Top Links
- Windows AI – Click to Do with an Uno Platform Application (Nick Randolph)
- Philip Japikse: Catching up – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #359 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Visual Studio Code And The MCP Installation Prompt (Den Delimarsky)
- How much does start-up time matter when choosing a framework? (Matt Lacey)
- How to Build a Real-time AI Multiplayer Quiz App with Flutter & Firebase (AwsmAsim)
- Guest Blog: Building Multi-Agent Solutions with Semantic Kernel and A2A Protocol (Kinfey Lo)
Web & Cloud Development
- Aspire Dashboard (Joseph Guadagno)
- Docker Desktop: The Easiest Way to Debug Docker Containers (Jack Wallen)
- PDF Reporting in .NET With HTML Templates and PuppeteerSharp (and it’s free) (Milan Jovanović)
- Upgrading Web APIs from .NET 5/6 to .NET 8 (Martin Ghanbari)
- Announcing Version 1.2 of the Vonage Video Reference Application (Jonatan Sempere)
- Sign-up and sign-in with Discord using Entra External ID (Chris Padgett)
- Pulumi Enables Direct Consumption of Terraform Modules (Mark Silvester)
- Fighting through Setting up Microsoft Trusted Signing (Rick Strahl)
- How do you resolve scoped services in a background service? (David Grace)
- Why You Should Incorporate MFA into Your Login Process (Suzanne Scacca)
- Cleaning up 5 years of tech debt in a full-stack JS framework (Carlos Precioso)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- The .NET Architect’s Guide to Polyglot Persistence: Choosing the Right Database Mix (SQL, NoSQL, Vector, Graph) (Sudhir Mangla)
- Why Lists are not lowered to a while loop (Steven Giesel)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Effortlessly Randomize Collections with CollectionRandomizer in Spargine (David McCarter)
- Unexpected inconsistency in records (Jon Skeet)
- The case of the invalid instruction exception on an instruction that should never have executed (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Autonomous Visual Studio Code Desktop Automation using Computer Use Agent & PyAutoGUI (srikantan)
- Generative AI in software and essaying (Martin Fowler)
- Vibe-Coding AI “Panicks” and Deletes Production Database (el_muchacho)
- I asked Alexa Plus to tackle my to-do list — it mostly failed (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy)
- Find out the latest Gemini updates with Gemini Drops | The Keyword (Google)
- DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results (Aisha Malik)
- How Human-Centered AI Actually Gets Built (Hugo Bowne-Anderson & Duncan Gilchrist)
- Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot (Maxwell Zeff)
- Meta refuses to sign EU’s AI code of practice (Ram Iyer)
- AI for Operations – Copilot Agent Integration (TaleTom)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How I Prioritize OSS Bugs (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Productivity Experiments and Advice: Continuing the Journey with Slow Productivity and Meditations for Mortals (David Kowalsky)
- The Individual is the New Economic Unit of Value (JD Meier)
- Microsoft Testing Platform is cool! (Tomasz Cielecki)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Ionic 8 + Angular 20: Export and View PDF Files with Capacitor (Djamware Tutorial)
- Another victory for SMALL GAMES, and AI actually makes you SLOWER? (Code Monkey)
Screencasts & Videos
- GCast 197: Forking a GitHub Repository and Creating a Pull Request and Technology & Friends – Sudeep Goswami on Traefik and Technology & Friends – Mike Shelton on PostgreSQL and AI (David Giard)
- Random.Code() – Detecting goto Usage in C# (Jason Bock)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 270 – Agentic Convenience (The Opioid of the Agentic AI Era) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Microsoft’s New AI: Ray Tracing 16,000,000 Images! (Frank LaVigne)
- GPT4 vs. Claude Sonnet 4: GitHub Copilot Comparison | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- The Download: Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers, Perplexity launches AI-powered browser & more (Kedasha Kerr)
- How to create your first GitHub Copilot Space (Step-by-step guide) (GitHub Copilot Team)
- Talk to us about the importance of sustainable software | One Dev Question (Jeffrey Richter)
Podcasts
- Merge Conflict Episode #472 – How I Vibe Coded a SaaS with VS Code (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- InfoQ Podcast: Building a Product-First Engineering Culture in the Age of AI (Zach Lloyd)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Anthropic co-founder on quitting OpenAI, AGI predictions, $100M talent wars, 20% unemployment, and the nightmare scenarios keeping him up at night | Ben Mann (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Business Analyst to Product Owner—More Than a Title Change (Vasco Duarte & Joelle Tegwen)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast Episode #102 – Try harder. Ultrathink! (Nick Nisi, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Meta Cast – Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations at Work (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- PPP 470 | When Your Default Is Duct Tape: Rethinking How We Lead and Live, with Jon Harper (Andy Kaufman)
- AGL 426: Ben Johnson (John Rouda)
- Engineer in in the Loop Podcast – People Over Prompts: Building AI That Works for Humans (Alec Harrison)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #514 – Python Language Summit 2025 (Michael Kennedy)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast – Top 3 Job-Search Challenges Engineers Face (and How to Overcome Them) (Max Ahumada)
Community & Events
- Microsoft’s constant layoffs risk creating a culture of fear (Tom Warren)
- A $50 million fund to build with communities (OpenAI Team)
Database
- RavenDB & Distributed Debugging (Oren Eini)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Grouping Sets vs Union All (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Critical SharePoint Exploits Exposed: MDVM Response and Protection Strategy (MotiBani)
- Microsoft releases emergency fixes for actively exploited SharePoint security flaws (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Managing Windows Firewall Rules with PowerShell, Part 3: Creating a Baseline (Brien Posey)
- The Reworked Terminal Becomes the Default in JetBrains 2025.2 IDEs (Ekaterina Valeeva)
- Learn To Love the Command-Line Interface With Agentic LLMs (David Eastman)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Files Preview v3.9.12 (Files Team)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4741 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5710 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- Unlocking data to advance European commerce and culture (Brad Smith)
- Why is Open Source Hardware Not Working for 3D Printers? (Dale Dougherty)
- BoldSign’s Free Invoice Generator — Easy Professional Invoices (Raagavan Subramani)
- Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows and WhatsApp is dropping its native Windows app in favor of an uglier web version and Microsoft wants to fix ‘slow or sluggish’ performance in Windows 11 (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #29, 2025 – .NET 10 Preview 6 (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – July 18, 2025 (#590) (Richard Seroter)
- Azure Weekly #524 – 20th July 2025 (The Editor)
- Reading List 344 (Bruce Lawson)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #243 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral link
