Top Links
- Highlights from Git 2.49 (Taylor Blau)
- .NET MAUI 9.0.50 (Service Release 5) (Rachel Kang)
- AI on Windows: Detecting NPU (Nick Randolph)
- Windows Dev Chat (March 27th) – Developer Stories: WinUI Web Browser (Windows Developer Team)
- Harnessing AI in C# with Microsoft.Extensions.AI, Ollama, and MCP Server (Laurent Kempé)
- Building a DeepSeek Extension for GitHub Copilot in VS Code (Wassim Chegham)
Web & Cloud Development
- Making Html Input Controls Truly ReadOnly (Rick Strahl)
- FluidCalendar: Expanding Calendar Support with CalDAV Integration (Part 5) (Emad Ibrahim)
- The KIRUPA Tech Stack : It’s 1998 All Over Again! and Drawing Sharp Lines on the Canvas (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- WebStorm 2025.1 Beta Is Here With AI Enhancements, Framework Improvements, and a Better User Experience (Vladislav Minaev)
- Cloudflare Accused of Blocking Niche Browsers (EditorDavid)
- Using Microsoft Entra ID To Authenticate With MCP Servers Via Sessions (Den Delimarsky)
- TypeScript-Go: A 10x Faster TypeScript without .NET but in Go (Steven Giesel)
- REST Explained: Why the Web Runs on This Simple Idea and REST: From Dissertation to Dominating the Web (Chris Woodruff)
- DevProxy 0.25 Improves Configuration Management, Joins .NET Foundation (Edin Kapić)
- .NET Aspire Integration Testing Quick Start (James Gould)
- The Basic Building Blocks API Governance (Kin Lane)
- The Growing Significance of Observability in Cloud Native Environments (Vimal Patel)
- Deno’s Response to Node’s Recent Support for TypeScript (Loraine Lawson)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio Devs Share Copilot AI Prompts to Improve Code (David Ramel)
- Streamlining .NET 9 Deployment With GitHub Actions and Azure (Milan Jovanović)
- Profiles in Visual Studio Code (VS Code Docs)
- Create a Task and Start it Later (Bryan Hogan)
- Benchmarking TX Text Control: Classic vs. Core on Windows and Linux (Bjoern Meyer)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Simplify File I/O with Spargine’s FileHelper (David McCarter)
- The case of COM failing to pump messages in a single-threaded COM apartment (Raymond Chen)
- .NET Heisenbug Mystery Theater: How Did an Exception Escape its Catch Block? (Aaron Stannard)
- A simpler solution file format (Mark Downie)
AI
- Generative AI for beginners with JavaScript (Microsoft)
- AI Coding Assistant Refuses To Write Code, Tells User To Learn Programming Instead (BeauHD)
- Google is officially dumping Assistant for Gemini (Jay Peters)
- Deploy LiteLLM on Microsoft Azure with AZD, Azure Container Apps and PostgreSQL (Chris Pietschmann)
- BlueSky Proposes ‘New Standard’ for When Scraping Data for AI Training (EditorDavid)
- Using RealTime AI – Part 1: Getting Started with the Fundamentals of Low-Latency AI Magic (Dan Wahlin)
- What AI I Use How and When (Eleanor Berger)
- OpenAI and Google ask the government to let them train AI on content they don’t own (Emma Roth)
- Monitoring OpenAI Agents SDK with Application Insights (hieunhu)
- AI Agents: Key Principles and Guidelines – Part 3 (Shivam Goyal)
- AI and the Dark Art of Social Engineering (Sonia Mishra)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Configuring Scaling Settings for Managed DevOps Pool : Fresh agent for every job and Standby Agents Mode is Off (Gora Leye)
- Trusted Signing (Lance McCarthy)
- Nobody Codes a Bad System On Purpose (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Synchronous Work, Asynchronous Work (Ted Neward)
- Remote Working Saved Zillow Money, Helped Recruiting, and Maintained Productivity (EditorDavid)
- Pulumi + Gitlab: Better Than Ever (Derek Schaller)
- What’s new in Git 2.49.0? (Toon Claes)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Announcing Ionic 8.5 (Brandy Smith)
- Guide: Setting Up Visual Studio Code Roblox Development (Kevin Darty)
- Support for Game Consoles in JetBrains Rider (Matt Ellis)
Screencasts & Videos
- GCast 192: Using the Vision + Document capabilities of Azure AI Services in Azure AI Foundry and Technology & Friends – Andy and Kristin Looney on Fluxx (David Giard)
- Build Your Own Game Engine in the Browser – NDC London 2025 (David Whitney)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 252 – IoT Hulk Smash! (Is IoT making a comeback?) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Using GPT Visual Capabilities to Solve a Wordle Puzzle – NDC London 2025 (Jennifer Marsman)
