Top Links
- Uno Chefs Walkthrough – Login Page (Steve Bilogan)
- RunAs Radio Episode #991 – More Azure Innovations with Mark Russinovich (Richard Campbell)
- How To Get Better AI Reponses from GitHub Copilot in Seconds! (James Montemagno)
- Microsoft releases PowerToys v0.92 with new features for many modules (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- ASP.NET Community Standup – Behind the Scenes: Building the .NET Aspire Dashboard (Daniel Roth & James Newton-King)
- Join us for MCP Dev Days – July 29-30 (Katie Savage & Marc Baiza)
Web & Cloud Development
- Step Up Challenges for ASP.NET Core Client Apps with Duende IdentityServer (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Local Friendly .NET Aspire – Modeling your local environment (Victor Frye)
- Generating colors with the CSS oklch() function (Chris Ferdinandi)
- Implement ASP.NET Core OpenID Connect with Keycloak to implement Level of Authentication (LoA) requirements (Damien Bowden)
- Create a color contrast checker with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Esther Vaati)
- Visualize Wind Direction Like Never Before Using React Radar Charts (Swetha Babu)
- Simplify development with public ports in Firebase Studio (Chandra Sekhar Pydi)
- ESLint v9.30.1 released (Francesco Trotta)
- Beginner’s Guide to Cloud Cybersecurity (Beau Carnes)
- Creating a Website with Sphinx and Markdown (Mike Driscoll)
- The Gap Strikes Back: Now Stylable (Patrick Brosset)
- What’s new in Microsoft Entra – June 2025 (Shobhit Sahay)
- Angular’s New Assignment Operators in Templates (Netanel Basal)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI 9.0.81 (Service Release 8.1) (David Ortinau)
- Using C# Markup to Create Graphical Interfaces in .NET MAUI (Héctor Pérez)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- How to artificially create a non-yielding scheduler scenario using WinDbg (Joseph Pilov)
- .NET Collections (Ricardo Peres)
AI
- The Docker MCP Catalog: the Secure Way to Discover and Run MCP Servers (Nuno Coracao)
- Building Safe, AI-Powered Data Resilience with Veeam and Azure AI Foundry (Sara Kandil)
- What’s Hot in Unit Testing & Mocking for 2025: AI, LLMs & Deep Isolation (Eli Lopian)
- Let’s Learn – MCP Events: A Beginner’s Guide to the Model Context Protocol (Katie Savage)
- The Claude Code Playbook: 5 Tips Worth $1000s in Productivity (Marcelo Bairros)
- Pondering About Using AI for Coding (Shawn Wildermuth)
- No-code personal agents, powered by GPT-4.1 and Realtime API (OpenAI Team)
- Collaborative Coding and Generative AI: The Future of Code Pairing (Ashis Chowdhury)
- Can Claude Code Observe Its Own Code? (Austin Parker)
- Supercharging On-Device AI: Foundry Local + Semantic Kernel (Bart Wullems)
- How to convert code with GitHub Copilot, can AI really help? (Frank Boucher)
- Do You Need a CAIO? The Rise of the Chief AI Officer in 2025 (Jennifer Riggins)
- Why the Model Is the Wrong Starting Point for AI Apps (Loraine Lawson)
- Here’s what AI-native engineers are doing differently than you (Richard Seroter)
- Productivity, AI and pushback (Seth Godin)
- Gemini in Google Workspace: Your New AI-Powered Collaborator (SitePoint)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Writing Testable Code is More Important Than Unit Tests (Chris Pietschmann)
- Expert Generalists need specialists (and LLMs) (Martin Fowler)
- Davide’s Code and Architecture Notes – Software Architecture vs Software Design (Davide Bellone)
- Understand your software’s supply chain with GitHub’s dependency graph (Andrea Griffiths)
- From idea to PR: A guide to GitHub Copilot’s agentic workflows (Chris Reddington)
- When Your Source of Truth is Reality (Dan Lew)
- The sizzle reel that says things that nobody understands (Raymond Chen)
- UX Chronicles: The Office That Time Forgot – Why Microsoft Must Rethink User Experience Now (David McCarter)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- DirectStorage 1.3 is now available (Clarke Rahrig)
Screencasts & Videos
- Warp x Anthropic: Supercharge your development with Warp & Claude 4 (Warp Team)
- Chill coding and chat | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Developer Happiness and Why it Matters – NDC Melbourne 2025 (Damian Brady)
- Using agent mode to improve a retro game | Visual Studio (Bruno Capuano)
- End-to-end development with GitHub Copilot + MCP server | Full Workflow Demo (GitHub Team)
- Common AI Architectures (Matt Eland)
- Design by numbers, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
Podcasts
- Leading the Shift Podcast – Unpacking data governance and stewardship in the age of AI | GovLab (Stefaan Verhulst & Susan Etlinger)
- Meta Tech Podcast Episode #76 – An inside look at Meta’s transition from C to Rust on mobile (Elaine W., Buping W. & Pascal Hartig)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Avoiding Hard Conversations—When High-Performing Agile Teams Self-Destruct | Bernard Agrest (Vasco Duarte)
- PPP 467 | This Is What No One Tells You About Becoming a Boss, with author Sabina Nawaz (Andy Kaufman)
- Made by Google Podcast Season 7, Episode #6 – Note-worthy AI: Unpacking NotebookLM (Rachid Finge)
- The AI Fix Episode #57 – AI is the best hacker in the USA, and self-learning AI (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #675 – Brian Demers on Observability into the Toolchain (Giovanni Asproni)
Community & Events
- Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Database Community? July 2025 Edition (Brent Ozar)
- Figma moves closer to a blockbuster IPO that could raise $1.5B (Julie Bort)
- Next-gen battery materials manufacturer Group14 lays off workers in Washington state (Lisa Stiffler)
Database
- Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 6.1 Preview 2 (David Engel)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint is Generally Available (Jose Barreto)
- Introducing Copilot Notebooks: A whole new way to work with AI in OneNote (Gokul Subramaniam)
PowerShell
- Building a Windows Storage Dashboard, Part 3 (Brien Posey)
Miscellaneous
- A Microsoft engineer made a Linux distro that’s like a comfort blanket to ex-Windows users — I finally tried it, and I’m surprised how good it is (Richard Devine)
- How open is macOS, really? (Alan Mendelevich)
- AMC Warns Moviegoers To Expect ’25-30 Minutes’ of Ads and Trailers (BeauHD)
- Nothing’s New Phone (3) and Headphone (1) Look Nothing Like You’ve Seen Before (Julian Chokkattu & Parker Hall)
- The GOP’s big spending bill could kill renewable energy projects (Justine Calma)
- New to coding? Resources to help children learn to code (Lou Loxley)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – July 1, 2025 (#579) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #230 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
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