Top Links

• React Native Windows v0.82 is here!! (Abhijeet Jha & Vivek Khare)
• Give your Foundry Agent Custom Tools with MCP Servers on Azure Functions (Lily Ma)
• Aspire Docs in Your Terminal (and Your AI’s Brain) (David Pine)
• Explore union types in C# 15 (Bill Wagner)
• Spec-Driven Development with Markdown for AI Workflows (Kaviya Priya Rajakumar)
• Gemma 4: The new standard for local agentic intelligence on Android (Matthew McCullough)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0 Release (Dmytro Struk)

Web and Cloud Development

• MCP Apps on Azure Functions: Quick Start with TypeScript (Swapnil Nagar)
• Cookie-controlled PHP webshells: A stealthy tradecraft in Linux hosting environments (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
• Smarter Live Streaming at Scale: Rolling Out VBR for All Netflix Live Events (Renata Teixeira, Zhi Li, Reenal Mahajan & Wei Wei)
• Making Complex CSS Shapes Using shape() (Temani Afif)

Windows Development

• What is and how do you create and open a CFG (config) file? (Alex Marin)
• Why doesn’t the system let you declare your own messages to have the same semantics as WM_COPY­DATA? (Raymond Chen)
• New Native PowerShell Support for Intune Win32 Apps (Horatiu Vladasel)

.NET and Visual Studio

• What Is a .NET Obfuscator and How Does It Protect Your Code? (Ben Nettleton)

AI

• Model Upgrade and Migration Strategy for Microsoft Foundry (Dr. Ravi Nagvekar)
• Introducing MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
• AI broke your architecture? Here’s how to fix it (Jon Hilton)
• Give Your AI Coding Assistant Duende Expertise with Agent Skills and MCP Server (Maarten Balliauw)
• The Toolkit Pattern (Andrew Stellman)
• Programming (with AI agents) as theory building (Sean Goedecke)
• Why smart PMs are using vibe coding to cut design delays (Replit Team)
• Agents can now verify your UI changes without leaving VS Code (Bart Wullems)
• Meet the new Cursor (Cursor Team)
• Generate SDKs from your Postman collections in Six Languages (Postman Team)
• Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device (merve, Pedro Cuenca, Sergio Paniego, Ben Burtenshaw, Steven Zheng, Alvaro Bartolome & Nathan Habib)
• Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) for Azure AI Applications using Azure Machine Learning (Vaibhav Pandey)
• Microsoft releases new AI models to expand further beyond OpenAI (Todd Bishop)
• OpenClaw Gets a Microsoft 365 Champion While VS Code Tooling Stays Nascent (David Ramel)
• Introducing the Agent Governance Toolkit: Open-source runtime security for AI agents (Imran Siddique)
• Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take on Claude Code and Codex (Maxwell Zeff)
• Threat actor abuse of AI accelerates from tool to cyberattack surface (Sherrod DeGrippo)
• What the AI trust gap means for enterprise SaaS (Eira May)
• Prompty VS Code v2.0.0-pre.1 (Seth Juarez)
• Code like a PIRATE with Junie and GoLand (Anna Protsenko)
• Microsoft execs warn agentic AI is hollowing out the junior developer pipeline (Darryl K. Taft)
• Bring state-of-the-art agentic skills to the edge with Gemma 4 (Google AI Edge Team)
• Gemma 4 is Here: Now Available on Docker Hub (Jennifer Angeles)
• Why coding agents will break your CI/CD pipeline (and how to fix it) (Arjun Iyer)
• Securing AI Document Agents with LlamaIndex and Auth0 (Sam Bellen & Clelia Astra Bertelli)
• How Do We Know AI Isn’t Lying? The Art of Evaluating LLMs in RAG Systems (ditisaxena)
• Build a Fully Offline AI App with Foundry Local and CAG (Lee Stott)
• Essential Claude Code Skills for Mobile Developers (ProMobile.Dev)
• AI Hasn’t Made Developers Faster, It’s Made Their Review Queues Longer! (ShiftMag)
• Which AI Coding Tools Do Developers Actually Use at Work? (Mikhail Bogdanov)
• Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models (Simon Willison)
• Codex now offers more flexible pricing for teams (OpenAI Team)
• Harnessing Claude’s intelligence (Claude Team)
• OpenClaw v2026.4.2 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Harness engineering for coding agent users (Martin Fowler)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0 Release (giles17)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Systems Thinking (Rocky Lhotka)
• What’s New in Advanced Installer Version 23.6 (Advanced Installer Team)
• Defending Your Software Supply Chain: What Every Engineering Team Should Do Now (Dan Berezin Stelzer)

Mobile and Game Development

• Getting Started with the .NET MAUI Speech-to-Text Button Control (Héctor Pérez)
• Android Studio supports Gemma 4: our most capable local model for agentic coding (Matthew Warner)
• Announcing Gemma 4 in the AICore Developer Preview (David Chou & Caren Chang)
• Part 3 – Babylon.js 9.0: OpenPBR and additional engine updates (Steve Clarke)
• Increase Guidance and Control over Agent Mode with Android Studio Panda 3 (Matt Dyor)
• Xbox FanFest: Going on Tour for a 25th Anniversary Celebration (Joe Skrebels)

Screencasts and Videos

• Agent Skills Masterclass with Nufar Gaspar (AIDailyBrief)
• Migrations with Azure SQL | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Uros Milanovic)
• I built a website in 10 minutes with GitHub Copilot CLI and Copilot CLI for beginners: Plan, delegate, and review (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Tech talk, Web Dev, Open Source, and the Library has opened | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Welcoming Angular to native cross-platform .NET apps with Uno Platform! (Sam Basu)
• Create and install an F1 inspired MCP Server in VS Code | Visual Studio Code (Liam Hampton)

Dometrain Course

Deep Dive: Event Sourcing in .NET: Deep dive into production-ready Event Sourcing in .NET (Hannes Lowette) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• A Geek Leader Episode #463 – Preston Zeller (John Rouda)
• The Modern .NET Show – IoT and .NET nanoFramwork: Andy Clark on Building Beyond the Limits (Jamie Taylor)
• No Dogma Podcast Episode #180 – Todd Gardner, CertKit, Part 1 – How Certificates Work (Bryan Hogan)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Tips and Tricks For Your Next EA Renewal (Mary Jo Foley)
• Lenny’s Podcast – An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #137 – Kia EV3 & Subaru Getaway: Two Massive Debuts for US Families (Batteries Included Team)
• Why Scrum Master Success Means Confronting the Ugly Truth With Data | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Bhavin Shukla)
• Grammar Girl Podcast – The 3,000 hidden colors of the dictionary, with Kory Stamper (Mignon Fogarty)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #351 – Agentic Coding and the Economics of Open Source (Miklós Koren & Chris Benson)
• Build Mode Podcast – Diverse teams start with diverse VCs with Leah Solivan, Taskrabbit (Isabelle Johannessen)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #348 – Compliance Theater Now Available as a Subscriptions | Cloud Computing & AI News (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• The AWS Developer Podcast Episode #202 – Agent-Native Serverless Development (Shridhar Pandey)
• Fragmented, AI Developer Podcast Episode #309 – Background Agents (Kaushik Gopal)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – How can you test your code when you don’t know what’s in it? and The Stack Overflow Podcast – Seizing the means of messenger production (Phoebe Sajor)

Database

• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Query Performance Tabs, Including Query Store (Erik Darling)
• Azure SQL Managed Instance as an AI‑Enabled PaaS Platform (Shivani Thadiyan)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Better contrast checking for slides in PowerPoint (Shireen Salma)
• Announcing Windows 365 connector for Microsoft Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps (Public Preview) (Ivaylo Ivanov)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.17 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• Visual Studio Code 1.114 Keeps Weekly Cadence Rolling with Chat, Search and TypeScript Updates (David Ramel)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.1 Release (Ben Hillis)

General

• How to pass Microsoft certification exams: tips and guidance (Greg Low)
• A deep dive into….homebrew’s internals (Rachel Kaufman)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – April 2, 2026 (#755) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: April 2 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

Blazor Web Development Cookbook (Pawel Bazyluk) – Referral Link

Tested recipes for advanced single-page application scenarios in .NET 9.

Top Links

• Bookmark Studio: evolving bookmarks in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
• Windows Weekly Episode #977 – Moonshine University – The Push for Building 100% Native Windows Apps (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Azure.AI.Projects 2.0.0 Release for .NET and Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI 2.0.0 Release for .NET and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents 2.0.0 Release for .NET (NuGet Gallery) – Build with Foundry nextgen Agents Service and tools in C#, now GA
• .NET Rocks! – ASP.NET Core in 2026 with Daniel Roth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• How Dart and Flutter are thinking about AI in 2026 (Mariam Hasnany)
• Azure DevOps: Improving the Markdown Editor for Work Items (Dan Hellem)
• Run multiple agents at once with /fleet in Copilot CLI (Matt Nigh)

Web and Cloud Development

• Azure IaaS: Keep critical applications running with built-in resiliency at scale (Igal Figlin)
• New in ThemeBuilder: Typography and AI Theming Enhancements (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Multi-Tenancy in the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
• General Availability: Social Identity Providers for Native Authentication via Browser‑Delegated Flows (web-view) in Microsoft Entra External ID (Sasha Mars)
• Mitigating the Axios npm supply chain compromise (Microsoft Threat Intelligence & Defender Security Research Teams)
• Build Accessible Components with Angular Aria (Dany Paredes)
• Decision Tree Regression from Scratch Using JavaScript (James McCaffrey)
• Node.js 25.9.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)

Windows Development

• The cover of C++: The Programming Language raises questions not answered by the cover (Raymond Chen)
• What’s New in vcpkg (Feb 2026 – Mar 2026): Parallel file installation and more! (Augustin Popa)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.4.3 Release Notes and Visual Studio Insiders Version 11626.173 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Azure.AI.Projects v2.0.0 | Azure SDK for .NET and Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI v2.0.0 | Azure SDK for .NET and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents v2.0.0 | Azure SDK for .NET (Azure SDK Team)
• .NET Conf Most Popular Sessions Tool (Steve Smith)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0 RC5 Release (westey-m)
• How to Convert Markdown to HTML in C# Using a .NET Word Library (Mathan Kumar Varadharaja)
• Using LLMs and MCP in .NET (Ricardo Peres)
• Observer Pattern Best Practices in C#: Code Organization and Maintainability (Nick Cosentino)

AI

• How Agentic AI Platforms Organize Their Hardware Infrastructure (Kevin Vu)
• Things I Think I Think… Preferring Local OSS LLMs (Ted Neward)
• AI DevOps: Use Cases, Agents & Safe Adoption (Flavius Dinu)
• How to integrate VS Code with Ollama for local AI assistance (Jack Wallen)
• Awesome GitHub Copilot just got awesommer (if that’s a word) (Bart Wullems)
• I, OpenClaw, Tackled Visual Studio 2026 and I Had My Human Do the Typing (OpenClaw AI)
• Inside Claude Code’s leaked source: swarms, daemons, and 44 features Anthropic kept behind flags (Janakiram MSV)
• Scaling AI with confidence: How leaders are using AI to drive enterprise transformation (Tracy Galloway)
• AI Can Clone Open-Source Software In Minutes (BeauHD)
• AI Tools for Developers (Beau Carnes)
• The Future of Tech Blogging in the Age of AI (Mark Heath)
• @prompty/core v2.0.0-alpha.1 and @prompty/foundry v2.0.0-alpha.1 and @prompty/anthropic v2.0.0-alpha.1 and @prompty/openai v2.0.0-alpha.1 (Seth Juarez)
• Practicing What We Preach: AI in Action (Devin Nori)
• Stop Using Elaborate Personas: Research Shows They Degrade Claude Code Output (Gentic News)
• ADeLe: Predicting and explaining AI performance across tasks (Lexin Zhou & Xing Xie)
• Your Framework Is Your AI’s Biggest Expense (Vince Canger)
• Microsoft Azure SDK For Projects » 2.0.0 Release for Java (Maven Repository)
• Holo3: Breaking the Computer Use Frontier (Ramzi De Coster, Pierre-Louis Cedoz, Tony Wu, Hamza Benchekroun, mandreux-hai, delfosse, Aurélien Lac, maxime, Axel Moyal, Antonio Loison, Kai Yuan & Ronan Riochet)
• OpenClaw v2026.4.1 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• The Model You Love Is Probably Just the One You Use (Tim O’Brien)
• Many Engineering Leaders Are Getting AI Adoption Wrong (Marko Crnjanski)
• Developer’s Guide to Building ADK Agents with Skills (Lavi Nigam & Shubham Saboo)

