Top Links
- How Microsoft Developers Use AI in Real-World Coding | BRK103 | Microsoft Build 2025 (David Fowler & Stephen Toub)
- Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning, multi-agent orchestration, and more from Microsoft Build 2025 (Jared Spataro)
- Building with AI: highlights for developers at Google I/O (Mat Velloso)
- What’s new in Flutter 3.32 (Kevin Chisholm)
- Updates to the Android XR SDK: Introducing Developer Preview 2 (Matthew McCullough)
- Introducing the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit (Zhidi Shang)
Web & Cloud Development
- Full-Stack Azure Deployment Made Easy: Containers, Databases, and More (Frank Boucher)
- Building Interactive Dialogs in KendoReact (Hassan Djirdeh)
- CodeSandbox SDK – Programmatically spin up (AI) sandboxes (CodeSandbox Docs)
- Fix Messy JavaScript Charts with Optimized Margins and Padding (Soundeswari Selvam)
- Getting Started with .NET Aspire (Preview) on Azure App Service (Tulika Chaudharie)
- What are Discriminated Unions Patterns in TypeScript? (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Reports of Deno’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (Ryan Dahl)
- Announcing Workflow in Azure Container Apps with the Durable task scheduler – Now in Preview! (greenie-msft)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Using ML-DSA with CNG and Using ML-KEM with CNG (Microsoft Learn)
- Asynchronous and Parallel Programming in C# (David Ramel)
- Value Generators in EF Core (Ricardo Peres)
- Vector Search with EF 9 (Assis Zang)
- .NET 9–OpenAPI and Scalar–Introduction (Bart Wullems)
- All About ODP.NET 23.8 (Alex Keh)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Master Type Management with TypeHelper in Spargine (David McCarter)
- Memory leak from improper usage of Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration APIs in .NET on Windows (Matt Hamrick)
AI
- Azure MCP Server – May 2025 Release (Rohit Ganguly)
- How to Use Postgres MCP Server with GitHub Copilot in VS Code (Bobur Umurzokov)
- Azure AI Foundry: Your AI App and agent factory (Asha Sharma)
- gRPC and AI: A Powerful Partnership (gRPC Team)
- Firebase MCP Server (Michael Bleigh)
- Perplexity: Challenger in the AI Landscape. What Technical Communicators Need to Know (Curt Robbins)
- Building agents with Google Gemini and open source frameworks (Shrestha Basu Mallick & Philipp Schmid)
- Understand all the I/O news with NotebookLM | The Keyword (Google)
- Multi-agent orchestration, maker controls, and more: Microsoft Copilot Studio announcements at Microsoft Build 2025 (Lili Cheng)
- The AI-Augmented Leader (JD Meier)
- Introducing the Windsurf Editor – The new purpose-built IDE to harness magic (Windsurf)
- Most Practical Use Cases of AI in Software Development and What can ChatGPT do and What is NLWeb and How does NLWeb work? and AI in Software Development: Save 40% Time Across the SDLC and How do we measure the ROI of GenAI adoption in engineering? (Mahesh Chand)
- How to improve AI outputs using advanced prompt techniques (Marina Corrêa)
- Tech Job Market Is Shrinking as AI Reshapes Industry Requirements (msmash)
- Introducing Google AI Ultra: The best of Google AI in one subscription (Shimrit Ben-Yair)
- Coding Guidelines for Your AI Agents (Siva Katamreddy)
- Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer (Tom Warren)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Refresh of Agile Threat Modeling (Martin Fowler)
- Azure DevOps with GitHub Repositories – Your path to Agentic AI (Aaron Hallberg)
- Moving from Notion to Obsidian (Dave Rupert)
- Pushing a whole stack of branches with a single Git command (Andrew Lock)
- The power of mentorship: Empowering the next generation to thrive in tech (Kate Carnevale & Cassie Huston)
- Generate status reports in minutes with Project Manager agent in Planner (MarsGu)
- One Pipeline to Rule Them All: Ensuring CodeQL Scanning Results and Dependency Scanning Results Go to the Intended Repository (Michael Omokoh)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Gemini in Android Studio now speaks fluent Flutter! (Ander Dobo)
- Google I/O 2025: Build adaptive Android apps that shine across form factors (Fahd Imtiaz)
- Androidify: Building powerful AI-driven experiences with Jetpack Compose, Gemini and CameraX and Androidify: Building delightful UIs with Compose (Rebecca Franks)
- Announcing Dart 3.8 (Amanda Fitch)
- Androidify: How Androidify leverages Gemini, Firebase and ML Kit (Thomas Ezan, Rebecca Franks & Avneet Singh)
- Announcing Kotlin Multiplatform Shared Module Template and Android’s Kotlin Multiplatform announcements at Google I/O and KotlinConf 25 (Ben Trengrove & Matt Dyor)
- Google I/O 2025: What’s new in Android development tools (Mayank Jain)
- Using Git Version Control on Unreal Engine Projects (Matthäus)
- Flutter’s path towards seamless interop (Mariam Hasnany)
- Top Firebase Studio updates from Google I/O 2025 (Jess Kuras & Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- What’s new in Firebase at I/O 2025 (Aja Hammerly & Seba Gnagnarella)
- What’s new in Wear OS 6 (Chiara Chiappini)
- What’s New in Jetpack Compose (Nick Butcher)
- Announcing Jetpack Navigation 3 (Don Turner)
- From idea to app: Introducing Stitch, a new way to design UIs (Vincent Nallatamby, Arnaud Benard & Sam El-Husseini)
- Microsoft blames Apple for its delayed Xbox mobile store (Tom Warren)
- HoloToolkit to MRTK and Beyond (Simon Jackson)
Screencasts & Videos
- Battling the Republic with Azure SQL Database AI | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & John Morehouse)
- Adding Custom Health Checks with .NET Aspire | On .NET (Jeff Fritz)
- Create Seamless Cross-Device Experiences with Windows for your app | OD802 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Aakash Varshney)
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio Episode #985 – PowerShell 7.5 and DSC 3.0.0 with Jason Helmick (Richard Campbell)
- The AI Fix Episode #51 – Divorce by coffee grounds, and why AI robots need your brain (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
Community & Events
- Microsoft Build 2025 Book of News (Microsoft)
- Google I/O 2025: All the news and announcements (Dominic Preston)
- Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off June 9 (Apple)
- Google I/O 2025: From research to reality (Sundar Pichai)
- Bringing AI to the edge: Hackathon Windows ML (Lee Stott)
Database
- Announced at Build 2025: Foundry connection for Azure Cosmos DB, Global Secondary Index, full-text search, and more (Michal Toiba & Jay Gordon)
Miscellaneous
- Packaging and Releasing a Rust CLI Tool (Chris Woodruff)
- Getting started with RHEL on WSL (Eliane Pereira, Sanne Raymaekers & Terry Bowling)
- Why does Windows report my processor speed twice, with slightly different values? (Raymond Chen)
- New Trump vaccine policy limits access to COVID shots (Matthew Perrone & Lauran Neergaard)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – May 20, 2025 (#556) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
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