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Happy New Year to all here in 2023. It's going to be a great year. It's a great time to be a programmer. A great time to be building with .NET; you are going to do great things this year. You have what it takes. You are smart, you have great tools, and you have a great team. You are a great leader. This episode is going to be all about remembering what happened this past year at the podcast.

Topics of Discussion:

[1:15] Jeffrey talks about the architect forums he's hosting and facilitating in 2023. You can register here.

[1:46] Huge announcement in Microsoft Developer news including:

- Android apps on Windows 11

- ARM processors getting big investments

- Microsoft Dev Box — in preview — dev workstation in the cloud

- Power Pages websites

- Large SKU app service; up to 256GB RAM available for those who need it

- Azure Arc, the new name of Hybrid Azure. And a single-node Azure Stack for remote locations but the programming model of Azure — looking forward to testing it at the right time.

- Azure Container Apps tooling got better, and it became ready for prime time. Every team should be looking at this.

- .NET 7 released.

[4:11] What might the default application stacks and environments look like on the platform in 2023?

- Windows 11

- Visual Studio 2022 w/ ReSharper

- .NET 7

- Onion Architecture

- Blazor for interactive applications

- .NET service workers for back-end jobs and queue listeners

- Entity Framework with Azure SQL — add on other storage services as per application.

- Azure App Service for hosting while prototyping Azure Container Apps.

- Application Insights with the Open Telemetry NuGet packages.

- Azure Pipelines paired with Octopus Deploy (keep an eye on GitHub Actions as they fill out support for scenarios you need).

- NordVPN for developer workstation work-from-home or remote Wi-Fi.

[9:11] When it comes to developer workstations, desktop computers are still giving the most bang for the buck with power, and only a few laptops do the job really well. I have not reviewed all computers, and there are a lot out there. I can vouch for Alienware R series desktops. Liquid-cooled, so they are really quiet, even under full load. Dell Precision laptops are amazing for software engineers. I really wanted to love the Lenovo P1, but the fan was just too loud when it was under load. And we all know that cooling is so important in laptops. When a laptop gets too hot, your BIOS will slow down the processor to keep it from burning up. Then you no longer have a fast processor. And video calls use a good deal of processor, surprisingly — or not. For super mobile laptops that you can use for programming, I really do like the Microsoft Surface Laptop. I wanted to like the Surface Studio laptop, but they inverted the cooling and the battery placement, so it's very uncomfortable on my lap and my wrists unfortunately under load. The wrist wrest gets really hot. Normally the battery is under the wrist rest, but Microsoft swapped it on this one, so it's not fun using it as a laptop on your lap or even on a desk while hot and under load.

[13:11] Highlighting some past episodes that will be interesting:

- Highlighting some past episodes over the year that might be interesting.

- With Microsoft Orleans providing a new implementation of the Actor design pattern, we have a two-part series interview with Aaron Stannard, the creator of Akka.NET, episodes 172 and 173.

- On the IoT front, Wilderness Labs has been trucking along creating system-on-a-chip options that run .NET natively and easily. I interviewed founder and CEO

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