Top Links
- New Trusted Publishing enhances security on NuGet.org (Evgeny Tvorun & Sean)
- Using the new SqlVector type with EF Core and Dapper (Davide Mauri)
- Batch migrate .sln files to .slnx format across repositories (Gérald Barré)
- Microsoft’s Windows AI Lab is a new way to test experimental features (Tom Warren)
- The GitHub Podcast Episode #39 – Making Desktop Frameworks More Accessible with Electron (Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, Kedasha Kerr & Keeley Hammond)
- Enhancements to XAML Live Preview in Visual Studio for .NET MAUI (Rachel Kang)
Web & Cloud Development
- Accessing User Identity on a Blazor Wasm Client (Rockford Lhotka)
- Maintenance release: Blazorise 1.8.3 (Mladen Macanović)
- Kubernetes v1.34: Pod Level Resources Graduated to Beta (Dixita Narang)
- First Public Working Draft: CSS Environment Variables Module Level 1 (W3C)
- General Availability: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.5 (ArshadAliTMMBA)
- Comforting Myths (Alex Russell)
- What Are the Top Libraries and Tools for Modern React Frontend Development? (Hassan Djirdeh)
- How to Build UML Activity Diagrams in Vue for Workflow Visualization (Prakash Perumal)
- Medium’s CSS is actually pretty f***ing good (fat)
- Introducing Transaction Metadata for Auth0 Actions (Brandon Warner)
- How We Cut Telemetry Queries to Under 10 Milliseconds (Heather Downing)
- Ambient Animations In Web Design: Principles And Implementation (Part 1) (Andy Clarke)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Boost Your Performance with .NET MAUI Components (Héctor Pérez)
- Say Goodbye to the FontImageExtension in .NET MAUI 👋 (Leomaris Reyes)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Confirmed, Finally, Again: No Visual Studio IDE for Linux/macOS (David Ramel)
- Expression Trees in C#: Building Dynamic LINQ Queries at Runtime (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Flow: A Pragmatic Approach to Composable Business Logic in C# (Bahman M.)
- Auto update the .NET core versions on your server (Bart Wullems)
- Islands Theme: The New Look Coming to JetBrains IDEs (Olga Berdnikova)
AI
- 🚀Turning Your .NET API into an MCP Server in 3 Easy Steps (Faraj Farook)
- Using AI to assist in rare disease diagnosis (Mandi Hall & Ashley Conard)
- To vibe or not to vibe (Martin Fowler)
- Implement a secure MCP server using OAuth and Entra ID (Damien Bowden)
- Perplexity launches AI email assistant that can manage your Outlook or Gmail inbox for you — but it will cost $200 a month (Zac Bowden)
- OpenAI and NVIDIA announce strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems (OpenAI Team)
- Gemini CLI 🤝 FastMCP: Simplifying MCP server development (Jack Wotherspoon & Jeremiah Lowin)
- Find Your Next MCP Server With GitHub’s MCP Registry (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Use Copilot and MCP to query Microsoft Learn Docs (Carlotta Caste)
- The Pros and Cons of AI Agents for Cloud Administration (Christopher Tozzi)
- Intro to AI App Testing – “From Guesswork to Confidence” Webinar recording (Gil Zilberfeld)
- OpenAI Releases GPT-5-Codex Optimized for Complex Code Refactoring and Code Reviews (Hien Luu)
- Streamlining Campus Life: A Multi-Agent System for Campus Event Management (Junjie Wan)
- LinkedIn Set To Start To Train Its AI on Member Profiles (msmash)
- How I used Cursor AI to migrate a Bash test suite to Python (Petr Hracek)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Iterating through UI design for playback speeds (Smartman Apps)
- Why Fractional Architecture is the Future of Technology Strategy (Chris Woodruff)
- Automatic Diagram Generation for Always-Accurate Diagrams (Elisabeth Lichtie)
- Top five data modernization strategies for business success (John Spens)
- Adoption strategies for internal platforms (Matthew Allford)
- Our plan for a more secure npm supply chain (Xavier René-Corail)
- Scaling Muse: How Netflix Powers Data-Driven Creative Insights at Trillion-Row Scale (Andrew Pierce, Chris Thrailkill & Victor Chiapaikeo)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Meet the monster MediaTek chip set to power some of the best phones out there (Andy Boxall)
- Elevating media playback : A deep dive into Media3’s PreloadManager – Part 2 (Mayuri Khinvasara Khabya)
