Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Top Links

• Join us for AI Dev Days – December 10-11 (James Montemagno)
• AI Agents Are Morphing Into the ‘Enterprise Operating System’ (Angie Jones)
• Open AI’s GPT-5.1-codex-max in Microsoft Foundry: Igniting a New Era for Enterprise Developers (Naomi Moneypenny)
• The VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #16 – Models, Evals, and Raptor Mini with Julia Kasper (James Montemagno)
• Foundry IQ in Microsoft Agent Framework (Farzad Sunavala & Eduard van Valkenburg)
• Bring your own AI agent to JetBrains IDEs (Sergey Ignatov)
• Microsoft is bringing some massive visual changes to PowerToys v0.97 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)

Web and Cloud Development

• WebStorm 2025.3: Enhanced Monorepo Support, Framework Improvements, Vitest 4 Support, Multiple Agents in AI Assistant, Remote Debugging, and More (Vladislav Minaev)
• What’s wrong with this HTML, and is it valid? (Patrick Brosset)
• Contributor is Not the Magic Wand You May Think it is! (Shannon Kuehn)
• New options for AI-powered innovation, resiliency, and control with Microsoft Azure (Douglas Phillips)
• Create Your Own SMTP Server Using Aspire 13 (Michael Washington)
• A New Auth0 ASP.NET SDK to Secure Your API (Kailash B.)
• HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998 (Geoff Graham)
• How to Build UML Sequence Diagrams in Blazor with Diagram Library (Balavignesh RaviChandran)

Windows Development

• How can my process read its own standard output? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• .NET 10 and Memory: Less Heap, Smarter GC, Faster Apps (hazem)
• Why your EF Core queries are slow and how to fix them (David Grace)
• Parsing Santa’s workshop with strongly typed data (without the coal) (Dave Brock)
• DbContext is Not Thread-Safe: Parallelizing EF Core Queries the Right Way (Milan Jovanović)
• C# Advent 2025 – St. Nicholas Goodies (Sarah Dutkeiwicz))
• AI-Ready Documents in .NET C#: How Structured Content Unlocks Better Extraction, Search and Automation (Bjoern Meyer)
• 2025 C# Advent – A Christmas Trivia Game (Michael Eaton)
• Make Copilot Work Your Way: Building MCP Servers in C# (Al Nyveldt)
• Immutable Collection Add() Trap: Don’t Get Burned — Use a Builder Instead (David McCarter)

AI

• College Students Flock To A New Major: AI (EditorDavid)
• Introducing Mistral Large 3 in Microsoft Foundry: Open, capable, and ready for production workloads (Steve Sweetman)
• Why the Model Context Protocol Won (Michael Yaroshefsky)
• Google Workspace Studio – AI-powered automation, made simple (Google Workspace)
• Ignore Prior Instructions: AI Still Befuddled by Basic Reasoning (Joab Jackson)
• I Accidentally Made Claude 45% Smarter. Here’s How. (ichigo)
• Deploy a RAG chatbot app using Radius (Will Tsai)
• What Is an AI Agent: A Complete Guide for Developers and Architects and Which AI Agent Framework Should I Use (Mahesh Chand)
• Why AI coding agents aren’t production-ready: Brittle context windows, broken refactors, missing operational awareness (Advitya Gemawat)
• AWS Tackles AI’s ‘Too Much Information’ Problem (Darryl K. Taft)
• The Resonant Computing Manifesto (Maggie Appleton, Samuel Arbesman, Daniel Barcay, Rob Hardy, Aishwarya Khanduja, Alex Komoroske, Geoffrey Litt, Michael Masnick, Brendan McCord, Bernhard Seefeld, Ivan Vendrov, Amelia Wattenberger, Zoe Weinberg & Simon Willison)
• Build a Small Language Model (SLM) From Scratch (Shravan Kumar)
• Microsoft Agent Framework:  Implementing Human-in-the-Loop AI Agents (Jamie Maguire)
• What is an MCP? (Rocky Lhotka)
• 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google (Kaggle)
• 15 examples of what Gemini 3 can do (Zahra Thompson)
• STARFlow: Scalable Transformer Auto-Regressive Flow (Apple)
• Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI (Rohan Doshi)
• How AI is transforming work at Anthropic and Introducing Anthropic Interviewer: What 1,250 professionals told us about working with AI (Anthropic Team)
• Baseline Your Data Protection Platform for Copilot (Liam Cleary)
• VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model (Microsoft)
• AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone (Kat Tenbarge)
• Building with Cursor (Cursor Team)
• Introducing swift-huggingface: The Complete Swift Client for Hugging Face (Mattt)
• AI denial is becoming an enterprise risk: Why dismissing “slop” obscures real capability gains (Louis Rosenberg)
• Announcing vLLM v0.12.0, Ministral 3 and DeepSeek-V3.2 for Docker Model Runner (Yiwen Xu)

