This week we talk with Mark Fussell about Dapr, a cool new way to build scalable applications. And a way to push through production that won't get through airport security.

Welcome to the MS Dev Show, episode #232. This week Carl and I talk about the latest Windows 10 update, more on Remote development, .NET Core 3, Azure Data Box. We also cover all the latest Microsoft hardware announcements, and what's it like to develop with 800 other people all in one room.

This week Carl and I talk about how awesome the VS Code remote features really are. I got my XPS 13 laptop and provide my first thoughts. We cover some of the rumors about the Microsoft event. And start updating your websites to support dark mode.

We talk with Sharad Agrawal about load balancing options in Azure, and we deep dive into Azure Front Door. Dark all the things. The war over e-books. And find out if Carl and I are getting the new iPhone.

This week Carl and Jason talk about PC building and laptop choices. Is web scraping legal? Throwing away microservices. And what happens if your license plate is NULL?   News

• Electron 6.0.0
• Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right?
• How to estimate programming time
• 3 Kinds of Good Tech Debt
• What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time on a Windows 10 machine?
• npm install funding
• Why our team cancelled our move to microservices
• Null license plate backfires on owner
  • Wisocnsin License Plate Rules

• AMD Ryzen Gen 3
• https://nickcraver.com/desktop-build/
• https://pcpartpicker.com/

Dev Tip of the Week

• Theming in Visual Studio just got a lot easier

We deep-dive into the open sourcing of the Windows calculator app. We announce the winner of the Raygun contest. Azure gets smarter about reliability. And a critical flaw in the Raspberry Pi 4, but it's still faster than other computers we discuss.

We talk with Nikola Metulev about Graph Toolkit. What it takes to join the boring technology club. Bitcoin mining on the Apollo guidance computer - is it a good idea? No. No it is not. … And the technology I can't think of is GaN - thank you future me for ignoring the temporal prime directive and travelling back in time to remind me.

We talk with Matt Hidinger about how flexible adaptive cards have become. The 5 laws of software estimates. A thin, repairable device from HP. And Google's robots.txt parser is now open source.

We talk with Kenny Kerr about C++ WinRT and interop between all the things. Spray your way to GitHub success. Write your HTML in an innovative new language known as HTML. And how satellites are watching it all.

We talk with Ed Charbeneau about what it's really like to use Blazor. Learning how CPU's work by writing one in code. Finally, a good way to support your favorite open source projects. And writing a chat system with only CSS and no JavaScript - you monster.