Top Links
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #644 – We’re all Builders now (Amanda Silver, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Leveling up your Microsoft Store on Windows experience (Giorgio Sardo)
- Seamlessly Import and Export Word and PDF in Angular Rich Text Editor (Thangavel E.)
- Emit logs on-demand with log buffering (Evgenii Fedorov)
- Leveraging the power of NPU to run Gen AI tasks on Copilot+ PCs (Navneet)
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – June 2025 (Kristen Womack)
- What is the .NET Aspire Community Toolkit? | One Dev Question (Maddy Montaquila)
Web & Cloud Development
- .NET Aspire 9.3 Brings GitHub Copilot Integration and Expanded Azure Support (Almir Vuk)
- Introducing AWS API models and publicly available resources for AWS API definitions (Channy Yun)
- Exploring the CSS contrast-color() Function… a Second Time (Daniel Schwarz)
- Low Ceremony Railway Programming with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Moving Email Traffic from Exchange to Azure Communication Services (Manish)
- Coding Azure 14: Accessing Key Vault Secrets from a Server-Side Application (and Testing with Secret Manager) (Peter Vogel)
- Demo Time Presentations from VS Code (Elio Struyf)
- Astro 5.9 (Emanuele Stoppa & Matt Kane)
- Auth0 and Amazon Web Services: The Secret Ingredients That Drive Fan Engagement (Jeremie Berthiaume)
- API Caching Done Right (Derek Comartin)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Day 3: Understanding Chromosomes, Genes, and DNA in Code (Chris Woodruff)
- How to filter C++ Build Insights by project (David Li & Moyo Okeremi)
- Why do some Windows functions fail if I pass an unaligned Unicode string? (Raymond Chen)
- Adding Extension Properties with State to Types, (Sort of) In Spargine (David McCarter)
AI
- Microsoft and LangChain: Leading the Way in AI Security for Open Source on Azure (Marlene Mhangami)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Top Vibe Coding Extensions for VS Code (David Ramel)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 is now available on Azure AI Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
- From Cloud to Edge: Navigating the Future of AI with LLMs, SLMs, and Azure AI Foundry (Lee Stott)
- What humans and GitHub Copilot have in common (Jon Hilton)
- Managing GenAI Coding Risk Like an Investment and GenAI is the new Offshoring (Steve Smith)
- BenchmarkQED: Automated benchmarking of RAG systems (Darren Edge, Ha Trinh, Andres Morales Esquivel & Jonathan Larson)
- Cursor: Small Improvements to Pricing (Michael)
- What’s new in Copilot Studio: May 2025 (Lili Cheng)
- Vibe Coding: Fad, Future or Folly? (Liz Acosta)
- MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters—Part 3 (Addy Osmani)
- Improve your GitHub Copilot prompts with the Prompt Boost extension (Bart Wullems)
- Enhancing Plugin Metadata Management with SemanticPluginForge (Likhan Siddiquee)
- Smarter SK Agents with Contextual Function Selection (Sergey Menshykh)
- Try the latest Gemini 2.5 Pro before general availability. (Tulsee Doshi)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Restricting PAT Creation in Azure DevOps Is Now in Preview (Angel Wong)
- How GitHub Copilot Is Revolutionizing DevOps & DevSecOps (Grant Knoetze)
- Dude, Where’s My Strategy? (Camille Fournier)
- Peeking Behind the Code (Chris Given)
- Reverse Engineering in Development (Jefferson S. Motta)
- How to create issues and pull requests in record time on GitHub (Jon Peck)
- Why Legendary Engineers Build Systems, Not Just Code (Peter Smulovics)
- Software Testing Is at a Crossroads (Sean Michael Kerner)
- Easily query your GitHub Contribution activity (William Assaf)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- What web frameworks does Firebase App Hosting support? (Jeff Huleatt)
- Server Value Expressions for Data Connect and Transactions Updates for Data Connect (Andrea Wu)
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 263 – “Compound Hallucinations (When you take the blue pill)” (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Levelling up your dev workflow with .NET Aspire – NDC Melbourne 2025 (Aaron Powell)
- SQL Server 2025: The AI-ready enterprise database platform | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Bob Ward)
- Reduce duplicated efforts: Mastering automation with GitHub Actions| Jessica Deen| Beyond the Commit (GitHub Team)
- Programming like a neanderthal: Atari 2600 development – NDC Melbourne 2025 (Cristian Prieto)
- Dart Code Metrics | Observable Flutter #63 (Dmitry Zhifarsky)
- Random.Code() – Even More Analyzer Work Discouraging Old Collection Usage (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Using AI Code Generation to Migrate 20000 Tests (Sergii Gorbachov)
- Migrating a Legacy JavaScript Codebase to TypeScript – JavaScript Jabber Episode #680 (Charles Max Wood)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #306 – Batch Better Have MySQL: Azure’s Maintenance Makeover (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- Go Make Things Podcast Episode 163 – More myself online (Chris Ferdinandi)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Sustainable Value—Redefining Success Beyond Profit | Joel Bancroft-Connors (Vasco Duarte)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Anthropic’s CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Banking on a serverless world (Phoebe Sajor)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #522 – A 5-star cannot stand (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- AspiriFridays with David, Damian, and Maddy – Sean from SCT Software (Sean Killeen, David Fowler, Damian Edwards & Maddy Montaquila) – Today at 2pm EDT
- WWDC 2025: What to expect from this year’s conference (Lauren Forristal & Sarah Perez)
- Anniversary of GDPR: Is it still relevant 7 years on? (John Bravo)
- Cross-border collaboration: International law enforcement and Microsoft dismantle transnational scam network targeting older adults (Steven Masada)
Database
- How to Use Variables in PostgreSQL psql Scripts (with Examples) (Jaco Pretorius)
- Securing PostgreSQL Against Injection, Misconfiguration, and Privilege Escalation (Jagdish Mohite)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Announcing SharePoint eSignature for Microsoft Word (Stephen E.)
- Celebrate Pride for each other with Excel (msexcel)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- The Senate Democrats enabling Trump’s crypto windfall (Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby & Noel Sims)
- How to Prepare for a Climate Disaster in Trump’s America (Molly Taft)
- Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The .NET News Daily Issue #212 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 9, Blazor, and EF Core 9 (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link
