Top Links
- Keynote Schedule Changes and Jeff Fritz Talks Aspire (TechBash 2025)
- UPDATE! Aspire Roadmap ’25 – 9.5 has shipped! (Maddy Montaquila)
- Data API builder 1.6: Advanced Behaviors with Special HTTP Headers (Jerry Nixon)
- Integrating Azure AI Foundry with Copilot Studio: A Strategic and Technical Overview (Peter De Tender)
- An Introduction to Passkeys – The Future of Authentication (Maarten Balliauw)
- Copilot now included with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & OneNote | Microsoft 365 & Office 365 | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
- How to Master GitHub Copilot: Build, Prompt, Deploy Smarter (April Yoho)
Web & Cloud Development
- Taking SVG “screenshots” of HTML elements (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Dockerfile for a .NET 9 Web API Application (Bryan Hogan)
- Adding Intelligent Chatbots to React Projects (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Leader Election and Virtual Actors in Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26 (Juan Diego Rodríguez)
- Capture JavaScript Integrity Metadata using CSP! (Scott Helme)
- Yes, you should upgrade to TypeScript 5.9 — here’s why (Chizaram Ken)
- FHIR RLS – Record Location Service (John Moehrke)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Sharpnado.Tabs 4.0: Pure MAUI Touch Effects Across All Platforms (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
- .NET MAUI RC1 Brings Diagnostics and Experimental Android CoreCLR Support (Edin Kapić)
- Exploring Popup & Dialogs: Promotions, Cart Updates, Personalized Offers (Leomaris Reyes)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- How to Use Master Reports in Your C# .NET Application (Chelsea Devereaux)
- Hidden Costs of Boxing in C#: How to Detect and Avoid Them (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Fixing Overload Resolution For Parameter Arrays in C++/CLI (Tanveer Gani)
- How can I enumerate the overflow icons in the Notification Area without showing them? (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Your AI is a Genie, Not a Guru: How to Supervise Your New Assistant (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Docker MCP Toolkit: MCP Servers That Just Work (Oleg Selajev)
- Grok 4 is now available in Azure AI Foundry: Unlock frontier intelligence and business-ready capabilities (Azure AI Foundry Team)
- Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform and Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Enabling Claude Code to work more autonomously (Anthropic Team)
- VibeGame: Exploring Vibe Coding Games (Dylan Ebert)
- Gemma explained: EmbeddingGemma Architecture and Recipe (Henrique Schechter Vera, Juyeong Ji & Sahil Dua)
- Introducing parental controls and Building OpenAI with OpenAI and Empowering teams to unlock insights faster at OpenAI (OpenAI Team)
- AI is the asbestos of the web (Chris Ferdinandi)
- AI Story Builders now supports GPT 5 and GPT 5 Mini (Michael Washington)
- Introducing the Vonage Documentation MCP Server (Chris Tankersley)
- Apple’s Foundation Models framework unlocks new intelligent app experiences (Apple)
- Gavin Newsom Signs First-In-Nation AI Safety Law (BeauHD)
- vLLM or llama.cpp: Choosing the right LLM inference engine for your use case (Harshith Umesh)
- Introducing Claude Agent in JetBrains IDEs (Ivan Moiseev)
- The D&D Blueprint: How Role-Playing Engines Can Guide Next-Gen AI (Ivan Pelivanovic)
- MCP Bridge – Local Tools to Cloud APIs (Johnny)
- Edge AI for Student Developers: Learn to Run AI Locally (Lee Stott)
- Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock: Anthropic’s most intelligent model, best for coding and complex agents (Matheus Guimaraes)
- DeepSeek releases ‘sparse attention’ model that cuts API costs in half (Russell Brandom)
- Flow State to Free Fall: An AI Coding Cautionary Tale (Sreeram Venkatasubramanian)
- Greater AI choice in GitLab Duo: Claude Sonnet 4.5 arrives (Tim Zallmann)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Agile is Out, Architecture is Back (Craig Adam)
- The Hidden ROI of Technical Due Diligence in Software Investments (Chris Woodruff)
- Using Git insteadOf to Automatically Replace HTTPS URLs with SSH (Gérald Barré)
- Making your code base better will make your code coverage worse (Jared Toporek)
- Why the Frontend Should Embrace Platform Engineering (Loraine Lawson)
- 100X Faster: How We Supercharged Netflix Maestro’s Workflow Engine (Jun He, Yingyi Zhang & Ely Spears)
- Spelungit: When `git log –grep` isn’t enough (Phil Haack)
- CodeQL zero to hero part 5: Debugging queries (Sylwia Budzynska)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Swift 6.2 Released with Improved Concurrency, Safer Raw-Memory Access, Wasm Support and More (Sergio De Simone)
- Unlocking Dynamic Experiences with Client-Side custom signals conditions in Firebase Remote Config (Athira Manu & Sumit Chandel)
Screencasts & Videos
