• Explore new features available in C# 15 preview (Bill Wagner)
• .NET Conf 2026 (Jon Galloway)
• Unlocking the Power of AI for Every Developer in Visual Studio with Bring your Own Model (Tanmayee Kamath)
• From dotnet run to Foundry Hosted Agent in 3 lines of C# (Bruno Capuano)
• Windows App SDK v2.4 Experimental (2.4.1-experimental) 🧪 Release (agniuks)
• Visual Studio August Update — Work Smarter Across Models and Branches (Mark Downie)
• PowerToys 0.101 is here: Window Hopper, Insider updates, and Command Palette compact mode (Niels Laute)

Web and Cloud Development

• WebView2 is moving to a 2-week release cadence (Microsoft Edge Team)
• Update: August Next.js Security Release (Sebastian Silbermann)
• Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 3 is now a W3C Recommendation (W3C)
• Supercharge Auth with Signals and the New Okta Angular SDK (Alisa Duncan)
• Blazorise 2.3.1 - First Maintenance Update for 2.3 (Mladen Macanović)
• Aspire v13.5.3 Release (Aspire Team)
• Azure Service Bus: Designing for blast radius (Daniel Marbach)
• Intent to Ship: JPEG XL (Jake Archibald)
• Building your first MCP server in ASP.NET Core (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• Try Azure SRE Agent with no always-on charges (Nir Mashkowski)
• Build with Your Expert WordPress Agent: WordPress Studio’s New Desktop Experience is in Beta (Jonathan Bossenger)
• Wolverine 6.30: Optimized at least once delivery with “Native Acks” (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Your WordPress.com Site Now Works from Inside ChatGPT (WordPress Team)
• What are JWT tokens and why your app needs them (Stefano Pinato)
• 10 JavaScript Async Concurrency Tips and Common Pitfalls (JS Dev)
• How Postman Passport keeps API secrets inside your network (Talia Kohan)
• Auth0, Made for Whatever You Are Building (Chris Sevilleja)
• When to Use ListView vs. DataGrid in Real-World Projects (Héctor Pérez)

Windows Development

• What Kind of Packaged Process Is It? (Howard Kapustein)
• Expanding the Windows on Arm app ecosystem across key workloads (Klaus Diaconu)
• Is an Application the same with a Package? MSIX Example (Alex Marin)
• Windows Package Manager (WinGet) v1.29.290 Release (hackean-msft)
• Microsoft Warns Windows Code Signing Changes Could Affect Older Applications (Rabia Noureen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Hands on: How to Bring Your Own Local AI Model to Visual Studio Insiders (Preview) (David Ramel)
• Stop ignoring API failures. Use Polly (David Grace)
• Finding the total number of processors on a machine with .NET (Andrew Lock)
• A directory is an integration: file exchange in .NET without cron, FileSystemWatcher or hand-rolled pollers (Kozin Rinat)
• Azure.AI.Projects .NET SDK v3.0.0-beta.1 Release and Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI .NET SDK v3.0.0-beta.1 Release and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents .NET SDK v3.0.0-beta.1 Release (Azure SDK Team)
• Limit what NuGet packages can do in your project (Gérald Barré)

AI

• GitHub Copilot Coding Agent Can Now Use Microsoft Teams Conversations (Joseph Ofonagoro)
• DevExpress Agent Skills — Recent Updates (Dmitry Tokmachev)
• Reducing Token Usage and Deploying to Foundry (Jesse Liberty)
• AI Adoption Isn’t About Agreeing with AI. It’s About Iterating. (Julie Yack)
• How to evaluate LLMs before production (Mariko Wakabayashi)
• MCPs Aren’t APIs – Stop Treating Them Like One (Toni Babic)
• JetBrains’ Junie now runs entirely offline. Can you spare a 64 GB M5 Mac? (Paul Sawers)
• Perplexity’s Computer agent can now run locally — if you can afford it (Frederic Lardinois)
• The Federation Aspect MCP Needs and Bringing Order To The Agentic Realm With The CLI Agent Spec (Kin Lane)
• Benchmark Retrieval Patterns for Copilot Studio and Foundry IQ (Brittany Pugh)
• Enabling A2A endpoint and Agent Card for a Hosted Agent (srisatyakrishna5)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.13-preview.0 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Maia 300 Could Give Microsoft Azure a Major AI Infrastructure Advantage (Kieron Allen)
• Understanding the Modern AI Stack (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built (Yousaf Shah, Swanand Kadhe, Riddhiman Moulick & Ashish Sunil Agrawal)
• Moving beyond release waves with the AI at Work roadmap (Richard Riley)
• Claude Desktop support with Ollama (Ollama Team)
• How to Evaluate Live & Voice Agents in ADK (Stephen Allen)
• The full stack behind abundant intelligence and Introducing the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex and Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro (OpenAI Team)
• Claude's memory works everywhere, and you decide what's in it (Claude Team)
• Ensuring Safety in the Generative AI Ecosystem: Protecting Users from Non-Consensual Intimate Content (Ron Aquino)
• How to Run Local AI Models in 2026 - The Complete Developer Guide to Ollama, SLMs, and Private Inference (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Data Intelligence: Building Your Competitive Advantage in the Era of AI (Michelle Smith)
• OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them? (Tim Fernholz)
• Responsible AI adoption needs developer workflow design (Gleb Tsipursky)
• Understanding Harnesses: The Concept That Changes How You Build Agents in Copilot Studio (Jon Eric Eubanks)
• Microsoft Moves AI Governance From Policy to Runtime Enforcement (Leela Kumili)
• How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom (Peter Hall)
• Run LoRA fine-tuning on Red Hat OpenShift AI with Ray (Fiona Waters)
• Testing Role-Playing and Context Manipulation (Liam Cleary)
• One requirement, many failure paths: Evaluate, control, and optimize with ASSERT and ACS (Chang Liu)
• We’re partnering with the State of Delaware to provide free AI and career training. (Google)

Python

• EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins! (Simon Willison)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• WikiKB: a fast, repository-native knowledge base for people and agents (Russell Horton)
• Shadow Agents, Standing Privileges, and the Governance Gap Between Deployment and Discovery (Tushar Badlani & Mohit Bansal)
• Daily Life as a Jenkins Administrator (Mark Schulz)
• How to Fix a Leaked API Key: A Developer’s Guide to Git Security (Eva J. Patel)
• The Design System as the Control Plane for AI-Generated UI (Niharika P. Pujari)
• Cursor Releases Origin as an Agent-Native Alternative to GitHub (Matt Saunders)
• Testability Is a Feature. Does Your Code Agent Know About It? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• From Concept to Restaurant Pilot in Under a Year (Ryan Bush & Kartik Patel)
• The Infinite Scroll Was a Design Crime. Now Meta is Paying for It. (Simon Sterne)
• Rightsizing Platform Engineering: Building the Platform Your Organization Actually Needs (John Keates)
• Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn't mean it's any good. (Taarik Ashenafi)
• These rules are NOT made to be broken [Don't overlook a project's contribution guidelines!] (David Anson)
• The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane (Igor Sakhnov)
• Getting to know the stages of the interview process at Thoughtworks (Heytor Terra)

Mobile and Game Development

• Shiny Controls 1.0 — The Ultra Control Suite for .NET MAUI & Blazor and Shiny HTTP Transfers: Background Transfers, and Knowing What They're Doing (Allan Ritchie)
• Preorder the ROG XBOX Ally X20 Starting Today (Joe Skrebels)
• Designed for XBOX 25th Anniversary Collection is now available for preorder (Anna Vo)
• AAOS SDV - Secure by Design (Markus Vill, Sean Keys & Istvan Nador)
• Skeleton in .NET MAUI: What It Is and How to Use It (Leomaris Reyes)
• Update: New domain for Sign in with Apple (Apple Developer Team)
• Pi Alternatives (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Create your own cyberdeck (Ashley)

Screencasts and Videos

• Scott & Mark Learn To...Game (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• Debugger Agentic Workflow Gets a Test-Driven Upgrade | Visual Studio (Sireesha Pisipati)
• GitHub Copilot app for beginners: using the diff, terminal, and browser (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Understanding the Inner Workings of AI: The Crucial Role of Agentic Harnesses (Frank La Vigne)
• Evening Coding with MAUI and C# | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter and DayFrame does it ALL! | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• XXL Episode with various updates! - Developer News 33&34/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• The AI Model Tier List and The Future of AI and Work (AIDailyBrief)
• Start here: Azure SQL Foundations series (Anna Hoffman)
• Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Never Type Again with Craig Hewitt (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

• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1039 - The Hand of Ryan Tedder - Apple Stealthily Updates the Mac mini and Mac Studio! (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #493 - CalVer and LTS (Michael Kennedy)
• RunAs Radio Show #1051 - Security Features of PowerShell 7 (Richard Campbell & Mike O'Neill)
• HIT Like a Girl Pod: Empowering Women in Health IT - From Patient to Pioneer: Mariya Filipova on Investing, Convergent Care, and the Oral-Systemic Health Revolution (Mariya Filipova & Rebecca Love)
• The Scrum Master Mistake of Fixing Trust With Process | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and How Powerful Questions Help Scrum Teams Handle Stakeholder Conflict | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Arun Parameswaran)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #368 - AI Proficiency: From Users to Builders (Mike Lewis, Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - It's Greek to me: Why is the language of ‘The Odyssey’ shorthand for all that we don’t understand? (Mignon Fogarty)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #292 - Inside Chrome Security: AI Patching, Agents, Rust, and … Your Tabs (Google)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1032 - Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7B (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Meta Cast - Just Ask Us For Help (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• InfoQ Podcast: The Human Edge: Why Brownfield Codebases Need Mob Programming, Not Just AI Vibes (Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom & Ola Hast)
• Anna Hoffman: AI Database Development - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #416 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #529 - Agent, MCP, and Tooling: Taming Cross‑Platform DevFlows (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Xbox layoffs fallout: ‘South of Midnight’ creator Compulsion Games successfully goes independent (Thomas Wilde)