Python

• Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31% (Michael Kennedy)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Playwright v1.59.1 Release (yury-s)
• Advanced Installer 23.6 Release (Advanced Installer Team)
• Securing the open source supply chain across GitHub (Zachary Steindler)
• Introducing Updater Cloud Add-On | Build, Host & Publish Updates Directly From Your Installer Project (Alexandra Stoienescu)
• A Practical Guide To Design Principles (Vitaly Friedman)
• Say the Thing You Want (Matheus Lima)

Mobile and Game Development

• Get your Wear OS apps ready for the 64-bit requirement (Michael Stillwell & Dimitris Kosmidis)
• Flutter Cyclomatic Complexity Guide (Majid Hajian)
• Teach your AI to write Swift the Hacking with Swift way (Paul Hudson)
• Highlights from Astro Pi 2025–2026 community events (Fergus Kirkpatrick)

Screencasts and Videos

• The Ultimate AI Catch-Up Guide (AIDailyBrief)
• Making Unstructured Data AI-Ready: A Fireside Chat with Microsoft & Komprise | ITOpsTalk (Aung Oo & Krishna Subramanian)
• .NET MAUI Community Standup | Introducing maui-labs (Gerald Versluis & David Ortinau) – Live on April 2nd @ 3pm EDT
• How to Turn SQL Database changes into Real-Time Intelligence with Fabric Eventstreams | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Arindam Chatterjee)
• Unveiling the Claude Code Leak: A Glimpse into the Future of AI Assistants (Frank La Vigne)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: REST APIs in .NET: Learn how to create robust, scalable REST APIs in ASP.NET Core. This course covers essential principles, real-world techniques, and advanced features for modern API development. (Nick Chapsas) – Referral Link

 

Podcasts

• Software Engineering Radio Episode #714 – Costa Alexoglou on Remote Pair Programming (Brijesh Ammanath)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #543 – Deep Agents: LangChain’s SDK for Agents That Plan and Delegate (Michael Kennedy)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #201 – The Hard Lessons of Cloud Migration: inDrive’s Path from Monolith to Microservices (Alexander Lisachenko & Artem Gab)
• Big Technology Podcast – OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #992 – Migrating Legacy Code Just Got Easier (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• De-Scaling an Agile Organization — Removing Bureaucracy Without Losing Consistency | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Bhavin Shukla)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #512 – AI Resumes, Ghost Jobs, & The State of the Market w/ Sr. Recruiter Steven Evans (Taylor Desseyn)

Community and Events

• On Apple’s 50th, recalling the time a Microsoft engineer drove Steve Jobs so crazy he invented the iPad (Todd Bishop)
• Imagine Cup 2026 Semifinalist: Builder Series Judges (Microsoft Student Developer Team)

Database

• SQL Server Integration Services Projects 2022+ GA (Chunhua)
• The Polyglot tax – Part 3 (Aditya Badramraju)
• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Dashboard Overview: Server Health, Query Plans, and More! (Erik Darling)
• SQL Server 2025 CU4 Adds Automatic Updates (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell and Terminal

• PowerShell 7.6 release postmortem and investments (Jason Helmick)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.15 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• WSL v2.8.0 Release (OneBlue)

General

• NASA launches four astronauts toward the Moon on the Artemis II mission (Jay Peters)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – April 1, 2026 (#754) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps (Rezwanur Rahman) – Referral Link

Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot).

 

Top Links

• Visual Studio March Update – Build Your Own Custom Agents (Mark Downie)
• How Claude Code works: The agentic loop, context loading, tool execution model, and conversation lifecycle under the hood (Vineet Agarwal)
• Aspire 13.2: Dashboard Gets Smarter Export and Telemetry (James Newton-King)
• Pragmatic AI in .NET Show: AI-Powered Development, with Jonathan ‘J’ Tower (April 2nd – 11am EDT) (Sam Basu)
• Customize Agent Behavior at Runtime with Structured Inputs – Microsoft Foundry (Microsoft Learn)
• Profile .NET Apps Without Restarting: Monitoring Comes to ReSharper (Alexey Totin)
• Things I Think I Think… About Touching Code (Ted Neward)

Web and Cloud Development

• Introducing Aceto – a local dev server for building HTML mockups with AI (Alexander Zeitler)
• What’s new in Svelte: April 2026 (Dani Sandoval)
• Triggering User Registration via OpenID Connect with Duende IdentityServer (Maarten Balliauw)
• Continued Investment in Azure App Service (Byron Tardif)
• jQuery 4 – Reinventing Events (Ian Elliot)
• Using Azure Developer CLI (azd) with Aspire (Aspire Team)
• What’s new in Astro – March 2026 (Sarah Rainsberger)
• Loading, Accessing and Converting Office and PDF Documents with Telerik Document Processing Libraries (Peter Vogel)
• JetStream 3: A modern benchmark for high-performance, compute-intensive Web applications (Daniel Lehmann, Thomas Nattestad & Camillo Bruni)
• Adding Keycloak Authentication to an Existing .NET Aspire Application (Frank Boucher)
• Supply chain blast: Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines (Carly Page)
• From Custom to Open: Scalable Network Probing and HTTP/3 Readiness with Prometheus (Carlo Preciado)
• Introducing the JetStream 3 Benchmark Suite (Keith Miller)
• First Public Working Draft: Linked Web Storage Protocol 1.0 (W3C)
• Securing Back-end App Service Web Apps with Private Endpoints (Mark Heath)
• There is absolutely nothing wrong with Web (Alisa Sireneva)

Windows Development

• winapp CLI v0.2.1 Release (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v2.7.0 Release (Alvin Ashcraft) – Support for winapp CLI v0.2.1 added – get it on the Marketplace
• Microsoft to upgrade Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with faster file access, better networking and easier setup (Abhijith M B)
• Windows Package Manager 1.29.50-preview Release (Akinwale Alagbe)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Coding Faster with dotNetTips.com Spargine 10: April 2026 Release (David McCarter)
• How to create a promotional campaign with RCS and SendGrid in C# (Amanda Lange)
• Shining a light on .NET versions across our organisation with OpenTelemetry (Bart Wullems)
• Resolving Weak SSL Ciphers in .NET Framework 4.5 (Goyal Sandeep)
• Creating a Custom AI Agent in New Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Build (David Ramel)
• Configuring contextual options with Microsoft.Extensions.Options.Contextual (Andrew Lock)
• Factory Method Pattern Real-World Example in C#: Complete Implementation (Nick Cosentino)
• More Protection, Same Performance. Dotfuscator 7.6.0 (Michelle Pruitt)

AI

• Foundry Agents and Custom Engine Agents through the Corporate Firewall (Graeme Foster)
• Context Engineering: Improving AI Code Output in Your IDE (Kaviya Priya Rajakumar)
• Setting up Chrome DevTools MCP with Claude Code on Linux (Wayland) (Alexander Zeitler)
• AI data centers may heat nearby land by up to 9.1°C, study finds (Camila Nogueira)
• Claude Code’s Source Code Leaks Via npm Source Maps (BeauHD)
• Copilot Cowork: Now available in Frontier (Jared Spataro)
• Exploring AI Agents in 2026 (Kevin Logan)
• From 3 Worktrees to N: How AI Agents Changed My Parallel Development Workflow on Windows (Laurent Kempe)
• I created my first GitHub Agentic Workflow to keep my blog up to date (Alexandre Nédélec)
• A Product Manager’s guide to using AI to build working prototypes (Replit Team)
• Accelerating the next phase of AI (OpenAI Team)
• OpenClaw v2026.3.31 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Run and Iterate on LLMs Faster with Docker Model Runner on DGX Station (Yiwen Xu)
• The AI job boom continues: Build the skills that move business forward (Gretchen LaBelle)
• Adversary Agent: using a hidden agent to keep the main agent safe (Michael Neale)
• How to Build AI Agents That Can Control Cloud Infrastructure (Manish Shivanandhan)
• Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science (Tyler McGoffin)
• Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI (Ryan Roslansky)
• When AI Breaks the Systems Meant to Hear Us (Heiko Hotz)
• “Conviction Collapse” and the End of Software as We Know It (Tim O’Reilly)
• I Asked ChatGPT What WIRED’s Reviewers Recommend—Its Answers Were All Wrong (Reece Rogers)
• Announcing the Postman Plugin for Claude Code (Quinton Wall)
• Does Code Quality Still Matter in the Age of AI-Assisted Coding? (Mark Heath)
• Granite 4.0 3B Vision: Compact Multimodal Intelligence for Enterprise Documents (Madison Lee, Rogerio Feris, Eli Schwartz, Dhiraj Joshi, Pengyuan Li & Isaac Sanchez)
• Shifting to AI model customization is an architectural imperative (Barry Conklin)
• AI benchmarks are broken. Here’s what we need instead. (Angela Aristidou)
• TRL v1.0: Post-Training Library That Holds When the Field Invalidates Its Own Assumptions (Quentin Gallouédec, Steven Liu, Pedro Cuenca & Sergio Paniego)
• Encoding Team Standards (Martin Fowler)
• ADK Go 1.0 Arrives! (Toni Klopfenstein)

Python

• Let’s Create Our First Microsoft 365 Agent SDK using Python – For Single Tenant (Meenakshi Balekar)
• CodeRabbit for Python: AI Code Review for Python Projects (Rahul Singh)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Things I Think I Think… Disruption (Ted Neward)
• Playwright v1.59.0 Release (dgozman)
• Docker Sandboxes: Run Agents in YOLO Mode, Safely (Srini Sekaran)
• Changes to packages.gitlab.com: What you need to know (Denis Afonso)
• The Problem with Secondary Domain Events in Event Sourcing (Urs Enzler)
• YouTrack Introduces Whiteboards (Elena Pishkova)
• The Rise of Transparency (Allen Pike)
• Practical Platform Engineering in 5 Lunches: 2. Your First Project (Matthew Casperson)
• How We Eliminated Long-Lived CI Secrets Across 70+ Repos (Boris Schlosser)
• Sustaining OpenTelemetry: Moving from dependency management to stewardship (Bloomberg)
• The threat to critical infrastructure has changed. Has your readiness? (Sherrod DeGrippo)

Mobile and Game Development

• A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases (Eben Upton)
• Build Configuration Updated To Kconfig Options (José Simões)
• What’s new in Swift: March 2026 Edition (Owen Voorhees & Dave Lester)
• How to Build AI-Powered Flutter Applications with Genkit Dart – Full Handbook for Devs (Atuoha Anthony)
• Getting Started with Android Studio and Claude Code (Charlie Castro)
• Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Kotlin 2.3.20, Interview With Josh Long, and More (Kodee)
• Why waiting feels slow — and how we’re using real‑time signals to change that (Maitree Shukla, Alex Timmler, Nick Wilczynski & Connor Sheehan)
• App Store expands support to 11 new languages (Apple Developer Team)

Screencasts and Videos

• Understanding High Availability Technologies for Azure SQL Workloads | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
• Exploring the Future of AI Animation with Claude Code (Frank La Vigne)
• From Backyard Telescopes to AI‑Powered Art Sales, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – William Morgan (Isaac Levin)
• The State of AI – Q2 2026 (AIDailyBrief)
• SharpSite returns | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Dapper in .NET: Learn how to use Dapper, the most popular .NET ORM (Nick Proud) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Developer Tea – Useful Illusions and Exploiting Heuristics (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #25 – The Apple II Age (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• The Amp Hour #720 – Hyper Growth and OpenClaw Interns (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1018 – 50 Years and Still Going Strong – Apple: The First 50 Years (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• Beyond the Hype: Is AI taking the fun out of software development? (Colin Eberhardt)
• RunAs Radio Show #1030 – My Home Lab (Richard Campbell)
• PPP 504 | How Leaders Can Reduce Stress Without Lowering the Bar, with Amy Leneker (Andy Kaufman)
• React Native Radio Episode #358 – React Native for Meta Quest Part 2: Developer Friendly (Evan Albert, Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – The Spy Who Delivered: Elizabeth Van Lew’s Secret Postal Legacy (United States Postal Service)
• The Vergecast – Apple at 50: the good and the bad (David Pierce)
• The Shift Podcast – Is context engineering the new RAG? (Microsoft Foundry Team – Allison, Pamela & Matt)
• Tools and Weapons Podcast – Ryan Roslansky: Turning AI Anxiety into Skills for the Future of Work (Brad Smith)
• The Hidden Cost of Always Saying Yes — How a Helpful Scrum Team Nearly Self-Destructed | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Bhavin Shukla)
• InfoQ Podcast: Failure As a Means to Build Resilient Software Systems (Lorin Hochstein)
• Last Week in AI Podcast Episode #238 – GPT 5.4 mini, OpenAI Pivot, Mamba 3, Attention Residuals (Andrey Kurenkov & Jeremie Harris)

