Top Links
- Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (October) (Rhea Patel)
- Blazor Server Reconnection Gets an Upgrade in .NET 10 (Jon Hilton)
- Technology & Friends – Arthur Doler on Code Archaeology (David Giard)
- What’s new in Windows 11 Version 25H2 (Mahima N.)
- Peter Ritchie: .NET Foundation – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #370 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Introducing XAML.io Preview v0.5 — Visual .NET Development, In-Browser (OpenSilver Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Introducing the Syncfusion AI-Powered Blazor PDF Viewer: Unleashing AI for Smarter PDFs [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
- Blazor Basics: Using Local Storage to Save and Restore Form Input (Claudio Bernasconi)
- SPA vs. SSR vs. SSG (and Edge Rendering) in 2025: How .NET Backends Power Modern React, Vue, and Angular (Sudhir Mangla)
- ESLint v9.37.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
- What’s coming in ESLint v10.0.0 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Online Identity Verification with the Digital Credentials API (Marcos Cáceres, Erik Melone & Andreas Thoma)
- 11ty Hacks for Fun and Performance (Alex Russell)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI Learning Resources – A repository filled with resources available to you to start learning or deepen your knowledge about .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
- Migrating MaterialFrame to MAUI Handlers: A StackBlur Story (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Using Stored Procedures and Functions With EF Core and PostgreSQL (Milan Jovanović)
- Create Dynamic Excel Slicers in C# Using Syncfusion XlsIO (Mohan Chandran)
- No More Mocking ILogger (Adam Storr)
- Use CancellationTokens (Steven Giesel)
- Cake v5.1.0 released (Mattias Karlsson)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Secure Passwords with PBKDF2PasswordHasher in Spargine (David McCarter)
- Rx.NET v6.1 Now Available and Rx.NET v6.1 New Feature: TakeUntil(CancellationToken) and Rx.NET v6.1 New Feature: DisposeWith() and Rx.NET v6.1 New Feature: ResetExceptionDispatchState() (Ian Griffiths)
- Can we get weak functions for static linking? The Visual C++ compiler says “We have weak functions at home” (Raymond Chen)
AI
- The Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- MCP Overview (Svelte Documentation)
- Level Up Your Dev Game: The Jules API is Here! (Jane Fine & Jenny Cong)
- Your CEO is in the AI Arms Race. Your Job is to Provide the Guardrails. (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible (Lily Hay Newman)
- Resilient AI agents with MCP: Timeout and retry strategies (Matthew Casperson)
- Optimize and deploy LLMs for production with OpenShift AI (Philip Hayes)
- AI + LLM Code Review: Find Hidden Issues Before They Break Production (Praveenkumar)
- Copilot Chat: Snack Pack and Copilot Chat: Prompting (Sam Hitaraman)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- This self-hosted alternative to Figma is better than I expected (Nolen Jonker)
- Shift left on x (Mark Seemann)
- SignTool GUI 2.0.0.0 — Major Update Out Now! (Michael Morten Sonne)
- Enabling real-time responsiveness with event-driven architecture (MIT Technology Review Insights)
- xUnit advanced Assert methods: Throws, IsType + more (David Grace)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How to Use Animations in Flutter (Atuoha Anthony)
- AWS Introduces M4 and M4 Pro Mac Instances for Faster Apple App Development (Renato Losio)
- Inside Apple’s quest to add a heart-rate sensor and full workout tracking into AirPods Pro 3 (Jacob Krol)
- Ghost Stories to scare indie devs, and play Snake in the URL (Code Monkey)
- Is Apple’s Liquid Glass the Next Material Design? (Suzanne Scacca)
Screencasts & Videos
- Aubrey Wade @ TechBash 2025 #conferencespeakers #conference (TechBash Dev Conference)
- Technology & Friends – Arunava Majumdar on AI and an Automation Platform (David Giard)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 281 – How to Beat AI (The Critical Thinking Episode) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Random.Code() – Automatically Logging Invocations Using Interceptors, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
- Have we made any progress securing code in the last 25 yrs? | One Dev Question (Michael Howard)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Building Engineering Culture Through Autonomy and Ownership (Marcos Arribas)
- Engineer in the Loop Podcast – Platform > Servers: Elliott Leighton-Woodruff on Landing Zones, FinOps, and Real-World Cloud Tradeoffs and Engineer in the Loop Podcast – News Oct 3, 2025 (Alec Harrison)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Beyond code generation: How AI is changing tech teams’ dynamics and The Stack Overflow Podcast – One is not the loneliest number for API calls (Phoebe Sajor)
- When Product Owners Eat the Grass for Their Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Tom Molenaar)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #493 – Pretending to Have The Job Before You Get It w/ Josh Cirre, DevRel @ Laravel (Taylor Desseyn)
- A Geek Leader Episode #437 – Noam Krasniansky (John Rouda)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #268 – Advice on Beginning to Learn Python (Martin Breuss & Stephen Gruppetta)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast Episode #111 – npm under siege (what to do about it) (Feross Aboukhadijeh, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Meta Cast Podcast – Self-Care for Leaders Who Never Stop (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #112 – US Tesla Model Y Performance Arrives Just In Time To Snag $7,500 Incentive (Batteries Included Team)
- Lenny’s Podcast – How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- The VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #8 – Impact of AI on How We Learn to Code with Scott Tolinski (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)
Community & Events
- Call For Papers Listings for 10/03 (Leon Adato)
- Teaching Millions to Code: Quincy Larson on 10 Years of freeCodeCamp (Oct 29th) (GitHub)
- CfPs Closing Soon (as of 2025-10-04) (Dave Aronson)
- How to Use a Custom Domain with the Bluesky App (Jason Gaylord)
- Startups and the U.S. government: It’s getting complicated (Kirsten Korosec)
Database
- Why Developers Shouldn’t Have sysadmin access in SQL Server (Peter Skoglund)
- Storing and Reporting on Genealogy Data in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
- How Redgate’s Foundry is Shaping the Future of Database Innovation with AI (Fergus Reed)
- Reducing SQL Connection Latency for Apps Using Azure AAD Authentication (Melania Nitu)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: How to Pick a Temporary Object (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft Teams is finally getting a highly requested multitasking feature to boost your productivity (Rahul Naskar)
- New collaborative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Zachary Cavanell)
PowerShell
- Entra ID – Soft-delete & Restore for Conditional Access + New PowerShell Module (Michael Morten Sonne)
Miscellaneous
- As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is ‘harming both gamers and developers’ (Andy Chalk)
- Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs (Jay Peters)
- Microsoft’s CTO Hopes to Swap Most AMD and NVIDIA GPUs for In-House Chips (EditorDavid)
- Words Change Because We Do: The Evolution of Language on Sexuality and Gender (Heather Paterson)
- Discord admits customer data theft after third-party security breach (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- If you can get past the terrible logo, Audacity 4 looks pretty great (Terrence O’Brien)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #40, 2025 – Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview) (Sergey Tihon)
- Azure Weekly #534 – 5th October 2025 (The Editor)
- Daily Reading List – October 3, 2025 (#641) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #296 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Beyond Vibe Coding – A practical guide to AI-assisted development (Addy Osmani)