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2021

• Understanding Microsoft's Docker Images for .NET Apps by Elton Stoneman
• Migrating RealProxy Usage to DispatchProxy | .NET Blog by Mike Rousos
• Chrome Flags for Tooling
• Password Monitor: Safeguarding passwords in Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Research by MSFTResearch
• The process, thought and technology behind building a friendly .NET SDK for JetBrains Space by Maarten Balliauw
• Migrating Puppeteer to TypeScript by Eiji Kitamura
• Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages by Windows SDK Team
• Looking at Parler specs and their architecture by Oren Eini
• Microsoft Edge 88 Privacy and Security Updates by Microsoft Edge Team
• Azure Active Directory's gateway is on .NET Core 3.1! | .NET Blog by Avanindra Paruchuri
• MSIX Labs for Developers are now available! by John Vintzel
• Deep Dive into Open Telemetry for .NET by Muhammad Rehan Saeed
• How to investigate Microsoft Edge’s memory usage on Windows by Microsoft Edge Team
• Fun with IConfiguration by Dean Ward
• Amazon: NOT OK - why we had to change Elastic licensing by Shay Banon
• Diagnostics improvements in .NET 5 | .NET Blog by Sourabh Shirhatti
• Taking the new Chromium WebView2 Control for a Spin in .NET - Part 1 by Rick Strahl
• How to Become a Better Developer by Asking Questions by Steve Gordon
• Announcing the Plan for EF Core 6.0 by Arthur Vickers
• Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering. by Will Larson
• Making retries safe with idempotent APIs by Malcolm Featonby
• 8 Blazor component libraries to speed up your development by Jon Hilton
• Typosquatting attacks | Snyk Blog by Liran Tal
• The Many Flavors of .NET by Sean Killeen
• An introduction to the Data Protection system in ASP.NET Core by Andrew Lock
• How we quickly refactored with Resharper more than 23.000 calls to Debug.Assert() into more meaningful assertions - NDepend by Patrick Smacchia
• .NET 5 Networking Improvements | .NET Blog by Máňa Píchová
• A Lap Around ActivitySource and ActivityListener in .NET 5 by Jimmy Bogard
• SecretManagement and SecretStore Release Candidates | PowerShell by Sydney Smith
• Sandboxing vs. Elevated Browsing (As Administrator) by Eric Lawrence
• .NET Has a Third-Party Software Problem by Matthew MacDonald
• Why I've Been Merging Microservices Back Into The Monolith At InVision by Ben Nadel
• Automated Style Guides for REST, GraphQL and gRPC by Phil Sturgeon
• Building On-Call Culture at GitHub - The GitHub Blog by Mary Moore-Simmons
• Maximizing Developer Effectiveness by Tim Cochran
• How can I write a program that monitors another window for a change in size or position? | The Old New Thing by Raymond Chen

2020

• Evolution of tree data structures for indexing: more exciting than it sounds · Erthalion's blog by Dmitry Dolgov
• Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021 by Malte Ubl
• Strategies for Telemetry Exfiltration (aka Beaconing In Practice) by Nic Jansma
• The microservices fallacy - Part 1 by Uwe Friedrichsen
• Powershell: Let's build the CI/CD pipeline for a new module by Kevin Marquette
• Reducing flaky builds by 18x - The GitHub Blog by Jordan Raine
• Be Good at Referencing, Not Remembering by Thomas Stringer
• 10 Things I Hate About PostgreSQL by Rick Branson
• What's next for System.Text.Json? | .NET Blog by Layomi Akinrinade
• Localize .NET applications with machine-translation | .NET Blog by David Pine
• Programmatically parsing Transact SQL (T-SQL) with the ScriptDom parser | Azure SQL Devs’ Corner by Arvind Shyamsundar
• Using an Azure Container Instance to convert a BAK to BACPAC for Import into Azure SQL Database | Azure SQL Devs’ Corner by Davide Mauri
• What's new in Windows Forms runtime in .NET 5.0 | .NET Blog by Igor Velikorossov
