raspberry pi – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – August 29, 2025 (#4486)

Top Links

🎉 The Windows Community Toolkit is 9 years old! 🎉 (Michael Hawker)
ReSharper’s 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 JavaScript’s 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 ‘Server’ and ‘X-Powered-By’ headers in ASP.NET Core (Bart Wullems)
Integrating OpenAI’s 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 Developer’s Guide (Sastha Prathap)
Kubernetes without an Operating Model is Just Controlled Chaos (Shannon Kuehn)
Introducing Meta’s 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 — usually from young professionals (Cale Hunt)
What’s New in Azure AI Foundry Fine-tuning: August 2025 (malenaLS)
Vivaldi rejects AI browsing: ‘Humans over hype’ (Mark Hachman)
Passed the Microsoft AI-900 exam for Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals! 🎉 (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 ‘Arms and Legs’ 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)
What’s 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)
Xbox’s 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 – 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 – Don’t 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

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August 2025 (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
What’s new in Microsoft Planner – August 2025 (NancyatMSFT)

Miscellaneous

Amtrak’s New 160mph Acela Trains Take Just As Long As the Old Ones (BeauHD)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – 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

Dew Drop – August 18, 2025 (#4478)

Top Links

Windows AI – Click to Do with an Uno Platform Application as an IActionProvider (Nick Randolph)
What’s new with PowerToys? | One Dev Question (Kayla Cinnamon)
Building AI Agents with Ease: Function Calling in VS Code AI Toolkit (Shreyan Fern)
Technology & Friends – Jennifer Marsman on NLWeb (David Giard)
INotifyPodcastChanged Episode #8 – Windows Community Toolkit with Michael Hawker (Joseph Finney & Tamás Deme)
Microsoft is finally improving Windows 11’s dark mode (Tom Warren)

Web & Cloud Development

Learning web development: numbers, variables, functions in JavaScript and Learning web development: strings and methods in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
Reset Cookies and force new sign-in using ASP.NET Core Identity (Damien Bowden)
Need Some Feedback on Near Term Wolverine Work (Jeremy D. Miller)
Common Tailwind CSS Patterns (Jonathan Gamble)
Latest React Router Release Improves Middleware API (Loraine Lawson)
VS Code as a modern Full‑Stack workspace, Powered by Copilot (Tim Deschryver)
Identity Insights API Now in Beta! (Alvaro Navarro)
How to use parameter binding for routes in Minimal APIs (David Grace)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

How to Add PDF Thumbnail Navigator into .NET MAUI Apps (Jollen Moyani)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

Memory optimizations to reduce CPU costs (Oren Eini)
Two more LINQ extensions in dotnet 10 (Steven Giesel)
Mining PDFs with Regex in C#: Practical Patterns, Tips, and Ideas (Bjoern Meyer)
Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 5: Copying our tracking pointer (Raymond Chen)

AI

Deepening our Partnership with Mistral AI on Azure AI Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
The Futzing Fraction – At least some of your time with genAI will be spent just kind of… futzing with it. (Glyph Lefkowitz)
People Work in Teams, AI Assistants in Silos (Tim O’Reilly)
The AI Coworker Is Here (Nono Bokete)
Announcing Imagen 4 Fast and the generally availability of the Imagen 4 family in the Gemini API (Alisa Fortin & Seth Odoom)
Usage policy update (Anthropic Team)
Introducing Image Generation for Replit Agent: Bring Your Ideas to Life in Pixels (Replit Team)
View your installed MCP servers in VS Code (Bart Wullems)
Step-by-Step Guide: Using LangExtract with OpenAI (Dhananjay Kumar)
Vibe coding through the GPT-5 mess (Jacob Kastrenakes)
Optimizing generative AI models with quantization (James Harmison)
How to Use Custom Models with Foundry Local: A Beginner’s Guide (Kinfey Lo)
The Most In-Demand Prompt Engineering Skills in 2025 (Mahesh Chand)
Is GenAI Replacing Your QA Team? A Sobering Reality Check (Marcus Merrell)
Building Generative AI Applications With GitHub Models and .NET Aspire (Milan Jovanović)

Design, Methodology & Testing

UX Chronicles: Why Streaming Apps Still Suck—and Why That Should Terrify Tech Teams (David McCarter)
Software Architecture Fundamentals – System of Record (Peter Ritchie)
How to Move from Technical Roles to Leadership Positions (Danielle Meinert)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

