Top Links
- Azure DevOps local MCP Server is generally available (Dan Hellem)
- 5 React State Management Tools Developers Actually Use in 2025 (Prashant Yadav)
- GitHub Copilot CLI: How to get started (Andrea Griffiths)
- All About Code Cleanup | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Johan Smarius)
- Async Void in C#: The Trap Card You Keep Playing (Michael Jolley)
- Copilot on Windows: Settings support begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Microsoft Copilot Team)
Web Development
- Transition to Azure Functions V2 on Azure Container Apps (DeepGanguly)
- Announcing Data API Client v2 (Jeremy Daly)
- React 19.2 is here: Activity API, useEffectEvent and more (David Omotayo)
- The killer feature of Web Components (Dave Rupert)
- Pulumi ESC: Open Approvals (Robert Harris)
.NET
- How .NET Garbage Collector works (and when you should care) (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Mastering the C# Dispose Pattern (Ivan Kahl)
AI
- 🧠Build AI Agents in C# with the Microsoft Agent Framework and Hugging Face MCP Tools (Bruno Capuano)
- MS Copilot Introduction (Paul Michaels)
- Docker Model Runner on the new NVIDIA DGX Spark: a new paradigm for developing AI locally (Emily Casey)
- Is Context Engineering the Future of AI Development and How Do LLMs Use Context to Generate Better Responses (Mahesh Chand)
- Primed: Should You Hype Your AI Before You Start? (Michael Kennedy)
- Microsoft AI announces first image generator created in-house (Andrew J. Hawkins)
- New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI (Dominic Preston)
- How to build reliable AI workflows with agentic primitives and context engineering (Daniel Meppiel)
- BETA: Microsoft 365 Copilot Frontier – Researcher Agent, Analyst Agent & more (Kurt Shintaku)
- OpenAI Killed Off Cheap ChatGPT Wrappers… Or Did It? (Senko Rasic)
- The Future of AI: Structured Vibe Coding – An Improved Approach to AI Software Development (Marco Casalaina)
- Across the ambition gap: How AI users are gaining more than answers (Nicci Trovinger)
- GitHub MCP Registry Offers a Central Hub for Discovering and Deploying MCP Servers (Sergio De Simone)
- Boost user engagement with AI Image Generation (Birna)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- API design principle: Don’t tempt people to divide by zero (Raymond Chen)
- Leveling up your deployment pipelines (Steve Fenton)
- Default Isn’t Design (Rob Eisenberg)
- Octopus Deploy: Deprecating support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 (Rhys Parry)
- The Architect’s Dilemma (Heiko Hotz)
Mobile and Game Development
- Edgeberry interface board for Raspberry Pi (Rob Zwetsloot)
Screencasts and Videos
Podcasts
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #165 – The great software quality collapse (Jerod Santo)
- The CSS Podcast #92 – CSS if() and custom functions (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – AI agents for your digital chores (Phoebe Sajor)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #247 – The Evolving CISO: From Security Cop to Cloud & AI Champion (Anton Chuvakin)
- Dev Leader Podcast – From Dial-Up to Data Engineer: How Claire Beat Imposter Syndrome (Nick Cosentino)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #945 – Chrome Dev Tools MCP Server (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- When Leadership Says “Just Make It Work” in Agile | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Renee Troughton)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #494 – Soft Skills over Technical Skills w/ Alex Berk, Lead Engineer (Taylor Desseyn)
- Talk Python to Me #523 – Pyrefly: Fast, IDE-friendly typing for Python (Michael Kennedy)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Authenticity, AI, and the Human Side of Tech with Adil Leghari (James Petty)
- InfoQ Podcast: Mental Models in Architecture and Societal Views of Technology: A Conversation with Nimisha Asthagiri (Nimisha Asthagiri)
- Betatalks, the Podcast #115 – How AI Transforms Software Development – with Jelle Fremery (Rick Van Den Bosch, Oscar Van Tol)
- SQL Server Radio Episode #180 – Computed Columns with PERSISTED and Indexed Expressions (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The political, royal and obscene meanings of blue. The differences in ‘plumb’ and plum.’ (Bonnie Mills)
Community
- License Compatibility Guide (.NET Foundation Team)
- Building a lasting security culture at Microsoft (Ann Johnson)
Database
- PostgreSQL 18 Released – What’s New? (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Connect resiliently to SQL Server (Peter Skoglund)
- Extract Text using Regular Expressions with SQL Server 2025 Function REGEXP_INSTR (Koen Verbeeck)
Tools
- ZoomIt v9.10, ProcDump 3.5 for Linux, and jcd 1.0.1 (Alex Mihaiuc)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – October 13, 2025 (#647) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #302 (Jasen)
- Reading Notes #669 (Frank Boucher)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Quick Suite, Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, and more (October 13, 2025) (Danilo Poccia)
The Geek Shelf
Programming APIs with C# and .NET (Jesse Liberty & Joseph Dluzen) – Referral Link
Develop high-performance APIs that ensure seamless application communication and enhanced security.