• Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server is generally available (Dan Hellem)
• Uno Platform 6.6 Release: Community Standup (Sam Basu, Martin Zikmund & Jonathan Pryor)
• Build Faster with Syncfusion AI Coding Assistant Tools: Agent Skills and the MCP Server (Balaji Elumalai)
• .NET Rocks! - Catching Up with Shawn Wildermuth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft's ETW MCP lets Copilot dig through Windows performance traces (Marcus Pruitt)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.9 Release (github-actions[bot])

Web and Cloud Development

• Announcing response streaming for .NET on AWS Lambda (Norm Johanson)
• Node.js 26.7.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
• Storybook 3.0 for Aurelia 2: Goodbye Boilerplate (Dwayne Charrington)
• Introducing @postman/api-sdk: the official TypeScript SDK for the Postman API (Diego Garcia)
• Creating a Production-Ready CRUD Application in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
• Introducing TX Text Control Web Collaboration Preview for ASP.NET Core (Bjoern Meyer)
• How to plan a FHIR server deployment: stakeholders, questions, and architecture (Mat Osmanski)
• Progressive Enhancement inside of JavaScript (Remy Sharp)
• Real-Time Collaborative Editing in a React Block Editor Using Yjs (Thangavel E.)
• Fiddler in 2026 (Eric Lawrence)
• I Totally Misunderstood ATProto (Brian Rinaldi)

Windows Development

• Microsoft is burying Windows 11’s legacy UI one by one, and AutoPlay is next for WinUI 3 (Abhijith M B)
• Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 3 (Raymond Chen)
• After 25+ years at Microsoft, I can tell you why Windows was neglected (Ewan Dalton)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Update WCF Relay applications to use TLS 1.2 or later (Eldert Grootenboer)
• NLog Targets in .NET: File, Database, Console, and Custom (Nick Cosentino)
• Building and Deploying .NET AI Agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Philippe El Asmar)
• Passing custom parameters through OpenIddict's client authorization request (Bart Wullems)
• Unlock the Full Value of Your TX Text Control License and Against the Trend: Why We Still Believe in Transparent, Perpetual Software Licensing. And Why You Should Too (Bjoern Meyer)

AI

• Exploring Multi-Agent Workflows with Microsoft Agent Framework (Sonakshi A.)
• MCP safety & evaluation with the Agent 365 CLI & Agent Governance Toolkit (Shalabh Pradhan)
• Containment Strategies for AI now available in Secure Now (Ronit Reger)
• Long-term memory in Microsoft Agent Framework (Jesse Liberty)
• Tech Career Library in the Age of AI | Apress eBook Bundle (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• He, it, but rarely she: When AI models write kids’ stories about animals, female characters vanish (Kurt Schlosser)
• Meta Debuts First AI Coding Agent To Take On Anthropic and OpenAI and Anthropic's AI Used Fake Identities, Malware In Rogue Attack On GitHub Project (BeauHD)
• An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing and Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (Simon Willison)
• The next chapter of our AI momentum (Demis Hassabis)
• Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt (Robert Hart)
• Scaling AI Agent Infrastructure with the MCP Stateless updates (Kurtis van Gent & Alan Blount)
• The 800 mistakes that could reshape Meta’s AI coding strategy (Amanda Caswell)
• Part 1: Understanding AI Jailbreaks (Liam Cleary)
• Introduction to Post-training (Sharon Zhou)
• Inference hooks: inline data loss prevention for Claude Enterprise (Claude Team)
• Trump’s AI testing plan is limited and vague (Jess Weatherbed)
• Building Organizational Intelligence (Andrew Odewahn)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How to Stream Octopus Audit Logs to Grafana Cloud With OpenTelemetry (Jubril Oyetunji)
• You can now use the Azure DevOps Service Connection instead of a PAT or Build Session token (Eric van Wijk)
• eBPF, BYOC, ClickHouse, Telemetry Pipelines: Which Ones Are Actually Worth It? (Michael Shpilt)
• "If the code works, why does clean code matter?" (Code Monkey)
• Governance Is a Developer Experience Problem (Jennifer Kohl)

Mobile and Game Development

• Build an Excel-Like Spreadsheet in .NET MAUI Using Blazor Hybrid (Yuvaraj Mohan)
• Bluetooth Low Energy in Flutter: A Handbook for Devs (Nikheel Vishwas Savant)
• Available for XBOX Insiders: More Control Over Captures, Saves, and Wishlists (Jon)
• Hello Developer: August 2026 and Get ready for new creative assets on the App Store (Apple Developer)

Screencasts and Videos

• Azure Files: Simple, Secure, Cloud and AI Ready File Storage (Microsoft Azure Team)
• Mastering Quantum Computing with QDK and GitHub Copilot in VS Code (Frank La Vigne)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast - AI and the Software Supply Chain with Endor Lab's Varun Badhwar (Scott Hanselman)
• Random.Code() - Adding Union Support to CslaGeneratorSerialization - Part 6 and Part 7 (Jason Bock)
• Can Open Models Solve Corporate AI Washing (AIDailyBrief)
• QDK Tutorial: Learn Quantum Computing with GitHub Copilot in VS Code (Mine Starks)
• How does using real pricing (not estimates) change how you architect an app? | One Dev Question (Shireesh Thota)
• Evolving AI chat with MCP Apps | NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Phil Nash)
• .NET supply chain: Protecting against hidden threats | NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Tom van den Berg)
• How a GitHub lawyer uses Copilot CLI to verify AI outputs (GitHub Team)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast - How comics are made, with Glenn Fleishman (Mignon Fogarty)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #367 - Models, Harnesses, and Multi-Agent Systems (Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #732 - Jason Gorman on The Effective Use of AI For Software Development (Giovanni Asproni)
• Windows Weekly Episode #995 - The Greatest Depression - Microsoft Reports $90 Billion in Revenue for FY26 Q4 (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1027 - The Rise of the Design Engineer (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• AI vs. Real People—Helping Teams Avoid Information Overload | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Havva Sevay)
• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #38 - Vanishing Culture #6: What We've Learned with Vida Vojić & Alice Bridgwood (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)

Community and Events

• Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships (Julie Bort)
• Google to cut 52 employees in Washington state (Lisa Stiffler)
• Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership (Jay Peters)
• Zillow layoffs hit 91 jobs in Washington state, with senior roles bearing the brunt (Todd Bishop)

Database

• Nine Unusual Ways My Clients Use AI With SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• AI-assisted Oracle-to-PostgreSQL schema conversion in Visual Studio Code (Aditya Duvuri)
• Two Insert Exec Problems (Erik Darling)
• MySQL vs PostgreSQL: spatial data types, functions, and migration pitfalls explained (Aisha Bukar)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Outlook will let you insert signature images from OneDrive without downloading, rolling out on mobile (Mayank Parmar)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork: why the shift from AI assistant to AI coworker matters for business leaders (Hayden Boulton)

Writing

• Heroes Vs Anti-Heroes: What’s The Difference? (Writers Write)

Tools

• Every software company will become a dev tools company (Ankit Jain)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 5, 2026 (#839) (Richard Seroter)
• Web Weekly #197 (Stefan Judis)

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.

• Build Azure Skills Faster with Cloud Academy, a Visual Studio Subscriber Benefit (James Rempt)
• Visual Studio Code 1.133 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Beyond Chat: live Speech-to-Text with Foundry Local and C# (Bruno Capuano)
• Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack (Julia Muiruri)
• Introducing the Warp Agent CLI: a CLI coding agent that does what others can't (Zach Lloyd)
• Build Production-Ready Agents with the GitHub Copilot Harness and Agent Framework (Giles Odigwe)

Web and Cloud Development

• AWS Tools Installer V2 is Now Generally Available (Jonathan Nunn)
• Biometric Authentication in Angular Using Auth0 (Christian Nwamba)
• Bring your security stack into Edge for Business — with support for more partners (Microsoft Edge Team)
• Simplify Hierarchical Selection in Blazor with the Telerik DropDownTree (Ivan Danchev)
• AI Prompt Cookbook for React Developers (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Draw fixed-size gap decorations by using container query units (Patrick Brosset)
• Building Intelligent Agents with Azure AI Foundry: From Idea to Enterprise-Ready Solutions (David Ramel)
• Automatic CSRF protection based on Fetch Metadata headers (Andrew Lock)
• Web Security is Too Hard (Eric Lawrence)

Windows Development

• Remove Is Not Uninstall (Howard Kapustein)
• windows-csharp - An experimental code generator that projects Windows metadata directly into C# (Kenny Kerr)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.17.0 Release (peibekwe)
• Building Long-Term Trust with Digital Signatures and Timestamps in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
• ILSpy 11.0 Release Candidate (Christoph Wille)

AI

• MCP Easy Mode (Matthew Casperson)
• Built-In Observability for Serverless AI Agents on Azure Functions (larohra)
• Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (OpenAI Team)
• New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging (Simon Willison)
• A guide to cost visibility and control in Claude (Claude Team)
• A unified API for AI model routing (Mak Ahmad & Sanjay Pujare)
• The Ultimate Ollama and Local AI Software Bundle | Mammoth Club (Humble Bundle)* - Referral link*
• Advance Zero Trust for AI: New tools and guidance to secure AI agents and DevSecOps (Ron Pessner)
• AI UX Patterns for User Trust (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• Claude, Gemini, and GPT-5 can handle every SDLC task. Almost none of them should. (Jeff Michael)
• New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex (OpenAI Team)
• AI Training at Work: Nobody Is Coming (Pinal Dave)
• Mixture-of-Kittens: our open-source MoE megakernel for NVL72s (Cursor Team)
• More powerful agents and workflows for autonomous business processes: Introducing a new harness for Copilot Studio (Ryan Cunningham)
• What If the Biggest Bottleneck Behind AI’s 10× Promise Is the Human Engineer? (Kristina Valjak)
• Create slides and documents using Kimi K3 in Bionic (LM Studio Team)
• Claude Is Not a Compiler (Josh Bleecher Snyder)
• Confidence Techniques for Guiding AI Migration (Paul Edwin)
• Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B (Leonie Monigatti, Sergei Tilga, Sinoué GAD, Song Duong, Tim Seyde & Maxime Labonne)
• Teaching AI to speak the language of pathology (sbaynes)
• rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy (Jynn Nelson)
• Maintaining compliance when adopting AI in regulated industries (SmartBear Team)

Python

• The Ultimate Python eBook Development Humble Bundle (Packt Publishing)* - Referral link*

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Leaders of Code: Explorers, exploiters, and the myth of the 100x engineer​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌​‌‍‌​​​​‌‍‌‍​‍​‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‌​‍‌​‍​‌‍‌‍​‌​‌​​‍‌​‌​​‌​‌‍​‍​​​‍‌​‍‌​​‌‌‍‌​‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​​‌‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍​​‌‌‌‍‌​​‍‌​‍‌​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌​‌‍‌​​​​‌‍‌‍​‍​‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‌​‍‌​‍​‌‍‌‍​‌​‌​​‍‌​‌​​‌​‌‍​‍​​​‍‌​‍‌​​‌‌‍‌​‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​​‌‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍​​‌‌‌‍‌​​‍‌​‍‌​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌ (Eira May)
• Threat Driven Software Development (Lee Holmes)
• The Software Supply Chain Is Under Siege. Devs Are Still the First Line of Defense (Jin Kim)

Mobile and Game Development

• Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers (Zack Whittaker)
• SwiftDotNet — It Started With "What If I Could Just Write SwiftUI in C#?" (Allan Ritchie)
• The next Xbox could play every Xbox game ever made (Sean Hollister)
• How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (Dominic Szablewski)
• 4 Rating Card UI Ideas in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• SkiaSharp 4.0 Establishes Milestone-Aligned Release Cadence (Edin Kapić)

Screencasts and Videos

• ASP.NET Core Authentication - The Dirty Details | NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Chris Klug)
• AI Agents In-Depth – Function Calling, MCP and Tool Use Under the Hood | NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Alan Smith)
• Write Drunk, Edit Sober: Creating Generative Content Responsibly | NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Matthijs van der Veer)
• Application Performance Optimisation in Practice | NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Steve Gordon)
• AI-Powered Gamification for the Web | NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Courtney Yatteau)
• Local AI Models for Cross-Platform .NET with Uno Platform (Sam Basu)
• The My work tab: your mission control in the GitHub Copilot app and How a lawyer built an internal tool using GitHub Copilot CLI (GitHub Team)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Kevin Griffin (Isaac Levin)
• How Significant Are AI's Latest Math Breakthroughs? and Everything You Need to Know about AI Tokens (AIDailyBrief)
• How AI Closes Gaps in Healthcare Before It's Too Late | Clinical Decision Support with MongoDB Atlas (MongoDB Team)
• Navigating the Microsoft AI Agent Builder Associate (AB-620) Certification Exam: A Comprehensive Study Guide (Frank La Vigne)
• Building an RSS Feed Reader with Live Tiles | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Big Technology Podcast - How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn (Alex Kantrowitz)
• RunAs Radio Show #1048 - Ransomware Readiness with Heather Renze (Richard Campbell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1036 - Corn Is Just Corn - Apple's Q3 2026 Results (Mikah Sargent, Andy Ihnatko & Jason Snell)
• The Car Configuration Team That Spiraled Into Silence—and the Workshop That Saved It | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Havva Sevay)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• You already paid for Microsoft 365, but the Copilot upsell won’t stop, and Microsoft admits it’s by design (Kareem Anderson)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Microsoft Teams PowerShell 7.9 Adds WAM Authentication and New Governance Controls (Rabia Noureen)
• How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows (Bria Ford)

Writing

• 9 Ways To Set Up A Believable Fictional Breakup (Writers Write)

Tools

• Announcing a new integration with WindowSill (Files Team)
• NanaZip v7.0.1800.0 Release and NanaZip v6.5.1800.0 Release (Mouri Naruto)

General

• Here’s when Windows 11 26H2 will roll out, and what’s actually new on existing PCs (Mayank Parmar)
• Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (Sarah Perez)
• Apple plans iPhone to Windows 11 clipboard copy/paste syncing (Sayan Sen)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 4, 2026 (#838) (Richard Seroter)
• dotInsights | August 2026 (Matt Ellis)
• The latest AI news we announced in July 2026 (Google)
• Radar Trends to Watch: August 2026 (Mike Loukides)
• Fragments: August 4 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

Getting Started with Visual Studio 2026 (Gerald Versluis) - Referral Link Master the New Era of Visual Studio, AI, and Productivity.

• Strengthening NuGet Supply Chain Security: Reducing API Key Lifetime (.NET Team)
• Learn how to use the four IQs: Web IQ, Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ (Pamela Fox)
• Why AI Struggles with Multi-Repository Projects and How Code Studio Helps (Yuvaraj Mohan)
• Announcing Azure Linux on WSL - Beta (farhakareem)
• Announcing public preview: Markdown for Agents in Azure App Service (Jordan Selig)
• Merge Conflict Episode #526 - GitHub Stacked PRs: Managing Complex Code Changes (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)

Web and Cloud Development

• Modern authentication in ASP.NET Core with 2FA and passkey (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• Next.js 16.3 (Next.js Team)
• Authenticating Players in Godot 4 with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Getting Started with NLog in ASP.NET Core (Nick Cosentino)
• Gap Decorations Are Now Available, Here’s What’s New (Sam Davis Omekarajr)
• Node.js 26.6.0 (Current) and Node.js 24.19.0 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
• Why Identity Tiering Still Matters (Liam Cleary)
• Tame Configuration in ASP.NET Core with IValidateOptions (Michael Jolley)

Windows Development

• Authenticode and UAC (Eric Lawrence)
• Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-In Security Now Supports External Fingerprint Readers (Rabia Noureen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Building orchat - A Single File .NET Client for OpenRouter (John Smith)
• Computing Dataset Variance Inflation Factor (VIF) Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• ArenaAllocators don't play nicely with ArrayLists (Karl Seguin)
• AWS Durable Execution SDK for .NET now Generally Available (Garrett Beatty)

AI

• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.9-preview.3 Release (github-actions[bot])
• We Keep Renaming AI Coding. Here’s What I’d Call It. (Andrew Stellman)
• Experiments with AI Code Review (Austin McKee)
• OpenAI's Astra Solved Decades-Old Math Problems For $2,000 and An AI-Supervised Remote Exam Went So Badly That 58,000 Students Must Retake It (BeauHD)
• Microsoft’s MAI-Cyber-1-Flash Shows Where AI Security Is Heading (Liam Cleary)
• How to build a cloud software factory - computer use verification (Zach Lloyd)
• AI adoption starts with truth (Replit Team)
• How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months (OpenAI Team)
• Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course (Brenda Flynn)
• DeepSeek’s smaller model just outperformed its own flagship (Amanda Caswell)
• Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI (Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Qianhui Wu, Hao Cheng & Jianfeng Gao)
• Scaling real-time AI agents with session-aware load balancing (Simerus Mahesh)
• My Current Stance on How I Use Artificial Intelligence (Kin Lane)
• Why AI Testing Needs Confidence Scores, Not Just Pass/Fail Results (Rajeshkumar Rajaseakaran Nair)
• Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics (James O'Donnell)
• AI's Decimation of Call Center Jobs Has Begun (EditorDavid)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Your MVP doesn’t need a Kubernetes cluster​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍​​​‌‌‍‌‌​​‌‍​​‌‌‌‍‌‌​​​‍‌​​‌​​‌‌‍​‍​‌‌​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌​​‍​​​​‍‌​‍​​‌‌‌‍‌‍​‌‌​‍‌‌‍‌​​‍‌‌‍‌‍​​​‍​​​‍‌‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‌‍​​​‌‌‍​‍​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍​​​‌‌‍‌‌​​‌‍​​‌‌‌‍‌‌​​​‍‌​​‌​​‌‌‍​‍​‌‌​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌​​‍​​​​‍‌​‍​​‌‌‌‍‌‍​‌‌​‍‌‌‍‌​​‍‌‌‍‌‍​​​‍​​​‍‌‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‌‍​​​‌‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍ (Ryan Donovan)
• Trying Out WSL Containers: Microsoft's Built-In Alternative to Docker Desktop (Mike Evans-Larah)
• Empty sandboxes break developer experience (Jennifer Kohl)
• Declarative Testing Helper for Marten or Polecat Projections (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Attack Techniques: Fake Captive Portals (Eric Lawrence)
• Docker AI Governance: Audit Logs, Now Where Your Security Team Already Works (Srini Sekaran)
• Spend More Time Talking to Humans (Douglas Soo)

Mobile and Game Development

• GenUI Beyond Chat: Designing a Grammar Book with Flutter GenUI — Part 1 (Cagatay Ulusoy)
• The Lightest FPV Whoop Drone (Scott Stevenson)

