Top Links
- Uno Platform 6.0 for Windows and Cross-Platform Applications (Nick Randolph)
- Intent vs. Mechanics: The Power of Abstraction in Aspire (David Fowler)
- Lazy Loading the Mermaid Diagram Library (Rick Strahl)
- The last chapter of my career (Bill Gates)
- C# and .NET Mega eBook Bundle | Humble Bundle (Packt Publishing)
- Real‑world video demo: Using different AI models in GitHub Copilot (Jon Peck)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast – .NET Aspire – with Maddy Montaquila (Dan Clarke)
Web & Cloud Development
- Kubernetes v1.33: Streaming List responses (Marek Siarkowicz & Wei Fu)
- Implement client assertions with client credentials flow using OAuth DPoP (Damien Bowden)
- WordPress Security Monitoring: 7-Step Guide with Required Tools (Jen Swisher)
- Managing Auto Creation of Database or Message Broker Resources in the Critter Stack vNext (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Svelte Adds Asynchronous Sync Inside Components (Loraine Lawson)
- Syncing a Google Docs Spreadsheet to a GitHub Hosted Blog (Mike Hadlow)
- Trends in Cloud Spending: A 2025 Perspective (Shannon Kuehn)
- May 2025: A look at the latest Microsoft Entra key feature releases, announcements, and updates (James Casey)
- Behind the Scenes: Building a Robust Ads Event Processing Pipeline (Kinesh Satiya)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- Clearing NuGet Caches (Steven Giesel)
- Generics in Rust vs Generics in C# (Chris Woodruff)
- dotNetDave Says… Avoid Going Across the Wire Until Necessary! and Boost Your .NET Projects: Supercharge Your Performance Tracking with PerformanceStopwatch in Spargine (David McCarter)
- Sep 0.10.0 – 21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X 🚀 (Nietras)
- Song recommendations proof-of-concept memory measurements (Mark Seemann)
- How can I wait for Clipboard History to recognize a clipboard change before I change it again? (Raymond Chen)
- From Anemic Models to Behavior-Driven Models: A Practical DDD Refactor in C# (Milan Jovanović)
AI
- Build your code-first agent with Azure AI Foundry: Self-Guided Workshop (glovebox)
- AI Use Damages Professional Reputation, Study Suggests (BeauHD)
- Advancing the frontier of video understanding with Gemini 2.5 (Anirudh Baddepudi, Antoine Yang & Mario Lučić)
- Computer Agent Demo | Hugging Face Space (smolagents)
- Understanding and Preparing for an AI Future | The Gospel According to Chris Barber (Eleanor Berger)
- Enable and use Copilot Vision on Windows 11 (Mahima N.)
- Your First GraphRAG Demo – A Video Walkthrough (ahazel)
- What you missed at our record-breaking GenAI Intensive course (Anant Nawalgaria)
- Prompt Engineering is Quickly Going Extinct (msmash)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Azure DevOps– Obsolete check-in policies (Bart Wullems)
- Speaking up and calling out BS when you see it (Tom Johnson)
- CRUD APIs are Poor Design (Derek Comartin)
- Arctic: Automated Desktop Application Testing (Elif Aslan)
- Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components and Part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components (Jan Maarten)
- When process improvements can be more valuable than code changes (Matt Lacey)
- Introduction to Observability (TNS Staff)
- It wasn’t the idea that failed: it was the execution (Salma Alam-Naylor)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Building an AI Home Security System Using .NET, Python, CLIP, Semantic Kernel, Telegram, and Raspberry Pi 4 – Part 2: Creating a Local CLIP Server (Jamie Maguire)
- What’s new in Swift 6.2? (Paul Hudson)
- Google AI for game developers (Jetha Chan, Ju-yeong Ji, Ishan Sharma & Avneet Singh)
Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Damian Synadinos on Trust (David Giard)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 260 – Put me back into the Matrix (What happens when you FAFO!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- The Download: JetBrains gets Copilot Edits, World’s Orb Mini, Docker’s MCP Server (GitHub Team)
