Top Links
- Cross Device Resume (XDR) using Continuity SDK (Android and Windows Applications) (Microsoft Learn)
- Enhance Markdown Preview in VS Code with Document Viewer (Suvetha Venkatesan)
- Jonathan Peppers: GitHub Copilot for Maui Applications – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #364 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Better Control over Your Copilot Code Suggestions (Simona Liao)
- Skilling snack: Get started with AI in Windows (AriaUpdated)
- The VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #2 – Iteration Plan for August & Re-writing Terminal Tools (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)
- OData .NET (ODL) 9 Preview Release (John Gathogo)
- How to Auto-Save PDF Annotations and Forms in .NET MAUI Using PDF Viewer (Deepak G.)
- Enhance your CLI testing workflow with the new dotnet test (Mariam Abdullah)
- TechBash 2025 Schedule Posted (Jason Gaylord)
Web & Cloud Development
- Rolling the Dice with CSS random() (Jon Davis, Jen Simmons & Tim Nguyen)
- Use Application Insights for .NET Aspire telemetry (Microsoft Learn)
- Learning web development: Loops in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Fixing integration test issues with Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing in .NET 9 (Bart Wullems)
- GPU Orchestration in Kubernetes: Device Plugin or GPU Operator? (Janakiram MSV)
- Making Sense of CSS Length Units (Oded Sharon)
- Secure Document Editing with Role-Based Access in React Word Editor (Ramkumar Ravy)
- Unit Formatting with Intl in JavaScript (Raymond Camden)
- ESLint v9.34.0 released and New in ESLint v9.34.0: Multithread Linting (Francesco Trotta)
- How To Build Framework-Agnostic UIs With Web Components (Alexander T. Williams)
- Protect Your Access Tokens with DPoP (Demonstrating Proof of Possession) (Andrea Chiarelli)
- Searching Your Site Without a Database (Jonathan Gamble)
- TypedResults or Results for Minimal API responses? (David Grace)
- Bringing FHIR data to life: Dashboards in under 5 minutes (Team Firely)
- Add Blank Pages to Your PDF Online – Quick, Free and Secure (Sivasankaranarayanan Dharmalingam)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET 10 Preview 7 Accelerates .NET MAUI with XAML Source Generator (Edin Kapić)
- Exploring the PDF Viewer for Your .NET MAUI Education Apps (Leomaris Reyes)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Best Practices for Image Compression when Exporting to PDF in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Harness the Power of Async Queues with Spargine’s ChannelQueue (David McCarter)
- How to Apply SOLID Principles in AI Development Using Prompt Engineering and C# (Jeyasri Murugan)
- Song recommendations with F# free monads (Mark Seemann)
- Why Azure Teams Are Moving from ARM Templates to .NET (Sara Huddleston)
- How to Create Sparklines in Excel to Track Sales Trends Using C# (Mohan Chandran)
- Microsoft Scales Back the GitHub Copilot Interruptions in Visual Studio (Paul Thurrott)
- .NET 10 Preview 7 Delivers ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and MAUI Enhancements, with C# 14 Feature Complete (Almir Vuk)
- The LinQ Bible in C#: From Basics to Best Practices (Juan España)
- Quick one: Difference between collection expressions and collection initializer (Steven Giesel)
- Day 27: Logging and Monitoring Genetic Progress Over Generations (Chris Woodruff)
- My JetBrains Rider Plugins—August 2025 Edition (Joseph Guadagno)
- The Real Cost of Abstractions in .NET (Milan Jovanović)
- Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 9: Conversion and Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 10: Proper conversion (Raymond Chen)
AI
- How To Integrate a Local LLM Into VS Code (Jack Wallen)
- Prototyping an AI Tutor with Docker Model Runner (Sarah Sanders)
- What’s new in Gemini Code Assist (Blanca Delgado Parra)
- Comparison — LLMs for Creating Software Architecture Diagrams (IcePanel)
- Taking GitHub Copilot’s .NET Upgrade Assistant for a Spin: AI-Powered Modernization (Bart Wullems)
- Move Beyond Crap Code and Confusion | A simple, self-paced workshop (Rob Conery)
- Microsoft adds Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro to GitHub Copilot — but you’ll have to pay for it (Richard Devine)
- ChatGPT Agent : Bye Bye MCP (Mehul Gupta)
- I Passed AI-102 Azure AI Engineer Exam — Here’s How You Can Too (2025 Guide) (Jeslur Rahman)
- 25 Useful ChatGPT Prompts for Web Designers (that you can copy/paste) (Alex Harper)
- From Data to Docs: A Blueprint for Using GenAI to Automatically Document Datasets and Analytics (Sudhir Mangla)
- Unlocking GPT-5’s Freeform Tool Calling: A New Era of Seamless Integration (Ananya Bishnoi)
- Rebalancing buy versus build With AI (Andrew Best)
- Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5 (Anthony Ha)
- AI Development Guidelines (Kevin Logan)
- Claude Code and new admin controls for business plans (Anthropic Team)
- How Two Words Broke My LLM-Powered Chat Agent (Spencer Schneidenbach)
- Scaling domain expertise in complex, regulated domains (OpenAI Team)
- Journey through Pixel’s history with our Gemini-made web app | The Keyword and Explore all the Made by Google news with NotebookLM | The Keyword (Google Pixel Team)
- Building Enterprise-Grade Local RAG Applications with Semantic Kernel and Foundry Local (Kinfey Lo)
- Applicability vs. job displacement: further notes on our recent research on AI and occupations (Kiran Tomlinson, Sonia Jaffe, Will Wang, Scott Counts & Siddharth Suri)
- How to Become a Vibe Coder (Lauren Goode & Michael Calore)
- Most Used AI Coding Tools by Developers in 2025: Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude & More and Best AI Coding Tools: 2025 Developer’s Guide ⚡ (Mahesh Chand)
- 7 Pandas Tricks to Improve Your Machine Learning Model Development (Matthew Mayo)
- Microsoft AI chief says it’s ‘dangerous’ to study AI consciousness and Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models (Maxwell Zeff)
- AI Code Generation: Trust and Verify, Always (Prasenjit A. Sarkar)
- Secure Third-Party Tool Calling: A Guide to LangGraph Tool Calling and Secure AI Integration in Python (Raphael do Vale)
- AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally (Robby Stein)
- The Future of AI: Developing Lacuna – an agent for Revealing Quiet Assumptions in Product Design (skeske)
- GitHub Copilot vs ChatGPT: Which One Should Developers Use? (Stephen Simon)
- Developers lose focus 1,200 times a day — how MCP could change that (Sylvain Kalache)
- We Are Only Beginning to Understand How to Use AI (Tim O’Reilly)
- Is AI Taking Over Testing? Here’s Why Human Insight Still Matters (Tom Gilbert)
- In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses (Casey Crownhart)
- Building your first MCP server: How to extend AI tools with custom capabilities (Chris Reddington)
- MCP Security Risks Multiply With Each New Agent Connection (Frederic Lardinois)
- Everyone is talkin’ bout vibes (Jay Gordon)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Microsoft: AI Agents Are Winning the DevOps Relay Race (Darryl K. Taft)
- GitLab 18.3: Expanding AI orchestration in software engineering (Bill Staples)
- Passed Over for Promotion — Now What? (Danielle Meinert)
- 🎂 Celebrating 20 Years at Microsoft with 20 Lessons for PMs (Adam Harmetz)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- 64-bit app compatibility for Google TV and Android TV (Fahad Durrani)
- How to Automate Flutter Testing and Builds with GitHub Actions for Android and iOS (Atuoha Anthony)
- Microsoft tests letting you resume Android apps on Windows 11 (Emma Roth)
- Latest React Native Version Ships With Android 16 Support (Loraine Lawson)
- Build your app to meet users in every moment on the newest Pixel devices, from wearables to foldables, and more (Fahd Imtiaz & Kseniia Shumelchyk)
- The latest Gemini Nano with on-device ML Kit GenAI APIs (Caren Chang, Joanna (Qiong) Huang & Chengji Yan)
- Simple strategy making MILLIONS, and Silksong release date! (Code Monkey)
