Testable

Developer Tools / Libraries

Inside the all-new Edge DevTools user interface

Learn Go This Week: A Language Built for Simplicity and Efficiency

Naming Made Easy: AI-Powered Rename Suggestions

Design an API Specification Using MuleSoft’s Visual API Designer

AI

Semantic Kernel - From semantic functions to prompt functions

Inference Race To The Bottom - Make It Up On Volume?

Future-proof Your .NET Apps With Foundation Model Choice and Amazon Bedrock

What are Some Good Generative AI Prompt Engineering Resources?

Business

Scaling Your Software Team: Development vs. Hiring

Is “Wiring the Winning Organization” a book for you? Read my five takeaways and decide for yourself.

Implications of the failure of the Adobe-Figma deal.

Future of the Cloud: 10 Trends Shaping 2024 and Beyond

Leadership/Management

Time Management Is Dead: How I Actually Boosted My Team’s Productivity

Professional Development

Mentoring software engineers or engineering leaders

How to Start Over After Making a Testing Mistake

Strategic Thinking is the Most Valuable Leadership Skill Today

Don’t Sell Ideas – Debate Them

Personal Development

Focusing attention is a skill

Web and Cloud Development

Web Development in 2023: JavaScript Still Rules, AI Emerges

Tailwind CSS v3.4: Dynamic viewport units, :has() support, balanced headlines, subgrid, and more

Is Blazor the Future of Everything Web?

Overview of Bun, a JavaScript runtime

Mobile Development

Increase your app’s availability across device types

DotNet

What User Interface Framework Should You Choose for .NET Desktop Applications?

Announcing .NET Aspire Preview 2

MemoizR - Declarative Structured Concurrency for C#

Introduction to Autofac FakeItEasy Package

morelinq.ipynb

Updates to the StronglyTypedId library - simplification, templating, and CodeFixes

Playing with the .NET 8 Web API template

How to Register Multiple Implementations of the Same Interface in ASP.NET Core

Discriminated Unions in C#

5 Serilog Best Practices For Better Structured Logging

Scan and FindIndex

What’s New in Our Code Coverage Tooling?

Software

9 Reasons Why Your organization needs eSignatures?

What’s in Windows Terminal 1.19 Preview

Microsoft Clipchamp—easy and quick video creation

Quote of the Day

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
-- Abraham Maslow

Software Development

How the OpenTelemetry Collector Scales Observability

Rethinking Serverless with FLAME

Path to Event-Driven Architecture. Start capturing INTENT!

Developer Tools / Libraries

How to Create a DEV Environment with Multiple Dev Containers

Scaling Applications Across Multiple Regions

Docker’s collaboration with Snowflake and Docker AI Advancements

How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction

Create a .NET Web API with Entity Framework with GitHub Copilot

Visual Studio 17.9 Preview 2 has arrived!

AI

microsoft/windows-ai-studio

7 Best Practices for Developers Getting Started with GenAI

Build your own copilots with Azure AI Studio

12 days of no-cost training to learn generative AI this December

Business

Why Don’t They Just…

Different Is Better Than Better

Practical Ways To Increase Product Velocity

Picking Ideas that Win – Kendall W. Miller

10 things for makers

Leadership/Management

How To Create A Culture Of Feedback

Great Lessons from Indra Nooyi

8 Essential Qualities of Successful Leaders

How Shopify’s Developer Experience Survey Works

Evaluating Product Managers – We help you create successful product culture and process

Professional Development

Why you should write good epics

Time Hacking: The Scotty Principle

Personal Development

How LinkedIn Levels up Your Skillset … with AI

Getting better feedback on your work

Self-Publishing as Technical Marketing

Web and Cloud Development

What Vue’s Creator Learned the Hard Way with Vue 3

Check out Angular’s support for the View Transitions API

The Imposter’s Frontend Accelerator

Can gRPC replace REST and WebSockets for Web Application Communication?

The best new features in Angular 17: A kinder, faster Angular

DotNet

Browse code samples

Auth0 Templates for .NET: A New Powerful Version Released

Containerizing .NET - Part 1

Entity Framework - Storing complex objects as JSON

AWS Step Functions in C# – Part 2

Exploring An Example Vertical Slice Architecture in ASP.NET Core – What You Need To Know

Inline Snapshot testing in .NET

.NET Native AoT Make AWS Lambda Function Go Brrr

Redacting sensitive data in logs with Microsoft.Extensions.Compliance.Redaction

Database

Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0

Software

Proton Mail now has a desktop app in beta

Release v0.76.1

Smart Home

Securing our home labs: Home Assistant code review

Quote of the Day

“A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future, and believe it can be obtained.”
-- Shawn Hitchcock

Software Development

Why OpenTelemetry Is the Next Big Thing in API Monitoring

Focusing on “Entities” leads nowhere good.

