• Building Production-Ready GraphQL APIs with HotChocolate: DataLoaders, Subscriptions, and Federation by Sudhir Mangla
• Learning web development: Implementing web servers by Axel Rauschmayer
• Web Development according to Grok is all about libraries… by Chris Heilmann

.NET

• Putting Lazy Tasks in a Cache, and Computing Only Once, When First Requested by Bryan Hogan
• Writing your own batched sink in Serilog by Bart Wullems
• Secure your Yarp BFF with cookie-based authentication by Tim Deschryver
• Boost Your .NET Projects: Ensure Thread-Safe Uniqueness with DistinctConcurrentBag in Spargine by David McCarter
• Day 31: Best Practices for Tuning Genetic Algorithm Parameters by Chris Woodruff
• C# Magical Syntax by Ricardo Peres

AI

• Building an AI Agent using RavenDB by Oren Eini
• Ollama– Running LLM’s locally by Bart Wullems
• What is Microsoft MarkItDown and Why It Matters? by Niraj Ranasinghe
• Don’t Break Your Brand with AI by JD Meier

Design & Architecture

• Why is working faster not working? by Tim Ottinger
• Vertical Slice Architecture Is Easier Than You Think by Milan Jovanovi?

Database

• Enhancing Group Security Improvements in Azure PostgreSQL by Joey Dantoni
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Read Committed, Not So Committed by Erik Darling
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Reads Deadlocking Writes Under Read Committed by Erik Darling

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• Running .NET in the browser without Blazor by Andrew Lock
• Boost Your .NET Projects: Simplify Date & Time Formatting with Spargine’s DateTimeFormat by David McCarter
• Building High-Performance .NET Apps With C# Channels by Anton Martyniuk
• Slides and sample apps for my WinUI talks by Alvin Ashcraft
• Newtonsoft.Json vs System.Text.Json: The Battle That’s Reshaping .NET APIs by Yaseer Arafat
• Building an AI Home Security System Using .NET, Python, CLIP, Semantic Kernel, Telegram, and Raspberry Pi 4 – Part 5: Refinements and Recap by Jamie Maguire

AI

• 5 Copilot Chat Prompts .NET Devs Should Steal Today by Wendy Breiding
• How to use GitHub Copilot to level up your code reviews and pull requests by Melissa Pastore
• Prompt Engineering + Vibe Coding: A New Era for Software Developers by Jeyasri Murugan
• GPT-5: Will it RAG? by Pamela Fox
• Microsoft.Extensions.AI–Part VII–MCP integration by Bart Wullems
• Testing with AI: Overcoming Tester’s Block by Gil Zilberfeld
• What is Agentic AI? A simple guide for absolute beginners by Kunal Chowdhury

Design & Architecture

• The 5 Most Common API Design Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) by Milan Jovanovi?
• Levelling Up Security with the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund by Martin Costello

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• Extracting EXIF Data in MAUI Apps: A How-To Guide by Gerald Versluis
• Why Your .NET Code Coverage Badge is ‘Unknown’ in GitLab (And How to Fix It) by Frank Boucher
• Composition, Polymorphism, and Pattern Matching with JSON Schema and .NET by Matthew Adams

Web

• Creating a Landing Page in Blazor by Héctor Pérez
• BFF in ASP.NET Core #2 – The BFF Pattern Explained by Tore Nestenius
• OAuth 2.0 Access Tokens and the Principle of Least Privilege by Andrea Chiarelli

Data

• Talk to Your Oracle Database with AI: Set Up Natural Language SQL in VS Code by Doug Does Database
• PostgreSQL for the Oracle DBA, Part 6: Tuples, MVCC, and Two Views by Kellyn Gorman

AI

• Introducing ChatGPT agent by OpenAI Team
• What we saw in the past three months. And what we see in the future. by Manus AI Team
• ChatGPT Guide to Building Cross Platform Applications by Nick Randolph
• Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me by Richard Seroter
• Back to The Future: Evaluating AI Agents on Predicting Future Events by Federico Bianchi, Shang Zhu, James Zou, Junlin Wang, Roy, Zain Hasan & Clémentine Fourrier