The Architect’s Guide to Cross-Platform Mobile in 2025: .NET MAUI vs React Native vs Flutter vs Kotlin Multiplatform (Sudhir Mangla)
Android’s pKVM Becomes First Globally Certified Software to Achieve SESIP Level 5 Security Certification (EditorDavid)
A new 5″ variant of Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 (Gordon Hollingworth)
Indie Dev makes $4 MIL then goes broke, and HOTTEST new genre on Steam! (Code Monkey)
Check Flutter compatibility | GitHub Actions Marketplace (Aaron Madlon-Kay)
From Scratch to Saved: My Pi-hole Rebuild Adventure (Shannon Kuehn)

Screencasts & Videos

Turn ON these new VS Code AI features NOW! (v1.103) (James Montemagno)
Boost your productivity with Visual Studio & MCP Servers (Allie Barry)
How I Made C# Plugins Super Simple in My DotNet Apps! (Nick Cosentino)
IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 273 – “When You Wish Upon a AGI…” and IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 274 – Engineering IoT Innovation (sponsored by MistyWest) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
Introduction to Technical Architecture: Key Concepts & Responsibilities (Carmel Eve)
How to Keep Claude Agent in Control (Frank LaVigne)
The Download: GPT-5 & Claude 4.1 in Copilot, Typescript 5.9 & more (GitHub Team)
Configure port forwarding for Windows Subsystem for Linux to make services available on the network | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
Scott Hanselman’s TEDx: Tech’s Three Broken Promises (Scott Hanselman)
AI Agent’s Toolbox – Semantic Kernel meets MCP and Python | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro & Evan Mattson)

Podcasts

freeCodeCamp Podcast #183 – From drop-out to backpacker to self-taught developer with Dominick Monaco (Beau Carnes)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Inside the Maker Mindset with Roboticist Aaed Musa (Scott Hanselman)
InfoQ Podcast: Engineering Leadership: Building Culture, Career Growth, and Ownership (Thiago Ghisi)
Engineer in the Loop Podcast – Full Episode: Hot Takes & Hard Truths: Growing Your Tech Career (Without Losing Your Mind) and Engineer in the Loop Podcast – GPT-5 Won’t Kill OpenAI: Why the Hot Takes Miss the Mark (Alec Harrison)
When Technical Expertise Becomes Product Owner Micro-Managements | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Somya Mehra)
BONUS The Management Revolution Transforming Company Culture and Employee Engagement | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Rob Gallaher)
Electronic Frontier Foundation Podcast Episode: Separating AI Hope from AI Hype (Arvind Narayanan, Cindy Cohn & Jason Kelley)
Meta Cast – Human-Centered Leadership for High Performing Teams (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
A Geek Leader Episode #430 – Kevin Dean (John Rouda)
The Real Python Podcast – Selecting Inheritance or Composition in Python (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
Changelog & Friends Podcast Episode #106 – Oxide is crossing the chasm (Bryan Cantrill, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
Lenny’s Podcast – Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour (Reforge) (Lenny Rachitsky)
The Happy Engineer Podcast – Manage energy, not time – 5 Ways to Energize the Best Version of You (Max Ahumada)

Community & Events

New filing: T-Mobile lays off 121 employees in Washington (Taylor Soper)
Reports of stricter Microsoft return-to-office policy add to post-layoff uncertainty (Todd Bishop)

Database

Getting Started with Change Event Streaming in SQL Server 2025 (Part 1: Setup and Configuration) (Leonard Lobel)
Learn T-SQL With Erik: Ordered Deletes and Table Expressions (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Introducing new SharePoint Site Header & Footer Enhancements (Tina Chen)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft launches formal review into alleged use of its Azure cloud in Palestinian surveillance (Todd Bishop)
Trump Has Dropped a Third of All Government Investigations Into Big Tech (Matthew Gault)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5751 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
America’s EV Registrations Rise 7% in 2025 – Giving EVs a 7.5% Market Share (EditorDavid)

More Link Collections

F# Weekly #33, 2025 – Rider 2025.2 & .NET 10 Preview 7 (Sergey Tihon)
Daily Reading List – August 15, 2025 (#610) (Richard Seroter)
Azure Weekly #528 – 17th August 2025 (The Editor)
The .NET News Daily Issue #263 (Jasen)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – August 14, 2025 (#4476)

