Top Links
- Wasm 3.0 Completed (Andreas Rossberg)
- Beyond the Black Box: See Inside AI’s Performance with AI Toolkit (Shreyan Fern)
- Here’s how to turn off Copilot (Mark Downie)
- The VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #6 – The Future of Coding Agents in VS Code (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)
- Gaming Copilot (Beta) coming to Windows PC (Athima Chansanchai)
- TechBash 2025 Standard Registration Ends in Less Than 2 Weeks (TechBash Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Building Resilient Email Delivery Systems: SendGrid vs Azure Communication Services with Polly in .NET (Sudhir Mangla)
- Wasm 3.0 Offers New Way to Handle JavaScript Strings (Loraine Lawson)
- Forecast the Future: AI-Powered Predictions in Blazor Pivot Table (Sastha Prathap)
- Unlock Cloud Savings for Linux VMs with the Azure Hybrid Benefit (Thomas Maurer)
- Vibe Coding Using Visual Studio Code and Blazor: Creating an RFP Responder (Michael Washington)
- ESLint v9.36.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Minecraftonia – A work-in-progress voxel sandbox built with C# 13/.NET 9 and Avalonia (Wiesław Šoltés)
- XAML.io – An In-Browser XAML Designer (OpenSilver Team)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Discovering Visual Studio 2026–Installation (Bart Wullems)
- Converting MS Word (*.docx) to Markdown (*.md) in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- How to Automate Flowchart Creation in Excel Using C# (Mohan Chandran)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Mastering ObservableList in Spargine (David McCarter)
- Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Not a legal base class (Raymond Chen)
- Distributed Locking in .NET: Coordinating Work Across Multiple Instances (Milan Jovanović)
AI
- The Future of AI: Evaluating and optimizing custom RAG agents using Azure AI Foundry (Chang Liu)
- Beyond Containers: llama.cpp Now Pulls GGUF Models Directly from Docker Hub (Eric Curtin)
- How Replit is Protecting You From the “Shai-Hulud” Worm (Replit Team)
- Find out what’s new in the Gemini app in September’s Gemini Drop | The Keyword (Google)
- Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper (Amos Zeeberg)
- DOCX Meets Markdown: Preparing Enterprise Documents for AI (Bjoern Meyer)
- How to Build Your First LLM Application Using LangChain and TypeScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Is OpenAI’s Video-Generating Tool ‘Sora’ Scraping Unauthorized YouTube Clips? and There Isn’t an AI Bubble – There Are Three (EditorDavid)
- Disciplined Guardrail Development in enterprise application with GitHub Copilot (daisami)
- Why Linear Built an API For Agents (Frederic Lardinois)
- The Psychology Of Trust In AI: A Guide To Measuring And Designing For User Confidence (Victor Yocco)
- Slopsquatting (James Ashley)
- That Code Review with OLlama and Qwen 2.5 (Kellyn Gorman)
- 10 MCP Servers for Frontend Developers (Loraine Lawson)
- Microsoft Introduces Logic Apps as MCP Servers in Public Preview (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
- Windows 11 is adding another Copilot button nobody asked for (Terrence O’Brien)
- Agentic AI research-methodology – part 2 (Tamara Gaidar)
- 3 ways to use photo-to-video in Gemini (Tatiana Gonzalez)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How to Create an Installer for a Windows Service (.NET Framework) Using WiX (Renato Ivanescu)
- The Essential Software Deployment Checklist and Best Practices (Radu Popescu)
- On inclusive personas and inclusive user research (Geoff Graham)
- Tim Cook’s Warning Against Tech Without Values and How to Build Integrity Into Your Leadership (JD Meier)
- When efficiency isn’t wasteful (Jessica Kerr)
- Empowering Netflix Engineers with Incident Management (Molly Struve)
- How to use InlineData, MemberData and ClassData in xUnit (David Grace)
- It’s striking so quickly the industry forgets that lines of code isn’t a measure of productivity (Mark Seemann)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How developers are using Apple’s local AI models with iOS 26 (Ivan Mehta)
- What a fortnight! VS2026 and iOS26 (Jesse Liberty)
- Silksong reignites Difficulty debate, do NOT finish your tasks (Code Monkey)
Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Mihai Tataran on Testing and Evaluating Generative AI Solutions (David Giard)
- DevOps, AI, and the Future of Engineering with Patrick Debois @jedi4ever | Hangar DX Podcast (Hangar DX Team)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 279 – “Insane in the Membrane” (Making Big Differences for Good) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Offline AI Magic: Run LLMs Locally with LM Studio & .NET 9 | Jernej Kavka (JK) | SSW User Group (SSW TV)