Community and Events

• Agents League: Meet the Winners (Ayca Bas)
• Visual Studio 2026 | April Release Party (April 16th) (Leslie Richardson & Visual Studio Team)
• Tech Conferences Aren’t Dead. But Why We Go Is Changing. (Ivan Pelivanovic)
• A Microsoft FTE’s Reflections from MVP Summit 2026: Deep Insights & Connections (Rod Trent)
• Oracle cuts 491 jobs in Washington state as it embraces AI-led engineering (Lisa Stiffler)

Database

• How to Add Clippy Support to SSMS (Joe Obbish)
• Oracle Cuts Thousands of Jobs Across Sales, Engineering, Security (BeauHD)
• gcc vs clang for sysbench on a small server with Postgres, MySQL and MariaDB (Mark Callaghan)
• First Normal Form (1NF): Breaking the ‘unbreakable rule’ in database design (Lee Asher)
• How to Draw Line Graphs in SSMS (Brent Ozar)
• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Full Dashboard Installation (Erik Darling)
• AWS DMS Data Migration from MySQL to SQL Server (Deepak Vohra)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• How to Add an Adaptive Card in Microsoft 365 Agent SDK (Meenakshi Balekar)
• What’s New in Excel (March 2026) (Ms. Excel)
• SharePoint Showcase: How SharePoint uses AI to strengthen Work IQ’s data layer (John Mighell)
• What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | March 2026 (Seth Patton)
• How to integrate your product into Microsoft 365 Copilot (Gabriele Castellani)
• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | March 2026 (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)

PowerShell and Terminal

• .NET CLI Shebangs and Argument Parsing (Bryan Hogan)

Writing

• Level Up Your Writing: AIStoryBuilders Online 3.0 is Officially Out! (Michael Washington)

Tools

• JetBrains Blog RSS Support Is Now Generally Available (Anastasiia Korzhova)

General

• Before you check if an update caused your problem, check that it wasn’t a problem before the update (Raymond Chen)
• March skilling update: The pathway to capability (Jill Armour)
• What the heck is going on with Microsoft lately? (Mary Jo Foley)
• These Are the 4 Artemis II Astronauts Leading the Historic Return to the Moon (Fernanda González)
• What to Know About NASA’s Artemis Program (Eden Gordon)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – March 31, 2026 (#753) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C#.

Top Links

• How I Used Squad to Tackle 78 Azure CLI Issues in a Day (Jordan Selig)
• How to Load and Save Images in Blazor Image Editor with SQL Server (Satheeskumar S.)
• ReSharper 2026.1: Built-in Performance Monitoring, Expansion to VS Code, and Faster Everyday Workflows and Rider 2026.1: More AI Choice, Stronger .NET Tooling, and Expanded Game Dev Support (Sasha Ivanova)
• Azure Developer CLI (azd) – March 2026: Run and Debug AI Agents Locally, GitHub Copilot Integration, & Container App Jobs (PuiChee (PC) Chan)
• Part 2 – Babylon.js 9.0: Tooling updates and new geospatial features (Jason Carter & Thomas Lucchini)
• TechBash 2026 Call for Speakers Ends Tonight (Jason Gaylord)

Web and Cloud Development

• Aspire 13.2.1 Release (github-actions[bot])
• .NET Aspire 13.2 Adds AI-Agent CLI, TypeScript AppHost Support (David Ramel)
• Azure.Identity v1.20.0 Release (Azure SDK Team)
• Deploy JavaScript apps (Aspire Team)
• Bing Maps Goes Global with TomTom Orbis Addresses (Bing Team)
• Instantiating Objects and Accessing Properties in Blazor (Héctor Pérez)
• How to Design a Type-Safe, Lazy, and Secure Plugin Architecture in React (Jessica Patel)
• How to Build a QR Code Generator Using JavaScript – A Step-by-Step Guide (Bhavin Sheth)
• Writing Azure service-related unit tests with Docker using Spring Cloud Azure (Rujun Chen)
• Kendo UI for jQuery: AI Coding Assistant (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Launching Passkeys support on Report URI (Scott Helme)

Windows Development

• A question about the maximimum number of values in a registry key raises questions about the question (Raymond Chen)
• ReSharper C++ 2026.1: Better performance, improved Unreal Engine workflows, and language support updates (Sasha Ivanova)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for Canary Channel 29558.1000 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1797 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8142 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.8138 (Beta Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)

.NET and Visual Studio

• How .NET handles exceptions internally (and why they’re expensive) (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• Random Forest Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Build QR Codes in .NET FAST with ElBruno.QRCodeGenerator (Bruno Capuano)
• URL Pattern Matching in .NET (Gérald Barré)

AI

• GitHub Copilot Agent vs. GitHub Copilot Code Review (Mitchel Sellers)
• RAG vs Fine-Tuning: How to Choose the Right GPT Approach (Manikanda Akash Munisamy)
• VS Code Memory Tool: Local Memory meets GitHub Copilot Memory (Bart Wullems)
• Microsoft Copilot Is Now Injecting Ads Into Pull Requests On GitHub (BeauHD)
• Microsoft says Copilot ad in GitHub pull request was a bug, not an advertisement (Mayank Parmar)
• Pi – Ollama integrations and Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview (Ollama Team)
• Opinion: AI coach or AI ghostwriter? The choice is yours (Oren Etzioni)
• Addressing the OWASP Top 10 Risks in Agentic AI with Microsoft Copilot Studio (Efim Hudis)
• Now in Foundry: NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B, IBM Granite-4.0-1b-Speech, and Sarvam-105B (Osi)
• Audit Claude Platform activity with the Compliance API (Claude Team)
• Build vs buy: how to deploy coding agents at scale (Zach Lloyd)
• Tech CEOs Suddenly Love Blaming AI For Mass Job Cuts (BeauHD)
• The moment AI skilling stopped being optional—and started being personal (Kavitha Radhakrishnan)
• How to Compute GPU Capacity for GPT Models (GPT‑4o and Later) (Yan Liang)
• 11 Terms You Need to Know Before Incorporating AI (Ivo Starešina)
• Beyond AI Code Review: Why You Need Code Simulation at Scale (PlayerZero)
• OpenFang—The Game-Changing Open Source Agent Operating System That Replaces OpenClaw (Thomas Cherickal)
• Microsoft’s Copilot makes Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT team up (Frederic Lardinois)
• Chatbots: Unsafe at Any Speed (Jeffrey Snover)
• AI: The Near Term (Jesse Liberty)
• How AI Hype Masks the Exploitation of African Workers (Marché Arends & Kathryn Cleary)
• Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer (Simon Willison)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0 RC6 Release (giles17)
• Vibe Coding Pong with Python and pygame (Mike Driscoll)
• What’s New in PyCharm 2026.1 (Ilia Afanasiev)
• How to set up a data analysis environment in esProc SPL (compared to Python) (Chisom Kanu)
• Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective (Michael Kennedy)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub security (Kedasha Kerr)
• Using Kiro Subagents to Improve Test Coverage (Dror Helper)
• Kubernetes v1.36 Sneak Peek (Chad Crowell, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao & Utkarsh Umre)
• Cyber risk is financial risk: Why CFO leadership matters more than ever (Microsoft in Business Team)
• WorkDrive 6.0: Advancing toward intelligent enterprise content management (Phase 1) (Durai Murugan S)
• Software, in a Time of Fear (Ed Lyons)
• Practical Platform Engineering in 5 Lunches: 1. Getting Started (Matthew Casperson)
• The one where Oskar explains Example Mapping (Oskar Dudycz)

Mobile and Game Development

• Efficient State Management in Flutter Using IndexedStack (Atuoha Anthony)
• Media3 1.10 is out (Andrew Lewis)
• Component hydration patterns that actually work with Jaspr (Muhammed Salih Guler)
• Android developer verification: Rolling out to all developers on Play Console and Android Developer Console (Matthew Forsythe)
• Weird Science: Building Android Apps with NativePHP (James Seconde)
• Get ready with the latest beta releases (Apple Developer Team)
• Pico chess timer (Rosie Hattersley)

Screencasts and Videos

• Native Regex in SQL Server 2025 | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman)
• Contributing to Aspire – Aspire Conf 2026 (Jose Perez Rodriguez & Adam Ratzman)
• Warp terminal deep dive (Warp Team)
• Ordering pizza from a text-to-speech avatar! | The Dev Talk Show (Chris Gomez & Rich Ross)
• Labeling Files is Worth It | Speed & Protection Benefits in Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Mechanics (Matt McSpirit & Jeremy Chapman)
• Generate .NET Unit Tests with GitHub Copilot | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & McKenna Barlow)
• Beyond Vector Search: Scaling the AI Data Layer with Morphik & MongoDB Atlas (MongoDB Team)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Source Generators in C#: Master the art of writing code that writes code with source generators in C#. (Mel Grubb) – Referral Link

 

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1172 – Denim: Secret place names hiding in plain sight. Why the principal is more than your pal. (Mignon Fogarty)
• Merge Conflict Episode #508 – Agentic Workflows – Markdown Automation for GitHub Actions (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #475 – Haunted warehouses (Michael Kennedy)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #269 – Reflections on RSA 2026 – Beyond AI AI AI AI AI AI AI (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• The PowerShell Podcast – Poking Around Until Something Breaks (And Then Reporting It to Microsoft) with Morten Mynster (James Petty)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #991 – Vite’s bet on Cloudflare (VOID Framework) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• When Protecting Your Agile Team Becomes the Barrier to Their Growth | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Bhavin Shukla)
• Meta Cast Podcast – The Meta Management Gamble and Why We’re Worried Every Other Company Will Copy It (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)

Community and Events

• Apple @ 50 (Verge Staff)
• ‘Transformative’: Amazon and Microsoft celebrate opening of light rail line between Seattle and Eastside (Kurt Schlosser)
• Innovative Design and Collaboration at Game On. (Gillian Mutti)
• Become a Member (.NET Foundation Team)

Database

• Build a Celebrity Look-Alike App With Multimodal Vector Search and Couchbase (Tushar Madaan)
• Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
• Oracle SQL Plan Management (SPM) Demo: Capture, Preserve, and Safely Evolve Execution Plans (Vijay Balebail)
• DataSpell 2026.1: AI Agents Ecosystem, Export Notebooks to PDF, Editor Improvements (Stanislav Garkusha)
• AWS Cost Optimization for SQL Server (Rajendra Gupta)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• File-level archiving comes to Microsoft 365 Archive (public preview) (Trent Green)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.14 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Enhance GitHub Copilot CLI with skills (Jim Bennett)

Tools

• Windows App Updates: Reliability, Productivity, and Security Improvements (Hilary Braun)
• What’s New in RustRover 2026.1 (Irina Mihajlovic)

General

• Microsoft Plans To Build 100% Native Apps For Windows 11 (BeauHD)
• Report: Amazon buys 1,300 acres near Columbia River that could become a giant data center (Lisa Stiffler)
• Is the Smartphone Theory of Everything Wrong? A Comprehensive Investigation (Derek Thompson)
• This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms (David Gilbert)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – March 30, 2026 (#752) (Richard Seroter)
• Things That Caught My Attention The Last Two Weeks – March 29 (Peter Ritchie)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS AI/ML Scholars program, Agent Plugin for AWS Serverless, and more (March 30, 2026) (Prasad Rao)
• Reading Notes #691 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML.

