Top Links
- How to Stream Live Data into .NET MAUI DataGrid Using Firebase (Shalini Suresh)
- From idea to pull request: A practical guide to building with GitHub Copilot CLI (Ari LiVigni)
- Ralph built a Cross-Platform app using Uno Platform whilst I slept. (Nick Randolph)
- Microsoft Foundry: An End-to-End Platform for Building, Governing, and Scaling AI (Divya Paduvalli)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #84 – The .NET Foundation – with Irina Dominte and Jonathan Tower (Dan Clarke)
- winapp CLI Release v0.2.0 (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)
Web and Cloud Development
- MITRE ATT&CK for Developers: Beyond OWASP (Chris Ayers)
- Dapr v1.17 is now available (Dapr Team)
- ASP.NET Core – TryParse error when using Minimal APIs (Bart Wullems)
- How to secure ASP.NET Core APIs with Basic Authentication (David Grace)
- SignalR + the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Inside the AWS SDK for .NET: A Code Quality Wake-Up Call (David McCarter)
- What’s new in Svelte: March 2026 (Dani Sandoval)
- Quick tip: hosting HTML/CSS/JS demos from source code on GitHub Pages (Chris Heilmann)
- What’s new in Astro – February 2026 (Sarah Rainsberger)
- You can use newline characters in URLs (Daniel Lemire)
- Go: Allocating on the Stack (Keith Randall)
- Security Advisory: Addressing Recent Vulnerabilities in Angular (Angular Team)
- Azure Container Apps vs AKS for .NET Workloads: Decision Framework for 2026 (Sudhir Mangla)
- The New Postman is Here: AI-Native and Built for the Agentic Era (Abhinav Asthana)
- CSS Is Turing Complete And You Can Run X86 Programs (Ian Eliott)
- Proposal: Generic Methods for Go – Accepted (Robert Griesemer)
- Protect Your MCP Tools With Auth0 FGA in TypeScript (Raphael do Vale)
- Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element (Juan Diego Rodríguez)
- SDKs vs APIs vs JavaScript: Modern Document Processing in 2026 (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
- Building Interactive Analytics Dashboards with React Pivot Table and D3.js (Manikandan Murugesan)
- Sticky Grid Scroll: Building a Scroll-Driven Animated Grid (Theo Plawinski)
Windows Development
- Intercepting messages inside IsDialogMessage, fine-tuning the message filter (Raymond Chen)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1673 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7939 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7934 (Beta Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
- WinDev Helper Extension for VS Code (Alvin Ashcraft) – New 2.6.0 preview release updated for winapp CLI 0.2.0 and new msstore CLI support
.NET and Visual Studio
- .NET 10: System.Text.Json Improvements (Anthony Giretti)
- When to Use Factory Method Pattern in C#: Decision Guide with Examples and Semantic Kernel Agents in C#: Complete Guide to AI Agents and Builder Pattern Real-World Example in C#: Complete Implementation and Semantic Kernel Plugins in C#: The Complete Guide and Factory Method Design Pattern in C#: Complete Guide (Nick Cosentino)
- Fencing Tokens and Generation Clock in .NET: Stop Zombie Leaders From Writing (Chris Woodruff)
AI
- Foundry Local Web UI for IIS (Orin Thomas)
- How AI Makes Me a Better Programmer (Dave Bush)
- Microsoft Copilot Canvas leak reveals an AI-powered Whiteboard with image generation, AI streaming, and more and Tested: Microsoft Copilot can now access your Google Contacts, and it’s better than Gemini integration (Abhijith M B)
- Claude in Copilot? Excel on Steriods!! (Michael Goad)
- Trump orders federal agencies to drop Anthropic’s AI (Richard Lawler)
- Red Hat introduces its first out and out AI platform (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
- America Used Anthropic’s AI for Its Attack On Iran, One Day After Banning It (EditorDavid)
- Grok 4.0 Goes GA in Microsoft Foundry and Grok 4.1 Fast Arrives with Major Enhancements (Naomi Moneypenny)
- Quoting claude.com/import-memory and An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail and Free Claude Max for (large project) open source maintainers (Simon Willison)
- Perplexity’s new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models (Tim Fernholz)
- Find out what’s new in the Gemini app in February’s Gemini Drop | The Keyword (Google)
- Microsoft: Computer Programming Is Dying, Long Live AI Literacy (msmash)
- AWS Just Told Every Hospital CIO That Microsoft Was Right About Agents (Paul J. Swider)
- Microsoft AI CEO Predicts Human-Level Automation of White-Collar Jobs Within 18 Months (Kieron Allen)
- Chip Huyen: To Build or Not to Build – When AI Can Do It All? (Ivan Brezak Brkan)
- Microsoft and OpenAI joint statement on continuing partnership (Microsoft)
- AI can detect vulnerabilities, but who governs risk? (Omer Azaria)
- Learning In Public: Cleaning Up Claude Code Settings (Ben Nadel)
- Microsoft Store Developer CLI (msstore) Agent Skill (Awesome Copilot)
- OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership and Joint Statement from OpenAI and Microsoft and Scaling AI for everyone (OpenAI Team)
- Building Spookseek AR on Replit: How a Designer Shipped an AR Ghost Hunting Game in a Week (Replit Team)
- The ‘Million AI Monkeys’ Hypothesis & Real-World Projects (Oren Eini)
- What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework? (Matthew Gault)
Python
- Prompty for Python v2.0.0a1 Release (Seth Juarez)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Updates to Team Calendar extension for Azure DevOps (Dan Hellem)
- Redis patterns for coding (antirez)
- Advanced Installer 23.5.1 (Advanced Installer Team)
- I Built a GitHub Action for Automated Website Screenshots (GrabShot)
- Neural Networks for Developers – XOR (Part 1) (James D. Randall)
- A Tech Girl’s Guide to Finding Your Light Again | Part 2: The Muck (Carly Robinson)
- Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs (Harshad Sane & Andrew Halaney)