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• Color Selection Made Easy Now: Meet the New .NET MAUI Color Picker by Naveenkumar Sanjeevirayan
• AutoMapper and MediatR Commercial Editions Launch Today by Jimmy Bogard
• Giving Copilot Agent in Visual Studio a try by Bart Wullems
• Step Up Challenges for ASP.NET Core Client Apps with Duende IdentityServer by Khalid Abuhakmeh
• .NET MAUI 9.0.81 (Service Release 8.1) by David Ortinau
• .NET Collections by Ricardo Peres
• UX Chronicles: The Office That Time Forgot – Why Microsoft Must Rethink User Experience Now by David McCarter

Web Development

• Implement ASP.NET Core OpenID Connect with Keycloak to implement Level of Authentication (LoA) requirements by Damien Bowden
• Visualize Wind Direction Like Never Before Using React Radar Charts by Swetha Babu

Database

• PostgreSQL for the Oracle DBA, Part 5: Understanding Wait Analysis by Kellyn Gorman

MIsc

• AI Coding Tools Create More Bugs Than They Fix by Darryl K. Taft
• Refactor Legacy Code Faster with GitHub Copilot by Copilot That Jawn
• How to convert code with GitHub Copilot, can AI really help? by Frank Boucher
• Testing custom events with Playwright by Chris Ferdinandi
• Writing Testable Code is More Important Than Unit Tests by Chris Pietschman
• Driving Content Delivery Efficiency Through Classifying Cache Misses by Vipul Marlecha, Lara Deek & Thiara Ortiz
• Google Undercounts Its Carbon Emissions, Report Finds by msmash
• Productivity, AI and pushback by Seth Godin
• Pondering About Using AI for Coding by Shawn Wildermuth
• Supercharging On-Device AI: Foundry Local + Semantic Kernel by Bart Wullems

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• dotNetDave Says… Don’t Build Frankenstein’s Monster Applications! by David McCarter
• NET 10 Performance Edition by Steven Giesel
• Song recommendations from C# combinators by Mark Seemann

Web Development

• Build a Flutter Expense Tracker with Advanced Transaction Features by Naveen Kesavaraj
• Controlling spacing in modern CSS layouts by Chris Ferdinandi
• ECMAScript Committee Advances 3 Proposals to Stage 4 by Loraine Lawson
• Add JavaScript to PDFs with TX Text Control in C# .NET: Time-Based Alerts Made Easy by Bjoern Meyer
• Bringing Blazor to Meadow.Desktop by Adrian Stevens

Data

• PostgreSQL for the Oracle DBA, Part 2: Physical Data Structures, Storage, and Processes by Kellyn Gorman
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: EXISTS, NOT EXISTS, and Row Goals by Erik Darling
• Why AI and SQL Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly by Ivan Novick
• Unlock the Power of Azure Database for MySQL servers by Brandon

Misc

• GitHub Copilot vs Human Coding: Can AI Truly Outperform Programmers? by Kunal Chowdhury
• The Efficiency Trap of Systems Thinking by John Maeda

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• Using AI Foundry with .NET MAUI by David Ortinau
• Boost Your .NET Projects: Mastering Unit Testing with Spargine’s UnitTester Class by David McCarter
• Linear Support Vector Regression Using C# with Particle Swarm Training by James McCaffrey

Web Development

• Create Visually Rich Content Easily with Blazor Rich Text Editor! No HTML by Thangavel E.
• Gradient borders with CSS by Chris Ferdinandi
• Blazor Basics: Dependency Injection Best Practices and Use Cases by Claudio Bernasconi
• May 2025 in Auth0: Async Auth, Real-Time Streams, and Custom Everything by Ana Cidre

Misc

• Learn T-SQL With Erik: ORDER BY by Erik Darling
• Beyond DevSecOps: The Rise of Security-First Development by Gary Espinosa
• Renaming Files in PowerShell: Techniques and Best Practices by Michael Reinders

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• Use BrowserStack App Automate with Appium UI Tests for .NET MAUI Apps (Sweeky Satpathy & Gerald Versluis)
• Debugging with the AI-powered IEnumerable visualizer in Visual Studio (Junyu Wang)
• NET Aspire Support for an XAF Blazor Project (Oliver Sturm)

