Top Links
- Windows App Development CLI v0.2: .NET support, manifest placeholders, “winapp store” and more! (Nikola Metulev)
- .NET 10: Secondary Toolbar Items for iOS and macOS in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
- The JavaScript AI Build-a-thon Season 2 starts today! (Julia Muiruri)
- Give Your Agents Domain Expertise with Agent Skills in Microsoft Agent Framework (Sergey Menshykh)
- Supercharge your Android development with 6 expert tips for Gemini in Android Studio (Trevor Johns)
- GitHub Copilot Dev Days: Build faster with GitHub Copilot CLI, in Visual Studio, and beyond! (Katie Savage)
- Getting started with GitHub Copilot CLI (Kayla Cinnamon)
Web and Cloud Development
- Rate Limiting IdentityServer Endpoints (Maarten Balliauw)
- Cleaner Minimal API Endpoints with [AsParameters] (Bart Wullems)
- Build a Loom Clone with Next.js 15 and Mux (Beau Carnes)
- AI Gateway: use Anthropic and OpenAI with one API key (Nijiko Yonskai)
- Cloudflare’s new Markdown support shows how the web is evolving for AI agents (David Eastman)
- Singleton or Not? Understanding Angular Services the Right Way (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Popover API or Dialog API: Which to Choose? (Zell Liew)
- Getting Started With The Popover API (Godstime Aburu)
- GIF optimization tool using WebAssembly and Gifsicle (Simon Willison)
- Best Practices for Secure Error Handling in Go (Dominika Stankiewicz)
Windows Development
- What sort of horrible things happen if my dialog has a non-button with the control ID of IDCANCEL? (Raymond Chen)
- Quick start: Set up your environment and create a WinUI 3 project (Microsoft Learn)
- Why So Many, Microsoft? (Vladyslav Lubenskyi) – UI frameworks, that is
.NET and Visual Studio
- Real-Time AI Conversations in .NET — Local STT, TTS, VAD and LLM (Bruno Capuano)
- Image to Report Features in a C# .NET Application (Alec Gall)
- Azure Trusted Signing Revisited with Dotnet Sign (Rick Strahl)
- Cake v6.1.0 released (Mattias Karlsson)
- Creating case-sensitive folders on Windows using C# (Gérald Barré)
- From Legacy Microsoft Office Automation to a Future-Ready Document Pipeline with C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
- Why IEnumerable Can Kill Performance in Hot Paths (Ali Hamza Ansari)
AI
- Copilot Ralph Loop – VS Code Copilot implementation of Ralph Loop (Giorgio Caizzi)
- Giving Your AI Agents Reliable Skills with the Agent Skills SDK (Pratik Panda)
- Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering (Sean Goedecke)
- Claude in Copilot? Excel on Steroids!! (Michael Goad)
- PixelProof – Detect fake, AI-generated, and Photoshopped images in seconds (Kevin Thomas)
- Supreme Court won’t hear AI-generated art copyright case (Emma Roth)
- OpenAI Shares How They’re Turning Engineers into AI Team Leads (Ivan Brezak Brkan)
- Now in Foundry: Qwen3.5 Medium Model Series (Osi)
- How I built an app to manage Azure using AI (Gregor Suttie)
- Software Engineering in the Agentic AI Era (Dan Allsop)
- “Is our organisation ready for AI?” (Jimmy Nilsson)
- How to Bet Against the Bitter Lesson (Tim O’Reilly)
- What questions will you ask your data agent? (Jerry Nixon)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Making Productivity Turing Complete (Rob Conery)
- Octopus Easy Mode – Channels (Matthew Casperson)
- Parse, Don’t Guess (Oskar Dudycz)
- Your First Migration: Moving a Single Project From Jenkins to TeamCity Painlessly (Olga Bedrina)
- Simplifying Customer Service with BoldDesk: A Seamless Engagement Experience (Bramwel Eddy Owino)
- OAuth redirection abuse enables phishing and malware delivery (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
- In defence of correctness (Mark Seemann)
- Run Pulumi Insights on Your Own Infrastructure (Levi Blackstone)
- Design-First Collaboration (Martin Fowler)
- Why Capacity Planning Is Back (Syed Danish Ali)
Mobile and Game Development
- What’s new in Swift: February 2026 Edition (Karen Chu & Dave Lester)
- Raspberry Pi Pico projects (Phil King)
- Open Source Hardware Certifications for February 2026 (Sid Drmay)
- New feature for ROG Xbox Ally X: Highlight reels in Xbox PC app (Athima Chansanchai)
- Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 and Apple introduces iPhone 17e (Apple)
Screencasts and Videos
- Open Standards for Enterprise Agents | Armchair Architects (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
