Top Links
- Visualizing LINQ Queries with LINQPad: Boost Your EF Core Debugging (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- ReactJS Essentials Every Developer Should Know (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
- Building a Proof of Concept and Teaching Developers How to Master Modern ASP.NET Core, Aspire, and Azure Development (Robert Felkins)
- Register for TechBash 2025 today and save 10%! Our Labor Day deal is about to end. (TechBash Team) – The summer sale ended last night, but you can still get standard registration and discounted rooms through Oct 3rd.
- Ladybug Podcast – A Brief Introduction To Engineering Management (Emma Bostian & Kelly Vaughn)
- Announcing Files v4.0 (Files Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Kubernetes v1.34: DRA has graduated to GA (Kubernetes DRA Team)
- What’s new in Svelte: September 2025 (Dani Sandoval)
- Precise Resource Replacement with Pulumi State Taint (Meagan Cojocar)
- Smooth Scrolling, Fast Saves: Boost React Spreadsheet Performance (Sastha Prathap)
- Announcing General Availability of Premium v4 for Azure App Service (Stefan Schackow)
- Running OPC UA server simulation in dotnet aspire (Alexander Köpke)
- Ember 6.6 Released (Jared Galanis)
- .NET HttpClient and Delegating Handlers (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Java vs C# – Part 1 (Ricardo Peres)
- Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 16: Second attempt to use a list (Raymond Chen)
AI
- How Microsoft Dragon Copilot Uses The Azure Health Data Services De-Identification Service (leakassab)
- Cursor vs Claude Code vs Gemini CLI (Yaser Al-Najjar)
- Test Data Bottleneck Unplugged – API Test Automation with AI (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered. (Laurie Clarke)
- From Zero to Hero: Proven Methods to Optimize RAG for Production (mrajguru)
- 85% of College Students Report AI Use (msmash)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Arbitrary SQL, Migrations & Idempotent Scripting (Michel Sellers)
- Means of Production (Chris Ferdinandi)
- The two-ear Product Manager: Why balanced listening is your superpower (Bart Wullems)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- A new layer of security for certified Android devices (Suzanne Frey)
- Apple’s Xcode 26 Beta Now Supports GPT-5 and Claude (J.R. Johnivan)
- Ever-present and useful: Building complication data sources for Wear OS (Garan Jenkin)
- Building experiences for Wear OS and Create delightful Wear OS Widgets using sample tile layouts (Michael Stillwell)
- Evaluating Kotlin Multiplatform: Benefits and Trade-Offs in Cross-Platform Development (Rachit Jain)
- The evolution of Wear OS authentication (John Zoeller)
- A comprehensive workflow from design to device: Introducing Watch Face Designer (Anoushka Mazumdar & Adam Soutar)
- Designing with personality: Introducing Material 3 Expressive for Wear OS and Welcome to Wear OS Spotlight Week (Chiara Chiappini & Kevin Hufnagle)
- Getting Started with Stock Charts: Exploring the Core Features (Hariram Subramanian)
Screencasts & Videos
- Creating smart prompts for Azure SQL Copilot to expose the pain | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Reitse Eskens)
- How Copilot Saved My C# Dependency Injection Project From This Bug! (Nick Cosentino)
- Introducing SvelteKit Remote Functions (Simon Holthausen)
- Copilot webinar: Get started with AI writing (Ep. 1) (Microsoft 365 Team)
- How 2.5 Billion Gmail Accounts Were Just Exposed (Frank LaVigne)
- Random.Code() – Adding Filtered Properties to AutoDeconstruct, Part 4 (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- Merge Conflict Episode #478 – macOS 26… Something is wrong here… (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #933 – Hackweek Overview – What Is It, What Did We Build (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #112 – Transforming Cloud Innovation with Microsoft Fabric – with Jos Eilers (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
- From Boss to Facilitator—The Critical Role of Empathy in Scrum Mastery | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mariano Gontchar)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Turtles All the Way Down: PowerShell and Graphics with James Brundage (James Petty)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #241 – From Black Box to Building Blocks: More Modern Detection Engineering Lessons from Google (Anton Chuvakin)
- Vibe Coding: Building Faster with AI-Powered Development – JavaScript Jabber #687 and Why We’re Building the Front End Wrong (and How to Fix It) – JavaScript Jabber #688 (Charles Max Wood)
- Meta Cast – The New Leader’s Roadmap (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Only Malware in the Building Episode #15 – Hot sauce and hot takes: An Only Malware in the Building special. (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Vonnegut’s semicolon rule. What age has to do with language. Chocolate donut. (Mignon Fogarty & Valerie Fridland)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Building AI for consumer applications isn’t all fun and games (Phoebe Sajor)
Community & Events
- Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers (EditorDavid)
- Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Enriching Microsoft 365 profiles with Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors for people data (public preview) (Microsoft 365 Platform Team)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Warp: SWE-bench Verified Update (Suraj Gupta & Daniel Peng)
Miscellaneous
- US Tourism Suffers 8.2% Decline (msmash)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-36 (Michael Eaton)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2, Amazon Q Developer, IPv6 updates, and more (September 1, 2025) (Sébastien Stormacq)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #274 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency in C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
