Top Links
- Extension Manager updates in Visual Studio (Javier De la Garza)
- What’s new in SQL Server 2025 | Microsoft Mechanics (Bob Ward & Jeremy Chapman)
- Less TODO, more done: The difference between coding agent and agent mode in GitHub Copilot (Andrea Griffiths)
- Rockford Lhotka: Software Architecture & Strategy – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #352 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Updates to Windows for the Digital Markets Act (Windows Insider Team)
- 50+ TechBash 2025 Sessions Announced (TechBash Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to Add a Vue Report Viewer to Your Web Application (Joel Parks)
- Azure Container Apps vs AKS: Which Is Right for Your Enterprise Application? (Chris Pietschmann)
- What’s new in Svelte: June 2025 (Dani Sandoval)
- Announcement of migrating to Azure Linux 3.0 (Jeremy Li)
- React Design Patterns and Best Practices for 2025 (Hassan Djirdeh)
- How to record that the Patient authored FHIR Resources or elements (John Moehrke)
- How to Code Linked Lists with TypeScript: A Handbook for Developers (Yazdun)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- Upgrading Your .NET Applications: Exploring .NET Upgrade Assistants at Microsoft Build (Gregor Suttie)
- Deep C# – Delegates (Mike James)
- IEnumerable vs. IAsyncEnumerable in .NET: Streaming vs. Buffering (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Automating Null-Forgiving Operator Removal in C# Projects (Gérald Barré)
- Stating the obvious about debugging an invalid parameter error when freeing memory (Raymond Chen)
- The State of Reactive Extensions for .NET in 2025 (Ian Griffiths)
- Meet the New .NET — Nothing Like the Old .NET (David Ramel)
AI
- Why we hate AI (Chris Ferdinandi)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Azure Database for MySQL (ramkumarchan)
- Create videos with your words for free – Introducing Bing Video Creator (Bing Team)
- Accelerate code reviews with GitLab Duo and Amazon Q (Cesar Saavedra)
- Context Collection Competition by JetBrains and Mistral AI (Dmitry Ustalov)
- AI-Powered Learning, Part 2: Get Unstuck With AI Hints in Python and Kotlin Tasks (Julia Amatuni)
- Help Predict the Future of AI in Software Development! (Katie Fraser)
- Structured outputs in vLLM: Guiding AI responses (Michael Goin, Russell Bryant & Addie Stevens)
- Employees with AI Skills Enjoy Increased Job Security (Nathan Eddy)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security for Azure DevOps (Laura Jiang)
- Introducing the Octopus Datadog integration (Tegan Ali)
- Speed up your Git experience by enabling the commit graph algorithm (Bart Wullems)
- Will This Stick? Knowing When to Nudge, Nail, Stitch or Let go (Dr. Serena Hillman)
- Leaders of Code – Integrating AI agents: Navigating challenges, ensuring security, and driving adoption (Eira May)
- Test Planning – What Makes A Good Plan? (Gil Zilberfeld)
- 10 Best Leadership Lessons from Satya Nadella (JD Meier)
- Welcome to the New Travis CI (Claudia Fernandes)
- Code generators need not be perfect (Keith W. Boone)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Raspberry Pi 5 ‘Pepper Pi’ transparent computer illusion (Rosie Hattersley)
- Swift at Apple: migrating the Password Monitoring service from Java (Swift Team)
- D3D12 Cooperative Vector (Amar Patel & Greg Roth)
Screencasts & Videos
- Uno Platform Live Coding: Galleries (Martin Zikmund)
- Extending Visual Studio – Enhance your Extension with APIs to Modify Project Systems | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Tevin Stanley)
- The State of Rx.NET in 2025 (endjin)
- Roguelike Leadership: Fail, Learn, Lead Better | Gert Marx & Andrew Murphy | NDC Melbourne 2025 (SSW TV)
- On .NET Live – CodeComplete: The Day AI Writes Your Next App (Mabrouk Mahdhi)
- Fritz is back! Microsoft Build, .NET Aspire, TypeScript and more | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Designing for Knowledge Flow with Diana Montalion (Diana Montalion)
- Merge Conflict Episode #465 – Learning how web development works (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Only Malware in the Building Episode #13 – The great CoGUI caper. (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #907 – Wes’ New Site: Gatsby → React Server Components (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – When Great Scrum Masters Fail—The Hidden Cost of Poor Value Communication | Joel Bancroft-Connors (Vasco Duarte)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Hacking Games and Building a Career – Mateus Pimentel (James Petty)
- PPP 462 | From Playing It Safe to Speaking Up, with author Dr. Margie Warrell (Andy Kaufman)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #147 – The ‘developer replacement’ hype cycle (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #228 – SIEM in 2025: Still Hard? Reimagining Detection at Cloud Scale and with More Pipelines (Anton Chuvakin)
- Meta Cast – AI Won’t Replace You, But Misusing It Might (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #507: Agentic AI Workflows with LangGraph (Michael Kennedy)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #434 – Most of OpenAI’s tech stack runs on Python (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – In a deterministic simulation, you can debug with time travel (Phoebe Sajor)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast – ICYMI: Why is Trader Joe’s Ice Cream So Good (Trader Joe’s Team)
Community & Events
- WWDC 2025: Apple Employees Say Conference Will Be AI News ‘Letdown’ (Fiona Jackson)
- Highlights from Microsoft Build 2025 (Molly Kih)
- New filing: Microsoft cuts another 305 jobs in Washington state (Todd Bishop)
- What to Expect at Philadelphia’s Juneteenth Parade & Festival, June 22 (Visit Philly)
Database
- MySQL vs. PostgreSQL: Date and Time Data Types (Aisha Bukar)
- SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 16 (Erik Darling)
- Why database observability is key to successful cloud data platform adoption (John Q. Martin)
- Making Event Sourcing with Marten Go Faster (Jeremy D. Miller)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4230 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5622 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- Rivian wants to make EV charging faster, smarter, and easier (Andrew J. Hawkins)
- Thinking by hand: digital inking with Surface Pen (Joshua Gleisberg)
- Steve Ballmer nearly dumped his Microsoft stock after leaving — here’s why he decided to hold on (Todd Bishop)
More Link Collections
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #188 (Sam Basu)
- Interesting links of the week 2025-23 (Michael Eaton)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora DSQL, MCP Servers, Amazon FSx, AI on EKS, and more (June 2, 2025) (Prasad Rao)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #209 (jasen)
- Reading Notes #651 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf
Learn to Program 2025 eBooks | Humble Bundle (Pearson) – Referral link