Top Links
- Open Source AI Editor: First Milestone (VS Code Team)
- The Breakpoint Show Episode #043 – .NET Aspire with Chris Ayers (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
- AiGen & AiFind in CodeRush for Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Mark Miller & Robert Green)
- Removing -ms-high-contrast and embracing standards-based forced colors in Microsoft Edge (Patrick Brosset)
- Create Engaging Feedback Forms in .NET MAUI Using ListView (Jayaleshwari N.)
- .NET MAUI 9.0.80 (Service Release 8) (David Ortinau)
Web & Cloud Development
- Public and private CSS cascade layers in a design system (Chris Ferdinandi)
- What’s new in Svelte: July 2025 (Dani Sandoval)
- How to Automatically Convert Images to WebP on WordPress (Jen Swisher)
- Exploring azd extensions: Enhance your Azure developer experience (Kristen Womack)
- Using CSS Cascade Layers With Tailwind Utilities (Zell Liew)
- What’s new in Astro – June 2025 (Sarah Rainsberger)
- The OWASP Top 10 for .NET Developers: A Practical Guide to Mitigating Critical Web App Risks (Sudhir Mangla)
- First Public Working Draft: Digital Credentials (W3C Team)
- How to Use NestJS as a Signaling Server for WebRTC Video Chat (Christian Nwamba)
- Build Self-Healing Apps: Health Checks and Probes with .NET Aspire (Julio Casal)
- How to Use Markdown (Justin Pot)
- W3C Digital Credentials API publication: the next step to privacy-preserving identities on the web (Simone Onofri)
Visual Studio & .NET
- VS Code Goes Transparent as Open-Source AI Editor (David Ramel)
- Exploring the features of dotnet run app.cs: Exploring the .NET 10 preview – Part 1 (Andrew Lock)
- Day 14: Evolving Text: Solving the “Hello World” Puzzle with a C# Genetic Algorithm (Chris Woodruff)
- Demo Time – A Visual Studio Code extension to help you script your demos (Elio Struyf)
- How to Find Public Symbols That Can Be Internal Using Roslyn (Gérald Barré)
AI
- AI-Driven Next.js: From Component Generation to Fail-Safe Data Fetching (Adhithi Ravichandran)
- Integrating OpenAI’s GPT with Angular: A Step-by-Step Guide (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Using LangChain with C#: A Primer for Building Composable AI Applications (Sudhir Mangla)
- Google is opening its NotebookLM AI tools to students under 18 (Antonio G. Di Benedetto)
- Making AI scalable with database change management and Redgate Flyway (Claire Matthews)
- What Are Autonomous Agents and How Are They Different from Copilot Studio? (Dela Nakhaei)
- Web Testing with AI (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Bring AI out of the shadows with agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (Julie Hersum)
- Tool Calling with Local LLMs: A Practical Evaluation (Ignasi Lopez Luna)
- Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default (Kate Knibbs)
- The Future of AI: Harnessing AI agents for Customer Engagements (manniarora)
- Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents (Maxwell Zeff)
- Microsoft’s New AI Tool Outperforms Doctors 4-to-1 in Diagnostic Accuracy (msmash)
- Reliability for unreliable LLMs (Ryan Donovan)
- Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) (TNS Staff)
- OpenAI’s o3, o3-Pro, and o4-Mini Get Web Search: Why More AI Prompts Will Now Use Bing (Lars)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How to make a design system that’s not boring (Brad Frost)
- Turning User Research Into Real Organizational Change (Paul Boag)
- Embracing the power of the empty set in API design: Requesting zero items (Raymond Chen)
- 10 Remote Development Best Practices (Sergei Petunin)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How to Audit Android Accessibility with the Accessibility Scanner App (Ilknur Eren)
- What’s New in 2025 Volume 2: Flutter (Vijayakumar Mariappan)
- Flutter In-App Purchases Simplified with RevenueCat: Tips and Sales Strategies (Yii Chen)
- SwiftUI Component Testing with Appium & Test Harnesses (Paul Hammant)
- Get ready for the next generation of gameplay powered by Play Games Services (Chris Wilk)
Screencasts & Videos
- The ELUSIVE ART of User-Focused Simplicity In Software (Dave Farley & Holly Cummins)
- Google’s new CLI tool hits different… and Is the Tax Code Causing MASS Tech Layoffs? (Frank LaVigne)
Podcasts
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Programming problems that seem easy, but aren’t, featuring Jon Skeet (Phoebe Sajor)
