Top Links
- TechBash 2025 Kicks Off Next Week in the Poconos (TechBash Team)
- Announcing Azure MCP Server 1.0.0 Stable Release – A New Era for Agentic Workflows (Sandeep Sen)
- Copilot on Windows: Vision with text input begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Microsoft Copilot Team)
- Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work (Kyle Daigle)
- Becoming Frontier: How human ambition and AI-first differentiation are helping Microsoft customers go further with AI (Judson Althoff)
- .NET Conf 2025 Agenda Released (.NET Conf Team)
- Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert (Wendy Breiding)
Web Development
- Wolverine Does More to Simplify Server Side Code (Jeremy D. Miller)
- The Azure PAYG API Shift: What’s Actually Changing (and Why It Matters) (Shannon Kuehn)
- What’s new in Aspire 9.5 and Create your first app (Aspire Team)
- Import JavaScript like it’s 2026 (Stoyan Stefanov)
- Consent in OpenID Connect: Balancing User Choice and Client Needs with Duende IdentityServer (Stuart Frankish)
- Node.js v25.1.0 (Current) and Node.js v22.21.1 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
- Node.js v24.11.0 (LTS) (Richard Lau)
- [Web dev for beginners] Node.js and [Web dev for beginners] Shells (Axel Rauschmayer)
- 3 New Features in the Jetpack Mobile App (Alex Grebenyuk)
- Accelerating Cloud-Native Development with AI-Powered Azure NetApp Files VS Code Extension (Geert Van Teylingen)
- How to Build a Chrome Extension That Analyzes Any Web Page Using JavaScript and Manifest V3 (Hitesh Chauhan)
- Coding Azure 20: Creating a Backend Processor for Reading an Azure Storage Queue (Peter Vogel)
- Chrome DevTools To Benefit From MCP (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Real-Time Blazor Apps: Integrating SignalR and Blazorise Notifications (Mladen Macanović)
- How to Become a WordPress Developer: A Zero-to-Hired Roadmap (Nick Schäferhoff)
- Distributed ID Generation at Scale: From Snowflake to ULID – Building Instagram’s ID System in .NET (Sudhir Mangla)
- React Grid Middleware Demystified: Secure, Filter, and Format API Data (Mohammed Farook J.)
Windows Development
.NET
- How to Import, Export, and Filter PDF Annotations in C# (Chinnu Muniyappan)
- Understanding the worst .NET vulnerability ever: request smuggling and CVE-2025-55315 (Andrew Lock)
- ReSharper and Rider 2025.2.4: Another Set of Updates Released (Sasha Ivanova)
AI
- Copilot Retention, Auditing and eDiscovery: A deep dive (Jay_Cotton)
- Using Microsoft Sentinel MCP Server with GitHub Copilot for AI-Powered Threat Hunting (absharan)
- When Copilot Sees Your Screen: Copilot Vision (Vesa Nopanen)
- Build more accurate AI applications with Amazon Nova Web Grounding (Matheus Guimaraes)
- The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership and Built to benefit everyone and Introducing gpt-oss-safeguard (OpenAI Team)
- How MCP and AI are Modernizing Legacy Systems (Saqib Jan)
- Introducing Developer Productivity AI Arena: An Open Platform for AI Coding Agents Benchmarks (Irina Mariasova)
- Microsoft Extends Copilot AI Tech to Xcode, JetBrains IDEs and Eclipse (David Ramel)
- GitHub’s Agent HQ aims to solve enterprises’ biggest AI coding problem: Too many agents, no central control (Michael Kerner)
- Microsoft’s Copilot can now build apps and automate your job — here’s how it works (Michael Nuñez)
- Building a Healthcare Robot from Simulation to Deployment with NVIDIA Isaac (Steven Palma & Andres Diaz Pinto)
- Photoshop and Premiere Pro’s new AI tools can instantly edit more of your work (Jess Weatherbed)
- Adobe Announces AI Assistants, Firefly Models, More (Paul Thurrott)
- The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership (Microsoft)
- The straight line from JS frameworks to AI (Chris Ferdinandi)
- “We will never build a sex robot,” says Mustafa Suleyman (Will Douglas Heaven)
- Elite AI-Assisted Coding, Cohort 1 Wrap (Eleanor Berger)
- Agentic AI and Security (Martin Fowler)
- Launching the Octopus MCP Server (Andrew Best)
Python
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Advanced Installer 23.2 (Advanced Installer Team)
- Napoleon Hill’s Definite Chief Aim Method (J.D. Meier)
