Top Links
- Uno Platform 6.3: Faster Rendering, .NET 10 Preview, VS 2026 Ready (Uno Platform Team)
- Visual Studio Code September 2025 (version 1.105) Release Notes (VS Code Team)
- Accelerating AI PC Experiences with OpenVINO and Windows ML (Sudhir Tonse Udupa)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Competence builds confidence with .NET Principal Engineer Safia Abdalla (Scott Hanselman)
- Complete Beginner’s Guide to Vibe Coding an App in 5 Minutes (James Montemagno)
- Copilot on Windows: Connectors, and Document Creation begin rolling out to Windows Insiders (Microsoft Copilot Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Extending DS Server with Custom Digital Signature APIs (Bjoern Meyer)
- CSS Grid: A helpful mental model and the power of grid lines (Saron Yitbarek)
- React Project Tutorial – Build an AI Code Explainer (Beau Carnes)
- Node.js 20+ memory management in containers (Francisco De Melo Junior & Alexander Barbosa Ayala)
- Blazor Gantt Chart Update: Time Zone Scheduling, WBS Codes & Excel-Style Filtering (Rajesh Babu)
- Restricting Access to an Action Method in ASP.NET Core MVC (Ricardo Peres)
- Go 1.25.2-1 and 1.24.8-1 Microsoft builds now available (George Adams)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Understanding AsNoTrackingWithIdentityResolution in Entity Framework Core (Bart Wullems)
- TUnit — A Pragmatic Evaluation for .NET Teams (Martin Stühmer)
- The Ultimate All-in-One Document Viewer Plugin for JetBrains IDE (Suvetha Venkatesan)
- The self-assignment principle for Windows Runtime properties applies to default values (Raymond Chen)
AI
- LoRA Explained: Faster, More Efficient Fine-Tuning with Docker (Ignasi Lopez Luna)
- GPT-5 Model Family Now Powers Azure AI Foundry Agent Service (pavanli)
- Using Microsoft Agent Framework with Podman (Kevin Logan)
- Customize Claude Code with plugins (Anthropic Team)
- AI is a failed technology (Chris Ferdinandi)
- Defining and evaluating political bias in LLMs (OpenAI Team)
- Intentionally Human: Product Managers in the AI Era (Jeremy Daly)
- Auth0 Token Vault: Secure Token Exchange for AI Agents (Juan Cruz Martinez)
- Google Launches Gemini Enterprise AI — How It’s Transforming the Future of Business Productivity (Mahesh Chand)
- You Built an AI Agent – But How Do You Price It? (Marin Pavelić)
- 4 ways Gemini Enterprise makes work easier for everyone (Maryam Gholami)
- Announcing Amazon Quick Suite: your agentic teammate for answering questions and taking action (Esra Kayabali)
- Google DeepMind Launches Gemini 2.5 Computer Use Model to Power UI-Controlling AI Agents (Robert Krzaczyński)
- Who watches the watchers? LLM on LLM evaluations (Ryan Donovan)
- The New Data Commons MCP Server Unlocks a Wealth of Public Datasets for AI Developers (Sergio De Simone)
- Copilot on Windows can now create Office documents and connect to Gmail (Tom Warren)
- Gemini Enterprise: The new front door for Google AI in your workplace (Sundar Pichai)
- Control Codegen Spend (Tim O’Brien)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Combining Continuous Delivery with Pair Programming: Lessons Learned (Ben Linders)
- TeamCity 2025.07.3 Is Here (Dmitrii Korovin)
- Data Masking vs Data Obfuscation: Knowing the Difference (Ben Nettleton)
- Secure Application Development Starts With Architecture (Chris Woodruff)
- Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Automation in Software (Courtney Nash)
- From career ladders to ecosystems: A strategic imperative for modern talent management (Dee Wauchope & Hameet Gill)
- 4 Design Best Practices for Better Contact Forms (Suzanne Scacca)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- What Qualcomm’s Arduino deal means for Raspberry Pi (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
- Android Studio Narwhal 4 Feature Drop: watch face support and improved stability (Paris Hsu)
- Swift Package Manager and Capacitor (Mark Anderson)
- The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook 2026 is here! (Rob Zwetsloot)
- The Meta Ray-Ban Display’s most interesting tech might be the glass (Jess Weatherbed)
Screencasts & Videos
- Create an AI Agent with File Search in Azure AI Foundry (Portal) | Inside Azure AI Foundry (April Gittens)
- 10 Perplexity Comet Agents to Automate Your Work (AI Browser) (Grace Leung)
- How to Build ChatGPT Apps With Agent Builder (Dev Day Full Breakdown) (Frank La Vigne)
- Unlock New Levels of Productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat | Microsoft Healthcare and Life (Nicholas Aquino & Nick Stillings)
- Playwright Testing Agents: under the hood (Debbie O’Brien)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show – Designing APIs Like a Pro: Lessons from Jerry Nixon on Data API Builder and Beyond (Jamie Taylor)
- Spec-Driven Development and the Future of AI IDEs with AWS’s Kiro – JavaScript Jabber #693 (Charles Max Wood)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #323 – Databricks One: Because Seven Eight Nine and The Cloud Pod Episode #324 – Clippy’s Revenge: The AI Assistant That Actually Works – Sort Of (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- InfoQ Podcast: Using Brain Science to Communicate and Lead Technical Teams Effectively (Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Vite is like the United Nations of JavaScript (Phoebe Sajor)
- The Azure Security Podcast Episode #119 – Pedantic Security Wording and Taxonomies (Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Mark Simos & Ryen Macababbad)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #185 – Scaling E-commerce with Serverless: The moonpig.com Story (Richard Pearson & Alexis Lowe)
- A Geek Leader Episode #438 – Big Bet Leadership with John Rossman (John Rouda)
- Lenny’s Podcast – First interview with Scale AI’s CEO: $14B Meta deal, what’s working in enterprise AI, and what frontier labs are building next | Jason Droege (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #452 – pi py-day (or is it py pi-day?) (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- From Deterministic to AI-Driven—The New Paradigm of Software Development | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Markus Hjort)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #331 – The impact of AI on the workforce: A state-level case study (Chelsea Linder & Daniel Whitenack)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #541 – Why not do everything (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- GitHub Universe 2025: Event Guide (Mariusz Michalowski)
- Microsoft at PASS Data Community Summit 2025 (Govanna)
- Build a Kotlin Multiplatform Project and Win a Trip to KotlinConf 2026 (Ksenia Shneyveys)
- Microsoft Scraps 244-Acre Wisconsin Data Center After Fierce Local Pushback (Liz Ticong)
- Securing agentic AI: Your guide to the Microsoft Ignite sessions catalog (Microsoft Security Team)
Database
- September 2025 Recap: Azure Database for MySQL (Karla Escobar)
- Learn Databases and SQL from Harvard University (Beau Carnes)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Indexed View Ups and Downs (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
Miscellaneous
- The 2027 Chevy Bolt will be one of the cheapest EVs you can get (Andrew J. Hawkins)
- Discord Says 70,000 Users May Have Had Their Government IDs Leaked In Breach (BeauHD)
- An /intro to Python 3.14’s New Features (Mike Driscoll)
- Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2026 Are Now Available and Copilot on Windows 11 Update is Rolling Out Across All Insider Channels (Paul Thurrott)
- The Browser Company’s Dia is now available on Mac, no invite needed (Robert Hart)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – October 9, 2025 (#645) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #300 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
.NET MAUI Cookbook: Build a full-featured app swiftly with MVVM, CRUD, AI, authentication, real-time updates, and more (Alexander Russkov) – Referral Link
