Top Links
- PowerToys 0.98 is here: new Keyboard Manager UX, the Command Palette Dock and better CursorWrap! (Niels Laute)
- Stop Paying for the Same Answer Twice: Agent Cache in Fiddler Everywhere (Nikolay Iliev)
- Monitor and improve your web app’s load performance (Patrick Brosset)
- Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server (public preview) (Dan Hellem)
- Introducing OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano for low-latency AI (Naomi Moneypenny)
- RT.Assistant: A Multi-Agent Voice Bot Using .NET and OpenAI (Faisal Waris)
Web and Cloud Development
- Edge.js: Running Node apps inside a WebAssembly Sandbox (Syrus Akbary)
- Want the Answer Engines to Send You Traffic? Show Up in Organic (Erik Dietrich)
- Azure.AI.Projects_2.0.0-beta.2 and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents_2.0.0-beta.1 and Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI_2.0.0-beta.1 (Azure SDK Team)
- Tech Talk: How Electron went Wayland-native, and what it means for your apps (Mitchell Cohen)
- WordPress Website Management: Checklist, Automation Tools, and Best Practices (Jen Swisher)
- Lock Down Values in Pulumi ESC with fn::final (Sean Yeh)
- Create Fillable PDFs from HTML Forms in C# ASP.NET Core Using a WYSIWYG Template (Bjoern Meyer)
- Blazor Basics: Implementing a Theme Switch in Blazor (Dark Mode) (Claudio Bernasconi)
Windows Development
- Windows stack limit checking retrospective: x86-32 also known as i386, second try (Raymond Chen)
- WinForms — Generate Custom SVG Skin Palettes with AI (v25.2) (Dmitry Tokmachev)
.NET and Visual Studio
- When NOT to use the repository pattern in EF Core (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Re-Sequencer and Global Message Partitioning in Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
- When Visual Studio Forgets Your Phone: Building an Automated Solution (Chris Miller)
- Installing .NET on Windows Without Admin Privileges (Bryan Hogan)
- Large PDFs and Spreadsheets Slowing You Down? See What’s New in Syncfusion 2026 Volume 1 (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
- C# 14 New Features: A Developer Guide for .NET 10 (Dirk Strauss)
- Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 9: Frozen segments and new allocation strategy (Kevin Gosse)
- Syncfusion Document SDKs 2026 Volume 1: Smarter PDF, Word, and Excel Automation (Deepa Thiruppathy)
AI
- With AI Writing Code, What Are Developers For? (J. Tower)
- WebMCP for Beginners (Rizel Scarlett)
- AI Code Review in Code Studio: Instant Pre‑Commit Feedback that Cuts PR Churn (Yuvaraj Mohan)
- AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet (BeauHD)
- Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano (OpenAI Team)
- Microsoft appears to be dumping native Copilot for Windows 11 in favour of web wrapper yet again (Mayank Parmar)
- Going Local (& a Bit Loco) with Open-Source AI in VS Code (David Ramel)
- OpenClaw AI Agent Flaws Could Enable Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration (Ravie Lakshmanan)
- Agentic Workflows: Reimagining Repository Automation with Natural Language (AJ Bajada)
- Nemotron 3 Nano 4B: A Compact Hybrid Model for Efficient Local AI (Vinay Raman, Ameya Sunil Mahabaleshwarkar, Hayley Ross, Bilal Kartal, Aditya Malte, Zijia Chen, Ali Taghibakhshi, Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas, Saurav Muralidharan, Khalil Ben Khaled, Nima Tajbakhsh, Pavlo Molchanov, Oluwatobi Olabiyi & Yoshi Suhara)
- GitHub Copilot’s effect on collaboration has stunned researchers (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
- Announcing the Colab MCP Server: Connect Any AI Agent to Google Colab (Jeffrey Mew)
- Secure Your AI: Stop Managing API Keys by Hand (Carlos Aguilar & Lily Wisecarver)
- AI prompting tips & tricks for everyday tasks (Ashley Masters-Hall)
- Subagents and GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano, which can describe 76,000 photos for $52 (Simon Willison)
- State of Open Source on Hugging Face: Spring 2026 (Avijit Ghosh, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Yacine Jernite & Irene Solaiman)
- Training Composer for longer horizons (Cursor Team)
- Context Anchoring (Martin Fowler)
- Managed OpenClaw bids to kill hidden token tax on AI agents (Adrian Bridgwater)
- AI Is Amplifying Software Engineering Performance, Says the 2025 DORA Report (Craig Risi)
- Holotron-12B – High Throughput Computer Use Agent (Pierre-Louis Cedoz, Hamza Benchekroun, Aurélien Lac, delfosse, Tony Wu, Mats L. Richter, Antoine Bonnet, Kai Yuan, Aleix Cambray & Alexandra)
- Meet Kit, your companion for a new internet era (Amy Bebbington)
Python
