Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – Visual Studio Code AI with James Montemagno (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Exploring Text-to-Image capabilities in .NET (Jeremy Likness)
- .NET Native Apps CLI Cheatsheet (Sam Basu)
- Copilot Spaces is now generally available (GitHub)
- Preparing for the .NET 10 GC (Maoni Stephens)
- Visual Studio 2026 Insiders: Using Podman for Container Development (Matt Hernandez)
Web & Cloud Development
- Node.js v22.20.0 (LTS) (Richard Lau)
- How To Create an Entra ID (Azure AD) Tenant: Step-by-Step Guide (Michael Reinders)
- Building a GraphQL API with AWS AppSync Using Direct Lambda Resolvers in .NET | Amazon Web Services (Pankaj Rawat & Sanjay Chaudhari)
- 10 JavaScript Concepts Every Node.js Developer Should Know (Prashant Yadav)
- The Ultimate Guide to API Gateways for .NET Microservices: YARP vs. Azure API Management vs. Envoy Gateway (Sudhir Mangla)
- How to Add Real-Time Observability to a NestJS App with OpenTelemetry (Christian Nwamba)
- How to Implement Dependency Injection in Go – Explained with Code Examples (Gabor Koos)
- Trust is the Secret Ingredient Missing in API Discovery (Kin Lane)
- Pulumi Google Cloud Provider Version 9.0.0 (Zaid Ajaj)
- Dev Proxy v1.2 with mock response mirroring and improved performance (Waldek Mastykarz & Garry Trinder)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Introducing the New .NET MAUI Spark Chart Control (Saiyath Ali Fathima M)
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.8.250916003 (NuGet)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Discovering Visual Studio 2026 – Copilot Actions (Bart Wullems)
- .NET 10 RC 1: Introduces Persistent State in Blazor, Enhanced Validation, and Production-Ready Tools (Almir Vuk)
AI
- Anchoring AI to a reference application (Martin Fowler)
- Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers now get Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist with higher limits. (Meridith Blascovich)
- Using MCP Server with Azure Managed Redis in VS Code (Catherine Wang)
- Claude is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Anthropic Team)
- How can AI simplify and accelerate user acceptance testing (Anuj Arora)
- Introducing the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server: Streamlining Public Data Access for AI Developers (Keyur Shah)
- The Kotlin AI Stack: Build AI Agents With Koog, Code Smarter With Junie, and More (Alyona Chernyaeva)
- Trust but Verify (Andrew Stellman)
- How AI empowers leaders to drive innovation and collaboration (Cinthiya)
- 6 easy ways to level up Claude Code (David Turnbull)
- Intent Prototyping: The Allure And Danger Of Pure Vibe Coding In Enterprise UX (Part 1) (Yegor Gilyov)
- 5 ways to get real-time help by going Live with Search (Liza Ma)
- AI vs. AI: Detecting an AI-obfuscated phishing campaign (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team)
- GitHub Copilot gets smarter at finding your code: Inside our new embedding model (Shengyu Fu)
- Building an AI Agent with Couchbase MCP and cagent (Shivay Lamba)
- InfoQ AI, ML and Data Engineering Trends Report – 2025 (Srini Penchikala, Savannah Kunovsky, Anthony Alford, Daniel Dominguez & Vinod Goje)
- It’s time to secure your MCP servers. Here’s how. (Wassim Chegham)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- The history and future of software development (part 1) (Darko Mesaroš)
- CRUD-Sourcing is why Your Event Streams Are Bloated (Derek Comartin)
- The 10 Foundational UX Principles Every Designer Should Know (Louise North)
- When GitHub Won’t Clone: Fixing the SSL Certificate Problem on Windows (Shannon Kuehn)
- Secrets of GitHub Actions: What the Docs Don’t Tell You (Temidayo Omoniyi)
- Layer Like a Dev: Why Designers Should Use C4 Diagrams (Teon Beijl)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Meet the engineers behind Raspberry Pi 500+ (Andrew Gregory)
- Google’s Android for PC: ‘I’ve seen it, it is incredible’ (Dominic Preston)
- The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ on sale now at $200 (Eben Upton)
- Google reveals its Android for PC is coming next year (Sean Hollister)
- Meta is opening pop-up shops to show off its smart glasses with a display (Jay Peters)