• Tips & Tricks to improve your .NET Build Setup with MSBuild by Martin Ullrich
• Improving Nethermind performance by Szymon Kulec
• The updated GetGCMemoryInfo API in .NET 5.0 and how it can help you | .NET Blog by Maoni Stephens
• Virtual desktops are an end-user window management feature, not a programmatic one | The Old New Thing by Raymond Chen
• Process your list in parallel to make it faster in .NET by Tim Deschryver
• Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Edge WebView2 for .NET and Fixed Version distribution mode by Palak Goel
• Guest Blog: The mythical 10x programmer by Antirez
• One senior executive's warning about escalating conflicts to upper management | The Old New Thing by Raymond Chen
• C# Source Generators - Write code that writes code by David Wengier
• Announcing PSReadLine 2.1+ with Predictive IntelliSense | PowerShell by Jason Helmick
• .NET 5 - The breaking changes you need to know about by Miguel Bernard
• Announcing C#/WinRT Version 1.0 with the .NET 5 GA Release by Angela Zhang
• Help users change passwords easily by adding a well-known URL for changing passwords by Eiji Kitamura
• Why Full Text's CONTAINS Queries Are So Slow by Brent Ozar
• Engineering strategy every org should write. by Will Larson
• Surplus rules of engineering strategy. by Will Larson
• Internationalization And Localization For Static Sites — Smashing Magazine by Sam Richard
• Architecting for Reliable Scalability | Amazon Web Services by Marwan Al Shawi
• Additional HTTP, Sockets, DNS and TLS Telemetry in .NET 5 - Steve Gordon - Code with Steve by Steve Gordon
• Bytecode Alliance: One year update by Lin Clark and Till Schneidereit
• Making GitHub CI workflow 3x faster - The GitHub Blog by Keerthana Kumar
• Design: Dynamic PGO in .NET by Andy Ayers
• The Future of Visual Studio Extensions | Visual Studio Blog by Leslie Richardson
• Humans are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter by Troy Hunt
• gRPC performance improvements in .NET 5 | ASP.NET Blog by James Newton-King
• Rolling in render trees by Safia Abdalla
• Fast bitmap iteration in C# by Oren Eini
• Monitoring Health of ASP.NET Core Background Services with TCP Probes on Kubernetes by Rahul Rai
• Testing performance of Azure SQL Database as a key-value store | Azure SQL Devs’ Corner by Dimitri Furman
• What’s new in the Windows 10 October 2020 Update by Aaron Woodman
• ASP.NET OData 8.0 Preview for .NET 5 by Sam Xu
• Combing through ComponentBase by Safia Abdalla
• Announcing Microsoft Edge WebView2 General Availability by Microsoft Edge Team
• Faster C++ builds, simplified: a new metric for time | C++ Team Blog by Kevin Cadieux
• Applying a Zero-Bug Policy at Redgate by Ben Linders
• Static Web App PR Workflow for Azure App Service Using Azure DevOps | Azure DevOps Blog by Abel Wang
• Windows Terminal Tips and Tricks | Windows Command Line by Kayla Cinnamon
• ASP.NET Core Architecture Overview by David Fowler
• A few words on Git. by Hadi Hariri
• 5 Principles of Code Generation from @KathleenDollard ‏ by Kathleen Dollard
• 7 Things to Look for in a Code Generator | Syncfusion Blogs by Daniel Cohen-Zardi
• Prefer Fakes Over Mocks by Alexey Golub
• SQL Server Diagnostic Book - VS Code Marketplace by Emanuele Meazzo
• Window Activation Headaches in WPF by Rick Strahl
• Gaining security and privacy by partitioning the cache by Eiji Kitamura
• No, Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by Hayden Barnes
• Building a simple tooltip component for Blazor in under 10 lines of code* by Chris Sainty
• Streamline .NET Dependency Management with NuGet Meta Packages by James Dawson
• Cross Platform Managed Memory Dump Debugging | Visual Studio Blog by Mark Downie
• Prerendering your Blazor WASM application with .NET 5 (part 1) by Jon Hilton
