Top Links
- How Copilot helps build the GitHub platform (Matt Nigh)
- Announcing Flutter 3.38 & Dart 3.10: Building the future of apps (Emma Twersky)
- Modern Windows Development with .NET | .NET Conf 2025 (Michael Hawker & Roy MacLachlan)
- NuGet 7.0 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- .NET MAUI is Coming to Linux and the Browser, Powered by Avalonia (Mike James)
- VS Code October 2025 release (version 1.106) (Visual Studio Code Team)
- Visual Studio: Introducing Copilot auto model selection (preview) (Rhea Patel & Nhu Do)
Web and Cloud Development
- Aspire — Your stack, streamlined (Source code for https://aspire.dev on GitHub) (Aspire Team)
- How I Built SqliteWasmBlazor: Bringing Real SQLite with Full EF Core to the Browser (Bernhard Straub)
- Infinite scale: The architecture behind the Azure AI superfactory (Scott Guthrie)
- Blazorise 1.8.6 – .NET 10 Ready (Mladen Macanović)
- Syncfusion Announces Day-1 Support for .NET 10 in Blazor Components (Muthukumar Kannan)
- Why the Frontend Should Run AI Models Locally With ONNX (Loraine Lawson)
- Announcing v1.3.0 of the Vonage Video Reference App for React (Chris Tankersley)
- Older Tech In The Browser Stack (Bryan Rasmussen)
- Syntax Highlighting in Web Component Templates (Remy Sharp)
Windows Development
- Perform wide-sweeping refactors using C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot (Sinem Akinci)
- Optimize Your C++ Build Times with GitHub Copilot (David Li)
- Non-recursively deleting a binary tree in constant space: Rotating the tree (Raymond Chen)
- Fix build issues using GitHub Copilot after upgrading MSVC Build Tools (Michael Price)
.NET and Visual Studio
- What’s new in .NET 10? (John Townsend)
- AsyncAwaitBestPractices (extensions for Task and ValueTask) release v10.0.0 with .NET 10 support (Brandon Minnick)
- Building Uber’s Dynamic Pricing Engine in .NET: Supply-Demand Algorithms, Geospatial Indexing, and Real-Time Market Simulation (Sudhir Mangla)
- Syncfusion Delivers Day-1 Support for .NET 10 Across UI Components and Document Libraries (Meena Alagiah)
- Resetting the experimental instance of Visual Studio has changed in 2026 (v18) (Matt Lacey)
- Day-Zero Support for .NET 10 Across Progress Telerik (Ed Charbeneau)
AI
- AI-Generated Song Tops Country Music Chart (BeauHD)
- One thing enterprise AI projects need to succeed? Community. (Katja Skafar)
- MCP is a Valid Tactical Response (Kin Lane)
- Introducing AI Playground on Azure App Service for Linux (Tulika C.)
- Vibe Coding with GitHub Spark: From idea to app in minutes (continued) (Bart Wullems)
- Why Real-Time RAG Matters — and Why Modern GenAI Systems Must Be Architected This Way (Munish Munagala)
- The AI Agents Paradox: Reality vs. Hype in 2025 (JD Meier)
- Uplifting and empowering young people for an AI future (Courtney Gregoire)
- Your AI Pair Programmer Is Not a Person (Tim O’Brien)
- What is Agentic AI? How Agents Plan, Act, and Adapt (Postman Team)
- Designing Faster: Using AI to Build Quick Concepts in Figma Make (or other AI driven prototype… (Chip)
- What AI I Use How and When (November 2025 Update) (Eleanor Berger)
- Using AI Agents parameters outside of the model’s scope (Oren Eini)
- Improving VMware migration workflows with agentic AI (MIT Technology Review Insights)
- Datasets for Training a Language Model (Adrian Tam)
Python
- How to Parse XML in Python Without Using External Libraries (Bala Priya C.)
