Top Links
- Azure mandatory multifactor authentication: Phase 2 starting in October 2025 (Joy Shah & Neha Kulkarni)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #481 – Finding a Job in This Terrible Market w/ Principal Engineer, Jeff Blankenburg (Taylor Desseyn)
- .NET Aspire – Why We Should Consider It And How To Get Started (Barret Blake)
- Choosing the Right Windows Packaging Tool – from a developer’s perspective (Danut Ghiorghita)
- Agent Factory: From prototype to production—developer tools and rapid agent development (Yina Arenas)
- Technology & Friends – Ted Neward on Writing Prose (David Giard)
Web & Cloud Development
- Kubernetes v1.34: Pod Replacement Policy for Jobs Goes GA (Dejan Zele Pejchev)
- Designing Idempotent APIs in ASP.NET Core: Idempotency Keys, Outbox, and Exactly-Once Delivery (Sudhir Mangla)
- Microsoft says Azure affected after cables cut in the Red Sea (Anthony Ha)
- Blazor DataGrid: Implement CRUD Operations Using EF Core & Web API [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
- Sneak Peek at the SignalR Integration in Wolverine 5.0 (Jeremy D. Miller)
- “I’m Using GRS…Aren’t I Covered?” A Curious Question Met With The Reality of Azure Storage and Demystifying Log Retention in Azure (Shannon Kuehn)
- Introducing freeCodeCamp Daily Python and JavaScript Challenges – Solve a New Programming Puzzle Every Day (Tom Mondloch)
- ESLint v9.35.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
- Learning web development: Installing npm packages and bundling (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Add API key authentication to an Minimal API endpoint (David Grace)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- More Mica (Stefan Koell)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- ToDictionaryAsync retrieves the whole object from the database in Entity Framework (Steven Giesel)
- Introducing the New Editions of Syncfusion Essential Studio (Vijayakumar)
- IO is special (Mark Seemann)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Efficient Byte Array Conversions (David McCarter)
- The case of the crash on a null pointer even though we checked it for null (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Docker Acquisition of MCP Defender Helps Meet Challenges of Securing the Agentic Future (Andy Ramirez)
- AI Agents Security: The on-behalf-of concept (Oren Eini)
- Why language models hallucinate (OpenAI Team)
- From Fine-Tuning to Production: A Scalable Embedding Pipeline with Dataflow (Danny McCormick, Ian Ballantyne & Olivier Lacombe)
- 5 Times LLMs Help You Code… and 5 Times They Fail (Anastasija Uspenski)
- Custom chat modes in GitHub Copilot (Bart Wullems)
- Why Tech Professionals Must Lead the Charge on GenAI Safety (Charles Humble)
- How to debug a web app with Playwright MCP and GitHub Copilot (Christopher Harrison)
- AI Injection Attacks (Eric Lawrence)
- What’s the Future of Prompt Engineering with GPT-5 and Beyond? (Mahesh Chand)
- Should Your Team Be Vibe Coding? (Matt Moore)
- Building Semantic Search with Amazon S3 Vectors (Milan Jovanović)
- OpenAI could launch its own AI chip next year (Robert Hart)
- Tackling MCP security challenges with the MCP API delegation pattern (Steven Peh)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- MSIX Editor Is Now Available in Enterprise & Architect Editions (Bogdan Mitrache)
- Branding the Suite Installer UI – A Cause-and-Effect Visual Guide (Renato Ivanescu)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- 1TB Raspberry Pi SSD on sale now for $70 (Ashley Whittaker)
- How to Build an Upload Service in Flutter Web with Firebase (Atuoha Anthony)
- Elevating media playback: Introducing preloading with Media3 – Part 1 (Mayuri Khinvasara Khabya)
- What Gamescom says about the future of indie games (Code Monkey)
Screencasts & Videos
- Hot Design AMA Webinar (Uno Platform Team)
- Technology & Friends – Sam Nasr on Data Cleansing (David Giard)
- Angular workshop migration – Docusaurus VS TinaDocs | SSW TV (Jeoffrey Fischer)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 277 – On To Better Things (Life Beyond AI and Seattle) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- From Issue to PR – Asynchronously develop with GitHub Copilot Coding Agent | Sip and Sync with Azure (Priyanka Vergadia & Luke Hoban)
- Master Warp’s Code Review Panel and 10 Coding Features (you should know) in Warp (Warp Team)
- 10 Things I Do On Every .NET App – NDC Oslo 2025 (Scott Sauber)
- A Guide to LLM Fine Tuning (Frank LaVigne)
- Random.Code() – Resurrecting EmitDebugging Using Interceptors, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
- What’s new with the Copilot coding agent | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths)
- What Is a REST API? Learn the Basics Fast (Postman Team)
- What is a threat model? | One Dev Question (Michael Howard)
Podcasts
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #187 – How to focus on building your skills when everything’s so distracting with Ania Kubów (Beau Carnes)
- Celebrating 15 years of Yet Another Podcast (Jesse Liberty)
- GeekWire Podcast – OpenAI’s big Seattle deal; Steve Ballmer under NBA scrutiny; the irony in Google’s antitrust case (Todd Bishop)
- React Native Radio Podcast #342 – Ignite 11: Bison 🦬 with Mark Rickert (Robin Heinze, Jamon Holmgren, Mazen Chami & Mark Rickert)
- The Visionary vs The Micromanager – Two Product Owner Extremes | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mariano)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #264 – Large Language Models on the Edge of the Scaling Laws (Jodie Burchell)
- PPP 476 | This One Idea Could Radically Change How You Lead, with author Jim Ferrell (Andy Kaufman)
- INotifyPodcastChanged Episode #9 – Packaging Windows apps with Kevin Bost (Joseph Finney & Tamás Deme)
- Lenny’s Podcast – How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Batteries Included Episode #108 – BMW iX3 Shocks With 500 Mile Range, Audi Reveals TT-Inspired Concept C (Batteries Included Crew)
- Dev Leader Podcast – Why System Failures Make The Best Learning Opportunities! – Interview With Michael Kill (Nick Cosentino)
Community & Events
- CfPs Closing Soon (as of 2025-09-06) (Dave Aronson)
- OpenAI hires the team behind Xcode coding assistant Alex (Ivan Mehta)
- iPhone 17 rumors rated – what to really expect at this week’s Apple event (Axel Metz)
- October 2025 in Philly: The Biggest Events, Fests & Exhibitions (Visit Philly)
Database
- What’s next for Copilot in SSMS (Erin Stellato)
- Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework (aen)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft Project Online is retiring: What you need to know (George Bullock)
- Microsoft 365 Personal is now free for US college students for a year (Tom Warren)
PowerShell & Terminal
- How Warp Went From Terminal to Agentic Development Environment (Frederic Lardinois)
Miscellaneous
- Here are 10 free MIT online courses you don’t want to miss in 2025 (Nishat Jahan)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5790 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.5790 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- The New Math of Quantum Cryptography (Ben Brubaker)
- Microsoft makes it easier for Windows 11 users to type em and en dashes with keyboard shortcuts (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- GM slows EV production as tax credit nears expiration (Terrence O’Brien)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #36, 2025 – In Memory of Oleg Pyzhcov (Sergey Tihon)
- Azure Weekly #529 – 31st August 2025 and Azure Weekly #530 – 7th September 2025 (The Editor)
- Daily Reading List – September 5, 2025 (#622) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #278 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link