Top Links
- Install and run Azure Foundry Local LLM server & Open WebUI on Windows Server 2025 (Orin Thomas)
- Preparing Your .NET MAUI Apps for Google Play’s 16 KB Page Size Requirement (Gerald Versluis)
- Expanding model choice in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Charles Lamanna)
- Warp CLI – Use Warp Agents from the terminal (Warp Documentation)
- The VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #7 – The Origins & Evolution of the GitHub MCP Registry (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)
- TechBash 2025 Standard Registration Ends Friday Night (TechBash Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- CSS wish: inner breakpoints (Axel Rauschmayer)
- What’s new in Aspire 9.5 (Microsoft Learn)
- Last Sprint to Wolverine 5.0 (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Building Secure APIs with Role-Based Access Control in ASP.NET Core (Milan Jovanović)
- RSS Blog Categorizer – A VS Code extension to create link blog posts as HTML or markdown (Alvin Ashcraft) – Trying vibe coding to build myself a VS Code extension. Still a work in progress. It’s in the Visual Studio Marketplace here.
- Angular Rich Text Editor 2025 Volume 3: Latest Features & Enhancements (Saravanan G.)
- .NET Aspire 9.5 Released: New CLI Update Command, Dashboard AI Visualizer, and Expanded Integrations (Almir Vuk)
- DS Server 4.1.0: Extend DS Server with Custom Plug-ins (Bjoern Meyer)
- Flight Recorder in Go 1.25 (Carlos Amedee & Michael Knyszek)
- Apollo GraphQL Client 4.0 Released with Leaner Bundles and Strengthened TypeScript Safety (Daniel Curtis)
- Setting Up Mac for Web Development (David Adeneye Abiodun)
- Recreating Gmail’s Google Gemini Animation in CSS (John Rhea)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Integrated App Hosting Builder Method for .NET MAUI Explained (Vijay Anand E G)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio 2026, New .NET Support Policy & .NET 10 RC 1! (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Announcing Hotkey Typer — type long prompts with a hotkey (James Montemagno)
- FluentValidation Deep Dive: From Complex Rules to Enterprise-Ready Architecture (Sudhir Mangla)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Simplify Unique Key Generation with KeyGenerator in Spargine (David McCarter)
AI
- Microsoft.Extensions.AI – Part IX–Semantic kernel integration (Bart Wullems)
- Launching the Octopus MCP Server (Andrew Best)
- Using GitHub Copilot with Azure (Gregor Suttie)
- From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant (Lyndon Cerejo)
- Swift Transformers Reaches 1.0 — and Looks to the Future (Pedro Cuenca, Christopher Fleetwood, Mattt & Vaibhav Srivastav)
- The Superpower of Knowing | Huxe (Raiza Martin)
- Vibe Coding: When AI Writes the Code, Who Secures It? (Crystal Morin)
- Go Experts: ‘I Don’t Want to Maintain AI-Generated Code’ (David Cassel)
- Mistral’s New Plan for Improving Its AI Models: Training Data from Enterprises (EditorDavid)
- Announcing Twilio Docs Support for llms.txt and Markdown (Wade Christensen)
- Suno’s upgraded AI music generator is technically impressive, but still soulless (Terrence O’Brien)
- GitLab Duo Agent Platform adds support for Model Context Protocol (Itzik Gan Baruch)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Introducing Typemock’s AI-Ready Unit Testing Q&A Hub (Eli Lopian)
- System Modernization Without the Burnout: Lessons from Distributed Systems (Chris Woodruff)
- Building a Resilient Data Platform with Write-Ahead Log at Netflix (Prudhviraj Karumanchi, Samuel Fu, Sriram Rangarajan, Vidhya Arvind, Yun Wang & John Lu)
- xUnit Assert basics: True/False, Equal, Same, Matches and more (David Grace)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Raspberry Pi upgraded its keyboard computer with mechanical switches and SSD storage (Andrew Liszewski)
- Learn Flutter Hooks – Common Hooks Explained with Code Examples (Atuoha Anthony)
- Raspberry Pi 500+ First Look and Windows Phone has still got it going on (Rob Miles)
- React Native 0.72 → 0.76: Lessons From the Trenches (Abijith B.)
- Meta Introduces Smart Glasses Toolkit (Lucy Black)
- Microsoft Announces the Handheld Compatibility Program for Xbox (Paul Thurrott)
- Google Play’s 16 KB Page Size Compatibility Requirement — What You Should Know, and How to Upgrade Your App (Arunachalam B.)