• Using monorepos to increase velocity during early stages of product development | Creating Startups by Victor Savkin
• Microsoft.Identity.Web is now generally available! - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog by Microsoft 365 Team
• The impossibility of exactly-once delivery by Savvas Kleanthous
• Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change by Bruce Dawson
• Windows Performance Analyzer "WPA" Intro by Tristan Gibeau
• Microsoft Edge’s multi-process architecture by Microsoft Edge Team
• Content delivery networks (CDNs) by Katie Hempenius
• Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code by Microsoft Edge Team
• Mystery Memory Leak: Where did my memory go?! by Jeffrey Worline
• Free e-book: Blazor for ASP.NET Web Forms Developers | ASP.NET Blog by Nish Anil
• Fluid Framework is now open source by Microsoft 365 Team
• Avoiding fallback in distributed systems by Jacob Gabrielson
• .NET Memory Performance Analysis by Maoni Stephens
• Web-to-App Communication: The Native Messaging API by Eric Lawrence
• Improvements in native code interop in .NET 5.0 | .NET Blog by Elinor Fung
• The art of giving and receiving feedback 💌 by Ségolène Alquier
• Let's build a Full-Text Search engine by Artem Krylysov
• Building confidence in concurrent code with a model checker - NDC Oslo 2020 by Scott Wlaschin
• Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle by Computerphile
• Implementing and Debugging Custom MSBuild Tasks by Matthias Koch
• LunrCore, a lightweight search library for .NET by Bertrand Le Roy
• 10 modern layouts in 1 line of CSS by Google Chrome Developers
• Introducing C# Source Generators | .NET Blog by Phillip Carter
• How RyuJIT inlines a function (heuristics) by Egor Bogatov
• Helping Customers Effectively by Maoni Stephens
• Exploring Different Disciplines in Your Career with Stephen Toub by Steve Carroll
• The Journey to InnerSource at Microsoft by Martin Woodward
• Troubleshooting Windows Sleep Insomnia by Rick Strahl
• Collaborating to Improve Open Source Security: How the Ecosystem Is Stepping Up by Mark Russinovich
• Challenges of Managing CoreFX repo by Karel Zikmund
• Performance Tuning for .NET Core by Reuben Bond
• Adding Observability to .NET Core Apps by Francisco Beltrao
• Putting the Fun in C# Local Functions by Rion Williams
• What's behind the hype about Blazor? by Chris Sainty
• Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction by Anders Hejlsberg
• ZString — Zero Allocation StringBuilder for .NET Core and Unity. by Yoshifumi Kawai
• Dos and Don'ts of stackalloc by Kevin Jones
• It’s 2020. Is your code ready for leap day? by Matt Johnson-Pint
• Navigating microservices with .NET Core - Ryan Nowak by Ryan Nowak
• Episode 45 - Migrating Stack Overflow to .NET Core with Nick Craver by dotnetcore.show
• Debugging Wednesday — Cancel this task! by Christophe Nasarre
• New and improved JonSkeet.DemoUtil by Jon Skeet
• Docker Images : Part I - Reducing Image Size by Jérôme Petazzoni
• Blazor in more depth by Ryan Nowak & Steve Sanderson
• Working with expression trees in C# by Alexey Golub
• Performance traps of ref locals and ref returns in C# by Sergey Tepliakov
• Rust for professionals by Pascal
• You are thinking about serverless costs all wrong by Yan Cui
• EKS vs GKE vs AKS - Evaluating Kubernetes in the Cloud by Michael Foster
• Windows Terminal Preview v0.9 Release by Kayla Cinnamon
• Random access compression and zstd by Oren Eini
• Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio by Mark Downie
• Application Diagnostics in .NET Core 3.1 - Damian Edwards & David Fowler by Damian Edwards & David Fowler
• SignalR Deep Dive: Building Servers - David Fowler & Damian Edwards by David Fowler & Damian Edwards
• Languages & Runtime: .NET Community Standup - Feb 13th 2020 - ❤🌹
• AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding by Netflix Technology Blog
• How to collect dotnet core app dumps from Linux and analyze dumps on Linux by Jason Xu
• Modern Web Vulnerabilities 2020 by Erlend Oftedal
• Binding Redirects by Nick Craver
• The ASP.NET Core Module; Changes and Improvements over the Last 3 Years. by Justin Kotalik
• Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math by Forrest Smith
• Kubernetes for Developers: Core Concepts by Dan Wahlin
• Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way
• Demystifying Browsers by Eric Lawrence
• Garbage Collection at Food Courts | .NET Blog by Maoni Stephens
• The History of Git: The Road to Domination by Andy Favell
• Querying MySQL from SQL Server using linked server by Gunnar Peipman
• It’s the Boot for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 – Mozilla Hacks by Thyla van der Merwe
• Improving typing responsiveness in Visual Studio by Hemchander Sannidhanam
• How Visual Studio 2019 supports containerized applications - blog.ehn.nu by Jakob Ehn
• Humans can't read URLs. How can we fix it? - HTTP 203 by Google Chrome Developers
• Leslie Lamport: Thinking Above the Code by Leslie Lamport
• MindSet Shift to a DevSecOps culture by Buck Hodges
• Why you should learn F# this year by Phillip Carter
• Top five new XAML feature you can use today with your WPF/UWP apps by Dmitry Lyalin
• Navigate common pitfalls encountered when containerizing Windows Server applications by Amber Guo
• How Microsoft does DevOps by Martin Woodward, Alessandro Segala
• Stop organizing your own meetings – Let Scheduler do it for you by Warren Johnson
• Learning from failure by Jeramiah Dooley
• OS internals (for nerds only) by Mathew John, Arun Kishan
• Mark Russinovich Presents the Future of Cloud Native Applications with OAM and dapr by Mark Russinovich
• Inside Azure datacenter architecture with Mark Russinovich by Mark Russinovich
• How do we operate Microsoft Data Center with zero trust by Art Sadovsky
• Data virtualization with PolyBase in SQL Server 2019 by Umachandar Jayachandran
• A Vault for your CI/CD Pipeline by Joseph Lorich
• Become a Better Developer by Reading Source Code - Steve Gordon by Steve Gordon
• Five powerful tips to make the most of your mentor/mentee relationship by Stephanie Donahue
• Modernize your WinForms & WPF applications with .NET Core and Windows 10 by Miguel Ramos, Adam Braden
• DevOps for Windows desktop applications with MSIX and Azure DevOps by Matteo Pagani
• MSIX for developers: Move your Windows applications forward with UWP features by Harshada Kshirsagar
• Mentoring: Is it your most powerfull networking tool? by Ryan Yates, Black Marble
• Promiscuous Cookies and Their Impending Death via the SameSite Policy by Troy Hunt
• Changing your name is a hard unsolved problem in Computer Science by Penelope Phippen
• My Approach to 1-on-1s by Marco Rogers
• (A few) Ops Lessons We All Learn The Hard Way by Jan Schaumann
• reublog - CASPaxos by Reuben Bond
• Deploy and manage apps with MSIX by Sharla Akers, John Vintzel
• Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go | Jesse Li by Jesse Li
• Thousands of concurrent connections with Azure SignalR Service by Nelly Sattari & Stafford Williams
• Bogus is a simple and sane fake data generator for .NET by Brian Chavez
• The Code Behind The Vulnerability by Barry Dorrans
• code.talks 2019 - From the Cathedral to the Bizarre: Microsoft’s Open Source Journey by Martin Woodward
• Why 2020 Started On December 30th by Tom Scott
• .NET Performance Investigation - Dotnetos Conference 2019 by Adam Sitnik
• Performance in the .NET Runtime - Dotnetos Conference 2019 by Matt Warren
• Blazor in more depth by Steve Sanderson & Ryan Nowak
• Beating CoreCLR's own C++ code with CoreCLR 3.0 intrinsics by Dan Shechter
