Top Links
- Claude Code on the web (Anthropic Team)
- Coming to Rider 2025.3: ASP.NET and Database Issue Detection In The Monitoring Tool Window (Sasha Ivanova)
- ai unprompted Episode #002 – Everyday AI Hacks for Life and Work (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- From PDFs to Markdown in Seconds: FastAPI + MarkItDown + .NET (in Docker) (Bruno Capuano)
- .NET MAUI Masked Entry: Secure Input for Credit Cards, PINs, Account Numbers (Leomaris Reyes)
- On .NET Live | Countdown to .NET Conf 2025 (Jeff Fritz)
Web Development
- Lessons Learned #537: Copilot Prompts for Troubleshooting on Azure SQL Database (Jose_Manuel_Jurado)
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Approved as ISO/IEC International Standard and First Public Working Draft: CSS Anchor Positioning Module Level 2 (W3C Team)
- Reactive + Functional UI Patterns in TypeScript and F#: RxJS, Signals, and Elmish for Real-Time Apps (Sudhir Mangla)
- Azure Pricing Calculator: Estimate Smarter, Plan Confidently (Thomas Maurer)
- Node.js v22.21.0 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
- Inside the attack chain: Threat activity targeting Azure Blob Storage (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team)
- MCP vs. API Gateways: They’re Not Interchangeable (Christian Posta)
- A Novel Approach to Sum Types in Go (Jeffrey Richter)
- Advanced Cell Styling and Formatting for JavaScript Spreadsheet Applications (Kristina Ismail)
- Securing Your ASP.NET Core App with Authorization Fallback Policy (Bart Wullems)
- The Missing One-Liner for Azure Service Bus Tracing with .NET Aspire (Julio Casal)
- Static Extraction in CSS-in-JS for Efficiency in React Apps (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Introducing native Service Bus message publishing from Azure API Management (anishta)
- Introducing CheckMate for Auth0: A New Auth0 Security Tool (Shiven Ramji)
- Wrapper Elements around Code Blocks in Markdown (Zach Leatherman)
Windows Development
- XAML.io 0.5 Adds Multi-File Project Editing (Kay Ewbank)
.NET
- Postgres as a Distributed Cache Unlocks Speed and Simplicity for Modern .NET Workloads (Jared Meade)
- Adding .NET 10 Passkey Support to Duende IdentityServer (Maarten Balliauw)
- Uno Platform 6.3 Adds .NET 10 Preview Support and VS 2026 Readiness (Edin Kapić)
- Get a 180% speed increase on large async reads with Microsoft.Data.SqlClient (and EF Core) – here is how to turn it on! (Erik EJ)
AI
- What Bill Gates really said about AI replacing coding jobs (David Gewirtz)
- Microsoft Says Windows 11 Will Be AI-Native (Paul Thurrott)
- Creating AI Agents Using the Model Context Protocol: A Comprehensive Guide to Implementation with C# (Nilesh Bhandarwar)
- Docker Model Runner Meets Open WebUI: A Simpler Way to Run Local AI Models (Sergei Shitikov)
- Claude Haiku 4.5 now available in GitLab Duo Agentic Chat (Tim Zallmann)
- Rapid web app development with Devin – A Developer’s Perspective (James Camilleri)
- How Windows 11 and AI are transforming the future of work (Stefan_Kinnestrand)
- 3 Dangerous Paradoxes of AI in Software Development (Marcus Merrell)
- A Plan-Do-Check-Act Framework for AI Code Generation (Ken Judy)
- Brain-Work, Brain-Toil and Mentoring AI Agents (Bahman Movaqar)
- Neo Gets Smarter: New Modes, CLI Access & Sonnet 4.5 (Pulumi Neo Team)
- AI hype is excessive, but its productivity gains are real (pcloadletter)
Python
- Announcing latest Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK: Powering the Future of AI with OpenAI (Theo van Kraay)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Behind the Streams: Real-Time Recommendations for Live Events Part 3 (Kris Range, Ankush Gulati, Jim Isaacs, Jennifer Shin, Jeremy Kelly & Jason Tu)
- Why Software Engineering Governance Matters: Reducing Risk without Slowing down (Ben Linders)
- A Human-Centered Approach to Competitive Advantage (Kord Davis)
- Dealing with Race Conditions in Event-Driven Architecture with Read Models (Oskar Dudycz)
- Architecting an Intelligent Query Engine (Sreejith Vadakara)
- Three Questions That Help You Build a Better Software Architecture (Pierre Pureur & Kurt Bittner)
