Top Links
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Is Vibe Coding Real? with James Montemagno (Scott Hanselman)
 - Announcing the TechBash 2025 Workshops (TechBash Team)
 - C# 14 – Exploring extension members (Kathleen Dollard)
 - Announcing the General Availability of Managed Identities as Federated Identity Credentials in your Entra apps (Hosam Shahin)
 - A Developer’s Guide to Build 2025 (Jon Galloway & James Montemagno)
 - The Next Chapter: Uno Platform Studio and Uno Platform 6.0 ANNOUNCED! (Uno Platform Team)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- New AI Features in JavaScript Spreadsheets: Natural Language and Smart Analysis (Chris Bannon)
 - Kubernetes 1.33: Volume Populators Graduate to GA (Danna Wang & Sunny Song)
 - JWT it like it’s hot: A practical guide for Kubernetes Structured Authentication (Paul Yu & Anish Ramasekar)
 - Coding Azure 12: Configuring an Azure Key Vault and Adding Secrets (Peter Vogel)
 - Deploy to ARM-Based Compute with AWS Deploy Tool for .NET (Philippe El Asmar)
 - Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Node.js Security Releases (Node.js Team)
 - Node v24.0.1 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
 - Present and Future of Kotlin for Web (Artem Kobzar)
 - Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome (Hannah Buonomo & Sarah Krakowiak Criel)
 - Why APIs Are Essential and MCP Is Optional (for Now) (Gil Feig)
 - Kickstart Your Cloud Career: A Beginner’s Guide to AZ-900 – Series 1 (Lakshan Sulochana Fernando)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Efficiently Handle Large Datasets with Seamless Pagination in .NET MAUI ListView (Jayaleshwari N.)
 - Migrating from Previous Releases of Uno Platform to 6.0 and Uno Platform Quick Start (Uno Platform Docs)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- VS Code April 2025 (version 1.100) release (Visual Studio Code Team)
 - Sep 0.9.0 – Async Support (Nietras)
 - ReSharper and Rider 2025.1.2 – Bug Fixes Have Landed! (Sasha Ivanova)
 - Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 Preview 6 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
 - CentralisedPackageConverter – Converts a project to use Centralized Package Management (Mark Otway)
 - Add Dynamic Grouping to your WinForms Data Grid (Greg Lutz)
 
AI
- Empowering multi-agent apps with the open Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol (Yina Arenas)
 - The Promise of Model Context Protocol (Sam Basu)
 - Mads Kristensen Eyes MCP Server for Visual Studio Copilot (David Ramel)
 - Official C# SDK for Model Context Protocol Announced (Nikos Vaggalis)
 - Bolt – Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web and mobile apps (Bolt.new)
 - DZone Refcard #158 – Machine Learning Patterns and Anti-Patterns (Tuhin Chattopadhyay)
 - Gemini 2.5 Models now support implicit caching (Logan Kilpatrick)
 - MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters—Part 1 (Addy Osmani)
 - Winning the AI race: Strengthening U.S. capabilities in computing and innovation (Brad Smith)
 - Top AI Code Editors Every Developer Should Know in 2025 (Praveenkumar)
 - Adventures in Vibe Coding – Really, Really Big Numbers (Raymond Camden)
 - Best practices third-party data acquisition: powering AI context (Ellen Brandenberger & David Gibson)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Automating Azure AI Foundry Deployment with IaC: Leveraging Bicep and GitHub Workflows (nasreensarah)
 - Compliancy vs Commitment (Bart Wullems)
 - TeamCity 2025.03.2 Is Out (Dmitrii Korovin)
 - Grow your security skillset with the latest resources on Microsoft Learn (Shirleyse Haley)
 - Preemptive Product Releases from First Half of 2025 (Michelle Pruitt)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Raspberry Pi Connect is out of beta: simple remote access, now even better (Chris Lowder)
 - Prepare your apps for Google Play’s 16 KB page size compatibility requirement (Dan Brown)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- ANNOUNCED: Uno Platform Studio and Uno Platform 6.0 and Performance Comparison Uno Platform 6.0 (Skia) VS 5.6 (Native) (Uno Platform Team)
 - Next Edit Suggestions is available in Visual Studio Public Preview (Simona Liao)
 - What are you most excited about in .NET right now? | One Dev Question (Scott Hunter)
 - Understanding SQL Managed Instance Mirroring in Fabric: The Key to Seamless Data Integration | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Nikola Zagorac)
 
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends in 2025 (Charity Majors, Ben Linders, Rafiq Gemmail, Craig Smith & Shane Hastie)
 - The Stack Overflow Podcast – Using AI to find patient zero in marketing campaigns (Eira May)
 - UX Podcast Episode #338 – Designer burnout with Katrina Alcorn (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
 - AGL 416: Piers Fallowfield-Cooper (John Rouda)
 - The Cloud Pod Episode #302 – It’s So Hot, Even Windows is Hotpatching (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
 - Lenny’s Podcast – How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna (CEO of Reboot, executive coach, former VC) (Lenny Rachitsky)
 - Practical AI Podcast – Model Context Protocol Deep Dive (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
 - Software Defined Talk Episode #518 – It Is What It Is (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS The Human Side of Software Development With Jussi Mononen (Vasco Duarte)
 
Community & Events
- Meet four of this year’s Swift Student Challenge winners (Apple)
 - Unleash Document Automation Superpowers at NDC Oslo 2025 (Bjoern Meyer)
 - Announcing Google Summer of Code 2025 selected projects (Jakub Beránek)
 - Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says (Charles Rollet)
 - Bill Gates details optimistic plan for foundation’s final chapter amid ‘incredible crisis’ (Lisa Stiffler)
 - Bill Gates tells his foundation to spend it all by 2045 (Tim De Chant)
 - After the Breach: Finding new Partners with Solutions for Have I Been Pwned Users (Troy Hunt)
 - Stack Overflow: A new look for what’s next (Prashanth Chandrasekar & David Longworth)
 
Database
- Does The FORMAT Function Still Suck For Performance in SQL Server? and Introducing sp_PerfCheck (Erik Darling)
 - SQL vs NoSQL – What’s our relationship with it? | Opinionated Pattern Picking (Ethan Stanbury)
 - Fabric Mirroring for Azure Cosmos DB: Public Preview Refresh Now Live with New Features (Jilene Maldonado)
 - SQL Data Purger (Fiodar Sazanavets)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- More Room for your Notes in OneNote (Tony He)
 - Exchange Web Services code analyzer and usage report (Thomas Mechelke)
 
Miscellaneous
- Surface Pro 12-inch: First impressions and hands-on review (Daniel Rubino)
 - Senate Passes ‘Cruel’ Republican Plan To Block Wi-Fi Hotspots For Schoolkids and NOAA Retires Extreme Weather Database (BeauHD)
 - Week 4: Reflecting on Errors and Structure (Chris Woodruff)
 - US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants (Dhruv Mehrotra)
 - Bill Gates tears into Elon Musk for being ‘involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children’ (Emma Roth)
 - Why doesn’t Clipboard History capture rapid changes to clipboard contents? (Raymond Chen)
 - PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom, but now schools say they are being extorted (Zack Whittaker)
 
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – May 8, 2025 (#548) (Richard Seroter)
 - Radar Trends to Watch: May 2025 (Mike Loukides)
 
The Geek Shelf
 The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox (Evan Amos) – Referral link