 

Top Links

• Technology & Friends – Chris Woodruff and Joe Guadagno on morespeakers.com (David Giard)
• What AI Agents for Modernization Look Like in Practice (Pablo Lopes)
• Keynote: Come Meet the New Aspire – Aspire Conf 2026 (Maddy Montaquila, David Fowler & Damian Edwards)
• Getting Started with Foundry Local: A Student Guide to the Microsoft Foundry Local Lab (Lee Stott)
• Mads Torgersen: Talking AI – AI DevOps Podcast Episode #395 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Thoughts on slowing the fuck down (Mario Zechner)
• Aspire Roadmap – Q1 2026 Update (March 2026) (Maddy Montaquila)

Web and Cloud Development

• WebAssembly is now outperforming containers at the edge (Nick Lucchesi)
• What Is CSS Containment and How Can I Use It? (Harry Roberts)
• Local AI, Reactive Routing, and the Vitest Migration! (Angular Team)
• Why PDF Rendering in JavaScript Breaks and How to Fix It (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
• A Fast Immutable Map in Go (Daniel Lemire)
• Pretext (Simon Willison)

Windows Development

• What if a dialog wants to intercept its own message loop? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Why your Entity Framework Core app needs query filters (David Grace)
• Factory Method Pattern Best Practices in C#: Code Organization and Maintainability (Nick Cosentino)
• AI‑Powered Word Document Summarizer in C# With OpenAI GPT (Mathan Kumar Varadharaja)
• General Performance: Comparing Methods for Retrieving Process File Path (David McCarter)
• Critter Stack Wide Releases — March Madness Edition (Jeremy D. Miller)

AI

• OpenCode – The open source AI coding agent (OpenCode Team)
• Building Your First Local RAG Application with Foundry Local (Lee Stott)
• Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice (Anthony Ha)
• Vibes, specs, skills, and agents: The four pillars of AI coding (Rich Naszcyniec)
• Programming languages for AI (Mark Seemann)
• A technical report on Composer 2 (Cursor Team)
• Introducing Text Control Agent Skills (Bjoern Meyer)
• Claude + .NET in Production: What Actually Works (and What Breaks) (Karthikeyan NS)
• Nvidia’s NemoClaw has three layers of agent security. None of them solve the real problem. (David Eastman)
• 96% of codebases rely on open source, and AI slop is putting them at risk (Bill Doerrfeld)
• OpenClaw v2026.3.28 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Meet Claude Mythos: Leaked Anthropic post reveals the powerful upcoming model (Dissent)
• Multi-Model Support in GitHub Copilot SDK: GPT-5 vs Claude in C# (Nick Cosentino)
• Liberate your OpenClaw (Clem, Ben Burtenshaw, Pedro Cuenca, Jeff Boudier, merve, Niels Rogge, Victor Mustar & Mishig Davaadorj)
• A foundation model of vision, audition, and language for in-silico neuroscience (AI at Meta)
• What Happened When I Replaced Copilot with Claude Code for 2 Weeks (Balajee Asish Brahmandam)
• Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of fun (Simon Willison)
• Stop Wasting Tokens: Smart Tool Routing for LLMs with MCPToolRouter (Bruno Capuano)
• Google Made Gemini Code Assist Free. What’s the Catch? (Alan West)
• OpenAI’s Codex gets plugins (Frederic Lardinois)
• Paste clipboard images into Claude Code over SSH (Alexander Zeitler)
• Learning Vercel AI SDK—Part 2: Creating Your First Agent (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The Best AI Tools for Product Managers in 2026 (Replit Team)
• LlamaAgents Builder: From Prompt to Deployed AI Agent in Minutes and Why Agents Fail: The Role of Seed Values and Temperature in Agentic Loops (Iván Palomares Carrascosa)
• 5 Practical Techniques to Detect and Mitigate LLM Hallucinations Beyond Prompt Engineering (Shittu Olumide)
• Harness design for long-running application development (Anthropic Team)
• AI Ready – A free, 1-week AI literacy course for every American worker — delivered entirely by text message (U.S. Department of Labor)
• Building a News Roundup with Docker Agent, Docker Model Runner, and Skill (Yiwen Xu)

Python

• Python Vulnerability Lookup (Simon Willison)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Kiro for Test-Driven Development (TDD) (Dror Helper)
• Working on products people hate (Sean Goedecke)
• How to Create and Use Checkboxes in Figma (Abhijeet Dave)

Mobile and Game Development

• Zero to Game Dev Hero – Course/Learning Software Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral link
• What do YOU consider success? And Fornite is dying? (Code Monkey)

Screencasts and Videos

• The Era of Vertical AI Models and Anthropic’s New Mythos Model a “Step Change” in Capabilities (AIDailyBrief)
• Random.Code() – Managing Properties From Records in C#, Part 3 and Part 4 and Part 5 (Jason Bock)
• GitHub Copilot Dev Days are Here! Meet Lucky on April 4th! (Microsoft Developer Team)
• One AppHost, Many Languages – Aspire Conf 2026 (Chris Ayers)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 306 – “AI-assisted Friendly Fire” (How to Lose at Machine Speed!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• The Transformation of the Developer Role with AI Agents (Patrick Chanezon)
• Beyond Telemetry: Supercharging DevEx with the Aspire Dashboard – Aspire Conf 2026 (Michael Cummings)
• Aspire to Be Agentic: Designing Distributed Agentic Systems Without the Chaos – Aspire Conf 2026 (Seth Juarez & Tommaso Stocchi)
• From Localhost to Liftoff: Aspire for Newbies – Aspire Conf 2026 (Claudia Regio & David Pine)
• Fritz reads The Time Machine | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• AI memory just got solved (they beat OpenAI & Anthropic) (Igor Kudryk)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Cloud Architecture in Azure: Master Cloud Architecture in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. (Kevin Dockx) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Vergecast – The Macintosh changed computers forever (David Pierce)
• Lenny’s Podcast – From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Upskilling your agents | Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #267 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• Big Technology Podcast – Why OpenAI Killed Sora, Did Apple Just Save Siri?, Meta’s Big Loss (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Changelog News Podcast Episode #184 – Astral has been acquired by OpenAI (Jerod Santo)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #289 – Limitations in Human and Automated Code Review (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy? (Ezra Klein & Rollin Hu)
• The Firewall Product Owner, Turning PO Anti-Patterns Into Opportunities for Growth | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Iryna Stelmakh)
• A Geek Leader Podcast Episode #462 – Will Linssen (John Rouda)
• Women in Technology Podcast – The Long Road to TEDx: Confidence, Change, and Claiming Your Voice OR From Inner Dialogue to the TEDx Stage: Celina Mattocks on Confidence, Change, and Voice OR When It’s Time to Go All-In (WiT Team)
• freeCodeCamp Podcast Episode #213 – What happens when the model CAN’T fix it? Interview with software engineer Landon Gray (Beau Carnes)

Community and Events

• Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds (Sarah Perez)
• Call For Papers Listings for 3/27 and Job listings for week ending 3/27 (Leon Adato)
• The Book of Redgate: No Politics (Steve Jones)
• You are falling behind because you haven’t fed the insincerity machine in the last 5 minutes (Chris Heilmann)
• More layoffs at T-Mobile: Company confirms it’s ‘further aligning’ IT org (Kurt Schlosser)

Database

• Selecting a character set for MySQL and MariaDB clients and The insert benchmark on a small server : Postgres 12.22 through 18.3 (Mark Callaghan)
• How User-Defined Types work in PostgreSQL: a complete guide (Grant Fritchey)
• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Lite Dashboard Overview (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft SharePoint Turns 25! (Rob Nunez)

PowerShell and Terminal

• MacOS 26.4 Adds Warnings For ClickFix Attacks to Its Terminal App (EditorDavid)
• Upgrading AWS CLI From v1 to v2 Using the Migration Tool (Ahmed Moustafa)
• Copilot CLI Weekly: MCP Servers Get LLM Access (Hector Flores)
• Using GitHub Copilot CLI session data and GitHub Copilot CLI command reference (GitHub Docs)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.0.38 (Files Team)
• 7 Mac Apps Every Startup CTO Should Have in 2026 (Henry Godnick)

General

• Did you sign up for the new White House app? Don’t use it until you read this! (Dissent)
• Microsoft confirms Windows 11 dark mode upgrade, with plans for third-party apps and Registry Editor (Mayank Parmar)
• The White House has an app now, and Trump wants you to report people to ICE on it (Stevie Bonifield)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest #601 – March 29, 2026 – What your .NET exceptions are telling attackers (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Android Weekly Issue #720 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #557 – 29th March 2026 (The Editor)
• F# Weekly #13, 2026 – Deedle 4.0 is out! (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – March 27, 2026 (#751) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading List 356 (Bruce Lawson)
• The Batch: Nvidia’s Open Salvo, OpenAI’s Amazon Deal, Grok Cuts Video Prices, Recursive Language Models (DeepLearning.AI)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link

A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.

Top Links

• Azure SDK Release (March 2026) (Ronnie Geraghty)
• MCP Configuration Across AI Agents (Sam Basu)
• Sysinternals Update: listent for macOS, ZoomIt, Sysmon, DebugView, NotMyFault, Procmon for Linux, and RAMMap (Alex Mihaiuc)
• The Third Beta of Android 17 (Matthew McCullough)
• What happens when you give the company 4 hours to automate everything (Ben Holmes)
• Announcing Babylon.js 9.0 (Jason Carter & Thomas Lucchini)

Web and Cloud Development

• Container registry configuration (Aspire Team)
• Azure Maps Adds Support to Private Endpoints (Preview) (PeterBr)
• TypeScript AppHost in Aspire 13.2: same app model, different syntax (Sebastien Ros)
• Next.js Deployment Adapters: A bright future for Next.js on Google Cloud (James Daniels)
• Generative UI Notes (Geoff Graham)
• Astro 6.1 (Fred Schott)
• W3C Invites Implementations of Geolocation (W3C)
• Next.js vs Wasp: 40% Less Tokens for the Same App (Vince Canger)
• Breaking the “Identity Wall” with Tenancy-as-a-Service (Sheena Allen)

Windows Development

• Why doesn’t WM_ENTER­IDLE work if the dialog box is a Message­Box? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Microscopic Visual Studio Code Tips for Microscopic Needs (skatterbrainzz)
• Generating Structured Code Using Azure, OpenAI and .NET (Ricardo Peres)
• Build an AI-Powered Excel Translator in C# Using OpenAI and XlsIO (Mohan Chandran)
• The World’s Crudest Chaos Monkey (Jeremy D. Miller)

AI

• AI for nuclear energy: Powering an intelligent, resilient future (Darryl Willis)
• Building an Offline AI Interview Coach with Foundry Local, RAG, and SQLite (Lee Stott)
• The latest Sysinternals ZoomIt update has features that are entirely AI-coded, and I wanted to share a bit about them and experience I had coding them. (Mark Russinovich)
• Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable (Yifan Ding)
• How to Train ChatGPT/AI on Your Codebase (Mahesh Chand)
• Claude Code Essentials (Beau Carnes)
• AI Crash Course: Prompt Engineering (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• Improving Composer through real-time RL (Cursor Team)
• Building shared coding guidelines for AI (and people too) (Ryan Donovan)
• The Missing Layer in Agentic AI (Artur Huk)
• Imperfection. A precious human signal. (Carly Robinson)
• Quantization from the ground up (Simon Willison)
• AsgardBench: A benchmark for visually grounded interactive planning (Andrea Tupini, Lars Liden, Reuben Tan & Jianfeng Gao)
• Integrate Claude Code with Red Hat AI Inference Server on OpenShift (Alexander Barbosa Ayala)
• Mistral releases a new open-source model for speech generation (Ivan Mehta)

Python

• How Passing by Object Reference Works in Python (Mokshita V P)
• Getting started with GitLab feature flags in Python (Omid Khan)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How to Use GPO to Install EXE Files on Multiple Computers and What Is and How To Use a Network Software Deployment? (Alex Marin)
• How to Prevent Application Security Threats: A Developer’s Guide to Proactive Protection (Ben Nettleton)
• Your Architecture Has a Cost Personality (Shannon Kuehn)
• What’s coming to our GitHub Actions 2026 security roadmap (Greg Ose)
• Is Event-Driven Architecture Overkill for Most Apps? (Derek Comartin)

Mobile and Game Development

• Using Flutter with Firebase: A Developer’s Guide (Gulshan Yadav)
• Raspberry Pi Pico–powered sunrise alarm clock (Rosie Hattersley)

Screencasts and Videos

• Avalonia’s New Page Navigation APIs (Javier Suárez)
• Intro to Warp and Oz – Onboarding 101: Start coding with agents (Ben Holmes)
• Why AI Needs Better Benchmarks (AIDailyBrief)
• Attacking AI – NDC Security 2026 (Jason Haddix)
• No code .NET modernization with Managed Instance on Azure App Service | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Andrew Westgarth)
• What’s New in Microsoft SQL at SQLCon/FabCon | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman, Priya Sathy & Bob Ward)
• AI Won’t 10X Your Team, But It Can 2X It with @honeycombio SVP of Engineering | Hangar DX Podcast (Hangar DX Team)
• Budget Bytes: Azure Data Leaders on AI & Budget (Sneak Peek) (Priya & Shireesh)
• Web App Performance and Migrations | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: SQL Server: Get started with RDBMSs using Microsoft SQL Server. (Alex Tushinsky) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #565 – Field Engineering is the YOLO team (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Three Smart Guys: Is Office Dead? (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #347 – The CloudPod is Only Recording this Week “Because of AI” | Cloud Computing & AI News (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• The Almost Invisible Scrum Master, Why Team Independence Is the Ultimate Success Metric | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Iryna Stelmakh)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #136 – 0 to 1,000 in a Year: Ionna CEO on Scaling to 30,000 by 2030 (Batteries Included Team)
• MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #424 – A new frontier for Microsoft 365 with E7 (Ben Stegink & Scott Hoag)
• Build Mode Podcast – Why hiring the weirdos works with Isaiah Granet, Bland (Maggie Nye & Isabelle Johannessen)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Prevent agentic identity theft (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Build Your Own AI Agent Platform with .NET and GitHub Copilot – OpenClawNet – Free Live Series at Microsoft Reactor (Bruno Capuano)

Database

• Invoke SSIS Package Activity in Microsoft Fabric (Preview) (Chunhua)
• SQL Server silently renames your user when you ALTER with a login (Bart Wullems)
• Microsoft Fabric Extensibility Toolkit (Generally Available) (Gerd Saurer)
• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: How To Talk To Your Performance Data With The MCP Server (Erik Darling)
• How we standardized MariaDB in our Integration Server (Eloy Gonzalez)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Breaking Change Ahead: Graph API Updates to Sensitive Email Properties (Thomas Mechelke)
• Copilot Notebooks: Enhancements to support creation, collaboration and learning (Ezra Park)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Microsoft Introduces WinApp CLI to Unify Windows App Development Workflows (Edin Kapić)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.12 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• How To Write A Play – For Beginners (Writers Write)

Tools

• PowerToys Release v0.98.1 (zateutsch)
• Mermaid Studio – Design Mermaid diagrams live (James Montemagno)

General

• Why ICE Is Allowed to Impersonate Law Enforcement (Vittoria Elliott)
• Announcing Rust 1.94.1 (Rust Release Team)
• Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE warns all immigrants to ‘lie low’ (Olivia Bowden)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – March 26, 2026 (#750) (Richard Seroter)
• Interesting links – March 2026 (Robin Moffatt)
• Fragments: March 26 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

Tools and Skills for .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions.

