Top Links
- MCP Apps on Azure Functions: Quickstart with TypeScript (Swapnil Nagar)
- Tracking Every Token: Granular Cost and Usage Metrics for Microsoft Foundry Agents (Christian Coello)
- GitHub Store: Your One-Stop Shop for Open-Source Apps! (GitHub Open Source Team)
- Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security (Matt “TK” Taylor & Matt Kane)
- Your Syncfusion License Just Got More Powerful: Code Studio Is Now Included (Meena Alagiah)
- GitHub Copilot CLI combines model families for a second opinion (Nick McKenna)
Web and Cloud Development
- What’s New in .NET 11 Preview 1 & 2: Runtime Async, Zstandard, Blazor TempData, and Vector Search (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)
- Modern Azure Resilience with Mark Russinovich (Molina Sharma)
- Announcing the end of support for Node.js 20.x in the Azure SDK for JavaScript (Minh-Anh Phan)
- Automate Azure App Secret Rotation with ESC (Sean Yeh)
- Just – The task library for your JS projects that just works (Microsoft)
- Blazor Basics: Building Responsive Blazor Apps with CSS Media Queries (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Looking at New CSS Multi-Column Layout Wrapping Features (Abhishek Pratap Singh)
- MCP maintainers from Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and OpenAI lay out enterprise security roadmap at Dev Summit (Eric Newcomer)
- Using Blazor Sections For Complex Situations (Mitchel Sellers)
Windows Development
.NET and Visual Studio
- Mapping database views in EF Core without breaking migrations (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- I Built a .NET 10 Knowledge Graph Builder (Inspired by Karpathy) (Bruno Capuano)
AI
- Text Control MCP Server (Jonathan Maron)
- Old Protocols, New Pipes (Mark Downie)
- AI breakthrough cuts energy use by 100x while boosting accuracy (Science Daily)
- Can OpenClaw Challenge Copilot in VS Code? and Microsoft Ships Production-Ready Agent Framework 1.0 for .NET and Python (David Ramel)
- Designing AI guardrails for apps and agents in Marketplace (code4clouds)
- MCP servers turn Claude into a reasoning engine for your data (Jessica Wachtel)
- How to Build and Secure a Personal AI Agent with OpenClaw (Rudrendu Paul)
- Better MoE model inference with warp decode (Cursor Team)
- Engineering Storefronts for Agentic Commerce (Heiko Hotz)
- Inside an AI‑enabled device code phishing campaign (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
- Microsoft Foundry Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework in C# (Nick Cosentino)
- Now in Foundry: Cohere Transcribe, Nanbeige 4.1-3B, and Octen Embedding (Osi)
- Turn Enterprise Knowledge into Answers with Copilot Studio and Azure AI Search (He Zhang)
- How Meta Used AI to Map Tribal Knowledge in Large-Scale Data Pipelines (Krishna Ganeriwal, Plawan Rath & Ashwini Verma)
- How product managers ship faster using Replit’s agentic workflows (Replit Team)
- Why Azure Database for PostgreSQL Is the Strongest Choice for AI Applications (Lino Tadros)
- Introducing Adaptive: a smarter way to use Windsurf (Windsurf Team)
- The hailo effect (Mark Seemann)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Own What Makes You You (Steve Smith)
- Adding Correctness Conditions to Code Changes (Jessica Kerr)
- Introducing the pulumi policy analyze Command for Existing Stacks (Fraser Waters)
- Proactive Dependency Security Best Practices (Matthew Casperson)
- Improving developer velocity with GitHub merge queue (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Accessing files from the action repository in a GitHub Composite Action (Gérald Barré)
- A Better Alternative to Reducing CI Regression Test Suite Sizes (James Bornefelt Westfall)
Mobile and Game Development
- How to Use GraphQL in Flutter: A Handbook for Developers (Atuoha Anthony)
Screencasts and Videos
- New Dashboard coming in MassTransit 9.2 (Chris Patterson)
- Everything is a CLI now (and it’s awesome) (Warp Team)
- On .NET Live – AI offers benefits, but at what cost? (Steve Smith)
- Ship Code Faster: Postman and Github MCP (Postman Team)
- Leveraging Claude Code: A Senior Engineer’s Guide to Maximizing AI in Development (Frank La Vigne)
- Introducing Maturity Maps: A New Way to Measure AI Adoption (AIDailyBrief)
- Random.Code() – Managing Properties From Records in C#, Part 8 (Jason Bock)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- The Presentation Podcast Episode #243 – 100+ Hours for an Eight-Minute Presentation with John Chen (Troy Chollar)
- Only Malware in the Building Episode #22 – Who’s logging in? (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
- CppCast – Building a Compiler Inside the C++ Compiler with Daniel Nikpayuk (Jason Turner)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #476 – Common themes (Michael Kennedy)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #270 – The Convenience Tax: Why We Keep Failing at Supply Chain Security (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Big Technology Podcast – More OpenAI Executive Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit (Alex Kantrowitz)
- CloudChat Episode #31 – AI All the Things? (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #993 – It’s Been A Hell Of Week (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #513 – Everything’s Broken w/ Mike Peditto (Taylor Desseyn)
- When Overconfidence Breaks the Trust You Worked So Hard to Build | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nate Amidon)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode #104 – Inside Trader Joe’s Goes Back to the Future (Trader Joe’s Team)
- Meta Cast – AI Output Without Organizational Readiness Is Just Expensive Chaos (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- InfoQ Podcast: Context Engineering (Adi Polak)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – He designed C++ to solve your code problems (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
Database
- SQL Server DBCC Commands FAQ (Jeremy Kadlec)
- A Practical Deep Dive into I/O for T-SQL Performance Tuners (MSSQL Tips)
- Syntax and data structures in esProc SPL – a complete guide (Chisom Kanu)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- A modernized comments experience for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on iPhone (Jessica Hu)
- New information literacy features in Search Progress now generally available (Emma Gray)
- Work with Copilot as a co‑creator directly in Word for iPhone (Palash MJ)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.19 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- How I set up Claude Code in iTerm2 to launch all my AI coding projects in one click (David Gewirtz)
Writing
- 10 Weird Things Writers Do (Writers Write)
Tools
General
- Microsoft is going to improve the design of Windows 11 to make it ‘more polished and coherent’ (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Microsoft says it’s finally focusing on Windows 11’s design, starting with Settings (Control Panel’s replacement) (Abhijith M B)
- Configuring Compute in Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode (Davanna White)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – April 5 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – April 6, 2026 (#757) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS DevOps Agent & Security Agent GA, Product Lifecycle updates, and more (April 6, 2026) (Channy Yun)
- Reading Notes #692 (Frank Boucher)
