Top Links
- Manage Containers the Easy Way: Copilot + VS Code (Matt Hernandez)
- Celebrating Community Contributions in Aspire 13 (Jason Chlus)
- One Year of MCP: November 2025 Spec Release (MCP Core Maintainers)
- Azure SDK Release (November 2025) (Ronnie Geraghty)
- Introducing Multi-Agent Workflows in Foundry Agent Service (Mona Whalin)
- Announcing OData Model Builder 3.0.0 Preview 1 Release (Samuel Wanjohi)
Web and Cloud Development
- Turns Out Even I Can Mix Up Azure Policy and Service Groups. Oops. (Shannon Kuehn)
- How to Implement Google OAuth Login in Next.js (Ananya Desai)
- How to Hallucinate using Web Components (Zach Leatherman)
- IDistributedCache (Redis) – remove by prefix (Josef Ottosson)
- Adding Intelligence to Your Blazor Apps Using Telerik Smart Components (Héctor Pérez)
- The Web and APIs Weren’t Built for Autonomous Agents, They Were Built For Humans (Kin Lane)
- How to Export Pivot Table Data to Excel in ASP.NET Core Without UI Rendering (Manikandan Murugesan)
- npm registry including Postman package infected with Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack (Mark Pahulje)
- How Closures Work in JavaScript: A Handbook for Developers (Sumit Saha)
- Node.js v20.19.6 (LTS) (Marco Ippolito)
- WebSockets vs HTTP: Key Differences Explained and WebSocket Connection Failed: Quick Troubleshooting Guide (Postman Team)
- How to ensure your expert C# knowledge doesn’t make you a TypeScript noob (Lewis Cianci)
- Optimizing Rendering and Reconciliation in Large Blazor Apps (Mladen Macanović)
- Securing OpenAPI and Swagger UI with OAuth in .NET 10 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- AWS Introduces Flat-Rate Pricing to Eliminate Cloud Cost Overages (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Ix.NET v7.0: .NET 10 and LINQ for IAsyncEnumerable (Ian Griffiths)
- Real-Time Recommendation Engines in .NET: Combining Collaborative Filtering, Deep Learning, and Vector Databases (Sudhir Mangla)
- One shot tool execution in .NET 10 – Run tools without installing (Bart Wullems)
AI
- Building AI Agents in Kotlin – Part 2: A Deeper Dive Into Tools (Bruno Lannoo)
- Securing Azure AI Applications: A Deep Dive into Emerging Threats (Hiran Battina)
- New Gemini API updates for Gemini 3 (Shrestha Basu Mallick & Philipp Schmid)
- Autoscaling vLLM with OpenShift AI model serving: Performance validation (Alberto Perdomo)
- One Year Of Model Context Protocol Through A Core Maintainer Lens (Den Delimarsky)
- Why Your Organization Should Set Up Asset Libraries in SharePoint (and Enable Them for Copilot) (Michael Gannotti)
- AI Skeptic to AI Pragmatist (Rocky Lhotka)
- Reducing Privacy leaks in AI: Two approaches to contextual integrity (Gbola Afonja, Huseyin Atahan Inan, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Robert Sim, Xiaoting Qin, Jue Zhang & Lukas Wutschitz)
- Elon Musk Said Grok’s Roasts Would Be ‘Epic’ at Parties—So I Tried It on My Coworkers (Manisha Krishnan)
- Building an AI app and agent factory with Microsoft Foundry (Dave Miller)
- Thoughts on Recent New Models: Claude Opus 4.5, GPT 5.1 Codex, and Gemini 3 (Spencer Schneidenbach)
- Data Connectors (Replit Team)
- How GitHub’s agentic security principles make our AI agents as secure as possible (Rahul Zhade)
- Azure Content Understanding is now generally available (Joe Filcik)
- Translation Customization, A Developer’s Guide to Adaptive Custom Translation (Mohamed Elghazali)
- Introducing Memory in Foundry Agent Service (Lewis Liu, Paul Hsu & Takuto Higuchi)
- Essential ingredients for enterprise AI success (Eira May)
- (AI) Smells on Medium (Robin Moffatt)
- 📢Announcing AI Foundry Agent Service Connector v2 (Preview) (Kent Weare)
- Docker Sandboxes: A New Approach for Coding Agent Safety (Srini Sekaran)
- AI-Powered Alt Text Generation with mostlylucid.llmlltText (Scott Galloway)
- Using AI tooling effectively – a lessons learned exercise (Simon Jackson)
Python
- Python 3.13’s New JIT Compiler: A Performance Boost for Python (Aarav Patel)
- Why developers still flock to Python: Guido van Rossum on readability, AI, and the future of programming (Natalie Guevara)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Putting Spec Kit Through Its Paces: Radical Idea or Reinvented Waterfall? (Colin Eberhardt)
- The 5 Abilities: Jim Rohn’s Framework for Personal Transformation (J.D. Meier)