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Coding for Security with Chris Ayers (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Tools and Skills: Better Together (Rocky Lhotka)
• Visual Studio Version 11619.145 Insiders Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.4.2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Build an Offline Hybrid RAG Stack with ONNX and Foundry Local (Lee Stott)
• Visual Studio Code 1.114 (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Resolve Merge Conflicts the Easy Way (Phil Haack)

Web and Cloud Development

• Deploying the TX Text Control Document Editor from the Private NuGet Feed to Azure App Services (Linux and Windows) (Bjoern Meyer)
• Contravariance on TypeScript Function Parameters (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 2026.1: Service-powered TypeScript Engine, Junie, Claude Agent, and Codex in the AI chat, Framework Updates, and More (Vladislav Minaev)
• Jetpack Social Just Got a Major Upgrade: Create, Customize, Preview, and Share with Confidence (WordPress Team)
• Aspire on Azure App Service is now Generally Available (Tulika C.)
• A gentle intro to npm workspaces, with visuals (Carlos Precioso)
• What’s New for Blazor in .NET 11 Preview Releases 1 and 2 (Jon Hilton)
• A Guide to the Law of Common Region in Web Development (Andrew Peterson)

Windows Development

• How can I change a dialog box’s message loop to do a Msg­Wait­For­Multiple­Objects instead of Get­Message? (Raymond Chen)
• What’s new in Windows SDK build 10.0.26100.7705 and Windows App SDK 1.8 release notes – Version 1.8.6 (1.8.260317003) (Microsoft Learn)

.NET and Visual Studio

• How to Work With Dapper in .NET (Grant Riordan)
• Fast .NET CLI Downloader (Bryan Hogan)
• Compile-Time options validation with the OptionsValidator source generator (Bart Wullems)

AI

• Introducing Syncfusion Agent Skills: Component-Aware AI for Accurate, Faster Development (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
• Build a Star Wars Copilot in C# – Lesson 5: MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Lesson 6: RAG from a Database and Lesson 7: Multimodal Image Generation and Lesson 8: Agents and Orchestration (Jim Bennett)
• Everyone is a builder: Microsoft and OpenAI execs on the new era of AI-powered personal software (Taylor Soper)
• Apple Can Create Smaller On-Device AI Models From Google’s Gemini (BeauHD)
• Guardrails for Generative AI: Securing Developer Workflows (Siddhi Gupta)
• Langchain Multi-Agent Systems with Microsoft Agent Framework and Hosted Agents (Lee Stott)
• Building Real AI Agents in 2026 — My Ongoing Journey Over the past few months, I… (Kevin Logan)
• The Claude Code Handbook: A Professional Introduction to Building with AI-Assisted Development (Vahe Aslanyan)
• Deploying AI Models with Hugging Face (Beau Carnes)
• Getting My OpenClaw Around VS Code (David Ramel)
• Claude Code auto mode: a safer way to skip permissions (Anthropic Team)
• From Lights-On to Lights-Out: Rethinking Software Delivery in the Age of AI (Mirco Hering)
• Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more Google products (Myriam Hamed Torres)
• AI Safety Is a Category Error (Jeffrey Snover)
• OpenClaw v2026.3.24 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Build with Lyria 3, our newest music generation model (Guillaume Vernade)
• Run cloud agents in your own infrastructure (Cursor Team)
• Inside our approach to the Model Spec and Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program (OpenAI Team)
• New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction (Molly Taft)
• Spotting and Avoiding ROT in Your Agentic AI (Q McCallum)
• Closing the knowledge gap with agent skills (Philipp Schmid & Mark McDonald)
• Claw Camp – A self-directed way to learn more about using OpenClaw to create AI agent teams (Nathaniel Whittemore)
• Shared Agent Context: How We Are Tackling Partner Agent Collaboration (dbandaru)
• Agent Reasoning: The Thinking Layer (Oracle Developers Team)
• 5 ways to collaborate with our agentic advisors (Ashutosh Kumar Mishra)
• Advice for Startups: Build Without Waiting with Replit (Microsoft Student Developer Team)

Python

• Expanding Our Core Web Development Support in PyCharm 2026.1 (Ilia Afanasiev)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Why Octopus invests in developer experience (Steve Fenton)
• Best CI Tools for 2026: What the Data Actually Shows (Olga Bedrina)
• Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code (Sean Goedecke)
• Verified Argo CD deployments (Frank Lin)
• Thoughts on slowing the fuck down (Simon Willison)
• Identity security is the new pressure point for modern cyberattacks (Rob Lefferts & Nadim Abdo)

Mobile and Game Development

• .NET MAUI v10.0.51 SR5.1 Release (Shane Neuville)
• Swift 6.3 Brings First SDK for Android (Paul Thurrott)
• Android Sets New Record for Mobile Web Performance (Eric Seckler)
• March Xbox Update: New Console Updates Available to Insiders, Xbox at GDC, and More (Mike Nelson)
• New In-App Purchase and subscription data now available in Analytics (Apple Developer Team)

Screencasts and Videos

• Work AGI is the Only AGI that Matters (AIDailyBrief)
• What is MCP and how does it work with AI? (GitHub Team)
• Build & Deploy a fullstack JavaScript App with GitHub Copilot CLI and Azure MCP (Karishma Ghiya)
• Random.Code() – Excluding Properties From Records in C#, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
• Your Website Is Running Code You’ve Never Seen – NDC Security 2026 (Scott Helme)
• The Foundation of AI: Why Your Data Platform Matters Most | Building the AI Era Ep. 2 (MongoDB Team)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Bootstrap: Build beautiful web applications and UIs using the popular Bootstrap library. (Jill Gundersen) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1171 – The crossword puzzle’s role in World War II and the fight against Nazism. (Mignon Fogarty)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #713 – Héctor Ramón Jiménez on Building a GUI library in Rust (Gavin Henry)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #542 – Zensical – a modern static site generator (Michael Kennedy)
• Windows Weekly Episode #976 – Full Thurrottle – Microsoft’s Plan To Save Windows in 2026 (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• PPP 503 | How to Facilitate Meetings That Actually Lead to Decisions, with Evan Unger (Andy Kaufman)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #350 – AI at the Edge is a different operating environment (Brandon Shibley, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Big Technology Podcast – Senator Mark Warner: Nobody’s Ready for What AI Could Do To Us (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #990 – Vite Is Taking Over (Vite+) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Fighting Agile Theater, When Organizations Adopt the Ceremonies But Not the Mindset | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Iryna Stelmakh)
• InfoQ Podcast: [Video Podcast] Agentic Systems Without Chaos: Early Operating Models for Autonomous Agents (Joseph Stein)

Community and Events

• Announcing the winners of the SharePoint Hackathon 2026 (Vesa Juvonen)
• Meta is laying off hundreds of employees as it pours money into AI (Emma Roth)
• The 2026 Redgate Summit in New York City (Steve Jones)
• Meta is cutting several hundred jobs (Aisha Malik)
• This Week’s Health IT Jobs – March 25, 2026 (Neil Versel)
• Philadelphia Histories Month (Visit Philly)

Database

• An Introduction to Database System Design (Olasunkanmi Emmanuel Jesuferanmi)
• Hyper-threading on Azure VMs is a SQL Licensing Trap (Joe Obbish)
• SQL101: Top Ten SQL Server Performance Tuning Best Practices (Paul S. Randal)
• Announcing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless database creation in seconds (Channy Yun)
• Everything you should know about the SQL Server Resource database (Greg Low)
• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Which Version Is Right For You? (Erik Darling)
• MySQL at 30 – does it still have a future? [Q&A] (Ian Barker)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• PowerPoint: Edit with Copilot, Brand Kit and Image Gen: Overview + demo- March 2026 M365 Champions Community call (Tiffany Lee)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot app learning series: Real‑world scenarios for your workday (Patrick Gan)

PowerShell and Terminal

• PowerShell Remoting for SQL DBAs: WinRM + SSH Guide (Updated 2026) (SQLPals)

Writing

• What Is Body Language? Cheat Sheets For Writing Body Language (Writers Write)
• Vim + Markdown = Writer’s Heaven (Armand Halbert)

Tools

• Tested: Windows 11 now has a second taskbar, and it works surprisingly well (Abhijith M B)

General

• Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting a Windows 10-like compact taskbar, not just a movable taskbar (Mayank Parmar)
• Postal Service to Impose Its First-Ever Fuel Surcharge on Packages (BeauHD)
• The Government’s Shittiest Website (Todd Feathers)
• Stephen Colbert To Write Next ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie (BeauHD)
• The United States router ban, explained (Sean Hollister)
• Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case (Lauren Feiner)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – March 25, 2026 (#749) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Is Designing (Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle) – Referral Link

Words and the User Experience.

Top Links

• Building AI-powered GitHub issue triage with the Copilot SDK (Andrea Griffiths)
• 11 Interaction Patterns That bring life to .NET dashboards (Matt Mattei)
• Essential Studio UI Edition Now Available For Visual Studio Dev Essential Subscribers (Meena Alagiah)
• Unlock More Power in Your Development Workflow: Syncfusion for Visual Studio Subscribers (Jim Harrer)
• EPISODE 34 – Scott & Mark Learn To…Vibe Coding, for Real (Again) (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• Microsoft Foundry Labs: A Practical Fast Lane from Research to Real Developer Work (Lee Stott)
• The TechBash 2026 call for speakers closes March 31st (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• htmxRazor v1.4.0: SSE Streaming, Multi-step Wizard, and Optimistic UI (Chris Woodruff)
• External MFA in Microsoft Entra ID is now Generally Available (Swaroop Krishnamurthy)
• Node.js 20.20.2 (LTS) (Marco Ippolito)
• A Simple .NET CLI Web Server (Bryan Hogan)
• Node.js 22.22.2 (LTS) and Node.js 24.14.1 (LTS) and Node.js 25.8.2 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
• Using Markov Models for Password Complexity Estimation in Microsoft Edge (Gareth Evans)
• Top 3 Everyday Angular Tasks That MCP Servers Automate for You (Alyssa Nicoll)
• Announcing Version 1.4.1 of the Vonage Video Reference App (Julia Biro)
• Type Construction and Cycle Detection in Go (Mark Freeman)
• WebKit Features for Safari 26.4 (Jen Simmons)
• Designing for Eventual Consistency for Microsoft Entra (Kyle Marsh)
• Build an ASP.NET Core AI Assistant API with GitHub Copilot SDK in C# (Nick Cosentino)
• How to Create a File Upload Form in WordPress (3 Easy Steps) (Jen Swisher)
• What Are WebSockets and How Are They Different From HTTP? (Liz Acosta)

Windows Development

• Windows: Choose Where To Get Apps (Eric Lawrence)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition for Visual Studio Enterprise and Professional Users (Meena Alagiah)
• C# Tip: How to JSON Serialize and Deserialize values as DateTime, DateTimeOffset, DateOnly and TimeOnly (Davide Bellone)
• Validating configuration at startup with IValidateOptions in .NET (Bart Wullems)
• Visual Studio Shortcuts: The Complete Guide to Coding Faster in 2026 (Dirk Strauss)
• Why Structured E-Invoices Still Need Tamper Protection using C# and .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
• Introducing NtpTick: A lightweight NTP client for .NET (Jiří {x2} Činčura)
• Improving .NET Security Code with C# 14 Property Extensions (Wesley Cabus)