Screencasts and Videos

• How to modify and submit stacked PRs with the GitHub CLI (GitHub Team)
• A pet in Visual Studio Code and Windows APIs in JavaScript?! - Developer News 31/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• Random.Code() - Adding Union Support to CslaGeneratorSerialization - Part 5 (Jason Bock)
• How a $30B Hedge Fund Implosion Will Effect AI (AIDailyBrief)
• How to Unlock AI Potential: The Power of Harness Engineering and Mastering AI Agent Patterns: A Guide to All 35 Architectures in One Video and Why NVIDIA’s AI Mastery Extends Beyond Imitation (Frank La Vigne)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast - Why does the U.S. have so many regional accents? (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Presentation Podcast Episode #251 - Wait! Clients Are Using AI for Their Slides Already!? (Troy Chollar)
• Only Malware in the Building Episode #26 - Class is in session—for cybercriminals. (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
• DAWbench Radio Show Episode #45 - Music Tech Pioneers IX : Kim Ryrie : Fairlight : CMI to MFX and Beyond ! (Vin Curigliano & Pete Brown)
• AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #030 - Open vs Frontier: The Future of AI (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #289 - Software Engineering vs. Software Craft: How Google Scalably Eliminates Classes of Vulnerabilities (Google)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #523 - From Blockbusters to Burnout - Reinventing Work with Steven Puri (Taylor Desseyn)
• Meta Cast - Bob and Josh Finally Disagree About Something: Transparency (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1026 - OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• When Doing Your Best Isn't Enough—The Scrum Master Lesson That Changed Everything | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Havva Sevay)
• InfoQ Podcast: WebAssembly on the JVM: Feature Evolution, Performance, and the Transition to Endive (Andrea Peruffo)

Community and Events

• Celebrating 25 Years of Play: New Community Designs, XBOX Updates, FanFest Tour Dates, and More (Joe Skrebels)

Database

• SQL Server Deadlock: Build One With Your Own Hands (Pinal Dave)
• Choose a Database Because It Fits the Workload, Not Because It’s Familiar (Marko Crnjanski)
• Monday Monitor Tips: The MCP Server (Steve Jones)
• Contextual embedding in RavenDB (or how to save 220,000,000 USD) (Oren Eini)
• How to build an Oracle AWR-equivalent diagnostics stack in PostgreSQL (step-by-step guide with code) (Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Access and SharePoint Integration May Be Broken (Gary Voth)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.78 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• Visual Notes - A visual workspace built on Obsidian's Canvas format (danderson)

Tools

• Devtools must be open source (David Crenshaw)

General

• The first-gen Kindle Scribe is a big e-reader and digital notebook that’s $150 refurbished (Sheena Vasani)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 3, 2026 (#837) (Richard Seroter)
• Windows news you can use: July 2026 (Chris Morrissey)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Price reduction of GPT models in Bedrock, CloudWatch managed collectors for Prometheus metrics, and more (August 3, 2026) (Micah Walter)
• Reading Notes #709 (Frank Boucher)

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.

• Foundry Toolkit for VS Code — July 2026 Update (Junjie Li)
• Syncfusion Turns 25: A Quarter Century of Making Development Easier (Brittany Kearns)
• How I Work With 5 Coding Agents Simultaneously (Michael Shpilt)
• My MVP Story: Curiosity, Community, and Baked Beans - Jeremy Sinclair’s MVP Journey (Betsy Weber)
• How Much Agency Should We Delegate to AI? (Walson Lee)
• Windows quality: an update on the commitment we made in March (Pavan Davuluri)

Web and Cloud Development

• Azure Service Bus: Count your filters (Daniel Marbach)
• Free Book Chapters, Better Testing Control, and Smart MCP Configuration! (Angular Team)
• Build a Dependency Injection Container in Vanilla JavaScript (JS Dev)
• What’s new in Svelte: August 2026 (Dani Sandoval)
• AngularDart - Fast and productive web framework by Google, revived for Dart 3 (qlapp)
• WordPress.com Changelog: New Blocks and Better Async Notes (WordPress Team)
• React useState Explained: From Basics to Best Practices (React Systems Newsletter)
• AsyncAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Custom Transports (Matthew Adams)
• Reducing API Sprawl Through API Management (Kin Lane)
• What's new in Astro - July 2026 (Sarah Rainsberger)
• How do we talk about atproto to non-developers? (Rachel Andrew)
• DFS and BFS Lab: Graph Generator and Traversal Visualizer and Dijkstra Lab: Graph Generator and Shortest Path Visualizer (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Windows Development

• Windows 11’s WinUI 3 modernization just reached one of its oldest legacy tools, meet the new Print Management (Gareth Smith)
• How fast is C++26’s std::hive? (Daniel Lemire)
• WorldWide Telescope Windows Client | GitHub (WorldWide Telescope)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 31 July 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• P/Invoke Showdown: [DllImport] vs. [LibraryImport] in Modern .NET (David McCarter)
• .NET 11 Performance Edition (Steven Giesel)
• ILSpy 11.0 Preview 1 and ILSpy 10.1.1 (Christoph Wille)
• RAG in .NET: The Complete Series (Jamie Maguire)

AI

• The next measure of AI momentum is work transformed (Jared Spataro)
• Open letters about AI development (Simon Willison)
• Microsoft unveils new AI cybersecurity model (Mustafa Suleyman & Hayete Gallot)
• Agentic Table of Contents (so far) and LangChain vs Microsoft Agent Framework and OpenTelemetry in Microsoft Agent Framework Apps (Jesse Liberty)
• Why your AI agent likes em-dashes and long sentences (Keith W. Boone)
• HOWTO: Bring back Clippy as your Copilot avatar (Kurt Shintaku)
• Agent and Model Evaluations in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform are now GA (Alex Martin & Dima Melnyk)
• Azure AI Foundry: from zero to production (rmmartins)
• It’s Almost Like You Need an Actual Programmer (Gil Zilberfeld)
• AI as an Enterprise Operating System (Tim O’Reilly)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.9-preview.2 Release (github-actions[bot])
• AI Mistakes at Work: Who Never Gets Fooled (Pinal Dave)
• Building abundant intelligence (OpenAI Team)
• How to govern agentic AI, MCPs, and AI code assistants (Julie Griffin)
• AI models need moral support to make discoveries (Sean Goedecke)
• From generated code to trusted code with a unit-test agent (Amaury Levé)
• Run DeepSeek V4 Flash locally or in the cloud (US-hosted) (LM Studio Team)
• Enable on-demand expertise with Agent Skills in Genkit Go (Daniela Petruzalek)
• Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents (Akshay Nambi, Yash Pandya, Sahil Gupta, Sarthak Harne, Archana Yadav, Kavyansh Chourasia, Yash Lara, Ahmed Awadallah & Ece Kamar)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Connecting Octopus Cloud to your internal systems — without opening a single port (Mark Lamprecht)
• The Next Evolution of Unit Testing Isn’t Better Test Generation-It’s Test Validation (Eli Lopian)
• The Conductor Developer (Rachel Laycock)
• Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (Alexander Neubeck)
• Kubernetes v1.37 Sneak Peek (Arsh Sharma, Christopher Tineo, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao & Troy Connor)
• Docker OIDC connections for GitHub Actions available for Docker Orgs (Dan Berezin Stelzer)
• Dispatches from O'Reilly: The best risk mitigation strategy in data? A single source of truth​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍​‌‍‌‌​​​​​‌‍​‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​‍​‍‌​‌‌​‌​‌‍‌​​​​​‍‌​‌​​‌​‍‌‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌‍​‍​​​‍‌​‌​​‌​​​‍‌‌‍​‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​​​‌‌‍‌​‌‍​​‌‍​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍​‌‍‌‌​​​​​‌‍​‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​‍​‍‌​‌‌​‌​‌‍‌​​​​​‍‌​‌​​‌​‍‌‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌‍​‍​​​‍‌​‌​​‌​​​‍‌‌‍​‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​​ (Jeremy Arendt)
• What’s New in Advanced Installer 23.9 (Advanced Installer Team)
• Why Readiness Should Be a Habit, Not a Final Gate (Dean Hume)
• Should You Split That Into Microservices? Ask These 5 Questions First (Milan Jovanović)
• Giving and taking credit in big tech companies (Sean Goedecke)
• Weighing the Business Case for Quality (Allen Pike)
• Do Your Quality Gates See The Brown M&Ms In The Bowl? (Jason Gorman)

Mobile and Game Development

• App update service for store-less XR devices based on Android (like MetaLense 2) (Joost van Schaik)
• This game made $350,000 in 24 hours by following the PERFECT plan, Godot beats Unity! (Code Monkey)
• XBOX App Available on Hisense and VIDAA OS-powered TVs (Joe Skrebels)

Screencasts and Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 324 - “Prediction Markets” (The Idiocracy Crazy Train) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• 6 Questions Shaping Enterprise AI (AIDailyBrief)
• From LLM Theory to Practical Agentic Implementations | NDC Toronto 2026 (Seth Juarez)
• When AI Runs Wild: OpenAI’s Unleashed Model and the Cybersecurity Implications (Frank La Vigne)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• John Bristowe: Octopus Catchup - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #413 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Talk Python to Me #557 - Security of everything at PyCon 2026 (Michael Kennedy)
• Lenny's Podcast - This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Big Technology Podcast - Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #162 - Mercedes GLA EV Revealed: The US Won't Get This $47,000 CUV for a Year (Batteries Included Team)
• Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #88 - Agent Skills - with Matt Pocock (Dan Clarke)
• The Vergecast - It’s time to panic about AI safety (David Pierce)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #305 - Should You Understand Your Entire Python Codebase? (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• Hard Fork Podcast - Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton’s Dishy Google Memoir + Substack’s Slop Fight (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• The MIA Product Owner vs. The One Who Owned the Outcome | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Danil Chernyshev)
• A Geek Leader Episode #480 - Craig Taylor with CyberHoot (John Rouda)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #731 - Sonali Varde on AI and the Engineering Manager Role (Kanchan Shringi)

Community and Events

• Are Return-to-Office Mandates Killing Workers' Trust in Workplaces? (EditorDavid)
• Job listings for week ending 7/31 and Call For Papers Listings for 7/31 (Leon Adato)
• The return of the bedroom coder - and how I made my peace (James D. Randall)

Database

• How a SQL Server backup can execute attacker code during restore – and how to prevent it (CVE-2026-47295 vulnerability) (Fabiano Amorim)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | July 2026 (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
• What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | July 2026 (Seth Patton)
• How SNTUC’s Siow Shong Seng is setting the tone for an AI-ready workforce in Singapore with Microsoft 365 Copilot (Lim Ai Leen)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI vs Claude Code: Which Terminal Agent Should You Use in 2026? (Nick Cosentino)

Writing

• Have You Chosen The Wrong Character As A Protagonist? and 31 Writing Prompts For August 2026 (Writers Write)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.2.2 (Files Team)
• Building bbx - A Bitbucket Cloud CLI as a .NET Global Tool (John Smith)
• Winamp is making another comeback – this time with Deezer (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)

General

• In a First, ‘Super-Earth’ Planet Shows It Could Have an Atmosphere (EditorDavid)
• Brinks Home Confirms Data Breach Following ShinyHunters Claim (Dissent)
• What’s his angle? Teen frustrated by plastic protractor reimagines the classic classroom tool (Kurt Schlosser)
• Celebrating Age in 2026 – Where We’re At, and Where We’re Going (Joe Skrebels)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest: 2026 .NET interview guide (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Links For You (8/2/26) (Raymond Camden)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 26, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Android Weekly Issue #738 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #573 - 2nd August 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #31 — MCP C# SDK v2.0, Unit-Test Agent, and MSBuild Binlog in VS Code (Sergey Tihon)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #761 (Alex Ozun)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Is Designing (Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle) - Referral Link Words and the User Experience.

• Building agent teams with Agent Framework, GitHub Copilot CLI and Squad (Shawn Henry & Tamir Dresher)
• Optimizing the frontier performance curve (Mustafa Suleyman)
• Azure Developer CLI (azd) July 2026 (Kristen Womack)
• The Complete Package: Why Debugging Is Only Half the C# Productivity Story (Isaac Levin)
• Stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app (Cassidy Williams)
• Windows App SDK Version 2.3 Experimental A (2.3.2-ExperimentalA) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

Web and Cloud Development

• Triple-layer security for Firebase web apps (Roger Martinez)
• Enabling the Application Insights Profiler and Reading a Profiler trace without guessing (Bart Wullems)
• Token Vault Privileged Worker: Secure Access for Agents That Never Sleep (Ashish Lal)
• AsyncAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Testing (Matthew Adams)
• We ported a module off an ESB and the code grew 1.7 . That was the right outcome and A TMS backend, architecturally: cluster, coordinate streams and a typed object store and What an integration layer really costs: a TMS backend counted line by line (Kozin Rinat)
• Next.js Search Landing Pages That Google Can Index (JS Dev)

Windows Development

• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK v2.3.2-experimentalA Release (NuGet Gallery)
• Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 9 (Raymond Chen)
• std.Io.Writer.Allocating ate all my memory (Karl Seguin)

.NET and Visual Studio

• How to Implement PAdES Digital Signatures in .NET for Long-Term PDF Validation (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
• C# DateTimeOffset Formats: ISO 8601, RFC 3339, JSON & Unix Time (Sebastian Nilsson)
• Source Generated Refit Clients! (Tomasz Cielecki)

AI

• Gemini Spark now integrates with Chrome (Charmaine Dsilva)
• Introducing GPT-transcribe and GPT-live-transcribe in Microsoft Foundry (Dave Jacobs)
• AI Code Review Bottleneck: Nobody Owns It (Pinal Dave)
• The Microsoft AI and Agent Platform — The Platform Behind Intelligent Agents (L. Murthy)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.9-preview.1 Release (github-actions[bot])
• AI is Dumb (Kin Lane)
• Agent as Principal: A Purpose-Built Identity for Agents (Ashish Lal)
• Introducing Gemini Robotics ER 2 (Peng Xu)
• Agentic AI using LangGraph – Build AI Agents & Automate Workflows (Beau Carnes)
• GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix (Netflix Technology Blog)
• Introducing WPA MCP: Early Preview of AI-assisted trace analysis in Windows Performance Analyzer (Claton Hendricks)
• The next measure of AI momentum is work transformed (Samantha Kubota)
• Deep Seek Unveils Public Beta API for Flagship AI Model (Newley Purnell)
• Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6 (OpenAI Team)
• MagenticBrain Is Now Supported in ElBruno.LocalLLMs (Bruno Capuano)
• How we set up our cloud agent environment (Cursor Team)
• The Problem Is Prompt Debt (Drew Breunig)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.13.0 Release (giles17)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How to promote a release from Development to Production With Argo CD and Octopus Deploy (Jubril Oyetunji)
• Which programming languages offer built-in tools for modernizing your code? (Richard Seroter)
• Playwright v1.62.1 Release (dgozman)
• The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (Martin Fowler)
• Discovered Stacks: One Place for All Your Infrastructure (Alejandro Cotroneo)
• Fixing bugs in Event Sourcing is hard, for real? (Oskar Dudycz)

Screencasts and Videos

• Calendar App with .NET MAUI and Live Tiles | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast - Varun Badhwar (Scott Hanselman)
• How AI Broke Developer Productivity Measurement — with Brian Houck @GetDX | Hangar DX Podcast (Hangar DX Team)
• GitHub stacked PRs are now available (GitHub Team)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #583 - HuggingFace make me gazpacho (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - What happens to the internet when robots act like humans?​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​​‌​‍​‌‍‌​‌‍​‌​‍‌​‍‌​‍‌​​‍​‍‌​​​​‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‌​‍‌​‌​​‌‍​​​​​‍​‍‌​‍​​​‍​‌​‌‍‌​​‍‌‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍​‌‍‌​​‌​​‌‌‌‍​‍‌‍​​‌​​‌‍‌​​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​​‌​‍​‌‍‌​‌‍​‌​‍‌​‍‌​‍‌​​‍​‍‌​​​​‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‌​‍‌​‌​​‌‍​​​​​‍​‍‌​‍​​​‍​‌​‌‍‌​​‍‌‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍​‌‍‌​​‌​​‌‌‌‍​‍‌‍​​‌​​‌‍‌​​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌ (Phoebe Sajor)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #364 - AWS Billing Bug Sends Invoices to the Moon (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• PPP 517 | The Hidden Costs of Avoiding Difficult Conversations (And What To Do Instead), with Gustavo Razzetti (Andy Kaufman)
• MS Cloud IT Podcast Episode #433 - Passkeys, Passwords, and the End of SMS MFA (Ben Stegink & Scott Hoag)
• Success Is Synergy—When the Team and the Product Both Win | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Danil Chernyshev)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #366 - Reconstructing how OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face (Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)

Community and Events

• We’ve moved! The official Dart blog has a new home (Connie Ooi)
• Your trusted knowledge layer: Introducing Stack Internal's new platform experience​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍​‌‌‍‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‍​​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍​‌​‍‌​​​​‍​‍‌​‌‌​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​​‌‌​‍‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​​‌‍​​‍‌​​‍​​‌‍‌‍​​​​​‌​‍‌​‌​‌​​​‌​‍‌​​​​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍​‌‌‍‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‍​​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍​‌​‍‌​​​​‍​‍‌​‌‌​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​​‌‌​‍‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​​‌‍​​‍‌​​‍​​‌‍‌‍​​​​​‌​‍‌​‌​‌​​​‌​ (Phoebe Sajor & Caroline Thomas)
• Returning to Consulting (James Shore)

Database

• How to Provision an Azure SQL Database (Marlon Ribunal)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Variables and Date Math (Erik Darling)
• Binary Event Serialization for Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.77 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

General

• Satya Nadella confirms major quality update for Windows 11 with focus on fundamentals (Abhijith M B)
• Microsoft's $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest In Stock Market History (BeauHD)
• Which Microsoft businesses are growing and shrinking, according to obscure table in regulatory filing (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – July 30, 2026 (#836) (Richard Seroter)
• Friday Links #42: The Best JavaScript News This Week (JS Dev)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps (Rezwanur Rahman) - Referral Link Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot).