Database

• T-SQL Tuesday #201 Round-Up: Temp Tables, Friend or Foe? (Jeff Taylor)
• Full, Differential and Log Backups: A Practical Guide and Using Historical Data to Confirm Performance Improvements (Pinal Dave)
• Powering Memory in Foundry Agent Service, with Azure Cosmos DB (Theo van Kraay)
• 9 things I wish SQL Server had (and why they’d matter) (Louis Davidson)
• Your executable is a SQLite database (Simon Willison)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft is speeding up OneDrive for macOS with new Native Sync Engine (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Meet the Built-In Agents in GitHub Copilot CLI (Ken Muse)

Tools

• PowerToys Release v0.101.2362.0 (LegendaryBlair)
• PowerToys 0.101 Arrives With Window Hopper, Numerous Updates (Paul Thurrott)
• Announcing Files v4.2.20 (Files Team)
• Sysinternals Autoruns 13.100 is last working final version for Windows 7 (Mark Pahulje)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.9.9 Release (florelis)

General

• Apple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra and Apple unveils a more powerful Mac mini featuring the all-new M6 and M5 Pro and Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute (Apple)
• Software Engineering eBook Bundle | Manning Books (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Archiving Democracy: How the U.S. End of Term Web Archive Preserves Government History (Merrilee Proffitt)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 25, 2026 (#853) and Daily Reading List – August 24, 2026 (#852) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, Local Zone in Las Vegas, and more (August 24, 2026) (Esra Kayabali)
• Fragments: August 24 (Martin Fowler)

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.

• Today I will… Modernize a .NET application (Matt Soucoup & Pablo Lopes)
• The New MCP Roadmap (David Soria Parra & Den Delimarsky)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.19.0 Release (Roger Barreto)
• Build AI agents without leaving VS Code, join our 3-part Reactor Series (bethanyjep)
• Beyond Boundaries Is Getting a Major Update for .NET 11 and C# 15 (Chris Woodruff)
• TechBash 2026 Workshop Spotlight: Hands-On API Building with .NET (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• How to apply CSS only if there are a certain number of nested elements (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Aspire 13.5.2 Release (Aspire Team)
• How to Build a REST API for an AI Application (Anya Summers)
• ESLint v10.9.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• Announcing Azure Web PubSub chat in public preview (Kevin Guo)
• Cloudflare Cuts Astro Github Issues by 85% with AI Agents (Leela Kumili)
• Entra SSO: AWS Took 15 Minutes, GitHub Took a Migration (Joey Dantoni)
• How React Keeps You Logged In With JWT and Zustand (JS Tools Team)
• Running our OpenID server through the official conformance suite, and what it found in us (Kozin Rinat)
• JavaScript Intl API: A Practical Guide to Built-In Internationalization (JS Dev)

Windows Development

• Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function, practical exam (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 21 August 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• A Green CI Badge Does Not Prove Your .NET Package Is Trustworthy | ASI Backbone Learning (Christopher D. Cavell)
• Syncfusion PDF Library vs Aspose.PDF: Comparing Features, Performance, and Accessibility (Sameerkhan NainarAliBadusha)
• Local transcript cleanup in .NET with s1-mini (Bruno Capuano)
• Collection Performance: Sort List Faster with CollectionsMarshal.AsSpan() (David McCarter)
• The .NET OSS Relicensing Panic Is an Incentives Problem (Aaron Stannard)
• DocumentDB in .NET Orleans (Allan Ritchie)

AI

• One-Third of Web Pages are Now Written With AI, Says Pew Research (EditorDavid)
• Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive (Simon Willison)
• AI Should Multiple your Team - It Shouldn't Replace Your Judgement (Mitchel Sellers)
• AI Is Writing Code Faster. So Why Is Software Still Slow to Deliver? (Munish Munagala)
• Turn conversations into code with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams (arnavgupta)
• Using the Cursor SDK to Build a Project Documenter (Raymond Camden)
• Model router updates: new regions, a refreshed model pool, and understanding the hill climb (Sanjeev Jagtap)
• Bridging the AI Cutoff: Teaching Coding Agents Every Dart Feature from 1.0 to 3.14 (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Turning a single work session into a reusable Skill with Microsoft's Skill Recorder (Bart Wullems)
• The AI-Native SDLC playbook and Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders (Claude Team)
• AI Boosted Homework Scores, Then Exam Scores Dropped (BeauHD)
• My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality (Fabien Sanglard)
• Running AI agents in GitHub Actions with Docker Sandboxes (Jennifer Kohl)
• Tired of Rewriting AI Prompts? The Prompt Engineering Handbook Shows What Actually Works (Suchitha Ramesh)
• Anthropic’s new browser tool doesn’t actually run a browser (Amanda Caswell)
• Stop restricting the agent. Start restricting its environment. (Sanchit Mehta & Vishesh Agarwal)
• Dispatches from O'Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic development (Markus Eisele)
• The Agent-Era Career (Addy Osmani)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.15.0 Release (giles17)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• 7 Cost-Saving Strategies Observability Vendors Don't Want You to Know (Michael Shpilt)
• The Book of Redgate: Evidence (Steve Jones)
• The JasperFx / CritterStack AI and Event Modeling Strategy (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Automated testing vs. autonomous testing (Rob McNeil)
• Your Authorization Check Runs Too Late | ASI Backbone Learning (Christopher D. Cavell)
• You should never be angry at work (Sean Goedecke)
• Less Is More (Jason Gorman)
• A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers (Samuel Yeboah, Francesco Di Chiara & Mingliang Liu)

Mobile and Game Development

• Scaffold: Modern App UI in .NET MAUI (Alberto Aldegheri)
• Is the era of co-op ONLY games coming? (Code Monkey)
• When to Use Bloc vs. Cubit vs. Signal: An Architectural Decision Guide (Randal L. Schwartz)

Screencasts and Videos

• Did you know this Windows Secret? | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• Random.Code() - Handling Recursive Type Models in CslaGeneratorSerialization (Jason Bock)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 327 - “Kinetic IoT” (Why Digital Transformation is Physical) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• How to Make AI Writing Suck Less and Why Everyone Suddenly Hates AI Data Centers and 9 AI Techniques You Probably Haven't Tried (AIDailyBrief)
• Running Qwen 3.8 27B on a Mini PC: A Deep Dive into Local AI Performance (Frank La Vigne)
• Build Reusable Copilot Workflows with Skills and Agents | Building Your Personal Brand (Kurt Emrich & Kaleb Cole)
• Optimizing GitHub Copilot: Better Results, Fewer Tokens | Building Your Personal Brand (Emily Rothrock & Shivani Sundaresan)
• Control GitHub Copilot Remotely from Your Phone | Building Your Personal Brand (Grant Harris & Kaleb Cole)
• The Download: GitHub OAuth refresh tokens, Cloudflare MCP detection, terminal animations & more (Andrea Griffiths)
• Teams + Copilot in Action: Making Voice a Platform for AI (Farhan Hussain & Mat Batterbee)

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 - How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step (Lenny Rachitsky & Jen Abel)
• BONUS When Burnout Looks Like Productivity—The Hidden Risk to Innovation Capacity | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Alison Campbell)
• Interviews with Creative People (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Inside Platform Engineering with Nigel Douglas (Matthew Allford)
• PPP 520 | Are Smarter AI Tools Making Us Less Capable?, with LEGO® Serious Play® co-creator Johan Roos (Andy Kaufman)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #166 - Genesis GV90 First Look — Inside Korea’s New Flagship Luxury EV SUV (Batteries Included Team)
• React Native Radio Episode #371 - RNR Explains: Pan Responder (Robin Heinze & Tyler Williams)
• Big Technology Podcast - Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #308 - Navigating Silent Failures in AI: Strategies for Effective Oversight (Christopher Bailey & Calvin Hendryx-Parker)
• Hard Fork Podcast - OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• Product Owners Earn Team Loyalty By Showing Up, Learning, And Deciding | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joshua McDonald)
• A Geek Leader Episode #483 - Nick Jonsson (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• Call For Papers Listings for 8/21 and Job listings for week ending 8/21 (Leon Adato)
• Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri (Jay Peters)
• Starbucks cuts another 224 Seattle jobs, including tech roles, as restructuring winds down (Todd Bishop)

Database

• What AI Thinks a DBA Does All Day (Pinal Dave)
• From 17ms to 0.04ms: How to Design the Right SQL Index (Milan Jovanović)
• How Azure Arc allows a DB admin to become SQL Server sysadmin – the vulnerability explained (Fabiano Amorim)
• About Neo4j (Jesse Liberty)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Stop Making TUIs (Simon Willison)

Tools

• My Go-Anywhere Dev Setup: Tern, Starlink Mini, and RDP Over Tailscale (Jamie Maguire)
• Process Huge Image Batches in the Browser Without Freezing the UI (Free Image Tools)

General

• Flock is Secretly Building a Powerful New Prompt-Based AI Tool for Police (EditorDavid)
• Embedded Firmware Developer Toolkit eBook Bundle | Packt Publishing (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• American Who Wiped His Phone With ‘Duress’ Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges (BeauHD)
• Want to Be a Chief AI Officer? That'll Be $28,000. (Bloomberg)

More Link Collections

• Links For You (8/23/26) (Raymond Camden)
• C# Digest: A field guide to .NET data formats and C# Digest: Passkeys in ASP.NET Core 10 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 16, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Android Weekly Issue #741 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #576 - 23rd August 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #34, 2026 — Every Repo is A Software Factory Now (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – August 21, 2026 (#851) (Richard Seroter)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #764 (Konstantinos Nikoloutsos)

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.