Python

• Trae IDE Auto-Installs Python Libraries as You Code (Jack Wallen)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Why Meetings Can Harm Employee Well-Being (EditorDavid)
• Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners (Victor Yocco)
• Stop Naming Your Variables “Flag”: The Art of Boolean Prefixes (Christopher Johnson)
• How to Manage Configuration Drift in Your Jenkins Environment (Olga Bedrina)
• Pantone’s ‘Cloud Dancer’ color party is a recession indicator (Mia Sato)
• Program: You Keep Using that Word, I Don’t Think You Know What it Means (Charlie Kindel)
• How to Handle Duplicate GitHub Issues Without Annoying Your Users (Adam Cogan)
• Docker, JetBrains, and Zed: Building a Common Language for Agents and IDEs (Srini Sekaran)
• Want to Build a Strong Team? Give Them Ownership – and Step Back (Paulina Nowinska)
• JetBrains CEO on How Developers Become Leaders (Loraine Lawson)

Mobile and Game Development

• Unity 6.3 LTS is now, and Games to help you learn! (Code Monkey)
• Getting components by their base class name in Lens Studio and Finding all script components of a type in a Lens Studio scene (Joost van Schaik)
• A Pico For the Holidays (Harry Fairhead)
• Todd Howard says AI can’t replace human ‘creative intention,’ but it’s part of Bethesda’s ‘toolset for how we build our worlds or check things’ (Lincoln Carpenter)
• Alibaba Just Changed the Wearable Game With Its Qwen-Powered AI Glasses (Abdul Wasay)
• Raspberry Pi: The 6th edition of our Beginner’s Guide is available now! (Brian Jepson)

Screencasts and Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 290 – “Probabilistic Determinism” (Get your neuro-symbolic AI on!) and Where is the non-smoking section of a cigar bar, please? (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Deploying Windows Servers in an Azure Availability Set | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
• Recording: Build AI that understands your business (Oren Eini)
• What 1250 Professionals Said About Working With AI and Microsoft Changing AI Targets? and Can Today’s AI Replace 12% of Work? (AIDailyBrief)
• C# Tools for Developers | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter and Start of a new project: CodeMedic | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• The Secret Trick To Keep Copilot On Track With Your C# Code (Nick Cosentino)
• The Download: Zork goes open source, Blender 5.0, unlocking AirPods & more (Andrea Griffiths)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Event-Driven Architecture: Learn everything you need to start using Event-Driven Architecture (James Eastham) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Merge Conflict Episode #492 – SwiftData & CloudKit Sync “Just Work” Right? (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Lenny’s Podcast – The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google’s secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• PPP 486 | How to Solve Some of the Toughest Leadership Problems, with business coach Dr. Katie Best (Andy Kaufman)
• Changelog & Friends Episode #120 – Very important agents (Nick Nisi, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• freeCodeCamp Podcast Episode #200 – How to build your own learning path using Open Source with Kunal Kushwaha (Beau Carnes)
• The Vergecast – IT’s code red for ChatGPT (David Pierce)
• React Native Radio Episode #348 – From Ionic Evangelist to React Native Content Creator: Simon Grimm (Jamon Holmgren & Mazen Chami)
• InfoQ Podcast: Transforming Life Sciences: AI, Vibe Coding, and Drug Development Acceleration (Satish Kothapalli)
• Hard Fork Podcast – OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #276 – Exploring Quantum Computing & Python Frameworks (Christopher Bailey & Negar Vahid)
• Empathy and Availability Define Excellent Product Ownership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Scott Smith)
• The Amp Hour Episode #710 – Tugging on the Nerd Heartstring (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Treating your agents like microservices (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• We are Returning to CodeMash 2026 as a Sponsor and Exhibitor (Bjoern Meyer)
• The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says (Steve Jones)
• Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. in a disruptive deal valued at $82.7B (Lauren Forristal)
• Microsoft Ignite 2025: Top Security Innovations You Need to Know (Alex Zold)
• Call For Papers Listings for 12/05 (Leon Adato)
• Dapr Steering and Technical Committee 2025 Elections Results (Dapr Team)
• Join Our Exclusive Webinar: Build Blazing-Fast Financial Dashboards in Blazor: Unlock Insights from Raw Data (Shriram Sankaran)
• 30 years after Microsoft went ‘all-in’ on the internet, the tech giant’s AI strategy echoes the past (Geof Wheelwright)
• MySQL Repository Analysis Reveals Declining Development and Shrinking Contributor Base (Renato Losio)
• A decade of open innovation: Celebrating 10 years of Microsoft and Red Hat partnership (Brendan Burns)
• QuickTime Turns 34 (BeauHD)

