Top Links
- Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs (Anthropic Team)
- AI File Search in Blazor File Manager: Semantic and Tag-Based (Jollen Moyani)
- The VS Code Insiders Podcast – Inside The Agent Loop with Pierce Boggan (James Montemagno)
- Building an emoji list generator with the GitHub Copilot CLI (Cassidy Williams)
- CLI vs IDE vs Agent – It’s a Race! Who can get started quicker with NET apps with Uno Platform! (Sam Basu)
- Pierce Boggan: AI Workflows – The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #398 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Web and Cloud Development
- The simplest way to secure a Minimal API (With Swagger) (David Grace)
- Building AppInsights Analyser: A Blazor Dashboard for Azure Application Insights (Gregor Suttie)
- ESLint v10.2.1 released (Francesco Trotta)
- The Identity Governance Checklist You Wish You Had Six Months Ago (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Remove sign-up from Entra External ID user flows (Damien Bowden)
- Pulumi Cloud REST API Docs, Now Generated from OpenAPI (Devon Grove)
- Cloud Cost Optimization: Principles that still matter (Fernando Vasconcellos)
- Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked (Terrence O’Brien)
- Angular Spreadsheet Freezing on Large Excel Imports? Here’s the Fix (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
- BoldSign Formula Fields: Automate Calculations in eSignature Documents (BoldSign Team)
Windows Development
- Theseus, a static Windows emulator (Evan Martin)
- Forgotten message from the past: LB_INITSTORAGE (Raymond Chen)
- Microsoft Increases the FAT32 Limit From 32GB To 2TB (BeauHD)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1863 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for Canary Channel 29570.1000 and Releasing Windows 11 Builds 26100.8313 and 26200.8313 to the Release Preview Channel and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.8271 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8276 (Dev Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- RAG in .NET: What the Tutorials Don’t Tell You. Chunking, Embedding, and Production Gotchas (Jamie Maguire)
- At VSLive!, Mads Kristensen Lets ‘the Cat out of the Bag’ on Visual Studio 2027 (David Ramel)
- String Performance: Why Some String Searches Are Slower Than You Think (David McCarter)
- The Architecture of Obsession: Why ByteAether.Ulid is the Last Identifier Library You Will Ever Need (Joonatan Uusväli)
- Why I Switched to Primary Constructors for DI in C# (Milan Jovanović)
AI
- Prompt Engineering for Spec-Driven Development with SpecKit (charykn)
- RAG – A Quick Example and Creating Our Python AI Project (Jesse Liberty)
- Claude Design Brings AI to Visual Work (Paul Thurrott)
- Azure AI Projects client library for JavaScript – Release v2.1.0 (Microsoft Foundry SDK Team)
- Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft agree that the harness is the product. They disagree on the price. (Janakiram MSV)
- Headless everything for personal AI (Matt Webb)
- On being a fellow Dainosaur (Roy Cornelissen)
- Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 and Claude system prompts as a git timeline and Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons (Simon Willison)
- Context Engineering: The Real Skill Behind High-Quality AI Output and Top 10 Mistakes Developers Make When Adopting AI (Mahesh Chand)
- MCP Demystified: Tools vs Resources vs Prompts Explained Simply (Ravindra Kumar Vishwakarma)
- Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments (Sean Goedecke)
- Copilot agents are scaling faster than most organizations expected (Julie Hersum)
- Optimizing AI Agents with Progressive Disclosure (Steve Smith)
- The AI Design Formula Does Not Exist — Yet (Micheal Lopez)
- NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7: Open Reasoning VLA Model for Humanoid Robots (Edith Llontop & Kalyan Vadrevu)
- What I learned this week – Pretraining parallelisms, Can distillation be stopped, Mythos and the cybersecurity equilibrium, Pipeline RL, On why pretraining runs fails (Dwarkesh Patel)
- Building a Fast Multilingual OCR Model with Synthetic Data (Ryan Chesler)
- Microsoft Introduces Hybrid AI Automation in Copilot Studio (Kieron Allen)
- Agents, Code Reviews, and the Bottleneck Shift, Oh My! (Oren Eini)
- PolyClaw – Your personal AI copilot that lives where you do (Aymen Furter)
- Rethinking AI TCO: Why Cost per Token Is the Only Metric That Matters (Shruti Koparkar)
Python
- Building ONNX Embedding Workflows in Oracle AI Database with Python (Daniela Pavlenco)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Don’t Fund Projects. Fund the Teams That Create Value. (James Maxwell)
- In defence of bureaucracy (Mark Seemann)
- How Software Engineering Principles Help You Get More Out of Your AI Tools (Jon Hilton)