• WPF Hot Reload in Rider | JetBrains (Michael Hawker)
• GitHub: The August 17 outage, and the work ahead (Vlad Fedorov)
• terminal-code - VS Code Inside Your Terminal (Rob Pruzan) - Source on GitHub here
• The Hanselminutes Podcast - Compile after Class Crossover Episode (Scott Hanselman)
• Improving Performance in .NET Applications | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Jason Bock)
• How to run .NET tools without the SDK (Daniel Cazzulino)

Web and Cloud Development

• Integrating French IGN Maps into the Blazorise Map Component (Mladen Macanović)
• Create a Kendo UI for Angular Dinner Picker (Jonathan Gamble)
• Protecting Modern JavaScript: What’s new in JSDefender 2.12.0 (Michelle Pruitt)
• Windows 365 turns five: Cloud PCs recognized for enabling flexible, trusted workspaces at scale (Stefan Kinnestrand)
• The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live (Daniel Holmgren)
• Next.js 16.3: Instant Navigations, Up to 90% Less Dev Memory and Faster Builds (Daniel Curtis)
• OAuth Identity Chaining, Transaction Tokens, and Human-in-the-Loop: Summer 2026 Identity Standards Recap (Joe DeCock)
• Ready for Go 1.27 on Day One (Artem Pronichev)

Windows Development

• WinForms — Year-End Roadmap (v26.2) (Alexander Russkov)
• accept() and socket inheritance (Alisa Sireneva)
• Microsoft Store CLI v0.4.1 Release (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)

.NET and Visual Studio

• What’s New in Modern C#: From Enhanced Lock Objects to Zero-Allocation Params Collections (Kunal Chowdhury)
• An Overview of Agent Memory for .NET (Jesse Liberty)
• Best Code Obfuscation Tools for .NET, Java, Android, and JavaScript (Ben Nettleton)
• Introducing the New TX Text Control Technical Demos (Bjoern Meyer)
• CritterWatch 1.0 is live! (Jeremy D. Miller)

AI

• Browser automation with Pydantic-AI + Playwright (Pamela Fox)
• Agents Can Curl, So Why Do I Need an MCP Server? (Kin Lane)
• How to trust your AI-assisted data analysis (James Broome)
• How to Find an Exact Gmail Thread with Codex or Claude (Harry Roberts)
• Google’s AI coding agent just escaped its own IDE (Amanda Caswell)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.12 Preview 0 Release (github-actions[bot])
• AI Won't Replace Project Managers, But It is Reshaping How Work Gets Done (Emim Vigin Lumina)
• AI Is Only as Good as the Document Pipeline Behind It (Marko Crnjanski)
• Ask, Plan, Confirm: Making Agents Stop Before They Start (Adron Hall)
• Warp wants to make it easier to build your software factory (Meredith Shubel)
• A New Framework for Open Source AI (Mark Surman)
• AI Bubble: I Hope It Pops (Pinal Dave)
• Graph Engineering: Building the Next Generation of AI Systems (Liam Cleary)
• AI UX Patterns for User Transparency (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels (Jess Weatherbed)
• Building an AI-Powered Incident Bot with Octopus Deploy (Patroklos Papapetrou)
• How Code in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Becomes Write-Only and Disposable (Ben Linders)
• Scheduled AI in practice: turning telemetry into a daily health report (Tim Deschryver)

Python

• PyCharm for AI-assisted Django Workflows (Will Vincent)
• Python, Rust, and Data eBook Bundle | O'Reilly (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Docker Verified Publisher Applications Are Now Self-Serve (Dan Berezin Stelzer)
• Howie Did It: Principled Apps (Charlie Kindel)
• Architecture of a ticket-search engine: three GDS, rail, and an itinerary changed mid-journey (Kozin Rinat)
• A Convention Is Not a Constraint (Alex Sandberg-Bernard)
• Principal Drift in Practice (Shreshta Shyamsundar)

Mobile and Game Development

• .NET MAUI v10.0.100 Release Notes (kubaflo)
• Flutter Performance Optimization: Fix Jank and Dropped Frames and PayPal Android SDK with Flutter: Integrate PayPal Checkout Using Platform Channels (vmodal_ai)
• Keep coding when your internet drops: Offline support in the Code Editor (Greg Annandale)
• Building Enterprise Storage, Backups & Cosign Image Security in Go & Flutter with Google Antigravity (Mario Ezquerro)
• What I Get to Forget About Riverpod Now That I Have BlocSignal (Randal L. Schwartz)

Screencasts and Videos

• C# Finally Got Unions!!! (Isaac Levin)
• The AI Backlash Is Getting Stupider But Also Smarter (AIDailyBrief)
• AI at scale: How Azure Storage powers your agentic data foundation (Aung Oo & Vybava Ramadoss)
• Customize Windows Terminal for your classes and projects (Kayla Cinnamon)
• I Let AI Recreate Our 3D Models | Meshy7 & Smart Topology v2 (Stacey Haffner)
• Modern WinForms Development: How AI is Reshaping Your Approach | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Klaus Loeffelman)
• Automatic backup immutability for Azure SQL DB and Azure SQL MI | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Dinakar Nethi)
• Windows 365: Five Years In, See What's New | Microsoft Mechanics (Bhavya Chopra & Jeremy Chapman)
• What is: Agentic Looping? (Postman Team)
• DeepSeek’s Revolutionary Approach: A New Dawn in AI Coding (Frank La Vigne)
• Full-stack hot reload with Serverpod 4.0 | Observable Flutter #94 (Craig Labenz & Viktor Lidholt)

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 #586 - Watermark Away, Baby (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Developer Tea Podcast - Why Reducing Complexity Is A Sign of Seniority (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Build Mode Podcast - What $1B+ in startup fundraising teaches you about investors (Maggie Nye & Sasha Orloff)
• Scrum Master Success Means People Feel Heard, Respected, And Safe To Speak Up | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joshua McDonald)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Get rid of your CAPTCHA, the future of the web is bots (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Former Microsoft product manager launches bid to end clock change in Washington state, Congress or not (Sydney Jackson)

Database

• SQL Formatter Previews in Microsoft's MSSQL VS Code Tool and What's New for Developers in SQL Server 2025 (David Ramel)
• sp_TexasHoldEm: Multi-Player Poker in T-SQL (Brent Ozar)
• Performance Monitor is Going Enterprise (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft quietly hides the new OneDrive app it force-installed on Windows 11, but it’s still on your PC (Mayank Parmar)

Writing

• How To Choose A Book Title: 10 Things Every Writer Should Know (Writers Write)

Tools

• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2323.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Windows 11 26H2 will auto-enable Point-in-Time Restore by default, how to check yours (Mayank Parmar)
• GitHub added 3 million CPU cores. It still couldn’t keep up with your commits. (Frederic Lardinois)
• Quantum-Augmented Applications: Integrating Quantum Subroutines into Classical Software Stacks (Dr. Ahmad Mateen Ishanzai)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 20, 2026 (#850) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor (Jimmy Engström) - Referral Link A practical guide to building interactive UIs with C# 14 and .NET 10.

• MSSQL Extension for VS Code: SQL Formatter, Azure SQL Database Provisioning, and More (Yo-Lei Chen)
• Rider 2026.2.1 and ReSharper 2026.2.1 Are Here! (Alexander Kurakin)
• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work (Christopher Harrison)
• .NET MAUI in 2026 - How AI has Transformed App Development Forever | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (James Montemagno)
• Rider Hands AI Agents The Keys To Its Refactoring Engine For Safer, Faster, And Cheaper Results (Sasha Ivanova)
• Choosing the Right Agent in Microsoft Foundry (supriyas)

Web and Cloud Development

• Hosting the .NET Aspire Dashboard as a Standalone Container in Azure Web Apps (Maarten Balliauw)
• Microsoft Releases Aspire 13.5 With a Refreshed Dashboard and Workflow Improvements (Almir Vuk)
• Passkeys by Default: Entra Retires SMS and Voice MFA (Shannon Kuehn)
• Build, Automate and Observe: What You Can Do with Telerik, Kendo UI and AI Engineering This August (Iva Borisova)
• There Is Finally an OpenAPI for MCP Servers, and It Is Called mcpdesc (Kin Lane)
• Go 1.27.0-1 Microsoft build now available and Go 1.26.7-1 and 1.25.14-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
• React scrollIntoView + useRef: Scroll to Any Element (React Systems Newsletter)
• Every Site, One Click Away in the Hosting Dashboard (Peter Schimke)

Windows Development

• Task Manager features for visibility into AI workloads (Larry Hu)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Building Max Line Length: Making EditorConfig Formatting Visible in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
• Visual Studio Code 1.134 Puts Agent Sessions Front and Center and .NET 11 Preview 7 Turns On NativeAOT CLI and MSBuild Server by Default (David Ramel)
• Parsing IP addresses in C# at crazy speeds (Daniel Lemire)
• Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.9.1 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 12113.136 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• .NET 11 Preview 7 Brings Updates Across C#, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and Windows Forms (Almir Vuk)
• Visual Studio 2026 lets developers dial up or down Copilot's thinking (Marcus Pruitt)
• Visual Studio Code 1.135 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)