- You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why. | Harvard Business Review (Arthur C. Brooks)
- GitHub Spec Kit JUST GOT BETTER (Den Delimarsky)
- Python 3.14: The NEW T-strings are Awesome (Frank LaVigne)
- Random.Code() – Resurrecting EmitDebugging Using Interceptors, Part 3 (Jason Bock)
- What’s your favorite security bug? | One Dev Question (Michael Howard)
Podcasts
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #189 – Learn Chess and Become a Better Developer with Ihechikara Abba (ELO rating of 2285) (Beau Carnes)
- Merge Conflict #481 – Hello iOS 26 & macOS 26 + Listener Questions Answered! (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- The Cloud Pod #321 – The Cloud Pod is in Tears Trying to Understand Azure Tiers (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- React Native Radio Episode #344 – React Native 0.81 (Frank Calise, Tyler Williams & Mazen Chami)
- John Bristowe: The Latest from Octopus Deploy – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #368 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Beyond Product Knowledge—The Hidden Skills Every Product Owner Needs | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Shawn Dsouza)
- BONUS: Building High-Performing Engineering Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Jochen Issing)
- PPP 477 | Are You Being Too Nice? When Helping Actually Hurts, with author Jess Baker (Andy Kaufman)
- A Geek Leader #435 – Garrett Rice (John Rouda)
- The Real Python Podcast #266 – Dangers of Automatically Converting a REST API to MCP (Kyle Stratis)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast #109 – Linux Fest in Texas! (Carl George, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Batteries Included Podcast #110 – Cadillac Optiq Gets More Power & RWD For 2026, Death Of EV Incentive Approaches (Batteries Included Crew)
- Lenny’s Podcast – From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo (Facebook VP, Sundial CEO, The Making of a Manager author) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Microsoft Contract Negotiation: Escalation Dos and Don’ts (Mary Jo Foley)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #487 – The Art of Networking…Internally w/ Dania Luc, Cyber Security Program Manager (Taylor Desseyn)
Community & Events
- FORTRAN Milestone On This Day (Mike James)
- Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions (EditorDavid)
- Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web (Sarah Perez)
- Building Healthier Social Media: Updated Guidelines and New Features (Bluesky Team)
Database
- SQL Concat Operator and UNISTR Function in Azure (Koen Verbeeck)
- A Brief Introduction to SQLite (Mark Mahoney)
PowerShell
- Embedding Local AI into DataOps with PowerShell (Kellyn Gorman)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft PowerToys: Utilities to customize Windows (Microsoft Learn) – The PowerToys docs got a small refresh. Let us know what you think!
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6690 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6690 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27950 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Amazon, Google, Microsoft warn H-1B employees to stay in the US (Anthony Ha)
- Microsoft Goes All-in on Rust for Core Infrastructure and Much More (Darryl K. Taft)
- Java Language Architect Brian Goetz on How Java Could Evolve (David Cassel)
- Study Links Microplastic Exposure to Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice (EditorDavid)
- How to Get The GIMP Working With macOS Tahoe (and What Happened) (Federico Moretti)
- EVs Have Gotten Too Powerful (Jason Barlow)
- Impact of the New $100K H-1B Rule: Who’s Affected and Who’s Not (Mahesh Chand)
- Record-Low 35% in US Satisfied With K-12 Education Quality (msmash)
- Trump announces skilled worker visas will now cost $100,000 and Amazon, Google, and Microsoft warn employees to rush back to the US and Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty (Terrence O’Brien)
- Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles in the US again (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #38, 2025 – .NET STS releases supported for 24 months (Sergey Tihon)
- Azure Weekly #532 – 21st September 2025 (The Editor)
- Daily Reading List – September 19, 2025 (#631) and Daily Reading List – September 22, 2025 (#632) (Richard Seroter)
- JetBrains Academy – September Digest (Maria Sharobaeva)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #288 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link