• Careers Behind the Code with Maoni Stephens
• Why Bing Isn't a Failure (& the Future of the Internet) by polymatters
• ASP.NET Community Standup - August 13th 2019 - Performance and Benchmarks with Sébastien Ros
• Using Channel like IAsyncEnumerable by Mark Rendle
• GraphQL, gRPC or REST? Resolving the API Developer's Dilemma by Rob Crowley
• How to make your content shine on Google Search (Chrome Dev Summit 2019) by Martin Splitt
• Async demystified by Karel Zikmund
• Hack to the Future by Troy Hunt
• Just enough Assembly for Compiler Explorer by Anders Schau Knatten
• Shipping a cross-platform MSBuild task in a NuGet package by Nate McMaster
• Microsoft Writing Style Guide by docsmsft
• How we approach testing VSTS to enable continuous delivery by Brian Harry
• Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #2 - Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BOM by Scott Hanselman
• Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #1 - What's a Carriage and Who's Feeding it Lines? CRLF by Scott Hanselman
• Collecting and analyzing memory dumps by Sourabh Shirhatti
• Using Rune by Levi Broderick
• Announcing the Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure by default, composable future for WebAssembly by Lin Clark
• API Guidelines: Nullability annotations
• Improvements in .NET Core 3.0 for troubleshooting and monitoring distributed apps by Sergey Kanzhelev
• HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience by Phil Nash
• Meet WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core by Steve Sanderson
• gRPC vs HTTP APIs by James Newton-King
• HttpClient Connection Pooling in .NET Core - Steve Gordon by Steve Gordon
• Architecting Web Startups - making the right decisions with limitations by Ozmen Yildiz
• Caching: What could go wrong? | Buck Hodges by Buck Hodges
• Rebase on the World: personal shell choice by Jessica Joy Kerr
• Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews by Liz Kammer, Maggie Hodges, and Ambar Murillo
• Surviving Software Dependencies by Russ Cox
• Relentlessly simplify by Den Delimarsky
• How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?
• EventCounters in .NET Core 3.0 by Sung Yoon Whang
• C# Channels - Publish / Subscribe Workflows by Denis Kyashif
• The Principles of Versioning in Go by Russ Cox
• Advice to my 20 year old self by Scott Hanselman
• Remote Debugging a .NET Core Linux app in WSL2 from Visual Studio on Windows by Scott Hanselman
• Create a .NET Core application with plugins - .NET Core by docsmsft
• .NET Core, .NET 5; the exodus of .NET Framework? by Marc Gravell
• Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers by Phil Walton
• An Introduction to System.Threading.Channels by Stephen Toub
• Edgecases for timezones by Tanin
• Why is My SQL Server Query Slow? by Rion Williams
• Code-wise, cloud-foolish: avoiding bad technology choices by Forrest Brazeal
• Using Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) from .NET by Peter Smith
• Building tiny container images by Chris Collins
• A WebAssembly Powered Augmented Reality Sudoku Solver by Colin Eberhardt
• MessagePack for C# v2, new era of .NET Core(Unity) I/O Pipelines by Yoshifumi Kawai
• Requiring MFA for Admin Pages in an ASP.NET Core Identity application by damienbod
• Building a self-contained game in C# under 8 kilobytes by Michal Strehovský
• Secure secrets storage for ASP.NET Core with AWS Secrets Manager (Part 1) by Andrew Lock
• How to use Nullable Reference Types in .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET Framework by Gérald Barré
• Thread-safe observable collection in .NET by Gérald Barré

2019

• Master spec-repo rate limiting post‑mortem by Eloy Durán
• MySQL - choose something else by Owen Jacobson
• MySQL ? Un SGBDR poudre aux yeux ! by Frédéric Brouard