Top Links
- GPT-5.3 Instant: Smoother, more useful everyday conversations (OpenAI Team)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Jeffrey Snover (Isaac Levin)
- Introducing GPT-5.3 Chat in Microsoft Foundry: A more grounded way to chat at enterprise scale and Unlocking document understanding with Mistral Document AI in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
- Go from prompt to working prototype with Android Studio Panda 2 (Matt Dyor)
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale (Gemini Team)
- Now shipping: Microsoft Build 2026 – June 2–3, 2026 / San Francisco and online (Build 2026 Team)
Web and Cloud Development
- How WebAssembly plugins simplify Kubernetes extensibility (B. Cameron Gain)
- Azure Developer CLI (azd): One command to swap Azure App Service slots (PuiChee (PC) Chan)
- How to Install WordPress on a Subdomain: a Step-by-Step Guide (Jen Swisher)
- Node.js 25.8.0 (Current) (Richard Lau)
- OpenAI WebSocket Mode, 0x Cross-Chain API, TradeStation + Capitalize (Vania Coelho)
- Using Astro for a Combined RSS View and Generator (Raymond Camden)
- Customizing the New ReconnectModal Component in Blazor 10 (Héctor Pérez)
- How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure DevOps Deployment (Koen Verbeeck)
- An Introduction to TanStack DB: A Reactive Data Layer for Modern Web Applications (Christian Nwamba)
- Instant access incremental snapshots: Restore without waiting (Aung Oo)
- How to Diagnose and Fix Font Issues in a JavaScript PDF Viewer (Deepa Thiruppathy)
- Edge.js Template Plugin for 11ty (David Neal)
.NET and Visual Studio
- AutoMapper 16.1 and MediatR 14.1 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
- Custom Agents Transform Visual Studio with Built-In and DIY Options (David Ramel)
- A New Version of the C# Yellow Book really is coming (Rob Miles)
- Prototype Design Pattern in C#: Complete Guide with Examples and Building Real Apps with GitHub Copilot SDK in C#: End-to-End Patterns and Architecture (Nick Cosentino)
- XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — June 2026 Roadmap (v26.1) (Dennis Garavsky)
- DuckDB.NET 1.5.0 Performance: Up to 40% Faster Writes and 22% Fewer Allocations (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
- Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 8: Interior pointers (Kevin Gosse)
AI
- AI-assisted coding needs more than vibes; it needs containers and sandboxes (Ryan Donovan)
- The RockBot Band (Rocky Lhotka)
- Claude Code rolls out a voice mode capability (Lauren Forristal)
- Humans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops (Martin Fowler)
- The Rise of vLLM in Modern Cloud Development: Revolutionizing AI Inference (Konstantinos Passadis)
- Copilot Java SDK 1.0.10 Release (github-actions[bot])
- Developers are coding to a moving target, and nobody knows where AI lands next (Adrian Bridgwater)
- OpenClaw rocks to GitHub’s most-starred status, but is it safe? (Adrian Bridgwater)
- Do you have some rope? Then let’s teach about AI concepts (Jane Waite)
- GitHub Copilot in JetBrains IDEs: Complete Setup and Feature Guide (Copilot That Jawn)
- How to Run and Customize LLMs Locally with Ollama (Ikegah Oliver)
- Token Efficiency vs Cognitive Efficiency: Choosing IaC for AI Agents (Engin Diri)
- PRX Part 3 — Training a Text-to-Image Model in 24h! (David Bertoin, Roman Frigg & Jon Almazán)
- Improving skill-creator: Test, measure, and refine Agent Skills (Claude Team)
Python
- Python for .NET devs: Introduction, virtual environments, package management, and execution lifecycle (Davide Bellone)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Announcing Docker Hardened System Packages (Vishrut Iyengar)
- The Interesting Case of Flattening Mean Time to Mediocrity (Erik Dietrich)
- OpenAI Is Developing an Alternative To GitHub (BeauHD)
- dotNetDave Says… Rushing into Coding Without Proper Planning Will Lead to Costly Mistakes and Delays (David McCarter)
- I am right, in a good way (Eric Brechner)
- Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity (Matheus Lima)
- Shorter Maximum Life for Code Signing Certificates (Joel Ivory Johnson)
- Signed malware impersonating workplace apps deploys RMM backdoors (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
- How we rebuilt the search architecture for high availability in GitHub Enterprise Server (David Tippett)
- The experience gap: How developers’ priorities shift as they grow (Patrick Scheibe)
- Decision speed 2 (Jimmy Nilsson)
Mobile and Game Development
- New on Android: Find friends, lost luggage and great apps (Angana Ghosh)
- Google brings Android’s desktop mode to Pixel devices (Emma Roth)
- March Pixel Drop: New personalization and AI tools (Michal Levin)
- Android devices extend seamlessly to connected displays (Francesco Romano)
Screencasts and Videos
- MCP vs. CLI (Den Delimarsky)
- Hanselminutes – That’s good Mojo – Creating a Programming Language for an AI world with Chris Lattner (Scott Hanselman)
- Building Websites with my Squad | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Random.Code() – General Refactorings in Rocks, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: [Video Podcast] AI Autonomy Is Redefining Architecture: Boundaries Now Matter Most (Jesper Lowgren)
- Microsoft Research Podcast – Trailer: The Shape of Things to Come (Doug Burger)
- RunAs Radio Show #1026 – Hiring in 2026 with Suzi Edwards-Alexander (Richard Campbell)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Voice Clones & Phony Texts: Artificial Intelligence Fraud (United States Postal Service)
- The AI Fix Episode #90 – 5 ways the AI bubble could burst (Mark Stockley)
- When Teams Slowly Decay by Anointing a Hidden Dictator | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nigel Baker)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – No need for Ctrl+C when you have MCP (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Join or host a GitHub Copilot Dev Days event near you (Kathleen Ann Savage)
- I spent all* my GitHub Pro+ tokens in February, what was my output? (Joseph Finney)
- The Story of an Accidental MVP (Kim Sanchez)
- Another Scary Microsoft Lawyers Incident or Don’t be on the Wrong Side of Antitrust (Jeffrey Snover)
- Accenture to acquire Seattle network data company Ookla in $1.2B deal (Taylor Soper)
- How to make your first contribution to an open source project (Salma Alam-Naylor)
Database
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: Vector Search Function, Nice Someday (Erik Darling)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Available today: GPT-5.3 Instant in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Nitin Agrawal)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Discovering PowerShell provider dynamic parameters (Michael Niehaus)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.421 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- 4 Point Of View Choices For Writers (Writers Write)
- Tool: Writing Takes Time (Emily Munro)
General
- Just for fun: A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media (Raymond Chen)
- Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS (Shaheer Zahid)
- The new MacBook Pro laptops are as much as $400 more expensive than their predecessors. Thank the RAM shortage. (Amanda Silberling)
- Apple introduces MacBook Pro with all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max (Apple)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 3, 2026 (#733) (Richard Seroter)
- Radar Trends to Watch: March 2026 (Mike Loukides)
