Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – Visual Studio Code AI with James Montemagno (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Exploring Text-to-Image capabilities in .NET (Jeremy Likness)
 - .NET Native Apps CLI Cheatsheet (Sam Basu)
 - Copilot Spaces is now generally available (GitHub)
 - Preparing for the .NET 10 GC (Maoni Stephens)
 - Visual Studio 2026 Insiders: Using Podman for Container Development (Matt Hernandez)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Node.js v22.20.0 (LTS) (Richard Lau)
 - How To Create an Entra ID (Azure AD) Tenant: Step-by-Step Guide (Michael Reinders)
 - Building a GraphQL API with AWS AppSync Using Direct Lambda Resolvers in .NET | Amazon Web Services (Pankaj Rawat & Sanjay Chaudhari)
 - 10 JavaScript Concepts Every Node.js Developer Should Know (Prashant Yadav)
 - The Ultimate Guide to API Gateways for .NET Microservices: YARP vs. Azure API Management vs. Envoy Gateway (Sudhir Mangla)
 - How to Add Real-Time Observability to a NestJS App with OpenTelemetry (Christian Nwamba)
 - How to Implement Dependency Injection in Go – Explained with Code Examples (Gabor Koos)
 - Trust is the Secret Ingredient Missing in API Discovery (Kin Lane)
 - Pulumi Google Cloud Provider Version 9.0.0 (Zaid Ajaj)
 - Dev Proxy v1.2 with mock response mirroring and improved performance (Waldek Mastykarz & Garry Trinder)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Introducing the New .NET MAUI Spark Chart Control (Saiyath Ali Fathima M)
 - Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.8.250916003 (NuGet)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Discovering Visual Studio 2026 – Copilot Actions (Bart Wullems)
 - .NET 10 RC 1: Introduces Persistent State in Blazor, Enhanced Validation, and Production-Ready Tools (Almir Vuk)
 
AI
- Anchoring AI to a reference application (Martin Fowler)
 - Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers now get Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist with higher limits. (Meridith Blascovich)
 - Using MCP Server with Azure Managed Redis in VS Code (Catherine Wang)
 - Claude is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Anthropic Team)
 - How can AI simplify and accelerate user acceptance testing (Anuj Arora)
 - Introducing the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server: Streamlining Public Data Access for AI Developers (Keyur Shah)
 - The Kotlin AI Stack: Build AI Agents With Koog, Code Smarter With Junie, and More (Alyona Chernyaeva)
 - Trust but Verify (Andrew Stellman)
 - How AI empowers leaders to drive innovation and collaboration (Cinthiya)
 - 6 easy ways to level up Claude Code (David Turnbull)
 - Intent Prototyping: The Allure And Danger Of Pure Vibe Coding In Enterprise UX (Part 1) (Yegor Gilyov)
 - 5 ways to get real-time help by going Live with Search (Liza Ma)
 - AI vs. AI: Detecting an AI-obfuscated phishing campaign (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team)
 - GitHub Copilot gets smarter at finding your code: Inside our new embedding model (Shengyu Fu)
 - Building an AI Agent with Couchbase MCP and cagent (Shivay Lamba)
 - InfoQ AI, ML and Data Engineering Trends Report – 2025 (Srini Penchikala, Savannah Kunovsky, Anthony Alford, Daniel Dominguez & Vinod Goje)
 - It’s time to secure your MCP servers. Here’s how. (Wassim Chegham)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- The history and future of software development (part 1) (Darko Mesaroš)
 - CRUD-Sourcing is why Your Event Streams Are Bloated (Derek Comartin)
 - The 10 Foundational UX Principles Every Designer Should Know (Louise North)
 - When GitHub Won’t Clone: Fixing the SSL Certificate Problem on Windows (Shannon Kuehn)
 - Secrets of GitHub Actions: What the Docs Don’t Tell You (Temidayo Omoniyi)
 - Layer Like a Dev: Why Designers Should Use C4 Diagrams (Teon Beijl)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Meet the engineers behind Raspberry Pi 500+ (Andrew Gregory)
 - Google’s Android for PC: ‘I’ve seen it, it is incredible’ (Dominic Preston)
 - The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ on sale now at $200 (Eben Upton)
 - Google reveals its Android for PC is coming next year (Sean Hollister)
 - Meta is opening pop-up shops to show off its smart glasses with a display (Jay Peters)
 - Demos is now Open Source – 110 React Native Animations (Enzo Manuel Mangano)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- Next-Level SQL in VS Code: GitHub Copilot, Containers & more | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Carlos Robles)
 - Code along with the Foundation Models framework | Meet with Apple (Apple Developer Team)
 - Microservices architecture: is it the right choice to design long-living systems? (Particular Software)
 - From Figma Design to Cursor Code in Minutes | Figma MCP Server Full Tutorial (Sergei Chyrkov)
 - How to Quickly Generate Technical Blogs From Your Docs With Llama and Rag (Frank LaVigne)
 - A deep dive into the GitHub MCP registry | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths & Toby Padilla)
 - Tech Talks | Season 1, Episode 2 | Guddeti Bharat Reddy, SVP, IT, Security & Onetech Ops, Flipkart (Sharryn Napier)
 - 5 Ways I Use Coding Agents Every Day to Boost Productivity (James Montemagno)
 - Speed Production of Intel. Apps & Agents w/ AI-Ready DB for PostgreSQL | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Maxim Lukiyanov)
 - What is Model Context Protocol (MCP)? | One Dev Question (Damian Brady)
 