- Kubernetes v1.35 Sneak Peek (Aakanksha Bhende, Arujjwal Negi, Chad M. Crowell, Graziano Casto & Swathi Rao)
Mobile and Game Development
- Replicating a Christmas UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
- Swift SDK For Android Now In Preview (Kay Ewbank)
- Maude – In-app observability for .NET MAUI (Matthew Robbins)
- Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC (Dominic Preston)
Screencasts and Videos
- Why Claude Opus 4.5 Changes What’s Possible with Vibe Coding and AI Executive Order Gets Paused (AIDailyBrief)
- Great reads this holiday season (Bill Gates)
- Copilot your Holidays – Ep. 1 (Microsoft Healthcare & Life Team)
- Postman VS Code extension + MCP working in Google Antigravity (Quinton Wall)
- Migrating WPF Notepad to Uno Platform with a prompt (Uno Platform Team)
- You can tell when an app is native (Scott Hanselman)
- AI-Assisted Development with mirrord | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Artiero & Arsh Sharma)
- C# is the BEST programming language! | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- How to use GraphQL with Fabric SQL Database | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Nicky van Vroenhoven)
- Why Python is the language of AI: insights from Guido van Rossum (creator of Python) (GitHub Team)
- Updating our Blazor site to .NET 10 Part 4! – Refactoring APIs & Fixing Auth | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
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Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: How to Use Apache Spark to Craft a Multi-Year Data Regression Testing and Simulations Framework (Vivek Yadav)
- Google AI: Release Notes Podcast – Get an in-depth look at Gemini 3 with CEO Sundar Pichai (Logan Kilpatrick)
- RunAs Radio Show #1012 – Christmas Gifts for SysAdmins with Joey Snow and Rick Claus (Richard Campbell)
- Software Engineering Radio #696 – Flavia Saldanha on Data Engineering for AI (Kanchan Shringi)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversations – Sydnee Mayers (Isaac Levin)
- GeekWire Podcast – ‘Me, Myself and AI’ host Sam Ransbotham on finding the real value in AI — even when it’s wrong (Todd Bishop)
- The AI Fix Episode #78 – The big AI bubble, and robot Grandma in the cloud (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Hard Fork Podcast – The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars (Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Wyatt Orme, Anabel Bacon, Efim Shapiro & Marion Lozano & Dan Powell)
- Inside Platform Engineering with Steve Wade (Matthew Allford)
- AI Assisted Coding: Swimming in AI – Managing Tech Debt in the Age of AI-Assisted Coding | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Lou Franco)
Community and Events
- EVENTS: Microsoft Conferences for 2026 (Kurt Shintaku)
- Microsoft MVPs Shine at GitHub Universe 2025 (Betsy Weber)
- Open-source IntelliJ IDEA: A Simpler Way to Build and Contribute to the Community (Dmitriy Smirnov)
- Celebrating the contributors that power Mozilla Support (Konstantina Papadea)
- Apple Cuts Jobs Across Its Sales Organization in Rare Layoff (Mark Gurman)
- Recognizing Microsoft MVPs at ESPC25 (Jon Jones)
- How Ada Computer Science empowers students: Survey findings (Dan Fisher)
- HP To Cut About 6,000 Jobs By 2028, Ramps Up AI Efforts (BeauHD)
- freeCodeCamp’s Top Open Source Contributors of 2025 (Quincy Larson)
Database
- Multiplatform Reality Checks: pg_stat_wal vs. Oracle Redo Metrics (Kellyn Gorman)
- Row Goals: Part 1 (Erik Darling)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – November 2025 (Vesa Juvonen)
- Introducing TypeSpec for Microsoft 365 Copilot – Build declarative agents faster with more confidence (Sébastien Levert)
- What’s New in Excel (November 2025) (Ms. Excel)
Tools
- Orion 1.0 is a privacy focused browser for macOS (Wayne Williams)
General
- The apocryphal origins of the Hot Dog Stand color scheme (Raymond Chen)
- Microsoft adds new “app updates” page to Windows 11’s Settings app for updating certain apps using Windows Update (Zac Bowden)
- Shop smarter with Copilot in Edge this holiday season (Roger Capriotti)
- Uninstalling apps on Windows 11 is about to get much easier — and it’s long overdue (Sean Endicott)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – November 25, 2025 (#673) (Richard Seroter)
