Top Links
- Why we made Windows Terminal (Kayla Cinnamon)
- PowerShell MSI package deprecation and preview updates (Jason Helmick)
- MAUI Sherpa — Your Guide to .NET MAUI Development (Jonathan Dick)
- GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Copilot CLI (Christopher Harrison)
- Announcing Azure MCP Server 2.0 Stable Release for Self-Hosted Agentic Cloud Automation (Sandeep Sen)
- Improving your Windows Insider experience (Stephen Lines)
Web and Cloud Development
- Automate Astro Upgrades with GitHub Agentic Workflows (Laurent Kempe)
- Who Created That Service Principal? Tracing It Back with Microsoft Graph (Shannon Kuehn)
- Integration Testing Azure Functions with Reqnroll and C#, Part 1 – Introduction (Jonathan George)
- Automatic efficient API Client Generation with Kiota (Stephan van Rooij)
- font-family Doesn’t Fall Back the Way You Think (Harry Roberts)
Windows Development
- How do you add or remove a handle from an active WaitForMultipleObjects?, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1812 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for Canary Channel 29565.1000 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8170 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.8165 (Beta Channel) (Donna Little)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Building a VS Code-Style Extension System in C# (Nick Cosentino)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.1.0 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- Convert Markdown to PDF in C# Using .NET Word Library (Mathan Kumar Varadharaja)
- Collection Performance: High-Performance Emptiness Checks for Concurrent & Immutable Collections (David McCarter)
- Implementing the Saga Pattern With Wolverine (Milan Jovanović)
AI
- Secret agentic AI (Mark Seemann)
- OpenClaw v2026.4.12 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Gemma 4 audio with MLX (Simon Willison)
- How Intelligent is AI? (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Agents don’t know what good looks like. And that’s exactly the problem. (Luca Mezzalira)
- Synchronizing Copilot Setup Across Repositories and Devices (Einar Ingebrigtsen)
- Hermes Agent – An Agent That Grows with You (Nous Research)
- Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex are merging into one AI coding stack nobody planned (Janakiram MSV)
- The AI RAM Shortage is Also Driving Up SSD Prices (EditorDavid)
- Llama.cpp on Windows 11 with Qwen 3.5: A Practical Local AI Setup for .NET Architects (Sudhir Mangla)
- NeuronFS: Folders ARE the Context – AI Governance System | GitHub (Rhino Acoustic Team)
- autoskills: One command. Your entire AI skill stack. Installed. (Miguel Ángel Durán)
- Preparing your security program for AI-accelerated offense and Seeing like an agent: how we design tools in Claude Code and Multi-agent coordination patterns: Five approaches and when to use them (Claude Team)
- Evaluating Netflix Show Synopses with LLM-as-a-Judge (Gabriela Alessio, Cameron Taylor & Cameron R. Wolfe)
- Where are the guardrails everyone promised for AI? (Darryl K. Taft)
- OpenClaw’s Credential Problem Is Not a Secrets Problem (Juan Cruz Martinez)
- Microsoft Doubles Down on In-House AI With MAI Voice, Transcription, and Image Models (Kieron Allen)
- How I Use AI on Side Projects: ChatGPT, Cursor, and Copilot (Simon Foster)
- How the Datadog MCP server can help improve IT operational insight and observability (Anirban Brahmochari, Swapnil Panchal, Ashwin Mattur & Rishikesh Borkotoky)
- Anthropic Copyright Settlement: April Update (Victoria Strauss)
Python
- mssql-python 1.5: Apache Arrow, sql_variant, and Native UUIDs (David Levy)
- How (Not) to Learn Python (Cheuk Ting Ho)
- How to Send SMS Messages With Python, Flask and Vonage (Liz Acosta)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems (Vitaly Friedman)
- Developers are System Thinkers, not Code Monkeys (Dan Clarke)
- How to Build a Secure AI PR Reviewer with Claude, GitHub Actions, and JavaScript (Sumit Saha)
Mobile and Game Development
Screencasts and Videos
- Using Foundry Agents with Structured Output to improve your results | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
- Random.Code() – Updating Esoteric Programming Language Implementations, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
- IoTCT Webcast Episode 308 – “The FAFO Pandemic” (When Agentic AI Goes Wrong!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Turning a codebase into an 80s dungeon crawler with Copilot CLI (Lee Reilly)
- Why Every AI Product Seems the Same and Anthropic Now Leads OpenAI in Annualized Revenue (AIDailyBrief)
