Top Links
- Highlights from Git 2.51 (Taylor Blau)
- Visual Studio for Visual Studio Code Users | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Johan Smarius)
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – August 2025 (PuiChee (PC) Chan)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 10 Preview 7 (Dan Roth)
- How I learn about generative AI (Pamela Fox)
- The VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #1 – Hello GPT-5 & GPT-5 mini (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)
Web & Cloud Development
- Learning web development: Arrays in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Maintenance release: Blazorise 1.8.1 (Mladen Macanović)
- Introducing integrated observability in SvelteKit (Elliott Johnson)
- Using Bootstrap with React: Practical Examples (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Operations that Span Multiple Event Streams with the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
- New and Upcoming CSS Features I’m Excited About (Quasar Wei)
- Custom domains with Aspire (Mitch Denny)
- We’re going High Availability with Redis Sentinel! (Scott Helme)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- How to Create a Microsoft Office 365 Theme for WPF Applications (Greg Lutz)
- Mapsui v5.0.0-beta.20 release – .NET Map component for: MAUI, WPF, Avalonia, Uno, Blazor, WinUI, Xamarin and Eto (Paul den Dulk)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Supercharge your EF Core debugging with Query Tags (Bart Wullems)
- Accessing Windows Known Folders in C# with SHGetKnownFolderPath (Gérald Barré)
- Day 25: Scaling Up: Parallelizing Genetic Algorithms Loops in .NET with Parallel.ForEach (Chris Woodruff)
- Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 6: Non-modifying trackers (Raymond Chen)
- Dependabot support for vcpkg (Jamie Magee)
AI
- How to Build an AI Text-to-Flowchart Converter Using OpenAI and Vue Diagram (Shyam G.)
- AI’s hidden state in the execution stack (Oren Eini)
- The State of MCP Security (Golan Yosef)
- Announcing Early Preview: BYO Remote MCP Server on Azure Functions (Lily Ma)
- Building the Frontier Firm with Microsoft Azure: The business case for cloud and AI modernization (Mike Hulme)
- MCP for Research: How to Connect AI to Research Tools (Dylan Ebert)
- URL context tool for Gemini API now generally available (Alisa Fortin)
- Context Engineering: Bringing Engineering Discipline to Prompts—Part 2 (Addy Osmani)
- Beyond Vibe Coding: Amazon Introduces Kiro, the Spec-Driven Agentic AI IDE (Bruno Couriol)
- Nvidia releases a new small, open model Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 with toggle on/off reasoning (Carl Franzen)
- How to enhance Agent2Agent (A2A) security (Florencio Cano Gabarda)
- AI for API Testing: How I Used AI and Star Trek to Generate Better Test Cases (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Beyond The Hype: What AI Can Really Do For Product Design (Nikita Samutin)
- Claude Code Subagents Enable Modular AI Workflows with Isolated Context (Hien Luu)
- Should AI flatter us, fix us, or just inform us? (James O’Donnell)
- ML Observability: Bringing Transparency to Payments and Beyond (Tanya Tang & Andrew Mehrmann)
- How to Set Up GitHub Copilot in Your IDE (Step-by-Step Guide) (Stephen Simon)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Bliki: Expansion Joints (Martin Fowler)
- How to use Playwright for unit testing (Chris Ferndinandi)
- DevOps for Startups: CI/CD from the Ground Up (Olga Bedrina)
- Inno Setup Silent Install & Uninstall Commands (Horatiu Vladasel)
- How to Make your Customers Happy and Your Engineers Even Happier (Andy Smith)
- What’s new in Git 2.51.0? (Karthik Nayak)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Clean and Testable Widgets with widget_driver in Flutter (Exxeta Team)
- A Lens Studio component to let the user locate points on the floor in Spectacles (Joost van Schaik)
Screencasts & Videos
- Scott Hanselman’s TEDx: The Teacher Who Let Me Steal the Apple 2 and Scott Hanselman’s TEDx: My Parents Sold the Van for My Future (Scott Hanselman)
- Build autonomous agents in Copilot Studio | Your MCPs, your models & multi-agent | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Is WebAssembly the Secure, Efficient Alternative Everybody was Waiting For? (Laurent Doguin & Geoffroy Couprie)
- Merge Conflict Episode #476 – GPT-5 Is Here, What’s next? (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- When Proactive Help Backfires – A Gen Z Scrum Master’s Learning Journey | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Irene Castagnotto)
- Betatalks, The Podcast Episode #111 – The Test Pyramid Is Dead: A New Era of Software Testing – with Bram Albers (Rick van den Bosch, Oscar van Tol & Bram Albers)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #929 – Cloudflare Blocks AI Crawlers × Debugging Local Data × Raising Kids with Healthy Digital Habits and More (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Live from TechMentor: Profiles, People, and PowerShell Progress with Sean Wheeler and James Petty (James Petty)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #239 – Linux Security: The Detection and Response Disconnect and Where Is My Agentless EDR (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #157 – Cursor’s problem isn’t just Cursor’s problem (Jerod Santo)
- I Think You’re Overthinking It Podcast – James Gunn (Chris Hardwick)
- Micah Martin: Clean Coders – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #363 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #445 – Auto-activate Python virtual environments for any project (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – What is ‘versing’? ‘Whatchamacallit’ and other placeholder words. Chicken. (Mignon Fogarty & Ursula Kania)
Database
- MySQL 9.4 – Thank you for your contributions! (Frederic Descamps)
- SQL Server Query Tuning in 2025: A Step-by-Step Playbook with Query Store & Parameter Sensitive Plan (PSP) Optimization (Sudhir Mangla)
- A Rolling Filtered Index in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
- MySQL Shell Basic Configuration Management (Part 6 – Backups and Recovery Procedures) (Chisom Kanu)
- Smarter memory control for SQL Server on RHEL with cgroup v2 (Vivien Wang)
- Configure SQL Server Alerts for Azure SQL Managed Instance (Aleksey Vitsko)
- Using SQL and databases in JetBrains IDEs (Stanislav Garkusha)
- Cosmos DB vs Traditional SQL: When to Choose What (Chris Yates)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- SharePoint Pages: Introducing Sections with AI (Sara Cummings)
Miscellaneous
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-34 (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue: #197 (Sam Basu)
- Daily Reading List – August 18, 2025 (#611) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Single GPU P5 instances, Advanced Go Driver, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and more (August 18, 2025) (Prasad Rao)
- Reading Notes #661 (Frank Boucher)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #264 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
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