Top Links
- Announcing WinUI Gallery 2.7 (Niels Laute & Marcel Wagner)
- Introducing Microsoft Marketplace — Thousands of solutions. Millions of customers. One Marketplace. (Alyssa Taylor)
- Microsoft opens the doors to more AI-powered Windows apps (Jess Weatherbed)
- Create Stunning UIs with Just a Prompt – Code Studio UI Builder (Manikanda Akash Munisamy)
- GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview (GitHub)
- AI-powered Auto-Categorization now available in Microsoft Photos (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Announcing Aspire 9.5 (Jeffrey Fritz)
Web & Cloud Development
- Node.js v24.9.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
- Some Thoughts on MS Pulling Back on their “Eventing Framework” (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Copilot Does Azure-Focused .NET App Modernizations in Visual Studio (David Ramel)
- JavaScript PDF Printing: Which Library Delivers The Most Reliable Output (Ramkumar Ravy)
- Forwarding authenticated calls to a downstream API using YARP (Tim Deschryver)
- Astro 5.14 (Matt Kane)
- Unlock text editing use cases with highlightsFromPoint and other FromPoint APIs (Patrick Brosset)
- Why Your App’s Biggest Performance Bottleneck Might Be SSL/TLS (Ron Northcutt)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Discovering Visual Studio 2026 – Code coverage (Bart Wullems)
- Use a SQLite database in a Windows app (Microsoft Learn)
- You Don’t Need to Use Akka.HealthChecks Anymore (Aaron Stannard)
- Rider Roadmap: What to Expect From the Upcoming Updates and Releases (Sasha Ivanova)
AI
- AI Azure Landing Zone: Shared Capabilities and Models to Enable AI as a Platform (Rohon Mohapatra)
- Run, Test, and Evaluate Models and MCP Locally with Docker + Promptfoo (Luke Bunselmeyer)
- Announcing the Grok 4 Fast Models from xAI: Now Available in Azure AI Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
- Measuring the performance of our models on real-world tasks and More ways to work with your team and tools in ChatGPT (OpenAI Team)
- Continuing to bring you our latest models, with an improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite release (Shrestha Basu Mallick, Sid Lall, Zach Gleicher & Kate Olszewska)
- Build an Enterprise-Grade AI Project (Beau Carnes)
- Build an LLM Chat App Using LangGraph, OpenAI and Python—Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- The GPT-5 Impact (Ganesh S.)
- Announcing Auth0 for AI Agents: Powering the Future of AI, Securely (Gareth Davies)
- The Future of AI: An Intern’s Adventure Turning Hours of Video into Minutes of Meaning (Kavin Jindel)
- OpenAI Says GPT-5 Stacks Up To Humans in a Wide Range of Jobs (msmash)
- Is Vibe Coding Just a Cost Cutting Strategy, like Outsourcing/Offshore Development? (Nick Randolph)
- Agent Factory: Designing the open agentic web stack (Yina Arenas & Ulrich Homann)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Advanced Installer 23.1 (Advanced Installer Team)
- Measuring Software Obfuscation: How to Evaluate Its Effectiveness (Michelle Pruitt)
- Samples note: Use comments to describe what code does, not what you wish the code would do (Raymond Chen)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Integrating Unity3D into .NET Aspire with `Aspire.Unity` (Dutchskull)
- Agility SDK 1.618: Advanced Shader Delivery and 1.716 out of preview (Tanner Van De Walle, Wendy Ho & Randy Tidd)
- Ready to Play Anywhere? Players Can Now Pre-Order the ROG Xbox Ally X and ROG Xbox Ally In 38 Countries (Mike Nelson)
Screencasts & Videos
- ADHD: A fuzzy discovery (Mads Torgersen & Klaus Loffelmann)
- Using GitHub Spec Kit with your EXISTING PROJECTS and GitHub Spec Kit 💖 GitHub Copilot CLI (Den Delimarsky)
- Aspire 9.5, Web Apps, and YOU! | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Random.Code() – Fixing Rocks Issues Discovered Last Night (Jason Bock)
- Install and run the free Ollama LLM server on Windows 11 (with new included GUI) | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
Podcasts
- Official Xbox Podcast | Tokyo Game Show 2025 Recap and Discussion (Danielle Partis)
- The Modern .NET Show – Compassionate Coding: Safia Abdalla’s Insights on Empathy in Open-Source Development (Jamie Taylor)
- Why “Working Myself Out of a Job” Is Wrong for Scrum Masters | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Terry Haayema)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #183 – When AI meets biology: Using LLM to find natural alternatives to antibiotics (András Asbóth & Andrea Di Gioacchino)
- InfoQ Podcast: How Blameless Culture Transforms Engineering Teams (Tameem Hourani)
- Yet Another Podcast – Lance McCarthy on Copilot & MCP Servers (Jesse Liberty)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar (creators of the #1 eval course) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #539 – The Final Demand (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Open Source Turmoil: RubyGems Maintainers Kicked Off GitHub (msmash)
- The Silicon, Graphics, Media and AI (SiGMA) team is hiring! (Ryan Kim)
Database
- Tokenization in SQL Server: The Security Layer You Forgot (Sebastiao Pereira)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: SET, SELECT, and Data Types for Local Variables (Erik Darling)
- Data API builder 1.6: Flexible Logging for Every Developer (Jerry Nixon)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – September 2025 (Vesa Juvonen)
- Why OneDrive Is More Than Just Cloud Storage (Tiffiany)
Miscellaneous
- Trump signs executive order to facilitate TikTok deal (Aisha Malik)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27954 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- These XR glasses with a 200-inch screen effectively replaced my triple monitor setup (Matthew Miller)
- Update on ongoing Microsoft review (Brad Smith)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – September 25, 2025 (#635) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #290 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Toolkit Humble eBook Bundle (Packt Publishing) – Referral Link
