Top Links
- The Mountains are Calling! Meet Text Control at TechBash 2025 (Bjoern Meyer)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 10 Release Candidate 2 (Dan Roth)
- .NET Rocks! – Digging Deeper into .NET Aspire with Chris Klug (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Copilot: Faster, smarter, and built for how you work now (Ashley Willis)
- Turn Ideas into Mind Maps with OpenAI and Vue Diagram Library (Shyam G.)
- PowerToys 0.95 is here: new Light Switch utility, faster Command Palette, and Peek with Spacebar (Niels Laute)
Web Development
- Secure coding in JavaScript (Tanya Janca)
- Easily connect AI workloads to Azure Blob Storage with adlfs (Vishnu Charan TJ)
- Node.js v25.0.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
- 4 Ways to Embed DOCX in HTML for Interactive Web Apps (Ramkumar Ravy)
- JetBrains Is Sunsetting CodeCanvas (Elizaveta Zaytseva)
- Bing Introduces Support for the data-nosnippet HTML Attribute (Bing Team)
- Cost Optimization of Azure AI Services (RRAJMSFT)
- An Introduction to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Part 3: The Path Element (Rob Larsen)
.NET, C++ & Visual Studio
- Advanced Installer’s Integration with Visual Studio (Advanced Installer Team)
- Improving Security with .NET Aspire (Ivan Honchar)
- Why can you increment a reference count with relaxed semantics, but you have to decrement with release semantics? (Raymond Chen)
- Tsetlin Machine Binary Classification Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- Add the SSIS Extension to Visual Studio 2026 Insiders (Andy Leonard)
AI
- Implement a secure MCP OAuth desktop client using OAuth and Entra ID (Damien Bowden)
- From Habits to Tools (Andrew Stellman)
- Hello AI World! Introducing Oracle AI Database 26ai and ODP.NET 26ai (Alex Keh)
- Smart photo organization through privacy-first, on-device AI (Cynthia Wong)
- Introducing Test-Driven Vibe Development (Irfan M.)
- Understanding hybrid inference: the role of Firebase AI Logic (Ankita Saxena)
- Sora 2 now available in Azure AI Foundry (Akshay Kakar)
- Say hello to a new level of interactivity in Gemini CLI (Gal Zahavi & Jack Wotherspoon)
- How to add MCP Servers to Gemini CLI with Docker MCP Toolkit (Ajeet Singh Raina)
- Grounding AI: Why Data Foundations Decide Who Wins (Daniela Chesser)
- How to Use the ChatGPT Apps SDK: Build a Pizza App with Apps SDK (Shola Jegede)
- Turning Customer Feedback into Actionable Insights (Ed Essey)
- Role of Memory in Context Engineering (Mahesh Chand)
- Learn MCP Essentials and How to Create Secure Agent Interfaces with FastMCP (Beau Carnes)
- Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic Team)
- Magic Words: Programming the Next Generation of AI Applications (Tim O’Reilly)
- Why context engineering is like teaching AI to skip stones (Matt Kamelman)
- Future-proofing business capabilities with AI technologies (MIT Technology Review Insights)
- AI agents: The next wave of AI-powered innovation (Anne Nicole)
Python
- Python 3.14 Is Out (I Programmer)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Turn Software Updates into a Subscription Renewal Strategy with Advanced Installer Updater (Renato Ivanescu)
- How to Do High-Quality AI-Assisted Design Work (Chip)
- Result isomorphism (Mark Seemann)
- Using Platform Hub to increase Supply Chain Security (Bob Walker)
- Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl (Martin Fowler)
Mobile and Game Development
- What’s New in the All-in-One .NET MAUI Templates Pack v7.10 (Vijay Anand E G)
- Beyond Single Features: Guaranteeing Feature Combinations With CameraX 1.5 (Tahsin Masrur)
- Tips and games for ROG Xbox Ally handhelds (Athima Chansanchai)
- Apple Vision Pro upgraded with the M5 chip and Dual Knit Band (Apple)
Screencasts and Videos
- Debugger Agent for Unit Tests (Visual Studio Team)
- From Barking to Building: How GitHub Copilot Solved a Real-Life Problem | Sip and Sync with Azure (Govind Kamtamneni & Damian Hasak)
- Building Multiple Implementations Of The Same Spec with GitHub Spec Kit (Den Delimarsky)
Podcasts
- Verge subscribers, here’s how to set up ad-free podcasts (Kara Verlaney)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #662 – Spec-driven development with Kiro (Deepak Singh, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- AI & I Podcast – 🎧 How Playing Games Is Making AI Smarter (Rhea Purohit)
- Managing Dependencies and Downstream Bottlenecks in Scrum | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Renee Troughton)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why Q needs U and how hieroglyphics created our alphabet, with Danny Bate (Mignon Fogarty)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast – Think a Recruiter Will Land You Your Dream Job? Read This First (Max Ahumada)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #946 – We Got Roasted for Our Websites — Fair (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Community
- [Livestream] Maximizing TeamCity: New Features in Action and a Look Ahead (Olga Bedrina)
- 🚀✨ Get ready for a power-packed November with the Microsoft Zero to Hero Community! ✨🚀 (Saeid Dahl)
Database
- SQL Server Management Studio 22 Preview now supports SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) (Chunhua)
- Oracle Database@Azure offers new features, regions, and programs to unlock data and AI innovation (Brett Tanzer)
- Using CockroachDB in Secure Mode Locally (Bryan Hogan)
- SSMS v22 Query Hint Recommendation Tool: The Invasion of the Query Hints (Brent Ozar)
- Top Features of Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric (Jessica Hill)
- Random Gaussian Numbers in SQL using Box-Muller Transform (Sebastiao Pereira)
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options for SQL Server and Azure SQL – Part 1 (Aleksey Vitsko)
- Data Migration – Azure SQL MI and Azure SQL DB (akiohose)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- These are the Office icons Microsoft rejected (Tom Warren)
General
- Steve Jobs will appear on commemorative $1 coin (Robert Hart)
- Microsoft is reportedly moving its Surface manufacturing out of China (Tom Warren)
- Apple unveils new 14‑inch MacBook Pro powered by the M5 chip (Apple)
- Common Yeast Can Survive Martian Conditions (BeauHD)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – October 12 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – October 15, 2025 (#649) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #304 (Jasen)
