Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – C# Networking with Chris Woodruff (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Beyond the tools, adding MCP in VS Code (Harald Kirschner)
- Microsoft App Assure helps Nord Security build for Windows on Arm (Mike Adams)
- Windows App SDK 1.6.8 (1.6.250430001) Stable Release (Roy D. MacLachlan)
- Beta Release: 1Password now supports Windows 11 Passkeys! (1Password Team)
- Copilot on Windows: “Hey, Copilot!” begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Microsoft Copilot Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- ASP.NET 10: Validating incoming models in Minimal APIs (Tim Deschryver)
- Splitting a Monolith Reporting Web App with Blazor (Alec Gall)
- Counting in Binary and Hexadecimal (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots (Paresh Dave)
- Kubernetes v1.33: Updates to Container Lifecycle (Sreeram Venkitesh)
- Theme UI Frameworks in Angular Part 2: Custom Theme in Angular Material (Dany Paredes)
- Make It Run Faster: Optimizing Your ASP.NET Core Application (Peter Vogel)
- Node v20.19.2 (LTS) and Node v22.15.1 (LTS) and Node v23.11.1 (Current) and Node v24.0.2 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Getting Started with the .NET MAUI GridSplitter Control (Héctor Pérez)
Visual Studio & .NET
- 100 Weeks of Data Visualization Blogs: From AI Charts to Real-Time Dashboards (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)
- How to Add a Search Box to Filter Your WinForms Datagrid (Aastha Gupta)
- Form Akka.NET Clusters Dynamically with Akka.Management and Akka.Discovery (Aaron Stannard)
- If I mark my thread pool callback as long-running, does it still count toward the thread pool thread limit? (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Building Custom Tooling with LLMs (Martin Fowler)
- CodeRabbit Now Free In VS Code (Sue Gee)
- Become a certified Generative AI Leader with a first-of-its-kind credential from Google Cloud (Erin Rifkin)
- Google DeepMind Creates Super-Advanced AI That Can Invent New Algorithms (BeauHD)
- OpenAI brings its GPT-4.1 models to ChatGPT (Maxwell Zeff)
- Running AI Workloads Responsibly in the Cloud (Sam Prakash Bheri)
- Learn How to Build Smarter AI Agents with Microsoft’s MCP Resources Hub (Sharda Kaur)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Documentation done right: A developer’s guide (Brittany Ellich)
- 10 Proven Techniques to Effectively Manage Your Remote Team in 2025 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Master Kotlin & Android 60-Hour Course (Beau Carnes)
- Simplify Your Finances with the Flutter Expense Tracker (Hariharasudhan Kanagaraj)
- Apple is placing warnings on EU apps that don’t use App Store payments (Jess Weatherbed)
Screencasts & Videos
- Why read Azure SQL Revealed 2nd edition? | One Dev Question (Bob Ward)
- Visual Studio 2022 + Copilot Agent Mode + Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers Are Here! (James Montemagno)
- Uno Platform Studio & 6.0 – Demos, Faceoff & Giveaways! (Uno Platform Team)
Podcasts
- Engineer In The Loop: Podcast Rebrand (Alec Harrison)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #225 – Cross-promotion: The Cyber-Savvy Boardroom Podcast: EP3 Don Callahan on Emerging Technology (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Developer Tea Podcast – Career Advice for Surviving AI Outsourcing (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Building Bridges—How Cross-Department Champions Drive Agile Adoption| Simina Fodor (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #902 – Fullstack Cloudflare with React and Vite (Redwood SDK) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Yet Another Podcast – Mike Kistler (Microsoft) on OpenAPI (Jesse Liberty)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Ambrose Bierce, from ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’ to disappearing in Mexico, with Jim Norrena (Mignon Fogarty)
Community & Events
- Microsoft Layoffs Hit Coders Hardest With AI Costs on the Rise (Bloomberg News)
- Update Conference Krakow Schedule (Update Conference Team)
- A Decade as a Core Committer: My WordPress Contribution History (Weston Ruter)
- Returning to the Oracle Community: Speaking Up, Holding Strong (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
- Twilio SIGNAL 2025: Building customer experiences in the age of AI (Disha Rustogi)
- Our pledge to help improve the accessibility of open source software at scale (Ed Summers)
- Celebrating 50 Years of Microsoft and The Impact of MVPs (Kim Sanchez)
- Upcoming May 2025 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call (Jessie Hwang)
- EA is bringing employees back to the office three days per week (Jay Peters)
- Amazon lays off 100 in Devices & Services group amid ongoing tech industry cuts (Todd Bishop)
Database
- MySQL Shell Basic Configuration Management (Part 4 – Optimizing MySQL Performance) (Chisom Kanu)
- Disabling Indices in a -bacpac file SQL Server) (Urs Enzler)
- Troubleshooting a SQL timeout issue (Bart Wullems)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Warp Launch Log 2 (Olivia Johnston)
Miscellaneous
- Plugable’s new dock supports five displays from one USB-C port (Andrew Liszewski)
- Rust Iterators and Functional Combinators (Chris Woodruff)
- Trump Tells Apple CEO To Avoid Manufacturing in India (msmash)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – May 11 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – May 14, 2025 (#552) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral link
