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
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)