Top Links
- EPISODE 15 – Scott & Mark Learn To… Vibe Coding (Part 2) (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- Getting Started with Azure MCP Server: A Guide for Developers (Lee Stott)
- Microsoft announces new European digital commitments (Brad Smith)
- Retrieval-augmented generation with Llama Stack and Node.js (Michael Dawson)
- Docker Desktop 4.41: Docker Model Runner supports Windows, Compose, and Testcontainers integrations, Docker Desktop on the Microsoft Store (Yiwen Xu)
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 Preview 5 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
Web & Cloud Development
- Converting values to strings in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Kubernetes v1.33: Image Volumes graduate to beta! (Sascha Grunert)
- Explore Interactive Drill-Down Charts in Blazor for Deeper Data Insights (Gopalakrishnan Veeraraghavan)
- Adding Intelligence to Your Blazor Applications with Smart Components (Héctor Pérez)
- The 9 best Create React App alternatives (Nefe Emadamerho-Atori)
- Effortless CRUD in Blazor: Build Forms Faster with the Data Form Component (Saravanan G.)
- Microsoft Dev Box Creation using Terraform (singhshub)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Using MVVM Toolkit in .NET MAUI Applications (SmartmanApps)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Next-gen SQL Projects with Microsoft.Build.Sql (David Ramel)
- Creating a ‘pooled’ dependency injection lifetime (Andrew Lock)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Efficient Temporary File Management with Spargine’s TempFileManager (David McCarter)
AI
- Behind the Azure AI Foundry: Essential Azure Infrastructure & Cost Insights (AvijitTechInsights)
- Google Says LLMs.Txt Comparable To Keywords Meta Tag (Roger Montti)
- Getting started with Oracle’s official contribution to LangChain4J and Getting started with Oracle’s official contribution to Spring AI (Juarez Junior)
- Powering intelligent decision-making with Azure and AI (Microsoft in Business Team)
- Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it and New in ChatGPT for Business: April 2025 (OpenAI Team)
- GenAIScript: Zine Meets Pull Requests (Peli de Halleux)
- The OpenAI Academy Makes AI Accessible (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Introducing AutoPatchBench: A Benchmark for AI-Powered Security Fixes (TJ Byun, Cornelius Aschermann, Kai Yuan Thng, Wu Zhou, Yupeng Yang, Lauren Deason & Joshua Saxe)
- Announcing the general availability of Llama 4 MaaS on Vertex AI (Ivan Nardini)
- GitHub Copilot–3 misconceptions why people don’t use it (Bart Wullems)
- OpenAI undoes its glaze-heavy ChatGPT update (Jay Peters)
- Meta previews an API for its Llama AI models (Kyle Wiggers)
- Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI (Maxwell Zeff)
- How agentic AI transforms customer experience (Onye Ifemedebe)
- Building Custom Chat AI: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers (Rochelle Sonnenberg)
- Checklists in the AI Era: Still Boring, Still Essential! (Scott Parry)
- AI Sparks: Unleashing Agents with the AI Toolkit (Shreyan Fern)
- Microsoft is updating the Copilot app with an introductory tutorial for newbies (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Monkeying Around: Uncovering app crashes with REMO (regression + monkey) testing (Suneel Kumar Rallapalli)
- The Hidden Costs of Inaccessible Apps for Enterprises and How to Avoid Them (Hassan Djirdeh)
- How To Turn Your Figma Designs Into Live Apps With Anima Playground (Anima Team)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Cordova Android 14.0.1 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
- Couchbase Lite for Ionic Capacitor 1.0: Build Powerful Hybrid Offline-First Apps (Iveta Dulova, Senior Product Manager)
- Sustainable solutions with Raspberry Pi: how intrusive reflow soldering boosted our efficiency and cut our carbon footprint (Roger Thornton)
Screencasts & Videos
- Build GenAI Apps with Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Essentials Show (Aaron Stark & Marko Hotti)
- Part 3 – Vibe Coding an Online Card Game with Flutter | Flutter Community (Norbert & Friends)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – David Whitney (Isaac Levin)
- 10 Emerging Technologies That Will Shape the Next Decade (Frank LaVigne)
Podcasts
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #666 – Eran Yahav on the Tabnine AI Coding Assistant (Gregory M. Kapfhammer)
- RunAs Radio Episode #982 – Modern Work in 2025 with Karoliina Kettukari (Richard Campbell)
Community & Events
- Pure Virtual C++ 2025 is Tomorrow (Sy Brand) – Today!
- Google Sends a Harsh Message to Employees After Layoffs (Patricia Battle)
- EA Lays Off Hundreds, Cancels ‘Titanfall’ Game (BeauHD)
- CfPs Closing Soon (as of 2025-04-29) (Dave Aronson)
- Microsoft at TechCon 365, PWRCON, and DATACON– Seattle, WA | June 2025 | Microsoft Event Guide (Heather Cook)
- Meta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAI (Maxwell Zeff)
Database
- SQL Server 2022 Finally Fixed a SQL Server 2008 Query Plan Bug! (Brent Ozar)
- Fast, Accurate, and Affordable: Sharded DiskANN for Multitenant Vector Search in Azure Cosmos DB (James Codella, Shivam Atri & Haiyang Xu)
- DuckDB in Practice: Enterprise Integration and Architectural Patterns and DuckDB: the Rise of In-Process Analytics and Data Singularity and DuckDB in Depth: How It Works and What Makes It Fast (Barry Smart)
- Recent Improvements to sp_QuickieStore (Erik Darling)
- Auto Create SQL RESTORE DATABASE Command from Database Backup File (Mircea Dragan)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- What’s New in Excel (April 2025) (Ms Excel)
Miscellaneous
- You asked, we built it: Firefox tab groups are here (Jenifer Boscacci)
- Protecting Windows users from Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation (Raymond Chen)
- Tackle tab overload with Firefox Tab Groups (Stefan Smagula)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – April 29 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – April 29, 2025 (#541) (Richard Seroter)
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