Mobile and Game Development
- What I DON’T want to happen to YOU, and HDRP is dead! (Code Monkey)
- Phone number verification breaks barriers (Micah Baker)
Screencasts and Videos
- Random.Code() – General Refactorings in Rocks, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
- Building a Pizzabot with Foundry and C# – Complete Demo with Code | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
- Who Controls AI? and Are 40% Staff Cuts the New AI Normal? (AIDailyBrief)
- Technology & Friends – Rod Christensen and Roan Weigert on AI Pipelines and Rocket Ride (David Giard)
- All HTTP status codes explained – Part 8 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- My AI Agents Reviewed My Code. Without Me. | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Why a Raspberry Pi Can’t Be a Stoplight (Frank La Vigne)
- What Are Skills? (Claude Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Savino Carlone: ERP Systems – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #391 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Merge Conflict Episode #504 – 15 Years of iCircuit (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Lenny’s Podcast – The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Hard Fork Podcast – Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School and Hard Fork Podcast – At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- Talk Python to Me #538 – Python in Digital Humanities (Michael Kennedy)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #678 – Opus 4.5 changed everything (Burke Holland & Adam Stacoviak)
- Big Technology Podcast – Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff (Alex Kantrowitz)
- React Native Radio Episode #354 – React Native Screens with Krzysztof Magiera (Mazen Chami & Robin Heinze)
- The Azure Security Podcast Episode #125 – Origins of MITRE ATT&CK (Michael Howard, Mark Simos & Blake Strom)
- AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #017 – The Future of Work: Agent Orchestration (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #286 – Overcoming Testing Obstacles With Python’s Mock Object Library (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
- The Explicit and Implicit Layers of Unclear Decision Rights | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Lai-Ling Su)
- A Geek Leader Episode #458 – Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth (John Rouda)
- Women in Technology Podcast Episode #58 – The Growth Zone: Scaling Smarter in the Age of AI (WiT Team)
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #209 – The ultimate dev skill is Integration Testing – Podcast interview with Internet of Bugs (Beau Carnes)
- Inside Platform Engineering with Matt Gowie (Matthew Allford)
Community and Events
- Call For Papers Listings for 2/27 (Leon Adato)
- Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC 2026 (Fernando Aznar)
- MWC 2026: all the phones, gadgets, and announcements from Barcelona (Dominic Preston)
- Community Asks Oracle For MySQL Foundation (Kay Ewbank)
- Ahead of MWC Barcelona, Nvidia bets AI-native platforms will carry telecom into 6G (Kyt Dotson)
- X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran (David Gilbert)
- Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash (Abhijith M B)
- Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
- The Physics of Misunderstanding: When “Gaze” Almost Cost Me My Career (Jeffrey Snover)
Database
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Top 5 Common Challenges in O365 Migration and How to Solve Them (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Agent mode in Excel now works with your local files (Prash_MSFT)
- Copilot can reschedule conflicting events in Outlook (Julia Foran)
- What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | February 2026 (Seth Patton)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Announcing new output formats in AWS CLI v2 (Andrew Asseily)
- AWS Tools for PowerShell v4 Maintenance Mode Announcement (Sanket Tangade)
- pwsh-host-rs – Rust PowerShell Hosting Library (Devolutions)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.420 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- 31 Writing Prompts For March 2026 and 7 Deadly Rules For Creating A Villain (Writers Write)
- Live Blog Writer Extension for VS Code (new 1.4.0 release with more localization support) (Alvin Ashcraft) – Adds French, German, Portuguese, and Italian support
- 10 principles of the cyborg technical writer — brief notes and bullet points on how to use AI to augment your role (Tom Johnson)
Tools
- Dev Feed Curator for VS Code (release 3.8.0 with more localization support) (Alvin Ashcraft) – Adds French, German, Portuguese, and Italian support
General
- Microsoft finally gives you greater control over Print screen key in Windows 11, including access to third-party apps (Mayank Parmar)
- Microsoft urges major changes to Washington data center regulations as bill nears final vote (Lisa Stiffler)
- Former Nuance employee admits breaching more than 1.2M Geisinger patient records (Dissent)
- Why Do We Lose Motivation? The Neuroscience Behind Motivation, Brain Chemistry, and Behavior (FactOfStates)
- Left-Handers Are More Competitive Than Right-Handers – A new study investigates the association of left-handedness and competitiveness (Sebastian Ocklenburg, Ph.D.)
More Link Collections
- Azure Weekly #553 – 1st March 2026 (The Editor)
- F# Weekly #9, 2026 – Crunching the Technical Debt with Repo Assist (Sergey Tihon)
- Android Weekly Issue #716 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
- iOS Dev Weekly Issue #744 (Dave Verwer)
- Daily Reading List – February 27, 2026 (#731) (Richard Seroter)
- Interesting links – February 2026 (Robin Moffatt)
- Gemini Seizes the Lead, Investors Panic Over Agentic AI, Optimism at Global AI Summit, Local Versus Cloud | The Batch (DeepLearning.AI)