AI

• Expanding Open Model Choice in Microsoft Foundry with New DeepSeek and NVIDIA Nemotron Models (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Microsoft Foundry Toolboxes: Designing Centralized AI Tool Governance (Niharika Gupta)
• How to Set Up T3 Code and Tailscale on Windows and Phone (Steve Smith)
• The Open-Sourcing of DeepSeek Harness Opens the Door to Modular, Unbundled AI Agent Infrastructure (Olimpiu Pop)
• How we built ThinkingBox to measure whether agents finish the job (Liang-Chun Tsai)
• College Students: Start the semester with one year of Gemini, on us (Jennifer Shen)
• AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought (Emily Atkin)
• Meta AI is getting a Mac app (Emma Roth)
• New in JetBrains Air: Claude Subscriptions, Multiproject View, and Improved Markdown (Vladimir Gromozdin)
• Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks (Isabella Ward)
• When Your Buyer Is an AI Agent (Rudrendu Paul & Sourav Nandy)
• What a Useful AI Trace Should Actually Contain (And How to Build One) (Nikolay Iliev)
• Giving Every Agent Its Own Branch: Git Worktrees for Parallel AI Work (Adron Hall)
• Develop and test MCP in Postman: jhipster-mcp in action (Anthony Viard)
• Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models (OpenAI Team)
• Nobody Could Have Written the Ticket (James D. Randall)
• How Docker Is Becoming an AI Development Platform (Pruthvi Raj Seknametla)
• Citizens Build, Agents Execute, Experts Govern (Rachel Laycock)
• An open source rival to Claude Managed Agents just launched (Adrian Bridgwater)
• AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model (Will Alpine, Nathan Geldner, Holly Alpine & Maksym G. Chepeliev)
• Building Secure AI Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework and Auth0: Sending Email with Token Vault (Andrea Chiarelli)
• Why I Tell My AI Coding Agent: “Prefer Dart Over Python” (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Replit Introduces Free Mode to Expand What is Possible with AI (Replit Team)
• Codex can now keep coding while it waits for your answer (Amanda Caswell)
• When Guardrails Go Wrong (Mike Loukides)
• Why Is the Agent Card Important? (Ajay Singh)

Python

• Microsoft Releases Agentic Skills For Python (Nikos Vaggalis)
• What’s Fixed and Improved in PyCharm 2026.2 (Will Vincent)
• Code Naturally with Python Software Bundle | Janets (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• GitHub Stacked PRs: A Practical Guide to Smaller, Faster Code Reviews (Arindam Majumder)
• Event Driven Architecture and Coupling: You’re Not as Decoupled as You Think (Derek Comartin)

Mobile and Game Development

• Frictionless Authentication on iOS: Silent Network Verification with Vonage Verify (Benjamin Aronov)
• Preparing your app for broader memory limits (Blair Harmon)
• Announcing Ionic Framework 9 (Gonçalo Martins)
• Signatures, be true: domain errors and functional handling in Kotlin (Viliam Sedliak)
• If you make 100 games, do you have 100% chance of success? (Code Monkey)

Screencasts and Videos

• Language Model Builder with Felix Rieseberg (Scott Hanselman)
• The AI Engineering Skills Map for Knowledge Workers (AIDailyBrief)
• Pragmatic AI in .NET Show: Beautiful UI/Games with AI & SkiaSharp, with Daren May (Sam Basu)
• A guide to layout in SwiftUI | Meet with Apple (Apple Developer Team)
• What's it like to work at Warp? (Warp Team)
• Building and Using MCP Servers in Visual Studio | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Leslie Richardson & Stephan Halter)
• SQL Projects in SSMS and Visual Studio | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
• Explore the Future of ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 11 | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Daniel Roth)
• The Developers Guide to Azure SQL Hyperscale | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Bob Ward)
• CritterWatch 1.0 Live Stream Today (Jeremy D. Miller) - Watch yesterday's recording
• SQL and AI for Developers in Action | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Anna Hoffman & Bob Ward)
• Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK) Installation (Microsoft Developer Team)
• Random.Code() - Handling Recursive Type Models in Rocks (Jason Bock)

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 - Sarah L. Kaufman on the shared rhythm of dance, critical writing, and finding better verbs (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #367 - Claude introduces DLP, I thought it always stole Data (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• .NET Rocks! - Beside, Inside, and Outside AI with Chad Michel (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Amp Hour Episode #731 - E&M Reality Emerges with Robert Fennis (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #734 - Sathiesh Veera on Engineering Data-Protection Guardrails with LLMs (Brijesh Ammanath)
• Windows Weekly Episode #997 - Bear Swamp & The Boathouse - New Context Menu Customization Debuts for Insiders (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #559 - 12 Things You Should (and Shouldn't) Do in AWS (Michael Kennedy)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1031 - My Coding Skills Are Atrophying (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Using Cycle Time As A Storyteller, Not A Scorecard In Agile Retrospectives | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joshua McDonald)
• Big Technology Podcast - Worries About AI Existential Risk Just Became More Concrete (Alex Kantrowitz & Nick Bostrom)
• Cortex Episode #182 - Reporting on the World’s Most Secretive Tech Company, with Mark Gurman (Myke Hurley)

Community and Events

• Qualtrics cuts jobs in Seattle, Utah and overseas as it absorbs $6.75B acquisition and TikTok cuts 75 jobs in Seattle area, hitting e-commerce teams and Internal memo: Eight execs out at Expedia Group in AI-driven shakeup (Todd Bishop)
• I Found My Coordinates: Code, Community, and Okta (Vanshika Pandey)

Database

• Eleven SQL Server Interview Questions That Look Far Too Easy (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.9.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Database Animations: The Difference Between Row Compression and Page Compression (Brent Ozar)
• Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code (Steve Jones)
• Data tools for developers and AI agents (sbaynes)
• New Claude Plugin For SQL Server Query Plan Analysis (Erik Darling)
• Don't stand up a second database just for objects: redb vs MongoDB and RavenDB (Kozin Rinat)
• Outgrowing SQL Server Express? Upgrade to Azure SQL Database Free Tier in 3 Steps (Vandana Mahtani & Amit Khandelwal)
• JSON indexing in SQL Server 2025: how it works and current limitations (Greg Low)
• Providing comparative context with DAX Calculated Tables under Row Level Security (James Broome)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• How to Set Up Copilot Skills in PowerPoint (and Build Your Own) (Michael Goad)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Packaging skills in a plugin, this time for GitHub Copilot CLI (Bart Wullems)
• Microsoft Store CLI v0.4.0 Release (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)

Writing

• Practitioner Voice: The Writing Category Nobody has Named Yet (Jim Highsmith)

Tools

• Process Monitor v4.1, ZoomIt 12.3 for macOS, RDCMan v3.21, and ZoomIt v12.21 | Sysinternals (Alex Mihaiuc)
• Announcing Files v4.2.11 (Files Team)
• New app: Clipboard Inspector (Joseph Finney)
• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2312.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning (BeauHD)
• Framework gave its 12-inch laptop some hardware upgrades (Jess Weatherbed)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 19, 2026 (#849) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Real-World Web Development with .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Build websites and services using mature and proven ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API, and Umbraco CMS.

• Aspire 13.5: Fresh pixels and better workflows (Maddy Montaquila)
• Announcing AppxManifest IntelliSense Support in the WinApp VS Code Extension (Chiara Mooney)
• What’s a PFN? (Howard Kapustein)
• .NET Developer Productivity with AI | On .NET (Sam Basu & Matt Soucoup)
• Spec-Driven Development Handbook: Build the Right Software Before You Write the First Line of Code (Gowthaman Thavasiyappan)
• TechBash 2026 Workshop Spotlight - Threat Modeling with AI (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• .NET 11 Preview 7 Improves WebAssembly (Kay Ewbank)
• Aspire 13.5.0 Release Notes (Aspire Team)
• Computing is changing, so is Postman – Introducing Postman.ai (Abhinav Asthana)
• The Throwaway API and the Foundational API (Kin Lane)
• How to Build More Accessible Websites with WCAG 2.2 (Aiyedogbon Abraham)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Boost Your .NET Networking with Spargine: SocketExtensions That Röck (David McCarter)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.18.0 Release (Sergey Menshykh)
• Build a Type-Safe C# Pipeline From Scratch (Nick Cosentino)
• Top 10 Ways to Reduce .NET Memory Usage in Kubernetes (Steve Smith)
• Building a Browser-Based PDF Workflow for Medical Billing using .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• CritterWatch RC.10 — the final one! (Jeremy D. Miller)