Top Links

GPT-5 Now Available in Visual Studio (Rhea Patel)
.NET 10 Preview 7 is now available! (.NET Team)
How to Build a Live Weather Dashboard Using REST API In .NET MAUI (Sowndharya Selladurai)
ReSharper and the .NET Tools 2025.2 Are Out! and Next-Level Performance Improvements in ReSharper 2025.2 (Sasha Ivanova)
From Redmond to San Diego: VS Live! Highlights, Session Examples, and What’s Next (Jim Harrer)
Agent Factory: The new era of agentic AI—common use cases and design patterns (Yina Arenas)
.NET MAUI in .NET 10 Preview 7 (David Ortinau)
PowerToys 0.93 is here: faster Command Palette, new dashboard UX and more (Niels Laute)

Web & Cloud Development

Building Modern and Scalable Applications with TanStack Router in React (Christian Nwamba)
Upgrading eShopLite to Aspire 9.4 and GPT-5 with Azure AI Foundry (Bruno Capuano)
Getting to Know the Blazor TreeView Control (Héctor Pérez)
How to Get Started with ASP.NET Core and gRPC: A Handbook for Developers (Isaiah Clifford Opoku)
How to Build a Blazor HeatMap Chart to Visualize Global Temperature Anomalies (Karthick Panneerselvam)
Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra v5.0 Generally Available! (Manish Sharma)
Secure PostgreSQL in Docker: SSL, Certificates & Config Best Practices (Mercy Bassey)
Integrating Telerik Reports with Your ASP.NET Webpage and Coding Azure 16: Deploying Your Application (Peter Vogel)
Secure Document Editing with Role-Based Toolbars in React Word Editor (Ramkumar Ravy)
BFF in ASP.NET Core #6 – Securing our BFF with CORS (Tore Nestenius)
Building a Blended Material Shader in WebGL with Solid.js (Nathan Nye)
Migrating legacy services to a modern developer portal: A technical guide to Backstage integration (Damola Obaleke)
.NET Aspire 3: Service Defaults (Dave Brock)
Go 1.25.0-1 Microsoft build now available (Davis Goodin)
Go 1.25 is released (Dmitri Shuralyov)
Pull print is now available in Universal Print (Nishant Lakhanpal)
Postman (Free) is secure by design (Sam Chehab)
🚀 General Availability: Enhanced Data Mapper Experience in Logic Apps (Standard) (Shah Parth)
Now Generally Available: Platform SSO for macOS with Microsoft Entra ID (Veena Soman)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Fix Maui Android “Doesn’t support required ABI” issue (Pieter Nijs)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

Visual Studio 2022 v17.14.12 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
The Right Tool for the Job: An Architect’s Guide to Leveraging F# and VB.NET in a C#-Dominant World (Sudhir Mangla)
Day 23: Introduction to Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) in C# and Day 24: Combining Genetic Algorithms with Hill Climbing: The Hybrid Memetic Approach (Chris Woodruff)
XAML Speeds Up, JSON Gets Smarter in .NET 10 Preview 7 (David Ramel)
🐋 F5 / Debug .NET Apps in Containers with Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio (Bruno Capuano)
AutoMapper vs. Manual Mapping in .NET (Vitor Gomes)
.NET 10.0 dotnet run app.cs or file-based program (NDepend Team)
Free JetBrains Student Pack – Your Toolkit for a Future in Tech (Maria Sharobaeva)
Mining PDFs with Regex in C#: Practical Patterns, Tips, and Ideas and TX Text Control 33.0 SP3 is Now Available: What’s New in the Latest Version (Bjoern Meyer)
Cake.Sdk 5.0.25225.53-beta released (Mattias Karlsson)
Clean up your *.csproj | Customize a build by Directory.Build.props (Denis Makarenko)
File & Document Processing APIs — New PowerPoint Presentation API Library (Maria Nikulina)
.NET 10 Preview 7 (Jon Galloway)
Filtering Exception Messages with Serilog Expressions (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
How to Create a WinForms Data Entry Form in Minutes using InputPanel (Greg Lutz)
Introducing PDF/UA-2: The New Standard for Accessible PDFs (Chinnu Muniyappan)
Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 2: Using a std::list and Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 3: Using a std::vector (Raymond Chen)
Rider 2025.2 Is Here with Junie, In-IDE OpenTelemetry, Game Dev Upgrades, and More (Alexander Kurakin)