- Demos is now Open Source – 110 React Native Animations (Enzo Manuel Mangano)
Screencasts & Videos
- Next-Level SQL in VS Code: GitHub Copilot, Containers & more | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Carlos Robles)
- Code along with the Foundation Models framework | Meet with Apple (Apple Developer Team)
- Microservices architecture: is it the right choice to design long-living systems? (Particular Software)
- From Figma Design to Cursor Code in Minutes | Figma MCP Server Full Tutorial (Sergei Chyrkov)
- How to Quickly Generate Technical Blogs From Your Docs With Llama and Rag (Frank LaVigne)
- A deep dive into the GitHub MCP registry | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths & Toby Padilla)
- Tech Talks | Season 1, Episode 2 | Guddeti Bharat Reddy, SVP, IT, Security & Onetech Ops, Flipkart (Sharryn Napier)
- 5 Ways I Use Coding Agents Every Day to Boost Productivity (James Montemagno)
- Speed Production of Intel. Apps & Agents w/ AI-Ready DB for PostgreSQL | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Maxim Lukiyanov)
- What is Model Context Protocol (MCP)? | One Dev Question (Damian Brady)
Podcasts
- Smart Silicon: Tensor G5 and the Next Era of the AI Phone | Made by Google Podcast S8E4 (Rachid Finge)
- InfoQ Podcast: AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report 2025 (Srini Penchikala, Savannah Kunovsky, Anthony Alford, Daniel Dominguez & Vinod Goje)
- When Consensus Becomes Paralysis—The Nemawashi Challenge For Agile Software Development | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Terry Haayema)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes SIG Docs, With Shannon Kularathna (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #940 – Picking a Fullstack Stack, Is Next.js Too Complex? Services vs Self-Hosted + More (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The Azure Security Podcast Episode #118 – Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Computing with Mark Russinovich (Michael Howard & Mark Simos)
- The Amp Hour #703 – Building wafer.space with Tim Ansell (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #322 – Did OpenAI and Microsoft Break Up? It’s Complicated… (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Adapting a classic: from words to watercolors, with K. Woodman Maynard (Mignon Fogarty)
- Defense Unicorns, A Podcast – Teaming for the Mission: Why Collaboration Wins in Complex Environments with Bob Ritchie and Lauren Knausenberger (Robert Slaughter, Michaela Flatau, Rebecca Lively & Luke Shabro)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #489 – How to Navigate Internal Recruiters w/ Principal Recruiter Aaron Harmon (Taylor Desseyn)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #687: Elizabeth Figura on Proton and Wine (Jeremy Jung)
Community & Events
- Hacktoberfest 2025 (krisstern)
- Snapdragon Summit 2025: Snapdragon X2 Mini PC Prototype Photo Gallery (Paul Thurrott)
- Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab (Zoë Schiffer & Julia Black)
Database
- MySQL Basics: Table Manners – Setting up Your First Schema and Table (Scott Stroz)
- SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 30 (Erik Darling)
- Talk to your data: PostgreSQL gets a voice in VS Code (TELAWRENCE)
- Locking in CockroachDB, Part 2 – Finding Locked Rows (Bryan Hogan)
- Microsoft Now Recommends You Set Max Memory to 75% and Min Memory to 0%. (Brent Ozar)
- Introducing PostgreSQL Static Data in Flyway (Grant Fritchey)
Miscellaneous
- The Digital Markets Act’s impacts on EU users (Apple)
- Qualcomm Debuts Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme, Its Next-Gen Laptop Chips (Luke Larsen)
- Microsoft Offers No-Cost Windows 10 Lifeline (msmash)
- Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? (Raymond Chen)
- Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X2 Elite and Extreme for Windows PCs (Sean Hollister)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – September 24, 2025 (#634) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #289 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps: Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot) (Rezwanur Rahman) – Referral Link