Top Links
- Diving Into Spec-Driven Development With GitHub Spec Kit (Den Delimarsky)
- Managing Containers in Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Lance McCarthy)
- VS Code: Introducing auto model selection (preview) (Isidor Nikolic)
- Introducing the Pure React Data Grid: Built with Hooks for Faster, Leaner UIs (Mohammed Farook J.)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Alvin Ashcraft (Isaac Levin)
- Application Insights Code Optimizations for .NET Apps (Chuck Weininger)
Web & Cloud Development
- Learning web development: Authenticating users with plain Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Vue Basics: Mastering the Vue Lifecycle Hooks (David Adeneye Abiodun)
- Working and Testing Against Scheduled Messages with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Meet the New Pure React Components – Essential Studio Volume 3, 2025 (Piramanayagam Ramakrishnan)
- Announcing V2.31.0 of the Vonage Video API (Jonatan Sempere)
- WebKit Features in Safari 26.0 (Jen Simmons, Saron Yitbarek, Jon Davis, Tim Nguyen, Blaze Burg, Marcos Cáceres, Razvan Caliman, Qianlang Chen, Karl Dubost, Kiet Ho, David Johnson, Aditya Keerthi, Daniel Liu, Keith Miller, Abrar Rahman Protyasha, Richard Robinson, Kiara Rose, Ahmad Saleem, Anne van Kesteren, Brian Weinstein, Eddy Wong, Luming Yin & Brandel Zachernuk)
- Microsoft Entra ID Gets AI-Powered Tool to Streamline Access Decisions (Rabia Noureen)
- Code Your Own Code Editor (Beau Carnes)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Recap: What’s New in .NET MAUI for .NET 10 (Leomaris Reyes)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Kernel Ridge Regression with Cholesky Inverse Training Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- Demystifying async void in C#: Why It’s Dangerous and When It’s Okay (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Duende Most Anticipated .NET 10 Auth Features (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Building Event Sourcing with EventStore and .NET: From Theory to Production (Sudhir Mangla)
- Supporting platform-specific .NET tools on old .NET SDKs: Exploring the .NET 10 preview – Part 8 (Andrew Lock)
- Day 32: When Genetic Algorithms Go Wrong: Debugging Poor Performance and Premature Convergence (Chris Woodruff)
- Released: General Availability of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 6.1 (David Engel)
AI
- Microsoft favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code (Tom Warren)
- Using AI Agents for Reranking in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- Selecting the Right Agentic Solution on Azure (Pranab Paul)
- Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex and How people are using ChatGPT and Introducing upgrades to Codex (OpenAI Team)
- MCP as Your Integration Layer (Adam Cogan)
- New Apple Intelligence features are available today (Apple)
- Why Agentic AI Orchestration Is Key To Managing AI Complexity (B. Cameron Gain)
- When AI Writes Code, Who Secures It? (Chloé Messdaghi)
- MCP in Practice (Ilan Strauss, Sruly Rosenblat, Isobel Moure & Tim O’Reilly)
- Introducing the MCP Registry (Andrew Hoblitzell)
- 15 Best Practices for Building MCP Servers in Production (Janakiram MSV)
- Microsoft leads shift beyond data unification to organization, delivering next-gen AI readiness with new Microsoft Fabric capabilities (Jessica Hawk)
- The Nine Rules of AI PoC Success: How to Build Demos That Actually Ship (Jim Clark)
- Agent Factory: Connecting agents, apps, and data with new open standards like MCP and A2A (Yina Arenas)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Migrating from XUnit v2 to v3 – What’s new? (Bart Wullems)
- Post-quantum security for SSH access on GitHub (Brian M. Carlson)
- Who moved my menus? (Craig Symonds)
- Regex for Email Validation? Think Again! (Derek Comartin)
- Migrating Test Code with AI: From Frameworks to Languages (Gil Zilberfeld)
- The evolution of platform engineering: Lessons from the trenches (Rickey Zachary)
- Greyscale-box test-driven development (Mark Seemann)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- It’s Maker Monday! Here are some of the top Raspberry Pi builds we’ve spotted recently (Ashley Whittaker)
- Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape (Bogden Ionescu)
- Swift 6.2 Released (Holly Borla)
- Microsoft is changing how Xbox controllers work on Windows 11 (Tom Warren)
- Simplifying advanced networking with DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation (Lorenzo Colitti & Patrick Rohr)
- New versions of Apple’s software platforms are available today (Apple)
- Meta leaks its new smart glasses with a display (Jay Peters)
- Seamlessly Access Your Gaming Library, Apps, and Play History in One Place with Xbox on Windows PCs and Handheld (Mike Nelson)
Screencasts & Videos
- ASP.NET Community Standup – .NET WebAssembly performance improvements (Daniel Roth & Larry Ewing)
- 5 Dependency Injection Mistakes You Need to Avoid! (Michael Jolley)
Podcasts
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Making Video Games in 2025 with Celeste’s Noel Berry (Scott Hanselman)
- Merge Conflict Episode #480 – Hello iPhone 17 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- InfoQ Podcast: Scaling Systems, Companies, and Careers with Suhail Patel (Suhail Patel)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – What an MCP implementation looks like at a CRM company (Ryan Donovan)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #485 – ADHD & Anxiety to Public Speaking w/ Will Klein (Taylor Desseyn)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast Bonus Episode: The Truth About Turning 40—and Why It Feels Like Freedom (‘Tine Zekis)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #937 – Is The Omarchy Hype Real? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Dev Leader Podcast – How To Build Teams That Actually Care – Interview With Ryan Varley (Nick Cosentino)
- The Database Migration Disaster— Why Software Development Teams Need Psychological Safety | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and When Scrum Masters Forget to Listen – A Team Trust Crisis in Agile Implementation | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Shawn Dsouza)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Beginnings, Blue Bars, and the Valley of Despair with Steven Judd (James Petty)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #161 – Just enough automation (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #243 – Email Security in the AI Age: An Epic 2025 Arms Race Begins (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Python Bytes Episode #449 – Suggestive Trove Classifiers (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
Community & Events
- GameDev Day 2025 Is Back in October! (Anna Ruban)
- A Sneak Peek at Maker Faire Bay Area 2025 (Jamie Agius)
- Amazon announces its fall hardware event (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy)
Database
- Natural Language Query for SQL Server (Hadi Fadlallah)
- Introducing the Azure SQL hub: A simpler, guided entry into Azure SQL (ivujic)
- Use SQL to Find a String in Database Tables, Stored Procedures, and User Defined Functions (Mircea Dragan)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Copilot Chat comes to the Microsoft 365 apps (Seth Patton)
PowerShell & Terminal
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Files Preview v4.0.7 (Files Team)
- Apple’s latest tools to help protect kids and teens online now available (Apple)
- Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records To the Government For Warrantless Searching (msmash)
- Why is the name of the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 hard-coded into the Bluetooth drivers? (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-38 (Michael Eaton)
- Daily Reading List – September 15, 2025 (#627) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents 1M+ downloads, Cloud Club Captain, AI Agent Hackathon, and more (September 15, 2025) (Channy Yun)
- Reading Notes #665 (Frank Boucher)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #284 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Electronics for the Curious eBook Humble Bundle (No Starch Press) – Referral Link
