Tag: model context protocol

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• INotifyPodcastChanged Episode 5: Building features with Lance McCarthy (Joseph Finney & Tamás Deme)
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• The Microsoft Docs MCP Server is now available – Providing AI assistants with real-time access to official Microsoft documentation (Microsoft Docs)
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• .NET Preview 5 Improves C# (Mike James)
• dotNetDave Says… Don’t Build Frankenstein’s Monster Applications! (David McCarter)
• Thread pool threads are like preschool: Leave things the way you found them (Raymond Chen)
• 12 GitLens Features that Revolutionized My Coding Workflow in VS Code (Hichem Fantar)
• Song recommendations from C# combinators (Mark Seemann)
• .NET 10 Performance Edition (Steven Giesel)

AI

• Learn and Integrate: Azure and AI Web Development and Navigating the New AI Landscape: A Developer’s Journey Through the Noise (Konstantinos Passadis)
• AI Automation in Azure Foundry through turnkey MCP Integration and Computer Use Agent Models (srikantan)
• Microsoft Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers – A catalog of official Microsoft MCP (Model Context Protocol) server implementations for AI-powered data access and tool integration (Microsoft)
• Build Agents using Model Context Protocol on Azure (Microsoft Learn)
• ChatGPT Codex Tutorial: AI Agent in the Cloud (Vladislav Guzey)
• Use Prompty with Foundry Local (Waldek Mastykarz)
• The Month of MCP (Den Delimarsky)
• Spiraling with ChatGPT (Anthony Ha)
• Learn MLOps by Creating a YouTube Sentiment Analyzer and Enterprise AI Adoption Stalls As Inferencing Costs Confound Cloud Customers (BeauHD)
• Agentic Coding: How Google’s Jules Compares to Claude Code (David Eastman)
• GenAI for Beginners:  What is the Top-p sampling in a model (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Anthropic’s CEO is Wrong, AI Won’t Eliminate Half of White-Collar Jobs, Says NVIDIA’s CEO and ChatGPT Just Got ‘Absolutely Wrecked’ at Chess, Losing to a 1970s-Era Atari 2600 and Meta’s Llama 3.1 Can Recall 42% of the First Harry Potter Book (EditorDavid)
• Raycast for Hyperactive AI Obsessives (Eleanor Berger)
• Quest 4 – I want to connect my AI prototype to external data using RAG (Julia Muiruri)
• GitHub Copilot vs Human Coding: Can AI Truly Outperform Programmers? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• How Kafka improves agentic AI (Maarten Vandeperre)
• Should We Train Our Own LLMs or Use Existing Ones via APIs? and How Do We Upskill Our Engineers to Work with or Build GenAI Systems? and The Top Challenges of Using Generative AI and Why Does Generative AI Make Things Up? Understanding AI Hallucinations and Privacy and Data Leakage in Generative AI: Explained Simply (Mahesh Chand)
• Mistral AI Releases Magistral, Its First Reasoning-Focused Language Model (Robert Krzaczyński)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How to Unit Test Public APIs Without Touching the Backend (Eli Lopian)
• The Efficiency Trap of Systems Thinking (John Maeda)
• How to use Lotties in Figma (Andrei Marius)
• Install Homebrew on MacOS for More Dev Tool Options (Jack Wallen)
• The Road Ahead: How to See the Future in Front of You—and Act on It (JD Meier)
• Building Psychology Role Models from Personas to Build Better Software (Jefferson S. Motta)
• How Docs-as-Code Helped Pinterest Improve Documentation Quality (Sergio De Simone)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Build Games with Amazon Q CLI and score a T shirt 🏆👕 (AWS Team)
• Apple Updates Developer Tools (Kay Ewbank)
• Steam is finally adding native support for Macs with Apple Silicon (Emma Roth)
• Is Shovelware that bad? And how selling 2 mil can be a flop (Code Monkey)

Screencasts & Videos

• GCast 195: Creating a GitHub Repository (David Giard)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 265 -Shallow (The Bradley Cooper Episode) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Aspirify (Joe Guadagno)
• WWDC25: Meet the Foundation Models framework | Apple (Frank LaVigne)
• Random.Code() – Adding Digit Separators to Numbers (Part 1) (Jason Bock)
• The Agent Awakens: Collaborative Development with GitHub Copilot | BRK113 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Luke Hoban & Tim Rogers)

Podcasts

• CppCast – Friends-and-Family Special (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
• InfoQ Podcast: Do microservices’ benefits supersede their caveats? A conversation with Sam Newman (Sam Newman)
• Merge Conflict #467 – There was AI at WWDC 2025 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #307 – The AI Assistant That Finally Understands Your Kubernetes Cluster (We are Doomed) (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• React Native Radio #334 – React Native MacOS with Saad Najmi (Robin Heinze, Jamon Holmgren & Mazen Chami)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Tackling the Specialist-silo Problem in Agile Construction | Luca Cotta Ramusino and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Ghost Product Owner vs. The Storytelling Master | Stuart Tipples (Vasco Duarte)
• Lenny’s Podcast – How to build a team that can “take a punch”: A playbook for building resilient, high-performing teams | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #253 – Starting With Marimo Notebooks & Python App Config Management (Christopher Bailey)
• Changelog & Friends Podcast Episode #97 – Saltiness about frostiness (Justin Searls & Jerod Santo)
• Meta Cast – The Most Underrated Leadership Skills You’re Not Practicing (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• AGL 421: Melissa Dinwinddie (John Rouda)
• Boagworld Podcast #20 – The Future Of UX With Jared Spool (Paul Boag)
• Exploring MCP Servers and Agent Interactions with Gil Feig | Adventures in DevOps Podcast (Will Button & Warren Parad)

Community & Events

• JetBrains GameDev Days 2025 – Call for Speakers (Anna Ruban)
• Executives from Meta, OpenAI, and Palantir Commissioned Into The US Army Reserve and New York State Begins Asking Employers to Offically Identify Layoffs Caused by AI and Amazon’s Return-to-Office Mandate Sparks Complaints from Disabled Employees (EditorDavid)
• No Kings: protests in the eye of the storm (Verge Staff)

Database

• PostgreSQL for the Oracle DBA, Part 2: Physical Data Structures, Storage, and Processes (Kellyn Gorman)
• Oracle Database 23ai Running in an Apple Container — First Look (Shadab Mohammad)
• Replicating MySQL databases in Docker Containers (Mercy Bassey)
• Why AI and SQL Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly (Ivan Novick)
• Logging in Azure Data Factory data flows (Rayis Imayev)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: EXISTS, NOT EXISTS, and Row Goals (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Microsoft 365 Copilot Notebooks available in OneNote on Windows (Gokul Subramaniam)

Miscellaneous

• macOS 26 Tahoe vs Windows Vista: Who did glass better? (João Carrasqueira)
• Beginner’s Guide: Create a File Organizer CLI Tool in Rust (Adetokunbo Ige)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5651 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4441 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
• House Passes Bill to Defund PBS & NPR (Luke Bouma)
• Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• F# Weekly #24, 2025 – Fidelity & BAREWire (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – June 13, 2025 (#568) (Richard Seroter)
• Azure Weekly #519 – 15th June 2025 (The Editor)
• The .NET News Daily Issue #218 and The .NET News Daily Issue #219 (Jasen)
• Reading List 342 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)