- Deploying on Spectacles from Windows using an USB cable (Joost van Schaik)
- Can you make a game with AI (Simon Jackson)
- Microsoft’s Xbox handheld is a good first step toward a Windows gaming OS and Microsoft is bringing PC gaming apps and stores to its Xbox app on Windows (Tom Warren)
- Your Next App: Web-Based App, Native or … Both? (Loraine Lawson)
Screencasts & Videos
- How Warp uses Warp – Explore features and use cases for Warp, told by the people who built them (Warp Team)
- GCast 199: Getting Started with Draw.io (David Giard)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 275 – Castle Made on Sand (Dotcom versus GenAI Bubbles) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- From ChatGPT to Jarvis: Building AI Apps with MCP in .NET | Anton Polkanov | SSW User Group (SSW TV)
- Bring Your Own Remote Python MCP Server to Azure Functions | Azure Developers (Pamela Fox)
- Bring Your Own Remote TypeScript MCP Server to Azure Functions | Azure Developers (Dan Wahlin)
- What’s new with .NET Aspire? | One Dev Question (Maddy Montaquila)
- How do you stay on top of new security issues? | One Dev Question (Michael Howard)
- Windows 11 Disk Management. Basic, Dynamic, GPT, MBR, Simple, Spanned & Mirrored | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
- Scott Hanselman’s TEDx: They Believed in Us. Now What? (Scott Hanselman)
Podcasts
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #185 – From Hospital Janitor to Developer with Emmett Naughton (Beau Carnes)
- Extend Women in Tech Podcast – Interview with Lou Creemers , NET Developer, Microsoft MVP, Teacher (Jonah Andersson & Tsedey Terefe)
- Developer Tea Podcast – Second Order Consequences and Forcing Functions (Jonathan Cutrell)
- InfoQ Podcast: Finding Your Engineering Bottleneck: The Hierarchy of Engineering Needs (Myles Henaghan)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Focus Friend by Hank Green is #1 in the App Store with Bria Sullivan (Scott Hanselman)
- Merge Conflict Episode #477 – From Spark, To Blazor, To Mobile, To Production in 1 Day (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Inside VueConf: Nuxt 4, AI in Development, and the Future of Vue with Erik Hanchett – JavaScript Jabber Episode #685 and The Next Wave of Dev Tools: AI Assistants and JavaScript Workflows – JavaScript Jabber Episode #686 (Charles Max Wood)
- The Risk-Aware Scrum Master: Preventing Problems Before They Happen | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and Truth vs. Fiction – The Power of Transparency in Product Ownership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Irene Castagnotto)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #534 – Capitalism is working (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode 476 – The Power of Community at Torc and Career Guidance w/ David Messinger, CTO of Torc (Taylor Desseyn)
- The Open-Source Product Leader Challenge: Navigating Community, Code, and Collaboration Chaos | Adventures in DevOps Podcast (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- PPP 475 | If Work Feels Like an Episode of The Office, This Is for You, with Don Kieffer and Nelson Repenning (Andy Kaufman)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode #179 – The future of fast builds: inside Depot’s cloud-native CI/CD platform (Jacob Gillespie)
- A Geek Leader Episode #431 – Scott Alldrige (John Rouda)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #262 – Travis Oliphant: SciPy, NumPy, and Fostering Scientific Python (Christopher Bailey)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast Episode #107 – Git with your friends (remastered) (Mat Ryer, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Todd Stashwick – “The Place Where Imagination Ruled” – The Well Podcast #072 (Anson Mount & Branan Edgens)
- Generative AI in the Real World Podcast – Understanding A2A with Heiko Hotz and Sokratis Kartakis (Ben Lorica, Heiko Hotz & Sokratis Kartakis)
- The Amp Hour #701 – Electric Propulsion with Todd Bailey (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #317 – I Got 99 Problems, But a Hallucination Ain’t One (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- React Native Radio Episode #341 – Catching Up With Maestro Featuring Leland Takamine (Leland Takamine, Jamon Holmgren & Robin Heinze)
- Lenny’s Podcast – How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO) and Lenny’s Podcast – Inside the little-known expert network quietly training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #517: Agentic Al Programming with Python (Michael Kennedy)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – How to build a successful writers’ newsletter, with Jane Friedman (Mignon Fogarty)
- Boagworld Podcast – Stop Firefighting: A Smarter Way to Prioritize UX Work (Paul Boag)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Robots in the skies (and they use Transformer models) (Ryan Donovan)
Community & Events
- Twenty Years of Blog Posts (Charles Petzold)
- Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law (Sarah Perez)
- There Has Never Been a Better Time to be a Junior Developer – And It Won’t Last Forever (Aaron Stannard)
- Explore the best of GitHub Universe: 9 spaces built to spark creativity, connection, and joy (Jeimy Ruiz)
- Cisco Announces Mass Layoffs Just After Soaring Revenue Report (msmash)
- Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale (Ryan Waite)
- After The Layoff: What’s Next? (Susie Liu)
- Microsoft calls protest a ‘destructive’ act by outsiders; group alleges police brutality in arrests (Todd Bishop)
Database
- SQL Server 2025 Preview: Now Supporting Ubuntu 24.04 and TLS 1.3 (Attinder Pal Singh)
- Create embeddings in SQL Server 2025 RC0 with a local ONNX model on Windows (Brian Spendolini)
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Schema Compare, Schema Designer, Local SQL Server Container GA (Carlos Robles)
- A Little About Row & Range Window Functions vs Batch Mode in SQL Server and Learn T-SQL With Erik: A Neat Thing with MERGE and OUTPUT (Erik Darling)
- SQL Server 2025 Release Candidate 0 Drops: Big News–Vector Search Works on my Mac (Joey Dantoni)
- REGEXP_LIKE Function in SQL Server 2025 (Koen Verbeeck)
- Accelerating SQL Server 2025 momentum: Announcing the first release candidate (Priya Sathy)
- Get required permissions for DMVs (Randolph West)
- Announcing SQL Server 2025 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) (Venkata Raj Pochiraju)
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Schema Compare, Schema Designer, Local SQL Server Container GA (Yo-Lei Chen, Tauseef Siddique & Carlos Robles)
- Why Separate Databases? Explaining Like You’re Five (Derek Comartin)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Getting the most out of a request in Warp (Jeff Lloyd)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5761 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5761 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- Americans’ Junk-Filled Garages Are Hurting EV Adoption, Study Says and Meta Set To Unveil First Consumer-Ready Smart Glasses With a Display, Wristband and LibreOffice 25.8 Slams the Door On Windows 7 and 8.x (BeauHD)
- How Book Nooks Bring Magic Little Worlds to Your Bookshelves (Chason Gordon)
- 30 Years of Satellite Data Confirm Predictions from Early Models of Sea Level Rise (EditorDavid)
- Trump says the US is taking a 10 percent stake in Intel (Emma Roth)
- Google releases Password Manager app and Microsoft is still slowly chipping away at the Control Panel in Windows 11 and Snipping Tool gets a handy window recording mode (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #34, 2025 – FsiX: new F# REPL with hot reloading (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – August 21, 2025 (#612) and Daily Reading List – August 22, 2025 (#613) (Richard Seroter)
- Links For You (8/24/25) (Raymond Camden)
- Reading List 346 (Bruce Lawson)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #267 and The .NET News Daily Issue #268 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