Web Dev

• Create an Interactive Business Analytics Dashboard in Blazor with Syncfusion® [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)

Database

• Retiring Akka.Persistence.SqlServer, Postgres, Sqlite (Aaron Stannard)
• All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Correct Dynamic SQL Usage (Erik Darling)

Architecture/Design

• New Overlapping Secrets on Azure DevOps OAuth (Angel Wong)
• What Is Accessible UX Design, and What Is an Accessible Application? (Hassan Djirdeh)

Mobile Dev

• Cordova Android 14.0.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)

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• Building Local AI Agents: Semantic Kernel and Ollama in C# (Laurent Kempé)
• How to profile a .NET MAUI iOS application on macOS (Marco Siccardi)
• What are Custom Integrations in .NET Aspire? (Kalle Marjokorpi)
• Introduction to Dapr for .NET Developers (Milan Jovanovi?)
• Implement Phone verification, 2FA using ASP.NET Core Identity (Damien Bowden)
• Zero-Cost Resilience For .NET Apps In Azure (Julio Casal)
• Reactive monad (Mark Seemann)

Web Development

• Announcing TypeScript 5.8 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back (Allen Pike)
• Why is gRPC so much faster than a JSON-based REST API? (Benjamin Cane)

Database

• All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Formatting (Erik Darling)
• Data Normalization vs. Denormalization Comparison (Tim Rottach)

Miscellaneous

• Integration Tests for Plugin Developers: UI Testing (Maxim Kolmakov)

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• Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C#? – ?Part 2 (Kevin Gosse)
• Impersonation in ASP.NET Core (Bart Wullems)
• Numeric sorting in .NET (Anthony Simmon)
• Migrate from MSTest to xUnit using a Roslyn analyzer (Gérald Barré)
• Random Neighborhoods Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Batching Like a Boss: Using IDbContextFactory for High-Performance EF Core Updates (Chris Woodruff)

AI and Machine Learning

• Hugging Face Expands Serverless Inference Options with New Provider Integrations (Daniel Dominguez)
• AI as System 0 Thinking (JD Meier)
• Deploy DeepSeek models locally and monitor with New Relic AI Monitoring (Ryan Kadrak)
• DeepSeek: The countries and agencies that have banned the AI company’s tech (Kyle Wiggers)

Web Development

• Build a ChatLens with Kendo UI, Gemini and Angular 19 (Dany Paredes)
• Announcing Vonage Video API Client SDK Version 2.29 (Vikram Dham)

Database

• Resetting Identity Seed in SQL Server After Deleting Records (Chris Pietschmann)
• Set up dbt for Fabric SQL Database (Nandan Hegde)
• Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Indexed Views And Filtered Indexes (Erik Darling)

Miscellaneous

• TortoiseSVN + Assembla Cloud Repos: A Guide to Modern, Reliable SVN (Bryan Grover)

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• ASP.NET Core 9: Discover the new developer Exception page (Anthony Giretti)
• Customizing and Integrating Telerik Slider Control in .NET MAUI Projects (Héctor Pérez)
• .NET 9 upgrade–notnull constraint (Bart Wullems)

AI and Machine Learning

• AI for Developers (Microsoft Developer Team)
• AI Killed the Content Creator…Star (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• The Future of AI-Powered Applications Enabled by Couchbase (Part 2) (Matt Spillar)

Web Development

• Top 5 JavaScript Gantt Chart Libraries for 2025 (Mahalakshmi Karthikeyan)
• How to Set Up Basic jQuery Form Validation in Two Minutes (Maria Antonietta Perna)
• Deprecating Redundant Attributes in the Number Insight API (Max Kahan)
• Getting ready for Tailwind v4.0 (Oscar Jite-Orimiono)
• C# Lists: What They Are and How to Use Them (Stackify Team)

Miscellaneous

• Enabling Neural Rendering in DirectX: Cooperative Vector Support Coming Soon (Cassie Hoef)
• Merge Conflict #444 – Official Family IoT Tech Support (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)

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