Developer Tools / Libraries

Write Your Git Commits with GitHub Copilot

The RegEx Of Everyday Things

Professional Development

Why Master Pains, Needs, and Desired Outcomes

Personal Development

How Microsoft Taught Me to Test Things and Try Things to Learn Better

Make Every Second Count: Strategies to Unleash Creativity and Success at Any Time

DotNet

Per-User Blazor 8 State

Adding environment vars to .NET Aspire services

Blazor State Management: Best Practices To Consider

Quote of the Day

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
-- Oscar Wilde

Software Development

Leadership/Management

How to Give Positive Feedback to Your Software Developers

Professional Development

Framing: The 1 most important communication concept every software engineer must know

Web and Cloud Development

Astro 4.0 Beta Release

On web API versioning

DotNet

Primary constructors has caused concerns for C# developers

Introducing the Reliable Web App Pattern for .NET

Database

Optimizing Common Table Expression Queries In SQL Server

Gadgets

Amazon’s new $195 thin client looks just like a Fire TV Cube

Quote of the Day

“Make it simple, but significant.”
-- Don Draper

I dont know where this goes but it is good

The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023

Software Development

3 Steps for Modeling a Complex Domain | CLEAN ARCHITECTURE & DDD From Scratch Tutorial | Part 11

Business

Companies With Flexible Remote Work Policies Outperform On Revenue Growth: Report

Leadership/Management

Hidden in Plain Sight: Unraveling Big Problems Disguised as Small Unrelated Issues

Getting the most out of your Software Architects

7 Things to Know About 1:1 Meetings that Will Make You a Better Boss

The challenges of 100+ Development Team Leaders

Professional Development

jordan-cutler/path-to-senior-engineer-handbook

Web and Cloud Development

7 Free Public APIs you will love as a developer💖

Quote of the Day

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
-- Albert Einstein

Software Development

An Introduction To Full Stack Composability

Developer Tools / Libraries

Primary Constructors – Using C# 12 in Rider and ReSharper

AI

[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models

AI for Beginners

Professional Development

When You Get a Lot of Comments on a Pull Request or Merge Request

Personal Development

6 tiny wording tweaks to level up your communication as a software engineer

DotNet

Exploring what is inside the ASP.NET Core cookies – Tore Nestenius : Trainer and Senior Software Developer

Database

What is Microsoft Fabric all about?

Getting Started with GitHub Copilot in Azure Data Studio

Quote of the Day

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”
-- John F. Kennedy

Software Development

EventBridge Storming — How to build state-of-the-art Event-Driven Serverless Architectures

Many More Much Smaller Steps – First Sketch

Service Ports: Finding a Loosely Coupled Utopia with Event-Driven Serverless

Developer Tools / Libraries

Going Beyond With Advanced Infrastructure as Code Use Cases

Autonomous EventCatalog for documenting EventBridge Events

Business

Startup Make-Believe

Leadership/Management

Managing superstars can drive you crazy

Why Team Leaders Give Up

Professional Development

The Impact of Self-Reflection on Productivity

Personal Development

6 Productivity Techniques Which Won’t Burn You Out

DotNet

Fake It Til You Make It…To Production

Quote of the Day

“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.”
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Software Development

Write Clean Code to Reduce Cognitive Load

The Right Way To Do the API Is Always Negotiated in the Moment

Easy becomes complex

Developer Tools / Libraries

Azure Developer CLI (azd) – November 2023 Release

Visualize Entity Framework Relationships and Additional Query Analysis in ReSharper 2023.3

Create a Pull Request with Summary Difference View Available in GA

Debug Output Filter

Why I Prefer Trunk-Based Development

AI

Embedded Speech is now generally available

The Programmer Gap

Amazon will host free ‘AI Ready’ courses in an effort to attract new talent

New Samples Calling OpenAI from Blazor and MAUI

Introducing Windows AI Studio | Microsoft Ignite 2023

Leadership/Management

In-Depth: How To Prevent High-Performing Teams From Burning Out

The powerful method to make your team Great

The Questions Doc

Web and Cloud Development

Announcing TypeScript 5.3

gRPC vs. REST

Where fetch data in your Blazor components

Seeing Code Execution Differently At The API Gateway

DotNet

Trimming a Fake Object by Mark Seemann

If you’re going to crash on an unhandled exception, you may as well do it sooner rather than later

How To Use EF Core Interceptors

The theory behind the IHttpFilter interface

Database

Importing Flat Files into Azure SQL DB

Strategies for queries against bit columns

Quote of the Day

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Software Development

What are Business Rules? It’s not this.

OKRs in Software Engineering

Developer Tools / Libraries

A Walkthrough of Adopting Infrastructure as Code

An Efficient Design-to-Code Handoff Process Using Uno Platform For Figma

AI

10 Things Developers Want from AI Code Assistants

Business

Code quality: Is this indicator of a well-run software business going overlooked by investors?

Are You Selling a Shovel – Or a Way to Dig a Hole?

Web and Cloud Development

Introducing .NET Aspire: Simplifying Cloud-Native Development with .NET 8

6 security best practices for cloud-native applications

Adding flexibility to authentication with Microsoft Entra External ID custom extensions

DotNet

A more flexible and enhanced way of logging in .NET 8