Top Links
- đ The Windows Community Toolkit is 9 years old! đ (Michael Hawker)
- ReSharperâs New Out-of-Process Engine Cuts UI Freezes in Visual Studio by 80% (Mehul Harry)
- Getting Started with the Aspire CLI (Jeffrey Fritz)
- How GitHub Models can help open source maintainers focus on what matters (Ashley Wolf)
- Announcing Awesome Copilot MCP Server (Justin Yoo)
- Kalahari Room Discounts and Standard Registration End Oct 3rd! Labor Day 10% Off Sale Ends Monday Night! (TechBash Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- .NET Aspire 4: Integrations (Dave Brock)
- Learning web development: Plain objects in JavaScript and JavaScriptâs trademark problem (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Kubernetes v1.34: User preferences (kuberc) are available for testing in kubectl 1.34 (Maciej Szulik)
- Node.js v22.19.0 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
- Secure by Design: A Shift-Left Approach with Testcontainers, Docker Scout, and Hardened Images (Anna Chernyshova)
- How to hide âServerâ and âX-Powered-Byâ headers in ASP.NET Core (Bart Wullems)
- Integrating OpenAIâs GPT with Angular: A Step-by-Step Guide and How to Use Ocelot as an API Gateway in ASP.NET Core and Getting Started with the Resource API in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Blazor Radar Charts: Visualizing Football Defending Stats Made Easy (Kathiravan Rajesh)
- How to Customize JavaScript Pivot Table Values: A Developerâs Guide (Sastha Prathap)
- Kubernetes without an Operating Model is Just Controlled Chaos (Shannon Kuehn)
- Introducing Metaâs New REST API Framework: What Developers Need to Know (Nicholas Wright)
- Moving the public Stack Overflow sites to the cloud: Part 1 (Wouter de Kort & Joseph Schwanz)
- Building a Web Based Comic Book Reader (Raymond Camden)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- The Easiest Way to Do OpenTelemetry in .NET: OTLP + Collector (Aaron Stannard)
- Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 14: Nonthrowing moves with the shared tracking pointer (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development (Martin Fowler)
- Implementing Asynchronous Human-in-the-Loop Authorization in Python with LangGraph and Auth0 (Raphael do Vale)
- Stanford study reveals ‘Generative AI’ steals the most jobs in exposed industries like coding â usually from young professionals (Cale Hunt)
- Whatâs New in Azure AI Foundry Fine-tuning: August 2025 (malenaLS)
- Vivaldi rejects AI browsing: âHumans over hypeâ (Mark Hachman)
- Passed the Microsoft AI-900 exam for Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals! đ (Thomas Maurer)
- AI agents and the web – A proposal to keep developers in the loop (Patrick Brosset)
- Introducing gpt-realtime and Realtime API updates (OpenAI Team)
- How to prompt Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Generation for the best results (Philipp Schmid, Logan Kilpatrick & Alisa Fortin)
- Why MCP Gives AI the âArms and Legsâ for Real-World Action (Dhanji R. Prasanna)
- Microsoft AI launches its first in-house models (Emma Roth)
- Certifications refresh: AI-focused and fundamentals updates (Gretchen LaBelle)
- AI’s Career Ladder Crisis: Entry-Level Tech Jobs Are Vanishing (Gary Espinosa)
- Install Cursor and Learn Programming With AI Help (Jack Wallen)
- How we accelerated Secret Protection engineering with Copilot (Parth Sehgal)
- Vivaldi Comes Out Swinging Against AI Web Browsers (Paul Thurrott)
- Building an AI-first platform strategy (Rahib Amin)
- Whatâs New in AI for Security from Microsoft Entra? (rahulpr)
- Vibing options for whoever you are (Richard Seroter)
- MCP: The Universal Connector for Building Smarter, Modular AI Agents (Sanjay Surendranath Girija, Lakshit Arora & Shashank Kapoor)
- Speeding up Firefox Local AI Runtime (Tarek Ziadé, Paul Adenot & Serge Guelton)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- From Black Box to Blueprint (Martin Fowler)
- Why Go design patterns still matter (Peter Aideloje)
- Writing isolated (integration)tests with TestContainers (Tim Deschryver)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Cordova App Hello World 7.0.0 Released! and Cordova Fetch 5.0.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
- Raspberry Pi in the stratosphere (Ashley Whittaker)
- Level up your SwiftUI (Paul Hudson)
- Xboxâs cross-device play history syncs your recently played games on every screen (Emma Roth)
- Play a new version of DOOM on SNES with the help of RP2350 (Rob Zwetsloot)
Screencasts & Videos
- Vibe Coding with James Live! VS Code, Copilot, Coding Agents, & more! (James Montemagno)
- Writing some code | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Random.Code() – Adding Filtered Properties to AutoDeconstruct, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
- You open sourced WSL. What does that mean? | One Dev Question (Craig Loewen)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Building a Resilient and Inclusive Engineering Culture with Matthew Card (Matthew Card)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – How do Lead with Value with Dr. Morgan Depenbusch (Scott Hanselman)
- Product Owner Patterns – From Absent to Exceptional | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and The SECI Model of Knowledge Management Applied to Team Retrospectives | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Salum Abdul-Rahman)
- DAWbench Radio Show Episode 38 – Music Tech Pioneers VI : Roger Linn â LinnDrum to LinnStrument and Beyond ! (Vin Curigliano & Pete Brown)
- AGL 432: ADHD with Frankie Berkoben (John Rouda)
- Lenny’s Podcast – How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Open-source is for the people, by the people (Phoebe Sajor)
- Boagworld Podcast – Creating Your UX Playbook (Paul Boag)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #535 – Donât put randomness in your workflow (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Supporting nonprofit and community innovation (OpenAI Team)
- Typepad is Shutting Down (msmash)
Database
- Azure Database for MySQL 8.4 Now Generally Available (Elendil)
- SQL Generate Date Examples with Recursive CTE and Stored Procedure (Rick Dobson)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Transactions and Blocking and Confusion (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Whatâs New in Microsoft Teams | August 2025 (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
- Whatâs new in Microsoft Planner â August 2025 (NancyatMSFT)
Miscellaneous
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List â August 28, 2025 (#617) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #272 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Unity 2022 by Example: A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link
