Top Links
- TechBash 2025 Keynotes Announced (TechBash Team)
- Introducing Docker MCP Catalog and Toolkit: The Simple and Secure Way to Power AI Agents with MCP (Jean-Laurent de Morlhon)
- Creating a more accessible web with Aria Notify (Evelynn Kaplan & Patrick Brosset)
- RDCMan v3.0 and Sysmon 1.3.6 for Linux | Sysinternals (Alex Mihaiuc)
- Announcing the updated Teams AI Library and MCP support (Sujeet Mehta)
- What’s New in .NET 10 Preview: Top Features Developers Shouldn’t Miss (Vijayakumar)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to handle errors in Minimal API apps | ASP.NET Core documentation (Microsoft Learn)
- Kubernetes v1.33: Prevent PersistentVolume Leaks When Deleting out of Order graduates to GA (Deepak Kinni)
- Angular 18–Referencing assets (Bart Wullems)
- Comparing Azure Front Door, Traffic Manager, and Load Balancer: Choosing the Right Tool for Global Application Delivery (Chris Pietschmann)
- Making WebStorm Faster: How We’re Improving Performance Behind the Scenes (David Watson)
- How to Add Custom Fonts to WordPress (Step-by-Step Guide) (Jen Swisher)
- Wolverine Meets AWS SNS (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Vue Basics: Testing with Vitest (Thomas Findlay)
- Why You Should Try .NET Aspire (Chris Vanderplank)
- Modern Scroll Shadows Using Scroll-Driven Animations (Kevin Hamer)
- The consensus is TypeScript is the easiest way to build on blockchain (Larkin Young)
- Recurrent Workflows With Cloud Native Dapr Jobs (Siri Varma Vegiraju)
- Common HttpClient tasks you’re googling or asking ChatGPT (Thomas Ardal)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- 🔥 Top 10 Things Every .NET Developer Should Do in 2025 (Ali Kolahdoozan)
- StringComparison.InvariantCulture is not always invariant (Gérald Barré)
- What were the intended uses of those icons in moricons.dll? (Raymond Chen)
- Best Practices for Managing Shared Libraries in .NET Applications at Scale (Sergio Vanin)
- Panic! vs Exceptions: Stop the World or Handle It? (Chris Woodruff)
- Getting Started with OpenTelemetry: Observability Made Easy (Simon Foster)
AI
- Register and discover remote MCP servers in your API inventory | Azure Documentation (Microsoft Learn)
- Hubs and Workspaces on Azure Machine Learning – General Availability (namankj07)
- Two Different Takes on Cursor/Copilot Vibe Coding Supremacy (David Ramel)
- Building Better SDKs with Generative AI (Keith Casey)
- What are the benefits of vibe coding (Mahesh Chand)
- Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation (Matheus Guimaraes)
- How I use Microsoft Copilot – Discovering the power of writing documents with my voice (Omar Shahine)
- A Practical Guide To Building a RAG-Powered Chatbot (Pat Patterson)
- Using AI to Analyze Chart Images (Raymond Camden)
- Meta’s AI app is a nightmarish social feed (Victoria Song)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Tweeting New Jekyll Posts From GitHub Actions – Part 2 (Jaco Pretorius)
- Announcing Pulumi IDP: Platform Engineering Accelerated (Pulumi IDP Team)
- Observability 2.0? Or Just Logs All Over Again? (Todd Persen)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Build Interactive Trading Apps Using Flutter DataGrids (Farjana Parveen)
- Google accidentally reveals details about its new Android design language, Material 3 Expressive (Sarah Perez)
- 3D-Printed Mirror Fabric (Krizia Medero)
Screencasts & Videos
- MCP vs API: Simplifying AI Agent Integration with External Data (Frank LaVigne)
- Exploratory Testing with AI – Webinar Recording (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Armchair Architects: Data Privacy and Data Security – Part 1 | Azure Essentials Show and Part 2 (Uli Homann, Eric Charran & David Blank-Edelman)
- Data security for agents and 3rd party AI in Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Mechanics (Shilpa Ranganathan)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: How To Improve the Quality of the Gen AI-Generated Code And Your Team’s Dynamics (Birgitta Böckeler)
- Merge Conflict Episode #461 – Merge Conflict REACTS – 7 Programming Myths (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Growing with PowerShell and Community Support – Joshua Dearing (James Petty)
- Jeff Sutherland: The History of Agile – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #348 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #143 – Firefox could be doomed (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #223 – AI Addressable, Not AI Solvable: Reflections from RSA 2025 (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Microsoft Research Podcast – Societal AI: Building human-centered AI systems (Beibei Shi, Haotian Li & Xing Xie)
- Only Malware in the Building Episode #12 – The RMM protocol: Remote, risky, and ready to strike (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Mastering microservices with a former Uber and Netflix architect (Eira May)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #504 – Developer Trends in 2025 (Michael Kennedy)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #431 – Nerd Gas (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – What dictionary labels tell us about words. Why we say ‘mama’. DU, STU, and LO. (Mignon Fogarty, Valerie Fridland & Susan K. Herman)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #899 – GSAP: Killer Web Animations With Cassie Evans (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksi)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode #89 – Hey Chicago, What’s In Your Trader Joe’s Shopping Cart? (Trader Joe’s Team)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS: Beyond Frameworks, A Provocative Guide to Real Agility | Erwin Verweij and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Software Engineers are Paid to Solve Problems, Not Write Code! | John Crickett (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- How to contribute to this blog | Microsoft 365 and Power Platform Community Blog (Luise Freese)
- Unwrapping Chocolatey Livestream: Chocolatey GUI (May 8) (Chocolatey Team)
- EVENT: Microsoft Conferences for 2025 (Kurt Shintaku)
- Catch Up on the Azure Communication Services Fundamentals Series (Sean Keegan)
- Welcome to Maintainer Month: Events, exclusive discounts, and a new security challenge (Kara Sowles)
- What’s in store for software companies at Microsoft Build 2025 (Elizabeth Beals)
- Trump’s vision for America’s 250th leaves historians shaking their heads (Jason Weisberger)
- A Wave of Change: Celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Joe Skrebels)
- Unlock what’s next: Microsoft at Red Hat Summit 2025 (Sandy Gupta)
- Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
- Skype shuts down after 23 years (Maggie Stamets)
Database
- MySQL Index Overviews: Hash Indexes (Lukas Vileikis)
- Integrating AI and Machine Learning with SQL Server (MSSQL Tips)
- RavenDB Storage Provider for Orleans (Oren Eini)
- What’s new with Postgres at Microsoft, 2025 edition (Claire Giordano)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop April 2025 (Mark Kashman)
- Get started with the new chat and channels experience in Microsoft Teams (Noga Ronen)
PowerShell
- Announcing Release of Chocolatey Central Management 0.14.0 (Stephanie Hays)
Miscellaneous
- Evolving OpenAI’s Structure (OpenAI Team)
- Enhancing the Python ecosystem with type checking and free threading (Danny Yang, Matt Page & Aaron Pollack)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3950 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5581 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- States sue Trump over ‘existential threat’ to wind energy (Justine Calma)
- Open Document Format Turns 20 (msmash)
- New enhancements for Windows App on web (Saumyaa Krishnan)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-18/19 (Michael Eaton)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Nova Premier, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q CLI, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Outposts, and more (May 5, 2025) (Donnie Prakoso)
- Daily Reading List – May 5, 2025 (#545) (Richard Seroter)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #185 (Sam Basu)
- dotInsights | May 2025 (Rachel Appel)
- Reading Notes #647 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf
Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience (Michael J. Metts & Andy Welfle) – Referral link
