#Announcements

Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API | OpenAI & Announcing the GPT-4.1 model series for Azure AI Foundry and GitHub developers | Microsoft Azure Blog - GPT 4.1 has released with some much needed and competitive improvements over 4.0, with a new addition nano model type.
Spectre.Console - Spectre.Console 0.50 released! - Spectre Console is an open source .NET library for creating immaculate console apps, with colourful designs and handling of the hard UI for the terminal. v5.0 was released with some awesome new features including markup and progress displays.
Astro 5.7 | Astro - Astro have released v5.7, which moves a few features like SVG Astro components & sessions API from experimental to stable!
Preview of (Hopefully) Improved Projections in Marten 8 – The Shade Tree Developer - The .NET event sourcing database library sitting on top of Postgres, Marten, has released a v8.0.0. This brings some performance and type-safe improvements.
Microsoft Copilot in Azure is now generally available | Microsoft Community Hub - Copilot everywhere! Azure’s Copilot chat is now GA, but I foresee this being expanded further to use Copilot with enriched data from your Azure context such as Azure monitor to improve efficiency of operations.

#.NET

Exploring new .NET releases with Dev Containers - .NET Blog - This article is a beginner friendly guide on getting started with dev containers with VS Code.
Generating architecture diagrams from .NET Aspire resources at publish time - Anthony Simmon posts a similar article to before, generating a diagram using Aspire’s manifest to get a visual application map of how your app links to other services & dependencies. I think AI will be able to do this as well, for instance you probably can get the Aspire manifest output and use VS Code GitHub Copilot to create a Mermaid diagram with their extension.
Using a Private NuGet Feed to Build and Restore .NET Apps for Docker Deployment - A guide for how to authenticate to your private nuget feed in your build pipeline, making use of nuget.config by setting credentials in it before your copy it over into your container image and doing the setup of nuget settings prior to running your container image build.

Debouncing vs Throttling in JavaScript: When to Use Each | Infinite Circuits - A good explanation of what is debouncing and how it differs from throttling. The main difference is do you need immediate response and reactions for your component or not, if you do, use debounce, if not use throttling.
Develop Frontend Without a Backend Using Mock Service Worker - An introduction article to Mock Service Worker (MSW), which is a library for mocking your backend API responses and even showing the ability to create mocked examples of slow APIs or potentially failures.
Deploying TypeScript: recent advances and possible future directions- A summary of recent features of Typescript which make it more powerful and possibly big changes to come to TypeScript, including a huge proposal to enums.

Confused about Stack and Heap?. Confession, I’ve always had a hard time… | by Franziska Hinkelmann | Fhinkel | Medium - An older article which I’ve recently found, but it’s a great article for visualizing and understanding heap vs stack memory.

Dive into AI Agents in 2025: Free Virtual Hackathon for Developers! - Microsoft are running a month long hackathon going from absolute AI beginner to creating AI powered projects, all streamed and free resources! Now’s the time to learn.
Copilot in Azure Technical Deep Dive | Microsoft Community Hub - A high level architecture of Copilot.
Porting Code with LLMs - An article going through walking through an experiment to port a C++ game to .NET, and although it didn’t work right out the box, the article goes on to explain agent mode is a game changer for boilerplating initial porting of X language to Y language.
Guest Blog: Revolutionize Business Automation with AI: A Guide to Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel Process Framework | Semantic Kernel - A guide on creating an AI (OpenAI in the example) blog post generator, using the Semantic Kernel library, which makes it incredible simple to create AI apps. This looks so much like the old Microsoft Bot Framework, except using LLMs. I’d be interested to see the follow-up post around using agent mode.

Shift Left: Bring Developers into the Design Process Earlier - A thought provoking discussion on when is the right time to bring developers into the design process to avoid length handovers and have more coherent thoughts put into the design decisions, something to think about.
Software Architecture for Developers | by Dick Dowdell | Nerd For Tech | Apr, 2025 | Medium - Another thought provoking article around how architecture is about how we design our systems through different perspectives and skill sets. Therefore, architecture is more about how we design for developers to collaborate and understand our system.