Top Links
- Introducing the First Frontier Suite built on Intelligence + Trust (Judson Althoff)
- Visual Studio Dev Essentials: Free, Practical Tools for Every Developer (Jim Harrer)
- Build a Profile Picture Editor in .NET MAUI with the Image Editor (Karthick Mani)
- Build a real-world example with Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft Foundry, MCP and Aspire (Justin Yoo)
- Using winapp CLI with Flutter (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)
- Extend your coding agent with .NET Skills (Tim Heuer)
Web and Cloud Development
- Make custom elements behave with scoped registries and Using CSS animations as state machines to remember focus and hover states with CSS only (Patrick Brosset)
- Building a Scroll-Reactive 3D Gallery with Three.js, Velocity, and Mood-Based Backgrounds (Houmahani Kane)
- The Value of z-index (Amit Sheen)
- Protecting Against Concurrent Updates in Azure Blob Storage with ETags (Mark Heath)
- DS Server: Enabling HTTPS for TX Text Control Document Services Using Kestrel (Bjoern Meyer)
- NoJS 3 – The dawn of Flappy Bird. Making a Flappy Bird clone using pure HTML and CSS, no JavaScript by Gurveer Arora (Gurveer Arora)
- General Availability: Email and SMS OTP as Second‑Factor MFA for Native Authentication in Entra External ID (Sasha Mars)
Windows Development
- Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Ambiguous overloaded operator (Raymond Chen)
- XamlToCSharpGenerator – Standalone Avalonia source-generator compiler backend (Wiesław Šoltés)
- Microsoft Store Developer CLI (MSIX) | App Development (Microsoft Learn)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Inspect and Process Track Changes in DOCX Documents with TX Text Control with .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Agent Skills in .NET: A Minimal Working Demo (Bruno Capuano)
- Prototype Pattern Best Practices in C#: Code Organization and Maintainability (Nick Cosentino)
- A Guide to Smart Data Regions in C# .NET Reports (Alec Gall)
AI
- Treating Prompts Like Code: A Content Engineer’s AI Workflow (Cam Soper)
- Agent Resources and Tools (Rocky Lhotka)
- Use the image generation tool | Microsoft Foundry Agent Service (Microsoft Learn) – Samples for C#, Java, TypeScript, Python and REST API included
- Automate AI agents with the Responses API in Llama Stack (Michael Dawson)
- A Designer’s Thoughts About This Moment in AI (Brad Frost)
- Zoho MCP: Launching the future of work (Poonam Singh)
- Agent Skills: Explore security threats and controls (Florencio Cano Gabarda)
- Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform (Zoë Schiffer & Lauren Goode)
- Security Was Already a Mess. Generative AI Is About to Prove It. (Adron Hall)
- Bringing Code Review to Claude Code (Claude Team)
- Under the hood: Security architecture of GitHub Agentic Workflows (Landon Cox)
- Microsoft Sharpens AI Toolkit for VS Code in Foundry Update (David Ramel)
- Soft Forks: How Agent Skills Create Specialized AI Without Training (Han Lee)
- Which of these languages are best for AI? (Mark Seemann)
- Beyond the Shortcut: How Generative AI is Reshaping Engineering Education (Gillian Mutti)
- Granite 4.0 1B Speech: Compact, Multilingual, and Built for the Edge (George Saon & Madison Lee)
- A closer look at Work IQ (Seth Patton)
- The End of Coding? Wrong Question (Oskar Dudycz)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Octopus Easy Mode – Kubernetes (Matthew Casperson)
- My favorite way to write code in 2026 (on becoming a TDD addict) (Chris Ferdinandi)
- Your Data is Made Powerful By Context (so stop destroying it already) (xpost) (Charity Majors)
- Your API Tests Are Passing. That’s the Problem. (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Organizing productive platform teams (Adora Nwodo & Peter O’Connor)
- Visualize GitHub Actions runs with Meziantou.GitHubActionsTracing (Gérald Barré)
- Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later (Anders Toxboe)
- The 5 Core Types of Positioning (JD Meier)
- A Tech Girl’s Guide to Finding Your Light Again | Part 3: Here’s the Map. (Carly Robinson)
- Expanded Version Control Support in Pulumi Cloud (Dan Biwer)
- To test, or not to Test? Part 1 – Why Test? And at what cost? (Urs Enzler)
Mobile and Game Development
- Maker Monday: Your Raspberry Pi builds (Ashley Whittaker)
- Curving Reality – A Flutter library that speeds up development with ready-to-use UI components, screens, and services to build high-quality iOS and Android apps from a single codebase (Eduardo Mollo)
Screencasts and Videos
- Solutions That Evolve: Building Self-Improving Systems with Genetic Algorithms – NDC London 2026 (Barry Stahl)
- Autoresearch, Agent Loops and the Future of Work (AIDailyBrief)
- Foundry IQ: Unlocking Knowledge for Your Agents | The IQ Series (Ayca Bas, Farzad Sunavala, Pablo Castro & Tomomi Imura)
- New GUI in Windows Terminal to create Actions and more! – Developer News 10/2025 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- I made Copilot CLI go HONK! (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Postgres and OpenAI – a match made in Azure – NDC London 2026 (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
- Getting started with GitHub Copilot CLI | Tutorial for beginners (GitHub Team)
- Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR | Always-on, human-led MXDR | Microsoft Mechanics (Maynald Savatdy)
- Using the Data API Builder in Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
- This Free PDF Viewer for .NET MAUI Beats Every WebView Solution (Gerald Versluis)
- Getting Started with Uno Platform + GitHub Copilot CLI (Sam Basu)
- Going Passwordless – A Practical Guide to Passkeys in ASP.NET Core – NDC London 2026 (Maarten Balliauw)
- Official Xbox Podcast: GDC Indie Games Deep Dive (Joe Skrebels)
- Is RAG Still Needed? Choosing the Best Approach for LLMs (Frank La Vigne)
- Coding 4 Fun: 8-bit game emulation in .NET – NDC London 2026 (Alex Thissen)
- Copilot CLI in VS Code | VS Code Live: Agent Sessions Day (Visual Studio Code Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Is the Academy Awards singular or plural? Writing about time. (Mignon Fogarty & Jim Norrena)
- Developer Tea Podcast – From Software Engineer to Agent Manager – How Work is Changing in A New Software Development Paradigm (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Fragmented – AI Developer Podcast Episode #306 – Keeping your agent instructions in sync and effective (Kaushik Gopal & Iury Souza)
- Only Malware in the Building – AI swarms and cyber alarms (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #472 – Monorepos (Michael Kennedy)
- AI Agent and Copilot Podcast: Microsoft Agent Framework Enables Complex, Multi-Agent Actions (Tom Smith)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #348 – AI policy and the battle for computing power (Ben Buchanan & Chris Benson)
- SQL Server Radio Episode #185 – The Liar’s Dividend (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
- The Eager Scrum Master Trap, Why Proposing Solutions Too Early Can Backfire | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #985 – Stop putting secrets in .env (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #266 – Resetting the SOC for Code War: Allie Mellen on Detecting State Actors vs. Doing the Basics (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode #103 – Trader Joe’s Springs Into a Bunch of Great New Products (Trader Joe’s Team)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #509 – How to Tackle Salary Negotiations w/ John Gates (Taylor Desseyn)
- Meta Cast – Caring Is Leading: Eight Lessons from the Hardest Job You’ll Ever Have (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Zero Trust and PowerShell in K12 with Jim Tyler (James Petty)
- InfoQ Podcast: Mindful Leadership in the Age of AI (Sam McAfee)
- CIO Podcast Episode #110 – IT Efficiency with Todd Richardson (Neil Versel)
Community and Events
- Livestream: UI Freezes in JetBrains IDE Plugins and How to Avoid Them (Elena Kerpeleva)
- Tech Employment Falls Again as US Economy Loses 92,000 Jobs (Aminu Abdullahi)
- Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group (Keith Mattix, Nir Rozenbaum, Morgan Foster & Flynn)
- EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch (BeauHD)
- Honoring Women Innovators: How Marisa Redd Is Expanding Childcare Access Through Technology (Tiffiany)
- A New Chapter for Bluesky (Jay Graber)
- Coming Off the Bench for Bluesky (Toni Schneider)
Database
- Optimize SQL Server TempDB (M A A Mehedi Hasan)
- The SQL Server Transaction Log, Part 3: The Circular Nature of the Log (Paul S. Randal)
- IDENTITY vs SEQUENCE in SQL Server – which should you use? (Greg Low)
- Production query plans without production data (Simon Willison)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Secure agentic AI for your Frontier Transformation (Vasu Jakkal)
- From draft to done: agentic Copilot in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint and Copilot in Outlook: New agentic experiences for email and calendar (Daniel Vargas)
- Bringing AI assistance to basic plans in Microsoft Planner (Shree Shastha)
- Build business understanding with Dataverse in Microsoft 365 Copilot (James Oleinik)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI Tips & Tricks — Part 2: Session management (Bart Wullems)
- Junie CLI, the LLM-agnostic coding agent, is now in Beta (Anastasia Krivosheeva)
- Copilot+ – Talk to GitHub Copilot CLI with your voice, share screenshots, switch AI models instantly, and monitor all running sessions from one dashboard (Errr0rr404)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.3 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Tools
- NanaZip 6.5 Preview (6.5.1638.0) and NanaZip 6.0 Update 2 (6.0.1650.0) (Mouri Naruto)
- Air Launches as Public Preview – A New Wave of Dev Tooling Built on 26 Years of Experience (Nik Tkachev)
General
- Live Nation Avoids Ticketmaster Breakup By ‘Open Sourcing’ Their Ticketing Model (BeauHD)
- The government shutdown is hitting airports — but not ICE (Gaby Del Valle)
- GM figured out how to navigate EV uncertainty with the Chevy Bolt and The 2027 Chevy Bolt is the McRib of the automotive world (Tim De Chant)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 9, 2026 (#737) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Connect Health, Bedrock AgentCore Policy, GameDay Europe, and more (March 9, 2026) (Sébastien Stormacq)
- Reading Notes #688 (Frank Boucher)
- Azure Weekly #554 – 8th March 2026 (The Editor)
