Dew Drop – October 13, 2025 (#4517)

Top Links

• Single day registration is now available for TechBash 2025 (TechBash Team)
• Software Leadership with Jonathan “J.” Tower – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #371 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• How to Add MCP Servers to Claude Code with Docker MCP Toolkit (Ajeet Singh Raina)
• React Compiler v1.0 (Lauren Tan)
• Building Human-in-the-loop AI Workflows with Microsoft Agent Framework (ogkranthi)
• VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #9 – Building agent memory for VS Code with Harald Kirschner (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)

Web Development

• Modern CV Technology: JSON Resume embedded in HTML (Paul Hammant)
• ReadableStream is not defined error publishing VS Code Extension (Scott Sauber)
• Microsoft Azure delivers the first large scale cluster with NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for OpenAI workloads (Rani Borkar & Nidhi Chappell)
• New React Foundation To Manage Framework (Loraine Lawson)
• Securing the Future: Changes to Internet Explorer Mode in Microsoft Edge (Gareth Evans)
• Node.js v24.10.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
• Web development for beginners: Styling HTML via CSS (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Building Fast Serverless APIs With Minimal APIs on AWS Lambda (Milan Jovanović)
• The Web Animation API (Christian Nwamba)
• How are complex trust networks handled in http/REST/OAuth. (John Moehrke)
• Vite is like the United Nations of JavaScript (Phoebe Sajor)
• Node.js 20+ memory management in containers (Francisco De Melo Junior)
• Restricting Access to an Action Method in ASP.NET Core MVC (Ricardo Peres)

Windows Development

• The self-assignment principle for Windows Runtime properties: Don’t change behavior based on whether a property has been written to (Raymond Chen)
• Boost Your .NET Projects: Simplify Windows Service and Process Management with Spargine’s Services Helper (David McCarter)
• Validation Error Indicator and DevTools – Two is better than one (Stefan Koell)

.NET

• How .NET 10.0 boosted JSON Schema performance by 18% (Matthew Adams)
• Understanding AsNoTrackingWithIdentityResolution in Entity Framework Core (Bart Wullems)

AI

• OpenAI – 2 Updates That Might Change How You Build Software (Adam Cogan)
• GitHub Copilot starts supporting AGENTS.md: A step toward unified AI Instructions (Bart Wullems)
• Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature (Mitchell Hashimoto)
• Want Safer, Smarter AI? Start with Observability in Azure AI Foundry (Priyanka)
• OpenAI Adds Full MCP Support to ChatGPT Developer Mode (Robert Krzaczyński)
• IBM Granite 4.0: hyper-efficient, high performance hybrid models for enterprise (Kate Soule & Dave Bergmann)
• AI Slop? Not This Time. AI Tools Found 50 Real Bugs In cURL (EditorDavid)
• Cursor Levels Up With 1.0 Release, Adding MCP Support and Persistent Memory (AI Native Dev)
• Trevor Noah says AI-powered video generators like OpenAI’s Sora could be ‘disastrous’ (Taylor Soper)
• Difference Between Prompt Engineering and Context Engineering and ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Grok AI: Which Generative AI Wins in 2025? and Context Engineering Tutorial: How to Build Smarter AI Systems That Think in Context (Mahesh Chand)
• Step-by-Step Deployment Guide: MCP Tool Call in Copilot Studio agent with OAuth 2.0 (muafzal)
• Using the Voice Live API in Azure AI Foundry (Pablo Castano)
• Claude Sonnet 4.5 Tops SWE-Bench Verified, Extends Coding Focus Beyond 30 Hours (Hien Luu)
• Context Engineering for Coding Agents (SourceWizard)
• Google DeepMind Introduces CodeMender, an AI Agent for Automated Code Repair (Robert Krzaczyński)
• OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door (Emma Roth)
• Warp: Making AI usage more transparent (Zach Lloyd)
• Stop Babysitting Your AI – It Plans, Decides, and Acts on Its Own (Marko Crnjanski)
• How To Measure AI’s Organizational Impact (Steve Fenton)
• OpenAI Aims To Make ChatGPT the Operating System of the Future (Janakiram MSV)
• Is Your Business Ready for AI Agents? The Ultimate AI Security Checklist for Customer Identity (Michelle Agroskin)
• Everyday AI Agents (David Michelson)
• AI vs. humans: Working smart while staying relevant (Prason)
• Copilot on Windows can now create Office documents and connect to Gmail (Tom Warren)
• Building Trustworthy AI: How Azure Foundry + Microsoft Security Layers Deliver End-to-End Protection (yokhaldi)

Python

• Talk Python in Production book is out! (Michael Kennedy)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Use fixtures in xUnit for shared context in unit tests (David Grace)
• Testing with FakeLogger — Scopes (Adam Storr)
• GitHub Certifications: The fastest way to align your Dev teams on automation, AI, and security (jfbilodeau)
• What’s The Deal With GitHub Spec Kit (Den Delimarsky)
• DevRel Activity Patterns… published and Introducing Linguis (Ted Neward)
• Introducing the Testing Vial: a (better?) alternative to Testing Diamond and Testing Pyramid (Davide Bellone)
• The interface is dead. Time for the age of intent (Sarah Taraporewalla)
• Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Automation in Software (Courtney Nash)