- Trial by Fire: Crisis Engineering (Jennifer Pahlka)
- Bringing more transparency to GitHub’s status page (Jakub Oleksy)
- The Human Infrastructure: How Netflix Built the Operations Layer Behind Live at Scale (Brett Axler, Casper Choffat & Alo Lowry)
Mobile and Game Development
- How to spend $38k on a Visual Novel, and Ludum Dare dying in 2028? (Code Monkey)
- Experimental hybrid inference and new Gemini models for Android (Thomas Ezan)
- Android CLI (ProMobile.Dev)
Screencasts and Videos
- Random.Code() – Updating Esoteric Programming Language Implementations, Part 4 (Jason Bock)
- How to Use Opus 4.7 and the New Codex (AIDailyBrief)
- Modernizing .NET Applications Faster with Visual Studio and Copilot | VS Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Jon Galloway)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 309 – “GenAI’s NFT Moment” (Have we reached peak AI silliness?) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Official Xbox Podcast: Matt Booty Talks Showcase, Games, Studios, and More (Joe Skrebels)
- The Download: Copilot SDK, Claude Mythos, AI models are protecting each other & more (Kedasha Kerr)
- Fast Focus on API Versioning | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Phil Japikse)
- Type checking Swift, in reasonable time (Slava Pestov)
- Visual Studio 2026 | April Release Party | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & The Visual Studio Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Yet Another Podcast – Mads Torgersen (Jesse Liberty)
- Merge Conflict Episode #511 – Terminals, Remote Sessions, No More Watches! (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Big Technology Podcast – Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot (Alex Kantrowitz)
- The Vergecast – The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap (David Pierce)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #291 – Reassessing the LLM Landscape & Summoning Ghosts (Christopher Bailey & Jodie Burchell)
- Hard Fork Podcast – A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- The People-Pleasing Product Owner and the PO Who Understood User Value — Two Sides of Product Ownership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Efe Gümüs)
- BONUS From 3,000 Scripts to 3 Tools – Building AI-Last Software With Peter Swimm | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
- A Geek Leader Episode #465 – Erin Coupe (John Rouda)
Community and Events
- Job listings for week ending 4/17 and Call For Papers Listings for 4/17 (Leon Adato)
- The Evolution of My Coding Journey: From Pascal to AI (Christian Nagel)
- How to Make Your GitHub Profile Stand Out (Chinaza Chukwunweike)
- Duolingo CEO Says They’ve Stopped Tracking Employees’ AI Use for Performance Reviews (EditorDavid)
- OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company (Maxwell Zeff)
- Tech industry sees over 39,000 layoffs due to AI (Ian Barker)
Database
- Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Availability Groups on Kubernetes and Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER (aen)
- SSIS Extension Updates – Apr 2026 (Andy Leonard)
- Optimize object storage costs automatically with smart tier—now generally available (Aung Oo)
- Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring Troubleshooting Live Problems (Erik Darling)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.32 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Running GitHub Copilot CLI on local AI inference (Rob Bos)
Writing
- Things That Upset Writers (Writers Write)
Tools
- IDE War 2026: VS Code vs JetBrains vs Cursor — What Real Usage Data Shows (Артур Пан)
- Microsoft retires Clipchamp’s iOS app, says Windows 11’s built-in video editor is here to stay (Mayank Parmar)
- NanaZip v6.0.1691.0 Release (Mouri Naruto)
General
- Pancreatic Cancer MRNA Vaccine Shows Lasting Results In Early Trial and Voyager 1 is Running Out of Power. NASA Just Switched Part of It Off and Fructose Isn’t Just Sugar. It Acts More Like a Hormone (EditorDavid)
- The fastest way to match characters on ARM processors? (Daniel Lemire)
- Opinion: Whither Microsoft? A view from the neighborhood (Feroze Motafram)
- Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
- SaySo is a new short-form video app that aims to restore users’ trust in news (Lauren Forristal)
More Link Collections
- C# Digest #604 – Architectural tests in .NET (Jakub Chodounsky)
- Daily Reading List – April 17, 2026 (#766) (Richard Seroter)
- Android Weekly Issue #723 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
- Azure Weekly #559 – 19th April 2026 (The Editor)
- F# Weekly #16, 2026 – .NET 11 Preview 3 & SwaggerProvider 4.0 beta (Sergey Tihon)
- iOS Dev Weekly Issue #748 (Dave Verwer)
- The Batch: Meta Pivots From Open Weights, Big Pharma Bets On AI, Regulatory Patchwork, Simulating Human Cohorts (DeepLearning.AI)
