Top Links
- Two in-house models in support of our mission (Microsoft AI)
- Spec-driven development with AI: Get started with a new open source toolkit (Den Delimarsky)
- EPISODE 23 – Refchecker, a Useful Tool Coded by Mark and AI (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- Boost Your Copilot Collaboration with Reusable Prompt Files (Jessie Houghton)
- What’s New & Next for .NET MAUI and Blazor Hybrid – NDC Oslo 2025 (Rachel Kang)
- PowerToys 0.94 is here: Settings search, shortcut conflict detection and more! (Niels Laute)
Web & Cloud Development
- Learning web development: Asynchronous JavaScript – Promises and async functions (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Kernel Ridge Regression with Stochastic Gradient Descent Training Using JavaScript (James McCaffrey)
- Kubernetes v1.34: Introducing CPU Manager Static Policy Option for Uncore Cache Alignment (Charles Wong)
- The Ultimate Guide to Styling React Components (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Should the CSS light-dark() Function Support More Than Light and Dark Values? (Sunkanmi Fafowora)
- Customizing Temporary File Paths in ASP.NET Applications (Tanya Dhariwal)
- Full-text search and other searches with Data Connect (Andrea Wu)
- Apple’s Assault on Standards (Alex Russell)
- Safari is holding the web back (Chris Ferdinandi)
- The silent shift to Vite: What it means for your stack (Elijah Asaolu)
- Effective observability with Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry (Giovanni Fontana)
- Enabling Client Certificate Authentication for an Application Inside Default Web Site (Goyal Sandeep)
- RubyMine Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use (Iryna Pisklyarova)
- Fresh 2.0 Graduates to Beta, Adds Vite Support (Marvin Hagemeister)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Easily Sync Microsoft Project XML with WPF Gantt Control (Karthick Mani)
- Exploring the BusyIndicator in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Visual Studio & .NET
- C# Tip: injecting and testing the current time with TimeProvider and FakeTimeProvider (Davide Bellone)
- Copilot Diagnostics Toolset for .NET In Visual Studio (Kay Ewbank)
- How to Embed Fonts in PDF with C# for Localization (Chinnu Muniyappan)
- Java vs C# – Part 2 (Ricardo Peres)
- Breaking Update of PostSharp Caching adapter for Redis in 2025.1 (Gael Fraiteur)
- Using and authoring .NET tools (Andrew Lock)
- From AutoMapper Profiles to Mapster: Centralizing your mapping logic (Bart Wullems)
- Capture .NET Memory Dump on Linux (Meenakshi Balekar)
AI
- How to Become an Expert in AI-Assisted Coding – A Handbook for Developers (Mrugesh Mohapatra)
- 🤖 Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations – Community-contributed instructions, prompts, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot (Aaron Powell & Contributors)
- Building more helpful ChatGPT experiences for everyone (OpenAI Team)
- Agent is now available to build apps with any framework (Replit Team)
- Introducing your newest study buddy: stackoverflow.ai (Caroline Thomas)
- Accelerating AI adoption for the US government (Chris Barry)
- DeepSeek Releases v3.1 Model with Hybrid Reasoning Architecture (Daniel Dominguez)
- What is Prompt Engineering? Techniques, Examples, and Tools (Tyler Mitchell)
- API Keys and AI Agents: Four Common Risks (Will Johnson)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Being A Successful Software Developer – Agilely Managing Expectations (Peter Ritchie)
- AI Combined With Agile Lets Developers Focus on Craft (Loraine Lawson)
- From Hello to Secure: The SSL/TLS Handshake Explained Like a Conversation (Meenakshi Balekar)
- CI/CD for Data + App Together: A Unified Framework for .NET, SQL, and Fabric with GitHub Actions (Sudhir Mangla)
- Why Do Software Engineers Procrastinate? (Antonija Bilic Arar)
- Dubious security vulnerability: Remembering passwords for recently-opened ZIP files (Raymond Chen)
- How organizations measure Platform Engineering (Steve Fenton)
- GIMP 3.1.4 is here — the best free Photoshop alternative gains link and vector layers (Wayne Williams)
- Stack Overflow is helping you learn to code with new resources and Back to school? Developers at Stack Overflow have some advice for you and Getting started on Stack Overflow: a step-by-step guide for students (Zach Rutta)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How to Save and Share Flutter Widgets as Images – A Complete Production-Ready Guide (Atuoha Anthony)
- Modernizing IoT: A Tale of TLS 1.2, an ESP8266, and a Human-AI Partnership (Alon Fliess)
Screencasts & Videos
- Extending Visual Studio – Placing Commands in Extensions | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Murphy McQuet)
- Externalizing Secrets Securely in Kubernetes with Secrets Store CSI Driver | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro, Anish Ramasekar & Ben Petersen)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Noelle Russell (Isaac Levin)
- Modernizing Legacy Apps using GenAI (MongoDB Team)
- The Steve Ballmer Interview – Summer 2025, Episode 1 (Acquired)
- Context Window: Upleveling Your AI Agents – 3 Dev Questions Answered (Korey Stegared-Pace)
- Agent-to-agent collaboration in Copilot Studio | The Low Code Revolution (Elaiza Benitez & Sudeep Ghatak)
Podcasts
- Developer Tea – This One Skill Signifies Seniority For Software Engineers (Jonathan Cutrell)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #159 – Next.js is infuriating (Jerod Santo)
- .NET Rocks! – DevOps in 2025 with Michael Levan (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Breaking Down The Clan Mentality In Agile Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mariano Gontchar)
- Dev Leader Podcast – People-First Software Engineering – Interview With Hassan Habib (Nick Cosentino)
- The AI Fix Episode #66 – OpenAI and Anthropic test each other, and everyone fails the apocalypse test (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Python Bytes Episode #447 – Going down a rat hole (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #684 – Dan Bergh Johnsson and Daniel Deogun on Secure By Design (Sam Taggart)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – Leading While Black in STEM: Bias, Boundaries, and Building Power (with Melanie Myles) (‘Tine Zekis)
- RunAs Radio Episode 1000! (Richard Campbell & Paul Thurrott)
Community & Events
- Latest layoffs at Oracle impact 101 employees in Washington state and OpenAI deepens Seattle-area footprint with blockbuster $1.1B acquisition of Statsig (Taylor Soper)
- Azure Dev Summit 2025 – Built by MVPs, Backed by Microsoft (Kim Sanchez)
- Kickstart your career by building your Stack Overflow presence (Kate Smith)
Database
- Secure Your SQL Estate: Best Practices for Azure SQL Security (Chris Yates)
- SQL Formatter for SSMS (preview) | Open VSIX Gallery (Erik EJ)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Lock Compatibility (Erik Darling)
Miscellaneous
- Amazon ends shared Prime free shipping outside your home (Emma Roth)
- Secure Rust development with GitLab (Fernando Diaz)
- Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case (Lauren Feiner)
- The tariff apocalypse is here (Mia Sato)
- Towards Rust in Windows Drivers (Nate Deisinger)
- Microsoft PowerToys 0.94 adds shortcut conflict detection, fuzzy search and more! (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
More Link Collections
- dotInsights | September 2025 (Rachel Appel)
- Daily Reading List – September 2, 2025 (#619) (Richard Seroter)
- Reading Notes #663 (Frank Boucher)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #275 (Jasen)
- Radar Trends to Watch: September 2025 (Mike Loukides)
The Geek Shelf
PowerShell for Penetration Testing: Explore the capabilities of PowerShell for pentesters across multiple platforms (Dr. Andrew Blyth) – Referral Link