- Compliance Risks in Emerging Technologies (Katherine Dobson)
- Exploring spec-driven development with the new GitHub Spec Kit (Emmanuel John)
Mobile and Game Development
- Workaround: how to silence individual deprecation warnings in Swift (Jesse Squires)
- High-Speed Capture and Slow-Motion Video with CameraX 1.5 (Leo Huang)
- How to Build Responsive UIs in Flutter (Atuoha Anthony)
- The new home for Blockly (Philip Colligan)
- Evaluating Kotlin in Real Projects (Alyona Chernyaeva)
Screencasts and Videos
- GitHub Universe 2025 Day 1 Recap and GitHub Universe 2025 opening keynote (GitHub Team)
- EPISODE 27 – Scott and Mark Learn To… The AI Productivity Trap: Senior Boost, Junior Drag (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- Microsoft Excel Power User Updates | Agent Mode, Copilot Function & Formula AI | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
- Updating our Blazor site to .NET 10 Part 1! – Getting the template ready | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
- Random.Code() – Minimizing Expectation Naming Structure in Rocks, Part 5 (Jason Bock)
- Tour of Uno Platform’s Hot Design (Uno Platform Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio Show #1008 – AI for DBAs with Grant Fritchey (Richard Campbell)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #692 – Sourabh Satish on Prompt Injection (Brijesh Ammanath)
- The AI Fix Show #74 – AGI, LLM brain rot, and how to scam an AI browser (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Dev Leader Podcast – Theme Parks, Bakeries, and G-Code: Samantha’s Unexpected Path Into Software (Nick Cosentino)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – From the Bronx to the Boardroom: Building a Values-Driven Career (with Sharon Ehrlich) (‘Tine Zekis)
- The Agile Team That Committed to Failure for 18 Sprints Straight | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Darryl Wright)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Evolving eCommerce Shipping Solutions (United States Postal Service)
Community
- Sprint to Imagine Cup: Igniting Innovation on Campus (MS Student Developer Team)
- Amazon layoffs reaction: ‘Thought I was a top performer but guess I’m expendable’ (Kurt Schlosser)
- Amazon confirms 14,000 corporate job cuts, says push for ‘efficiency gains’ will continue into 2026 and Filing: Amazon cuts more than 2,300 jobs in Washington state as part of broader layoffs (Todd Bishop)
- Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1 (GitHub Staff)
- Python Foundation Rejects Government Grant Over DEI Restrictions (BeauHD)
- Announcing the 2025 GitHub Partner Award winners 🎉 (Jamie Cooper)
- Celebrating 11 years of the Windows Insider Program (Amanda Langowski)
Database
- A Little About *Why* Local Variables Give Weird Cardinality Estimates in SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned #2: Fixing Read Only Mode Storage Threshold Explained (Haider Z.)
- JSON Data Extract from SQL Server 2025 (Hristo Hristov)
- From Backup to Discovery: Veeam’s Search Engine Powered by Azure Cosmos DB (Azure Cosmos DB Team)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Advanced Meeting Features in MS Teams: Breakout Rooms, Live Transcription and Intelligent Recap (Surya Pammi)
- SharePoint Showcase: How Metadata and the Knowledge Agent Elevate Microsoft 365 Copilot Responses (John Mighell)
- What’s New in Excel (October 2025) (Ms. Excel)
- Work smarter with Copilot in the People, Files, and Calendar apps (Yash K.)
- Microsoft 365 Copilot is Introducing App and Workflow Agents (Paul Thurrott)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Install Aspire CLI (Aspire Team)
Tools
- Fast, Rust-Based Zed Code Editor Finally Arrives on Windows (David Eastman)
- How to Safely Remove Secrets from Your Git History (The Right Way) (Sakshi Gupta)
- Tiny11 Builder 2025 Next Steps ⭐ (Paul Thurrott)
General
- Bill Gates urges world to ‘refocus’ climate goals, pushes back on emissions targets (Lisa Stiffler)
- The government shutdown is delaying new gadgets (Cameron Faulkner)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – October 28, 2025 (#653) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #313 (Jasen)
