Top Links
- Uno MCP vs App MCP: When to Use Each (Matt Mattei)
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry-Frontier Performance for Scale (Amar Badal)
- Making music with MIDI just got a real boost in Windows 11 (Pete Brown)
- XAML Source-Generation in .NET MAUI makes your app so much better (Daniel Hindrikes)
- JetBrains Editor Improvements: Smooth Caret Animation and New Selection Behavior (Bulat Davletov)
- JMESPath support comes to azd JSON output (Scott Addie)
Web and Cloud Development
- Spiral Scrollytelling in CSS With sibling-index() (Lee Meyer)
- Introducing the WordPress AI Assistant — Now Built Into WordPress.com (Ronnie Burt)
- Angular 21: Internal Mechanics, ARIA, and AI-Powered Coding! (Angular Team)
- Azure API Management – Unified AI Gateway Design Pattern (Nicole Haugen)
- How I built a custom agent skill to configure Application Insights (Bart Wullems)
- First Public Working Draft: Selectors Level 5 (W3C Team)
- Build a Custom Backstage View in ASP.NET Core with TX Text Control (Deepika Kathiravan)
- Ultimate Angular Firebase Setup with AnalogJS (Jonathan Gamble)
- Building Real-World Web Apps with ASP.NET Core Razor Pages (David Ramel)
- Choosing a React Animation Library: Performance Trade-Offs in Real Apps (Sumankumar G.)
- Federated Identity vs. Single Sign-On: Key Differences (Andrea Chiarelli)
- TypeScript Utility Types: A Complete Guide (Umesh Malik)
- Using go fix to modernize Go code (Alan Donovan)
Windows Development
- Building a Real-Time Security Monitoring Dashboard with Telerik UI for WinForms (Jefferson S. Motta)
- It rather involved being on the other side of the airtight hatchway: Tricking(?) a program into reading files (Raymond Chen)
- Releasing Windows 11 Builds 26100.7918 and 26200.7918 to the Release Preview Channel and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7859 (Beta Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- T4 templates on modern .NET (Ian Griffiths)
AI
- How To Think About AI-Assisted Development (J. Tower)
- Generative AI has broken the subject matter expert/editor relationship (Rachel Andrew)
- Meta’s new deal with Nvidia buys up millions of AI chips (Stevie Bonifield)
- Acting urgently to close the growing AI divide (Brad Smith & Natasha Crampton)
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now available in Windsurf (Windsurf Team)
- Introducing Agent Plugins for AWS (Anita Lewis)
- Top 7 Small Language Models You Can Run on a Laptop (Vinod Chugani)
- Better code, fewer tokens: Introducing Agent Skills for Firebase (Luke Schlangen)
- Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 as Default Model for Free and Paid Users (TechRepublic Staff)
- Securing the AI software supply chain: Security results across 67 open source projects (Gregg Cochran)
- Anthropic’s new Claude Sonnet 4.6 promises Opus-level coding at Sonnet pricing (Frederic Lardinois)
- Alkimo – Your AI assistant for everything (Alkimo Team)
- AI vin – A Windows desktop chat application. Connect to local and online models. (Alvin Ashcraft) – Initial release built with WinUI. Help me find bugs and request new features.
- Meta and Other Tech Companies Ban OpenClaw Over Cybersecurity Concerns (Paresh Dave)
- The uncomfortable truth about vibe coding (Todd Wardzinski)
- ServiceNow Expands AI Strategy with Anthropic Claude Integration for Agentic Workflows (Kieron Allen)
- AI, A2A, and the Governance Gap (Shreshta Shyamsundar)
- OpenAI Publishes Codex App Server Architecture for Unifying AI Agent Surfaces (Eran Stiller)
- CLAUDE.md Best Practices: Mermaid for Workflows (Gábor Mészáros)
- Increase web search accuracy and efficiency with dynamic filtering (Claude Team)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Simplify managing your Docker compose files with this handy tool (Jack Wallen)
- Microspeak: Escrow (Raymond Chen)
- Hashing vs Encoding vs Encrypting vs Signing (Keith Casey)
- A Minimum Viable Content Strategy for Startups (Rachel Roumeliotis)
- Security Lingo Explained: Encode vs Encrypt vs Hash (AL Rodriguez)
- Harness Engineering (Martin Fowler)
- Platform engineering: Rebuilding the core for developer effectiveness (Tom Holbourn & Matthias Scholz)
Mobile and Game Development
- Under the hood: Android 17’s lock-free MessageQueue (Shai Barack & Charles Munger)
Screencasts and Videos
- The AI Productivity Boom Finally Shows Up and The Latest AI Models and Model Rumors (AIDailyBrief)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Steve Smith and Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Tim Heuer (Isaac Levin)
- Microsoft Store CLI, .NET 11 Preview 1 and more! – Developer News 07/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- AI with Zero Trust Security | Microsoft Mechanics (Michael Madrigal)
- Aspire Conf 2026 (Aspire Team)
- Our most capable Sonnet model yet (Claude Team)
- Minecraft Magic with the Squad | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Random.Code() – Adding Another Suppressor to Rocks, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
- Intro to the GitButler CLI (GitButler Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Developer Tea Podcast – AI-Era Employability and Job Security for Software Engineers – Mental Models for Finding a Competitive Advantage Without Selling Out (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Blue Blazes S04E02: GitHub Copilot App Modernization for .NET – featuring Matt Soucoup (Jonathan “J.” Tower)
- RunAs Radio Episode #1024 – Hacking using AI with Erica Burgess (Richard Campbell)
- The AI Fix Episode #88 – Claude Code, the rise of AI agents, and the AI that called its human (Mark Stockley)
- The Presentation Podcast Episode #240 – From Sofia to London: We Chat with Boris Hristov About the Journey of the Present to Succeed Conference (Troy Chollar, Sandy Johnson & Nolan Haimes)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast Episode #1035 – The AI Vampire with Gas Town’s Steve Yegge (Scott Hanselman)
- Boagworld Podcast Episode #31 – From Agency Work to Product Success (Paul Boag)
- AI Assisted Coding: Stop Building Features, Start Building Systems with AI | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Adam Bilišič)
Community and Events
- Uno Platform 6.5: Community Standup (Sam Basu)
- My MVP Story: Nathalie Leenders’ Journey From Salon Chair to Solution Builder (Betsy Weber)
- Why I’m One of the Last People to Still Visit StackOverflow (Rachel Kaufman)
- Get ready for Google I/O May 19-20 (Google I/O Team)
- GeekWire’s AI summit to feature key leaders from Amazon, Microsoft, and more, on March 24 in Seattle (Todd Bishop)
- MySQL community calls for discussions on the future of the ecosystem (Ian Barker)
- How I Spent My Last 17 Months (Joey Dantoni)
- Sharp Economy Becomes Official Sponsor of HackIndia 2026 (Mahesh Chand)
Database
- Dear Copilot, can you help me with SQL? (Jerry Nixon)
- Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
- PostgreSQL with Windows and The Code Page Trap No One Warned You About (Kellyn Gorman)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: A Little About Generating Embeddings (Erik Darling)
- How to Help Copilot Encourage Good Database Standards (Brent Ozar)
- The Multi-Model Database for AI Agents: Deploy SurrealDB with Docker Extension (Jennifer Kohl)
- MariaDB innovation: binlog_storage_engine, small server, Insert Benchmark (Mark Callaghan)
PowerShell and Terminal
- PowerShell, OpenSSH, and DSC team investments for 2026 (Steve Lee)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.412-0 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- How To Deal With A Writer’s Inner Critic (Writers Write)
General
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