Top Links
- Enabling multimodal functionality for Phi Silica (Vivek Pradeep)
- The Fourth Beta of Android 16 (Matthew McCullough)
- Using Model Context Protocol in agents – Copilot Studio (Matteo Pagani)
- Copilot+ PCs are the most performant Windows PCs ever built, now with more AI features that empower you every day (Navjot Virk)
- The New MCP Authorization Specification (Den Delimarsky)
- Using Phi Silica in Windows App SDK on a Copilot Plus PC (Filip W.)
- Unveiling GPT-image-1: Rising to new heights with image generation in Azure AI Foundry (Steve Sweetman)
- Responsible AI and trustworthy innovation on Windows (Chitra Gopalakrishnan)
Web & Cloud Development
- Kubernetes v1.33: User Namespaces enabled by default! (Rodrigo Campos Catelin, Giuseppe Scrivano & Sascha Grunert)
- Getting Started with Azure Cosmos DB Using the Python SDK (Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza)
- Azure SDK Release (April 2025) (Hector Norzagaray)
- React Adds New Experimental Animation Feature (Loraine Lawson)
- A New Model for Polyglot Distributed Apps with wasmCloud (Ben Greenberg)
- Pulumi Release Notes: Pulumi MCP Server, Pulumi ESC Rotated Secrets, and Policy Enhancements (Meagan Cojocar)
- CNAPP vs. CSPM: What’s the Difference, Why They Matter, and How to Choose the Right Tools (Shannon Kuehn)
- Introduction to API Management (TNS Staff)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Building a Dynamic Python Execution Environment with .NET MAUI, Pyodide, Monaco, and Radzen (Michael Washington)
- WPF Image Control Local File Locking (Rick Strahl)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Rust Structs vs C# Classes: Less is More and Enums: Discriminated Unions Done Right and Match: Switch on Steroids (Chris Woodruff)
- Microsoft Extends SLNX Solution File Support in .NET CLI (Edin Kapić)
- If we can have std::atomic, why not std::atomic? (Raymond Chen)
- Unpacking packed executables (Evan Martin)
- HttpClient improvements in .NET 10 (Steven Giesel)
- .NET Modernization: GitHub Copilot Upgrade Eases Migrations (Darryl K. Taft)
- Optimizing Base64 String Conversion to Byte Array in Microsoft .NET (David McCarter)
AI
- Introducing Evaluation API on Azure OpenAI Service (Gina Lee)
- Azure AI Foundry Agents query Fabric Data Agents (Greg Beaumont)
- AWS Promotes Responsible AI in the Well-Architected Generative AI Lens (Rafal Gancarz)
- Docker MCP: Simplifying AI Tool Discovery and Security (Sarthak Varshney)
- AI Impact – normalizing Good Enough (Oren Eini)
- Official MiniMax Model Context Protocol (MCP) server – Enables interaction with powerful Text to Speech, image generation and video generation APIs (MiniMax Team)
- Python is the Most Wanted Job Skill for AI (Visual Capitalist)
- Model Context Protocol – Authorization (MCP Specification)
- Microsoft Unifies Cloud and AI Development with .NET Aspire and AI Template Updates and Vibe Coding Pioneer Advises ‘Tight Leash’ to Rein In AI BS (David Ramel)
- GenAIScript – GPT-Image-1 (Peli de Halleux)
- 5 Ways AI is Changing Front-End Development (I Programmer)
- Vibe Coding Is Rapidly Reshaping the Software Developer Profession (Andrew Filev)
- Mozilla, EleutherAI launch toolkits to help AI builders create open datasets (Ayah Bdeir & Stella Biderman)
- How to build and deliver an MCP server for production (Colin McNeil)
- Model Context Protocol: A Primer for the Developers (Janakiram MSV)
- Leading the AI revolution: Insights from Microsoft’s Work Trend Index (Lydia Smyers & Mary Carol Alexander)
- How to Run a Generative AI Developer Tooling Experiment (Jennifer Riggins)
- What is Vibe Coding? and Is AI Stealing Developer Jobs (Mahesh Chand)
- Agentic programming makes me want to stop programming and also do it more (Matt Lacey)
- DeepMind Researchers Propose Defense Against LLM Prompt Injection (Sergio De Simone)
- AI Agents: Metacognition for Self-Aware Intelligence – Part 9 (Shivam Goyal)
- SemantiClip: A Practical Guide to Building Your Own AI Agent with Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Vic Perdana)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- What’s New in Typemock Isolator++ v5.2: Smarter C++ Unit Testing (Eli Lopian)
- How the GitHub CLI can now enable triangular workflows (Tyler McGoffin)
- Getting Started with GitLab: Understanding CI/CD (GitLab Team)
- What is Architecture? (James Heward)
- From Push-Based Strategy to Pull-Based Strategy and Strategy vs. Execution: Why Smart Separation Leads to Smarter Integration (JD Meier)
