Top Links
- On‑Device AI with Windows AI Foundry (Nandhini Elango)
 - Using Copilot Agent Mode and Copilot Profiler Agent | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Joseph Finney)
 - GitHub Universe 2025: Where developer innovation took center stage (Jessica Hawk)
 - Microsoft Edge introduces passkey saving and syncing with Microsoft Password Manager (Patrick Brosset)
 - 🧠 Build an Agent Chat that Remembers — Persisting Conversations with Microsoft Agent Framework (Bruno Capuano)
 - AutoMapper 15.1 and MediatR 13.1 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
 
Web and Cloud Development
- API vs Web Service: Understanding the Differences (Postman Team)
 - Azure Local Well-Architected Framework and Review Assessment (Thomas Maurer)
 - Microsoft Entra: Building Trust in a Borderless Digital World (Tiffiany)
 - ESLint v9.39.1 released (Francesco Trotta)
 - Interesting new C# 14 features coming with .NET 10 (Thomas Levesque)
 - ANOVA Using JavaScript (James McCaffrey)
 - Resiliency in the cloud—empowered by shared responsibility and Azure Essentials (Cyril Belikoff)
 - Zod + TypeScript: Schema Validation Made Easy (Hassan Djirdeh)
 - How to Use Merge Fields in React Rich Text Editor for Dynamic Content (Thangavel E.)
 - WebKit Features for Safari 26.1 (Jen Simmons)
 - First Public Working Draft: Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description 2.0 (W3C)
 - Getting Started with the Blazor SpeechToTextButton Component (Héctor Pérez)
 
Windows Development
- Why does SHFormatDateTime take an unaligned FILETIME? (Raymond Chen)
 
.NET and Visual Studio
- Real-Time Multiplayer Card Games in .NET: Deterministic Lockstep, Client Prediction, and Anti-Cheat Architecture (Sudhir Mangla)
 
AI
- How to Build Your First LLM Application Using LangChain and TypeScript and Build an LLM Chat App Using LangGraph, OpenAI and Python—Part 1 and Build an LLM Chat App Using LangGraph, OpenAI and Python—Part 2: Understanding SystemMessage (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Are You Building an AI Kayak or an AI Ship? A New Model for AI Quality (Gil Zilberfeld)
 - Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI (Stevie Bonifield)
 - The AI industry is running on FOMO (Hayden Field)
 - Agentic AI set to reach mass adoption in 2026 (Ian Barker)
 - Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) Is Coming Soon to JetBrains AI (Denis Shiryaev)
 - Changing the AI narrative from liberation to acceleration (Tom Johnson)
 - How to Use Multimodal AI Models With Docker Model Runner (Ignasi Lopez Luna)
 - Jensen Huang on the Future of AI (JD Meier)
 - AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership (OpenAI Team)
 
Python
- Python – Importance of Function and Operations (Sriganapathi Sekar)
 
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Pipe dreams to pipeline realities: an Aspire Pipelines story (Safia Abdalla)
 - Architects Among Us: The Many Shapes of Software Architecture (Adron Hall)
 - Empirical Characterization Testing (Mark Seemann)
 - SesameOp: Novel backdoor uses OpenAI Assistants API for command and control (Microsoft Incident Response Team)
 - Handling Events Coming in an Unknown Order (Oskar Dudycz)
 - You Need To Become A Full Stack Person (Den Delimarsky)
 - Leading by Fitness Functions and The Secret to Giving Feedback Without Triggering Defensiveness (Charlie Kindel)
 - How we use GitHub Issues (on 11ty) and how that’s Changing (Zach Leatherman)
 - Kelsey Hightower on Engineering at Scale (Cynthia Dunlop)
 
Mobile and Game Development
- Health Connect Jetpack v1.1.0 is now available! (Brenda Shaw)
 - Download: Apple Releases iPadOS 26.1, macOS 26.1, tvOS 26.1, watchOS 26.1, visionOS 26.1 (Taimur Asad)
 - Apple brings its App Store to the web (Emma Roth)
 
Screencasts and Videos
- Armchair Architects: Defining AI Agents and Their Core Traits (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
 - A new dashboard for GitHub? – Developer News 43&44/2025 (Noraa on Tech)
 
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Developer Tea Podcast – Part One – Bryan McCann, CTO of You.com, on AI, Engineering, Art, and Everything In Between (Jonathan Cutrell)
 - The GitHub Podcast – TypeScript’s Takeover, AI’s Lift-Off: Inside the 2025 Octoverse Report (Jeff Luszcz, Kedasha Kerr & Andrea)
 - The Stack Overflow Podcast – To write secure code, be less gullible than your AI (Phoebe Sajor)
 - Only Malware in the Building Episode #17 – Pass the intel, please. (Selena Larson, Keith Mularsky & Dave Bittner)
 - The PowerShell Podcast – BurntToast v1.0 and 10 Years of PowerShell Notifications with Josh King (James Petty)
 - The Changelog News Podcast Episode #168 – The overlooked power of URLs (Jerod Santo)
 - Why It Accidentally Got Called Nano Banana 🍌 | Made by Google Podcast S8E8 (Rachid Finge)
 - Python Bytes Podcast Episode #456 – You’re so wrong (Michael Kennedy)
 - Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #250 – The End of “Collect Everything”? Moving from Centralization to Data Access? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
 - Syntax Podcast Episode #951 – A first look at Remix 3 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
 - The Day I Discovered I Was a Scrum Project Manager, Not a Scrum Master | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Karim Harbott)
 - Grammar Girl Podcast – What Roman togas have to do with today’s elections. ‘Home in’ versus ‘hone in.’ (Mignon Fogarty)
 - CloudChat Episode #27 – Whoops, No VM’s!!! (Carl Schweitzer & Brendan Martinez)
 
Community and Events
- Get ready: Microsoft Ignite 2025 is almost here! (Jill Armour)
 - F# Advent Calendar in English 2025 (Sergey Tihon)
 - Microsoft’s $15.2 Billion USD Investment in the UAE (Brad Smith)
 - What’s new at Stack Overflow: November 2025 (Zach Rutta)
 
Database
- SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 35 (Erik Darling)
 - Building dbRosetta Using AI: Part 1 of Many (Grant Fritchey)
 
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Retirement of the Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel and next steps (Obada Anwar)
 - New developer resource page for Microsoft 365 interoperability and data portability (Microsoft Teams Team)
 - Microsoft Teams Town Hall: Host Professional Digital and Hybrid Events at Scale (Drew Blundell)
 - 7 hidden gems to effectively manage your tasks in Microsoft Planner (Nancy)
 - Introducing voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot: a more productive way to work on the go. (Seth Patton)
 
PowerShell and Terminal
General
- EV Sales Plummet In October After Federal Tax Credit Ends (BeauHD)
 - Windows 7 Squeezed To 69MB in Proof-of-Concept Build (msmash)
 - Windows 11 Start menu’s hide Recommended toggle also disables Recent files in File Explorer (Mayank Parmar)
 - Ben & Jerry’s co-founder seeks public input on new watermelon ice cream flavor that calls for “a permanent peace in Palestine” (Jennifer Sandlin)
 
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – November 3, 2025 (#657) (Richard Seroter)
 - Interesting links of the week 2025-45 (Michael Eaton)
 - Reading Notes #672 (Frank Boucher)
 - The .NET News Daily Issue #317 (Jasen Fici)
 - Windows news you can use: October 2025 (EricMoe)
 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Project Rainier online, Amazon Nova, Amazon Bedrock, and more (November 3, 2025) (Betty Zheng)