Top Links
- The First Beta of Android 17 (Matthew McCullough)
- Damian Brady: GitHub AI – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #389 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Save the date! Aspire Conf (March 23rd) (Aspire Team)
- Exploring .NET 11 Preview 1 Runtime Async: A dive into the Future of Async in .NET (Laurent Kempe)
- Automate repository tasks with GitHub Agentic Workflows (Don Syme)
- Windows App SDK Version 2.0 Experimental 5 (2.0.0-Experimental5) Release Notes and Windows App SDK Version 2.0 Preview 1 (2.0.0-Preview1) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
Web and Cloud Development
- Swagger’s missing in .NET 10 – How to add it back (David Grace)
- What’s new for the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor library 4.14 (Vincent Baaij)
- I threw thousands of files at Astro and you won’t believe what happened next… (Raymond Camden)
- Optimizing JavaScript for the Edge Runtime (Jonathan Gamble)
- Add application security to the swiyu generic management verifier APIs using OAuth (Damien Bowden)
- ASP.NET Core with Needlr: Simplified Web Application Setup (Nick Cosentino)
- Moving Your Codebase to Go 1.26 With GoLand Syntax Updates (Artem Pronichev)
- Go 1.26.0-1 Microsoft build now available (Davis Goodin)
- Justifying text-wrap: pretty (Alex Kladov)
- Launching Interop 2026 and Quoting Eric Meyer (Simon Willison)
- Grouping and Filtering Users and Devices: A Practical Guide (skatterbrainzz)
- The CAP Theorem Is Why Your Cloud App Sometimes Feels Off (Shannon Kuehn)
Windows Development
- How can I distinguish between the numeric keypad 0 and the top-row 0 in the WM_CHAR message? (Raymond Chen)
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 2.0.0-preview1 and Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 2.0.0-experimental5 (NuGet Gallery)
.NET and Visual Studio
- New runtime async is hitting .NET 11 – Part 1 (Steven Giesel)
- Plugin Architecture with Needlr in .NET: Building Modular Applications (Nick Cosentino)
- Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Centralized Time Handling with the Clock Type (David McCarter)
- Local Embeddings in .NET — The Easy Way and Building RAG in .NET with Local Embeddings — 3 Approaches, Zero Cloud Calls (Bruno Capuano)
- How to Implement Abstract Factory Pattern in C#: Step-by-Step Guide (Nick Cosentino)
- Introducing the Coding Agent Explorer (.NET) (Tore Nestenius)
- StyloBot: How Bots Got Smarter – The New Frontier in Bot Detection (Part 2) (Scott Galloway)
AI
- Agentic Code Fixing with GitHub Copilot SDK and Foundry Local (Lee Stott)
- MCP Aggregator (Rocky Lhotka)
- AI Unit Testing: How to TDD With AI (Eli Lopian)
- OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI (Anthony Ha)
- Conductors to Orchestrators: The Future of Agentic Coding (Addy Osmani)
- This third-party project is exactly the type of Copilot I’d want to use every day on my Windows 11 PC (Richard Devine)
- cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
- Evolving AI Plans (Simon Jackson)
- AI: Igniting the Spark to End Stagnation (Daniel Lemire)
- Two different tricks for fast LLM inference (Sean Goedecke)
- Three months of OpenClaw and How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt (Simon Willison)
- Autonomous agents – Technique 3: Provide tools for steps your agent can’t easily handle (like Agent Flows) (Chris O’Brien)
- 2 Weeks of Claude Code for Me (Jeremy D. Miller)
- WebMCP is available for early preview (André Cipriani Bandarra)
- Microsoft Agent Framework: Implementing an AI Email Marketing Agent (Jamie Maguire)
- OpenClaw is being called a security “Dumpster fire,” but there is a way to stay safe (David Eastman)
- DPO Fine-Tuning Using Microsoft Foundry SDK (Jayesh Tanna)
- Llms Need Mark as Answer (Steve Smith)
- Claude Desktop Extensions 0-Click RCE Vulnerability Exposes 10,000+ Users to Remote Attacks (Guru Baran)
- Vibe Coding Data Apps with Replit + Snowflake – Part 2 [webinar] (Replit Team)
- Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT and Beyond rate limits: scaling access to Codex and Sora (OpenAI Team)
- Why 40% of AI projects will be canceled by 2027 (and how to stay in the other 60%) (Alex Drag)
- Microsoft AI CEO says vibe coding is making apps easier to build (Lee Chong Ming)
- OpenClaw After the Hype: A Real-World Test of a “Do-Anything” AI Assistant (Abdullah)
- How to ground AI agents in accurate, context-rich data (Todd R. Weiss)
- The data behind the design: How Pantone built agentic AI with an AI-ready database (Jesse Sullivan)
- Mad Money & The Big AI Race (Om Malik)
- How to solve the context size issues with context packing with Docker Model Runner and Agentic Compose (Yiwen Xu)
- Custom Kernels for All from Codex and Claude (Ben Burtenshaw, Sayak Paul, Aritra Roy Gosthipaty & Shaun Smith)
- Anthropic partners with CodePath to bring Claude to the US’s largest collegiate computer science program (Antrhopic Team)
- How to Set Up Claude Code with Microsoft Foundry Models on macOS (suzarilshah)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Introducing the Terraform State Provider for Pulumi ESC (Claire Gaestel)
- Some Git (Daniel Fisher)
- Say Goodbye to “It Works on My Machine”: A Look at TeamCity’s Pretested Commits (Dmitrii Korovin)
Mobile and Game Development
- Players can miss the most obvious things, and Ask Me Anything! (Code Monkey)
- Building a Support Ticket Dashborad with .NET MAUI DataGrid (Farjana Parveen)