Mobile and Game Development

• Jetpack WindowManager 1.5 is stable (Birna)
• Age Verification on Android and iOS, Sideloading for Verified Apps Only (j2inet)
• Can YOU make Megabonk ($8mil) or do players like Pixel art? (Code Monkey)
• The App Store Was Always Authoritarian (Alex Russell)

Screencasts and Videos

• Random.Code() – Automatically Logging Invocations Using Interceptors, Part 4 (Jason Bock)
• GitHub Spec Kit now has CHECKLISTS (Den Delimarsky)
• 4 Steps to Build Clear API Docs Fast | Using Postman (Postman Team)
• Use Edit from Windows Terminal to edit text files and scripts #shorts | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
• Community leader & former MVP Santosh Hari talks TechBash 2025. #conference #conferencespeakers (TechBash Dev Conference)
• The Download: OpenAI’s AgentKit, Project Newton, the open source projects coming to Universe & more (Andrea Griffiths)
• How AI Turns Words Into Vectors: Embeddings (Frank La Vigne)
• Can MCP servers help AI make your apps better!? | Visual Studio Code (Marc Baiza)

Podcasts

• Meta Cast Podcast – Anxiety Isn’t The Enemy — it’s The Signal (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• 115. How AI Transforms Software Development – with Jelle Fremery (Rick & Oscar with Jelle Fremery)
• Yet Another Podcast – James Montemagno on Vibe Coding (Jesse Liberty)
• Merge Conflict Episode #484 – Designing for Liquid Glass (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Lenny’s Podcast – Inside Google’s AI turnaround: The rise of AI Mode, strategy behind AI Overviews, and their vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein (VP of Product, Google Search) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• The Vergecast – Maybe it’s real, maybe it’s Sora (David Pierce)
• Changelog & Friends Podcast Episode #112 – A new direction for AI developer tooling (José Valim, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #113: Chevy Bolt Is Back And Better, Tesla Model 3/Y Standard Debut To Skepticism (Batteries Included Team)
• CppCast – Reflection and C++26, with Herb Sutter (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
• freeCodeCamp Podcast #192 – Evan You – From Art School Kid to Open Source Legend (Beau Carnes)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #296 – Python 3.14: Exploring the New Features (Christopher Bailey, Christopher Trudeau & Bartosz Zaczyński)
• BONUS: Consulting is Different—How Consulting Contracts Work Against Agile Development | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte, Jakob Wolman & Wilko Nienhaus)
• The Modern .NET Show – Designing APIs Like a Pro: Lessons from Jerry Nixon on Data API Builder and Beyond (Jamie Taylor)
• A Geek Leader #438: Big Bet Leadership with John Rossman (John Rouda)
• Podcast: Using Brain Science to Communicate and Lead Technical Teams Effectively (Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg)
• GeekWire Podcast – Vibe-coding a new reality: Chris Pirillo on the rise of AI-powered apps, features, and founders (Todd Bishop)

Community

• AutoMapper Graduates from the .NET Foundation (.NET Foundation Board)
• Intelligent Conversations: Building Memory-Driven Bots with Azure AI and Semantic Kernel (B. Ivanovski)
• The Inverse Law of Conference Speaking (Om Malik)
• AI Push Drives Record Job Cuts at Top India Private Employer TCS (msmash)
• Call For Papers Listings for 10/10 (Leon Adato)

Database

• Extract Text using Regular Expressions with SQL Server 2025 Function REGEXP_INSTR (Koen Verbeeck)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Bad Trigger Habits (Erik Darling)
• Using AI for candidate ranking with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server Database Corruption: Causes, Detection, and some details behind DBCC CHECKDB (Pawel M.)

SharePoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Tip: Use the New OneDrive App for Windows 11 Today (Paul Thurrott)

Tools

• The Ultimate All-in-One Document Viewer Plugin for JetBrains IDE (Suvetha Venkatesan)
• Document SDK Comparison: Complete Document Processing vs. PDF SDK (Deepika Kathiravan)

More Link Collections

• Azure Weekly #535 – 12th October 2025 (The Editor)
• F# Weekly #41, 2025 – JetBrains .NET Days Online 2025 (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – October 10, 2025 (#646) (Richard Seroter)
• The .NET News Daily Issue #301 (Jasen)
• Links For You (10/12/25) (Raymond Camden)

General

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6780 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6780 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
• Got opinions on observability? I could use your help (once more, with feeling) (Charity Majors)
• HP OmniBook 5 16 Review: It’s a Snapdragon Miracle and Tip: Install Windows 11 Version 25H2 With a Local Account (Paul Thurrott)
• How to install Windows 11 with a local offline account (Taras Buria)
• RIP Clips: Apple Quietly Ends Its Short-Form Video App (Zayed Rehman)
• ‘Seis the moment’: Earthquake monitors measure shaking during Mariners’ epic playoff win in Seattle (Taylor Soper)
• ‘I Tracked Amazon’s Prime Day Prices. We’ve Been Played’ (EditorDavid)
• American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming (Sarah Jeong)

The Geek Shelf

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