- What’s New for Python on App Service for Linux: pyproject.toml, uv, and more (Tulika C.)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- DZone Trend Report: Intelligent Observability – Building a Foundation for Reliability at Scale (Stelios Manioudakis, Pratik Prakash, Marija Naumovska & G. Ryan Spain)
- Beyond YAML in Kubernetes: The 2026 Automation Era (Sara Huddleston)
- Docker Desktop 4.50: Indispensable for Daily Development (Deanna Sparks)
- You might be a forward-deployed engineer if… (Julie Yack)
- What Developers Really Mean by “Bad Code” (Kerry Beetge)
Mobile and Game Development
- Google will let ‘experienced users’ keep sideloading Android apps (Dominic Preston)
- Swift GSoC 2025 highlight: Improved code completion for Swift (Ahmed Elrefaey & Konrad ‘ktoso’ Malawski)
- Valve surprises with 3 new hardware devices in a full-circle moment for gaming giant (Thomas Wilde)
- Android developer verification: Early access starts now as we continue to build with your feedback (Matthew Forsythe)
- What’s new in Flutter 3.38 (Kevin Chisholm)
- Announcing Dart 3.10 (Amanda Fitch)
- The Steam Frame is a surprising new twist on VR (Jay Peters)
- Valve has no news about Steam Deck 2 and Valve is welcoming Android games into Steam and Valve enters the console wars (Sean Hollister)
Screencasts and Videos
- Performance Improvements in .NET 10 | .NET Conf 2025 (Stephen Toub)
- Armchair Architects: Designing Effective AI Agents (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
- Walking through my WINDOWS setup script for Development! | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- Aspire: Cloud-Native Development Simplified | .NET Conf 2025 (Maddie Montaquila & Damian Edwards)
- Nano Banana 2 is Coming. Is it Part of Gemini 3? and Lovable Boasts 8m Users: Long-Live Vibe Coding? (AIDailyBrief)
- Refactor C++ code using C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot (Sinem Akinci)
- What’s New in C# 14 | .NET Conf 2025 (Dustin Campbell)
- Provisioning SQL Server 2025 Databases to Kubernetes using Pure Storage Snapshots | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman Dhananjay Mahajan & Andrew Pruski)
- What’s New in Windows Forms | .NET Conf 2025 (Merrie McGaw & Klaus Loeffelmann)
- GitHub Copilot build performance for Windows (David Li)
- The future of Python and AI with Guido van Rossum | Python on Azure (Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza & Marlene Mahngami)
- Turn ON these 3 NEW Visual Studio 2026 Insiders AI features NOW! (James Montemagno)
- Build better web apps with Blazor in .NET 10 | .NET Conf 2025 (Daniel Roth)
- What’s New in .NET MAUI | .NET Conf 2025 (David Ortinau)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Old Developers using New Tools with Brady Gaster (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #694 – Jennings Anderson and Amy Rose on Overture Maps (Gregory M. Kapfhammer)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #80 – Oh My Posh – with Jan De Dobbeleer (Dan Clarke)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #666 – DO repeat yourself! (Sean Goedecke, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- The Tax Teams Pay for Organizational Standards | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Alidad Hamidi)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The secret rules of crossword puzzles, with Natan Last (Mignon Fogarty)
- Build Mode Podcast – Product, Meet Market (Isabelle Johannessen)
- Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Episode #606 – Alien: Earth Season 1 Review (David Barr Kirtley)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #954 – Fullstack TanStack! The Scoop with Tanner Linsley (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Community and Events
- What is the Open Source Maintenance Fee? (Rob Mensching & Sean Killeen)
- Google Summer of Code 2025: What Our Contributors Built (Ksenia Shneyveys)
- Session Guide to Azure AI Foundry @ Microsoft Ignite: Must-See Developer Sessions (Sandra Perez)
- Introducing Our Final AWS Heroes of 2025 (Taylor Jacobsen)
- The Copilot Studio User Group Has A New Group For Community Events! (UhLukas)
- Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures awards $250M to women’s health organizations worldwide (Lisa Stiffler)
Database
- A Practical Guide to Implement Data Quality Rules in SQL Server (Kenneth A. Omorodion)
- Release Announcement of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.4 (subhojitbasak)
- 5 Strategies to Refactor SQL Code (Lee Asher)
- How to Query JSON Data Quickly in SQL Server, Part 2: SQL Server 2025 (Brent Ozar)
- SQL Server 2025 RegEx and AI (Steve Jones)
Writing
- A Quick Start Guide To Writing An Inciting Incident (Writers Write)
Tools
- Fall 2025 Windows Musician Technology and Arm64 Update (Pete Brown)
- Connection Explorer shows where your PC is sending data in real time (Wayne Williams)
General
- Forget Microsoft’s unpopular agentic AI OS plans, Windows Aero makes a comeback in new ‘Windows 26’ concept — but with a futuristic twist and a consistent dark theme (Kevin Okemwa)
- US Ends Penny-Making Run After More Than 230 Years (msmash)
- Apple launches a Digital ID and says it’ll be accepted by the TSA (Emma Roth)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – November 9 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – November 12, 2025 (#664) (Richard Seroter)