AI

• Add a Microsoft Foundry model to the GitHub Copilot app (Bruno Capuano)
• Testing Instruction Hierarchy and Prompt Override Attacks (Liam Cleary)
• The Codex Mastery eBook Bundle | Zenva (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• The tokenomics of self-hosted LLMs (Trevor Royer)
• Tap into the power of Gemini in Chrome on Android. (Charmaine Dsilva)
• Azure Copilot Introduces Direct Access to Agents (artigulwadi)
• Power Azure SRE Agent with the tools it needs (Lily Ma)
• A Claude Code skill was eating 200,000 tokens before answering a single question (Amanda Caswell)
• Claude Memory Admin (Steven Giesel)
• The New Full-Stack Developer: Building Applications for Humans, AI Assistants and Autonomous Agents (Hassan Djirdeh)
• How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need? (Vatche Isahagian, Gaodan Fang, Jayaram Radhakrishnan, Punleuk Oum, Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan, Evelyn Duesterwald, G. Thomas, Vinod Muthusamy, Merve Unuvar & Ayhan Sebin)
• Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities and Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation and Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections (OpenAI Team)
• Packaging skills into a plugin (Bart Wullems)
• Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development (Russell Brandom)
• Advanced Prompt Engineering for Software Developers: Frameworks, Patterns, and Best Practices (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Is Open-Source AI Really the Dangerous Path? (Raffi Krikorian)
• AI Coding Agents: Adoption Trends (Mikhail Bogdanov)
• MCP vs A2A vs ACP: How AI Agents Talk to Each Other (Yakaiah Bommishetti)
• Getting Started with MCP Servers (David Ramel)
• Want to use AI agents safely? Start with design (Colin Eberhardt)
• Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers (Tom Aarsen, Antoine Chaffin & Rafael Sourty)
• The Claude Science product guide (Claude Team)
• Microsoft Research and Paige Unveil PRISM 2 Pathology AI Model (Kieron Allen)
• Single-Query Tuning Versus Workload Tuning (Pinal Dave)
• AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (Michelle Kim)
• Mojo🔥 is now open source (Simon Willison)
• What happens to your indexed data when Mistral flips the switch? (Amanda Caswell)
• 17,600 Actions: Agent Security Is a Systems Problem (Jin Kim)
• A Research Agent on a Budget Leash, and How I’d Sequence the Whole Build (Adron Hall)
• Coding Agent Horror Stories: The Command You Already Approved (Jennifer Kohl)
• Context Camp: Knowledge Management for Personal Agents (Eleanor Berger)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Have an Agent Babysit Your Deployments (Josh Bleecher Snyder)
• GitHub Brings Stacked Pull Requests to Public Preview (Craig Risi)
• Interviews are better with Behavioral Questions (Charlie Kindel)
• Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform (Lucas Ropek)

Mobile and Game Development

• Introducing the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig (Tom Dewey)
• I’ve Been a Flutter GDE for 8 Years. Here’s the Ground Truth on “Flutter is Dying” (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Changes for apps in the European Union and Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement now available (Apple Developer)
• Jetpack XR SDK core libraries reach beta: The next milestone for Android XR (Amy Zeppenfeld, Greg Underwood & Yasmine Evjen)
• How to Work with Material and Cupertino Decoupling in Flutter [Full Handbook] (Atuoha Anthony)
• Introducing Factory Fields (Leon Bambrick)

Screencasts and Videos

• How People Are Fixing AI's Problems (AIDailyBrief)
• Warp Software Factory Live Demo (Warp Team)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Ed Charbeneau (Isaac Levin)
• Turn Every Idea into an AI App with the GitHub Copilot SDK | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (James Montemagno & Kayla Cinnamon)
• Fast Focus: Using Copilot to Build Migration Tools | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Jason Bock)
• Modernizing .NET Applications | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Jon Galloway)
• Fast Focus: Dream a Little Dream: Dev with the CLI | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 and How to run parallel AI agents in the GitHub Copilot app | Tutorial for beginners (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Fast Focus: What’s New Across Microsoft SQL and Developer Tooling in 2026 | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Anna Hoffman)
• Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: From Prompting to Loop Engineering with Ofer Mendelevitch (Michelle Smith)
• The Dark Arts of Web Automation: Mastering the Art of Teaching Agents to Navigate the Web and Claude Sonnet 5.5: A Game-Changer in AI Pricing and Performance? (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

• Welcome back to The GitHub Podcast! (Cassidy Williams, Marlene Mhangami & GPS Peña-Siguenza)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1038 - The Silicon-Controlled Rectifier - Will Apple's Upcoming Folding iPhone Cost A lot? (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• RunAs Radio Show #1050 - Automatic Attack Disruption with Liz Tesch (Richard Campbell)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #492 - Codeberg Puts Head in Sand (Michael Kennedy)
• AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #032 - AI & Creativity: Exploring New Frontiers with Sara Nemati (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• HIT Like a Girl Pod: Empowering Women in Health IT - Investing in Women's Health Isn't a “Nice-to-Have”—It's Infrastructure. Here's Why. (Melissa Fayer & Joy Rios)
• Boagworld Episode #37 - Brand Guidelines Are Ruining Your Website (Paul Boag)
• The Distributed Agile Team That Hid Problems Behind Follow-Up Stories | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joshua McDonald)

Community and Events

• Microsoft MVP Creates Site to Remind You of All the Brands Redmond Replaced (BeauHD)
• Bluesky says its recent outage was caused by another DDoS attack (Zack Whittaker)

Database

• Azure Cosmos DB in the Agentic Era: Data Tools for Developers and AI Agents (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
• The Two Hybrid Searches in Microsoft SQL (Jerry Nixon)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Using Microsoft Graph to bulk delete file version history (Loryan Strant)

Writing

• 10 Ways To Create Dangerously Nuanced Antagonists (With Examples) (Writers Write)

Tools

• JetBrains Toolbox App 3.7: JVM Memory Optimizations and Update Improvements (Lana Novikova)
• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2293.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Top Album Releases Linked To Rise In Fatal Crashes and Memory Prices Climb 500% In 12 Months (BeauHD)
• Strengthening Democratic Oversight in National Security (OpenAI Team)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 18, 2026 (#848) (Richard Seroter)
• Web Weekly #198 (Stefan Judis)
• Fragments: August 18 (Martin Fowler)

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#.

• Improving File Explorer & Context Menu: faster, simpler, and more customizable (Michael Novak)
• How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient (Ayan Gupta)
• Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C# | VSLive! @ MS HQ 2026 (Dustin Campbell)
• Apple Silicon and Xcode 27 images available in pay-as-you-go (preview) (Eric van Wijk)
• Build a .NET 10 Web API - Minimal APIs, EF Core & SQL Server (David Grace)
• Toolkit Tuesdays: LoadingView (Steve Bilogan)

Web and Cloud Development

• WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan (Sarah Perez)
• 10 Debounce and Throttle Patterns Every JS Developer Should Know (JS Dev)
• Useful JavaScript Additions in ECMAScript 2026 (Peter Mbanugo)
• Dark mode toggles: two states are enough (Geoff Graham)
• The WordPress.com Student Plan Is Here: Give Your Students a Website They Can Keep (Alvaro Gómez)
• Auth0 Learning: The New Skill-Building Platform for Developers (Sara Kazemi)
• Cloudflare Turns CI Pipelines into TypeScript Workflows (Mark Silvester)
• Active Directory Domain Services modules on Microsoft Learn (Orin Thomas)
• Shadow-piercing local component variables (Dave Rupert)

Windows Development

• How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 17 August 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• xUnit.v3 4.0.0 released (Steven Giesel)
• How to Implement a Specification in C# From Scratch (Nick Cosentino)
• What happens when you call await? A step-by-step runtime breakdown (Ali Hamza Ansari)

AI

• An operating model for enterprise AI agent reliability (Arun Srinivasan & Zichuan Xiong)
• There Is No Defensible AI Position (Kin Lane)
• Build AI Agent-Driven Document Processing with Syncfusion Document SDK [Webinar Show Notes] (Anantha Lakshmi Kannan)
• Build zero-trust AI agents with Google's Agent Development Kit (Shubham Saboo & Eric Dong)
• How to Scale LLM Inference for AI Agents Using vLLM (Darsh Shah)
• Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (Simon Willison)
• 4 Infrastructure Layers Every Production AI Agent Needs (Quinton Wall)
• The AI Agent Ate My Budget! Here Is What I Should Have Built Instead (Jefferson S. Motta)
• Making LLM Features Cheap Enough to Actually Ship (Adron Hall)
• Black-box pen tests on Replit (Replit Team)
• What’s an Orchestrator—and Why Does Software Need One? (Tim O'Brien)
• OpenAI Ditches Recall-Style Screenshot Surveillance For Friendly Keylogging (BeauHD)
• Cursor and Nokia: AI Matters Less for Speed Than Expanding Developers’ Capabilities (Anastasija Uspenski)
• Understanding agents, their five controllers and one graph (Zichuan Xiong)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• What is Identity? - The Question Every Team Should Answer Before Writing Code (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• The Hands-On DevOps Software Learning Bundle | Packt Publishing (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Microsoft Releases Open Source Test Unit Agent (Kay Ewbank)
• Azure DevOps Server – Git submodule support (Bart Wullems)
• Your Second Skill Was Never a Parachute (Pinal Dave)
• Make zero CVEs your new default (Vishrut Iyengar)
• Visibility Is a Technical Skill (David Ramel & Tony Champion)

Mobile and Game Development

• Apple ordered to change app data consent prompts on iPhones and iPads (Stevie Bonifield)

Screencasts and Videos

• We fixed Claude Code's biggest problem… (Warp Team)
• Building Intelligent .NET Applications: From AI Features to Agentic System | VSLive! @ MS HQ 2026 (Jon Galloway)
• SQL MCP Server: Bringing AI Agents to Your SQL Data | VSLive! @ MS HQ 2026 (Bob Ward)
• Beyond Embeddings: Practical Vector Search with DiskANN in SQL Server | VSLive! @ MS HQ 2026 (Anna Hoffman)
• AI Engineer: Fixes API from Slack Thread (Postman 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 - What ‘kith and kin’ and ‘beck and call’ have in common (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Presesntation Podcast Episode #252 – Midyear Check – Where Do You Use “AI” for Presentations? (Troy Chollar)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #291 - Ruthless Prioritization: How CISOs Can Execute a Minimum Viable Security Program (Google)
• Inside Trader Joe's Podcast Episode #110 - Expect the Unexpected (Cheddar) at Trader Joe's (Trader Joe's Team)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #524 - Using AI In Your Job Search - DMs & Cover Letters (Taylor Desseyn)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1030 - AI Assistant Hacks Gym (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - What does an agentic SDLC actually look like? (Phoebe Sajor)
• When Your Agile Enthusiasm Creates Resistance, Start With Trust | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joshua McDonald)

Community and Events

• GitHub outage disrupts developers worldwide in latest setback for Microsoft coding platform (Todd Bishop)
• What Your First Months at JetBrains Look Like? (Grete Kivi)
• Registration is Now Open For Internet Archive’s Annual Celebration (Chris Freeland)

Database

• SQL Server gMSA: Why So Many DBAs Still Aren't Using It in 2026 (SQLPals)
• How to implement Deep Data Security (DeepSec) in Oracle 26ai: complete step-by-step guide (part one) (Jim Czuprynski)

Writing

• Nothing informs the writing process like writing (Rob Miles)

Tools

• DevToys-Preview - An Open-Source Swiss Army knife for developers | Microsoft Store (Etienne Baudoux)

General

• Time for a new lab environment – Part 2 (Michael Morten Sonne)
• OpenAI Announces Massive Data Center In Ohio With $105 Billion Nvidia Guarantee (BeauHD)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 17, 2026 (#847) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: EC2 application status checks, IAM role manager, OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock, and more (August 17, 2026) (Channy Yun)

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.