• 8 .NET MAUI Performance Anti-Patterns That Make Apps Feel Slow (Sri Radhesh Nag Subash Sankar)
• Tell your model when to think harder (Rachel Kang)
• Azure SDK Release (July 2026) (Justin Bettencourt)
• Tool search: Finding the right tool at the right time (Viswajeeet Balaji & Saket Sathe)
• Uno Platform 6.6: Native AOT, Vulkan Rendering, MCP Auto Registration and More (Uno Platform Team)
• Last chance to save on TechBash 2026 standard registration (TechBash Team)
• TechBash 2026 Registration Is Open and Hotel Rooms Are Going Fast (Jason Gaylord)

Web and Cloud Development

• Fast Web Services with Marten and Polecat (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Understanding AT Protocol (Rachel Andrew)
• Secure Your APIs: OAuth2 and JWT for Beginners (Alina Dolgikh)
• Node.js 24.18.1 (LTS) (Juan José)
• Node.js 26.5.1 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
• Node.js 22.23.2 (LTS) (Marco Ippolito)
• ReactiveBlazor - Stateful interactive components for Blazor Static SSR - no SignalR, no WebAssembly (ashar-ssi)
• MCP goes stateless — and Postman’s ready (Ruben Casas)
• AsyncAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Filtering (Matthew Adams)
• Securing MCP in Production: Defense-in-Depth Beyond the Gateway (Nik Kale)
• W3C Invites Implementations of WebTransport (W3C)
• Understanding the Fetch Metadata HTTP headers: Sec-Fetch-Site and friends (Andrew Lock)
• Unify Your SAML and OIDC Signing Keys with Automatic Rotation and Duende IdentityServer (Khalid Abuhakmeh & Brett Hazen)

Windows Development

• Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 8 (Raymond Chen)
• Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to WIN32 (Louis-Francis Ratté-Boulianne)
• WebScene: Run packaged React, TypeScript, and JavaScript components in native application frameworks through a high-performance scene pipeline. No WebView or embedded browser required. (Wiesław Šoltés)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Rx.NET v7.0 Released (Ian Griffiths)
• Annual .NET target updates for the AWS SDK for .NET (Norm Johanson)

AI

• Limit token usage in Microsoft Agent Framework (Jesse Liberty)
• Microsoft Foundry Models: A Field Guide for Cloud Solution Architects (Lucia Casucci)
• Hardening OAuth in the newest 2026-07-28 MCP Release Candidate (Joe DeCock)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.9-preview.0 Release (github-actions[bot])
• In AI-Native Delivery, Architecture Has to Say Where to Stop (Mirco Hering)
• Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT (Simon Willison)
• How GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency (OpenAI Team)
• The AI “vibe shift”: Why NanoClaw and Echo have teamed up to stop the next Hugging Face Breach (David Eastman)
• Model Behavior: Kicking off an honest series about writers, thinkers, creators, and AI—how a tech journalist works with AI (Taylor Lorenz)
• Gemini for macOS adds new natural language capabilities (Alvin Zhou)
• Introducing Replit Design (Replit Team)
• What the Hell Is a Loop, Anyway? (Laurie Voss)
• Microsoft’s AI Sovereignty Model Could Shape the Future of Government AI (Kieron Allen)
• We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety (Robert Hart)
• How to Build AI Applications That Switch Models Automatically (Chidiebere Njoku)
• Testing AI prompts and comparing models with promptfoo (Tim Deschryver)
• Ollama vs. LM Studio vs. llama.cpp: Which Local AI Runtime Should You Use in 2026? (Vinod Chugani)
• Adding an HTTP MCP Server to VSCode (Steve Jones)
• We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control. (Google)
• The latest Gemini for macOS update is here to change how you work across apps (Fiza Ali)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• ​​Better security starts with better questions (Aarti Borkar)
• Tame Dependabot: Group your updates, slow the cadence, keep security fast (Bruno Borges)
• Being a senior engineer doesn’t mean you never need help (Ivan Pelivanovic)

Mobile and Game Development

• Delivering safer, age-appropriate experiences on Google Play (Paul Feng)
• Shaunebu.MAUI.FloatingChatButton - A customizable floating chat button component for .NET MAUI applications (Ing. Jorge Perales Díaz)
• Make scalable routing system for your Flutter Apps (Kanan Yusubov)
• What's New in Xcode 27 (Simon Ng)
• Hatcha: The Agentic Interview (Erik Kodnar)

Screencasts and Videos

• 5 AI Engineering Trends That Non Engineers Should Know About and Why Everyone Is Debating AI Policy (AIDailyBrief)
• Getting Started with the New Unity CLI (Stacey Haffner)
• Where does AI actually add value in this build, and where is it just hype? | One Dev Question (Davide Mauri)
• Llama.cpp vs vLLM: Navigating the Local LLM Landscape for Scalable Solutions (Frank La Vigne)
• How to set up custom themes, sounds, and MCP servers in the GitHub Copilot app (Cassidy Williams)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast - Why “golly” and “gosh” are going the way of the dinosaur, with Sali Tagliamonte (Mignon Fogarty)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #281 - Building Observability for the Innovators (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• .NET Rocks! - Identity is Hard with Michele Bustamante (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Weekly Episode #994 - The Best Kind of Correct - Can Windows Survive the 8GB RAM Comeback? (Leo Laporte & Paul Thurrott)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1025 - The Open Web's second chance (w/ Dan Abramov) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Coaching the Outsider In—Helping a Distrustful Team Through Transformation | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Danil Chernyshev)
• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #37 - Vanishing Culture #5: A Language Worth Saving with Peter Scholing (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• Big Technology Podcast - How China Caught U.S. AI - with Grace Shao (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #219 - How Prime Video's engineers manage agents, not code (Lilia Abaibourova)

Community and Events

• XBOX celebrates 25 years of play and returns to gamescom (Maxi Graeff)
• The Disappearing Senior: AI and Entry Level Jobs (Pinal Dave)

Database

• Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently (Arun Sirpal)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Date Bucket Difficulties (Erik Darling)
• What does a modern DBA actually do? 6 key points from a senior DBA (Simple Talk Team)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Building and Deploying Microsoft Hosted Agents to Microsoft Teams (Lee Stott)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.76 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• 10 Dialogue Mistakes Writers Make (And How To Fix Them) (Writers Write)

Tools

• MarkItDown Version 0.1.7 Release (afourney)
• Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍​​​​‌​​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​‍‌​‌​​‍‌​‌‍​​​‌‍​‌​‍‌​‍‌​‌​​​‍​​‌‍​​‍‌​‍​​‌​​​‌‌‍​‍​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍​‌​​​​‌‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍​​​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍​​​​‌​​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​‍‌​‌​​‍‌​‌‍​​​‌‍​‌​‍‌​‍‌​‌​​​‍​​‌‍​​‍‌​‍​​‌​​​‌‌‍​‍​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍​‌​​​​‌‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍​​​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌ (Ryan Donovan)
• Prism - The all-in-one media hub for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV (Prism Team)

General

• The US government just banned Roombas (Sean Hollister)
• Microsoft Earnings Up 18 Percent to $90 Billion and Qualcomm Revenues Decline 4 Percent to $9.9 Billion (Paul Thurrott)
• US troops brace to surrender phones after deadly attack video sullied Trump: report (David Edwards)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – July 29, 2026 (#835) (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#.

• Visual Studio July Update — Meet the New Agent, Powered by the GitHub Copilot SDK (Mark Downie)
• Refactor your database with SQL projects in VS Code (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
• Find any commit in seconds: Commit Search comes to Azure DevOps (Alex Pysanets)
• The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol Specification (David Soria Parra & Den Delimarsky)
• Visual Studio Code 1.132 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Announcing v2.0 of the official MCP C# SDK (Jeff Handley)

Web and Cloud Development

• Is JavaScript Obfuscation Still Worth It in the AI Era? (JS Tools)
• AI Gateway tier of API Management now in public preview (vladvino)
• Postman’s 3 Layers of API Secret Protection Explained (Tara Wyman)
• jQuery 4 - Filters (Ian Elliot)
• Using AI to Build a Blazor App 4: Architect and Build the First Feature (Jon Hilton)
• What Enterprise Teams Actually Look for in an Angular UI Library (Petra Lazarova)
• 13 AI Prompts Every React Developer Should Save (JS Dev)
• AsyncAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Durability and Resumption (Matthew Adams)
• React Drag & Drop Done Right with useDropZone (React Systems Newsletter)
• Starting from scale in the design of the AT Protocol (Paul Frazee)
• WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C’s journey of fonts on the web (W3C)

Windows Development

• Package Integrity and Enforcement (Howard Kapustein)
• Windows Package Manager (WinGet) v1.30.80-preview Release (hackean-msft)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.8.2 Release Notes and Visual Studio Insiders Version 12023.133 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Dotfuscator 7.8.0: Introducing Blazor and Avalonia support, improved runtime protection, and more (Michelle Pruitt)
• Dev Revisits Visual Studio After Nearly a Decade, Gets Lost in AI-Era Completion Maze (David Ramel)
• Reference architecture for a payment platform on .NET: the ledger, transaction boundaries, modules, and the cluster and A payment platform on .NET: what it actually costs, and how much of it you never have to write (Kozin Rinat)
• Clean Architecture vs Modular Monolith in C#: What's the Difference? (Nick Cosentino)

AI

• AI-Ready APIs: Agents Are the New Audience (Austin Rowland)
• OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face (Dell Cameron & Maxwell Zeff)
• Fara 1.5-9B Is Now Fully Supported in ElBruno.LocalLLMs (Bruno Capuano)
• Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents (Jess Weatherbed)
• Ponytail Skill for Claude Code: Does It Really Cut Agent Code by 54%? (Denis Shiryaev)
• Teaching Coding When AI Can Write the Code (Eric Freeman)
• PewDiePie’s AI Experiment Is What Software Development Looks Like Now (Ivan Pelivanovic)
• Bringing MCP 2026-07-28 to Claude (Claude Team)
• Turning surprise AI bills with GitHub into accountable growth (Chris Noring)
• Anthropic AI Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms (BeauHD)
• Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more (Mariano Cocirio)
• AI Readiness: The Gap Between Activities and Outcomes (John Greisner)
• LFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPU (Fernando Fernandes Neto, Edoardo Mosca, Maxime Labonne & Leonie Monigatti)
• Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI (OpenAI Team)
• Sam Altman is ready to decelerate (Tim Fernholz)
• Microsoft’s Project Perception (Liam Cleary)
• Coding Agent Horror Stories: The 29 Million Secret Problem (Jennifer Kohl)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• The Orchestrator's Tax (Martin Fowler)
• UX Chronicles: Buffering the User Experience (David McCarter)
• Check TX Text Control Template Dependencies Before Deployment (Bjoern Meyer)
• The State of CI/CD 2026 Survey Is Now Open (Olga Bedrina)
• Today, we are announcing a series of updates that give customers frontier-grade security at half the cost. (Satya Nadella)
• Telemetry accumulates like technical debt. We built a tool to clean it up. (Michael Shpilt)
• Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions (Greg Ose)
• Should we still design code for humans? (Valentina Servile)
• Introducing Zoho Sign MCP: AI-powered digital signature workflows for business (Nandana J.)
• Serverless Architecture: When to Use It (and When Not To) (Manikanda Akash Munisamy)
• Competence Debt: I Ran the Test on Myself (Pinal Dave)
• You don't have to be smart if you can think clearly (Sean Goedecke)
• Free Palettes and Hex Codes and The Y2K Comeback: Why Retro UI Is Trending Again (Palette Vault)

Mobile and Game Development

• .NET 11 Preview 6 Modernises MAUI CollectionView and Android Shell (Edin Kapić)
• Celebrating 5 years of Jetpack Compose (Rebecca Franks, Nick Butcher & Loryn Hairston)
• Introducing fossui: a Flutter UI kit that doesn't look like Material (fossui)

Screencasts and Videos

• Scott & Mark Learn To...Process Explorer for Mac (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• Introducing the SQL MCP Server - NDC Toronto 2026 (Jerry Nixon)
• ASP.NET Core Integration Testing: WebApplicationFactory + Testcontainers Done Right (Jeff Zuerlein)
• Automagic Data Anomaly Detection in Fabric | Data Exposed MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Matt Gordon)
• Write your first prompt in the GitHub Copilot app | Tutorial for beginners (GitHub Team)
• Artisanal Code, Live Tiles, .NET MAUI, and Updates | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Threat Modeling Developer Behaviour: The Psychology of Bad Code - NDC Toronto 2026 (Tanya Janca)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1035 - Riding Nerdy - Apple's Own Lease-to-Own Program (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• RunAs Radio Show #1047 - Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid with Travis Roberts (Richard Campbell)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversations - Michael Washington (Isaac Levin)
• Why Teams Always Adapt—And How Bad Rules Push Them Into Zombie Scrum | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Danil Chernyshev)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast - You Outworked Everyone. It’s the Reason You’re Stuck. (Zach White)

Community and Events

• XBOX @ gamescom 2026 (Mike Nelson)
• Why I’m Writing Rachel’s Ramblings (Rachel Laycock)
• CNCF Announces Schedule for Debut Observability Summit Europe (K. Thornhill)

Database

• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.8.2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Think You Know A Lot About SQL Server? Well, Actually… (Brent Ozar)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• SharePoint Showcase: 10 Custom AI Skills Every SharePoint Site Owner Should Build (John Mighell)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Installing and updating the AWS CLI with single-line commands (Steve Yoo)

Writing

• 5 Instances When You Need To Tell (Not Show) In Your Writing (Writers Write)

Tools

• VS Code & Codespaces iPadOS (Pierre Perrin)
• Introduction to Anthony, the voice-driven desktop (Jiri Prajzner)
• Lima v2.2: Windows guests and TPM 2.0 emulation (Ansuman Sahoo)

General

• Looking back on Microsoft’s FY26: From AI experimentation to Frontier Transformation (Judson Althoff)
• Ozlo’s Sleepbuds 2 build on Bose’s sleep earbud legacy (Sarah Perez)
• Apple Upgrade launches in the United States (Apple)
• Halo: Campaign Evolved Is Out Now (Joe Skrebels)
• Logitech will pull a Nintendo — only European mice will come with replaceable batteries (Sean Hollister)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – July 28, 2026 (#834) (Richard Seroter)

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.

• A new way to bring native Windows APIs to JavaScript – introducing dynamic API projections for Node.js (Leilei Zhang)
• Analyze MSBuild Binary Logs with Copilot in VS Code (Yuliia Kovalova & Jan Krivanek)
• Claude Opus 5 is available today in Microsoft Foundry (Amar Badal)
• Discover Agent Skills from MCP servers in .NET (Sergey Menshykh)
• The harness is all you need (mostly) (Burke Holland)
• The Best Time to Welcome Jeff Fritz Back Is When Developers Need Him Most (Sara Faatz)

Web and Cloud Development

• .NET Aspire: The price of forgetting WithReference (Bart Wullems)
• Azure Logic Apps vs Azure Functions: A practical decision guide (Bhanu Prakash)
• How to protect a .NET Web API with tokens - from concept to implementation (Stefano Pinato)
• Implement SAML as an external provider in an ASP.NET Core Identity application using Duende as an OIDC server (Damien Bowden)
• Still Exporting CSV Files? Embed a Spreadsheet Editor in Your Web App Instead (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
• Why API Sprawl Is Actually a Problem (Kin Lane)
• Measuring Component Performance with the Container Timing API (Harry Roberts)
• ASP.NET Core Scheduler Features Every Developer Should Know (Manikanda Akash Munisamy)
• Simplified task force enrollment and participant management (W3C)
• Building a Zero-Server Image Resizer with JavaScript (Resizer Team)
• Check out the New Node.js API Documentation Preview (Guilherme Araújo)
• ESLint v10.8.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
• Running npm in a Separate Container when using Claude (Bryan Hogan)
• Critter Stack Roadmap for the Rest of 2026? and Ten Days of Critter Stack Releases (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Blazor Basics: Handling Loading, Empty and Error States in Blazor (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Build Bulletproof APIs using TypeScript in Express (Beau Carnes)
• Faster blob copying in Azure Blob Storage (Mark Heath)
• You Just Inherited a Duende IdentityServer. Now What? (Khalid Abuhakmeh & Wesley Cabus)
• AsyncAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Health and Telemetry and AsyncAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Request/Reply (Matthew Adams)
• Authentication Explained: Basic, Digest, Sessions, JWT, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and SSO (Lino Tadros)
• Signal Shingle: a novel architecture for high-performance ASP.NET multi-widget sites (Scott Galloway)
• What's New in Microsoft Entra: July 2026 (Martin Coetzer)
• Enforce Access Token Expiry Policies in Pulumi Cloud (Devon Grove)
• Ember 7.1 Released (Jared Galanis, Chris Manson & Katie Gengler)
• when-do web component (Remy Sharp)

Windows Development

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 29634.1000 for Experimental (Future Platforms) (Stephen Lines)
• How do you rewrite C/C++ projects to Rust? (Irina Mihajlovic)
• Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 5 and Part 6 (Raymond Chen)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v4.1.0 (Alvin Ashcraft) - Updates for winapp CLI v0.5.0

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.8.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• C# basics tutorial: Learn variables, classes and lists (David Grace)
• redb 3.4.0: day-two operations for a .NET stack — replay what failed, hot-patch the framework, lock down the control plane (Kozin Rinat)
• Get a Unicode character name from a Rune in .NET (Gérald Barré)
• Create 100,000 Documents in Under an Hour with Parallel MailMerge in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Faster, Safer HTTP Calls with HttpClientExtensions (David McCarter)
• Visual Studio Insiders Further Refines Copilot Usage Tracking (David Ramel)