- Compose Multiplatform 1.9.0 Released: Compose Multiplatform for Web Goes Beta (Ekaterina Volodko)
Screencasts & Videos
- AI Agent Memory: Building Self-Improving Agents | AI Agents for Beginners (Korey Stegared-Pace)
- New collaborative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
- Recording: How To Create Powerful and Secure AI Agents with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- Make Your LINQ Queries Way Faster with These Tricks! (Michael Jolley)
- GitHub Spec Kit now GETS ALL AGENTS and GitHub Spec Kit can now help you CLARIFY and ANALYZE your specs (Den Delimarsky)
- The ultimate beginner’s guide to GitHub in 2025 (Kedasha Kerr)
Podcasts
- The Comeback of RPC: SolidJS, TanStack, and the Future of JavaScript Frameworks with Ryan Carniato & Tanner Linsley – JavaScript Jabber #691 (Charles Max Wood)
- When Scrum Practices Aren’t Enough – Learning to Sense the System | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Terry Haayema)
- The PowerShell Podcast – From Sysadmin to PowerShell Team: The Story of SeeminglyScience (James Petty)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #162 – An escape route from YAML hell (Jerod Santo)
- DAWbench Radio Show Episode #39 – The Art of Orchestral Sampling II : Sonuscore : Compose Without Limits! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown & Tilman Sillescu)
- Meta Cast – The Final Three Habits That Define Real Leadership (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #244 – The Future of SOAPA: Jon Oltsik on Platform Consolidation vs. Best-of-Breed in the Age of Agentic AI (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #488 – Finding a Job Through a Friend and a DM w/ Andrew Gilliland (Taylor Desseyn)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #939 – Creator of Vite: Evan You (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Python Bytes Podcast #450 – At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Dime idioms. ‘HoCo’ and syllable acronyms. Pulling a Trevor (Karen Lunde, Neal Whitman & Mignon Fogarty)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Democratizing your data access with AI agents (Phoebe Sajor)
Community & Events
- Oracle is replacing CEO Safra Catz with two co-CEOs (Jess Weatherbed)
- Dapr 1.16 celebration – Thursday, September 25, 2025 – 11:00 am EDT (Diagrid Team)
- The Ripple Effect of Small Actions: My MVP Journey – Muhammad Samiullah (Kim Sanchez)
- What’s next for Git? 20 years in, the community is still pushing forward (Lee Reilly)
- Mozilla Welcomes Raffi Krikorian as Chief Technology Officer (Mozilla)
- The Rush To Return to the Office Is Stalling (msmash)
Database
- MySQL Basics: Getting TYPE-cast – Choosing the Right Data Type for the Job (Scott Stroz)
- SSMS Copilot to Boost Productivity and Efficiency (Rajendra Gupta)
- Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server (SQLPals)
- Automating SQL Maintenance: How DevOps Principles Reduce Downtime (Chris Yates)
- Discover and Assess PostgreSQL databases for migration to Azure using Azure Migrate (Shradha Kalra)
- Elevate SQL Development with VS Code (David Ramel)
- Locking in CockroachDB, Part 1 – Locking Rows and Tables with SELECT FOR UPDATE (Bryan Hogan)
- A Little About Skewed Data and Skewed Parallelism (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Introducing Channel Agent in Teams (Sandhya Rao)
- Deprecation of Power BI Integration within SharePoint Lists and Libraries (Sara Lammini)
Miscellaneous
- Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank (Elizabeth Lopatto)
- It’s still censorship (even if it doesn’t violate the First Amendment) (Cory Doctorow)
- The Trump administration just can’t stop leaking its chats and Jimmy Kimmel’s show will return after censorship outrage (Emma Roth)
- Why was Windows 3.0’s WinHelp called an online help system when it ran offline? (Raymond Chen)
- Trump escalates crackdown by designating ‘Antifa’ a domestic terror group (Richard Lawler)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-39 (Michael Eaton)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q Developer, AWS Step Functions, AWS Cloud Club Captain deadline, and more (September 22, 2025) (Donnie Prakoso)
- Reading Notes #666 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf
The 2025 Learn Unity Game Development Software Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link
