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Top Links

• Changelog & Friends Podcast Episode #95 – wsl.exe — cat hello.cs (Craig Loewen, Mads Torgersen, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
• Text Formatting in Notepad begin rolling out to Windows Insiders (Dave Grochocki)
• Build Agents using Model Context Protocol on Azure | Microsoft Learn (John Alexander)
• Configuring Microsoft.AI.Extension with multiple providers (Rick Strahl)
• Agility SDK 1.717-preview and 1.616-retail (Adele Parsons)
• Bring your PWA closer to users with App Actions on Windows (Microsoft Edge Team)

Web & Cloud Development

• TLS Inspection now in Microsoft Entra Internet Access (Ashish Jain)
• Handling OpenID Connect error events in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
• Billions of Cookies Up For Grabs As Experts Warn Over Session Security (BeauHD)
• Marten 8.0, Wolverine 4.0, and even Lamar 15.0 are out! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Seamless Real-Time Word Document Collaboration in Angular Using Redis (Ramkumar Ravy)
• Microsoft designates Blazor as its main future investment in web UI for .NET (Tim Anderson)
• Introducing Lizzy.js (Stoyan Stefanov)
• Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 2: More on Arcs (Temani Afif)
• ESLint v9.28.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
• What’s new in Astro – May 2025 (Sarah Rainsberger)
• YARP vs Nginx – A Quick Performance Comparison (Milan Jovanović)
• Postman’s handling of secrets (Postman Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• ENAMEL RFC Revision 1 (Matt Lacey)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Why is enumerating over List faster than IList? (Steven Giesel)
• Event Sourcing Pattern: An In-Depth Guide for Software Architects and Mastering the Choreography Pattern: An In-Depth Guide for C# and .NET Architects (Sudhir Mangla)
• Using Oracle with Entity Framework (Bryan Hogan)
• Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 Introduces Agent Mode and Advanced Copilot Assistance (Edin Kapić)
• Using an oracle to see where your code is producing the wrong output (Raymond Chen)
• Boost Your .NET Projects: Enhance Your Workflow with AssemblyHelper in Spargine (David McCarter)

AI

• The AI Testing Dilemma: Why Human-Written Unit Tests Still Matter in 2025 (Eli Lopian)
• Quickstart: Generate a video with Sora (preview) (Microsoft Learn)
• Azure AI Search Unveils Agentic Retrieval for Smarter Conversational AI (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• AI is Just a Tool – The Journey Still Belongs to People (Chris Pietschmann)
• API quick reference guides (and the challenges of passing long content into AI contexts) (Tom Johnson)
• Microsoft Targets AI ‘Holy Grail’ With Windows ML 2.0 (Agam Shah)
• Introducing Perplexity Labs (Perplexity Team)
• MCP for Beginners | GitHub (Microsoft)
• GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (Marco Milanta & Luca Beurer-Kellner)
• LLM timeline (Bart Wullems)
• AI Could Consume More Power Than Bitcoin By the End of 2025 and Hugging Face Introduces Two Open-Source Robot Designs (BeauHD)
• Microsoft Open Sources the GitHub Copilot Chat Extension (Bruno Couriol)
• GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot and The Workers Who Lost Their Jobs To AI and Will ‘Vibe Coding’ Transform Programming? (EditorDavid)
• Build a Voice‑Driven WhatsApp Ticket Booking App with AI, Twilio & .NET (Jacob Snipes)
• Yet Another GenAI Nightmare: Seven Shadow AI Pitfalls to Avoid (Jason Bloomberg)
• AI for SQL Performance: How AI is Transforming Query Optimization in 2025 (Jegan R.)
• TRAINING: Microsoft Copilot Masterclass: Enhancing Productivity for Public Sector – On-demand (Kurt Shintaku)
• Why AI Evals Matter: Real-World Lessons in Risk Management (Munish Munagala)
• Will AI make all code eventually look like demo code? (Matt Lacey)
• Homework Machine Saves Time, Possibly (Sam Freeman)
• Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out (Sarah Perez)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Building and Publishing a NuGet Package with Azure DevOps Pipelines (Kevin Logan)
• Why Platform Engineering Is the DevOps You Actually Wanted! (Shannon Kuehn)
• Docker’s Best-Kept Secret: How Observability Saves Developers’ Sanity (Aditya Gupta)
• Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes (Ankur Garg)
• Figma Slides is a Beautiful Disaster (Allen Pike)
• Unlocking innovation through modern application development (Deepak Raghavan)
• The Untapped Power of Veteran Engineers: Why Companies Are Overlooking Their Most Valuable Assets – Part 2 (David McCarter)
• Revolutionize Your Enterprise: Unleashing the Power of ILM (Micheal Colhoun)
• Testing races with a slow Decorator (Mark Seemann)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Firebase Studio: Tips and Tricks (Jess Kuras)
• D3D12 Shader Execution Reordering (Amar Patel)
• D3D12 Opacity Micromaps (Amar Patel & Adam Miles)
• Game ideas that SHOULDN’T work, and Open Source Robots! (Code Monkey)

Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Tommy Falgout on Bad AI in a Box (David Giard)
• The Future Of Software Engineering – Simon Guest (CTO, Code.org) (Den Delimarsky)
• Satya Nadella Explains The Future of AI-Powered Coding and Multi-Agent Systems (Tiff in Tech)
• A day with Claude (Anthropic Team)
• Random.Code() – Writing An Analyzer to Discourage Old Collections in Transpire (Jason Bock)
• NotebookLM demo (Google Cloud Team)
• What is Editor used for in SQL databases in Fabric? | One Dev Question (Yo-Lei Chen)

Podcasts

• freeCodeCamp Podcast #174 – How to Survive in Tech When Everything’s Changing w/ 21-year Veteran Dev Joe Attardi (Beau Carnes)
• CppCast – From Refactoring to (physical) Relocation (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
• GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft, Remitly, and the new shape of work — plus, Amazon’s NYT AI deal (Todd Bishop)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS Martti Kuldma: How to Transform Century-Old Organizations Through Product-Driven Agile Transformation (Vasco Duarte)
• The Changelog Podcast Episode #643 – The Web Development Engine (Andreas Møller, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Engineer in the Loop Podcast – AI Under the Hood with Head of IT Renard Henry of Toyota Connected (Alec Harrison)
• DAWBench Radio Show Episode #36 : Honouring the Legendary : Bob Moog Foundation : Innovation, Inspiration, and Igniting Creativity ! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown & Michelle Moog-Koussa)
• Dev Leader Podcast – Leadership Principles for Software Engineers: Interview With Adrian Stanek (Nick Cosentino)
• AGL 419: James Turk (John Rouda)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast – 3 Shifts Engineering Managers Must Make to Reach Director (Max Ahumada)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #314 – Federated learning in production (part 1) (Patrick Foley, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)

Community & Events

• MVP’s Favorite Content: Azure Well-Architected Framework, VS Code, Jamf Pro, Azure SQL Database (Rie Moriguchi)
• Experience Pride with Google (Zach Overton)
• Google celebrates Pride Month, but is it genuine support or just pandering? (Brian Fagioli)
• dotNetDave Says… Soft Skills at Conferences Matter—A Lot! (David McCarter)
• Left-leaning influencers embrace Bluesky without abandoning X, Pew says and Video game union announces first contract with Microsoft (Anthony Ha)
• Rebooting Redmond: Microsoft’s new campus reflects ongoing transformation, uncertain future (Todd Bishop)
• GitHub Universe 2025: Here’s what’s in store at this year’s developer wonderland (Jeimy Ruiz)

Database

• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Stupid OUTPUT Stuff and Learn T-SQL With Erik: A Neat GROUP BY Trick (Erik Darling)
• Copilot Outside of SSMS Seems to Work (Steve Jones)
• Powering Real-Time Messaging at Scale with Azure Cosmos DB (Surendra Singh)
• SQL Blunders: Stop Writing These Pointless Queries & Write Smarter! (Tracy McKibben)
• Moving from SQL to MongoDB’s MQL (Robert Sheldon)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Designs for the frontier future – How we rebuilt the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for a new kind of productivity (Jon Friedman)

Miscellaneous

• Intune requirement for Arm64 devices (Stephan van Rooij)
• Can a redesign save Apple’s software? (David Pierce)
• RFK Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report seems riddled with AI slop (Jess Weatherbed)
• DOGE Is Busier Than Ever—and Trump Says Elon Musk Is ‘Really Not Leaving’ (Makena Kelly, Leah Feiger & Zoë Schiffer)
• Have I Been Pwned 2.0 Adds New Tools for Data Breach Monitoring (Matt Foster)
• Teaching Python with Codespaces (Pamela Fox)
• Configure SSH Server on Windows Server 2025 (Orin Thomas)
• Microsoft releases a bold new update for Notepad (Tom Warren)
• Ending USB-C® Port Confusion (Ugan S.)

More Link Collections

• F# Weekly #22, 2025 – Ionide with Cursor (Sergey Tihon)
• Windows news you can use: May 2025 (Thomas Trombley)
• Azure Weekly #517 – 1st June 2025 (The Editor)
• Daily Reading List – May 30, 2025 (#563) (Richard Seroter)
• PHP Annotated – May 2025 (Roman Pronskiy)
• The .NET News Daily Issue #208 (jasen)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral link