Top Links
- You’re Invited! Join Progress & Microsoft for a Free VS Code Dev Days Event! (Sara Faatz)
- VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #5 – Life of a VS Code SWE Intern with Christy Nguyen (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)
- What’s New in the All-in-One .NET MAUI Templates Pack v7.9 (Vijay Anand E G)
- Profiler Copilot Agent | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Harshada Hole)
- Mads Kristensen: Visual Studio 2026 – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #367 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Building Premium Apps with .NET MAUI and Syncfusion (Sept 18th) (Syncfusion)
Web & Cloud Development
- A Better Way to Tune the JVM in Dockerfiles and Kubernetes Manifests (Bruno Borges)
- The 7 Best Cloud Hosting Providers for WordPress Sites (Jen Swisher)
- Building Production-Ready GraphQL APIs with HotChocolate: DataLoaders, Subscriptions, and Federation (Sudhir Mangla)
- Learning web development: Implementing web servers (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Subgrid: how to line up elements to your heart’s content (Saron Yitbarek)
- Web Development according to Grok is all about libraries… (Chris Heilmann)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Plugin.Maui.DebugOverlay provides a simple ribbon to indicate the app is running in Debug mode and .NET MAUI iOS Live Activity sample (pull request) (David Ortinau)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Dapper Plus Entity Framework: Hybrid Data Access for Maximum Performance (Sudhir Mangla)
- Putting Lazy Tasks in a Cache, and Computing Only Once, When First Requested (Bryan Hogan)
- Writing your own batched sink in Serilog (Bart Wullems)
- Cake.Sdk 5.0.25257.82-beta released (Mattias Karlsson)
- Day 31: Best Practices for Tuning Genetic Algorithm Parameters (Chris Woodruff)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Ensure Thread-Safe Uniqueness with DistinctConcurrentBag in Spargine (David McCarter)
- Compress HttpClient requests with GZIP (Josef Ottosson)
- How can I convert a third party in-process server so it runs in the COM surrogate? (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Building an AI Agent using RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- Guide to Freezing Layers in AI Models (Exxact Team)
- What is Microsoft MarkItDown and Why It Matters? (Niraj Ranasinghe)
- Get the most out of Firebase Studio’s default built-in model, Gemini 2.5 Pro (Ali Satter & James O’Reilly)
- Announcing OpenAI Grove (OpenAI Team)
- Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI Race to Lock In Elite AI Talent and Claude Code Is Teaching Developers to Be Their Own Tech Leads (AI Native Dev)
- Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it (Dominic-Madori Davis)
- The Software Engineers Paid To Fix Vibe Coded Messes (EditorDavid)
- Don’t Break Your Brand with AI (JD Meier)
- Our commitment to help build AI skills in higher education (jeanaj)
- Building personal apps with open source and AI (Kedasha Kerr)
- Microsoft is Making ‘Significant Investments’ in Training Its Own AI Models and AI Triggers 70% Collapse in Fresh Graduate Hiring at India’s IT Giants That Employ 5.4 Million (msmash)
- Fantasy Football with a Copilot (Nelson L. Walker)
- Preparing for an AI-powered Holiday Shopping Season (Suzanne Scacca)
- Rolling Stone’s parent company sues Google over AI Overviews (Terrence O’Brien)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- 3 Resilience Tips for Mental Toughness (J.D. Meier)
- How to add unit testing to Minimal APIs routes using xUnit (David Grace)
- Why is working faster not working? (Tim Ottinger)
- Achieve Effortless GitHub Releases With a New Plugin for TeamCity (Dmitrii Korovin)
- From Data To Decisions: UX Strategies For Real-Time Dashboards (Karan Rawal)
- Vertical Slice Architecture Is Easier Than You Think (Milan Jovanović)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- 3 pro tips to elevate your Firebase skills in the Firebase console (Yvonne Monterroso)
- Steam KEEPS growing, and Nintendo is coming for your summons! (Code Monkey)
Screencasts & Videos
- The ONLY guide you’ll need for GitHub Spec Kit (Den Delimarsky)
- Random.Code() – Fixing a Code Fix in Transpire and Changing a Refactoring in Rocks and Random.Code() – More Refactoring Work in Rocks (Jason Bock)