- Securing What Others Miss: McDonald’s Approach to Data Discovery and Classification (Ryan Toscano)
Mobile and Game Development
- Name your own price for this Humble Bundle of Raspberry Pi Press books (Brian Jepson)
- Dynamic App Links: Elevating your Android deep linking (Ran Mor)
- Firebase Phone Number Verification developer preview (Micah Baker)
Screencasts and Videos
- New LightSwitch module in PowerToys and more! – Developer News 42/2025 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- New Container Goodness in .NET 10 (Isaac Levin)
- The Untold Story of Log4j and Log4Shell | Christian Grobmeier | GitHub (Christian Grobmeier)
- Search Improvements in Visual Studio 2026 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- Load Testing Made Simple with Azure App Testing (Microsoft Azure Developers)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- GitHub Podcast Episode #41 – From Log4Shell to the Sovereign Tech Fund: Lessons in Open Source Sustainability (Felix Reda, Christian Grobmeier, Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, editaudio, Victoria Marin & Kedasha Kerr)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Learning, Leading, and Logging with Constantin Hager (James Petty)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #166 – The science behind developer flow states (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #248 – Cloud IR Tabletop Wins: How to Stop Playing Security Theater and Start Practicing (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode #95 – Invasion of the Trader Joe’s Gummies (Trader Joe’s Team)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #947 – S-Tier MCP Servers for Developers (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #524 – 38 things Python developers should learn in 2025 and Python Bytes Podcast #454 – It’s some form of Elvish (Michael Kennedy)
- The Sprint Planning That Wouldn’t End – A Timeboxing Failure | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Alex Sloley)
- Meta Cast Episode #96 – How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Merge Conflict Episode #485 – N-2 iOS Support Policy (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Shakespeare’s ‘wherefore’ and other false friends. The language of fear. A Tom. (Karen Lunde & Mignon Fogarty)
- InfoQ Podcast: Cloud and DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2025 (Daniel Bryant, Shweta Vohra, Steef-Jan Wiggers & Matt Saunders)
- ai unprompted Episode #001 – Meet the ai.u crew and OpenAI Dev Day 2025 (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Open source is giving you choices with your agent systems (Phoebe Sajor)
- The Work Item Episode #94 – Exploiting Your Unfair Advantages – Shirley Wu (Shirley Wu Studio) (Den Delimarsky)
Community
- We Can do Better: Why Representation and Respect Still Matter for Women in Tech (Kellyn Gorman)
- Google Summer of Code 2025 Results (Daco Harkes)
Database
- SQL Server Reporting Services Failed Subscriptions Monitoring and Notifications (Svetlana Golovko)
- One Way to Install SQL Server 2025 (Andy Leonard)
- Using connection colors in SQL Server Management Studio to prevent database disasters (Bart Wullems)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Adds Agent Mode and Office Agent to Office Applications (Daniel Dominguez)
- Anthropic Claude Now Integrates with Microsoft 365 (Paul Thurrott)
General
- Windows 11 updates break localhost (127.0.0.1) HTTP/2 connections (Lawrence Abrams)
- Windows Shell Previews – Restricted (Eric Lawrence)
- Apple adds a new toggle to make Liquid Glass less glassy (Jay Peters)
- Trump DOE confirms it’s canceling over $700M in manufacturing grants (Tim De Chant)
- What about the icons in pifmgr.dll? (Raymond Chen)
- Experience more joy this holiday (Nicci Trovinger)
More Link Collections
- The .NET News Daily Issue #307 (Jasen)
- Interesting links of the week 2025-43 and Interesting links of the week 2025-42 (Michael Eaton)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro waitlist, EBS Volume Clones, EC2 Capacity Manager, and more (October 20, 2025) (Veliswa Boya)
- Reading Notes #670 (Frank Boucher)
