Top Links
- Get ready for Windows 11, version 25H2 (Jason Leznek)
- Jimmy Bogard: MediatR & AutoMapper – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #356 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Building an Easy Private AI Assistant with Goose and Docker Model Runner (Oleg Selajev)
- ReSharper and Rider 2025.1.4: Another Set of Bug-fixes Released (Sasha Ivanova)
- Technology & Friends – Jerry Nixon on SQL Server Extension for VS Code (David Giard)
- Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs: Unlocking enterprise knowledge for AI with the Retrieval API — Now in Public Preview (Zakiullah Khan)
Web & Cloud Development
- Creating a Blazor Aspire Local AI Chat Bot (Michael Washington)
- Electron 37.0.0 (George Xu & Keeley Hammond)
- CSS Blob Recipes (Juan Diego Rodríguez)
- What’s New in Blazor 2025 Volume 2 – 99% Faster Performance + Revolutionary Spreadsheet Component (Rajendran R.)
- How to inject services in ASP.NET Core dependency injection (David Grace)
- JavaScript™ Trademark Update (Ryan Dahl)
- Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript (JavaScript Community)
- Enhance Formatting Efficiency with Format Painter in Vue Rich Text Editor (Thangavel E.)
- Using Azure API Management as a proxy for Application Insights Telemetry (Todd Foust)
- ASP.NET Core MVC Controller vs. minimal API vs. FastEndpoints — What’s the Best for Performance? (Denis Makarenko)
- ESLint v9.30.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
- Adding Audio Effects to Dynamic Websites (Jonathan Gamble)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Day 13: Configuring the Genetic Algorithm Loop in C# (Chris Woodruff)
- .NET 10 Preview 5 Brings Blazor Observability, XAML Simplification and More (Almir Vuk)
- Design Patterns Guide in .NET Using C# -Part II: Real-Time Project-Enterprise Notification System (Bhargava Koya)
- Monitor your A/B test in .NET (Bart Wullems)
- Testcontainers Best Practices for .NET Integration Testing (Milan Jovanović)
- Why do I get errors or warnings about some weird symbol called ?main@@YAHP$01E$AAV?$Array@PE$AAVString@Platform…, part 3 (Raymond Chen)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Mastering Method Returns with Spargine’s SimpleResult Type (David McCarter)
AI
- What Every AI Engineer Should Know About A2A, MCP & ACP (Edwin Lisowski)
- Large Language Models: A Survey (Shervin Minaee, Tomas Mikolov, Narjes Nikzad, Meysam Chenaghlu, Richard Socher, Xavier Amatriain & Jianfeng Gao)
- Microsoft Internal Memo: ‘Using AI Is No Longer Optional.’ (Business Insider) – paywalled
- The Ultimate Copilot Marketing Playbook: Templates, Prompts & Strategies (Copilot That Jawn)
- Why attitudes and experiences differ so much with regards to AI among technical writers (Tom Johnson)
- Telephony MCP Server for Agentic AI and Language Models (Atique Khan)
- MCP For Beginners Course (I Programmer)
- Finding inspiration for good custom instructions for GitHub Copilot (Bart Wullems)
- Denmark To Tackle Deepfakes By Giving People Copyright To Their Own Features (BeauHD)
- Testing OpenAI Codex and Comparing It to Claude Code (David Eastman)
- People Are Being Committed After Spiraling Into ‘ChatGPT Psychosis’ (EditorDavid)
- Context Engineering (Eleanor Berger)
- Why AI Works in Isolation But Fails at Scale (LeadingAgile Team)
- OWASP Launches AI Testing Guide to Address Security, Bias, and Risk in AI Systems (Robert Krzaczyński)
- A (very) brief history of LMMs (Stephen Roughley)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Sara Ford on Learning Agile at Microsoft (JD Meier)
- Understanding the OWASP DevSecOps Maturity Model: A Practical Guide for Modern Engineering Teams (Shannon Kuehn)
- GitHub Advisory Database by the numbers: Known security vulnerabilities and what you can do about them (Jonathan Evans)
- Adding test description for data-driven tests in xUnit (Steven Giesel)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How to Use Local Notifications in Flutter – A Tutorial for Beginners (Atuoha Anthony)
- Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 available now at $4 (Eben Upton)
- Game using Assets made MILLIONS, and Why did Unity make a Game? (Code Monkey)
- Google Previews Gemini’s Agent Mode in Android Studio Narwhal (Sergio De Simone)
- MonoGame v3.8.5-develop.1 Pre-Release (Dominique Louis)