AI

Google Launches Jules, an Asynchronous Coding Agent Powered by Gemini 2.5 (Robert Krzaczyński)
Exciting News: Azure AI Blogs Have Come Together in the New Azure AI Foundry Blog (Galimah B.)
Replacing developers with GPUs (Oren Eini)
Gemini CLI + VS Code: Native diffing and context-aware workflows (Shreya Keshive, Jack Wotherspoon & Christine Betts)
Building AI agents made easy with Goose and Docker (Oleg Selajev)
Red-teaming a RAG app with the Azure AI Evaluation SDK (Pamela Fox)
Open-Source in AI-assisted Software Development (Eleanor Berger)
TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games? (Long Phan & Clémentine Fourrier)
Today we’re releasing Claude Opus 4.1, an upgrade to Claude Opus 4 and Offering expanded Claude access across all three branches of the U.S. government and Claude Sonnet 4 now supports up to 1 million tokens of context (Anthropic Team)
Introducing App Storage – building apps with images, video, and PDFs just got easier (Yu Zhang & Victoria Kim)
Using an LLM in GitHub Actions (Anthony Shaw)
OpenAI brings GPT-4o back as a default for all paying ChatGPT users, Altman promises ‘plenty of notice’ if it leaves again (Carl Franzen)
The GPT-5 Launch Broke the AI Internet (And Not in a Good Way) (Docker Team)
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 Model Gets a 1M Token Context Window (Frederic Lardinois)
Anthropic just made its latest move in the AI coding wars (Hayden Field)
What you may have missed about GPT-5 (James O’Donnell)
GitHub: Why we open sourced our MCP server, and what it means for you (Kedasha Kerr)
Custom rules in GitLab Duo Agentic Chat for greater developer efficiency (Michael Friedrich)
The Abstractions, They Are a-Changing (Mike Loukides)
The road to artificial general intelligence (MIT Technology Review Insights)
AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview (msmash)
Implementing a Center of Excellence for Generative AI (Thomas Maurer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Impact Intelligence, addressing common objections and Team OKRs in Action (Martin Fowler)
Real-Time Security with Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) comes to Azure DevOps and Azure DevOps OAuth Client Secrets Now Shown Only Once (Angel Wong)
Azure DevOps Pipelines: Fixing the old NuGet version problem and Azure Pipelines and NuGet Package Source Mapping–Not best friends (yet) (Bart Wullems)
Hunting Living Secrets: Secret Validity Checks Arrive in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (Michael Omokoh)
Azure Developer CLI: From Dev to Prod with Azure DevOps Pipelines (PuiChee (PC) Chan & Kristen Womack)
Learn DevSecOps and API Security (Beau Carnes)
Backstage vs Pulumi IDP: Why Infrastructure-First Wins! (Engin Diri)
Scaling Playwright Test Automation: A Practical Framework Guide (Priti Gaikwad)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Trimming the FAT: Flash Raspberry Pi OS images faster (Richard Oliver)
Xbox PC App Experience Expanding on Arm®-based Windows 11 PCs (Brynnan Fink, Peter Dawoud, Brandon LeBlanc & Nicole Allen)
What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’25 release (Meghan Mehta & Nick Butcher)
Meadow.OS v2.3 Brings Automatic OtA to Devices (Bryan Costanich)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Guy Royse on Ham Radios (David Giard)
Getting the Most out of the Latest in Visual Studio | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 (Jessie Houghton & Harshada Hole)
The Future of Visual Studio | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 (Mads Kristensen)
Getting the Most Out of .NET Development with Visual Studio | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 (Allie Barry & Wendy Breiding)
The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot & Visual Studio | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 (Simona Liao, Etienne Baudoux & Rhea Patel)
Building Mobile and Desktop Apps with VS and .NET MAUI | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 (David Ortinau)
Build Next-Gen AI Apps with .NET and Azure | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 (Jon Galloway)
Building Confident Application Systems with .NET Aspire: From Dev to Deployment | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 and Building a streamer widget for TagzApp | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
.NET 10 Preview 7 Unboxed (.NET Team)
How to chat with your repo & create PRs with Copilot | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths & Daniel Adams)
Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Kohsuke Kawaguchi (Isaac Levin)
Trish Winter-Hunt on Emotional Support Geese & Content Design | Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
Model Mondays S2E9: Models for AI Agents (Sharda Kaur)
MCP Workflow: I stopped using SQL for database management (Bobur Umorzokov)
GPT-5 vs GPT-4.5: 3 Huge Changes You’ll Notice (Postman Team)
What’s It Like To Be A Data Visualization Wizard – Shirley Wu (Shirley Wu Studio) (Den Delimarsky)