AI

• The Next Generation of Agents with Azure and Microsoft Foundry (Konstantinos Passadis)
• MCP Connect: Why Every AI Engineer and Developer Should Care About the Model Context Protocol (Lee Stott)
• The real AI risk is inside the labs (antirez)
• Grok Build Increases Concerns Around Code Security (DigitalOcean)
• If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do? (Malte Skarupke)
• Introducing Cursor Start (Cursor Team)
• Enhancing AI security through global AI red teaming (Ram Shankar Siva Kumar)
• Rethinking security for the age of AI (Hayete Gallot)
• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started (Christopher Harrison)
• Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive (Julie Bort)
• How to Build an AI Agent with Function Calling in Node.js Using Google Gemini (Zia Ullah)
• Turning GitHub surprise AI bills into accountable growth (Chris Noring)
• Microsoft is racing to make OpenAI optional (Alex Wilhelm)
• An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (Simon Willison)
• 5 ways SRE AI agents are set to augment human capabilities (Mandi Walls)
• Charting AI Today: What It Leaves Behind (Paul Hammant)
• When an AI Agent Escapes: Securing Your Dev Environment (Ken Muse)
• How AI is expanding what people do at work (OpenAI Team)
• 32 of 35 Students Caught Using Hilariously Wrong AI-Generated Answers for Professor's Midterm (EditorDavid)
• Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta Warn Against ‘Premature Restrictions’ of Open-Weight Models and OpenAI's Rogue Agent Went Unnoticed For a Week (BeauHD)
• Publish Copilot Prompts to Your Whole Org in Minutes (Michael Goad)
• Amazon confirms it’s closing key AI site in San Francisco but says work on its top models continues and Microsoft escalates the AI security race with ‘Project Perception’ and a new in-house model (Todd Bishop)
• The Economics of Agentic AI: Engineering for Imperfection (Artur Huk)
• Building Production-Grade Semantic Search With GPT-5 and Microsoft Foundry, From Scratch (Jubin Abhishek Soni)
• Open-weight models are essential to a healthy AI ecosystem. Together with others across our industry, we are outlining a path for open-weight models to strengthen American competitiveness and expand economic opportunity, while protecting national security. (sbaynes)
• How the product designer who built Claude Design uses it to explore ideas before building them and The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models and Claude models explained: choosing the best model for your use case (Claude Team)
• Your eval criteria are already written, just scattered across three systems (Jim Bennett)
• Building Agentically and Celebrating Watches (Raymond Camden)
• Run Kimi K3 in LM Studio Bionic (LM Studio Team)
• Anthropic’s Opus 5 is almost Fable 5 (Frederic Lardinois)
• Introducing Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic Team)
• LLMs reward expertise (Sean Goedecke)
• Stranded in the Slow Zone (Tim O’Reilly)
• Your code is just a cache (Szymon Kulec)

Python

• How to get clean, usable data out of SQL Server into Python (Uzma Younas)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• TeamCity 2026.1.3 and 2025.11.7 Are Now Available (Dmitrii Korovin)
• Duplicate Unit Tests Are Costing You More Than You Think (Eli Lopian)
• Image Processing Handbook (JS Tools)
• The Deliverable Got Cheaper. The Judgment Didn’t (UX Magazine)
• Playwright v1.62.0 Release (dcrousso)
• You Can’t Fix A Bug With A Prompt (Gil Zilberfeld)
• No-Look Coding and the Five Stages of Grief and Principal Engineer Tenets (Charlie Kindel)
• Security Must Be Built In as Everyone Becomes a Builder (Andro Galinović)
• When You Build the Wrong Thing (Brian Rinaldi)

Mobile and Game Development

• Faces, Voices & Documents — On-Device Recognition Controls for .NET MAUI and Giving your .NET MAUI a real set of AI Wings and Shiny.DocumentDb — Doing All The Things! (Allan Ritchie)
• Top Common Handlers in .NET MAUI (Héctor Pérez)
• Vivariums, drone shows, and TV kits, all powered by Raspberry Pi (Rosie Hattersley)
• AI slop ruined Next Fest? Clever way to price your game! (Code Monkey)

Screencasts and Videos

• TypeScript 7 Is Here (And It's 10× Faster) (Anders Hejlsberg)
• Long Running Tasks in the Browser with .NET (Isaac Levin)
• The Download: Kimi K3, TypeScript 7 native compiler, VS Code agent host & more (Andrea Griffiths)
• GitHub and VS Code winapp extension updates - Developer News 30/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• Optimizing your HttpClient usage - NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Nico Vermeir)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast - Stack Overflow for the Agent Era - with VP of Product Alex Lato (Scott Hanselman)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 323 - “AI Vibe Disruption!!” (Ride the AI slop wave!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Technology & Friends - Bruno Borges on Different Ways to User Microsoft Copilot (David Giard)
• Random.Code() - Adding Union Support to CslaGeneratorSerialization - Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4 (Jason Bock)
• How to Get the Most from AI This Summer and Where Should Claude Opus 5 Fit In Your Model Rotation and A Field Guide to AI Freakouts and Why AI Hasn't Increased Unemployment, According to Anthropic (AIDailyBrief)
• This Week in AI: The Price of Intelligence (Michelle Smith)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Grammar Girl Podcast - The secret language of gamers. Plus, why ducks don't ‘duck’ from danger (Mignon Fogarty)
• PPP 516 | Becoming the Project Manager, with Stuart Taylor (Andy Kaufman)
• The Azure Security Podcast Episode #131 - What is MDASH? (Michael Howard, Sarah Young & Mark Simos)
• SyncUp, A OneDrive Podcast - Teach Your Copilot—Skills in SharePoint & OneDrive (Stephen Rice, Arvind Mishra & Joe Komban)
• Merge Conflict Episode #525 - Why Christopher Nolan's IMAX Vision is Fading (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Hermes Social Media Agent with Craig Hewitt (Michelle Smith)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #288 - CISO Tested, Board Approved: Cloud Resilience with General Mills CISO Noah Korba (Google)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1024 - Open Models Replace Big AI (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Forged in the Fire—Why the Scrum Master Role Tests Even Experienced Leaders | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Danil Chernyshev)
• Meta Cast - Everything We'd Tell a New Leader (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Inside Trader Joe's Podcast Episode #109 - Trader Joe's 2026 Store Recipe Contest Winners (Trader Joe's Team)
• Betatalks the Podcast Episode #135 - Building Successful Copilot Adoption: Turning It On Is Not Enough - with Carina de Vries (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
• Blake Caraway: AI in Business Operations - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #412 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #556 - Updates on Django's Async Story (Michael Kennedy)
• Lenny's Podcast - Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn (Lenny Rachitsky)
• InfoQ Podcast: Rethinking Data: Moving From the Traditional Three-Tier Web Stack to Client-Side Event Sourcing (Johannes Schickling)
• Big Technology Podcast - What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get? (Alex Kantrowitz)
• React Native Radio Episode #368 - RNR Explains: Fabric (Robin Heinze & Tyler Williams)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #304 - Configuring a Versatile LLM Harness & Scraping the Web With Scrapy (Christopher Bailey & Ayan Pahwa)
• No Dumb Questions: What is the AI bottleneck? How does context engineering fix it?​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍‌​​‌‍​‍​‌‍​​‍‌‍‌‌​‍‌​​‌​‍‌​‍​‌‍‌‌‌‍​‍​‍‌​‍‌​‌​​‍​‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌​‌​​​‍​‍‌‌‍​‍​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‍‌‍​​​​‌‍​​​​‌​​​​‍​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍‌​​‌‍​‍​‌‍​​‍‌‍‌‌​‍‌​​‌​‍‌​‍​‌‍‌‌‌‍​‍​‍‌​‍‌​‌​​‍​‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌​‌​​​‍​‍‌‌‍​‍​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‍‌‍​​​​‌‍​​​​‌​ and The Stack Overflow Podcast - You need reliable AI context for your site reliability​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​​‌​​​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​​‌‌‍​‌​‍‌‌‍‌‌‌‍​‍​‌​‌‍‌‌​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‍​​​​‍​‍‌​‍​​‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌​‍‌​‌‌​​​‌‍‌‌​‌​‌‍‌‍​‌​​‌‍‌​​‍‌​‌‌​​‌‍‌​​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​​‌​​​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​​‌‌‍​‌​‍‌‌‍‌‌‌‍​‍​‌​‌‍‌‌​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‍​​​​‍​‍‌​‍​​‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌​‍‌​‌‌​​​‌‍‌‌​‌​‌‍‌‍​‌​​‌‍‌​​‍‌​‌‌​​‌‍‌​​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​ (Phoebe Sajor)
• Hard Fork Podcast - OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• The Too-Technical PO and the One Who Was Willing to Experiment | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Alf Dobbert-Baums)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #521 - Week 3 + Using AI to Write Your Resume (Taylor Desseyn)
• A Geek Leader Episode #479 - Uma Subramanian on The Sought After Leader (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• How Syncfusion Was Built: 25 Years of Listening (Brittany Kearns)
• Jobs Are Disappearing Quietly, The Math Keeps Me Awake (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft earnings preview: Record AI spending, and a stock near a one-year low (Todd Bishop)
• Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool (Sarah Perez)
• Job listings for week ending 7/24 and Call For Papers Listings for 7/24 (Leon Adato)
• From research to reality: An interview with Microsoft VP of Security Research Taesoo Kim (Command Line Team)

Database

• SQL Server index tuning: common mistakes and how to fix them (Edward Pollack)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.8.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations (Marlon Ribunal)
• Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running (Steve Jones)
• Meet Darling: Free, Headless Fleet Performance Monitoring for SQL Server (Erik Darling)
• Serving Multi-Modal Insights: Post-Inference Storage and Querying with MongoDB (Farhan Hasin Chowdhury)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Available today: Anthropic Claude Opus 5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Bas Brekelmans)
• Microsoft Graph for Microsoft 365 Developers: A Practical Guide and SharePoint REST API for Microsoft 365 Developers: When You Still Need It (Andrew Connell)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.75 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• GitLab 19.2 Adds CLI (Kay Ewbank)

Writing

• 7 Supporting Character Types Every Writer Should Know (Writers Write)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.2.1 (Files Team)
• DoomPaint - Doom using MS Paint as a playable display by leveraging clipboard and paste. (Mark Russinovich)
• Wine 11.14 Released (BeauHD)

General

• I spent 25+ years at Microsoft, and Windows is getting the care it deserves again (Ewan Dalton)
• Book Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman ★★⯪☆☆ (edent)
• Meta launches free Facebook Verified for accounts to prove identities (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
• 3 Clever Things You Can Do With an Old Amazon Kindle (David Nield)
• Warner Bros. is suing Amazon for poaching employees (Terrence O’Brien)
• Microsoft reveals it’s beating every Apple laptop in camera quality, Surface Laptop and Pro takes top spot (Mayank Parmar)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – July 24, 2026 (#832) and Daily Reading List – July 27, 2026 (#833) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026) (Daniel Abib)
• Android Weekly Issue #737 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Reading Notes #708 (Frank Boucher)
• C# Digest: Building a database in a text file (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Azure Weekly #572 - 26th July 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #30 — FsHttp.Studio & fable-lit-fullstack-template (Sergey Tihon)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #760 (Konstantinos Nikoloutsos)
• 500 Blog Posts To Learn About Devops (Learn Repo)

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.

• Native Agent Memory for Microsoft Agent Framework, Powered by Azure Cosmos DB (Theo van Kraay)
• Introducing MAI-Image-2.5 Pro and MAI-Voice-2 Flash in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Move Agent Orchestration/Workflows out of Code with Agent Framework Declarative Workflows 1.0 (Peter Ibekwe)
• Best JavaScript Data Grid Libraries: Which One Is Right for Your App? (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)
• The Modern .NET Show - Giving AI Agents Safe Access to Your Data: SQL MCP Server with Jerry Nixon (Jamie Taylor)
• Middleware in Microsoft Agent Framework (Jesse Liberty)

Web and Cloud Development

• MCP in Azure: Using API Management for Authentication, Access, Logging & Governance (Kalaivanan)
• AsyncAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Typed Consumers (Matthew Adams)
• 10 Modern JavaScript Tricks That Instantly Cut Boilerplate Code (JSDev)

Windows Development

• Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 4 (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• From Milliseconds to Cloud Costs: The Real Impact of Faster Document Processing in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
• ReSharper C++ 2026.2: C++26 Reflection, ISPC Language Support, And More (Igor Akhmetov)
• NAudio 3 Effects Framework (Mark Heath)

AI

• The Self-Building Agent: A LangChain4j Experiment (Kevin Dubois & Mario Fusco)
• Grounding Copilot Studio Agents with Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ (Brittany Pugh)
• Using SpecKit and Specification-Driven Development to Tame AI Coding (Kevin Logan)
• I've Spent 25 Years in Tech. The AI Gap That Worries Me Most Isn't the One You're Thinking About (Fabrice Lacroix)
• The Tool Is Not the Author (Mark Downie)
• AT&T and Microsoft scale trillion-token workloads with Microsoft Foundry and AMD (Steve Sweetman)
• The Cloud Software Factory Build Guide (Zach Lloyd)
• Think through hard problems in voice mode (Claude Team)
• Introducing MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash (sbaynes)
• Save Up to 70% on Claude Code Costs With PNG Prompts? (AI Karma Tracker)
• The Meter Was Always Running (Bennie Haelen)
• You Probably Won’t Read This Article…and That’s OK (Rufus Rock)

Python

• Why is pytorch compile so fast? (Morrison Turnansky)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• The case for a cooldown: Why Dependabot now waits before issuing version updates (Carlin Cherry)

Mobile and Game Development

• Mono vs CoreCLR, head to head. 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝟭: 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗱? (Sebastián Cabrera)
• Everything You Need to Know About Patrol in 2026 (LeanCode)
• Playing around with the P&C MetaLense 2 - a Mixed Reality device from Korea (Joost van Schaik)

Screencasts and Videos

• Data Streaming for Modern Applications in SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, and Fabric SQL | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Nikola Zagorac)
• What's New in SQL MCP Server 2.0 | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Jerry Nixon)
• News.. Astisanal Coding and more | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Just How Good is GPT 6 Going to Be (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #582 - Talking About Modernization (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #365 - Surviving the New Economics of a Post-Agentic World (Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Partnerships can keep open source sustainable​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌​​‍‌​‍‌​​‍​​‌​​‍​​​​​‍​‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‍​​​​‌​‍‌​‌​​​​​​​‌‍​‍‌​‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‍​‌​‍‌‌‍​‌​‌​‍​​‌‌​‍​​​‍​‍​​‌​​​​‌​​‌‍‌​​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌​​‍‌​‍‌​​‍​​‌​​‍​​​​​‍​‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‍​​​​‌​‍‌​‌​​​​​​​‌‍​‍‌​‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‍​‌​‍‌‌‍​‌​‌​‍​​‌‌​‍​​​‍​‍​​‌​​​​‌​​‌‍‌​​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍ (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• The Linebreakers: Where MVPs, Music, and Community Take the Stage (Betsy Weber)
• Microsoft 2.5: New security business chief Hayete Gallot on the company’s push into the agentic era (Mary Jo Foley)
• Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers (Emma Roth)

Database

• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Don’t Be Slack With Data Types (Erik Darling)
• Comparing MySQL Enterprise Monitor with Oracle Enterprise Manager for MySQL – which is best? (Lukas Vileikis)
• Build locally, ship to Azure: meet Azure SQL Developer (Carlos Robles & Vandana Mahtani)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Copilot in SharePoint Advances With New Content Creation and Trust Features (Tom Smith)
• The Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent’s Playbook: A Practical Livestream Series for Building Better Agents (Shavonna Jackson)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.74 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• naming-is-hard - An interactive naming assistant for projects, CLIs, and products (Jon Gallant)

General

• Microsoft accepts defeat on the Windows 11 Copilot key with a “Do nothing” switch, but PCs still ship with it (Mayank Parmar)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – July 23, 2026 (#831) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Is Designing (Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle) - Referral Link Words and the User Experience.

• Copilot vs. raw API access: What are you actually paying for? (Andrea Griffiths)
• Visual Studio Code 1.131 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Building Agents that Act on Your Behalf with Toolboxes in Foundry (Linda Li & Maria Naggaga)
• .NET Rocks! - Commercial Open Source Update with Jimmy Bogard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ReSharper 2026.2: AI Agent Freedom in Visual Studio, .NET Debugging for VS Code, and More and Rider 2026.2: IDE Intelligence for AI Agents, Faster Performance, and Spectacular Game Dev Updates (Sasha Ivanova)
• Windows App Development CLI v0.5.0 – expanded UI automation, JS/TS bindings, and more (Zachary Teutsch)

Web and Cloud Development

• Announcing Topcoat: a framework for building full-stack reactive web apps with Rust (Carl Lerche & Julien Scholz)
• Stop Accepting Breached Passwords: Integrating HaveIBeenPwned with Duende UserManagement (Al Rodriguez & Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Pagination and Infinite Queries with TanStack Query in Vue (Marina Mosti)

Windows Development

• Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 3 (Raymond Chen)
• How to Create a Windows Installer for Flutter Apps (Alex Marin)
• Windows Package Manager (WinGet) 1.30.70-preview (hackean-msft)

.NET and Visual Studio

• AsyncAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Typed Producers (Matthew Adams)
• Roslyn Analyzers vs Incremental Source Generators: Understanding the Pipeline (Nick Cosentino)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.15.0 Release (alliscode)

AI

• How to share agentic coding artifacts with your teammates (Richard Seroter)
• Agentic AI Needs Guardrails, Not Guesswork (Jin Kim)
• How to Evaluate AI Code Quality: A Practical Guide for Engineers (Manish Shivanandhan)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.8 Release (github-actions[bot])
• OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (Simon Willison)
• Powerful AIs might escape containment by releasing themselves as open-weight models (Sean Goedecke)
• Introducing OpenAI Presence (OpenAI Team)
• Stop Overengineering Your Agent Harness (Hugo Bowne-Anderson)
• Introducing Cursor Router (Cursor Team)
• AI: Nobody’s in There. Free if You Cannot Pay. Not Free if You Can. (Pinal Dave)
• Building verification loops in Claude Code with skills (Claude Team)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.12.1 Release (moonbox3)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Does code quality still matter? (Mark Seemann)
• Durable EKU checking for matching code signing certificates (Alex Marin)
• Code Coverage: How to Measure It, Understand the Metrics, and Improve Your Tests (Kerry Beetge)
• 5 Software Architecture Mistakes That Make Systems Hard to Change (Derek Comartin)
• Advanced Installer 23.9 Release (Advanced Installer Team)
• Fido2 showdown: An Introduction (Stephan van Rooij)

Mobile and Game Development

• .NET MAUI v10.0.90 Release Notes (kubaflo)
• iOS 27 Code Suggests Apple Could Restrict Leased Devices After Missed Payments (BeauHD)
• Microsoft is bringing original Xbox games to PC (Tom Warren)
• Optimize your apps for the next generation of Samsung Galaxy devices (Fahd Imtiaz & Miguel Montemayor)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast - ‘Writing for AI’ and the flaws of AI detectors, with Sean Goedecke (Mignon Fogarty)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #280 - When knowledge is free but the infrastructure isn't (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• Windows Weekly Episode #993 - The Columnist Savant - Reflecting on John C. Dvorak's Influence & Impact (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #730 - Birgitta Boeckeler on Harness Engineering for AI Agents (Priyanka Raghavan)
• Big Technology Podcast - OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #363 - SQS: 20 Years of waiting in line (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google - Navigating AI Guidelines in Kubernetes, with Kat Cosgrove and Natali Vlatko (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1023 - Mosh, Caddy & Tailscale: A Remote Dev Deep Dive (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.7: Modern multi-tenancy (Steve Fenton)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode #218 - Your AI platform isn't mature — here's what is (Laura Skylaki)
• Success Is When the Team Gets Closer to the User | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Alf Dobbert-Baums)
• Inside Platform Engineering with Joep Piscaer (Matthew Allford)

Community and Events

• Microsoft 2.5: A new series on the people shaping the company’s future (Mary Jo Foley)
• Looking forward to Ignite this Fall! Join me in San Francisco or online – Nov. 17. (sbaynes)
• Pure Virtual C++ 2026 Is a Wrap (Marian Luparu)
• Next chapter: Restructuring GitHub’s bug bounty program (Catherine Cassell)

Database

• Database Animations: You’ve Heard of Page Splits. Here’s What They Really Mean. (Brent Ozar)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: DATEDIFF Considerations (Erik Darling)

Writing

• On blogging, Blaugust and challenging yourself (Juha-Matti Santala)
• New Markdown rival: Open-source DGML format aims to turn docs into data that AI (and humans) can trust (Todd Bishop)

Tools

• Some tools and techniques for hardening Windows Server (Orin Thomas)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – July 22, 2026 (#830) (Richard Seroter)

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.

