Top Links
- Introducing GPT-5.4 in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
- ReSharper for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Compatible Editors Is Out (Alexander Kurakin)
- Release v1.0 of the official MCP C# SDK (Mike Kistler)
- Windows Terminal Preview 1.25 Release (Dustin Howett)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): A New Standard for AI Integrations in .NET (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)
- Making agents practical for real-world development (VS Code Team)
- Announcing WinUI Gallery 2.8 (Niels Laute & Marcel Wagner)
Web and Cloud Development
- Making keyboard navigation effortless (Patrick Brosset)
- Scaling API Ingestion with the Queue-of-Work Pattern (Jonathan George)
- Looking back at HTML Quest (Matthew MacDonald)
- Is WordPress Secure? (And How to Prevent Security Issues) (Joe Fylan)
- The Different Ways to Select in CSS (Daniel Schwarz)
- Node.js 22.22.1 (LTS) and Node.js 20.20.1 (LTS) (Marco Ippolito)
- Coding Azure 22: Adding Configuration Information to an App Configuration Service (Peter Vogel)
- The Future of Identity: Self-Service Account Recovery (Preview) in Microsoft Entra (Farooque)
- How to Load and Display a PDF in ASP.NET Core (Kristina Ismail)
- Jetpack Social Just Got a Major Upgrade: Customize, Preview, and Share with Confidence (Devin Walker)
Windows Development
- The mystery of the posted message that was dispatched before reaching the main message loop (Raymond Chen)
- Windows Package Manager 1.29.30-preview (hackean-msft)
.NET and Visual Studio
- .github + MCP extention for Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
- VS Code Insiders (version 1.111) Release (Visual Studio Code Team)
- How C# Strings Silently Kill Your SQL Server Indexes in Dapper (Kevin Griffin)
- How to Implement Prototype Pattern in C#: Step-by-Step Guide (Nick Cosentino)
AI
- Why nursing needs a different kind of AI—and how Dragon Copilot delivers (Allison Novick)
- Codex for Windows | Microsoft Store (OpenAI)
- Shortly After Debut, GPT-5.3-codex Dominates Microsoft Foundry AI Model Leaderboard (David Ramel)
- 60 million Copilot code reviews and counting (Ria Gopu)
- We are still engineers (Mark Downie)
- The Accidental Orchestrator (Andrew Stellman)
- SwiftUI Agent Skill – Write better code with Claude, Codex, and other AI tools (Paul Hudson)
- Build agents that run automatically (Cursor Team)
- GPT-5.4 is now available in Windsurf (Windsurf Team)
- Common workflow patterns for AI agents—and when to use them (Claude Team)
- How the latest frontier models unlocked AI in SharePoint: Technical deep dive (Suyog Gadgil)
- Dragon Copilot centralizes trusted medical content and relevant contextual information in-workflow (hadasb)
- Dragon Copilot brings AI into revenue cycle workflows (James Jeffries)
- How to Protect Sensitive Data by Running LLMs Locally with Ollama (Manoj Aggarwal)
- The Great (ai) Game vs AI Theater (Om Malik)
- Analysis → Implementation → Reflection – a practical technique for issue resolution with agentic AI (Dean Kerr)
- Agentic manual testing and Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code? and Clinejection — Compromising Cline’s Production Releases just by Prompting an Issue Triager (Simon Willison)
- Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool (Russell Brandom)
- Bringing Robotics AI to Embedded Platforms: Dataset Recording, VLA Fine‑Tuning, and On‑Device Optimizations (Gaetan Bahl)
- Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good and Introducing GPT-5.4 and Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity (OpenAI Team)
- Introducing Modular Diffusers – Composable Building Blocks for Diffusion Pipelines (YiYi Xu, Alvaro Somoza, Dhruv Nair & Sayak Paul)
- Scaling AI opportunity across the globe: Learnings from GitHub and Andela (Admas Kanyagia)
- Malicious AI Assistant Extensions Harvest LLM Chat Histories (MS Defender Security Research Team)
- 20 developers share their unfiltered thoughts on AI (ShiftMag)
- Extend GitLab Duo Agent Platform: Connect any tool with MCP (Albert Rabassa)
- GitHub Data Shows AI Tools Creating “Convenience Loops” That Reshape Developer Language Choices (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
- Online harassment is entering its AI era (Grace Huckins)
- Security in the agentic era: A new paradigm (Joon Woo)
- Agentify Your App with GitHub Copilot’s Agentic Coding SDK (Shittu Olumide)
- Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff (Hamish Watson)
- Understanding the Architecture of a Prompt (Leomaris Reyes)
Python
- Building a Simple MCP Server in Python (Bala Priya C)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Now in Public Beta: Store Terraform State in Pulumi Cloud (Meagan Cojocar)
- What Are The Security Risks of CI/CD Plugin Architectures? (Olga Bedrina)
- A complete guide to GitLab Container Scanning (Fernando Diaz)
- Now GA: Up to 20x Faster Pulumi Operations for Everyone (Pat Gavlin)
- One developer, team power: The future of AI-driven DevSecOps (Bryan Ross)