- Learn how to build agents and workflows in Python (Pamela Fox)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Software 2.0: Planning and Verifying a Greenfield Project (Aaron Stannard)
- UI Freezes and the Dangers of Non-Cancellable Read Actions in Background Threads (Yuriy Artamonov)
- When Git blocks your push and you know you’re right (Shannon Kuehn)
- Stop Closing the Door. Fix the House. (Angie Jones)
- What is Cloud Computing Change Management? (James Walker)
Mobile and Game Development
- Logging in .NET MAUI Apps (Tomasz Cielecki)
- Your AI Assistant Just Got Fluent in Avalonia (Mike James)
- The STATE of VR in 2026! (Code Monkey)
Screencasts and Videos
- Building Custom LEGO Sets with MCP (Den Delimarsky)
- The Best New Features in PowerToys 0.98 (Michael Jolley)
- How do agents work together? | The Shift, Agentic Edition (Takuto Higuchi, Shawn Henry, Amanda Foster & Victor Dibia)
- The Race to Put AI Agents Everywhere (AIDailyBrief)
- Voice Live API integration with Foundry Agent Service and Azure Security – Build and Scale Securely on Microsoft’s AI Platform (Microsoft Azure Team)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Nir Valtman (Isaac Levin)
- 7 new open source AI tools you need right now (Frank La Vigne)
- Inference Engineering with Baseten’s Philip Kiely Inference Engineering with Baseten’s Philip Kiely (Scott Hanselman)
- Overview of Entra Workload Identities | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Developer Tea – What’s Brewing, Edition 1 – What Jonathan is Learning, Using, and Thinking (Jonathan Cutrell)
- MacBreak Weekly Episode #1016 – An Orca, a Trombone and a Treasure Chest – AirPods Max 2 Pro Unveiled (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
- RunAs Radio Show #1028 – Sustainable AI with Darshna Shah (Richard Campbell)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – A cognition engine for science with Allen Stewart (Scott Hanselman)
- PPP 502 | When Process Is Not Enough: The Human Side of Project Leadership, with Brett Harned (Andy Kaufman)
- Inside Platform Engineering with Piotr Szwed (Matthew Allford)
- The Vergecast – The future of code is exciting and terrifying (David Pierce)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Keeping the lights on for open source (Phoebe Sajor)
- AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Microsoft Data Scientists Vaishali Vinay and Raghav Bhatta on AI for Cyber Defense (Tom Smith)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – A Banner Year for Stamps: The 2026 Lineup (United States Postal Service)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #349 – Humility in the Age of Agentic Coding (Steve Klabnik, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Boagworld Podcast Episode #32 – Website Rebuilds, AI Tools, and UX in 2026 (Paul Boag)
- BONUS Guardrails Over Processes—How to Scale Teams Without Killing Creativity With Prashanth Tondapu | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
- The Presentation Podcast Episode #242 – Is Your Content a Presentation or a Document? (Troy Chollar)
- AI Book Club recording of ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’ (Tom Johnson)
Community and Events
- Announcing Copilot leadership update (Satya Nadella)
- Get on the bus, or get run over by it (Jesse Liberty)
- dotNetDave Says… Good Recruiters Are Transparent and Willing to Share Details About the Job Position (David McCarter)
Database
- Make Deployable SQL Scripts Idempotent (Jared Westover)
- Introducing the Azure Cosmos DB Plugin for Cursor (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
- How to determine the last value used by a sequence in SQL Server (Greg Low)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: Vector Query Plans (Erik Darling)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Teams ♥️ Loop app (Vesa Nopanen)
- Use Copilot in Excel to build your brackets (Ms. Excel)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.7 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- A Quick Start Guide To Writing Revenge (Writers Write)
- How To Use A Writing Book (Emily Munro)
Tools
- PowerToys 0.98 Arrives with Command Palette Dock, More (Paul Thurrott)
- PowerToys Release v0.98.0 (zateutsch)
- More reasons to love Firefox: What’s new now, and what’s coming soon (Mozilla Team)
- JetBrains Toolbox App 3.4: Remote IDE Lifecycle Hooks, macOS Fullscreen Fix, UTF-8 Support, and More (Lana Novikova)
General
- The 10 biggest changes coming to Windows 11 Insiders this March — and why they matter (Mauro Huculak)
- Two more EVs for the trash heap: Volvo EX30 and Honda Prologue (Andrew J. Hawkins)
- Rust: Reinventing aliasing XOR mutability and lifetimes (Alisa Sireneva)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 17, 2026 (#743) (Richard Seroter)