• Windows App Development CLI v0.6 – create new WinUI applications, sign packages with Azure, and more (Zachary Teutsch) - *Release notes available on *GitHub
• Uno Apps Inside of Uno Apps (Steve Bilogan)
• How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps (Sam Zhang)
• Mobile Canvas - Mobile iOS / Android Canvas extension for GitHub Copilot App (Jonathan Dick)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.11 Release (github-actions[bot])
• What's new in .NET 11 | .NET Docs (Microsoft Learn)

Web and Cloud Development

• Use Aspire to implement and deploy the BFF security architecture (Damien Bowden)
• OpenAPI Overlays for Compliance and Redaction Profiles and Your Internal Docs Need the Same Scoring Discipline as Your Public APIs (Kin Lane)
• The Forms Evolution, Web AI, and Architectural Vision! (Angular Team)
• Modeling Legal Emancipation for Healthcare Access Control with FHIR Consent (John Moehrke)
• I’m Writing a Book on WebAssembly and Spin (Hans Thorsten)
• What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More (Daniel Schwarz)
• Exploring Compose HTML for Server Side Rendering (Frederik Pietzko)
• Keep React Responsive with Web Workers and useRef (React Systems Newsletter)
• Go 1.26.6-1 and 1.25.13-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
• Introducing Lewp (Scott Watermasysk)

Windows Development

• Windows 11 is heading for a new look as Microsoft replaces another legacy interface with WinUI 3 (Mayank Parmar)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v4.2.0 (Alvin Ashcraft) - Updated to support winapp CLI v0.6.0 features
• Microsoft removes Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) from Windows 11 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
• Announcing new Windows Insider Release Preview builds for 14 August 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio finally gets proper Git submodule support (Bart Wullems)
• .NET Toolbox August Update (Steven Giesel)
• AS2 in .NET without a separate Java gateway: EDI with trading partners, right inside the route (Kozin Rinat)
• Consuming MCP Servers from .NET: When Your App Becomes the Client (Juan Gómez)
• General Performance: Object Initializers – Readability Versus Performance (David McCarter)
• The Evolution of Modern C#: Practical Best Practices for Cloud-Native and Enterprise Apps (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Pipeline Pattern in C#: A Modern .NET Guide (Nick Cosentino)
• NAudio 3 (Mark Heath)

AI

• Update on the upcoming OpenClaw release (Hannes Rudolph)
• There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (Sophie Alpert)
• DeepSeek Harness - An open-source agent harness (DeepSeek AI Team)
• Skills Sprawl: When Too Much of a Good Thing Confuses Your AI Agent (Darren “Dazbo” Lester)
• When AI Writes the Code, Specifications Need an Exit Strategy (Markus Eisele)
• Consumption-Based Billing Is Reshaping the AI Industry (Dewain Robinson)
• Junie’s New Default Runs on Gemini 3.7 Flash, at 40% Off Base Pricing (Dmitry Savelev)
• I Want Scout to Win. Codex Just Works. Cursor Might Beat Them All. (Paul J. Swider)
• How to Implement Retrieval in RAG (Carmel Eve)
• Sandboxing local AI Agents (Matthew Casperson)
• AI vs CI: Nobody Told the Pipeline (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Agent Plugins Specification (Agent Plugins)
• OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team (Terrence O’Brien)
• AI Inference vs. Training: Key Differences and AI Stack Consolidation with a Database-as-a-Service (Hannah Laurel)
• LOOP ⭢ GRAPH ⭢ HARNESS: build the whole pipeline in one sitting (ArchiveExplorer)
• MCP Wrote Itself the Deprecation Policy It Has Not Written for You (Kin Lane)
• Serving Gemma4 with Rust on vLLM and Build an MCP server in Rust with rmcp: a walk-through (xbill)
• qm: A multiplayer agent harness for work. In Slack and on the web. (Y Combinator)
• Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI? (EditorDavid)
• Run Claude for FREE Locally (Using Ollama + Claude Code) (TJ)
• How Claude’s text watermark works (Anthropic Team)
• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things (Simon Willison)
• [Dev Log][Python] Create short videos from photos and clips with Gemini 3.7 Flash: ReelCraft (Evan Lin)
• Loops and beads: orchestrating AI agents with Postman (Quinton Wall)
• State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations (Adina Yakefu, Apolinário & Irene Solaiman)
• Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them (BeauHD)
• The Six Questions Every AI Trace Should Be Able to Answer (Nikolay Iliev)
• AI success depends on data foundations (James Heward)
• Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions (Claude Team)
• Alibaba’s new model promises Opus 4.6-level performance on your laptop (Frederic Lardinois)
• Tag Everything, Expand Anything, Without Re-Billing the Model (Adron Hall)
• Welcome to Learn Harness Engineering (Learn Harness Engineering)
• How Kenn is doing Agentic Engineering (Wes McKinney)
• The Intent Debt (Addy Osmani)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Octopus Easy Mode - Policies (Matthew Casperson)
• Microsoft Testing Platform GitHub and Azure DevOps Reporting (Tomasz Cielecki)
• Reproducible ESP32 Firmware Development with Docker and Docker Sandboxes (Jennifer Kohl)
• The Packager’s Role in Enterprise Software Deployment (Radu Popescu)
• Renovate on Azure DevOps: picking the right work item type (Bart Wullems)
• How I Support Humans in the AI Era (Ileanell Perez)
• How Syncfusion Uses Its Own Developer Tools to Build SaaS Products (Meena Alagiah)
• GH Desktop Plus - A GitHub Desktop fork with advanced functionality and improvements (Desktop Plus Team) - Multiple GitHub accounts and multiple stashes are two nice features
• GitHub Quietly Built the Onboarding Flow Everyone Else Is Missing (Kin Lane)
• Introducing HEDBridge: A Modern Migration Path for Legacy HighEdit HED Documents (Bjoern Meyer)
• Take Time to Gain Perspective (K. Brian Kelley)
• How Do You Build a Social Media Feed? (System Design) (Milan Jovanović)
• Keep Building Without Getting Paid (Teon Beijl)

Mobile and Game Development

• Building Enterprise Active Directory, LDAP & Dynamic RBAC in Go & Flutter with Google Antigravity (Mario Ezquerro)
• Iris colour detection with Raspberry Pi (Rob Zwetsloot)
• Why BlocSignal Doesn't Need Provider (And Why Classic BLoC Always Did) and One-Shot UI Side Effects in BlocSignal: Snackbars, Dialogs, and Navigation Without State Pollution and Dogfooding BlocSignal on the Web: Building a 100K Ops/sec Reactive App with Jaspr and Dart 3.13 (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party (BeauHD)
• How well do Turn-Based strategy games sell on Steam? (Code Monkey)
• Just released: Raspberry Pi Book of Making 2027 (Andrew Gregory)
• Four iOS apps, one year, and a lot of help from AI (Omar Shahine)

Screencasts and Videos

• Random.Code() - Upgrading Rocks to .NET 11 (Jason Bock)
• How to Help AI Do Your Work Better (AIDailyBrief)
• Kimi K3 in GitHub Copilot, Multi-Agent AI, and more | The Upload (Cameron Tomisser)
• What's new in vector indexing for Microsoft SQL | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Bob Ward)
• I Don't Look At The Code - GitHub Copilot app for Absolute Beginners (James Montemagno)
• This Week in AI: When agents outnumber people (Michelle Smith)
• AI Engineer: Fixes 3 Way Drift (Postman 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

• Meta Cast - When Being Stubborn Is Leadership And When It's Ego (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Mark Seemann: AI Code Quality - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #415 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #528 - Build, Ship, Repeat: AI Tools Changing App Development (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• InfoQ Podcast: Will Agentic AI Bring Fantasia’s Sorcerer's Apprentice to Life?: A Conversation with Tracy Bannon (Tracy Bannon)
• Lenny's Podcast - OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber (Lenny Rachitsky)
• React Native Radio Episode #370 - CopilotKit with Mike Ryan (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
• PPP 519 | Overcoming the Inner Propaganda That Sabotages Projects and Teams, with Owen Fitzpatrick (Andy Kaufman)
• Big Technology Podcast - Best of Big Technology: How Ozempic Changes Our Bodies, Minds, and Economy — With Johann Hari (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #165 - 2027 Kia EV3: $29,890 Opens the Door, 321-Mile Range Costs You More (Batteries Included Team)
• Hard Fork Podcast - Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #307 - Improving NumPy Performance on Free-Threaded Python (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• The Agile Product Owner Who Runs Two Quarters Ahead of the Team | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Wasim Osman)
• A Geek Leader Episode #482 - Ekaterina Gorbacheva (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• Welcome to the New CodeMash.org (Matt Hopkins)
• MCP Live! | A half-day livestream about the latest in MCP | Sept 9th @ 9am PT (Pamela Fox & Liam Hampton)
• 3 Million Strong: Celebrating the DZone Community (Dominique Roller)
• No Dumb Questions: What is AI context architecture? Why not just build your own? (Phoebe Sajor)
• Connections, Part One (Jonathan Snook)
• EVENT: Microsoft 365 Copilot Roadmap: What’s New & Available – August 25, 2026 (Kurt Shintaku)
• Call For Papers Listings for 8/14 and Job listings for week ending 8/14 (Leon Adato)
• Celebrating National Nonprofit Day 2026: Empowering Organizations That Strengthen Communities (Moses Mitch)
• Cursor is now a part of SpaceX (Cursor Team)
• Bluesky's Active User Base Shrinks 52% Over 18 Months, But Its Protocol is Spreading (EditorDavid)
• Disney D23 2026: Everything announced for Star Wars, Marvel, and more (Richard Lawler)