Podcasts

.NET Rocks! – Thirty Years of Application Security with Michael Howard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Syntax Podcast Episode #928 – State of Devs 2025 Results (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Dev Leader Podcast – How AI Changed Our Dev Jobs FOREVER – Interview With Brian Jenney (Nick Cosentino)
The AI Fix Show #63 – GPT-5 is the best AI ever, and Jim Acosta interviews a murdered teenager’s avatar (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
The Cloud Pod Episode #316 – Microsoft’s New AI Agent Has Trust Issues (With Software) (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
Grammar Girl Podcast – AI’s impact on translators, untranslatable Dutch words, and more, with Heddwen Newton (Mignon Fogarty)
Practical AI Podcast Episode #325 – Confident, strategic AI leadership (Allegra Guinan, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Software Engineering Radio Episode #681 – Qian Li on DBOS Durable Execution/Serverless Computing Platform (Kanchan Shringi)
Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – 5 Morning Habits to Help You Get Paid More and Stress Less (‘Tine Zekis)
RunAs Radio Show #997 – The Power of the Graph with Tony Redmond (Richard Campbell)
Why Collaboration Should Be Your Team’s Primary Goal | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Somya Mehra)

Community & Events

VS Code Dev Days – Wed, Sept 17th (Philly .NET Meetup Team)
60 Can’t-Miss Shows on Philly Stages for Fall 2025 & Winter 2025/2026 (Visit Philly)
Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users (Aisha Malik)
Microsoft Global Hackathon 2025: MVPs Driving Innovation Across Communities (Alice Piras)
A Mission to Bring the Clean Energy Future (Ed Essey)
Connect with the security community at Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Microsoft Security Team)
Microsoft is Trying To Poach Meta AI Talent and Offering Multimillion-Dollar Pay Packages (msmash)
T-Mobile layoffs hit IT org at wireless giant and F5 laying off 106 employees in Washington state as part of changes to product org (Taylor Soper)

Database

SQL Server on Linux Now Supports cgroup v2 (Attinder Pal Singh)
Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM CU20 (Harvey Mora)
Learn T-SQL With Erik: SELECT INTO (Erik Darling)
Connecting to a Local CockroachDB from DataGrip or DBeaver (Bryan Hogan)
Security, AI, and Databases–AI in SQL Server 2025 (Joey Dantoni)
Using SQL Compare to Revert a Stored Procedure (Steve Jones)
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v21.4.12 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Build the Future of AI-Driven Apps with SharePoint Embedded (W. Baer)
Microsoft releases lightweight Office taskbar apps for Windows 11 (Tom Warren)
Encryption in Microsoft Teams: June 2025 (Will Dixon)

PowerShell & Terminal

Securing PowerShell: How to Stop Prompt Injection Attacks, Part 5 (Brien Posey)
Warp University – Tutorials to help you work smarter and build faster in Warp (Warp Team)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Files Preview v3.9.15 (Files Team)
BitUnlocker: Leveraging Windows Recovery to Extract BitLocker Secrets (Alon Leviev)
How to select your preferred sources in Top Stories in Search (Duncan Osborn)
Windows image-building service for OpenShift Virtualization (Karel Simon)
Perplexity Offers to Buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 Billion (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

The .NET News Daily Issue #260 and The .NET News Daily Issue #261 and The .NET News Daily Issue #262 (Jasen)
dotInsights | August 2025 (Rachel Appel)
🚀 Vonage Developer Newsletter, July 2025: RCS, AI, and Network APIs! (Daniela Facchinetti)
Daily Reading List – August 12, 2025 (#607) and Daily Reading List – August 13, 2025 (#608) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency in C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

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