- How much is your game worth? And Algorithms IKEA-fied! (Code Monkey)
Screencasts & Videos
- Nicole Tibaldi ’s keynote at TechBash 2025 (TechBash Dev Conference)
- Install and run Azure Foundry Local LLM server & Open WebUI on Windows Server 2025 | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
- Introducing Warp CLI (Beta) (Warp Team)
- How to Save Personal Prompts and Create Team Prompts in Copilot (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Team)
- The Download: GitHub MCP Registry, GitHub Copilot CLI, Beast mode for GitHub Copilot & more (Kedasha Kerr)
Podcasts
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #190 – Lone Wolf Dev turned Open Source Super Contributor Tom Mondloch (Beau Carnes)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Can AI save DevOps? with SystemInit’s Adam Jacob and The Hanselminutes Podcast – The Importance of Pair Programming with Tuple’s Johnny Marler (Scott Hanselman)
- Greg Leonardo: Azure and AI – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #369 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- INotifyPodcastChanged Episode #10 – Visual Studio 2026 with Mads Kristensen (Joseph Finney & Tamás Deme)
- PPP 478 | Today Was Fun: Why Great Teams Don’t Dread Monday, with author Bree Groff (Andy Kaufman)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #659 – Voices of Oxide (Cliff Biffle, Dave Pacheco, Ben Leonard, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Changelog and Friends Podcast Episode #110 – Inside Oxide (Bryan Cantrill, Steve Tuck, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- A Geek Leader #436 – Dream Culture with Dane Espegard (John Rouda)
- The Real Python Podcast #267 – Managing Feature Flags & Comparing Python Visualization Libraries (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #490 – Finding a Job in This Tough Job Market w/ Barrett Blake MS MVP & Architect (Taylor Desseyn)
- The Product Owner Who Made Retros Unsafe (And How We Fixed It) | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Terry Haayema)
- BONUS Product Delight – How to make your product stand out with emotional connection | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nesrine Changuel)
- React Native Radio Episode #345 – Expo SDK 54 (Frank Calise, Tyler Williams & Mazen Chami)
- Lenny’s Podcast – A 4-step framework for building delightful products | Nesrine Changuel (Spotify, Google, Skype) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Getting Backstage in front of a shifting dev experience (Phoebe Sajor)
Community & Events
- Deno Starts Crowdfund For JavaScript Trademark (I Programmer)
- Philly .NET Meetup – The Anatomy of an AI Breach: From Attack to Defense (Oct 15th) (Phiily .NET Team)
- Call For Papers Listings for 9/26 (Leon Adato)
- Ardalis Fall 2025 Speaking Tour (Steve Smith)
- Bringing Simplicity-First to the Page: My Upcoming Book (Chris Woodruff)
- How GitHub protects developers from copyright enforcement overreach (Margaret Tucker)
- Kicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Researcher Spotlights and Enhanced Incentives (Shilpa Kumari)
- Sprint to Imagine Cup: Fuel your innovation (MS Student Developer Team)
- Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
Database
- MySQL AI Introduced for Enterprise Edition (Renato Losio)
- Cryptographic documents in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- Linking Fabric Warehouse SQL Queries And Spark Jobs To The Capacity Metrics App (Chris Webb)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Control Your Flow (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft Lists Mobile Apps Retirement in November 2025: What You Need to Know (Saurabh)
- Identifying Over-Privileged Identities Using Microsoft Graph (Shannon Kuehn)
- Empower your workforce with agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Srini Raghavan)
PowerShell & Terminal
Miscellaneous
- Windows Hardware Compatibility Program – Windows 10 Certification Deprecation Plan (Andy W.)
- Did the US Successfully Take Over TikTok, Or Not? and Abu Dhabi Royal Family To Take Stake In TikTok US (BeauHD)
- New Digital ID Will Be Mandatory To Work in the UK (msmash)
- Why didn’t Windows 95 setup install a miniature Windows 95 so that it could be written as a 32-bit program? (Raymond Chen)
- Trump’s new target: Microsoft head of global affairs Lisa Monaco (Sean Hollister)
- Trump posts, then pulls bizarre AI video promoting MedBed conspiracy (Terrence O’Brien)
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- The .NET News Daily Issue #291 (Jasen)
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