- Update to WinApp CLI and some GitHub releases – Developer News 09/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- Nano Banana 2 Is Here (AIDailyBrief)
- MEF Components and AsyncPackages in VisualStudio.Extensibility Extensions | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Matteo Prosperi)
- From Model Integration to Agents: Building Intelligent .NET Applications – NDC London 2026 (Gill Cleeren)
- I Built a CLI Tool to Switch .NET MAUI Versions Instantly (Gerald Versluis)
- It’s an Aspire System… I Know This. (Minecraft Edition) | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Every AI Model Explained and Google AI Studio – Full Tutorial 2026: How To Build an App and How Much Better is Perplexity Computer than OpenClaw? (Frank La Vigne)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Developer Tea Podcast – AI Moves the Bottleneck – Are You Ready for What That Means For Your Career? (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The history of the octothorpe. Sir Fragalot and sentence fragments. Dribzle. (Mignon Fogarty & Karen Lunde)
- The Presentation Podcast Episode #241 – “Behind the Scenes: Lori Chollar’s Ultrawide Presentation Session at the Presentation Design Conference” (Troy Chollar)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #471 – The ORM pattern of 2026? (Michael Kennedy)
- Big Technology Podcast – Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Changelog and Friends Podcast Episode #129 – Finale & Friends (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- The PowerShell Podcast – PowerShell Tools for PKI and Secure Boot with Richard Hicks (James Petty)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #265 – Beyond Shadow IT: Unsanctioned AI Agents Don’t Just Talk, They Act! (Anton Chuvakin)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #983 – Why I Chose Electron Over Native (And I’d Do It Again) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The Scrum Master Mistake of Copy-Pasting Success Instead of Recreating the Journey | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nigel Baker)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #508 – Finding Your Next Job w/ Recruiter Richie Lampani (Taylor Desseyn)
- Meta Cast – Why Great Leaders Use AI to Hire More People, Not Fire Them (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Betatalks the Podcast Episode #125 – Rewriting the Operating System of Tech – with Emily van Putten (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
- InfoQ Podcast: [Video Podcast] Frictionless DevEx (Nicole Forsgren)
- Episode 1 – Bad Job Bingo (Stephanie Lundberg)
Community and Events
- MicroVision layoffs impact senior-level engineering roles (Taylor Soper)
- Mastodon now has a button for sharing content from other websites (Stevie Bonifield)
- What’s new at Stack Overflow: March 2026 (Zach Rutta)
Database
- Monitor SQL Server Performance at Scale with SQLGrease (Jared Westover)
- SQL Server Concurrency Issues with Parallel Query Plans (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
- The secret life of database keys (Lee Asher)
- TempDB Internals – What’s New (Sql Server 2016 to 2025) (Vinay Thankur)
- GA of update policy SQL Server 2025 for Azure SQL Managed Instance (Mladen Andzic)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- People Skills: Expanding skills intelligence to more users and surfaces across Microsoft 365 (Ani Bajaj)
- The Next Chapter of Microsoft Teams in Virtualized Environments (Fernando Klurfan)
- Introducing new agentic building in SharePoint and more updates (Adam Harmetz)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI Reaches General Availability, Bringing Agentic Coding to the Terminal (David Ramel)
Writing
- Horror Movies Are Popular (& Why You Should Write Them) (Writers Write)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 2, 2026 (#732) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI partnership, AWS Elemental Inference, Strands Labs, and more (March 2, 2026) (Micah Walter)
- Reading Notes #687 (Frank Boucher)
- Windows news you can use: February 2026 (Chris_Morrissey)
The Geek Shelf
LLM and Agentic AI Career Accelerator Bundle (Packt Publishing) – Referral Link
Pay what you want for this eBook bundle and learn LLMs lightning-quick (Humble Bundle)