• Introducing the ETW MCP: AI-assisted ETL trace analysis, headless and in your terminal (Tristan Gibeau)
• Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
• Developing with AI Exposes Your Bottlenecks (J. Tower)
• Display Name is for Humans (Howard Kapustein)
• Build intelligent Android apps: Introduction to Jetpacker (Jolanda Verhoef)
• The Microsoft Agent Framework Harness is now released (Wes Steyn)

Web and Cloud Development

• OpenAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Testing and OpenAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Filtering (Matthew Adams)
• Why Your Browser Freezes with Large Excel Files in JavaScript Spreadsheet Apps and How to Fix It (Sri Radhesh Nag Subash Sankar)
• What’s New in Blazor 2026 Volume 2: AI, Analytics, and Productivity Enhancements (Rajendran R.)
• The Technical Roots of API Sprawl (Kin Lane)

Windows Development

• First look: Windows 11 is replacing Windows 95-era Properties dialog, now with dark mode and WinUI (Mayank Parmar)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28120.2546 for Experimental (26H1) (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Streamlining .NET Data Layers with ByteAether.Ulid v1.4.0 (ByteAether)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.14.0 Release (westey-m)
• TimeProvider and the End of Untestable DateTime.Now (Maarten Balliauw)
• The night job that carves its own partitions: cron, a plpgsql function, and a Splitter (Kozin Rinat)

AI

• OpenClaw v2026.6.34 Release (RomneyDa)
• Logging & OpenTelemetry in MAF and Activity Source in Microsoft Agent Framework (Jesse Liberty)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET (part 2): How to use IChatClient with Azure Foundry and Ollama in .NET (Davide Bellone)
• Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber (Tulsee Doshi)
• Sizing Copilot Credits for Cowork? Let Your Users Use Cowork Investment Advisor Agent. (Mahesh Kshirsagar)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.8-preview.0 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Microsoft is building an AI stack it doesn’t fully own — on purpose (Amanda Caswell)
• AI Prompt Frameworks Explained: A High-Level Guide to Choosing the Right One (Liam Cleary)
• The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview (Johnny Nuñez Cano, Mitesh Patel, Asier Arranz, Lior Ben Horin & Raymond Lo)
• Microsoft and Mistral expand strategic partnership to give enterprises and regulated industries frontier AI they can control and The AI Strategy Roadmap: Five drivers of successful AI transformation (S. Baynes)
• Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program (OpenAI Team)
• AI: Nobody’s in There, and That Is Good News (Pinal Dave)
• How Anthropic secures its AI-native software development lifecycle (Claude Team)
• Building out a course on agent skills (Tom Johnson)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.12.0 Release (giles17)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Kubernetes Agent Sandbox: What It Is and How to Deploy It with Pulumi (Adam Gordon Bell)
• July Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
• Managers Are Not Overhead: They Are Infrastructure (David Michelson)
• App Development Cost: A Complete Pricing Guide and Breakdown (Couchbase Team)
• What the Floor at Worldwide Taught Us About Better Technology (Brooke Brueggemann)

Mobile and Game Development

• A new 10″ Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2, available now at $80 (Gordon Hollingworth)
• Cordova Android 15.1.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
• Build intelligent Android apps: Integrate into Android's intelligence system using AppFunctions (Ben Weiss)
• Build intelligent Android apps: Cloud and hybrid inference (Thomas Ezan, Jolanda Verhoef & Caren Chang)
• Build intelligent Android apps: On-device inference (Caren Chang)
• A Maturity Matrix for Game Development (Dean Hume)
• AI Projects with Raspberry Pi — out now! (Lucy Hattersley)

Screencasts and Videos

• Is Kimi K3 Really Fable Class (AIDailyBrief)
• Meet the GitHub Copilot app: Your new AI desktop assistant (GitHub Team)
• Career Updates and Coding | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Mastering Claude Code: A Guide to Effective Parallel AI Workflow (Frank La Vigne)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #36 - Vanishing Culture #4: Keeping African Folktales Alive with Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• Developer Tea Podcast - Using Substition to Make Decisions Simpler (Jonathan Cutrell)
• RunAs Radio Show #1046 - Security Begins at Procurement with Jessie Schofer (Richard Campbell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1034 - The Other Side of the Corn - Price Hike for Apple Music (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• The Changelog Podcast Episode #683 - Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Haroon Meer & Adam Stacoviak)
• Mailin' It - The Official USPS Podcast - Why Millions of Books Travel Free Through the Mail (United States Postal Service)
• HIT Like a Girl Podcast - Value-Based Care Unwoven: The Math, The Mission & The Sisterhood (Joy Rios & Rachael Jones)
• Boagworld Podcast Episode #36 - Designing Beyond the Chatbot (Paul Boag)
• The Team That Decided Sprint Goals Were Optional | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Alf Dobbert-Baums)
• Meta Cast - AI Answers Everything, So Who's Having the Ideas? (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #489 - Or JSON? (Michael Kennedy)
• Made by Google Podcast - How we use AI for your Health (Rachid Finge)

Community and Events

• Pure Virtual C++ 2026 Is Now Live! (Marian Luparu)

Database

• T-SQL Tuesday Roundup: You Know A Query’s Gonna Be Bad When… (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 69 (Erik Darling)

PowerShell and Terminal

• The GitHub Copilot CLI Permission Model: What It Can and Can't Touch (Nick Cosentino)

General

• Prevent Drivers From Installing Apps (Stephan van Rooij)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – July 21, 2026 (#829) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: July 21 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

Blazor Web Development Cookbook (Pawel Bazyluk) - Referral Link Tested recipes for advanced single-page application scenarios in .NET 9.

• v7.7.0-preview.3 Release of PowerShell (jshigetomi)
• Headless Agents (Rocky Lhotka)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 20 July 2026 (Stephen Lines)
• T-SQL Hygiene: Introducing the Covering Index (Jerry Nixon)
• .NET MAUI v11.0.0-preview.6 Release Notes (kubaflo)
• Real-Time Collaborative Editing in React DOCX Editor [Webinar Show Notes] (Anantha Lakshmi Kannan)
• Announcing a New Visual Manifest Editor in the WinApp VS Code Extension (Chiara Mooney)

Web and Cloud Development

• Microsoft expands Azure AI and HPC infrastructure with AMD (Scott Guthrie)
• How to Build the ChatGPT Typing Effect in Modern JavaScript (JSDev)
• Copying HTML Tables as Text, Markdown, and CSV (Raymond Camden)
• Using AI to Build a Blazor App 3: Prototypes and Tracer Bullets (Jon Hilton)
• The 10 Best Angular UI Grids (Dany Paredes)
• Share your local API changes for review—before they reach the Cloud (Ajay Yadav)
• W3C Invites Implementations of EPUB 3.4, EPUB Reading Systems 3.4 and EPUB Accessibility 1.2 and Proposed Advancement of Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 3 to W3C Recommendation (W3C)
• The pitfalls of configuring OpenIddict from scratch - what can go wrong (Stefano Pinato)
• AI built my WordPress plugin. Here’s what worked – and what went wrong (building an app with AI, part five) (Grant Fritchey)
• Azure Static Web Apps CLI v2.0.10 Release (Azure Team)
• 13 Best Coding Fonts for Developers in 2026 (JS Tools)
• Escape Analysis in Go – Stack vs. Heap Allocations Explained (Dominika Stankiewicz)

Windows Development

• C++ Dependencies Without the Headache: vcpkg + Copilot CLI (Augustin Popa)
• Migrating WinForms & WPF from .NET Framework to .NET 10 (Paul Usher)
• Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 1 (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Slow pagination in EF Core? Try keyset pagination (David Grace)
• Virtual vs Override vs Partial in C# Explained with Small Runnable Examples (Michael Jolley)

AI

• Which Pilot is Which? (Jesse Liberty)
• Prompty - csharp/2.0.0-beta.4 (Seth Juarez)
• AI Can Copy the Code. It Can’t Copy the Market. (Jesus Rodriguez)
• Code review isn't your bottleneck, even with AI (Steve Fenton)
• OpenClaw v2026.6.33 Release (RomneyDa)
• How to Use Apple’s Foundation Models in a Web App with a macOS Companion (Balogun Wahab)
• How to test agent experience changes without shipping them (Waldek Mastykarz & Garry Trinder)
• Claude Fable 5 vs. Kimi K3: Same results, one-third the cost, 4x slower (Nick Lucchesi)
• LLM Models Are Bullshit Engines (Jeffrey Snover)
• Agent swarms and the new model economics (Cursor Team)
• The AI-Powered Software Development Lifecycle (David Ramel)
• Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (Simon Willison)
• Copilot Cowork is now generally available (S. Baynes)
• Working at the frontier: How Rakuten builds agents overnight with Claude Fable 5 (Claude Team)
• Stop Burning Tokens to Convert your Documents (Deepika Kathiravan)
• Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models (OpenAI Team)
• Introducing Cosmos 3 Edge (Pranjali Joshi & Saeed Babamohamadi)
• The “Pixel Police” are Retired: Why AI Agents are the New Mediators of Web Design (Noah Davis)
• The Tokens You Can’t Wait For (Shreshta Shyamsundar & Anmol Jain)
• The Context-Shifting Bypass: A Worked Example (Liam Cleary)
• Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved (Kirsten Korosec)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Memory Safety's Hardest Problem (Alex Kladov)
• Keep the gains: performance regression testing without fooling yourself (Daniel Marbach)
• Spec-Driven Development for Teams: The Shared-Spec Workflow (Felipe Fontoura)
• Human questions to ask in code reviews (Matt Lacey)
• Reverse-engineering is cheap now (Simon Willison)
• Sign Commits from Anywhere Without Your Keys Going Anywhere (Phil Haack)
• Incident Response as Code: Managing PagerDuty with Pulumi (Engin Diri)
• What Comes After Observability? (Austin Parker)

Mobile and Game Development

• Building a Healthcare UI with .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Upcoming Changes to the Nearby Connections API (Wei Wang)
• 8-bit ‘Jimothy’: Viral sensation raids trash cans, eludes paparazzi in Seattle creator’s video game (Kurt Schlosser)
• What I Learned Switching Between Swift and AI Studio in the Same Week (Scot Gardner)
• A Note from Bethesda Game Studios (Mike Nelson)

Screencasts and Videos

• JetBrains release 2026.2, .NET 11 Preview 6, VS Code 1.129 and more… - Developer News 29/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• How to customize your Windows Terminal dropdown (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Build your first Power App from data in seconds (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Setup the GitHub Copilot App to manage an Azure Subscription (ITOpsTalk Crew)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast - Shark Week: 6 saying from pop culture (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Presentation Podcast Episode #250 – Here’s An Interesting AI-Presentation Use Case (Troy Chollar, Sandy Johnson & Nolan Hames)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #287 - Creating Trust at Global Scale with Local AI: Reken-ing with Shuman Ghosemajumder (Google)
• The Two-Country Scrum Team and the Rapport That Never Showed Up | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Alf Dobbert-Baums)
• Michael Nygard: AI - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #411 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #524 - A .NET MAUI AI Revolution (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• InfoQ Podcast: Strands Agents (Clare Liguori)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - The future of development is full-stack​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌‌‍‌​​​‌‍‌‍​‍​‌‍​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‌​‍‌​‍​​​​​‍​‌‍‌​​‍‌​‌​​​​‌‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​​​‍​‌​​‌​‍‌‌‍​​‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍​‍​‌​‍​‌‍‌​​​​‍​​​‌​​‌‌‍‌​​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌‌‍‌​​​‌‍‌‍​‍​‌‍​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‌​‍‌​‍​​​​​‍​‌‍‌​​‍‌​‌​​​​‌‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​​​‍​‌​​‌​‍‌‌‍​​‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍​‍​‌​‍​‌‍‌​​​​‍​​​‌​​‌‌‍‌​​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌ (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Over 15 years of conference speaking (Rachel Andrew)
• Pure Virtual C++ 2026 Is Tomorrow and On-Demand Sessions Are Now Available (Marian Luparu)
• $100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community (Stephanie Lincoln)
• Join us for our MCP Live! — A free livestream covering all things MCP (Pamela Fox)

Database

• Database Performance Health Check: Six Months Slow, Fixed in 75 Minutes (Pinal Dave)
• Recently released: Updates to SQL projects in SSMS, VS Code, and SqlPackage (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
• Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container (Marlon Ribunal)
• AI agents, meet the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator (Abhishek Gupta)
• Cognitive Databases, Intelligent Data (Melissa Habit)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.73 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• v7.6.4 Release of PowerShell and v7.5.9 Release of PowerShell and v7.4.18 Release of PowerShell (jshigetomi)
• Microsoft Delays Exchange Online PowerShell Credential Parameter Retirement (Rabia Noureen)

General

• Microsoft just pulled a Sony: The tech giant will get rid of your AI-created podcasts and won't let you save them (Sean Endicott)
• The Case of the Sign-In Window That Refused to Show Up (Shannon Kuehn)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – July 20, 2026 (#828) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: One-click Lambda setup prompt, OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Bedrock, and more (July 20, 2026) (Channy Yun)
• Reading Notes #707 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps (Rezwanur Rahman) - Referral Link Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot).

• Building Agents in Production with Toolbox, Skills, and Tool Search (Lee Stott)
• Rx.NET v7.0 Now Available (Ian Griffiths)
• AOTrino - Electron-like desktop apps on .NET AOT + WebView2, single-exe, Windows x64, front-end-framework-agnostic (Simon Mourier)
• Introducing LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models (LM Studio Team)
• UI Maker: Visual drag-and-drop WinForms/WPF designer for VS Code (C# and VB.NET) (Coolshrimp)
• An Entirely New Git Hosting Network (Thomas Dohmke)

Web and Cloud Development

• Are Azure Logic Apps really low-code or no-code? (Chris Bradshaw)
• Rustifying Image Codecs in Chromium (Sergio Gonzalez Martin)
• How to Create Accessible Modals and Pop-ups Using HTML, CSS, and Minimal JavaScript (Jabo Landry)
• Blazor WebAssembly integration (Aspire Team)
• API Design As I Use the API, and MCP, and Skills (Kin Lane)
• PhpStorm 2026.2 is Now Out (Hanna Yakush)
• Reactive Flows, AI Agents, and State Events: This Week’s Angular Masterclass! (Angular Team)
• Blazorise 2.2.2 - Svg Charts Improvements and Component Fixes (Mladen Macanović)
• How to Integrate React Spreadsheet with Azure Blob Storage for Seamless Excel Management (Sastha Prathap)
• Enable Your SAML Requesting App for Cross App Access (Alisa Duncan, Aasawari Sahasrabuddhe & Semona Igama)
• Guidelines for URL Storage and Comparison (Eric Lawrence)
• Every Passkey Needs a Silent Partner (Paul Ardeleanu)

Windows Development

• Faster C++ iterative builds with GitHub Copilot (David Li)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v4.0.0 (with updated WinUI designer) (Alvin Ashcraft)* - Thanks for UI Maker for the inspiration*
• Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for so long? (Raymond Chen)
• Windows Package Manager 1.30.50-preview (hackean-msft)

.NET and Visual Studio

• TCP vs. UDP in .NET: Speed, Reliability, and the Hidden Cost of Performance (David McCarter)
• I Like .NET Over SSIS (Kevin Logan)
• Adding static getter thanks to extensions (Steven Giesel)

AI

• Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding (Kimi Team)
• Build-time AI vs Run-time AI (Paul Hammant)
• Agents can learn with Memory in Microsoft Foundry Agent Service (jianant)
• Architect an open blueprint for cloud-native AI agents (Fatih E. Nar, Sally O'Malley & Adel Zaalouk)
• Computer use: How AI agents can automate almost anything (Cedric Clyburn)
• GitHub Agentic Workflows vs Microsoft Scout vs Copilot App: Which Tool to Use When (AJ Bajada)
• A URI Scheme for AI Agent Prompts (Keith W. Boone)
• Why Reusing AI Instructions Costs You More Tokens (Ken Muse)
• Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all (Kate Park)
• Claude make Fable 5 permanent and AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making and Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now (Simon Willison)
• Production-ready, AI-assisted Development and Workflows (Mark Heath)
• The StyloAgent Workflow: How I Build and Manage Large (and HUGE) Systems Using Code LLMs (Part 1) and Part 2 (Scott Galloway)
• INFO: Anthropic Claude or Open AI Codex as coding agents for GitHub Copilot (Kurt Shintaku)
• In-House LLM Serving at Netflix (Netflix AI Platform’s Model Runtime Team & Inference Team)
• Overtraining as the path to human-like AI (Sean Goedecke)
• Observability for AI Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: When Your System Can't Tell You Why It Did That (Pruthvi Raj Seknametla)
• AI Red Teaming and Adversarial Testing – Building Enterprise AI Evaluation Frameworks (Part 6) (Liam Cleary)
• MCP Enterprise Authorization Is Here — What Entra and App Service Can Do Today (Jordan Selig)
• Choose the right speech and voice model (Anil Korkut)
• The AI-Native Software Development Lifecycle: A Practical Guide for Developers, Leads, and Architects (Sudhir Mangla)
• Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and 🤗 Diffusers (Pranav Prashant Thombre, Linnan Wang, Alexandros Koumparoulis, Wenwen Gao, Sylendran Arunagiri & Bernard Nguyen)
• A scorecard for the AI age (OpenAI Team)
• Evals Are a Revenue Strategy, Not a Safety Net (Jim Bennett)
• The Right Amount of Spec for Agentic Development (Markus Eisele)
• Cloud Native Infrastructure Emerges as the Foundation for Trustworthy Agentic AI (Craig Risi)
• Kimi K3 tops Arena’s coding leaderboard — and it’s open-weight (Amanda Caswell)
• Anthropic Settlement Update: The Opt-Outs Strike Back (Victoria Strauss)