- Building Agentic Apps with Angular and Genkit live! – Part 2 (Devin Chasanoff)
- GitHub Copilot deep dive: Model selection, prompting techniques & agent mode (GitHub Team)
- Random.Code() – Fixing Bugs for a 9.1.0 Rocks Release (Jason Bock)
- Where can I learn more designing and versioning HTTP/REST APIs? | One Dev Question (Jeffrey Richter)
Podcasts
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #171 – Life in Startup Pivot Hell with Ex-Microsoft Lonewolf Engineer Sam Crombie (Beau Carnes)
- Merge Conflict Episode #462 – Are Apps Dead? (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast Episode #92 – Kaizen! Tip of the Pipely (Gerhard Lazu, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- PPP 459 | Redefining Success: Why IQ Might Not Matter as Much as You Think, with Adrian Kelly (Andy Kaufman)
- Dev Leader Podcast – Engineering Management, Burnout, and Finding Purpose: Interview With Michael Greenspan (Nick Cosentino)
- Lenny’s Podcast – How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- React Native Radio Episode #331 – New Architecture, New Era with Riccardo Cipolleschi (Riccardo Cipolleschi, Jamon Holmgren, Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
Community & Events
- MVP’s Favorite Content from Microsoft Azure MVPs (Rie Moriguchi)
- Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16 and Microsoft Build 2025: How to watch this year’s conference (Kyle Wiggers)
- Tech Moves: Microsoft AI adds CVP; WatchGuard CEO steps down; Amazon vet joins Hims & Hers (Lisa Stiffler)
- GitHub CEO on Why We’ll Still Need Human Programmers (David Cassel)
- Developer Tries Resurrecting 47-Year-Old ‘Apple Pascal’ (and its p-System) in Rust (EditorDavid)
- Panasonic To Cut 10,000 Jobs (msmash)
- OpenAI and Microsoft reportedly renegotiating partnership to allow for potential IPO (Taylor Soper)
Database
- A SQL Server Query Plan Riddle (Erik Darling)
- NOT Sharding RavenDB Vector Search (Oren Eini)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- OneDrive Direct Download Link Generator for 2025 (Mark Pahulje)
Miscellaneous
- Windows Phone just got its first AI ChatGPT-style app. No, really. (Jez Corden)
- Trump administration to garnish wages of 5.3 million defaulted student loan borrowers this summer (Annie Nova)
- This Mini PC Doubles as a Not-So-Great Tablet (Andrew Heinzman)
- Tech Industry Warns US Investment Pledges Hinge on Research Tax Break (Emily Birnbaum)
- Microsoft delays promised AI upgrade for Settings app, no new Windows 11 builds this week (Taras Buria)
- IRS Hopes To Replace Fired Enforcement Workers With AI (BeauHD)
- US Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by Car (Caroline Haskins)
- Traits in Rust: Interfaces That Do More and Trait Objects: Goodbye virtual, Hello dyn (Chris Woodruff)
- Windows 10 End of Support: Should Developers Be Concerned? (David Eastman)
- Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels (Eric Morgan & Ralph Keeling)
- Tech Budgets in Turmoil: IT Leaders Fear Tariffs Will Hurt Bottom Line (Nathan Eddy)
- Microsoft Details the New Windows 11 Start Design (Paul Thurrott)
- Tech stocks look set to jump as U.S. and China pause reciprocal tariffs (Ram Iyer)
- Trump illegally fires Democrats on Consumer Product Safety Commission (Tina Nguyen)
- Trump fires head of Copyright Office two days following report that AI training may not be fair use and Mexico is suing Google over how it’s labeling the Gulf of Mexico (Wes Davis)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #19, 2025 – How F#py is your C#? (Sergey Tihon)
- Azure Weekly #514 – 11th May 2025 (The Editor)
- Daily Reading List – May 9, 2025 (#549) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
- Xbox Game Studios Game Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral link