- C code that should be ILLEGAL. It’s also fantastic. (Frank LaVigne)
- The Download: A major npm supply chain attack, NVIDIA’s new chip & more (Kedasha Kerr)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Podcast – Umbraco Unplugged: Emma Burstow & Mats Persson on Umbraco Being The Friendly, Truly Open-Source, CMS (Jamie Taylor)
- Developer Tea – View Your Productivity Through the Lens of Values and Priorities (Jonathan Cutrell)
- React Native Radio #343 – Discord’s Journey to React Native with Chas Jhin (Robin Heinze, Mazen Chami & Jamon Holmgren)
- Betatalks, the Podcast #113 – Vector Databases and RAG for Grounding AI in Reliable Data – with Christian Peeters (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #484 – Navigating a 20 year Career in Tech w/ Sunil Pai (Taylor Desseyn)
- Problems vs. Solutions: The Great Product Owner Distinction | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Bernie Maloney)
- Batteries Included Podcast #109 – Awesome EVs Of IAA Munich Auto Show, Driving Lucid Sapphire At 200 MPH (Batteries Included Team)
- Exploring Vibe Coding and the Future of Product Management with Gunnar Berger – JavaScript Jabber #690 (Charles Max Wood)
- Meta Cast Podcast – How Great Leaders Create Win-Win Outcomes (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- A Geek Leader #434 – The Vale by Abigail Wen (John Rouda)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #265 – Python App Hosting Choices & Documenting Python’s History (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
- Dev Leader Podcast – From Spanish Teacher to GREAT Software Engineer – Interview With David Weiss (Nick Cosentino)
- The Amp Hour #702 – Test Point Accupuncture (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Lenny’s Podcast – The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – Season 2 opener! Now co-hosted with Sarah Withee! (Pam Selle)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Planning to Arm mobile devices with chips that handle AI (Ryan Donovan)
Community & Events
- Google kicks off the Pennsylvania AI Accelerator for small businesses | The Keyword (Google)
- xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team (Anthony Ha)
- More Return-to-Office Crackdowns, with 61.7% of Employees Now in Office Full-Time (EditorDavid)
- Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk (Jay Peters)
- IndiaAI Pre-Summit Events 2025: How to Apply and Draft a Winning Proposal (Rohit Gupta)
- Discover what’s in store at Microsoft Ignite 2025 and 🚀 Join Us for the Migrate and Modernize Summit – September 23-24, 2025 (Jill Armour)
- Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse (Emma Roth)
Database
- Enhancing Group Security Improvements in Azure PostgreSQL (Joey Dantoni)
- Visualize Graphs in SQL Developer for VS Code (Ramu Murakami Gutierrez)
- Innovation or Fragility? Help shape the State of the Database Landscape (David Gummer)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Read Committed, Not So Committed (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Evolving our productivity offerings to resolve European competition concerns about Teams (Microsoft 365 Team)
- Show or hide the Copilot icon in OneNote on Windows (Bola Soneye)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Codebuff AI Coding Assistant – Generate code from the terminal (James Grugett)
- Warp Code Gets Closer to an Emacs for the Modern AI Era (David Eastman)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Files Preview v4.0.6 (Files Team)
- Why the Zork Trilogy is still worth playing (and how to play it!) (Derek)
- Releasing Windows 11 Builds 26100.6713 and 26200.6713 to the Release Preview Channel and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6682 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6682 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Bradon LeBlanc)
- Most Earth-Like Planet Yet May Have Been Found Just 40 Light Years Away (EditorDavid)
- Enable Nested Virtualization on Windows Server 2025 (Orin Thomas)
- Spotify Lossless is an inconvenient improvement (Terrence O’Brien)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #37, 2025 – .NET 10 RC1 & FScrobble (Sergey Tihon)
- Links For You (9/13/25) (Raymond Camden)
- Azure Weekly #531 – 14th September 2025 (The Editor)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #283 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link