Python

• How to Evaluate AI Agents with an LLM-as-a-Judge Harness in Python (Darsh Shah)
• PyTorch distributed is changing and TorchComms is why (Arkadip Maitra)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Dijkstra's Shortest Path Algorithm (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Why Unit Tests Should Never Access Files, Networks, or the Registry (Eli Lopian)
• ForgeMark - A concurrent git push/clone throughput benchmark for any smart-HTTP git forge (Entire Team)
• Telemetry after deployment (Aspire Team)
• Jenkins Plugin of the Month – July 2026: Disk Usage Simple (Stefan Spieker)
• The cost of saying yes has changed (Dalia Abuadas)
• Octopus Easy Mode - Argo CD Manifest Update (Matthew Casperson)
• It May Take Longer to Review a PR Than It Takes to Write It (Ivan Pelivanovic)
• The Power Of “Why?” (Jason Gorman)
• Platform engineering’s new job: serving environments at agent speed (Arjun Iyer)
• The Benefits of Building Emotional Intelligence as a Web Designer (Suzanne Scacca)

Mobile and Game Development

• Kids play games differently and why that matters to developers (Code Monkey)
• Kotlin Turns 15: Celebrate the Kotlin Effect (Viliam Sedliak)
• LoRa radio communication devices for Raspberry Pi (Phil King)
• Valve Steam Machine Review: A Compromised Console (Matt Kamen)

Screencasts and Videos

• Why You Can’t “Vibe Code” Real Software (Frank La Vigne)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 322 - “Let's Get Physical” (What is physical AI anyway?) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Hands-on AI Workshop | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• This Week in AI: A First for Agentic Ransomware (Michelle Smith)
• The best things I read, listened to, and watched this year (Bill Gates)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Lenny's Podcast - Netflix CPTO on AI and the future of product and tech roles | Elizabeth Stone (Lenny Rachitsky)
• .NET Rocks! - The Hives that Bind (Carl Franklin & Richard Campell)
• React Native Radio Episode #367 - Ask Us Anything (AMA) (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
• Big Technology Podcast - Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What Happened To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #161 - Lucid Crashes 50% on Bankruptcy Rumor, Then Rockets Back — Plus VW's New ID. Cross (Batteries Included Team)
• Hard Fork Podcast - The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #303 - Free-Threaded Python's History & uv in Production (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• The Hydra Product Owner and the PO Who Made Trust Possible | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mirco Gerling)
• A Geek Leader Episode #478 - Chris Miller on Taxes (John Rouda)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #364 - The Future of AI Infrastructure with CoreWeave (Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)

Community and Events

• Microsoft at Black Hat USA 2026: Defending trust in the age of AI and supply chain attacks (Elliot Volkman)
• The AI Layoff Story Was Always a Sales Pitch (Dave Saunders)
• Call For Papers Listings for 7/17 (Leon Adato)
• One month on Linux after 30 years on Windows (as a software developer) (Michael Shpilt)

Database

• Data Quality and Observability: A Field Guide in Six Parts (Pinal Dave)
• SQLite Query Explainer (Simon Willison)
• Learning a few things about running SQLite (Julia Evans)
• How SQL Server maintenance becomes an attack path – and what to do about it (Fabiano Amorim)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• “Not employee surveillance,” Microsoft defends Teams’ new location tracking feature, now rolling out (Mayank Parmar)
• What’s New in Copilot in SharePoint: July 2026 (Julie Seto)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI Agentic Workflows: Delegating Real Work to Your Terminal and GitHub Copilot CLI Slash Commands: Inside the Session Modes and Shortcuts (Nick Cosentino)

Writing

• What Is A Good Daily Word Count? Lessons From 39 Famous Authors and 10 Life-Changing Benefits Of Reading More Books and The Author’s Promise: The Two Things Every Writer Owes Their Reader (Writers Write)

Tools

• ‘Grok Build’ Coding Tool Open Sourced This Week, Promises to Respect Zero Data Retention (EditorDavid)

General

• The ‘Death of the Stick Shift’ is Almost Here for Americans (EditorDavid)
• Google is open-sourcing its 3D emoji (Terrence O’Brien)
• Nvidia begins preparing N1X Windows 11 GPU drivers ahead of RTX Spark Arm PCs launch (Mayank Parmar)
• In-depth Unicode implementation for Windows and Linux (Mark Pahulje)
• Musk open-sourced Grok Build to fight Anthropic. Anthropic pays him $1.25 billion a month. (Matthew Burns)
• Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM (Antonio G. Di Benedetto)
• The war on ‘woke science’ comes for space research (Georgina Torbet)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – July 17, 2026 (#827) (Richard Seroter)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 12, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Android Weekly Issue #736 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• C# Digest: When our cache turned against us (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Az Update - Week 2 of the return editions (Pierre Roman)
• F# Weekly #29 — .NET 11 Preview 6 and Mibo 3.0 (Sergey Tihon)
• Links For You (7/18/26) (Raymond Camden)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #759 (Juan Marin)
• Introducing: Links from Around the Web (Rachel Kaufman)

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#.

• Visual Studio Administrator? Join our Private Marketplace Preview! (Ruben Rios)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Developers who move fast still need to do it together​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍​​‍​‌‍‌‍​‌‌​​‍‌‍‌​​‌‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​​​​‌‌​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌​​​‍​​​‍‌​‍‌​​​​‌​‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍‌‌​​‌‌‍​​​​​​​‌‍​‍​​‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌​‌​‌​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍​​‍​‌‍‌‍​‌‌​​‍‌‍‌​​‌‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​​​​‌‌​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌​​​‍​​​‍‌​‍‌​​​​‌​‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍‌‌​​‌‌‍​​​​​​​‌‍​‍​​‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌​‌​‌​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​ (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
• Windows App SDK 2.3.1 Stable Channel Release (agniuks)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast Episode #1050 - Who is left behind when AI moves fast? with Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing .NET Modernization for Beginners (Pablo Lopes)
• Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source (Robert Standefer & Scott Hanselman)

Web and Cloud Development

• How to build long-running MCP tools on Azure Functions (Lily Ma)
• Automating ESLint migrations with Codemod (Alex Bit)
• Build a Secure C# MCP App with Cross App Access (XAA) (Aasawari Sahasrabuddhe)
• Firefox in WebAssembly (Simon Willison)
• C# YouTube API Samples | GitHub (YouTube Team)
• Give your AI agent two memories with Azure App Service (Jordan Selig)
• WebStorm 2026.2: TypeScript 7 Support, GitHub Copilot Integration, Agent Skills, and More (Valeriya Masyachenko)
• Astro 7.1 Release (Emanuel Stoppa & Matthew Phillips)
• OpenAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Authentication (Matthew Adams)
• When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread (Victor Ayomipo)
• GoLand 2026.2 Is Now Available! (Artem Pronichev)
• Building a React Sankey Diagram to Visualize California’s Energy Flow (Buvana Sathasivam)
• Blazrlytics - Diagnostics for Blazor Made Simple (Kevin Bernard)

Windows Development

• Speculating on how the buggy control panel extension truncated a value that it had right in front of it (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Speed Up Document Generation by Factor 2 Using Selection Objects in .NET C# and AI Natural Language Document Generation with MCP and TX Text Control .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
• The Amazon SQS + SNS connector in redb.Route, at-least-once and pub/sub via SNS SQS. Still leaving MassTransit (Kozin Rinat)

AI

• Meet the IQ's: How Microsoft is Creating Context-Aware AI (Rafia Aqil)
• How to test agent skills without hitting real APIs (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Copilot Usage-Based Billing Gets a Token Dashboard and VS Code 1.129 Introduces Agent Host and Experimental Agents Window Editor (David Ramel)
• Least privilege for AI agents: Identity, access, and tool binding (Yesenia Yser & Toby Kohlenberg)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.7 Release (Copilot SDK Team)
• AI hasn’t shifted the bottleneck from coding to code review (Steve Fenton)
• Enhancements to Microsoft Scout Increase AI Model, Chat Navigation Flexibility (Tom Smith)
• Meta’s ads MCP server is now available for developers (Sydney Levitan & Sanjay Patel)
• Publishers sue Google over copyrighted books allegedly used to train Gemini (Camila Nogueira)
• Newer Models, Same Advantage (Erick Lachmann, Gabriel Pimenta de Freitas Cardoso, Francisco de Almeida Rocha Alves & Victor Gabriel Ferreira Barbosa)
• The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs and The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials (VentureBeat Staff)
• The Self-Driving Company (Replit Team)
• Using AI to build your own software (Daniel Lemire)
• NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook (Josh Woodward)
• Someone Asked Me to Add a 975B Model to a LocaLLMs, here’s Why we Can’t (Yet) (Bruno Capuano)
• Evolving Spec-Driven Development: Conductor Now Supports Antigravity (Mahima Shanware, Sherzat Aitbayev & Jay Kornder)
• Code in Space: Redefining Tech Creation with AI and XR (Ilya Zakharov, Ekaterina Koshchenko & Agnia Sergeyuk)
• AI Agents Explained: How to Build with Them Safely (Jin Kim)
• Working with Claude Fable 5 in Claude Cowork (Claude Team)

Python

• A Beginner's Guide to Python: Hands-On Projects to Get You Coding (Beau Carnes)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How to Build an AI Security Framework for DevSecOps Teams (Michelle Pruitt)
• The Archaeologist’s Copilot (Martin Fowler)
• 5 Strategies to Reduce Logging Costs (Michael Shpilt)
• Coding Was Never a Bottleneck (Archana Rao & Gaurav Savla)
• The Observer Design Pattern Handbook: Event-Driven Architecture & Domain-Driven Design in Dart (Oluwaseyi Fatunmole)

Mobile and Game Development

• Connect more of your apps to Google Search (Biharck Araújo)

Screencasts and Videos

• What's New in Data API builder (DAB) 2.0 | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Jerry Nixon)
• Artisanal Open Souurce Code | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Let's Learn GitHub Copilot App (GitHub Team)
• The IQ Series - Work IQ: Tooling with MCP & CLI (Jared Spataro, Paolo Pialorsi & Tomomi Imura)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #581 - Arjun Iyer on Shipping Faster with Ephemeral Environments and AI Agents (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #362 - Mechanical Turk: The Fall of the Ottoman API (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Generative AI in the Real World: Agentic Coding with Chelsea Troy (Ben Lorica)
• MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #432 - AI-Era Consulting Billing for Microsoft Cloud Delivery (Ben Stegink & Scott Hoag)
• The Silence Test — How to Know Your Team Doesn't Need You Anymore | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mirco Gerling)

Community and Events

• The Developer Has Changed. So Should Developer Conferences (Jin Kim)
• Pure Virtual C++ 2026 [Meet the Speakers, Part 3]: Modernizing C++ (Marian Luparu)

Database

• You Just Found Bad Data in Production. Now What? (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Hygiene: What’s the Big Deal with SET NOCOUNT ON? (Jerry Nixon)
• Database Animations: How Index Seeks Work (Brent Ozar)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Aligning Queries and Indexes Part 6 (Erik Darling)
• Do This Before You Contact Your SQL Server Consultant (Marlon Ribunal)
• DataGrip 2026.2: AI Agent Skills, MCP Tools and CLI Commands for Data Source Management, Bundled JDBC Drivers, and Improved Session Control (Richie Mitish)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft 365 Enclave vs. Separate Tenant: Understanding the Difference and Why It Matters (Liam Cleary)
• Build Once, Run Everywhere: Unified Manifest for Office Add-Ins now Generally Available (Office Extensibility Team)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line (Sarah Perez)

Tools

• CLion 2026.2 Is Here (Oleg Zinovyev)

General

• Truth Social To Sell Wall Street Firms the ‘Fastest’ Access To Trump's Post and Astronomers Find an Atmosphere On a Nearby Earth-Like Planet (BeauHD)
• Ragnarök for Windows Server: A Practitioner's Guide to Extended Security Updates (Shannon Kuehn)
• 1Password Partners with Anthropic (Paul Thurrott)
• Announcing Rust 1.97.1 (Rust Release Team)
• Security incident disclosure — July 2026 (Hugging Face Team)
• Linux creator Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to walk away from Linux, or go fork it (Adrian Bridgwater)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – July 16, 2026 (#826) (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.

• TechBash 2026 Session Highlights for .NET Developers (TechBash Team)
• Visual Studio Code 1.130 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• .NET Rocks! - The Role of AI in Testing with Debbie O'Brien (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Rider 2026.2 Release Candidate Is Out! and ReSharper 2026.2 Release Candidate Released! (Sasha Ivanova)
• MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Shortcuts Configuration, Enhanced Results Grid Experience, and More (Yo-Lei Chen)
• Pick, manage, and get the most from your models (Rachel Kang)
• Agent Skills for Python Is Now Released (Giles Odigwe)

Web and Cloud Development

• Wolverine.HTTP Learns the QUERY Verb (Jeremy D. Miller)
• pointer-events (Mojtaba Seyedi)
• In defense of polyfills (Lea Verou)
• Handling Alt Text in a Linked Image (Geoff Graham)
• Updating TypeScript version support in AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 (Abhinav Goyal)
• CSS animations, human rights, and big accessibility at the AB Web Meetup (W3C)
• Azure Databricks delivers proven business value (Jason Pereira & Anavi Nahar)
• Optimistic Updates with TanStack Query in Vue (Marina Mosti)
• JavaScript String Algorithms Every Developer Should Know (Anton Liberant)
• Unpacking the AsyncAPI npm supply chain compromise and import-time payload delivery (Ravikant Tiwari, Sagar Patil, Suriyaraj Natarajan & Arvind Gowda)
• OpenAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Streaming (Matthew Adams)
• Building Global Web Apps? Reduce Latency with Edge Computing (Manikanda Akash Munisamy)

Windows Development

• MSVC Build Tools Preview updates – July 2026 (Eric Brumer)
• Using PC+Copilot (Phi Silica) from .NET 10 console app (Alex Khanuckaev)
• Monaco-Editor-uwp: A Windows Runtime Component wrapper around the web-based Monaco Editor (Michael Hawker)
• The case of the invalid function pointer when shutting down the display control panel (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• XmlParser: A Roslyn-inspired full-fidelity XML parser with no dependencies and a simple Visual Studio XML language service (Kirill Osenkov)
• .NET July 2026 Security Updates: What They Mean for Your Duende Deployments (Damian Hickey)
• MCP Resources and Prompts in C#: Exposing Data and Reusable Templates and Serilog Best Practices for Production .NET Applications (Nick Cosentino)
• Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11.58 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 July Update Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

AI

• Why identity is the Copilot unlock (Auzin Ahmadi)
• Building AX evals that actually work (Waldek Mastykarz)
• What building Shippy taught us about building agents (Kyle Wiggers)
• Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t. (Yara Rizk, Eyal Schnark, Jason Tsay & Merve Unuvar)
• The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action and GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness (OpenAI Team)
• How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets (Simon Willison)
• Self-Knowledge with AI: The Greatest Investment a Developer Can Make (Jefferson S. Motta)
• Expanding Choice in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform: Introducing Grounding with Parallel Web Search (Guangsha Shi)
• The best AI developer tools in 2026: from coding agents to code review (Dejan Lukić)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials (Polly Davidson)
• The Knowledge You Give Away (Mark Downie)
• The New Software Lifecycle (Addy Osmani)
• Asynchronous & Unreliable - Conversations on The Edge of Software (Holly Cummins)
• It Passed Every Test and Still Broke: Four Signals Validation Never Catches (Pinal Dave)
• Question Everything: Why the Question Matters More Than the Answer (Teon Beijl)
• Why Upfront Alignment Determines Whether Complex Programs Succeed (Mirco Hering)
• Don’t Neglect the Operational Groundwork (Michelle Smith)

Mobile and Game Development

• Building Offline-First iOS Applications with Local Data Storage (Uthej Mopathi)
• Run Ultralytics YOLO on Raspberry Pi with OpenVINO (Naush Patuck)
• Google and Epic Cancel Settlement; Third-Party App Stores Coming To Google Play (BeauHD)

Screencasts and Videos

• Choosing Skills for our Show Projects | The Dev Talk Show (Chris Gomez & Rich Ross)
• AI Optimism vs AI Pessimism (AIDailyBrief)
• Hangar DX Podcast - What Happens to Code Review When Agents Write the Code with Vanitha Kumar @thoughtworks (Hangar DX Team)
• If someone is brand new to Azure and sees Budget Bytes, what’s your first tip? | One Dev Question (Davide Mauri)
• A complete beginner's guide to mastering GitHub (GitHub Team)
• The Java Story | Official Trailer | Full Film Coming July 17th (CultRepo and Java)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast - Decoding the Chinese character paradox, with Dr. Charles Kemp (Mignon Fogarty)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #729 - Garth Mollett on AI Supply Chain Security (Robert Blumen)
• Windows Weekly Episode #992 - Gassy Jack - Largest Patch Tuesday in Microsoft History! (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1021 - We got addicted to an AI model we can't talk about (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Big Technology Podcast - AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Two Teams, One Sprint Cadence — The Hidden Cost of Synchronization | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mirco Gerling)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #520 - Build Your Target Company Hit List with Claude (Taylor Desseyn)

Community and Events

• JetBrains GameDev Days 2026 – Call for Speakers (Anna Ruban)

Database

• Distributed Databases: An Overview (Matthew Groves)
• SQL Server 2016 end of support is here: Plan your next steps (Debbi Lyons)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Aligning Queries and Indexes Part 5 (Erik Darling)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.8.0 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft 365 July 2026 Update (Liam Cleary)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.71 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• Five Local-First Mac Apps I Built to Fix Everyday Workflow Problems (Michael B.)

General

• Rust Enters TIOBE Top 10 (I Programmer)
• What “Project Hail Mary” Taught Me About Working in Tech (part 3) (Leon Adato)

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• Daily Reading List – July 15, 2026 (#825) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Programming APIs with C# and .NET (Jesse Liberty & Joseph Dluzen) - Referral Link Develop high-performance APIs that ensure seamless application communication and enhanced security.