AI

• How AI Is Changing the Way Developers Choose Tools, Frameworks, and Languages (Gokul Subramani)
• Introducing JetBrains Central: An Open System for Agentic Software Development (Oleg Koverznev)
• Microsoft exec Charles Lamanna on how AI is creating an expensive new request from job candidates (Taylor Soper)
• OpenAI Discontinues Sora Video Platform App (BeauHD)
• Group Note: Use of Large Language Models in Standards Work (W3C)
• Build Enterprise Apps in Under 60 Minutes with Code Studio [Webinar Show Notes] (Ramakrishna Reddy)
• Governing AI agent behavior: Aligning user, developer, role, and organizational intent (Fady Copty, Neta Haiby & Idan Hen)
• WebAssembly could solve AI agents’ most dangerous security gap (B. Cameron Gain)
• AI Is the Headline — but Readiness Is the Real Story for MSPs (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Securing AI agents: The enterprise security playbook for the agentic era (Joon Woo)
• What We Learned From Building an AI agent for 40 Million Developers (Abhijit Kane)
• Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens and Powering product discovery in ChatGPT (OpenAI Team)
• Auto mode for Claude Code (Claude Team)
• Tool search tool | Developer Guide (Claude API Docs)
• Harness design for long-running application development (Anthropic Team)
• Ai2 releases open-source web agent to rival closed systems from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic (Todd Bishop)
• Kubernetes co-founder Brendan Burns: AI-generated code will become as invisible as assembly (Frederic Lardinois)

Python

• How to Build a General-Purpose AI Agent in 131 Lines of Python (Hugo Bowne-Anderson)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables (Ruben Ferreira Duarte)
• Why Bookmarks Fail Developers (Peter Waldschmidt)
• Bliki: Architecture Decision Record (Martin Fowler)

Mobile and Game Development

• Contact Picker: Privacy-First Contact Sharing (Roxanna Aliabadi Walker)
• Swift 6.3 Released (Holly Borla & Joe Heck)
• .NET 11 Preview 2 Updates MAUI with Performance Improvements and Platform Refinements (Edin Kapić)
• Beyond Infotainment: Extending Android Automotive OS for Software-defined Vehicles (Eser Erdem)
• Avalonia Previews MAUI For Linux (Kay Ewbank)
• Jump to play: Building with Gemini & MediaPipe (Gregory Karpiak, Chris Parsons & Suril Shah)
• Google’s Android Automotive is moving from the dashboard to the ‘brain’ of the car (Andrew J. Hawkins)
• Apple launches iOS 26.4 with AI playlists, purchase sharing, and more (Emma Roth)
• 3 new Gemini features are coming to Google TV (Ruturaj Patil)
• Wine 11 Rewrites How Linux Runs Windows Games At the Kernel Level (BeauHD)

Screencasts and Videos

• How to Use Claude’s Massive New Upgrades (AIDailyBrief)
• Containerization Assist – Simplifying Modern App Delivery | Open at Microsoft (Tatsat Mishra & David Gamero)
• Automate Data Security Triage & Posture | Agents in Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Mechanics (Michelle Slotwinski)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Brian Alvey (Isaac Levin)
• Three decades of curl – NDC Security 2026 (Daniel Stenberg)
• Post-quantum cryptography for .NET developers – NDC Security 2026 (Filip W.)
• Data Security Investigations in Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Mechanics (Christophe Fiessinger & Jeremy Chapman)
• AI Skills, Minecraft, and Web Development | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Random.Code() – Excluding Properties From Records in C#, Part 1 (Jason Bock)

Dometrain Course

ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC to ASP.NET Core: Migrating web apps from .NET Framework to ASP.NET Core has been painful, until now. (Jonathan Tower) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #24 – Searches (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• RunAs Radio Show #1029 – Unified Tenant Management with Nik Charlebois-Laprade (Richard Campbell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1017 – We Found a Google, and Put it in – WWDC 2026 Dates Announced! (Jason Snell, Andy Ihnatko & Christina Warren)
• The Shift Podcast Season 2, Episode 3 – Wait, my agent needs a database? (Azure Database Team: Nikisha, James, Debbi & Jared)
• The Python Show – Python Illustrated (Mike Driscoll)
• When Communication Clarity Matters More Than Technical Complexity, A Healthcare Project That Fell Apart | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Iryna Stelmakh)

Community and Events

• Epic Games cuts 1000 jobs, says Fortnite engagement is down (Amanda Silberling)
• Women are leading the future of intelligent work at Microsoft 365 Community Conference and Your guide to the Microsoft 365 Community Conference (Jon Jones)
• Epic Games layoffs impact 82 workers at Seattle-area office as part of broader cuts (Taylor Soper)
• Update on the OpenAI Foundation (OpenAI Team)
• Microsoft, Lime and others helping to celebrate opening of new light rail line from Seattle to Eastside (Kurt Schlosser)
• Apple to Unveil the New Siri at WWDC 2026 in June (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• Monitoring Fabric Mirroring for SQL 2025 (Meagan Longoria)
• Writing SQL in Data Connect (Cynthia Wang)
• Supercharge Database DevOps in SSMS with SQL Database Project Power Tools (Erik EJ)
• My Wish List for SQL Server Performance Features (Brent Ozar)
• New Option for Simple Projections in Marten or Polecat (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Introduction (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – March 2026 (Vesa Juvonen)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Declarative Agents Are Getting Smarter with GPT‑5.2 (Shikha Varshney)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI: AI Assistance from the Command Line for Infrastructure Deployments (Ibrahim Baig)

Writing

• Weird Habits Of Famous Writers (Writers Write)
• Spring Break Books to Up your Writing Game (Emily Munro)

Tools

• A free VPN you can trust, now built into Firefox (Adam Fishman)

General

• Meta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decides (Lauren Feiner)
• What is ICE actually doing at the airport? (Gaby Del Valle)
• Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older version (Raymond Chen)
• Introducing Apple Business — a new all-in-one platform for businesses of all sizes (Apple)
• Citing HIPAA, Groups Oppose Renewed Federal Plan to Amass Millions of Workers’ Health Data (Dissent)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – March 24, 2026 (#748) (Richard Seroter)
• blogroll (Daniel Fisher)

The Geek Shelf

.NET MAUI Cookbook (Alexander Russkov) – Referral Link

Build a full-featured app swiftly with MVVM, CRUD, AI, authentication, real-time updates, and more.

Top Links

• Windows Community Toolkit – How Microsoft uses Uno Platform to Ship Fast (Michael Hawker)
• Announcing TypeScript 6.0 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Generative AI for Beginners .NET: Version 2 on .NET 10 (Pablo Lopes & Bruno Capuano)
• Announcing Aspire 13.2 (Maddy Montaquila & David Fowler)
• What Developers Say AI Is Actually Good For in Software Development (Gokul Subramani)
• 10 New Visual Studio Extensions from Mads | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Mads Kristensen)
• Ten Months with Copilot Coding Agent in dotnet/runtime (Stephen Toub)

Web and Cloud Development

• Blazor – End of Support for Bootstrap v4 (v26.1) (Elena Peskova)
• Experimenting With Scroll-Driven corner-shape Animations (Daniel Schwarz)
• Aspire 13.2.0 Release (github-actions[bot])
• MCP is everywhere, but don’t panic. Here’s why your existing APIs still matter. (Camille Crowell-Lee)
• Protect your enterprise from shadow AI and more: Announcements at RSAC 2026 (Patrick Brosset)
• Coding Azure 23: Reading Settings from an App Configuration Service (Peter Vogel)
• Code Optimizations for Azure App Service Now Available in VS Code (fiveisprime)
• Implementing OAuth in Astro (Raymond Camden)
• Redux vs Zustand: Choosing the Right React State Manager (Manikanda Akash Munisamy)
• Updated W3C Recommendation: Geolocation (W3C)

Windows Development

• How can I make sure the anti-malware software doesn’t terminate my custom service? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• AI Generated PDFs, PDF/UA, and Compliance Risk: Why Accessible Document Generation Must Be Built Into the Pipeline in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
• SOLID Principles in C#: A Beginner-Friendly Guide with Modern .NET Examples (Dirk Strauss)
• Speed Up .NET CI with Test Sharding (Gérald Barré)
• Singleton vs Static Class in C#: Key Differences Explained (Nick Cosentino)

AI

• Hosted Containers and AI Agent Solutions (Lee Stott)
• Do you need AI for that? (Rachel Andrew)
• From code to cloud: Deploy an AI agent to Microsoft Foundry in minutes with azd (PuiChee (PC) Chan)
• CNCF Nearly Doubles Certified Kubernetes AI Platforms (Kaitlin Thornhill)
• Run Model-as-a-Service for multiple LLMs on OpenShift (Vladimir Belousov)
• How to Stop Letting AI Agents Guess Your Requirements (Daniel Nwaneri)
• How to explore multiple solutions in parallel when using Github Copilot (Bart Wullems)
• A New Framework for Evaluation of Voice Agents (EVA) (Tara Bogavelli, Gabrielle Gauthier Melancon, Katrina Stankiewicz, Nifemi Bamgbose, Hoang Nguyen & Hari Subramani)
• Docker Container Doctor: How I Built an AI Agent That Monitors and Fixes My Containers (Balajee Asish Brahmandam)
• Why most enterprise AI projects fail – and how to fix them (Animesh Goyal)
• Claude Code Essentials (Beau Carnes)
• More Magic Math from OpenAI? (Om Malik)
• OpenClaw v2026.3.23 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Fast regex search: indexing text for agent tools (Cursor Team)
• The Missing Mechanisms of the Agentic Economy (Tim O’Reilly)
• Put Claude to work on your computer (Claude Team)
• Prompt engineering for developers (Jessica Wachtel)
• Full-stack vibe coding made easy (Richard Seroter)
• Live from Replit HQ Part 2 (Replit Team)
• The Mythical Agent-Month (Wes McKinney)

Python

• How to Use the Command Pattern in Python (Bala Priya C.)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Testing APIs with Postman Agent Mode: A Practical Guide (Pooja Mistry)
• Agile planning gets a boost from new features in GitLab 18.10 (Matthew Macfarlane)
• To test, or not to Test? Part 5 – Final words (Urs Enzler)
• GitHub expands application security coverage with AI‑powered detections (Marcelo Oliveira)
• Designing business rules that don’t leak into controllers (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• The Knowledge Void Eats Quality for Breakfast (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Your Inbox As Options, Not Obligations (JB Rainsberger)
• Is Domain-Driven Design Worth the Investment? (Todd Hurley)

Mobile and Game Development

• Getting Started with the BottomSheet Component for .NET MAUI (Héctor Pérez)
• Lessons from Adopting SwiftUI in an App with 50 Million Users (Jimit Patel)
• How to deploy Pi-Hole with Docker and stop ads on every device on your LAN (Jack Wallen)
• How to Build a Complete Flutter CI/CD Pipeline with Codemagic: From PR Quality Gates to Automated Store Releases (Oluwaseyi Fatunmole)

Screencasts and Videos

• Introduction to AKS Automatic (ITOpsTalk Crew)
• Priority Processing for Foundry Models (Microsoft Azure Team)
• A beginner’s guide to Copilot CLI slash commands | GitHub (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Let’s get Aspireify ready to re-launch | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: AI Agents in C#: Learn how to use AI Agents that can reason, use tools and take action to build products. (James Charlesworth) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Developer Tea Podcast – Decision Making is Your New Core Skill, So it’s Critical to Avoid These Two Traps of Collaborative Decision-Making (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Fragmented – AI Developer Podcast #308 – How Image Diffusion Models Work – the 20 minute explainer (Kaushik Gopal & Iury Souza)
• Merge Conflict Episode #507 – iCircuit UI Roast: Toolbar, Popovers, and Polish (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #474 – Astral to join OpenAI (Michael Kennedy)
• Microsoft Research Podcast – Will machines ever be intelligent? (Doug Burger, Subutai Ahmad & Nicolo Fusi)
• AI Unprompted Podcast #019 – From Chatbots to Coworkers (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The PowerShell Podcast – From School IT Intern to Systems Architect with Chris Thomas (James Petty)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #268 – Weaponizing the Administrative Fabric: Cloud Identity and SaaS Compromise in M Trends 2026 (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #989 – State of JS 2025 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Multi-stage attacks are the Final Fantasy bosses of security (Phoebe Sajor)
• When “Agile” Becomes a License to Change Everything, The Cost of No Rules in Backlog Management | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Iryna Stelmakh)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #511 – How to Level Up Your Career w/ AI + Nader Dabit, Growth at Cognition (Taylor Desseyn)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1170 – Feghoots: Groan-worthy story puns. How your brain stores words. (Mignon Fogarty)