- Ideological Resistance to Patents, Followed by Reluctant Pragmatism (Martin Fowler)
- Decentralizing Architectural Decisions with the Architecture Advice Process (Ben Linders)
Mobile and Game Development
- Debugging Silent XAML Binding Failures in 2 Minutes (Matt Mattei)
- Generating a dynamic background on .NET MAUI (Chris Miller)
- Google lowers Play Store fees and opens Android to rival app stores (Camila Nogueira)
- Microsoft teases its next Xbox, says Project Helix will play PC games too (Jay Peters)
- Instagram and Facebook deliver instant playback and boost user engagement with Media3 PreloadManager (Mayuri Khinvasara Khabya)
- Elevating AI-assisted Android development and improving LLMs with Android Bench (Matthew McCullough)
- 20 apps in 20 days with Flutter and Antigravity (Kevin Lamenzo)
Screencasts and Videos
- What’s New in Uno Platform Hot Design (Sam Basu)
- Intro to Warp and Oz (Ben Holmes)
- .NET MAUI Community Standup: .NET MAUI DemoFest (David Ortinau, Gerald Versluis, Jon Dick & Allan Ritchie)
- Is OpenAI the New GitHub? (AIDailyBrief)
- Moving to Agent Framework for our Foundry based Pizzabot | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
- SQL to Insights in Minutes with Copilot for Data Factory | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Penny Zhou)
- 5 Windows developer features you didn’t know about (Kayla Cinnamon)
- VS Code Live – Debugging Dockerfiles in VS Code (Reynald Adolphe, Remy Suen & Jonathan Sternberg)
- Fortify your app: Essential strategies to strengthen security | Meet with Apple (Apple Developer Team)
- C++ at 40+: Why It Still Runs AI, Cars & Wall Street (Frank La Vigne)
- Tuning AI Skills with the Squad | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Software Defined Talk Episode #562 – Bureaucracy: Still Unsolved (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Inside Oz Podcast – How We Built Oz: Designing Warp’s Cloud Agent Platform (Ben Holmes, Aloke Desai, Ian Hodge & Lili Wilson)
- The Modern .NET Show – From YAML Chaos to C# Clarity: Mattias Karlsson on Cake Build (Jamie Taylor)
- PPP 500 | When AI Becomes a Digital Colleague: What Leaders Need to Know, with former Google DeepMind Futurist Steve Brown (Andy Kaufman)
- Varied Designer Does Vibecoding: Why testing always wins | Adventures in DevOps Episde #264 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #133 – Rivian Adventure Department Is RAD — BMW M and AMG Ambitions (Batteries Included Team)
- Why Scrum Masters Should Be Measured on Outcomes, Impacts, and Team Happiness | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nigel Baker)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Building brains for bulldozers (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Dart in Google Summer of Code 2026 (Jonas Finnemann Jensen)
- Visual Studio at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 (David Li)
- Women’s History Month: Encouraging women in cybersecurity at every career stage (Vasu Jakkal)
- Inside OpenAI’s new Bellevue office: A swanky statement about AI’s impact on the Seattle region (Todd Bishop)
- Jenkins Contributor Awards 2026 – Nominations are Open (Stefan Spieker)
- DeveloperWeek 2026: Making AI tools that are actually good (Phoebe Sajor)
- Join the Agent 365 ‘Ask Microsoft Anything’ session on March 18 (Nichole Peterson)
- You can’t stream the energy: A developer’s guide to Google Cloud Next ’26 in Vegas (Ricky Robinett)
Database
- Managing multiple SQL Server instances from SQL Server Management Studio (Bart Wullems)
- Guide to Upgrade Azure Database for MySQL from 8.0 to 8.4 (Sam Zhao)
- SQL Server Data Warehouse Concepts, Schema Design, and Implementation (Muhammad Hassan Arshad)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: Vector Index Intricacies and Introducing Performance Studio: A Cross-Platform Environment for SQL Server Query Plan Analysis (Erik Darling)
- SQL Server Indexing – Clustered Indexes (MSSQL Tips)
- Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.0 Preview: Finally, Azure.Identity is Optional! 🎉 (Erik EJ)
- Data Consistency vs. Data Integrity: Differences and Similarities (Hannah Laurel)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Simplify cross-tenant user migrations with Microsoft 365 orchestrator (Rebecca W. Wood)
- Product suite on top of SharePoint – Intelligent Decisioning – SharePoint Partner Showcase (Vesa Juvonen)
- Introducing ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations (OpenAI Team)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Terminal.Gui: Still Absurd, Now Beta! (Charlie Kindel)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.422 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Tools
- Announcing Files v4.0.34 (Files Team)
- Process Explorer v17.1, SDelete v2.06, and Sysmon 1.5.1 for Linux (Alex Mihaiuc)
General
- Unbox the sleek, durable new Pixel 10a with us | The Keyword (Google)
- Announcing Rust 1.94.0 (Rust Release Team)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 5, 2026 (#735) (Richard Seroter)
- The latest AI news we announced in February (Google Keyword Team)