- GCast 214: Using M365 Copilot to Edit a PowerPoint Image and Technology & Friends – Ken Versaw on How to Manage AI-First Software Development Teams (David Giard)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Michael Perry: AI-assisted Development – AI DevOps Podcast Episode #397 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Merge Conflict Episode #510 – AI Agents: Claws, Copilot, GUI vs CLI Debate (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- PPP 505 | You’ve Got This: A Practical Way to Lead When You’re Not Sure, with Ashley Herd (Andy Kaufman)
- GeekWire Podcast – Riding the rails — over a floating bridge: GeekWire Podcast takes the train across the lake to Microsoft (Todd Bishop)
- freeCodeCamp Podcast Episode #215 – How to learn programming and CS in the AI hype era – interview with dev and prof Mark Mahoney (Beau Carnes)
- BONUS Why a Distinguished Engineer Stopped Reading Code — Lights-Out Codebases and the End of the IC | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Philip Su)
- The Leadership Void — What Happens When Product Owners Forget They’re Part of the Scrum Team | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nate Amidon)
- Hard Fork Podcast – Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their Sam Altman Investigation + One Good Thing (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #290 – Advice on Managing Projects & Making Python Classes Friendly (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
- Big Technology Podcast – Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta (Alex Kantrowitz)
- React Native Radio Episode #359 – The AI Apocalypse? The past, present, and future of software (Todd Werth & Robin Heinze)
- Talk Python to Me #544 – Wheel Next + Packaging PEPs (Michael Kennedy)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #85 – Simplicity First – with Chris Woody Woodruff (Dan Clarke)
- A Geek Leader Episode #464 – Allison Shapira on AI for the Authentic Leader (John Rouda)
- I’d Rather Be Writing Podcast – How valuable are agent skills? Conversation with Larah Vasquez and Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti (Tom Johnson)
Community and Events
- Help Shape the Future of Microsoft 365: Join Research Sessions at Microsoft 365 Community Conference and The Microsoft 365 Community Conference Experience Starts with Community (Jon Jones)
- Introducing the 2026 Imagine Cup Top Launch Startup (Microsoft Student Developer Team)
- Call For Papers Listings for 4/10 and Job listings for week ending 4/10 (Leon Adato)
- Supporting Open Source Maintainers: A German Petition for Better Legal Frameworks (Stefan Spieker)
Database
- MySQL 9.7.0 vs sysbench on a small server (Mark Callaghan)
- The Fastest Possible HTTP Queries with Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring System Health Extended Event (Erik Darling)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.24 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- A Quick Start Guide To Writing First & Last Lines (Writers Write)
Tools
- OpenScreen: Create stunning demos for free | GitHub (Siddharth Vaddem)
- lucidVIEW v2.1.0 – The cross-platform markdown viewer that doesn’t wrap a browser (Scott Galloway)
- Understanding Defender AV Scans (Eric Lawrence)
- mist is now open source and looking for interop (Matt Webb)
- Markdown Region Buddy for Visual Studio – An extension that helps Microsoft Learn contributors manage markdown regions (Alvin Ashcraft) – Source here.
- GitNexus – A client-side knowledge graph creator that runs entirely in your browser (Abhigyan Patwari)
General
- Tested: Windows 11 just fixed slow storage management and removed a 30-year FAT32 limit (Abhijith M B)
- Has the Rust Programming Language’s Popularity Reached Its Plateau? (EditorDavid)
- DNA-Level Encryption Developed by Researchers to Protect the Secrets of Bioengineered Cells (EditorDavid)
- How to fix Windows 11 problems without the Recovery Assistant (Mauro Huculak)
- Why Copilot+ PC branding needs a rethink (Sean Endicott)
- Microsoft Windows’ new lease on life — why now? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Microsoft’s Windows Insider Program is no longer a confusing mess (Ed Bott)
More Link Collections
- C# Digest #603 – Microsoft hasn’t had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold and C# Digest #602 – Getting started with PgVector in .NET for simple vector search (Jakub Chodounsky)
- Daily Reading List – April 10, 2026 (#761) (Richard Seroter)
- Android Weekly Issue #722 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
- Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 5, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
- F# Weekly #15, 2026 – Akkling, FSharp.Data and RANSAC auto-tune (Sergey Tihon)
- The Batch: Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Problem, Dark DNA Unveiled, Pitfalls for Assistive Models, Simulating Fluid Dynamics (DeepLearning.AI)
- iOS Dev Weekly Issue #747 (Dave Verwer)
- Reading List 357 (Bruce Lawson)