Database

• Beautiful T-SQL Queries: Three Could Delete the Company (Pinal Dave)
• Vector Database Architecture: What Tech Buyers Should Evaluate (Tushar Madaan)
• Enterprise NoSQL Modernization: What Migration Planning Gets Wrong (Hannah Laurel)
• How to avoid nested REPLACE functions with TRANSLATE in SQL Server (Greg Low)
• Ribboncreator2021 (fmsap1968)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Defending Against Token Theft with PowerShell Just Enough Administration (JEA) (Liam Cleary)
• v7.5.10 Release of PowerShell and v7.6.5 Release of PowerShell (jshigetomi)
• PowerShell v7.4.19 Release (andyleejordan)

Writing

• Writing A Memoir? Narrow Your Focus and The 2 Types Of Science Fiction & How To Write Them (Writers Write)

Tools

• Ex-Microsoft engineer builds Outlook rival using a lost Windows feature (Sayan Sen)
• My JetBrains Rider Setup for Surviving Live-Coding Demos (Lou Creemers)
• Announcing Files v4.2.7 with a faster context menu and more (Files Team)
• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2282.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Smartify your doorbell (Stephan van Rooij)

General

• Software Engineering eBook Bundle | Manning Books (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Amazon is trying to crush class-action suits before they get started (Terrence O’Brien)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 14, 2026 (#846) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #711 (Frank Boucher)
• Android Weekly Issue #740 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Early-stage startups & pre-launch tools, curated daily (Julian Paul)
• Azure Weekly #575 - 16th August 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #33, 2026 — .NET 11 Preview 7 Ships with F# Updates and PaketaBot (Sergey Tihon)

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.

• Microsoft Copilot app – one app, new name, new icon, new URL! (Vesa Nopanen)
• Who spent all the tokens? Real-time, run-scoped cost control for AI agents (Tisha Chawla & Susheem Koul)
• Windows App SDK v2.4.0 Release (agniuks)
• Explore What’s New in SkiaSharp 4.0 (Sam Basu)
• The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6 (OpenAI Team)
• Routing and Failover for Microsoft.Extensions.AI (Joshua Yue)

Web and Cloud Development

• Azure Service Bus: One topic, many subscriptions (Daniel Marbach)
• Resilient Azure Platforms: Durable Functions, Cosmos DB, and DR by Design (Pierre Roman)
• Using the Wolverine “Side Effect” Model to Simplify Code (Jeremy D. Miller)
• RegExp /v in JavaScript: Sets, Intersections, and Unicode (JS Tools)
• Threat Modeling and Post Quantum Cryptography (Michael Howard)
• How ESLint Actually Works in Modern JavaScript Projects (JS Dev)
• Multi-repo API changes with the Postman AI Engineer (Talia Kohan)
• Vercel Launches v0 API for Headless App Building (Daniel Dominguez)
• GraphQL as Connective Tissue (Kin Lane)

Windows Development

• MSVC Build Tools Preview updates – August 2026 (Eric Brumer)
• Windows App SDK Stable Version 2.4.0 Release Notes and Windows App SDK Stable Version 1.8.11 (1.8.260804001) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 2.4.0 Package and Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.8.260804001 Package (NuGet Gallery)
• Clearer Build Optimization Results with GitHub Copilot | C++ Team Blog (David Li)
• Windows Package Manager 1.30.100-preview (hackean-msft)

.NET and Visual Studio

• How Fast is .NET 11 Runtime Async? (Kai Sawano)
• Rx.NET 7.0 Reduces Deployment Size by Splitting Windows UI Support (Edin Kapić)
• NLog vs Serilog in .NET: Which Should You Choose? (Nick Cosentino)
• TypeDeclaration: An Abstraction for Understanding JSON Schema (Matthew Adams)
• redb 3.6.0: a bug report that turned out to live in six providers — plus AS2/EDI and a shared port (Kozin Rinat)

AI

• Updates to GPT-chat-latest in Microsoft Foundry (Trupti Parkar)
• Microsoft Agent Framework and Foundry (Jesse Liberty)
• MAI-Thinking-1 – First Look (Vesa Nopanen)
• Copilot Notebooks now works with Markdown, plain-text, and rich-text files (abhkaushik)
• When AI Agents Fail: Engineering Reliable Recovery with Microsoft Foundry (Pavan Kalyan Chilakalapalli)
• Building Reliable AI Systems? Explore Our New Context Engineering Handbook (Suchitha Ramesh)
• Running Gemma 4 on EC2 G5g: Graviton2 AMD with NVIDIA GPU (xbill)
• Scratch a simple data model, find a complex one (Jon Skeet)
• Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. (Rebecca Bellan)
• AI UX Patterns for User Control (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• A Generate Button That Survives a Timeout and Asks Before It Writes (Adron Hall)
• Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps (Sarah Perez)
• What Is Free on ChatGPT in 2026? (TechRepublic Staff)
• AI Assist vs AI Complete: The Real Gap in Most AI Workflows Today (Muralidharan Lakshmanan)
• DeepSeek open sources an agent harness where everything is a plugin (Frederic Lardinois)
• Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets (Sundar Raghavan, Steven Palma, Cagatay Cali, AWS Arron & Yin Song)
• Cursor earns AIUC-1 certification for agent security and reliability and Cloud agents start 3x faster with builds (Cursor Team)
• Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed (OpenAI Team)
• Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’ (Jess Weatherbed)
• Human Skills in an AI World: How Technologists Stay Essential and Bigger Copilot Bills? GitHub Now Lets You Peek into Per-Model Token Usage (David Ramel)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.11 Preview 2 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Claude Tag now reads even more of the room (Claude Team)
• New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling (Vitaly Friedman)
• Hybrid and Local AI course at DeepLearning.AI (Paul Everitt)
• How Artificial Intelligence Disrupts Engineering Progression (Ben Linders)
• Prompt Debt and “Fighting the Weights” (Tim O’Reilly)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.14.0 Release (moonbox3)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Which hill are we climbing? The missing piece in Satya’s learning loop. (Sherlie)
• What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era (Gregg Cochran)
• Octopus Deploy: Act faster with our new Slack integration (Michelle O'Brien)
• Developer experience improvements you can apply to your own projects (Helber Belmiro)
• Code review is a taste problem (Ankit Jain)

Mobile and Game Development

• Level Up Animation with Keyframes for MAUI & Blazor and Shiny Controls 1.0 — The Ultra Control Suite for .NET MAUI & Blazor and Shiny.DocumentDb — Hidden Gems (Allan Ritchie)
• Dart 3.13 Primary Constructors + BlocSignal: Boilerplate-Free Reactive Architecture (Randal L. Schwartz)
• The Modern Indie Game Studio eBook Bundle | Packt Publishing (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Screencasts and Videos

• Grok 4.6 Shows How Fast Your AI Options Are Expanding and How Grok Bot is Finally Making AI Agents Easy and The Right Way to Worry About AI (AIDailyBrief)
• Building a Doom-Like World to Explore Agentic Systems | NDC Toronto 2026 (Alexander Chernov)
• Three Lessons from a Woman in Enterprise Architecture | NDC Toronto 2026 (Sarah Wimberley)
• Copilot, Cursor, and Custom LLMs: Navigating the New .NET Developer Experience | NDC Toronto 2026 (Isaac Levin)
• Code Review Is a Taste Problem | David Poll @GitHub | Hangar DX Podcast (Hangar DX 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

• The Hanselminutes Podcast - Robots, Nukes, and AI: A Career at the Frontier with Maynard Holliday (Scott Hanselman)
• Developer Tea Podcast - A Pragmatic Definition for Accountability (Jonathan Cutrell)
• InfoQ Podcast: Founders, Friction, and Focus: Building Engineering Teams at Early-Stage Startups (David Gudeman)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #585 - I'm not a total AI hater, I'm a finance hater (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #733 - Max Corbridge on Securing AI Agents (Amey Ambade)
• Build Mode Podcast - The VC Backing the American Dream with Manan Mehta, Unshackled Ventures (Maggie Nye & Isabelle Johannessen)
• The Vergecast - Does Google even want to win at AI? (Nilay Patel)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Solving integration woes with a hackathon (Phoebe Sajor)
• Generative AI in the Real World: AI for Real Estate with Ben Miller (Ben Lorica & Ben Miller)
• HIT Like a Girl Pod: Empowering Women in Health IT - The $70 Billion Blind Spot: Why Women’s Health is Underfunded and How We Fix It (Rebecca Love, Joy Rios & Grace Vinton)
• The Scrum Master as a Router, Redefining Success Through Efficient Communication | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Wasim Osman)

