Top Links

• AI-powered Relight and Search now available in Microsoft Photos (Yvonne Hsieh)
• Debuting new enhanced controls for picture-in-picture in Microsoft Edge (Patrick Brosset)
• Michael Washington: The Nature Of Data – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #353 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Apple’s WWDC 2025: How to Watch and What to Expect (Reece Rogers)
• ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds Revealed: Experience Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Gears of War: Reloaded and More – Wherever You Go (Joe Skrebels)
• This is how Microsoft is combining Windows and Xbox for handheld PCs (Tom Warren)

Web & Cloud Development

• Beware of End-of-Life Node.js Versions – Upgrade or Seek Post-EOL Support (Matteo Collina)
• Angular v20 Advances Zoneless, Adds Support for AI Development (Loraine Lawson)
• Best Practices for Structuring Large ASP.NET Projects: A Simple Guide (Mahesh Chand)
• AWS Introduces Open Source Model Context Protocol Servers for ECS, EKS, and Serverless (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 3: Curves (Temani Afif)
• Quick Start (Personal Data Warehouse) (Michael Washington)
• A Web Component for transforming headings into an accordion (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Go 1.24.4-1 and 1.23.10-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Supercharge Your WPF DataGrids with Runtime Conditional Formatting Using the Rules Manager UI (Greg Lutz)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to get to know the latest dotnet features – the nerdy way (Steven Giesel)
• Day 4: Designing Your First Chromosome Class in C# and Day 5: Natural Selection in Software: Implementing Fitness Functions (Chris Woodruff)
• Writing NFC Tags in .NET (Peter Foot)
• Why does C++ think my class is copy-constructible when it can’t be copy-constructed? (Raymond Chen)
• Mastering the Factory Pattern in C# 13: Best Practices with Real-World Examples (Ziggy Rafiq)
• Federated Identity for Modern .NET Architects: Mastering the Future of Authentication and Authorization (Sudhir Mangla)
• Boost Your .NET Projects: Maximize Thread-Safe Performance in .NET with Spargine’s DistinctBlockingCollection (David McCarter)
• Don’t reinvent the wheel – configuration (Josef Ottosson)

AI

• Enhance AI security with Azure Prompt Shields and Azure AI Content Safety (Olivia Shone)
• Choosing the right AI model for your task (GitHub Docs)
• Why Do Christians Love AI Slop? (Emanuel Maiberg)
• RavenDB GenAI Deep Dive (Oren Eini)
• Integrate vLLM inference on macOS/iOS with Llama Stack APIs (Rich Naszcyniec)
• GitHub Copilot & Productivity (Rob Bos)
• Assigning and completing issues with coding agent in GitHub Copilot (Alexandra Lietzke)
• Why AI Demands a New Approach to Observability (Ariel Assaraf)
• What Comes After the LLM: Human-Centered AI, Spatial Intelligence, and the Future of Practice (Duncan Gilchrist & Hugo Bowne-Anderson)
• ‘AI Is Not Intelligent’: The Atlantic Criticizes ‘Scam’ Underlying the AI Industry (EditorDavid)
• 🚀 Copilot Studio Kit Explained: Boost Your Microsoft Copilot with These Must-Have Tools (Gowtham Rajamanickam)
• Quest – I Want to Build a Local Gen AI Prototype (Julia Muiruri)
• 7 Common GitHub Copilot Mistakes Developers Make and Proven Fixes (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Building smarter AI Agents with Semantic Kernel (Neel Bhatt)
• Avoid Micromanaging Your AI Agents (Peter Smulovics)
• Deploying A Secure Enterprise Agentic AI: MCP + Agent2Agent (Rikki Singh)
• Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) | MCP Workflow (dotnetoffice)
• Anthropic Open-sources Tool to Trace the “Thoughts” of Large Language Models (Sergio De Simone)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Improving DevEx (Einar Ingebrigtsen)
• The Hudson Model of the Cycle of Change and Personal Renewal (JD Meier)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Build a Raspberry Pi classifier: detect different Raspberry Pi models (David Plowman)
• Building an AI Home Security System Using .NET, Python, CLIP, Semantic Kernel, Telegram, and Raspberry Pi 4 – Part 3: Creating a Local AI Custom Vision API for Training and Matching Images (Jamie Maguire)
• BIG Announcements from Summer Game Fest and June Next Fest Tips (Code Monkey)
• Building a Localization without Context in Flutter (Kanan Yusubov)
• Xbox Ally vs. Nintendo Switch 2: Microsoft enters a handheld console war that lacks actual competition (Thomas Wilde)
• Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience (Tom Warren)

