Top Links

• TechBash 2025 Early Bird Registration Extended 3 Weeks – Check Out This Week’s Featured Speaker from Microsoft (TechBash Team)
• GitHub for Beginners: Code review and refactoring with GitHub Copilot (Kedasha Kerr)
• What’s New in Angular 20? (Mydeen S N)
• You can now try Microsoft’s new Start menu for Windows 11 (Tom Warren)
• Next edit suggestions available in Visual Studio GitHub Copilot (Simona Liao)
• WWDC 2025: all the news from Apple’s annual developer conference (Allison Johnson)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to import() a JavaScript String (Zach Leatherman)
• 4 common layouts made easy with modern CSS (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Enhancing Kubernetes Event Management with Custom Aggregation (Rez Moss)
• Experimental alternative flow for OAuth First-Party Applications (Damien Bowden)
• Getting Started with the httpResource API in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Creating an Auto-Closing Notification With an HTML Popover (Preethi)
• Automate JavaScript scanning with Retire.js in Azure DevOps (Thomas Ardal)
• Deploying a Web App on Azure App Service (Tiffiany Law)
• Node v24.2.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
• News from WWDC25: WebKit in Safari 26 beta (Jen Simmons, Saron Yitbarek, Jon Davis, Richard Robinson, Eddy Wong, Brandel Zachernuk, Marcos Cáceres, Tim Nguyen, Daniel Liu, Razvan Caliman, Blaze Burg, Qianlang Chen, Brian Weinstein, Aditya Keerthi, Karl Dubost, David Johnson & Luming Yin)
• Decoding The SVG path Element: Line Commands (Myriam Frisano)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Bind a SQLite Database and Perform CRUD Actions in Your WPF DataGrid (Amal Raj Umapathy Selvam)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Microsoft Delays VS Code May 2025 Release; Pushes Ahead on Copilot Chat Open Sourcing (David Ramel)
• Repeating a test multiple times in C# (Bart Wullems)
• Adding Runtime NuGet Package Loading to an Application (Rick Strahl)
• Day 6: Roulette, Tournaments, and Elites: Exploring Selection Strategies (Chris Woodruff)

AI

• Microsoft wants AI to read your browser history — but there’s one reason not to worry (Sean Endicott)
• Reality check: Microsoft Azure CTO pushes back on AI vibe coding hype, sees ‘upper limit’ (Todd Bishop)
• Apple Researchers Just Released a Damning Paper That Pours Water on the Entire AI Industry (Victor Tangermann)
• The allure of the loop (AI experiments) (Tom Johnson)
• Surviving the Great Commoditizer: Stop Getting ‘Good’ at ChatGPT (Erik Dietrich)
• Apple lets developers tap into its offline AI models (Kyle Wiggers)
• GitHub Copilot Agent Looks Promising (June 2025) (Mark Pelf)
• AI Agents: The Protocol Revolution Driving Next-Gen Enterprise Intelligence (Mohan Varthakavi)
• AI and Recruitment: How AI Is Reshaping The Hiring Process (Lin Grensing-Pophal)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• DevOps: Automating Release Tags (AJ Bajada)
• Apple introduces a delightful and elegant new software design (Apple) – Aero Liquid Glass
• Sveltest – A comprehensive collection of testing patterns and examples (Scott Spence)
• 12 public speaking secrets – Crush your next speech or presentation (Leadership and Management LinkedIn Group)
• Publishing Product Information in MSI Setup & Fixing Installation Hangs (Radu Popescu)
• It’s The End Of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Austin Parker)
• Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign doesn’t look like much (David Pierce)
• Embedding gender diversity (Dipsi Kundal & Amy Lynch)
• What Is Penetration Testing? Types, Processes, Tools, And Why It’s All Worth It (Olga Bedrina)
• Dubious security vulnerability: Tricking a program into running non-elevated (Raymond Chen)
• Software Specs 2.0: Evolving Requirements for the AI Era (2025 Edition) (Stelios Manioudakis)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Introducing hybrid on-device inference using Firebase AI Logic (Siddharth Gupta & Erik Eldridge)
• The first developer betas for iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, iPadOS 26, and more are now available (Andrew Liszewski)
• Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers (Apple)
• Apple brings ChatGPT and other AI models to Xcode (Ivan Mehta)
• Detect radio jammers with Raspberry Pi 5 (Rosie Hattersley)
• Windows and Xbox team up with ASUS to create ROG Xbox Ally handhelds (Athima Chansanchai)