• CoreCLR Progress and the Mono Timeline for .NET MAUI (David Ortinau)
• Built-in Agent Skills Bring .NET and Azure Expertise into Visual Studio (Simona Liao, Wendy Breiding (SHE/HER) & Yun Jung Choi)
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 11 Preview 6 (Dan Roth)
• Preparing Your Codebase for AI Coding Agents (Michael Shpilt)
• Android Studio Quail 2 is Stable: Multi-task with the Android Studio AI agent (Amman Asfaw)
• .NET 11 Preview 6 is now available! (.NET Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on Bare Metal (Thomas Maurer)
• Postman Agent Mode Recipes for Common API Tasks (Talia Kohan)
• What's new in Astro - June 2026 (Sarah Rainsberger)
• Using AI to Build a Blazor App 2: Define the Requirement (Jon Hilton)
• HTTP QUERY Explained: Safe Requests That Include a Body (Simon Foster)
• How to Log JSON Without Turning Your Terminal Into a Wall of Text (JavaScript Tools)
• The Open API Governance Toolchain and A Grounded Spectral Ruleset for the OWASP API Security Top 10 (Kin Lane)
• Async Validation in Angular Signal Forms (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Connect Your Cloud Accounts to Pulumi in Minutes (Levi Blackstone)
• Enforce Module Boundaries in TypeScript (Sebastian Nilsson)
• Async hydration in Preact (Jovi De Croock)
• Introducing Passkey Authentication by Vonage (Amanda Cavallaro)
• OpenAPI Code Generation with Corvus: End-to-End (Matthew Adams)
• What is a webhook? Endpoints, examples, and how they work (Jesse Sumrak)
• P3 Color Bug with Repeating SVG Background Images (Tyler Gaw)

Windows Development

• Rethinking C++ Performance: Faster Code Navigation and GitHub Copilot Tools with Whole Codebase Indexing (Alexandra Kemper, Henrique Fernandes Baggio & Sinem Akinci)
• How to Use Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool and How Much You Can Trust the Result (Brien Posey)
• Reimagining Surface Tools for Business (shivangisahu)
• Package Status (Howard Kapustein)

.NET and Visual Studio

• C# Tip: Use required members to prevent invalid object initialization (beware of SetsRequiredMembers attribute!) (Davide Bellone)
• .NET 11 Preview 6 Release Notes (Jon Galloway)
• .NET and .NET Framework July 2026 servicing releases updates (Rahul Bhandari & Tara Overfield)
• You're Already Using .NET's ChangeToken (You Just Don't Know It) (Khalid Abuhakmeh & Al Rodriguez)
• Zero-Code Validations in Your .NET API (Pavel Kalandra)
• redb.Identity, the full tour: a transport-agnostic OAuth 2.1 / OpenID Connect server for .NET — protocol transport, and no migrations (Kozin Rinat)
• .NET v10.0.10 Release Notes (mmitche)

AI

• Building a Fully Managed Multi-Agent Pipeline with Microsoft Foundry (Shivam Goyal)
• No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life (Vitaly Friedman)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.7-preview.3 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Run Claude Code locally with vLLM and OpenShift AI (Cedric Clyburn)
• How To Build An AI Phone Agent With Twilio Conversation Relay (Dylan Frank)
• Adopting Agentic: Talks and Reflections from Our AI Engineering Event (Colin Eberhardt)
• OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year (Jay Peters)
• How to manage AI investments in the agentic era (OpenAI Team)
• OpenAI hits 8 million Codex users — what developers need to know (Amanda Caswell)
• Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer (Sarah Perez)
• Resetting Roles When AI Joins the Team (John Greisner)
• Introducing Claude for Teachers (Anthropic Team)
• Introducing Usage Limits for Pulumi Neo (John Keiser)
• AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026: The Runtime Is Where Agent Trust Is Won (Aditya Tripathi)
• “Vibe coding slop”: Port’s CEO on the problem with ungoverned AI dev and AI can finally read your handwriting — here’s why enterprises care (Adrian Bridgwater)
• Mozilla’s Inaugural ‘State of Open Source AI’ Report Is Here (Raffi Krikorian)
• DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs (Martin Fowler)
• The Open Source Agent Toolkit in 2026 (Paolo Perrone)
• Knowledge as Code: The Memory File Just Got a Spec (Engin Diri)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Evals belong in your CI/CD pipeline (Jim Bennett)
• Building a Custom Metrics Exporter for Kubernetes (Victor David Effiok)
• How to Containerize a Node.js Application with Docker and Deploy with GitHub Actions (Zia Ullah)
• A gentle introduction to Git worktrees (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Microspeak: Double-click and drill down (Raymond Chen)
• Feedback Latency, Learning & “Productivity” (Jason Gorman)
• The compliance ratchet (Paul Stovell)
• “Loop Engineering” Is Mostly Just Broken SDLC Wearing a Costume (Adron Hall)
• What does “playing politics” mean for software engineers? (Sean Goedecke)
• Shipyard: How We Built Slack’s Next-Generation EC2 Platform (Archie Gunasekara)

Mobile and Game Development

• Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week (Sean Hollister)
• The React Native Live Activities Handbook: How to Build iOS Live Activities and Android 16 Live Updates (Farouq Seriki)

Screencasts and Videos

• Polypost: A Multi-Platform Post Editor (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• Microsoft Entra Suite hands-on tour of identity and network access protections | Microsoft Mechanics (John Damon)
• Claude Opus 4 + RAG: Build an AI App with Embeddings & Knowledge Graphs | MVP Unplugged (Michael Washington)
• Stop Using Singletons in Unity | Game Systems Explained (Stacey Haffner)
• How the Escalating AI Wars Benefit You (AIDailyBrief)
• Unlocking the Power of AI: Building Your Ultimate Second Brain with Claude (Frank La Vigne)
• Old School C# Coding | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #35 - Vanishing Culture #3: Saving Queer Memory with Brooke Palmieri (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #217 - The Delivery Gap: Why 96% of Your AI Code Is Waste (Brenn)
• RunAs Radio Show #1045 - Finding Security Vulnerabilities using AI with Sami Laiho (Richard Campbell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1033 - Liquid Glass Half Full - Apple Sues OpenAI Over Company Secrets (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• HIT Like a Girl Podcast - No Aggregation Without Representation: Patients, AI, and the Fight for Data Rights (Grace Vinton & Andrea Downing)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #488 - tau - it's 2pi and it writes code (Michael Kennedy)
• The Supermarket Team That Self-Destructed Trying to Help Everyone | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mirco Gerling)

Community and Events

• Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs (Emma Roth)
• Google: Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation (Brad Kellett)

Database

• Security Update for SQL Server 2025 RTM CU6 and Security Update for SQL Server 2025 RTM (SrinivasSQL)
• Where Should a Data Quality Check Live? Gates, Controls, and Quarantine (Pinal Dave)
• Generally Available: SQL Migration to SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines in Azure Architecture (danimir)
• Big data: what it is, why projects fail, and how to get value from it (Joydip Kanjilal)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• More control and better accessibility with permalinks in SharePoint Online (sharmapriya)
• Building Agents for Teams: Turning conversations into outcomes (Joey Glocke)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Starship - The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! (Starship Team)

Writing

• The 6 Non-Fiction Genres That Sell The Most Books (Writers Write)

Tools

• Plex Keeps Getting Worse. Is Jellyfin a Decent Replacement? (Justin Pot)

General

• The Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Is About to Get Much Bigger (Emily Mullin & Kate Taylor)
• House Votes For Permanent Daylight Saving Time (BeauHD)
• Surface for Business devices now available with Snapdragon® X2 Series platforms (Chauncey Larsen)
• Over The Edge 2.0: what independent researchers found about browser choice on Windows (Kush Amlani & Gemma Petrie)
• Don’t skip today’s Windows 11 update. Microsoft just patched a record 570 flaws, 4x last year as AI accelerates attacks (Mayank Parmar)
• The OLED Xbox Ally X20 is so good, Asus will sell it solo (Sean Hollister)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – July 14, 2026 (#824) (Richard Seroter)

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.

• The Visual Studio Dev/Test Benefit: Freedom to Build, Test, and Experiment in Azure (James Rempt)
• Goodbye ValueConverters, Hello C# Expressions in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Build and Deploy Your First AI Agent with Microsoft Foundry Toolkit (Bethany Jepchumba)
• Debugging for .NET in VS Code and Cursor: The #1 Requested Feature Is Here (Alexander Kurakin)
• SkiaSharp for .NET (Sam Basu)
• Building AI Agents from Zero to Production (Lee Stott)
• Improving Windows Search Box, with less clutter and more control (Jeff Petty & Anderson Aiziro)

Web and Cloud Development

• First Public Working Draft: CSS Linked Parameters Module Level 1 (W3C)
• Why API Governance Programs Break Down, and What the Successful Ones Do Differently (Rick Crawford)
• WordPress Studio Just Got Faster, the CLI is Now Dependency-Free, and Sonnet 5 is Supported (Fredrik Rombach Ekelund)
• Microsoft Entra ID security updates: Passkeys are the default authentication method in Entra ID (Nadim Abdo)

Windows Development

• Why don’t we just make the entire stack out of guard pages? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Security and Privacy Update for PostSharp and Metalama (Gaël Fraiteur)
• C# auto documentation (Mike James)
• What’s New in ReSharper 2026.2 for VS Code-compatible editors (Alexander Kurakin)
• Visual Studio Changes Copilot Usage Tracking (Kay Ewbank)
• How to Integrate AI Agents in .NET Environments for Faster Development (Gopinath Karunanithi)
• OpenAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Server Stubs (Matthew Adams)
• The RabbitMQ connector in redb.Route: the whole broker in one URI — RPC, competing consumers, dead-lettering. Still leaving MassTransit (Kozin Rinat)

AI

• Talking to Copilot like a caveman (Bart Wullems)
• How to Build and Schedule Local AI Assistants for Daily Tasks (Darsh Shah)
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says you’re paying for AI twice — the second price is worse (Amanda Caswell)
• Opinion: The real value of AI is through the programmers… oh and the AI bubble is likely to crash (Michael Washington)
• Creating Autonomous Teams Agents Using OpenClaw, MCP, and Azure Container Apps (Kinfey Lo)
• The Frontend Verification Gap in AI-Assisted Development (Niharika P. Pujari)
• The AI Agent Lifecycle: A Simple Guide (supriyas)
• Cheap models just made orchestrator-executor the smartest agent architecture (Laurie Voss)
• I let AI build my API. Here’s what happened (building an app with an AI LLM, part four) (Grant Fritchey)
• Ermergerd, vibe coding is so dang boring. (Geoff Graham)
• Where AI saves me time and where it slows me down (Laureano Gonzalez)
• AI Red Teaming and Adversarial Testing – Thinking Like an AI Red Team (Part 5) (Liam Cleary)
• Token Limit Exceeded? What's Actually Going On and What to Do About It ? (Surya Narayana)
• OpenClaw v2026.7.1 Release (Vincent Koc)
• Introduction to Agent Authentication and Authorization on Mastra Using Firebase (Christian Nwamba)
• Are non-functional requirements the missing guardrail for AI-generated code? (Andrew Harmel-Law)
• What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show (James O'Donnell)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Feature Flags (Public Preview) in Octopus Deploy (Michael Richardson)
• Event Sourcing: undo set-remove-based bi-temporal events – because we must (Urs Enzler)
• GitHub governance reference links I share with teams (Rob Bos)
• Why design matters for a web framework: a 7-year evolution (Matija Sosic)
• Developers are the reason behind best (and worst) parts of software development (Ivan Simic)
• Building Service Topology at Scale: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons Learned (Parth Jain, Rakesh Sukumar, Yingwu Zhao, Renzo Sanchez-Silva & Nathan Fisher)

Mobile and Game Development

• Apple’s public betas for iOS 27 and more are out now (Jay Peters)
• Name your own price for this Raspberry Pi Press book bundle (Brian Jepson)
• Hello World #30 out now: Critical thinking in the age of AI (Meg Wang)
• DOOMQL (Simon Willison)

Screencasts and Videos

• Visual Studio 2026 July Release Party (Jul 16 @ 2pm EDT) (Visual Studio Team)
• 3 GitHub Copilot automations every maintainer needs (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Anthropic Can Now Read Claude's Mind and How to Help People Thrive with AI (AIDailyBrief)
• From Software Engineering to AI Engineering: Your Ultimate Guide to a Promising Career Shift and Navigating the Future: How to Stay Relevant as an AI/ML Engineer (Frank La Vigne)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast - Isn't it ironic? Plus, the man behind the guillotine (Mignon Fogarty)
• CppCast - 40 Years of Programming and Embeddable Programming Languages with Mark Guidarelli (Jason Turner & Mathieu Ropert)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast - You’re the Bottleneck in Your Own Career | $10B VP Casey Tubman (Zach White)
• PPP 515 | The Dangerous Drift Away from What Matters Most, with author Tom Rath (Andy Kaufman)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #555 - Marimo Pair - A Canvas for Agent + Developers Collaboration (Michael Kennedy)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #286 - Building an AI-pilled, solo vibe-coded, Clickhouse-based SIEM with Dan Lussier (Google)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1020 - Do You Read The Code? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• When the Scrum Guide Isn't the Rulebook — A Scrum Master's First Conflict with Management | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mirco Gerling)
• Meta Cast - 6 Leadership Characteristics We Admire After 20 Years of Working Together (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Inside Trader Joe's Podcast - Trader Joe's Wine Club: Summery Bubbles with Calsecco (Trader Joe's Team)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Your AI is only as responsible as you are​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍‌​​‍​​​‌​‍​​‌‍​​​‌‍​‍​‌​‍‌​‌‌‍​‍​‌​​‍​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌​‌‌​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‌‌‍‌​​‌‌​‍‌​​‌‍​‍​‌​‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌​​‍‌‌‍​‌​‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍‌​​‍​​​‌​‍​​‌‍​​​‌‍​‍​‌​‍‌​‌‌‍​‍​‌​​‍​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌​‌‌​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‌‌‍‌​​‌‌​‍‌​​‌‍​‍​‌​‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌​​‍‌‌‍​‌​‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍ (Phoebe Sajor)
• InfoQ Podcast: Governance in the Age of AI (Sarah Wells)

Community and Events

• Pure Virtual C++ 2026 [Meet the Speakers, Part 2]: The AI-Native C++ Developer Workflow (Marian Luparu)
• Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI (Zack Whittaker)

Database

• “Clean Data” Is Not a Requirement: Writing Rules People Can Act On (Pinal Dave)
• A wind farm you can talk to: Building a real-time 3D digital twin on Microsoft Fabric (Markus Lehtola)
• Install SQL Server 2025 Container on macOS Using OrbStack (Marlon Ribunal)
• Export and Import Data with bcp Utility (Kevin Logan)

General

• Defending SaaS-based applications against ShinyHunters OAuth abuse (Microsoft Security Research Team & Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
• Apple Reportedly Agreed to Intel Chips To Avoid White House Tariffs (BeauHD)
• Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards to code (Son Ho, Cédric Fournet, Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Samuel Lee, Jason Fisher & Jessica Krynitsky)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – July 13, 2026 (#823) (Richard Seroter)
• C# Digest: Memory discipline and GC awareness in .NET (Jakub Chodounsky)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center at 1 year, Network Scanning in Security Hub, Loom for AWS, and more (July 13, 2026) (Esra Kayabali)
• Reading Notes #706 (Frank Boucher)
• Fragments: July 13 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Is Designing (Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle) - Referral Link Words and the User Experience.

• Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here's how we actually improved it. (Napalys Klicius)
• Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #134 - The Future of Software Development with AI Agents - with Burke Holland (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
• Marketplace Ingestion MCP server | Microsoft Partner Center (Microsoft Learn)
• Tokenomics | The new AI currency & your options explained (Zachary Cavanell)
• Brady Gaster: Squad AI Agent - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #410 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Building Smarter .NET MAUI Apps? See What’s New in Syncfusion 2026 Volume 2 (Paul Anderson)

Web and Cloud Development

• Set LogLevel of Blazor (Steven Giesel)
• Beyond the Canvas: The Azure Architecture Diagram Builder Becomes Agent-Ready (arturoqu)
• ESLint v9.39.5 released and ESLint v10.7.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
• Azure Key Vault for Credentials (Matthew Groves)
• APIs aren’t dead. Here’s where MCP fits alongside them. (Hannah Culver)
• How to create awesome staggered animations in CSS (Rob O'Leary)
• Still Building Custom Chart Builders? Build Runtime Charts with Blazor Chart Wizard (Mohammed Nowfel)
• OpenAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Typed HTTP Clients (Matthew Adams)
• JWT Handbook - A Complete Knowledge Base for Developers & LLMs (JWT Handbook)
• Go 1.26.5-2 Microsoft build now available (Davis Goodin)
• Introducing IdentitySuite 3.0 (Stefano Pinato)
• OpenAPI Overlays for Adding Tool-Specific Content Without Polluting the Spec (Kin Lane)
• What’s new in Postman: Secrets management built in (Quinton Wall)

Windows Development

• Composition Ring Spinner (Stefan Koell)
• The case of the mysterious changes to integers when there shouldn’t have been any code generation effect (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• C# Async/Await Made Simple (Lou Creemers)
• Meet G#: a modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics (David Obando)
• Optimizing I/O Performance in .NET and HTTP/3 in .NET: Faster, Newer, and Not Always the Best Choice (David McCarter)
• 5 Mistakes Teams Make When Scaling .NET Applications (Brien Posey)
• Programmatically Generate Excel XLSX Files using C# and a .NET Excel API Library (Hunter Haaf)

AI

• Microsoft Foundry Model Deployment Pricing Update (Chris Hoder)
• TIL - Algolia Makes Creating an MCP Server Stupid Easy (Raymond Camden)
• Entire - Every agent resource stored in your repo (waiting list) (Entire Team)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for Go public preview (Quim Muntal)
• AI evals are just testing (with a much weirder answer key) and Long-horizon agent benchmarks are fragmenting: a field guide to what each one actually measures (Jim Bennett)
• I’ve Seen This Pattern Before. Are You Building for What Comes After Cheap AI Access? (Jamie Maguire)
• MCEC 3.0: Eyes and Hands for Agents on Windows (Charlie Kindel)
• I built a weekly AI news digest with GitHub Agentic Workflows. Here is how it works. (Bruno Capuano)
• Ensuring Agent Safety in AI Development and MAF-Doctor Walkthrough (Jesse Liberty)
• Your AI Agent Just Got a Lot Better at the Critter Stack: AI Skills 1.6.0 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How to Multi-Task in Claude Code Without Losing Your Mind (Michael Shpilt)
• Working at the frontier: How Cognition trusts Claude Fable 5 to work through the night (Claude Team)
• AI Red Teaming and Adversarial Testing – Practical AI Red Team Prompt Engineering (Part 4) (Liam Cleary)
• OpenSpec vs. Superpowers vs. pi-sdd-kit: SDD Tools Compared (Felipe Fontoura)
• Fable gets another bump (Simon Willison)
• Prompt Injection to Data Exfil in 3 Hops (Nick Davitashvili)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.7-preview.2 Release (github-actions[bot])
• The Future Worth Building Is Human (Thinking Machines)