- Prepare your app for the resizability and orientation changes in Android 17 (Miguel Montemayor)
- Certifying third-party antennas for use with Raspberry Pi Compute Modules (Alex Branton)
- How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate (Fabien Sanglard)
- Meta Plans To Let Smart Glasses Identify People Through AI-Powered Facial Recognition (msmash)
Screencasts and Videos
- How I Built My 10 Agent OpenClaw Team and How to Learn AI with AI (AIDailyBrief)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 300 – “IoT of Back!” (Celebrating 6 years of IoT Coffee Talk!!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Mastering Squad: Ralph Loops, GitHub Issues & Upgrades | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- MoltBot OpenClaw Local System Architecture (Frank La Vigne)
- Not AspiriFridays – Damian and Maddy go Rogue (Damian Edwards & Maddy Montaquila)
- Design to Code with Uno Platform & Figma | Uno Tech Bites and Getting Started with Uno Platform & Antigravity | Uno Tech Bites and Getting Started with WebView2 in Uno Platform | Uno Tech Bites (Sam Basu)
- playwright-cli demo (The Modern Web Architect)
- Let it cook: Agent Steering, Queueing, Hooks, CLI Integration, & more! | Visual Studio Code (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)
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Podcasts
- Merge Conflict Episode #502 – Rectified Flow Revolution – AI Image Generation Gets Smarter (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Sequoia CEO coach: Why it’s never been easier to start a company, and never been harder to scale one | Brian Halligan (co-founder, HubSpot) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- GeekWire Podcast in Fremont: Seahawks, AI, and Seattle’s future (Todd Bishop)
- BONUS: Why Embedding Sales with Engineering in Stealth Mode Changed Everything for Snowflake | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Chris Degnan)
- SyncUp – A OneDrive Podcast – File archive in OneDrive (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
- Big Technology Podcast – Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Changelog and Friends Podcast Episode #128 – Han shot first (Brett Cannon, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #130 – Rivian R2 Prototype: First Drive Revelations (Batteries Included Team)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #346 – AI incidents, audits, and the limits of benchmarks (Sean McGregor, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- A Geek Leader Episode #456 – John Rood (John Rouda)
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #207 – Why maintaining a codebase is so damn hard – with OhMyZSH creator Robby Russell (Beau Carnes)
- Hard Fork Podcast – ‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #284 – Running Local LLMs With Ollama and Connecting With Python (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
- The Art of Coaching Product Owners on What vs. How | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Prabhleen Kaur)
- Women in Technology Podcast Episode #57 – The People Strategy: How HR Shapes Growth in Government Contracting (WiT Team)
Community and Events
- Agents League: Join the Reasoning Agents Track (Carlotta Caste)
- Scary Microsoft Lawyers – Part 1 (Jeffrey Snover)
- The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central (Steve Jones)
- Call For Papers Listings for 2/13 (Leon Adato)
Database
- HammerDB tproc-c on a small server, Postgres and MySQL (Mark Callaghan)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: A Little More About Vector Types (Erik Darling)
- Passwordless PostgreSQL: IAM Authentication with Pulumi (Elisabeth Lichtie)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- What’s new in Viva Insights (Zach Miners)
- M365 Copilot and the case of the broken license (Loryan Strant)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Shipping Features Faster with Copilot CLI (Gregor Suttie)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.410 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Introducing lazyqmd: a tui for QMD – and a little more… (Alexander Zeitler)
Writing
- What Is Cozy Fiction? & How To Write It (Writers Write)
Tools
- Vim 9.2 Released (EditorDavid)
General
- Report: Bill Gates-backed Breakthrough Energy keeps scaling back its climate initiatives (Lisa Stiffler)
- Fake Job Recruiters Hid Malware In Developer Coding Challenges (EditorDavid)
- The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead) (Connie Loizos)
- Former Bing boss says Windows 11 killed the vertical taskbar for symmetric UX, says it was the best productivity feature (Mayank Parmar)
- Microsoft pushes back “switch to MacBook” for a compact adapter, says Surface has slim chargers too in a viral X post (Abhijith M B)
- Review: Framework Laptop 13 (Sam Freeman)
- Trump’s third-country deportations cost $133K per person (Ellsworth Toohey)
- Bill Introduced To Replace West Virginia’s New CS Course Graduation Requirement With Computer Literacy Proficiency (msmash)
More Link Collections
- Android Weekly Issue #714 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
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- Azure Weekly #551 – 15th February 2026 (The Editor)
- F# Weekly #7, 2026 – .NET 11 Preview 1 & Rider 2026.1 EAP 3 (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – February 13, 2026 (#721) (Richard Seroter)
- iOS Dev Weekly Issue 743 (Dave Verwer)
- Reading List 354 (Bruce Lawson)
- Fragments: February 13 (Martin Fowler)