- Red-Dot-Green-Dot Voting for Prioritizing Product Investments (Karl Melder)
- Refactoring Overgrown Bounded Contexts in Modular Monoliths (Milan Jovanović)
- Three types of technical debt (Matt Lacey)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Boost app performance and battery life: New Android Vitals Metrics are here (Karan Jhavar & Dan Brown)
- What’s new in the Jetpack Compose April ’25 release (Jolanda Verhoef)
- From dashboards to deeper data: Improve app quality and performance with new Play Console insights (Dan Brown, Dina Gandal & Hadar Yanos)
- Reverse Engineering the Sierra Adventure Game Interpreter – Part 2 (Jaco Pretorius)
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 258 – “IoT 5.0! (It’s like buttah!)” (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- The Blazor Multiverse: get to know the different Blazor frameworks – NDC Porto 2024 (Anjuli Jhakry)
- Mobile App Architecture: How to Conquer the Giant! – NDC Porto 2024 (Heather Downing)
- Random.Code() – Writing a Refactoring to Simplify Attribute Declaration, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
- The Power of Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces – NDC Porto 2024 (Chris Ayers)
- Entanglement, Ecosystems, and Amazon Braket: A Quantum Deep Dive with Alex Khan (Frank LaVigne)
- The Download: New OpenAI models in Copilot, Fauna goes open source & more | The Download (Andrea Griffiths)
- Scaling GitHub Secret Protection across your repositories (GitHub Team)
Podcasts
- Merge Conflict Episode #460 – Untitled Episode (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- GeekWire Podcast: AI teammates, a fully remote unicorn, and the new world of work (Todd Bishop)
- Adrienne Braganza Tacke: Code Review Patterns & Principles – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #347 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- React Native Radio Episode #329 – State of React Native Survey Results are in! (Mazen Chami, Jamon Holmgren & Robin Heinze)
- Azure Cloud Talk 25/04/28 – Cursor AI Support Bot Sparks Wave Of Cancellations (Alec Harrison)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast #90 – Hello, Matworld! (Mat Ryer, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- PPP 457 | Virtual Communication Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making, with Andrew Brodsky (Andy Kaufman)
- AGL 414: AI or Not with Anatoly Kvitnitsky (John Rouda)
- The Breakpoint Show Episode #039 – Don’t Call My .NET Baby Ugly! (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #107 – Tech Without Limits: Innovating Through Open Source – with Nico Vermeir (Rick & Oscar)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Power Dynamics of Product Ownership | Chris Sims (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- The Best Rooftop Bars & Restaurants in Philadelphia for 2025 (Visit Philly)
- Get ready for Google I/O: Program lineup revealed (Google I/O Team)
- The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni (Charles Rollet)
- Okta at RSAC 2025 (E. Dunham)
- Connect with Microsoft Entra at upcoming events (Irina Nechaeva)
- API Evangelist Is Just Saying No To Artificial Intelligence (Kin Lane)
- Microsoft’s Big AI Hire Can’t Match OpenAI (msmash)
- The Book of Redgate: Customer Quotes (Steve Jones)
Database
- Recent Improvements to sp_HumanEventsBlockViewer (Erik Darling)
- Happy Birthday, #SQLServer! (Karen Lopez)
- SQL Temp Table vs Table Variable Join and Performance Issues (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5570 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.5305 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3941 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- Tired of all the restarts? Get hotpatching for Windows Server (Janine Patrick & Artem Pronichkin)
- Microsoft rolls out Recall and other AI features to all Copilot+ PCs, nearly a year after unveiling (Todd Bishop)
- Microsoft launches Recall and AI-powered Windows search for Copilot Plus PCs and Windows 11’s voice typing will soon let you turn off the ****ing profanity filter (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #17, 2025 – Build 2025 (May 19-22) (Sergey Tihon)
- Reading List 340 (Bruce Lawson)
- Azure Weekly #512 – 27th April 2025 (The Editor)
- Daily Reading List – April 25, 2025 (#539) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral link