Top Links
- Accelerating .NET MAUI Development with AI Agents (David Ortinau)
- Windows App SDK Version 1.8.6 (1.8.260317003) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Build Once, Run Everywhere: Blazor Hybrid PDF Viewer for WinForms, WPF, and .NET MAUI (Parthipan R.)
- Azure DevOps: Remote MCP Server preview in Microsoft Foundry (Dan Hellem)
- Developer AI Tooling in 2026: Trends Shaping How We Build (Sam Basu)
- A Command Bar for Windows?! (PowerToys New Feature) (Kayla Cinnamon)
- How Squad runs coordinated AI agents inside your repository (Brady Gaster)
Web and Cloud Development
- Aspire 13.1.3 Release (github-actions[bot])
- JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring (Mat Marquis)
- How to Install WordPress in a Subdirectory: a Step-by-Step Guide (Jen Swisher)
- The Great React Grid-Off: KendoReact vs. MUI vs. AG Grid (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
- Real-Time Data Visualization in Angular: Build Live, Interactive Charts with Syncfusion[Webinar Show Notes] (Prabhavathi Kannan)
- Introducing Angular Testing Library Zoneless (Tim Deschryver)
Windows Development
- Windows stack limit checking retrospective: amd64, also known as x86-64 (Raymond Chen)
- What is Package Identity and how does Windows use it? (Alex Marin)
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.8.260317003 Release (NuGet Gallery)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Local LLM Chat Completions in .NET — Just C# (Bruno Capuano)
- Implementing the Strategy Pattern with .NET Dependency Injection (Ricardo Peres)
AI
- AI Benefits – But at What Cost? (Steve Smith)
- Microsoft’s Jeff Hollan on What Makes an AI Agent Enterprise-Ready (Chris Bernard)
- Skills Central: A Pragmatic Setup for Reusable AI Skills (Marco Siccardi)
- 10+ Learning Resources to Kick-Start Your AI Journey (Ed Charbeneau)
- From prompt to production: Build full-stack apps faster with Google AI Studio and Firebase (Kara Yu & Sam Phillips)
- OpenAI is planning a desktop ‘superapp’ (Jay Peters)
- Your engineering team’s AI training is probably failing: How to fix it (Alexandra Spalato)
- Product management on the AI exponential (Claude Team)
- OpenAI is buying Astral to turn Codex into more than just a coding tool (Wayne Williams)
- Rogue AI Triggers Serious Security Incident At Meta (BeauHD)
- New tools and guidance: Announcing Zero Trust for AI (Mike Adams)
- Rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era (Abigail Cabunoc Mayes)
- AI is becoming a second brain at the expense of your first one (Ryan Donovan)
- Why Your AI Governance Is Holding You Back, and You Don’t Even Know It (Orit Golowinski)
- Governing AI Agent Behavior: Aligning User, Developer, Role, and Organizational Intent (Neta H.)
- Security Dashboard for AI – Now Generally Available (Amanda Lowe)
- Securing the Browser Era – From Cloud to AI: A blog series on protecting the modern workspace (lmurthy)
- DZone Trend Report: Generative AI – From Prototypes to Production, Operationalizing AI at Scale (Melissa Habit, Tuhin Chattopadhyay, Pratik Prakash, Frederic Jacquet & Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri)
- What’s changed from Replit Agent 3 to Agent 4 (Replit Team)
- Power Apps Vibe Experience: Build Business Apps at the Speed of Ideas (harshul05)
- How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment (OpenAI Team)
- azure-ai-agents 2.0.0-beta.3 Release and azure-ai-projects 2.0.0-beta.3 Release (Maven Central Repository)
- Introducing Composer 2 (Cursor Team)
- Keep Deterministic Work Deterministic (Andrew Stellman)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0 RC5 Release (moonbox3)
- Handle an Inbound Phone Call with Python (Liz Acosta)
- Use Chameleon templates in the Robyn web framework (Michael Kennedy)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree (Vitaly Friedman)
- Software Testing with Playwright (Beau Carnes)
- DevOps anti-patterns: what they are and how to avoid them (Bravin Wasike)
- Why CI/CD Matters in DevSecOps: A Guide to Securing Modern Pipelines (Ben Nettleton)
- $ teamcity From the Command Line (Viktor Tiulpin)
- How Slack Rebuilt Notifications (Frances Coronel)
- Code Review without the bottlenecks or the bill (Karishma Kumar)
- Pulumi IAM Expands: Manage Access at Scale with Tags, Roles, and Teams (Arun Loganathan)
- You don’t need to care, just make your products accessible (Andrea Mihaljevic)
Mobile and Game Development
- How to Extract Data from PDFs in .NET MAUI iOS Apps Using C# (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
- Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety (Matthew Forsythe)
- Valve’s huge SteamOS 3.8 update adds long-awaited features — and supports Steam Machine (Sean Hollister)
Screencasts and Videos
- How to Use Claude Cowork on the Go (AIDailyBrief)
- Intro to Warp and Oz (Ben Holmes)
- Model Optimization in Microsoft Foundry: Deployment and Evaluations and Model Optimization in Microsoft Foundry: AI Agents Tool Calling Accuracy and Model Optimization in Microsoft Foundry: Supervised Fine-Tuning (Bethany Jepchumba)
- AspiriFridays – Aspire goes Java with Marshal (Aspire Team)
- Aspireify’ing with a Squad | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- .NET MAUI on Linux and Web? Avalonia Preview 1 Explained (Javier Suárez)
- Building the Cloud Next demo (again) | Observable Flutter #85 (Flutter Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- The Amp Hour #719 – Inventing the Power MOSFET with Alex Lidow (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #564 – New Token Machines (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- The Modern .NET Show – From Zero to 3D: Ben Bowen on TinyFFR’s Rapid .NET Rendering (Jamie Taylor)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #346 – Zuckerberg Finally Finds His People, They Are All AI Agents (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- Talk Python to Me #541 – Monty – Python in Rust for AI (Michael Kennedy)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast Episode #1041 – Building the Internet with sendmail’s Eric Allman (Scott Hanselman)
- BONUS Toyota’s Real Secret Isn’t the Tools — It’s the Attitude Towards Learning That Changes Everything | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Katie Anderson)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #200 – Java & Spring AI Are Winning the Enterprise AI Race (James Ward & Josh Long)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – After all the hype, was 2025 really the year of AI agents? (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- KotlinConf 2026: Talks to Help You Navigate the Schedule (Jelena Ilic)
- Now anyone can host a global AI challenge (Addison Howard)
- The Real Path to Microsoft MVP: Self-Doubt, Small Steps, and Consistency (Kim Sanchez)
Database
- Announcing Preview of bulkadmin role support for SQL Server on Linux (Madhumita Tripathy)
- Double Your Core Count With Azure SQL Managed Instance (Joe Obbish)
- Couchbase brings SQL++, document storage and vector search to ActivePieces AI Automations (Anisha Padamshi)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 19, 2026 (#745) (Richard Seroter)
- Fragments: March 19 (Martin Fowler)