Screencasts & Videos

• Integrate Azure Pipelines with GitHub (Mickey Gousset)
• Invincible VS | Official Reveal Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 (Xbox)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 264 – “POC & Pilot PTSD (Knowing when to FAFO)” (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Random.Code() – Finishing Analyzer Work Discouraging Old Collection Usage (I Hope) (Jason Bock)
• Is This The Biggest ChatGPT Update for Business Users? (Frank LaVigne)
• The Download: Claude 4, Copilot Spaces, Mistral Agents API & TypeScript Native preview (GitHub Team)
• What are the two kinds of programming errors? | One Dev Question (Jeffrey Richter)

Podcasts

• freeCodeCamp Podcast #175 – From electrical engineering student to CTO with Hitesh Choudhary (Beau Carnes)
• Announcing “Future Knowledge”: A New Podcast from the Internet Archive & Authors Alliance (Caralee Adams)
• CollabTalk Podcast: Veteran Engineers Aren’t Done Yet – They’re Just Getting Started (David McCarter)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #252 – Rodrigo Girão Serrão: Python Training, itertools, and Idioms (Christopher Bailey)
• Changelog and Friends Podcast Episode #96 – Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Steve Yegge, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
• Engineer in the Loop Podcast – Autonomous vehicles everywhere?! and Engineer in the Loop Podcast – Building AI Workflows with CEO Peter Vasilion (Alec Harrison)
• AGL 420: WorkQuake with Steve Cadigan (John Rouda)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #508 – Program Your Own Computer with Python (Michael Kennedy)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The No-Scroll Bar Rule—Empowering PO’s Through Constraints | Joel Bancroft-Connors (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

• Microsoft Build conference to leave Seattle after years in the city (Pradeep Viswanathan)
• How To Help Your Unemployed Friends (David Giard)
• Xbox Games Showcase 2025: Everything Announced, Including One Huge Game You Can Play Today (Joe Skrebels)
• A Guide to Juneteenth Celebrations in Greater Philadelphia in 2025 (Visit Philly)
• The Importance of Having In-Person User Group Meetings (Joey Dantoni)

Database

• Updates To My SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting Scripts (Erik Darling)
• Building a Modern Python API with Azure Cosmos DB: A 5-Part Video Series (Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza)
• New PostgreSQL extension for VS Code with GitHub Copilot Capabilities for PostgreSQL (jdanton1)
• Debunking the “Filter Early, JOIN Later” SQL Performance Myth (Milan Jovanović)
• The Return of SQLite (James Seconde)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• A Guide to Microsoft Visio (Margaret Farmer)

Miscellaneous

• Elon Musk’s father to attend pro-Kremlin event in Russia hosted by far-right ideologue (Tim Zadorozhnyy)
• Top 10 Fastest Growing Tech Jobs of the Future (2025–2030) (Mahesh Chand)
• On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not (Charity Majors)
• Distinguished Name on FileZilla Server Self-Generated Certs (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft is giving Settings a much-needed revamp in Windows 11 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)

More Link Collections

• F# Weekly #23, 2025 – Catch up on Microsoft Build (Sergey Tihon)
• Azure Weekly #518 – 8th June 2025 (The Editor)
• The .NET News Daily Issue #213 and The .NET News Daily Issue #216 (Jasen)
• Links For You (6/8/25) (Raymond Camden)

The Geek Shelf

 Refactoring with C#: Safely improve .NET applications and pay down technical debt with Visual Studio, .NET 8, and C# 12 (Matt Eland) – Referral Link