Top Links
- Agentic DevOps in action: Reimagining every phase of the developer lifecycle (Amanda Silver, Mario Rodriguez & Den Delimarsky)
 - The Modern .NET Show – .NET Aspire: How Maddy Montaquila and the .NET Team Are Revolutionizing Development (Jamie Taylor)
 - .NET MAUI, Flutter, Avalonia, or React Native: Which is Best for You? (Vijayakumar Mariappan)
 - How to run SSMS 21 on Windows 11 Arm64 (Jeremy Sinclair)
 - The Hanselminutes Podcast – Azure AI Foundry (from BUILD 2025) with Yina Arenas (Scott Hanselman)
 - Not just a vibe, the Stack Overflow Developer Survey is really here (Erin Yepis)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Angular 20—Let the Magic Flow (Alyssa Nicoll)
 - Connect Blazor File Manager to Amazon S3 in 4 Easy Steps (Keerthana Rajendran)
 - Angular v20 Released – What’s New? 🚀 Angular v20 is Officially Rel… (dotnetoffice)
 - Microsoft Edge Game Assist is now available (Roger Capriotti)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.3 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
 - .NET 9–OpenAPI and Scalar–Passing an API key (Bart Wullems)
 - The case of creating new instances when you wanted to use the same one (Raymond Chen)
 - Using SingleStore with Entity Framework (Bryan Hogan)
 
AI
- Build a React AI image generator with Hugging Face Diffusers (Andrew Baisden)
 - How to Build an AI-Powered Cooking Assistant with Flutter and Gemini (Atuoha Anthony)
 - Stack Overflow’s Plan to Survive the Age of AI (David Cassel)
 - Gemini 2.5 and the future of AI reasoning for frontend devs (Chizaram Ken)
 - New AI innovations that are redefining the future for software companies (Cyril Belikoff)
 - Top 10 Generative AI Tools of 2025 (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model is more censored, test finds (Kyle Wiggers)
 - Anthropic CEO Warns AI Could Eliminate Half of All Entry-Level White-Collar Jobs Within Five Years (msmash)
 - Self-Aware AI: Building Adaptive LLM Decision Agents (Oladimeji Sowole)
 - GitLab Duo Chat gets agentic AI makeover (Torsten Linz)
 - Trump’s Crackdown on Foreign Student Visas Could Derail Critical AI Research (Will Knight, Lauren Goode, Kate Knibbs & Louise Matsakis)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Understanding the Backends for Frontends (BFF) Pattern: A Comprehensive Guide for Software Architects (Sudhir Mangla)
 - From paper to pixels: The evolution of ClearType and onscreen reading (Tracy Jones)
 - Fine-tune the volume of logs your app produces (Evgenii Fedorov)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Raspberry Pi does the heavy lifting in this elevator simulator (David Crookes)
 - SteamOS puts the pressure on Microsoft’s Xbox-branded handheld (Tom Warren)
 - When To Use Progressive Web Apps and When To Go Native (Alexander T. Williams)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- GitHub Copilot for Xcode – Agent Mode + Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers Getting Started Guide! and Why should I upgrade to .NET 9? | One Dev Question (James Montemagno)
 - Rolling out GitHub Copilot: A 4-step strategy with Ya Gao | Beyond the Commit (GitHub Team)
 - Build Deploy & Use Your First Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server | DEM517 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Katie Savage, James Montemagno & Den Delimarsky)
 - Empower your analytics with Mirroring SQL in Fabric | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman, Anagha Todalbagi & Idris Motiwala)
 
Podcasts
- AI, SREs & The Future of Self-Healing Systems” with Sylvain Kalache from Rootly – Adventures in DevOps Episode #242 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
 - Generative AI in the Real World Podcast – Danielle Belgrave on Generative AI in Pharma and Medicine (Ben Lorica & Danielle Belgrave)
 - TypeScript, Security, and Type Juggling with Ariel Shulman & Liran Tal – JavaScript Jabber Episode #679 (Charles Max Wood)
 - Grammar Girl Podcast – ​​The publishing world is changing. Jane Friedman tells us how. (Mignon Fogarty)
 - Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat vs. OpenAI’s ChatGPT: How to Choose (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Microsoft Research Podcast – What AI’s impact on individuals means for the health workforce and industry (Peter Lee, Ethan Mollick & Azeem Azhar)
 - Software Defined Talk Episode #521 – The MacGuffin (Brandon Whichard, CotĂ© & Matt Ray)
 - Software Engineering Radio Episode #670 – Matthias Endler on Prototype in Rust (Gavin Henry)
 - The Stack Overflow Podcast – Getting rid of the pain for developers on Shopify (Phoebe Sajor)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS Entertainment That Makes Change: Lessons in Product Thinking from Believe Ltd. With Patrick James Lynch (Vasco Duarte)
 
Community & Events
- Microsoft’s 2025 Environmental Sustainability Report (Brad Smith & Melanie Nakagawa)
 - Amazon has a secretive new hardware group led by former Xbox leader J Allard (Taylor Soper)
 - Philly’s 100+ Biggest Events, Fests & Exhibitions for Summer 2025 & Beyond (Visit Philly)
 
Database
- Release Notes for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v21.1.3 (Microsoft Learn)
 - Oracle Data Guard: Disaster Recovery AND High Availability (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
 - Running a MySQL database in a Docker Container (Mercy Bassey)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Meet Teams Free: Simple, Free, and Built for You (amitfulay)
 - Driving adoption and measuring impact with the Microsoft 365 Copilot Dashboard (Julie Hersum)
 - What’s new in Teams Free | February 2025 (Miikka Oksanen)
 
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27868 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
 - Elon Musk sure does want everyone to think he’s leaving politics (Emma Roth)
 - It almost pains me to say it, but Microsoft Edge is great on Linux – you should try it (Jack Wallen)
 
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – May 29, 2025 (#562) (Richard Seroter)
 - The .NET News Daily Issue #207 (jasen)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link