Community Picks·3yI quit Google Chrome after 15 years: Here’s where I ended up and why
Laptop Mag: I quit Google Chrome after 15 years and decided it was time to take a break from Google Chrome. Chrome is impressively intuitive and well laid out — something that not every browser can wear as a badge of pride. The last week and change have been an eye-opener of sorts.
Community Picks·3yDid You Know? Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Win+L Opens LinkedIn on Windows
In October 2019, Microsoft introduced a new keyboard design that included a dedicated "Office" key. The key is typically positioned between the right Alt and the Emoji key near the space bar. You can press Office+W to open Microsoft Word, Office+X to open Excel or Office+L to open the LinkedIn website.
The Verge·3yYou can now try Microsoft Loop, a Notion competitor with futuristic Office documents
Microsoft is now letting anyone preview Microsoft Loop, a collaborative hub offering a new way of working across Office apps and managing tasks and projects. The main interface looks a lot like Notion, a workspace app that is used by Adobe, Figma, Amazon, and many other businesses. Loop pages are like blank canvases where people can share and collaborate.
Snyk·3yModern VS Code extension development: The basics
Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) Code is currently the most popular source code editor. It can be used as a fully-fledged integrated development environment (IDE) All you need to do is add the right set of extensions from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Snyk Security is defined as a linter and programming language extension.
Community Picks·3yMonorepo Explained
There are many great monorepo tools, built by great teams, with different philosophies. We chose these tools because of their usage or recognition in the Web development community. The tools we'll focus on are: Bazel (by Google), Gradle Build Tool (by Gradle, Inc), Lage (by Microsoft), Lerna.
Community Picks·3yThe Best Alternatives to GitHub Copilot in 2023
GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered tool created by GitHub that helps developers write code faster and more efficiently. It uses machine learning to provide autocomplete-style suggestions and even complete code snippets to the developer as they work in their text editor. It can also suggest improvements to existing code and help with tasks like debugging and refactoring.
Better Programming·3yDeveloping Inside a Container
The most well-known use case for Docker is deploying production services, such as application services or databases, in enterprise servers or cloud instances. Containers are lightweight and contain everything needed to run the application, so you do not need to rely on what is currently installed on the host. You can easily share containers while you work.
It's Foss·3yTop GitHub Alternatives to Host Your Open Source Projects
The focus here is on GitHub alternatives that offer some sort of free service. GitLab GitLab is the number one choice to replace GitHub. SourceForge is a popular name on the list of GitHub alternatives. Launchpad is a software collaboration platform by Canonical, the parent company of Ubuntu.
Visual Studio Blog·3yVisual Studio UI Refresh
The Microsoft Fluent design language provides a unified framework to create and deliver more productive, consistent, and accessible applications. The current visual language (which hasn’t been updated since Visual Studio 2012) has limitations for many customers. The new UI updates focus on three main pillars: cohesiveness, accessibility, and productivity.
gitconnected·3y10 Best Coding and Programming Interview Books in 2023
10 Best Coding and Programming Interview Books in 2023. In the past, I have hared some of the best online courses to prepare coding interviews. These books are enough to crack even the toughest of the job interviews at Amazon, or Microsoft. They provide excellent coverage of all essential topics for programming job interviews.
Community Picks·3yWhy Does Email Development Have to Suck?
An email is essentially just an HTML document, like a web page, except it's visualized in an email client, rather than a web browser. Both browsers and email clients rendered HTML pretty much the same way and had the same functionalities. While web standards evolved and browsers started implementing them, email clients didn't change much.
The Verge·3yElon Musk founds new AI company called X.AI
The company, which a Nevada filing indicates was incorporated last month, currently has Musk as its director and Jared Birchall, the director of Musk’s family office, listed as its secretary. Musk has been openly opposed to OpenAI, the AI organization that he co-founded in 2015 but walked away from in 2018.
The Next Web·3yOpenAI is offering a free class in prompt engineering for devs
Elaine Burke is an award-winning journalist, editor and broadcaster covering science, technology and media. She previously served as editor of Silicon Republic and is currently the host of For Tech's Sake. A short course in prompt engineering has been developed in partnership with OpenAI and is available via the DeepLearning.AI website.
DZone·3yWeb Application Architecture: The Latest Guide
Web Application Architecture is an underlying web application architecture that makes this process possible. Choosing the right design defines your company growth, reliability and interoperability and future IT needs. A web app architecture presents a layout with all the software components (such as databases, applications and middleware) and how they interact with each other.
Visual Studio Code·3yVisual Studio Code Day 2023
Visual Studio Code Day 2023: An event for an editor? April 13, 2023 by Burke Holland, @burkeholland VS Code Day is a one-day "Virtually Live" event. The event kicks off with "Inside VS Code: How we build and ship it" - a keynote from Microsoft Technical Fellow Erich Gamma.
The Register·3yMicrosoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust
Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust programming language. The more memory-safe code is already reaching developers. Microsoft showed interest in Rust several years ago as a way to address memory safety bugs. The Rust renovation of Windows began in 2020 with DWriteCore, the Windows App SDK implementation of Windows' DWrite engine.
.NET Escapades·3yIntroducing the Identity API endpoints
ASP.NET Core Identity lets you store user accounts in your app, manage user details, enable two factor authentication, and associate third-party logins with users. These endpoints serve as API-friendly alternatives to the "default UI" that has been available for some time.
Changelog·3yDocker on MacOS is slow and how to fix it
Docker on MacOS is slow and how to fix it. The only viable option to have a decent performance and a good DX are: VirtioFS. If you are VI/Emacs user, all you need is your editor and tools in a container, or if you want a minimal Linux GUI env, take some inspiration.
freeCodeCamp·3yEarn a Free C# Certification from Microsoft and freeCodeCamp
Microsoft and freeCodeCamp have teamed up to bring you a new free professional certification: the Foundational C# Certification. This professional certification includes 35 hours of training from Microsoft and an online certification exam. By the end of this process, you'll have earned your own verified certification that you can add to your Résumé, LinkedIn, or CV.
Pointer·3ymicrosoft/TypeChat: TypeChat is a library that makes it easy to build natural language interfaces using types.
TypeChat is a library that makes it easy to build natural language interfaces using types. TypeChat replaces prompt engineering with Schema engineering. The project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. Use of Microsoft trademarks or logos is subject to and must follow Microsoft's Trademark & Brand Guidelines.
Community Picks·3yThe truth about CSS selector performance
The way you write CSS selectors does play a role in how browsers render your web pages. This heavily depends on the web page, the size of the DOM tree, the amount of CSS rules, and whether the DOM changes often. Microsoft Edge DevTools has a Performance tool that can be a real eye opener when your app starts feeling slow.