Python

• New features in Python 3.14 (Louis Imershein & Bronce McClain)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How to automate Fabric data agent testing with promptfoo and GitHub Actions (John Kerski)
• Shrinking Azure Pipeline task extensions using esbuild (David Paquette)
• AI Can Generate Thousands of Tests. Who Reviews Them? (Eli Lopian)
• The Reverse Information Paradox (Satya Nadella)
• How async processing hides latency and improves responsiveness (Pekka Enberg)
• Is second-order enshittification a thing? (Matt Lacey)
• 85% say code review is the new bottleneck. Here’s what the AI coding narrative leaves out. (Arjun Iyer)
• Securing our future: July 2026 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (Salim Chawro)
• Low code was an evolution, not a revolution (Julie Yack)
• In defense of not understanding your codebase (Sean Goedecke)
• How to Test Vertical Slice Architecture (Milan Jovanović)
• Doubling code performance with a “useless” if (Alisa Sireneva)
• The Most Dangerous Lie In Project Plans: “We’ll Hire” (Charlie Kindel)

Mobile and Game Development

• The Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform (Allen Pike)
• gamedev-kit: Ready-made solutions for game development | GitHub (Sagittaras Games)
• Xbox's painful reset, and Unity 6.7 Alpha with CoreCLR! (Code Monkey)

Screencasts and Videos

• Technology & Friends - Paul DeCarlo on How Agentic AI Unleashes Creativity (David Giard)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 321 - Show Me The Money! (The Forward Deployed Engineer Edition) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• How the 4 New Models Released This Week Will Change How You Work (AIDailyBrief)
• Using GitHub Copilot for Linux performance troubleshooting on Azure (Karl Abbott)
• The Download: GitHub Copilot app, GitHub Universe, new HTTP query method & more (Cassidy Williams)
• GitHub Copilot App Canvases: Hub, Actions, Automation, & More (James Montemagno)
• This Week in AI: Chips, Checks, and Changing Jobs (Michelle Smith)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Merge Conflict Episode #523 - UI.md - Opinionated design rules for coding agents (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #279 - Technically We Have Code Reviews and the LLM Semantic Layer (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• Lenny's Podcast - How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• PPP 514 | Never Settling for Less: Why You're Leaving Value on the Table, with Attia Qureshi (Andy Kaufman)
• Big Technology Podcast - OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #160 - Mercedes AMG CLA: Brand's Cheapest Sedan Turned Super Sports Sedan (Batteries Included Team)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #302 - Constructing and Judging Modern Agentic Workflows (Christopher Bailey & Suneet Malhotra)
• Hard Fork Podcast - Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time (Casey Newton & Kevin Roose)
• The Over-Communicator vs. The Over-Ambitious—Two Patterns Every Scrum Master Should Recognize | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Aliu Adewale)
• A Geek Leader Episode #477 - Chris Hallberg (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• Call For Papers Listings for 7/10 and Job listings for week ending 7/10 (Leon Adato)
• Forking an open source project (Jon Skeet)
• EFF Celebrates 36th Anniversary, Says ‘We Need You in the Fight’ (EditorDavid)
• Bluesky names Toni Schneider CEO (Bluesky Team)

Database

• sqlite-utils 4.1.1 (Simon Willison)
• Count Is Not Risk: Ranking Data Issues by What They Actually Cost and Data Quality, Data Reliability, and Data Observability: Telling the Three Apart (Pinal Dave)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• HOWTO: Hide Attendee Lists in Outlook Meeting Invites & Teams Meetings (Kurt Shintaku)
• Available today: OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 in Microsoft 365 Copilot (xiasong)
• What are MCP Apps? Interactive Widgets in Copilot Chat and Add an MCP server with UI widgets to a Microsoft 365 Copilot declarative agent project and Integrate an MCP Apps server into a Microsoft 365 Copilot declarative agent and Wire an MCP Apps server into the F5 debug experience of the M365 Agents Toolkit (Andrew Connell)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI Gets Tabs and No-Config-File Tool Setup in Redesigned Terminal UI (Mark Silvester)
• Microsoft Terminal v1.25.1912.0 Release and Microsoft Terminal v1.24.11911.0 Release (D. Howett)

Writing

• The gap between academic and industry technical writing: What it is, why it exists, why it's important, and what we can do about it (Part I) and Part II (Tom Johnson)
• Scenes And Sequels: The Writer’s Guide To Stronger Story Structure (Amanda)

Tools

• Sysinternals: LiveKd v5.65, ProcDump v12.01, and ZoomIt v12.11 (Alex Mihaiuc)
• Paint.NET 5.2 Alpha (build 9688) (Rick Brewster)
• This free Mac app reveals the truth about your mystery USB-C cables (Sean Hollister)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.9.4 Release (OneBlue)
• Demystifying DataDog Metrics Pricing: 2026 Ultimate Guide (Michael Shpilt)

General

• crates.io: development update (Tobias Bieniek)
• Microsoft is killing 15 products in 2026, including Windows 11 24H2 and Office 2021 (Abhijith M B)
• Is the COSMIC Desktop Getting Better Than KDE and GNOME? (EditorDavid)
• No, Windows did not fall below 60% market share or lose 20 points to Linux (Mayank Parmar)
• TikTok class action alleges data breach affected 2.4B users (Dissent)
• The Trump phone is not a serious phone (Dominic Preston)
• Understanding Windows monthly updates: Servicing explained (Chris Morrissey)

More Link Collections

• dotInsights | July 2026 (Matt Ellis)
• Android Weekly Issue #735 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #571 - 12th July 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #28 — Mibo 2.0, Fable 5.7, and Cast Shadows in F# (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – July 10, 2026 (#822) (Richard Seroter)
• Microsoft’s reset, a new era for Seattle startups, and how AI is changing everything for founders (Todd Bishop)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #758 (Andyy Hope)
• Welcome Back to AZ Update (Pierre Roman)

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.

• Modernize .NET applications in the GitHub Copilot app (Mika Dumont)
• GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition and GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot (OpenAI Team)
• 3 GitHub Copilot automations every maintainer needs (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Frontier models and production agents: Advancing Microsoft Foundry for the agentic era (Tina Schuchman)
• Set up OpenClaw on your Raspberry Pi (Lucy Hattersley)
• Agent Harness: Scaling the claw or harness capabilities (Wes Steyn)

Web and Cloud Development

• Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) Guide (John Brawner)

Windows Development

• I’ve decoded a #pragma detect_mismatch error and fixed the mismatch, but I still get the error (Raymond Chen)
• Evolving Windows vulnerability management to meet the speed of AI-powered discovery (Pavan Davuluri)

.NET and Visual Studio

• You inherited a .NET codebase with zero tests. Now what? (Ebrahim Sayed)
• What is OpenIddict: the .NET framework developers choose for OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (Stefano Pinato)
• redb 3.3.0: an enterprise .NET stack you actually own — typed store, a homegrown Apache Camel, and a runtime with a dashboard (all free) (Kozin Rinat)

AI

• Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts (Will Douglas Heaven)
• Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5 (Maxwell Zeff)
• Responsibly building the AI future (Brad Smith & Melanie Nakagawa)
• Coding assistants - my evolving use (James D. Randall)
• OpenAI is folding Codex into the ChatGPT app — and taking aim at Claude Cowork (Frederic Lardinois)
• ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work (OpenAI Team)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.7-preview.0 Release and GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.7-preview.1 Release (github-actions[bot])
• OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 after government green light — and announces ‘ChatGPT Work’ (Hayden Field)
• Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications (Kenji Takeda, Haiyu Dong, Jonathan Weyn, Amit Misra, Matt Corey, Kevin White, Shannon Monroe, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ashley Llorens & Bonnie Kruft)
• AI Enthusiasts Are in a Race Against Time, AI Skeptics Are in a Race Against Entropy (Charity Majors)
• Building AI Applications You Can Trust? Explore Our New Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Handbook (Gowthaman Thavasiyappan)
• Why AI Agents Are Bad at Scoring and How to Fix It (Ken Muse)
• AI is ready. Your APIs probably aren’t. (Matt Gray)
• Introducing a way to reflect on how you use Claude (Anthropic Team)
• Ollama: all aboard open models (Ollama Team)
• Introducing Muse Spark 1.1 (Simon Willison)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.11.0 Release (moonbox3)
• Profiling in PyTorch (Part 3): Attention is all you profile (Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Sergio Paniego, Sayak Paul & Rémi Ouazan Reboul)
• How to Turn a Postman Collection into a Maintainable pytest Suite (Mikhail Golikov)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How to extract .ico file from your installer (EXE or MSI) (Horatiu Vladasel)
• How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner (Michael Recachinas)
• Fix Failed Intune App Installs: Retry, GRS, and IME (Alex Marin)
• When the Time Is Right (Teon Beijl)

Mobile and Game Development

• Age rating questionnaire now includes social media questions (Apple Developer Team)

Screencasts and Videos

• Turning Coding Agents into an Azure Cosmos DB Expert with the Agent Kit | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
• How AI Changes if Open Source Gets Banned (AIDailyBrief)
• Build and run long-running agents in Foundry Agent Service | Microsoft Azure (Jeff Hollan)
• Reviewing Code… C# Evolved | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Bring Your Own Key to the GitHub Copilot app, now available for all Copilot plans (GitHub Team)
• What’s new in Microsoft SQL in 2026 so far (SQL Server/Azure SQL/Fabric) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Mustafa Branch)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Developer Tea Podcast - Your Single Most Important Tool for Managing the Uneven Downsides of Risk (Jonathan Cutrell)
• The Modern .NET Show - From Pentest to 1.7 Million Downloads, Part 2: The Lessons Nobody Taught Me (Jamie Taylor)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #580 - Varlock: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Environment Variables (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #554 - Trustworthy AI in Healthcare and Longevity (Michael Kennedy)
• The Azure Security Podcast Episode #130 - The Security Adoption Framework (SAF) (Michael Howard & Mark Simos)
• DAWbench Radio Show Episode #44 - TechBytes 12 : 2026 Music Technology Round Up : Mid Year Review! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown & Chris Mann)
• InfoQ Podcast: Formal Methods for Every Engineer in an AI-Powered Future (Gabriela Moreira)
• The Amp Hour Episode #728 – Space Age Bluetooth with Alex Haro (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast - Microsoft's FY27: What Enterprises Need to Know (Mary Jo Foley)
• Lenny's Podcast - Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Build Mode Podcast - The New Rules of Early-Stage Fundraising with Charles Hudson (Maggie Nye & Isabelle Johannessen)
• Success Is Living the Five Scrum Values—And Asking the Team If You Are | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Aliu Adewale)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #363 - Building Durable AI Agents (Hamza Tahir, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - Saving Canadian lexicography, with John Chew (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Building more than just an agent harness​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍‌​​‌‌​​‌‍‌‍​‍‌​​​‌‌​‍​​‍‌​​‌‍​‍‌‍​‍​​‍​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍‌‌‍​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍​‍‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍‌​​​​​‌‌‍‌​​​‌​‍‌​‌‌​​‍​​‍‌‍​‌‍‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍‌​​‌‌​​‌‍‌‍​‍‌​​​‌‌​‍​​‍‌​​‌‍​‍‌‍​‍​​‍​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍‌‌‍​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍​‍‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍‌​​​​​‌‌‍‌​​​‌​‍‌​‌‌​​‍​​‍‌‍​‌‍‌​​‌​​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍ (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Pure Virtual C++ 2026 [Meet the Speakers, Part 1]: Build Faster, Run Faster (Marian Luparu)
• xUnit.net - Open Source Sponsorship (Khalid Abuhakmeh & Maarten Balliauw)

Database

• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Aligning Queries and Indexes Part 4 (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• SharePoint Copilot Apps Now in Public Preview: From Intent to Action in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Vesa Juvonen)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.70 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• What Is Dystopian Fiction & How Do I Write It? (Writers Write)

Tools

• Vivaldi 8.1 for Desktop is Here (Paul Thurrott)
• DuckDuckGo Now Blocks Most Video Ads on Windows, Mac, iPhone (J.R. Johnivan)

General

• Mexican Government files charges against ICE for murder (Séamus Bellamy)
• Microsoft’s carbon emissions climb 25% as tech giants grapple with AI’s energy toll (Lisa Stiffler)
• Validate Phone Numbers in Rust (Matthew Setter)
• Announcing Rust 1.97.0 (Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – July 9, 2026 (#821) (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#.

• Announcing TypeScript 7.0 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Let’s Learn GitHub Copilot App – Free Virtual Training Event (Katie Savage)
• Agent Framework’s Orchestration Patterns Reach 1.0 (Evan Mattson)
• Windows 365 for Agents: A secured execution environment for AI agents (Aarthi Sukumar)
• Available Now in .NET 11 for .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows (David Pine)

Web and Cloud Development

• Node.js 26.5.0 (Current) (Richard Lau)
• Protecting Microsoft at AI speed: How SFI proactively hardens our cloud (Salim Chawro)
• How GitHub Copilot enables zero DNS configuration for GitHub Pages (Bruno Borges)
• Connection Allowlist: a network firewall, built into the browser (Scott Helme)
• Rewriting Bun in Rust (Simon Willison)
• Go 1.26.5-1 and 1.25.12-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)

Windows Development

• The other kind of control flow guard check: The combined validate and call (Raymond Chen)
• WinUI.TableView v1.5.0 Preview 1 Release Notes (Waheed Ahmad)
• What’s New in vcpkg (June 2026) (Augustin Popa)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Microsoft Testing Platform and .Net 10 (Kevin Logan)
• C# Document Generation: A Developer's Guide for .NET (Deepika Kathiravan)

AI

• Foundry IQ is now in Copilot Studio: Bring your enterprise data to every agent conversation (Angie Silva-Pereyra)
• Introducing ROI for agents in Foundry (hanch)
• The hidden variables in your agent eval (Waldek Mastykarz)
• OpenAI’s own safety card says GPT-5.6 has a lying problem (Amanda Caswell)
• Claude AI Gets Yet Another Boost in VS Code 1.128 (David Ramel)
• How to Build an MCP Server with FastMCP for Your Local AI Agent (Darsh Shah)
• How my dev machine built 1,111 word-processing features and forgot to add a ruler (Sam Schillace)
• Using SpecKit and Specification-Driven Development to Tame AI Coding (Kevin Logan)
• Beyond Prompts: Teaching AI How to Build with DevExpress (Paul Usher)
• Practical AI Productivity Tips For The Too Busy Developer (Scott Sauber)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.6 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Introducing GPT-Live and Our approach to government and national security partnerships and Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations (OpenAI Team)
• Introducing Grok 4.5 (Cursor Team)
• Experiences with local models for coding (Martin Fowler)
• Why AI Coding Agents Still Need Clear Specs (Markus Eisele)
• Accelerate Enterprise UI Development with Agentic AI Workflows (Prabhavathi Kannan)
• Turning my Cursor Performance Work into a Repeatable Skill (Raymond Camden)
• Data for Agents (Hugging Face)
• How we used AI agents to migrate GitLab rate limiting (Sam Wiskow)
• Native-speed vLLM transformers modeling backend (Harry Mellor & Lysandre)
• AI Helps Ship Faster, But It Doesn’t Do the Thinking (Marko Crnjanski)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Multi-Tenancy Isn’t About Databases (Derek Comartin)
• A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable (Satya Nadella)
• How to Pick the Right Auth0 Customization for Your App (Juan Cruz Martinez)
• Your Laptop Is the New Production Environment (Jennifer Kohl)
• GitHub's former CEO launches a distributed Git network built for the agentic coding age (Radhika Rajkumar)
• The Importance of Empathy in Automation (Jefferson S. Motta)
• Announcing etcd v3.7.0 (SIG-Etcd Leads)

Mobile and Game Development

• Building a Testable Network Layer and Three-Tier State Management in Flutter (Veli Bacık)
• Evolving how LLMs are measured for Android: the next era of Android Bench (Zoe Lopez-Latorre)

Screencasts and Videos

• Streamlining Model Onboarding and Exploration in Microsoft Foundry and Optimizing Model Deployment and Performance in Microsoft Foundry (Microsoft Azure Team)
• What was the biggest challenge you faced during your build, and how did you solve it? | One Dev Question (Arvind Shyamsundar)
• How AI Is Changing How Companies Get Built (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Cloud Pod Episode #361 - Beep Beep: AWS Ships an ACME Product That Actually Works (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• .NET Rocks! - Open Source Maintenance Fee Update with Rob Mensching (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #728 - Clare Liguori on AWS Strands SDK for AI Agents (Sri Panyam)
• PPP 513 | Thriving in an Age of AI: What Most Leaders Are Getting Wrong About the Future, with Fred Marshall (Andy Kaufman)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #159 - The Tough Truth About Heavy Duty Electric Trucks (Batteries Included Team)
• Windows Weekly Episode #991 - Strategically Repositioned Productivity Surface - Gaming Layoffs Signal a New XBOX Era (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #216 - What are MCP apps and why should you care? (Luigi Pederzani)
• AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #029 - Navigating the AI Landscape: Agents, Bias, and Innovation (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Big Technology Podcast - Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #519 - Use Claude to Figure Out What Job You Actually Want (Taylor Desseyn)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1019 - LGTM, Ship It: The AI Code Review Problem (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• When Everything Is a “Must-Have,” Nothing Is—Prioritization for Real-World Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Aliu Adewale)

Community and Events

• If Microsoft sold off Xbox, who would even buy it? (Jay Peters)
• Things that Have Worked for Our OSS Community (Jeremy D. Miller)

Database

• Building on Vercel’s eve + Azure Cosmos DB: An Agent That Remembers (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
• What’s missing in T-SQL? My wish list of features that developers actually need in SQL Server (Greg Low)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Aligning Queries and Indexes Part 3 (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Built for Business: How Microsoft 365 Copilot Connects the Tools That Power Your Business (Caroline Stanford)
• Mitigating Microsoft 365 Copilot access risk: Identity and device controls for Zero Trust (Auzin Ahmadi)
• Evolving the Copilot experience in Microsoft Forms (Alex Buscher)

General

• Flint: A visualization language for the AI era (Chenglong Wang, Alper Sarikaya, Scott Tsukamaki, Michel Galley & Jianfeng Gao)
• Microsoft's Xbox reset is pivoting Obsidian to make Fallout instead of Avowed (Jay Peters)

More Link Collections

• Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - July 6 (Peter Ritchie)
• Daily Reading List – July 8, 2026 (#820) (Richard Seroter)

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.