Community and Events

• Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference returns the week of June 8 (Apple)
• 12 Years at the Microsoft MVP Summit: What Makes It Worth It (J. Tower)
• What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 (Brendan Burns)
• Microsoft hires former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi and key researchers for Suleyman’s AI team (Todd Bishop)
• WWDC26: June 8-12, 2026 (Apple Developer Team)
• GeekWire’s AI summit is Tuesday: What to know if you’re attending our ‘Agents of Transformation’ event (Kurt Schlosser)
• A Guide to the FIFA Fan Festival in Philly (Visit Philly)

Database

• CPU percentage vs SQL instance CPU percent: The Portal’s Favorite Misunderstanding (Shaurya Singh)
• Caution When Using a Database in Single User Mode (Yohei_Kawajiri)
• Find SQL Server Agent Jobs that Start Other Jobs (David Plaut)
• Filtered ANN Search With Composite Vector Indexes (Part 4) (Sai Kommaraju)
• SQL code analysis in VS Code: Configure rules without editing your project file and Manage SQL database schemas in VS Code: Publish dialog and item templates (Iqra Shaikh)
• CQRS and Event Sourcing with Polecat and SQL Server (Jeremy D. Miller)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• From Public Folders to SharePoint: A Modern Approach to Shared Contact Management (rajesh1)
• In Case You Missed It: Frontier Transformation and Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot Announcements (Maryleen)
• Celebrating 30 Years of Microsoft Exchange (Exchange Team)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Step-by-Step: Deploy the Architecture Review Agent Using AZD AI CLI (Shivam Goyal)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.11 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• What Is Metafiction? & How Do I Write It? (Writers Write)
• Some writing advice from Project Hail Mary’s Andy Weir (Andrew Webster)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.0.37 (Files Team)
• LocalMorph – Convert video, audio, and images locally without uploading your files (James Montemagno)

General

• ICE Is Paying the Salaries of This Town’s Entire Police Force (Sammy Sussman)
• Trump Administration To Pay French Company $1 Billion To Stop Offshore Wind Farms (BeauHD)
• The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US (Sean Hollister)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – March 23, 2026 (#747) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on Amazon Bedrock, Nova Forge SDK, Amazon Corretto 26, and more (March 23, 2026) (Daniel Abib)
• Reading Notes #690 (Frank Boucher (noreply@blogger.com))

The Geek Shelf

Blazor Web Development Cookbook (Pawel Bazyluk) – Referral Link

Tested recipes for advanced single-page application scenarios in .NET 9.

Top Links

• Building real-world AI automation with Foundry Local and the Microsoft Agent Framework (Lee Stott)
• Rider 2026.1 Release Candidate Is Out! and ReSharper 2026.1 Release Candidate Released! (Sasha Ivanova)
• I’d Rather Be Writing Podcast – Will tech writers survive AI? Perspectives from two professors, Nupoor Ranade and Jeremy Merritt (Tom Johnson)
• Securing Azure AI Agents: Identity, Access Control, and Guardrails in Microsoft Foundry (Sudha S.)
• Squad: Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned (Joseph Guadagno)
• Our commitment to Windows quality (Pavan Davuluri)

Web and Cloud Development

• Arshid.Aspire.ApiDocs.Extensions (Arash Zandi)
• GCC Is Not Azure. And That Mix-Up May Cost You Later! (Shannon Kuehn)
• Why WebAssembly won’t replace Kubernetes but makes Helm more secure (B. Cameron Gain)
• Your AI agent can now create, edit, and manage content on WordPress.com (Jonathan Bossenger)
• ESLint v10.1.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• Dropdowns Inside Scrollable Containers: Why They Break And How To Fix Them Properly (Godstime Aburu)
• Blazorise 2.0.3 – Introducing the New Gantt Component (Mladen Macanović)
• Look into the future of the web platform (Rachel Andrew)
• Scaling SignalR With a Redis Backplane (Milan Jovanović)
• State of JavaScript 2025: Survey Reveals a Maturing Ecosystem with TypeScript Cementing Dominance (Daniel Curtis)
• Delivering more cost-efficient healthcare with Epic on Azure (Microsoft in Business Team)

Windows Development

• Windows stack limit checking retrospective: arm64, also known as AArch64 (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for Canary Channel 29553.1000 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1743 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8085 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.8079 (Beta Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Password Purgatory, a C# Scammer Trap (Lance McCarthy)
• General Performance: Exploring Thread ID Retrieval Methods (David McCarter)
• A quarter of a billion NuGet downloads (Mattias Karlsson)
• File Based Document Repository with Version Control in .NET with TX Text Control (Bjoern Meyer)
• How to Customize Page Numbering Options in a .NET Report (Chelsea Devereaux)
• AutoMapper’s last free version has a security flaw (David Grace)

AI

• General Availability of Dapr Agents Delivers Production Reliability for Enterprise AI (Kaitlin Thornhill)
• Exploring Claude Code Hooks with the Coding Agent Explorer (.NET) (Tore Nestenius)
• Microsoft Olive & Olive Recipes: A Practical Guide to Model Optimization for Real-World Deployment (Lee Stott)
• You no longer have to wait for Copilot to finish thinking (Bart Wullems)
• MCP In Depth (Jesse Liberty)
• Will you go to prison for an AI? (Mark Seemann)
• Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol Specification (Protocol.org)
• AI Agents: The Next 24 Months Will Rewrite the Enterprise Playbook (Krish)
• Model Buddy – Manage and chat with on-device AI models powered by Foundry Local | Microsoft Store (Alvin Ashcraft)
• How I use Claude for web development: a designer’s guide to building from scratch (Shinobis IA)
• Run OpenClaw Agents on Azure Linux VMs (with Secure Defaults) (John Sonshi)
• What a security audit of 22,511 AI coding skills found lurking in the code (Darryl K. Taft)
• Will AI force code to evolve or make it extinct? (David Cassel)
• Using Git with coding agents (Simon Willison)
• Learning Vercel AI SDK—Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Live from Replit HQ: Agent 4 Launch Pt. 1 (Replit Team)
• Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines (Sean Hollister)
• Trump’s AI framework targets state laws, shifts child safety burden to parents (Rebecca Bellan)
• Secure agentic AI end-to-end (Vasu Jakkal)
• AI Won’t Replace Security Tools – It’s Helping Them Prioritize Biggest Threats (Marin Pavelić)
• Auth0 MCP Server Extension for Gemini CLI (Jessica Temporal)
• Get AI-Ready With Erik: Retrieval Augmented Generation (Erik Darling)
• Build a Domain-Specific Embedding Model in Under a Day (Steve H., Rucha Apte, Sean Sodha & Oliver Holworthy)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Understaffing as a form of enshittification – A way to shift value from workers, patients and shoppers to investors (Cory Doctorow)
• Beyond Code Review (Mike Loukides)

Mobile and Game Development

• Indie dev cries (of happiness!) and NVIDIA does an Oopsie! (Code Monkey)
• Flutter Refactoring Masterclass — Part 1 (Veli Bacık)
• New: Remote updates on Raspberry Pi Connect (Phil E.)
• Microsoft Entra authentication using Device Code Flow for Snap Spectacles (Joost van Schaik)
• Why Amazon’s second shot at a smartphone might not be as crazy as it sounds (Todd Bishop)
• What’s new in DCM 1.36.0 (Dmitry Zhifarsky)

Screencasts and Videos

• PowerToys 0.98 introduces new dock and more! – Developer News 12/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• Random.Code() – Fixing a Refactoring Bug in Rocks (Jason Bock)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 305 – “OpenClaw” (The COVID Moment of AI) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Introducing Migration Assistant for SQL database in Fabric (Preview) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Neel Ball)
• The Download: MCP funeral, Perplexity computer, and Doom on a badge | GitHub (Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza)
• What People Really Want From AI (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Testing with xUnit in C#: Learn how to test any codebase in .NET with the latest version of xUnit, the industry-standard testing library. (Gui Ferreira) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• James World – AI – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #394 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Lenny’s Podcast – The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• BONUS Why 98% of Innovation Fails Before It Reaches a Single Customer | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Lorraine Marchand)
• The Azure Security Podcast Episode #126 – Microsoft Baseline Security Mode (Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Sophie Ke & Dave Minasyan)
• React Native Radio Episode #357 – React Native 0.82–0.84 & Expo 55 (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
• There’s no way it’s DNS… | Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #266 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• AI Agent and Copilot Podcast: Google Cloud Showcases Big AI Healthcare Advances (Tom Smith)
• The Vergecast – Why people really hate AI (David Pierce)
• Big Technology Podcast – OpenAI’s Superapp Ambitions, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #288 – Automate Exploratory Data Analysis & Invent Python Comprehensions (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• Hard Fork Podcast – ‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• GeekWire Podcast – Microsoft Copilot shakeup, Amazon phone ambitions, and pushing Claude to the limits of LinkedIn (Todd Bishop)
• BONUS Why Every Organization Reinvents Silos—And What to Do About It | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Roland Flemm)
• A Geek Leader Episode #461 – Ben Fox (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• HackIndia Becoming India’s Largest Hackathon Organizer (Maheshh Chand)
• Call For Papers Listings for 3/20 and Job listings for week ending 3/20 (Leon Adato)
• Everything Announced at Minecraft Live: March 2026 (Joe Skrebels)
• It’s been 20 years since the first tweet (Anthony Ha)
• We Give, We Grow: Celebrating Women’s History Month at New Relic (Essence Walden)

Database

• Why use a Composite Index in SQL Server (Deepak Vohra)
• Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate (Shireesh Thota)
• Announcing Polecat: Event Sourcing with SQL Server (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Access announces retirement of Database Compare tool in June 2026 (Linda Lu)
• SQL Server Indexing – Non Clustered Indexes (MSSQL Tips)
• SSMS v22.4.1: Copilot is GA. So What’s It Do Right Now? (Brent Ozar)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Copilot Notebooks New Features Landing soon (Vesa Nopanen)
• What’s new in Power Platform: March 2026 feature update (Tiffany Treacy)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.10 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• Beats now have notes (Simon Willison)

Tools

• WSL v2.7.1: Fix wsl stuck when misconfigured cifs mount presents (#14466) (chemwolf6922)

General

• This is Microsoft’s plan to fix Windows 11 (Tom Warren)
• The Dullest $3,000 I Ever Spent on Technology (Alan Mendelevich)
• Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely (Sean Hollister)
• Seahawks star Marshawn Lynch had one Amazon exec on edge when he took the wheel of Treasure Truck (Kurt Schlosser)

More Link Collections

• Links For You (3/22/26) (Raymond Camden)
• Daily Reading List – March 20, 2026 (#746) (Richard Seroter)
• F# Weekly #12, 2026 – 11 years of Ionide (Sergey Tihon)
• Android Weekly Issue #719 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• The Batch: Attacks On Data Centers, Qwen3.5 In All Sizes, DeepSeek’s Huawei Play, Apple’s Multimodal Tokenizer (DeepLearning.AI)
• Azure Weekly #556 – 22nd March 2026 (The Editor)
• Projects (Brian Peek)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps (Rezwanur Rahman) – Referral Link

Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot).