Screencasts & Videos
- Wait… Who’s the New CEO of Commodore?! • Let’s Buy Commodore Part 2 (Retro Recipes x Commodore)
- Supercharge Your APIs – Expose REST APIs as MCP Servers with Azure API Management (Julia Kasper)
- How are Azure services versioned? | One Dev Question (Jeffrey Richter)
- Master Local Async Lambda Development with .NET Aspire and Adding custom resource commands to .NET Aspire (James Eastham)
- Build a Simple MCP Server & Client in C# and .NET (Hassan Rezk Habib)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 267 – Creepy Assistant (How to use GenAI chatbots the right way!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- AspiriFridays – James Montemagno + Feedback Flow (.NET Aspire Team)
- Random.Code() – Creating a Code Fix for IsNullOrWhitespace() (Jason Bock)
- The 4 Stages Of Being A Software Dev (Frank LaVigne)
Podcasts
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #176 – Rust VS Go VS TypeScript which back end language is for you with Tai Groot (Beau Carnes)
- InfoQ Podcast – From Code to Strategy: Drive Organizational Impact Through Strategic Conversations and User Focus (Mark Allen)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Dave Barry is the Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass (Scott Hanselman)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- React Native Radio Episode #336 – RLRN: Building Boca Socios with Solito ft. Nahue Alberti (Nahue Alberti & Mazen Chami)
- AGL 423: Nate Dinet, The Step Manager (John Rouda)
- PPP 466 | 12 Tools Every Leader Needs to Navigate Difficult Bosses, with Josefine Campbell (Andy Kaufman)
- Changelog and Friends Podcast Episode #99 – Let’s build something phoenix.new (Chris McCord, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #255 – Structuring Python Scripts & Exciting Non-LLM Software Trends (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #647 – When vibe coding goes viral (Chris Anderson, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Meta Cast – The Blueprint for Storytelling That Actually Works (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Engineer in the Loop Podcast – Becoming a Microsoft Certified Trainer: Mentorship, Certification, and the Realities of Teaching Tech (Alec Harrison)
- Practical AI Podcast – AI hot takes and debates: Autonomy (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Business Case Ownership—The Product Owner’s Core Duty | Lilia Pulova (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- Discord event: GenAI fundamentals (Oren Eini)
- Vonage CodeConnect: Register for the New Developer Event Series (Clarisse Ng)
- Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI (Anthony Ha)
- Meta is offering multi-million pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’ (Julie Bort & Marina Temkin)
- Register today for the Microsoft Entra Suite Summer Camp (kamurphy)
- Read Google’s 10th annual Environmental Report (Kate Brandt)
- A Win for Fair Use Is a Win for Libraries (Chris Freeland)
- Brazil Supreme Court Rules Digital Platforms Are Liable For Users’ Posts (msmash)
- Why We Still Need Pride: A Celebration and a Protest (Steve Foreshew-Cain)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- How Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents help tackle the infinite workday (Colette Stallbaumer)
- Upcoming in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – Apps Pinning (Michael Gannotti)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft confirms Windows 11 version 25H2 is coming soon — will install much faster than version 24H2 (Zac Bowden)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4520 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5670 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- How To Set up MacOS as a Development Machine (Jack Wallen)
- Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ could mean slower Wi-Fi for you (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy)
- A policy to remove Windows apps… (Michael Niehaus)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – June 27, 2025 (#577) (Richard Seroter)
- F# Weekly #26, 2025 – Sprout: BDD Testing for F# (Sergey Tihon)
- Azure Weekly #521 – 29th June 2025 (The Editor)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #228 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link