Top Links
- Visual Studio Dev/Test Benefit Explained (Jim Harrer)
- Windows App SDK Experimental 1 Version (Roy MacLachlan)
- 9 ReSharper Features Every .NET Developer Should Know (Matthias Koch)
- .NET MAUI Survey – Oct 2025 (David Ortinau)
- Introducing apps in ChatGPT and the new Apps SDK and Codex is now generally available (OpenAI Team)
- TechBash 2025 Single-Day Tickets Now Available! (TechBash Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Blazor Code Behind (Bryan Hogan)
- Wasm 3.0: No Component Model and No ‘Docker Moment’ (B. Cameron Gain)
- IBM Granite 4.0 Models Now Available on Docker Hub (Eric Curtin)
- Working with the KendoReact Popup Component (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Redis Warns of Critical Flaw Impacting Thousands of Instances (BeauHD)
- Smashing Animations Part 5: Building Adaptive SVGs With “, “, And CSS Media Queries (Andy Clarke)
- Unlimited access to Docker Hardened Images: Because security should be affordable, always (Michael Donovan)
- Azure Cache for Redis Retirement: What to Know and How to Prepare (Shruti Pathak)
- When to Use Zod, TypeScript, or Both: A Developer’s Guide (Alexander Godwin)
Visual Studio & .NET
- ReSharper and Rider 2025.2.3: The Third Set of Updates Released (Sasha Ivanova)
- GUI for Azure Trusted Signing Local Exe dotNet 4.8 (Mark Pahulje)
- How to Find an Available Network Port for a server in .NET (Gérald Barré)
- Automatic Mappings with AutoMapper (Ricardo Peres)
AI
- Boost Your React Development with the Syncfusion AI Coding Assistant and Supercharge Your Blazor Development with the Syncfusion GitHub Copilot Extension (Vignesh Sivaji)
- Docker at AI Engineer Paris: Build and Secure AI Agents with Docker (Oleg Selajev)
- Unleash your creativity at scale: Azure AI Foundry’s multimodal revolution (Steve Sweetman & Naomi Moneypenny)
- AMD and OpenAI announce strategic partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs (OpenAI Team)
- AI Agents: Rich Oases of Knowledge, Barren Deserts of Wisdom (Bahman M.)
- Delegating the Grunt Work: AI Agents for UI Test Development (Colin Eberhardt)
- Stitching with the new Jules API (Dion Almaer)
- How to Build an AI Chatbot with Facebook Messenger, OpenAI, and Twilio Programmable Messaging using Python (Dylan Frankcom)
- Llama.cpp Gets an Upgrade: Resumable Model Downloads (Eric Curtin)
- When AI Meets Biology: Promise, Risk, and Responsibility (Eric Horvitz)
- OpenAI Launches a No-Code Agent Builder (Frederic Lardinois)
- Designer/Developer Collaboration in the Age of AI (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
- Getting Started with AI Agents: A Student Developer’s Guide to the Microsoft Agent Framework (Lee Stott)
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 Ranked Safest LLM From Open-Source Audit Tool Petri (Matt Foster)
- Optimizing AI Workflows with a Human in the Middle (Matt Spillar)
- Ask a techspert: What is vibe coding? (Molly McHugh-Johnson)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Customize Your App Installer UI in Minutes – No XML Required (Renato Ivanescu)
- Bridging the Gap Between Software Engineering and Business Goals (Chris Woodruff)
- Inside Microsoft Threat Intelligence: Calm in the chaos (Elliot Volkman)
- The developer role is evolving. Here’s how to stay ahead. (Gwen Davis)
- The State of CI/CD in 2025: Key Insights from the Latest JetBrains Survey (Olga Bedrina)
- Code comments should apply to the state of the system at the point the comment “executes” (Raymond Chen)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Introducing Swift Profile Recorder: Identifying Performance Bottlenecks in Production (Johannes Weiss & Mitchell Allison)
Screencasts & Videos
- Install & Use Azure MCP Server in VS 2022, VS Code & IntelliJ | Azure Developers (Sandeep Sen)
- Azure Pricing Calculator: Estimate Smarter, Plan Confidently | The Azure Essentials Show (Thomas Maurer & Britt Henderson)
- Playwright v1.56: introducing Playwright Agents to plan, generate and heal tests (Playwright Team)
- A lot of GitHub (Copilot) Updates – Developer News 40/2025 (Noraa on Tech)
- Random.Code() – Automatically Logging Invocations Using Interceptors, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
- Wolfram Was Right About Everything (Frank LaVigna)
- Level up your Python Gen AI Skills from our free nine-part YouTube series! (Pamela Fox)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Elena Samuylova on Large Language Model (LLM) Based Application Evaluation and LLM as a Judge (Elena Samuylova)
- Developer Tea – Engage in Deliberate Practice to Level Up Your Engineering Leadership Skills (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Merge Conflict Episode #483 – Never too late to migrate & modernize (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Microsoft Research Podcast – Ideas: More AI-resilient biosecurity with the Paraphrase Project (Eric Horvitz, Bruce Wittmann, Tessa Alexanian & James Diggans)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #943 – Modern React with Ricky Hanlon (React Core Dev) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Beyond AI Code Assistants: How Moldable Development Answers Questions AI Can’t | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Tudor Girba)
- The PowerShell Podcast – AutomatedLab, GUIs, and automation with Steviecoaster (James Petty)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #164 – The best coders should exit the feed (Jerod Santo)
- Cloud Chat Episode #26 – Are Your Cloud Costs Too Damn High??? (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
- SyncUp, A OneDrive Podcast – Audio Overviews in OneDrive (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #246 – From Scanners to AI: 25 Years of Vulnerability Management with Qualys CEO Sumedh Thakar (Anton Chuvakin)
- Only Malware in the Building Episode #16 – When malware goes bump in the night (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #522 – Data Sci Tips and Tricks from CodeCut.ai (Michael Kennedy)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Context is king for secure, AI-generated code (Phoebe Sajor)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – ‘Math’ versus ‘maths’ and other British differences. ‘Spendthrift’ means what? (Mignon Fogarty, Samantha Enslen & Karen Lunde)
- AI & I Podcast – 🎧 He’s Building the Plumbing For AI to Use the Internet and AI & I Podcast – 🎧 How to Use Claude Code as a Second Brain and AI & I Podcast – 🎧 Cognition’s CEO on What Comes After Code (Rhea Purohit)
Community & Events
- One Day Tickets Now Available for TechBash 2025 (Jason Gaylord)
- Inside Microsoft’s AI bet with CTO Kevin Scott at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 (TechCrunch Events Team)
Database
- Why We Created Turso, a Rust-Based Rewrite of SQLite (Glauber Costa)
- From Firefighting to Future‑Building: SQL Server 2025 and the New DataOps Mindset (Chris Yates)
- macOS Tahoe breaks SQL Server on Docker containers on Apple silicon (Randolph West)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Fun with RAISERROR! (Erik Darling)
PowerShell
- Handle fonts on Windows with PowerShell (Horatiu Vladasel)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27959 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6772 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6772 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Tech companies poured money into carbon removal projects now in Trump’s crosshairs (Justine Calma)
- Microsoft buys another 100 MW of solar, this time in Japan (Tim De Chant)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-41 (Michael Eaton)
- dotInsights | October 2025 (Rachel Appel)
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – October 3 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – October 6, 2025 (#642) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, AWS Outposts, Amazon ECS Managed Instances, AWS Builder ID, and more (October 6, 2025) (Prasad Rao)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #297 (Jasen)
- Reading Notes #668 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link