Top Links
- These .NET MAUI Controls Are Now Free for Everyone: Syncfusion Toolkit (Gerald Versluis)
- 16 billion passwords exposed in record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable (Vilius Petkauskas & Jurgita Lapienytė)
- Announcing Warp Preview (Hong Yi Chen)
- VS Code MCP servers with one-click install (Rory Preddy)
- Getting Started with the AI Toolkit: A Beginner’s Guide with Demos and Resources (Sharda Kaur)
- GIF export in Snipping Tool begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Dave Grochocki)
- Announcing General Availability of GitHub Copilot for Azure—Now with Agent Mode (Yun Jung Choi)
Web & Cloud Development
- Astro 5.10 (Matt Kane)
- Azure Tech Tip: Go to Azure Portal with Specific Credentials (Jani Nevalainen)
- Angular Signals: A New Mental Model for Reactivity, Not Just a New API (Sonu Kapoor)
- .NET Aspire: Charting the Future of Cloud-Native Development for .NET (Sudhir Mangla)
- CSS Color Functions (Sunkanmi Fafowora)
- Getting started with the Microsoft Entra Suite (kamurphy)
- Baseline Newly Available: Stay on Top of New Web Features (Mary Branscombe)
- Upgrade Your Application and Prepare for the Future with .NET Aspire (Mike Yeager)
- DuckDuckGo Updates Web Browser with Enhanced Scam Protection (Paul Thurrott)
- Introduction to Cloud Native Computing (TNS Staff)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Copilot Compared: Advanced AI Features in Visual Studio 2022 vs. VS Code (David Ramel)
- Testing a Fresh Look for JetBrains IDEs (Olga Berdnikova)
- Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Ambiguous symbol errors after including a header file (Raymond Chen)
- 7 Underrated C# 12 and C# 13 Features Every Developer Should Know! (Saravanan Madheswaran)
- Kickstarting your libraries with the .NET Library Starter Kit (Dennis Doomen)
AI
- Fine-Tuning LLMs with C#: A Practical Guide to Customizing Models with ML.NET and Introduction to Semantic Kernel: The .NET Developer’s Guide to Building Powerful AI Agents (Sudhir Mangla)
- Using Model Context Protocol in agents – Copilot Studio and authentication with API key (Matteo Pagani)
- ChatGPT lays out master plan to take over the world — “I start by making myself too helpful to live without” (Kevin Okemwa)
- Unleashing potential: The business benefits of AI-first software engineering (Deepak Raghavan)
- What Is an AI Coding Agent? (Cheuk Ting Ho)
- Unleashing multimodal magic with RamaLama (Eric Curtin, Daniel Walsh, Stef Walter & Kevin Pouget)
- Training Your ML Models With Cadence (Ilia Afanasiev)
- Quest 6 – I want to build an AI Agent (Julia Muiruri)
- The Pros and Cons of Generative AI: What You Need to Know (Mahesh Chand)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Expert Generalists: three more characteristics (Martin Fowler)
- Cypress Component Testing – Changing from Playwright for a demo repo (Paul Hammant)
- No more coding vibes in the efficiency era (James J. Boyer)
- The Figma Fanboy: Designing with Passion, Judgment, and a Lot of Auto-Layouts (Web Designer Depot)
- 5 Mistakes That Make Your Code Unmaintainable (Derek Comartin)
- How to give your students structure as they learn programming skills (Jan Ander)
- In Praise of “Normal” Engineers (Charity Majors)
- GitLab 18.1 released (Tim Rizzi)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Mastering iOS Development: Your Essential Resource List (Coder)
- What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 26 (Paul Hudson)
- Strengthen mobile device security with Edge for Business, the secure enterprise browser (Patrick Brosset)
- Top 10 Game-Changing App Ideas Built with React Native🚀 (WebClues Infotech)
- Steam Beta Enables Proton On Linux For All Titles (BeauHD)
- Meta announces Oakley smart glasses (Alex Heath)
- Xbox and AMD: Advancing the Next Generation of Gaming Together (Joe Skrebels)
- From player to maker: Learn to code by creating your own game (Pete Bell)
Screencasts & Videos
- SQL Server 2025: Secure by Default | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman, Pratim Dasgupta & Pieter Vanhove)
- Can you tell me about the new params collections feature in C# 13? | One Dev Question (Mads Torgersen)
- Aspire and Playwright Development | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Best practices for administering GitHub Copilot with Luis Pujols | Beyond the Commit (GitHub Team)
- I Asked 3 AIs to Build a Game – Here’s What Happened | TJ Gokken | SSW User Group (SSW TV)
- MCP Gives LLMs Full Access: Postman Fixes It [Between 2 Devs] (Postman Team)
Podcasts
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #176 – From Therapist to six figure freelance dev (Beau Carnes)
- InfoQ Podcast: Productivity Through Play: Why Messing Around Makes Better Software Engineers (Holly Cummins)
- AUDIO: A History of Microsoft, Volumes 1 & 2 – Acquired Podcast (Kurt Shintaku)
- PPP 464 | Why People on Your Team Don’t Care–and How to Inspire Them, with author Dave Garrison (Andy Kaufman)
- Yet Another Podcast – Richie Bonilla and Forage AI Email (Jesse Liberty)
- Lenny’s Podcast – AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Under the Radar #321 – WWDC 2025 Aftermath (Marco Arment & David Smith)
- Boagworld Podcast – Scaling UX Impact with Limited Resources (Paul Boag)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – What your accent says about you (and your identity), with Rob Drummond (Mignon Fogarty)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #524 – It’s a Box in a Box (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Managing The Network of Promises in Lean Construction | Luca Cotta Ramusino and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Product Owner Mindset in Construction | Luca Cotta Ramusino (Vasco Duarte)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Defending the realm: Trust and safety at Stack Overflow (Phoebe Sajor)
Community & Events
- Microsoft discovers how most employees feel trapped in an infinite workday — bleeding into weekends and “making Sunday feel like just another Monday” (Kevin Okemwa)
- Amazon Orders Employees To Relocate To Seattle and Other Hubs (msmash)
Database
- A Little About Subquery Unnesting In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- PostgreSQL for the Oracle DBA, Part 3: Transaction Control, Locking, and Performance Insight (Kellyn Gorman)
- Replacing a Column in a Large Active SQL Server Table (Matt Gantz)
- Exploring the Next Gen General Purpose Tier in Azure SQL Managed Instance (John Morehouse)
- Microsoft Enhances Developer Experience with DocumentDB VS Code Extension and Local Emulator (Craig Risi)
- Adding PostgreSQL State Backend Support to Pulumi: A Community Contribution Journey (Matan Baruch)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- M365 Developers Update | June 2025 (J. Weller)
PowerShell
- PowerShell for Windows Developers: Takeaways from Advanced Installer’s Tech Session | Part 2 (Renato Ivanescu)
- Introducing FabricTools (PowerShell module) (Kamil Nowinski)
- Building a Windows Storage Dashboard, Part 1 (Brien Posey)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27881 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- Three Years Left To Limit Warming To 1.5C, Leading Scientists Warn and Our Galaxy’s Monster Black Hole Is Spinning Almost As Fast As Physics Allows (BeauHD)
- Releasing Windows 11 Build 26100.4482 to the Release Preview Channel (Windows Insider Team)
- Removal of unwanted drivers from Windows Update (Cymoki)
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