Screencasts & Videos

• Old to Gold: How to Modernize Your Legacy ASP.NET Apps Gradually – NDC Melbourne (Jonathan J Tower)
• WWDC25: Platforms State of the Union | Apple (Apple Developer)
• The Future of Energy – NDC Melbourne 2025 (Richard Campbell)
• Web technology videos at WWDC25 (Jen Simmons)
• What is Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning (RAFT)? (Frank La Vigne)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Shawn Wildermuth (Isaac Levin)
• New GitHub and Microsoft Store features – Developer News 23/2025 (Noraa Junker)

Podcasts

• InfoQ Podcast: Nikolaos Vasiloglou on Knowledge Graphs and Graph RAG (Nikolaos Vasiloglou)
• Merge Conflict Episode #466 – When James Made Xbox Games (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #909 – Handling and Throwing Errors (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• No Lag: Building the Future of High-Performance Cloud with Nathan Goulding | Adventures in DevOps Podcast (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #110 – Smart Cloud Migration with Azure Technologies – with Rick & Oscar (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
• Meta Cast – Agile Changed Everything, So Why Are We Still Complaining? (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Breaking Free from Zombie Scrum | Stuart Tipples (Vasco Duarte)
• SQL Server Radio Episode #176 – SQL Server 2025 and more (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
• The PowerShell Podcast – From DJ Decks to Cloud Architecture – Shannon Eldridge-Kuehn (James Petty)
• The Changelog News Podcast Episode #148 – Never. Let. AI. Write. Your. Tests. (Jerod Santo)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #229 – Beyond the Hype: Debunking Cloud Breach Myths (and What DBIR Says Now) (Anton Chuvakin)
• ID10T Podcast – Ben Schwartz (Chris Hardwick)
• Future Knowledge: Episode 1 – The Copyright Wars (Peter Baldwin & Pamela Samuelson)
• Future Knowledge: Episode 2 – Copyright, AI, and Great Power Competition (Joshua Levine, Tim Hwang & Lila Bailey)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast – You Don’t Have an Impostor Problem. You Have a Clarity Problem | 5 Techniques to Kill Inner Doubt for Good (Max Ahumada)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #435 – Stop with .folders in my ~/ (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
• Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – Behind the Scenes at the M365 Community Conference (Stephen Rice, Arvind Mishra & Vlad Catrinescu)
• Grammar Girl Podcast – ‘Further’ vs. ‘farther.’ Why designers use fake Latin. Blondie hot (Mignon Fogarty)
• Beyond the Hype: Event-Driven Architecture – The only data integration approach you need? (Oliver Cronk)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Better vibes and vibe coding with Gemini 2.5 (Phoebe Sajor)

Community & Events

• VS Code Live: Extending Agent Mode (Cynthia Zanoni)
• Apple WWDC 2025: the 13 biggest announcements (Emma Roth)
• 10 Fastest Growing Tech Jobs in 2025 (Mahesh Chand)
• I Hit “Apply” 142 Times—and Heard Back Twice (Parviz Sadikov)
• Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
• Here’s the next cohort of the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI (Jen Carter)

Database

• Guide to Decoding SQL Server Bulk Insert Error Files (Brien Posey)
• Introducing “Backups on Secondary” for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups with SQL Server 2025 (Dinakar Nethi)
• TempDB Resource Governor Space Controls in SQL Server 2025 (Edward Pollack)
• SSMS 21 Fixes Irritating Problem (Grant Fritchey)
• The Requested Feature of SQL Server 2025 (Joey Dantoni)
• What’s new in SQL Prompt Version 11.0 (Roseanna Mumby)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• What’s New in Outlook – April & May 2025 Updates (TaylorTech)

Miscellaneous

• PA Gov. Shapiro announces $20B Amazon AI investment, including development of data center in Bucks County (Carmen Russell-Sluchansky)
• 2025 Pride Wallpaper (Microsoft Design Team)
• TST Proudly Announces America’s Newest Abortion Clinic will open June 14th in Maine (TST Health)
• Reluctant Mac User’s Mac Mini M4 Review (Alan Mendelevich)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4250 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5641 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
• Here’s what’s coming to macOS Tahoe (Amanda Silberling)
• We’ve Finally Reached the End of the Road For Intel Macs (Luke Larsen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting links of the week 2025-24 (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #189 (Sam Basu)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Heroes, Amazon Q Developer, EC2 GPU price reduction, and more (June 9, 2025) (Betty Zheng)
• Daily Reading List – June 9, 2025 (#564) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #652 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link