- InfoQ Podcast: Achieving Seamless Integration Through User Co-Design (Savannah Kunovsky & Jenna Fizel)
- Merge Conflict Episode #469 – New MCP Server Features (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Behind the Shell with Microsoft (James Petty)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – You Belong Here: 6 Strategies to Overcome Imposter Syndrome at Work (‘Tine Zekis)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – When Stepping Back Becomes Stepping Away—A Leadership Failure Story | Bernard Agrest (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #915 – $200mo Background Agents, CLI Tooling and “Max Mode” (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #438 – Motivation time (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Is ‘sick’…good? What we think of posh language and class. Misunderseed (Mignon Fogarty, Karen Lunde & Natalie Schilling)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast – Trader Joe’s Wine Club: Super Summertime Sippers (Trader Joe’s Team)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #232 – The Human Element of Privacy: Protecting High-Risk Targets and Designing Systems (Anton Chuvakin)
- UX Podcast – Season 3 update from James and Per (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #150 – Coding agents have crossed a chasm (Jerod Santo)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #77 – Shawn Wildermuth (Dan Clarke)
- Only Malware in the Building Episode #12 – The RMM protocol: Remote, risky, and ready to strike. (Selena Larsen, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
- Microsoft Research Podcast – AI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from genome editing (Kathleen Sullivan, Alta Charo & Daniel Kluttz)
Community & Events
- Membership – Become a Member (.NET Foundation)
- Top announcements to know from Google Play at I/O ‘25 (Raghavendra Hareesh Pottamsetty)
- gRPConf 2025 Announcement (Cathy Zhao)
- Meta joins Kotlin Foundation (Meta Team)
- Public release of W3C’s 2025-2028 strategic objectives initiatives (Seth Dobbs)
- Node.js LGBTQIA+ Stories: Emelia Smith (Emelia Smith)
Database
- Free online SQL quizzes on Oracle Dev Gym and New free SQL quizzes and more trophies on Oracle Dev Gym (Chris Saxon)
- Scaling PostgreSQL at OpenAI: Lessons in Reliability, Efficiency, and Innovation (Charles Feddersen)
- How to Connect to your Local Database from SQL Server Management Studio (Aisling)
- Columnstore Index Improvements in SQL Server 2025 (Edward Pollack)
- Copilot for Database Development: SQL, Migrations, and Schema Design (Copilot That Jawn)
- Latest NoSQL Java Ecosystem Updates: June 2024 – June 2025 (Theo van Kraay)
- PostgreSQL 17 General Availability with In-Place Upgrade Support (Varun Dhawan)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | June 2025 (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
- Customize your email actions toolbar in Outlook for Android and iOS (G. Gallant)
- What’s new in Microsoft Planner – June 2025 (NancyatMSFT)
- What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | June 2025 (Seth Patton)
- Safeguarding data with Microsoft 365 Copilot security and compliance (Bill Sluss)
- Multi-Monitor Magic: OneNote Just Got a Whole Lot Sharper (Khadija Qader)
Miscellaneous
- Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base (Jowi Morales)
- Ryan Gosling is not an astronaut in Project Hail Mary’s first trailer (Andrew Liszewski)
- Microsoft Authenticator is ending support for passwords (Emma Roth)
- Anker is recalling another five power banks over fire risks (Jess Weatherbed)
- Moving Linux and Windows from SCSI to NVMe with one easy command (phleiten)
- Maxell’s old-school portable cassette player has Bluetooth and USB Type C (Rob Beschizza)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-27 (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #191 (Sam Basu)
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – June 29 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – June 30, 2025 (#578) (Richard Seroter)
- 2025 mid-year link clearance (Raymond Chen)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Project Rainier, Amazon CloudWatch investigations, AWS MCP servers, and more (June 30, 2025) (Channy Yun)
- Reading Notes #655 (Frank Boucher)
- Radar Trends to Watch: July 2025 (Mike Loukides)
- Windows news you can use: June 2025 (Eric Moe)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #229 (Jasen)
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