Top Links
- Deploying aspire.dev with aspire deploy (David Pine)
- Announcing the Release of SSMS 22 Preview 4 (M. Barickman)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.19 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 11123.170 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Phi-4: Small Language Models That Pack a Punch (Abdulhamid Onawole)
- Azure SDK Release (October 2025) (Ronnie Geraghty)
- XAML Live Preview | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Pedro Jesus)
Web Development
- Wolverine 5 and Modular Monoliths (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and Subgrid (Silvestar Bistrović)
- JavaScript For Everyone: Iterators (Mat Marquis)
- Microfrontends That Don’t Hurt: Module Federation, Web Components, and BFF Contracts on ASP.NET Core (Sudhir Mangla)
- AI Image Transformations in Modern Next.js Applications (Christian Nwamba)
- Top 5 Features of Telerik UI for Blazor Grid for Developers (Héctor Pérez)
.NET
- Uno Platform 6.3 Adds .NET 10, Visual Studio 2026 Support (David Ramel)
- Akka.NET + Kubernetes: Everything You Need to Know (Aaron Stannard)
- Microsoft Announces GitHub Copilot App For Java And .NET (Kay Ewbank)
- Transform Excel Data into Smart Summaries Using C# and GPT (Mohan Chandran)
- Working with Strings in .NET (Ricardo Peres)
AI
- I found 3 AI content detectors that identify AI text 100% of the time – and an even better option (David Gewirtz)
- Give your Github Copilot a break (Bart Wullems)
- Qualcomm Announces AI Chips To Compete With AMD and Nvidia (BeauHD)
- Your vibe coded slop PR is not welcome (Sam Saffron)
- Part 2: Building Security Observability Into Your Code – Defensive Programming for Azure OpenAI (singhabhi)
- How to Connect MCP Servers to Claude Desktop with Docker MCP Toolkit (Ajeet Singh Raina)
- Addendum to GPT-5 System Card: Sensitive conversations and Strengthening ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive conversations and Seizing the AI opportunity (OpenAI Team)
- AI agents will succeed because one tool is better than ten (Ryan Donovan)
- AI Integration Is the New Moat (Tim O’Reilly)
- How to Use a Spec-Driven Approach for Coding with AI (Anton Arhipov)
- Overcoming limitations When Using AI (Michael Washington)
- Cloud Native and AI: Why Open Source Needs Standards Like MCP (Alexander Matyushentsev)
- Securing AI Agents: Mitigate Excessive Agency with Zero Trust Security (Deepu K. Sasidharan)
- Sora is showing us how broken deepfake detection is (Jess Weatherbed)
- Pumpkin panic: Your crash course in spooky prep with Microsoft Copilot (Alyse Maguire)
- How to Control Agent Sharing in Copilot Studio Lite (Agent Builder) (Michael Goad)
- Testing Common Prompt Injection Defenses: XML vs. Markdown and System vs. User Prompts (Spencer Schneidenbach)
- Beyond Benchmarks: Testing Open-Source LLMs in Multi-Agent Workflows (Ollie Southwell)
Python
- 10 Python One-Liners for Generating Time Series Features (Iván Palomares Carrascosa)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- What’s Next for Developer Teams: How To Prepare Now (Emilio Salvador)
- A good PR review process is resilient to AI “slop” concerns (pcloadletter)
- Your AI’s Answers Are Subjective. Your Tests Don’t Have to Be. (Gil Zilberfeld)
Mobile and Game Development
- Material 3 Adaptive 1.2.0 is stable (Rob Orgiu)
- Book of Making 2026 on sale now! (Andrew Gregory)
Screencasts and Videos
- Optimize Azure Costs with Reserved Instances | The Azure Essentials Show (Thomas Mauer & Priyanshi Mittal)
- Implementing Vector Search in Your Application with SQL Server 2025 | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Joseph D’Antoni)
- Random.Code() – Minimizing Expectation Naming Structure in Rocks, Part 4 (Jason Bock)
- Azure SRE Agent: Less Toil, More Uptime, Maximum Innovation | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Deepthi Chelupati)
- Recording of AI book club session of ‘Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation’, by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst (Tom Johnson)
- Build beautiful frontends with OpenAI Codex (Channing Conger & Romain Huet)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- The PowerShell Podcast – Always Hype About Automation with Hailey Phillips (James Petty)
- Python Bytes Podcast #455 – Gilded Python and Beyond (Michael Kennedy)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #167 – Code like a surgeon (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #249 – Data First: What Really Makes Your SOC ‘AI Ready’? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #949 – Web Dev HORROR Stories + Spooky Trivia! (Spooky Stories Pt. 1) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- When Enthusiasm Became Interference—Learning to Listen as a Scrum Master | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Darryl Wright)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #496 – How to Build Healthy Developer Culture w/ Matt Stauffer, CEO of Tighten (Taylor Desseyn)
- Betatalks, the Podcast #116 – The Evolution of Cybersecurity – with Paula Januszkiewicz (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #525 – NiceGUI Goes 3.0 (Michael Kennedy)
- Lee Brownhill: The Data Community – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #373 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Merge Conflict Episode #486 – AI Browsers & Apple Silicon M5 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- The Amp Hour #707 – Welding with an HDMI Cable (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- InfoQ Podcast: Effective Error Handling: A Uniform Strategy for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems (Jenish Shah)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – ‘Ghost words’ and their history. Rules for ‘between’ and ‘among.’ Wilsoning. (Mignon Fogarty)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Craft and quality beat speed and scale, with or without agents (Phoebe Sajor)
Community
- A Minute from the Moderators (Hachyderm Team)
- Session Interest Survey for CodeMash 2026 (Amanda Stamper)
- A Small Update (Shawn Wildermuth)
- .NET Foundation 2025 Elections Results (.NET Foundation)
- Use the Feedback feature to hear from the audience (Sessionize Team)
- Filing: Meta’s AI layoffs hit Washington offices in Bellevue, Seattle, Redmond and Amazon reportedly set to lay off up to 30,000 corporate employees in massive workforce cut (Taylor Soper)
Database
- Event-Driven Data Migration & Transformation using Couchbase Eventing Service (Kishor Deshpande)
- SQL SERVER and AI – Setting Up an MCP Server for Natural Language Tuning (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups (Steve Jones)
- SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Version 22.0 Preview 4 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Ollama on HTTPS for SQL Server (Ryad B.)
- JSON_CONTAINS Function in SQL Server 2025 (Koen Verbeeck)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Introducing Teams Mode for Microsoft 365 Copilot (Nicole Herskowitz)
- Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for finance, integrates with Excel to rival Microsoft Copilot (Michael Nuñez)
Tools
- Better search suggestions in Firefox (Bobby Holley)
- Windows 365: How to choose the best connection method for your team (Elina Luthra)
- The Modern Enterprise Toolkit for Secure, High-Quality Code (Kerry Beetge)
- ChatGPT Atlas: Is this the End of Traditional Browsing? (Saravanan Madheswaran)
General
- Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages (Jay Peters)
- Dubious security vulnerability: Denial of service by loading a very large file (Raymond Chen)
- OpenAI Pushes White House For Major Energy Buildout (TechRepublic Staff)
- US Department of Energy Forms $1 Billion Supercomputer and AI Partnership With AMD (msmash)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – October 27, 2025 (#652) (Richard Seroter)
- Interesting links of the week 2025-44 (Michael Eaton)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #312 (Jasen)
- Reading Notes #671 (Frank Boucher)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS RTB Fabric, AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool, AWS Secret-West Region, and more (October 27, 2025) (Micah Walter)