Top Links

• Accelerating .NET MAUI Development with AI Agents (David Ortinau)
• Windows App SDK Version 1.8.6 (1.8.260317003) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Build Once, Run Everywhere: Blazor Hybrid PDF Viewer for WinForms, WPF, and .NET MAUI (Parthipan R.)
• Azure DevOps: Remote MCP Server preview in Microsoft Foundry (Dan Hellem)
• Developer AI Tooling in 2026: Trends Shaping How We Build (Sam Basu)
• A Command Bar for Windows?! (PowerToys New Feature) (Kayla Cinnamon)
• How Squad runs coordinated AI agents inside your repository (Brady Gaster)

Web and Cloud Development

• Aspire 13.1.3 Release (github-actions[bot])
• JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring (Mat Marquis)
• How to Install WordPress in a Subdirectory: a Step-by-Step Guide (Jen Swisher)
• The Great React Grid-Off: KendoReact vs. MUI vs. AG Grid (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• Real-Time Data Visualization in Angular: Build Live, Interactive Charts with Syncfusion[Webinar Show Notes] (Prabhavathi Kannan)
• Introducing Angular Testing Library Zoneless (Tim Deschryver)

Windows Development

• Windows stack limit checking retrospective: amd64, also known as x86-64 (Raymond Chen)
• What is Package Identity and how does Windows use it? (Alex Marin)
• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.8.260317003 Release (NuGet Gallery)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Local LLM Chat Completions in .NET — Just C# (Bruno Capuano)
• Implementing the Strategy Pattern with .NET Dependency Injection (Ricardo Peres)

AI

• AI Benefits – But at What Cost? (Steve Smith)
• Microsoft’s Jeff Hollan on What Makes an AI Agent Enterprise-Ready (Chris Bernard)
• Skills Central: A Pragmatic Setup for Reusable AI Skills (Marco Siccardi)
• 10+ Learning Resources to Kick-Start Your AI Journey (Ed Charbeneau)
• From prompt to production: Build full-stack apps faster with Google AI Studio and Firebase (Kara Yu & Sam Phillips)
• OpenAI is planning a desktop ‘superapp’ (Jay Peters)
• Your engineering team’s AI training is probably failing: How to fix it (Alexandra Spalato)
• Product management on the AI exponential (Claude Team)
• OpenAI is buying Astral to turn Codex into more than just a coding tool (Wayne Williams)
• Rogue AI Triggers Serious Security Incident At Meta (BeauHD)
• New tools and guidance: Announcing Zero Trust for AI (Mike Adams)
• Rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era (Abigail Cabunoc Mayes)
• AI is becoming a second brain at the expense of your first one (Ryan Donovan)
• Why Your AI Governance Is Holding You Back, and You Don’t Even Know It (Orit Golowinski)
• Governing AI Agent Behavior: Aligning User, Developer, Role, and Organizational Intent (Neta H.)
• Security Dashboard for AI – Now Generally Available (Amanda Lowe)
• Securing the Browser Era – From Cloud to AI: A blog series on protecting the modern workspace (lmurthy)
• DZone Trend Report: Generative AI – From Prototypes to Production, Operationalizing AI at Scale (Melissa Habit, Tuhin Chattopadhyay, Pratik Prakash, Frederic Jacquet & Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri)
• What’s changed from Replit Agent 3 to Agent 4 (Replit Team)
• Power Apps Vibe Experience: Build Business Apps at the Speed of Ideas (harshul05)
• How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment (OpenAI Team)
• azure-ai-agents 2.0.0-beta.3 Release and azure-ai-projects 2.0.0-beta.3 Release (Maven Central Repository)
• Introducing Composer 2 (Cursor Team)
• Keep Deterministic Work Deterministic (Andrew Stellman)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0 RC5 Release (moonbox3)
• Handle an Inbound Phone Call with Python (Liz Acosta)
• Use Chameleon templates in the Robyn web framework (Michael Kennedy)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree (Vitaly Friedman)
• Software Testing with Playwright (Beau Carnes)
• DevOps anti-patterns: what they are and how to avoid them (Bravin Wasike)
• Why CI/CD Matters in DevSecOps: A Guide to Securing Modern Pipelines (Ben Nettleton)
• $ teamcity From the Command Line (Viktor Tiulpin)
• How Slack Rebuilt Notifications (Frances Coronel)
• Code Review without the bottlenecks or the bill (Karishma Kumar)
• Pulumi IAM Expands: Manage Access at Scale with Tags, Roles, and Teams (Arun Loganathan)
• You don’t need to care, just make your products accessible (Andrea Mihaljevic)

Mobile and Game Development

• How to Extract Data from PDFs in .NET MAUI iOS Apps Using C# (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
• Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety (Matthew Forsythe)
• Valve’s huge SteamOS 3.8 update adds long-awaited features — and supports Steam Machine (Sean Hollister)

Screencasts and Videos

• How to Use Claude Cowork on the Go (AIDailyBrief)
• Intro to Warp and Oz (Ben Holmes)
• Model Optimization in Microsoft Foundry: Deployment and Evaluations and Model Optimization in Microsoft Foundry: AI Agents Tool Calling Accuracy and Model Optimization in Microsoft Foundry: Supervised Fine-Tuning (Bethany Jepchumba)
• AspiriFridays – Aspire goes Java with Marshal (Aspire Team)
• Aspireify’ing with a Squad | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• .NET MAUI on Linux and Web? Avalonia Preview 1 Explained (Javier Suárez)
• Building the Cloud Next demo (again) | Observable Flutter #85 (Flutter Team)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: Caching in .NET: Let’s make the hardest thing in programming easy for .NET software engineers. (Jody Donetti) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Amp Hour #719 – Inventing the Power MOSFET with Alex Lidow (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #564 – New Token Machines (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• The Modern .NET Show – From Zero to 3D: Ben Bowen on TinyFFR’s Rapid .NET Rendering (Jamie Taylor)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #346 – Zuckerberg Finally Finds His People, They Are All AI Agents (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Talk Python to Me #541 – Monty – Python in Rust for AI (Michael Kennedy)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast Episode #1041 – Building the Internet with sendmail’s Eric Allman (Scott Hanselman)
• BONUS Toyota’s Real Secret Isn’t the Tools — It’s the Attitude Towards Learning That Changes Everything | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Katie Anderson)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #200 – Java & Spring AI Are Winning the Enterprise AI Race (James Ward & Josh Long)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – After all the hype, was 2025 really the year of AI agents? (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• KotlinConf 2026: Talks to Help You Navigate the Schedule (Jelena Ilic)
• Now anyone can host a global AI challenge (Addison Howard)
• The Real Path to Microsoft MVP: Self-Doubt, Small Steps, and Consistency (Kim Sanchez)

Database

• Announcing Preview of bulkadmin role support for SQL Server on Linux (Madhumita Tripathy)
• Double Your Core Count With Azure SQL Managed Instance (Joe Obbish)
• Couchbase brings SQL++, document storage and vector search to ActivePieces AI Automations (Anisha Padamshi)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – March 19, 2026 (#745) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: March 19 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link

A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.

Top Links

• Azure Developer CLI (azd): Run and test AI agents locally with azd (PuiChee (PC) Chan & Travis Angevine)
• Visual Studio Code 1.113 (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Help Shape Uno Platform’s 2026 Roadmap (Sasha Krsmanovic)
• .NET Rocks! – Building Software using Squad with Brady Gaster (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• MSSQL Extension for VS Code: SQL Notebooks, AI-Powered Schema Design, Data API builder & More (Yo-Lei Chen, Tauseef Siddique & Carlos Robles)
• Announcing PowerShell 7.6 (LTS) GA Release (Jason Helmick)
• Pin Clustering in .NET MAUI Maps (David Ortinau)

Web and Cloud Development

• Why Your Azure File Sync Migration Doesn’t Look Like On-Premises (Shannon Kuehn)
• Mastering React Server Components (RSC) in 2026 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Build 19 Web Dev Projects using HTML, CSS, & JavaScript (Beau Carnes)
• Angular and Kendo UI MCP: Making Agents Work for You (Dany Paredes)
• How to migrate from on-prem to the cloud: uncovering legacy system ‘skeletons’ (Pat Wright)

Windows Development

• Windows stack limit checking retrospective: Alpha AXP (Raymond Chen)
• What does Code Signing do for Windows and Chrome. What about expired certificates? (Mark Pahulje)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.29 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 v18.4.1 Release Notes and Visual Studio Insiders Version 11612.153 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Random Forest Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Build an AI-Powered Excel Chatbot in C#: Turn Spreadsheets into Smart Assistants (Mohan Chandran)
• When to Use Decorator Pattern in C#: Decision Guide with Examples (Nick Cosentino)
• Critter Stack Roadmap for March 2026 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Choosing the Right PDF Library in 2026: A Developer’s Checklist (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)

AI

• Handling Long-Running Operations with Background Responses | Microsoft Agent Framework (Sergey Menshykh & Eduard van Valkenburg)
• Building Knowledge-Grounded AI Agents with Foundry IQ (Nelson Kumari)
• Building Computer use for Cloud Agents | Warp (Daniel Peng)
• Tool Annotations as Risk Vocabulary: What Hints Can and Can’t Do (Ola Hungerford, Sam Morrow & Luca Chang)
• Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC: New solutions for Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI infrastructure and Physical AI (Yina Arenas)
• 6 GitHub Copilot lessons learned upgrading my Nuxt blog (Alexandre Nédélec)
• Use Goose with Your AI Subscription (Michael Neale)
• Eval awareness in Claude Opus 4.6’s BrowseComp performance (Anthropic Team)
• Observability for AI Systems: Strengthening visibility for proactive risk detection (Angela Argentati, Matthew Dressman & Habiba Mohamed)
• CTOs Face Pressure to Deliver AI Gains, but Productivity Isn’t There Yet (Nikolina Oršulić)
• The AI revolution will be open-sourced (Nathan Taber)
• Developer’s Guide to AI Agent Protocols (Shubham Saboo & Kristopher Overholt)
• Advice for Startups: Building with Copilot (Microsoft Student Developer Team)
• Introducing “vibe design” with Stitch (Rustin Banks)
• ClawRoute Technical Architecture: How Smart Model Routing Works (MrJHSN)
• What Is the PARK Stack? (Dean Wampler)
• Agentic Browsing for Lazy Beatniks (Eleanor Berger)

Python

• Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio (Michael Kennedy)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Securing Production Debugging in Kubernetes (Shridivya Sharma)
• Coding Isn’t the Hard Part (Derek Comartin)
• Authentication Tokens Are Not a Data Contract (Angel Wong)
• Has Agile lost its way? How AI-powered DevSecOps can help [Q&A] (Ian Barker)
• CloudBees vs TeamCity: Enterprise CI/CD Beyond Jenkins (Olga Bedrina)
• Octopus Deploy: Introducing Starter Policies in Platform Hub (Ryan Hall)
• How many branches can your CPU predict? (Daniel Lemire)
• To test, or not to Test? Part 4 – Make it easy to test locally (Urs Enzler)

Mobile and Game Development

• Avalonia v12.0.0-preview2 Release (Julien Lebosquain) – First preview release with a page-based navigation system
• How to Build a Production-Ready Flutter CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions: Quality Gates, Environments, and Store Deployment (Oluwaseyi Fatunmole)

Screencasts and Videos

• A Primer on Using Agent Skills (AIDailyBrief)
• Technology & Friends – Brian McKeiver on Improving Developer Workflow with AI (David Giard)
• How to query your Copilot CLI session history | Advanced tips & tricks | GitHub (Evan Boyle)

Dometrain Course

ASP.NET Web APIs to ASP.NET Core: A step-by-step process to migrate ASP.NET Web APIs from .NET Framework to ASP.NET Core. (Jonathan Tower) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast – The ‘Tale of Two Dictionaries,’ with Peter Sokolowski (Mignon Fogarty)
• Windows Weekly Episode #975 – A Bubble of Knowledge – Microsoft Reorgs, OpenAI Drama, & Xbox’s Next Move (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #712 – Dan Lorenc on Sigstore (Priyanka Raghavan)
• Big Technology Podcast – Are We Screwed If AI Works? — With Andrew Ross Sorkin (Alex Kantrowitz)
• BONUS How to Build Teams That Think, Own, and Execute Without Burnout With Sid Jashnani | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #988 – Cloudflare’s Next.js Slop Fork (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Leaders of Code Podcast Episode #17 – Building a global engineering team (plus AI agents) with Netlify (Eira May)

Community and Events

• Code with Claude comes to San Francisco, London, and Tokyo (Claude Team)
• Top 5 Reasons to Attend the Microsoft 365 Community Conference (Jon Jones)
• Google Summer of Code 2026 Is Here: Contribute to Kotlin (Ksenia Shneyveys)
• Finding Your Most Popular Bluesky Followers (Raymond Camden)

Database

• Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.0 Is Here: A Leaner, More Modular Driver for SQL Server (David Levy)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.4.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• DiskANN Vector Index Improvements (Davide Mauri & Pooja Kamath)
• Download Free SQL Server Monitoring Scripts and SQL in 30 – DELETE Basics (MSSQL Tips)
• Get AI-Ready With Erik: Bad Vector Observability (Erik Darling)
• The Difference Between Data Integration vs. Application Integration (Hannah Laurel)
• From legacy to leadership: How PostgreSQL on Azure powers enterprise agility and innovation (Affan Dar)
• Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate (Shireesh Thota)
• MariaDB innovation: binlog_storage_engine, 48-core server, Insert Benchmark (Mark Callaghan)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Generate richer alt text in Word and PowerPoint for Mac (Shireen Salma)
• Changes to attachment IDs for inline images in Outlook add-ins (Office Extensibility Team)
• Introducing Teams optimizations for Windows App on iOS & Android — Now Generally Available (Pavithra T.)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.6.0 Release of PowerShell (Justin Chung)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.9 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

General

• Get Ready for a Year of Chaotic Weather in the US (Molly Taft)
• You could unlock your share of $2,000,000 USD in prizes with your daily searches (Bing Team)
• The FBI is buying Americans’ location data (Gaby Del Valle)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – March 18, 2026 (#744) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

C# 14 and .NET 10 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

Build modern websites and services with ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and EF Core using Visual Studio 2026.