Database

• How the Microsoft SQL team is investing in SQL tools and experiences (Anna Hoffman)
• An Expert’s Take on Advanced Data Visualization and Analytics (David Ramel & Greg Schulz)
• Why DISKANN Indexes Are So Slow To Create In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
• Windows Authentication for Cloud-Native Identities: Modernizing Azure SQL Managed Instance (Preview) (Sravani Saluru)

PowerShell and Terminal

• PowerShell Switch: A Complete Guide to Mastering Conditional Logic (Bill Kindle)
• Qoder CLI – Build and code directly in your terminal (Qoder Team)

Writing

• The isolation and loneliness of tech writing may get worse as AI accelerates (Tom Johnson)
• How Principal Engineers Shape Documentation as a Product + Punch List Lagniappe (Adron Hall)
• The Moment Of Change In Fiction (Writers Write)

Tools

• Microsoft confirms it’ll let you remove “AI Actions” from File Explorer menu in Windows 11 (Mayank Parmar)
• How to Run an .exe File on a Mac (Radu Popescu)
• WSL v2.6.3 Release (Ben Hillis)
• Too busy chasing AI hype, Microsoft left Windows 11’s design flaws untouched. Developers are the ones delivering the polish users expect (Sean Endicott)
• Live Blog Writer – An extension with WYSIWYG editor for VS Code with support for WordPress, Blogger, Ghost, and Substack blogs (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Windows on Arm runs more apps and games with new Prism update (Marc Sweetgall)
• Homebrew Can Now Help You Install Flatpaks Too (EditorDavid)

General

• Microsoft shareholders invoke Orwell and Copilot as Nadella cites ‘generational moment’ (Todd Bishop)
• The Commodore 64 is back on the production line for the first time in 30 years – and I want it, even if it makes zero sense (Lance Ulanoff)
• Why Gen Z is Using Retro Tech (EditorDavid)
• Rust 1.78.0: What’s In It? (Rust Team)
• Reasons To Love Linux Mint (Jack Wallen)
• Windows 11’s “Agenda” view in the Notification Center is a WebView2 (web app component), not native (Mayank Parmar)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7344 (Dev & Beta Channels) (Donna Little)
• Welcome to the wellness surveillance state (Victoria Song)
• LIDAR vs. Laser RADAR: Understanding the Core Differences (Ommatidia LiDAR Team)

More Link Collections

• Azure Weekly #543 – 7th December 2025 (The Editor)
• Blogs I Follow By Women In Tech (Rachel Kaufman)
• F# Weekly #49, 2025 – Oxpecker 2, fsi-mcp, LSP & AOC in F# (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – December 5, 2025 (#679) (Richard Seroter)
• Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – December 1 (Peter Ritchie)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps (Rezwanur Rahman) – Referral Link

Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot).