Top Links
- Microsoft brings Windows’ ‘AI actions’ to third-party apps (Mark Hachman)
- A Developer’s Guide to Fine-Tuning GPT-4o for Image Classification on Azure AI Foundry (Alexandre Levret)
- Share Copilot Prompts and Instructions Across Teams Using Rider and VS Code (Marco Siccardi)
- How to add MCP Servers to OpenAI’s Codex with Docker MCP Toolkit (Oleg Selajev)
- Beyond the Desktop: The Future of Development with Microsoft Dev Box and GitHub Codespaces (owaino)
- The VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #10 – Mastering Chat Modes in VS Code with Burke Holland (James Montemagno)
Web Development
- Introducing native Service Bus message publishing from Azure API Management (anishta)
- Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve (Saleh Mubashar)
- Azure Container Apps Observability (Gora Leye)
- A quick look at Dev Tunnels (Mike Irving)
- The thing about contrast-color (Geoff Graham)
- React Native Rolls Out Its Latest Version on New Architecture (Loraine Lawson)
- ESLint v9.38.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
- From queries to conversations: Unlock insights about your data using Azure Storage Discovery—now generally available (Maneesh Sah)
- CSS Finally Gets Inline Conditional Logic With New if() Function (Joab Jackson)
- How to Disable WordPress File Editing for Better Security (Complete Guide) (Jen Swisher)
- Why I Still Use jQuery (Aniket Bhattacharyea)
- What’s new in Microsoft Entra – September 2025 (Shobhit Sahay)
- Beyond Basics: Practical scenarios with Azure Storage Actions (Shashank Kumar-Shankar)
- What Is a CDN and Does Your Website Need One? (Suzanne Scacca)
- Securing the Browser Era – From Cloud to AI: A blog series on protecting the modern workspace (lmurthy)
- React useEffectEvent: Goodbye to stale closure headaches (David Omotayo)
- Task Scheduling and Background Services in Blazor Server (Mladen Macanović)
- Use request chaining in HTTP files and Use shared variables in HTTP files and Use environment specific variables in HTTP files (Bart Wullems)
- SolidJS vs ReactJS: Understanding the Future of Reactive Frontend (Kanishk Srivastava)
.NET & Visual Studio
- Inlining and structs in C# (Steven Giesel)
- How to Use a Scoped Service Inside a Hosted Service in .NET (Yohan Malshika)
- 6 Steps for Setting Up a New .NET Project the Right Way (Milan Jovanović)
- Bringing MailMerge Power to Markdown: Fluid Placeholders in TX Text Control in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
AI
- Brain-Work, Brain-Toil and Mentoring AI Agents (Bahman Movaqar)
- AI hype is excessive, but its productivity gains are real (pcloadletter)
- Should Workers Start Learning to Work With AI? (EditorDavid)
- Agentic RAG Chronicles (Jason Haley)
- Microsoft extends AI advancements in Dragon Copilot to nurses and partners to enhance patient care (PR Newswire)
- Leveling up your developer experience in Google AI Studio (Ammaar Reshi)
- Llama Coder – Open source Claude Artifacts – built with Llama 3.1 405B (Sam Selikoff & Hassan El Mghari)
- What’s new in Copilot Studio: September 2025 (Kendra Springer)
- How to accelerate 0→1 research with AI (Mike Brzozowski)
- Accelerate developer productivity with these 9 open source AI and MCP projects (Kevin Crosby)
- AI In UX: Achieve More With Less (Paul Boag)
- Sora 2 now available in Azure AI Foundry (Steve Sweetman & Naomi Moneypenny)
- A new era of AI-powered collaboration in Zoho Workplace: The intelligence that works with you (Prashanth)
Python
- How to Parse INI Config Files in Python with Configparser (Bala Priya C)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Epistemology of software (Mark Seemann)
- Using RAII to remedy a defect where not all code paths performed required exit actions, follow-up (Raymond Chen)
- xUnit v3 update: Ability to skip tests & a new TestContext (David Grace)
- Typemock October Release: Isolator 9.3.7 and Isolator++ 5.4.0 (Eli Lopian)
- Concurrency vs. Parallelism: What’s the Difference and Why Should You Care? (Wisdom Usa)
- The Accountability Problem (James Shore)
- How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 1 — Ingesting and Processing Data… (Adrian Taruc & James Dalton)
- It’s Not Your Tests, It’s Your Testability (Gil Zilberfeld)
Mobile and Game Development
- ZXing.Net.Maui v0.6.0 released (Gerald Versluis)
Screencasts and Videos
- MassTransit Test Harness Telemetry Listener (Chris Patterson)
- Random.Code() – Fixing a MemberNotNullWhen Issue in Rocks (Jason Bock)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 283 – “The AI Database” (The Oracle RDBMS Revolution) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Unlocking the Power of MCP | Episode 1 | The GitHub Podcast (GitHub Team)
- Technology & Friends – Karl-Henrik Nilson on Software Archaeology and GCast 201: Mastering GitHub Copilot course, Lesson 1 Getting Started with GitHub Copilot, Step 1 (David Giard)
- UserControl Editing in Hot Design (Uno Platform Team)