- What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)? (IBM Technology)
- C#’s Functional Journey – NDC London 2025 (Mads Torgersen)
- Introducing BotQ (Figure Team)
- PortatilShop Interview – Recognized Woman in Tech (Leomaris Reyes)
- Exploring Multi-Modal AI: GPT-4o-Realtime and VoiceRAG (Marlene Mhangami)
- Random.Code() – Fixing Rocks Bugs (Back to the Grind…Again) (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- Dev Leader Podcast – Be the Luck for Other Software Engineers – Interview with Scott Hanselman (Nick Cosentino)
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #164 – How to become a self-taught developer while supporting a family (Quincy Larson)
- InfoQ Podcast: Engineering Culture and the API Revolution: A Conversation with Sagar Batchu (Sagar Batchu)
- GeekWire Podcast: The meaning of Rocket’s Redfin deal, and how Microsoft is bringing AI to Xbox gamers (Todd Bishop)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS Challenging the Agile Status Quo with #NoBacklogs | Allan Kelly and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS Mastering Your Own Career Success as a Scrum Master | Fred Deichler (Vasco Duarte)
- Talk Python to Me #496 – Scaf: Complete blueprint for new Python Kubernetes projects (Michael Kennedy)
- Changelog and Friends Podcast #84 – Friends on the Frontend (John Long & Adam Stacoviak)
- React Native Radio Episode #325 – Legend List with Jay Meistrich (Jamon Holmgren, Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
- Patrick Escarcega: Software Engineering Principles – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #341 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- The Breakpoint Show Episode #036 – Episode of a Lifetime (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – The Growing Risks of Staying On-Premises (Mary Jo Foley)
- Lenny’s Podcast – The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain (author of “Quiet”) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – Pam and Helen Horstmann-Allen talk about money, optimism, and sustainable action (Pam Selle)
- Practical AI Podcast – Optimizing for efficiency with IBM’s Granite (Kate Soule, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Community & Events
- S1E1 – Hands-on With GitHub Models! (Nitya Narasimhan)
- Is Oracle Closer to Running TikTok? (EditorDavid)
- Visual Studio at GDC 2025 (David Li)
- Meet the JetBrains Team at GDC 2025 (Anna Ruban)
- Bluesky users debate plans around user data and AI training (Anthony Ha)
- After Meta Blocks Whistleblower’s Book Promotion, It Becomes an Amazon Bestseller (EditorDavid)
- Speaking at conferences and being careful about what I wish for (Matt Lacey)
Database
- A Short PSA On Transaction Count, ROLLBACK, and COMMIT In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Save Azure PostgreSQL Backup to Storage (Josephine Bush)
- Digitally Signing a SQL Stored Procedure (Rick Dobson)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Boost Your Productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot (Barbara Andrews)
- How Microsoft 365 Copilot Keeps Your Data Safe? (Mohamed El-Qassas)
PowerShell & Terminal
- How Warp Terminal Helps Me Correct My Scripts and Coding (Jack Wallen)
Miscellaneous
- Amazon’s Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud, starting March 28 (Anthony Ha)
- Everything You Say To Your Echo Will Be Sent To Amazon Starting On March 28 (BeauHD)
- Debian Linux 12.10 drops just in time for St. Patrick’s Day with security fixes (Brian Fagioli)
- The Trump administration is coming for student protesters (Gaby Del Valle)
- The Google graveyard: all the products Google has shut down (Verge Staff)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #11 2025 – AI Chat app in F# and Elmish (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – March 14, 2025 (#512) (Richard Seroter)
- Azure Weekly #507 – 16th March 2025 (The Editor)
- Reading List 337 (Bruce Lawson)
- Daily Links 11 Mar 2025 (Malcolm Jack)
- Reading Notes #639 (Frank Boucher)
- Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 9, 2025 (GeekWire)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3: Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML (Alvin Ashcraft)