- How to Build Powerful RAG Applications with Azure SQL DB & OpenAI (Frank LaVigne)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 280 – “Make IoT Great This Time” (The Things Conference Episode) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Recording: How To Run AI Agents Natively In Your Database (Oren Eini)
- Azure SQL DB & OpenAI: Building Powerful RAG Applications | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Indira)
- Setting up Figma Remote MCP in Warp and Using Agent Profiles and Using Project Rules (Warp Team)
- Answering Your GitHub Spec Kit Questions (Den Delimarsky)
- Lessons from Billions of Breached Records with Troy Hunt (SSW TV)
- The Impact of Organizing Around Business Value (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Your New AI Pair Programmer: A Guide to Vibe Coding with MongoDB with Pete Johnson (MongoDB Team)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: The Hidden Vulnerability of The Open Source Software Supply Chain: The Underlying Infrastructure (Brian Fox)
- Merge Conflict Episode #482 – 1 Day Apps (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Modern JavaScript Testing: Integration, Contract Testing & AI Tools – JavaScript Jabber #692 (Charles Max Wood)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – As your AI gets smarter, so must your API (Phoebe Sajor)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #330 – We’ve all done RAG, now what? (Rajiv Shah & Daniel Whitenack)
- Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #114 – .NET 10, TUnit, GPT-5 and more discussing software maturity – with Rick, Oscar & Jelle (Rick Van Den Bosch, Oscar Van Tol & Jelle Fremery)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #491 – A Very Analytical Approach to the Job Search w/ Jerome Hardaway (Taylor Desseyn)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Can you use ‘epicenter’ for positive things? The etymology of ‘bro.’ Mukwonago, Oconomowoc. (Valerie Fridland & Mignon Fogarty)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #941 – Is Responsible AI Possible? with Dr. Sarah Bird of Microsoft (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- When To Stop Helping Agile Teams To Change—A Real Life Story | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Tom Molenaar)
- The PowerShell Podcast – From Sysadmin to Security at Microsoft with Thomas Rayner (James Petty)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #163 – Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies (Jerod Santo)
- Meta Cast – Trusting Your Gut: The Vanishing Skill of Modern Leadership (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Meta Tech Podcast Episode #78 – AssetGen: Generating 3D Worlds With AI (Pascal Hartig, Mahima & Rakesh)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #245 – From Consumer Chatbots to Enterprise Guardrails: Securing Real AI Adoption (Anton Chuvakin)
- Talk Python to Me #521 – Red Teaming LLMs and GenAI with PyRIT (Michael Kennedy)
- Python Bytes Podcast #451 – Databases are a Fad (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
Community & Events
- Microsoft is bringing its Windows engineering teams back together again (Tom Warren)
- Codemash 2026 Sessions Announcement (Amanda Stamper)
- Here, take my card… (David Neal)
- MVP Champ Spotlight- Derk van der Woude (Brooke Lynn Weenig)
Database
- SQL Query Memory Consumption in SQL Server 2025 (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
- How to Capture Running Queries in SQL Server (prakashkc)
- Stop Using INTs for Primary Keys (Unless You Really Know Why) (Piyush Doorwar)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Writing Smarter While Loops (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Important update about the future of Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways and Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways: Enabling learning for customers (Jessie Hwang)
- Microsoft is Bringing “Vibe Working” to Office Apps (Paul Thurrott)
- Building Agent Mode in Excel (tmobrien)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6760 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6760 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- FCC Mistakenly Leaks Confidential iPhone 16e Schematics (BeauHD)
- Anker’s fastest airline-friendly power bank is now available (Andrew Liszewski)
- YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5 million settlement (Jay Peters)
- Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It’s Messing With Our View of the Cosmos (msmash)
- Trump’s Energy Department forbids staff from saying ‘climate change’ or ‘green’ (Tim De Chant)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-40 (Michael Eaton)
- Daily Reading List – September 29, 2025 (#637) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #292 (Jasen)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon S3, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, AWS X-Ray and more (September 29, 2025) (Matheus Guimaraes)
- Reading Notes #667 (Frank Boucher)
- Xbox September Update: ROG Xbox Ally, Gaming Copilot, Aggregated Library, and More (Mike Nelson)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