- Switching from SQL to NoSQL? Watch this Beginner’s Guide to Data Modeling in MongoDB (MongoDB Team)
- Back on Steam! We Moved, We Built, We Broke Things — Here’s What’s Next! 💥 | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Aaron Palermo: Cyber Security and Systems Engineering with AI-Driven Development – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #372 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Solving incidents with one-time ephemeral runbooks | Advantures in DevOps Podcast (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- GeekWire Podcast – The next PC platform shift? Ed Bott on Microsoft’s big Windows AI bet (Todd Bishop)
- How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Lenny’s Podcast (Lenny Rachitsky & Nicole Forsgren)
- BONUS: The Evolution of Agile – From Project Management to Adaptive Intelligence | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mario Aiello)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast Episode #113 – There will be bleeps (Mike McQuaid, Justin Searls & Jerod Santo)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast #79 – A Microsoft AI discussion with Olorunfemi Davis (Dan Clarke)
- Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – Fun in programming and hacking vending machines (Pam Selle & Sarah Withee)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – What’s Happening with Microsoft Exchange? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #114 – Jeep Reveals Grand Wagoneer REEV, Porsche Cayenne EV Prototype Road Tested (Batteries Included Team)
- INotifyPodcastChanged Episode #11 – ScreenToGif with Nicke Manarin (Joseph Finney & Tamás Deme)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #270 – Evolving Teaching Python in the Classroom (Kelly Schuster-Paredes)
- Analytics From Day One and Four Other Principles of Great POs | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Renee Troughton)
- A Geek Leader #439 – Jimi Gibson (John Rouda)
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #193 – From Injured Athlete to Software Engineer with Kaleb Garner (Beau Carnes)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast – If You’ve Got an Underperformer on Your Team, Read This Now (Max Ahumada)
- The Amp Hour #706 – Leading Edge Analog with Joren Vaes (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Developer Tea Podcast – The Good and Bad of Choosing Measurements – Traps and Opportunities of Measuring What Matters (Jonathan Cutrell)
- React Native Radio #346 – Shopify’s Transition to the (new) Architecture (Thiago Magalhães, Mustafa Ali & Mazen Chami)
Community
- Mastering the Art of Public Speaking: Lessons from a Lifetime of Teaching and Sharing (David McCarter)
- The Power of Self-Care: My European Adventures Between Tech Events (Kellyn Gorman)
- How Women Are Redefining What It Means To Work In Tech (Sarah Lahiff)
- Octopus partners with Arm (Madalina Iosif)
- The Book of Redgate: Don’t be an a**hole (Steve Jones)
- New App Announcement – Trdo: a minimal Tray Radio (Joseph Finney)
- Call For Papers Listings for 10/17 (Leon Adato)
- AMA Spotlight: Build Smarter with Azure Developer CLI ‘AZD’ (Lee Stott)
- Deep Dive into Microsoft 365 Copilot Included Agents Webinar (Michael Gannotti)
- Upcoming October 2025 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call (Jessie Hwang)
Database
- Using connection colors in SQL Server Management Studio to prevent database disasters (Bart Wullems)
- Boost your Azure Cosmos DB Efficiency with Azure Advisor Insights (Iria Osara)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
PowerShell and Terminal
- Extending the Migrate2GSA PowerShell Module – Why I added JSON support (Michael Morten Sonne)
Tools
- Microsoft releases PowerToys 0.95 with speed improvements and new Light Switch and Get ready to reserve your WhatsApp username (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6972 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6972 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- GIMP Now Offers an Official Snap Package For Linux Users (EditorDavid)
- Announcing Files v4.0.13 (Files Team)
General
- Amazon Web Services outage takes down Duolingo, Snapchat, Roblox and other major sites (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Seattle shakes again as Mariners grand slam triggers another big burst of seismic activity (Kurt Schlosser)
- The US has a new roadmap for fusion energy, without the funds to back it up (Justine Calma)
- please, practice kindness. (Wil Wheaton)
- Atari’s resurrecting the Intellivision, one of its biggest competitors in the ‘80s (Andrew Liszewski)
- Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? (Sophie McBain)
More Link Collections
- Azure Weekly #536 – 19th October 2025 (The Editor)
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- Daily Reading List – October 17, 2025 (#651) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #306 (Jasen)