Podcasts
- Smart Silicon: Tensor G5 and the Next Era of the AI Phone | Made by Google Podcast S8E4 (Rachid Finge)
 - InfoQ Podcast: AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report 2025 (Srini Penchikala, Savannah Kunovsky, Anthony Alford, Daniel Dominguez & Vinod Goje)
 - When Consensus Becomes Paralysis—The Nemawashi Challenge For Agile Software Development | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Terry Haayema)
 - Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes SIG Docs, With Shannon Kularathna (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
 - Syntax Podcast Episode #940 – Picking a Fullstack Stack, Is Next.js Too Complex? Services vs Self-Hosted + More (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
 - The Azure Security Podcast Episode #118 – Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Computing with Mark Russinovich (Michael Howard & Mark Simos)
 - The Amp Hour #703 – Building wafer.space with Tim Ansell (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
 - The Cloud Pod Episode #322 – Did OpenAI and Microsoft Break Up? It’s Complicated… (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
 - Grammar Girl Podcast – Adapting a classic: from words to watercolors, with K. Woodman Maynard (Mignon Fogarty)
 - Defense Unicorns, A Podcast – Teaming for the Mission: Why Collaboration Wins in Complex Environments with Bob Ritchie and Lauren Knausenberger (Robert Slaughter, Michaela Flatau, Rebecca Lively & Luke Shabro)
 - Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #489 – How to Navigate Internal Recruiters w/ Principal Recruiter Aaron Harmon (Taylor Desseyn)
 - Software Engineering Radio Episode #687: Elizabeth Figura on Proton and Wine (Jeremy Jung)
 
Community & Events
- Hacktoberfest 2025 (krisstern)
 - Snapdragon Summit 2025: Snapdragon X2 Mini PC Prototype Photo Gallery (Paul Thurrott)
 - Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab (Zoë Schiffer & Julia Black)
 
Database
- MySQL Basics: Table Manners – Setting up Your First Schema and Table (Scott Stroz)
 - SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 30 (Erik Darling)
 - Talk to your data: PostgreSQL gets a voice in VS Code (TELAWRENCE)
 - Locking in CockroachDB, Part 2 – Finding Locked Rows (Bryan Hogan)
 - Microsoft Now Recommends You Set Max Memory to 75% and Min Memory to 0%. (Brent Ozar)
 - Introducing PostgreSQL Static Data in Flyway (Grant Fritchey)
 
Miscellaneous
- The Digital Markets Act’s impacts on EU users (Apple)
 - Qualcomm Debuts Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme, Its Next-Gen Laptop Chips (Luke Larsen)
 - Microsoft Offers No-Cost Windows 10 Lifeline (msmash)
 - Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? (Raymond Chen)
 - Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X2 Elite and Extreme for Windows PCs (Sean Hollister)
 
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – September 24, 2025 (#634) (Richard Seroter)
 - The .NET News Daily Issue #289 (Jasen)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps: Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot) (Rezwanur Rahman) – Referral Link

