Reading Notes #675

Here’s a compact roundup of links and highlights I found interesting this week. You’ll find updates on Git, Chrome DevTools tips, C# 14 and .NET 10 coverage, Blazor upgrade notes, a practical Copilot + Visual Studio guide, plus a few useful tools and AI announcements. Enjoy, and tell me which item you want me to explore next.

AI

• Building for an Open Future - our new partnership with Google Cloud (Jeff Boudier, Simon Pagezy) - Cool 😎 news! Let's see what we can do...
• Check-In Doc MCP Server: A Handy Way to Search Only the Docs You Trust (Frank Boucher) - Cool little project. It's already done you just have to add it. It let Copilot (or agent) search in your favorite documentation website for you!

Programming

• Highlights from Git 2.52 (Taylor Blau) - I'm probably repeating myself, but I'm so surprised how little I know this fantastic tool. This post shares the last update, it's all very impressive.

• Six Things I Bet You Didn't Know You Could Do With Chrome's Devtools, Part 1 (Rachel Kaufman) - As most of my projects are web this post was very interesting. I'm looking forward for part two

• Introducing C# 14 - .NET Blog (Bill Wagner) - You would think that at version 14, there's not much to add or change? Well you couldn't be more wrong be prepared for a long and detailed post.

• Blazor and .NET 10: Breaking Changes, Fixes, and New Features (Simon Foster) - There's always a little risk when you're upgrading to a new version. Of course, .NET 10 could bring some... In this post, the author shares a problem had and the link where he found the breaking changes good read

• A step-by-step guide to modernizing .NET applications with GitHub Copilot agent mode - .NET Blog (Mika Dumont) - A great integration of Visual Studio and Copilot to help you upgrade or modernize your application. This post is a nice tutorial.

• Release v3.2.0 · basecamp/omarchy (basecamp team) - Nice! A lot of fixes and some nice new features: Ghostty new default (I was already using it), new key bindings (looking forward to try the workspace-related ones), and a new project named: try... Ooh! I love it!

Miscellaneous

• ZoomIt v9.21 | Microsoft Community Hub (Alex Mihaiuc) - If you are on Windows, please do you do yourself a favour and try Zoom it. Since I switched to Mac and Linux, it's the thing that I miss the most.

Reading Notes #591

It is time to share new reading notes. It is a habit I started a long time ago where I share a list of all the articles, blog posts, and books that catch my interest during the week.

If you think you may have interesting content, share it!

Suggestion of the week

• Make demo typing easy with DemoType in ZoomIt v8.0 (John Stephens) - This is such a game changer! Of course live demo are the best but losing precious secondes because of a typo is a real nightmare.

Cloud

• Planning for Resiliency with Azure OpenAI (Matthew Anderson) - Like everything else in the cloud we need to think about resiliency. This nice post get us started and explains 2 different architectures for our system.

• Azure Developer CLI (azd) - February 2024 Release (Grace Kulin) - Cool feature now supported in this new release with helm support for kubernetes and many other features.

Programming

• The Difference Between RESTful APIs and Web APIs Using ASP.NET Core (Januarius Njoku) - A very complete post about APIs their definition and differences.

• Scaling Docker Compose Up (Milas Bowman) - Interesting post that do a deep dive into docker compose file.

• Our Vision for .NET 9 - .NET Blog (.NET Team) - Inspiring plan for the future release of .Net.

• My Top 10 NEW Visual Studio Features of 2023 for .NET Developers - .NET Blog (James Montemagno) - I don't code everyday and when I do it's on all kind of device and OS so I end up more often using VS Code. But, when I can use Visual Studio it's always a treat. In this post, James shares his favorite new features part of that great IDE. Those are only the recent ones, there are so much more!

• Scaling Docker Compose Up (Milas Bowman) - Interesting post that do a deep dive into docker compose file.

• 8 ways to set the URLs for an ASP.NET Core app (Andrew Lock) - What!? So many different ways to assign the url.

~ Frank