Community and Events

• Tech Conferences Are Worth It. The Sessions Are Not. (Pinal Dave)
• My MVP Story: Jess Stratton on Sharing, Storytelling, and Lifelong Learning (Betsy Weber)
• Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched! (Ariel Kanter)
• Can social media start over? Bluesky’s CEO and COO deliver their case at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (Morgan Little)

Database

• Cumulative Update #8 for SQL Server 2025 RTM (SrinivasSQL)
• Your best friend: BlockOnPossibleDataLoss=True (Jerry Nixon)
• sqlite-utils 4.2.1 (Simon Willison)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Performance Solutions For DATEDIFF Queries (Erik Darling)
• Running the same SQL checks in a browser, CLI and pull request (Miłosz Kordziński)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• OIDC in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition: Where It Fits and Why It Matters (Liam Cleary)
• Co-create slides with Copilot in PowerPoint for iPad (Aparna Jethani)
• Building Agents for Teams: Managing the noise of collaboration (Lily Du)
• Link to a location in Word for Windows and Mac (Rubba)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.80 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• My perfect email client was there all along (Michael Shpilt)
• Tig’s Toolbox for Product Management (Charlie Kindel)

General

• VLC blames Windows 11 bug for slow performance, defends open source and calls out Microsoft (Abhijith M B)
• Dell XPS 13 Review: Move Over, Neo (Luke Larsen)
• Windows device recovery in 2026: A guide for IT pros (Lia_Vargas)
• Farewell, Mico: Microsoft’s cute little AI blob is going the way of Bob (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 13, 2026 (#845) (Richard Seroter)
• Friday Links #43: What Mattered in JavaScript This Week (JS Dev)

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.

• Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Instructions Hygiene – What Frontier Models Still Need You to Say (Wendy Breiding)
• Introducing Fisher: Sqlite Backed Document Db & Event Store Critter (Jeremy D. Miller)
• From Sync APIs to support for the GPT-5 model series and agentic workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding – August 2026 (Peyton Fraser, Krishnakumar Muthukrishnan & Joe Filcik)
• How to Evaluate an AI IDE in 2026: Features That Matter for Development Teams (Yuvaraj Mohan)
• Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project? (Andrea Griffiths)

Web and Cloud Development

• Add AI to the workflows you already have using Serverless Agents in Azure Functions (Anirudh Garg)
• How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Color Overlay Tool Using JavaScript (Bhavin Sheth)
• Swagger Was A Config File Until We Made It A Format (Kin Lane)
• Astro 7: Rust Compiler, Rust Markdown Pipeline and Vite 8 for Builds Up to 61% Faster (Daniel Curtis)
• GitHub Admin UI + Billing API: Better together for smarter spend decisions (Chris Noring)
• Telerik UI for Blazor TaskBoard for Enterprise Workflows (Dimo Dimov)
• Build an AI-Powered Content Creation App in Blazor Using Structured Prompting [Webinar Show Notes] (Prabhavathi Kannan)

Windows Development

• The comments that go into code versus those that go into the pull request description (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• F# in .NET 11 Preview 7 - Release Notes (.NET Team)
• AS2 in .NET without a separate Java gateway: EDI with trading partners, right inside the route (Kozin Rinat)

AI

• Building MCP servers for your database: Flexibility, safety, and tradeoffs (Pamela Fox)
• Coding agents ignore open source contribution guidelines, researchers find. (Meredith Shubel)
• How kids feel about AI, in their own words (Jen Swetzoff & Keeley McNamara)
• Why use ORMs if LLMs write code? (Mark Seemann)
• Attack Technique: AI Clones (Eric Lawrence)
• Building Autonomous Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework and GitHub Copilot SDK Part 2/5 (Lee Stott)
• AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say? (Jason Gorman)
• AI programming : are you angry yet? (Daniel Lemire)
• MCP Configuration for Looker with Codex (xbill)
• Governing a Risk Operations Agent with the Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and AGT (daisami)
• Building Secure AI Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework and Auth0: RAG Filtering (Andrea Chiarelli)
• Part 3: Building AI Systems That Can Defend Themselves (Liam Cleary)
• Azure Content Understanding GPT-5 Series Guide: Model Selection, Grounding Improvements, and Confidence Enhancements (Joe Filcik & Krishnakumar Muthukrishnan)
• From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work (OpenAI Team)
• The Claude in Chrome side panel is now Claude Cowork (Claude Team)
• Introducing Grok 4.6 (Cursor Team)
• Agentic Reasoning Loops Could Drive a 17x Increase in AI Token Consumption (Dewain Robinson)
• Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work (Jess Weatherbed)
• Top 5 AI Features in IntelliJ IDEA (Anton Arhipov)
• Agent Skills in IntelliJ IDEA (Siva Katamreddy)
• AI Slop: The Literary Offenses of the Machine (Pinal Dave)
• A new security baseline for enterprise agentic adoption (Dan Berezin Stelzer)
• The Two Pillars of Post-training: Reinforcement Learning and Supervised Fine-Tuning (Sharon Zhou)
• Agents Turn Broken Auth Into a Breach at Machine Speed (Kin Lane)

Python

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

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Understanding GitHub Billing and management: from licenses to fair AI credit controls (Chris Noring)
• Why “It Depends” Is the Most Future-Proof Phrase in Software (Neal Ford & Mark Richards)
• Data Analysis Methods: Qualitative vs. Quantitative (Couchbase Team)
• Hiring First. Everything Else Second. (Charlie Kindel)
• “Everything is High Priority” (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• When a Missed Message Becomes a Missed Meal (Samuel Hapgood)

Mobile and Game Development

• Announcing Dart 3.13 (Connie Ooi)
• .NET MAUI v11.0.0 Preview 7 Release (kubaflo)
• Get started with LiteRT on Raspberry Pi (Naush Patuck)
• Shiny.DocumentDb — Hidden Gems and Shiny.DocumentDb v13 — Encryption, an Outbox, and a Front Door (Allan Ritchie)
• Riverpod to BlocSignal: Incremental Migration and Zero-Codegen Signals for Flutter (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Android Is No Longer Open Source (Mike James)
• Enhance your app for the new Pixel lineup: Unveiled at Made by Google (Fahd Imtiaz, Loryn Hairston & Tracy Agyemang)
• Bring one-handed gestures to your Wear OS app (Chiara Chiappini)
• What's new in the Jetpack Compose August '26 release (Nick Butcher)

Screencasts and Videos

• Code it with AI - Claude Utils (ep.41) (Carl Franklin & Rocky Lhotka)
• Grok Bot Finally Makes AI Agents Easy and AI Optimism Has a Trust Problem (AIDailyBrief)
• Will this architecture still make sense when my app 10x’s? Or will I have to rebuild? | One Dev Question (Aditya Badmaraju)
• If I’m a startup founder with limited budget, why should I build this on Azure SQL? | One Dev Question (Priya Sathy)

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 - Word wagons and bobbasheelys: Life at DARE, with Joan Houston Hall (Mignon Fogarty)
• .NET Rocks! - OpenClaw with David Guttman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Weekly Episode #996 - Security Through Lack of Features - MV3 in Edge, Quake Turns 30, & AltTabby (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #366 - You just can’t kill a good JWT (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Made by Google Podcast - From Feature Phones to Gemini: The Evolution of Pixel (Rachid Finge)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #164 - When an Audi Q6 e-tron is the Perfect Replacement for a Rivian R1T (Batteries Included Team)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1029 - The Workflow of the Future With Zed (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• How Agile Teams Can Start Adopting AI in Software Development | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Wasim Osman)
• Big Technology Podcast - Here's How The AI Bubble Bursts (Alex Kantrowitz & Paul Kedrosky)
• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #39 - Reclaiming Fair Use (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• InfoQ Podcast: Cloud and DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2026: AI, Resilience, Platforms, FinOps, and Sovereignty (Daniel Bryant, Matt Saunders, Shweta Vohra, Steef-Jan Wiggers & Mark Silvester)

Community and Events

• Made by Google 2026 (Shakil Barkat)

Database

• Announcing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22.9.0 (mbarickman)
• Building safe MCP servers for your PostgreSQL database (Pamela Fox)
• Launch: T-SQL Analyzer live analysis now in VS Code (Erik EJ)
• Database Animations: Why Higher Maxdop Equals More TempDB Spills (Brent Ozar)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: DATEDIFF Precision (Erik Darling)
• Optimising DAX: Practical Examples (Carmel Eve)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Built for business: How Microsoft 365 Copilot keeps you in the flow of legal work (Caroline Stanford)

Writing

• How To Show Character Change Without Telling (Writers Write)

Tools

• How to use the Power BI Desktop Bridge to automate tasks in Power BI Desktop and GitHub Copilot (John Kerski)
• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2242.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Oracle Wins $7 Billion Pentagon Contract in Major Government Deal (Kieron Allen)
• US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers (BeauHD)
• Exclusive: This is Lenovo’s IdeaPad Vibe, its answer to the MacBook Neo, and it comes in 7 colors (Abhijith M B)
• FEMA's ‘Shadow Administrator’ Was Paid by a DOGE Member's Startup for Months (Vittoria Elliott)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 12, 2026 (#844) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

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

• .NET 11 Preview 7 is now available! (.NET Team)
• Agentic Skills Demystified (Sam Basu)
• MAI-Code-1-Flash Highlights Microsoft’s Lower-Cost Approach to Coding AI (Ali Farhat)
• Today I will… manage Git Submodules without leaving the IDE (Harshada Hole)
• Scott & Mark Learn To...Rethink Authorship (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• TechBash 2026 Labor Day Registration Sale & Party with Palermo Returns (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Azure Developer CLI extension framework is GA: build dev workflows for apps using Azure (Kristen Womack)
• Introducing Shiny.Net.HttpServer — HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 & HTTP/3 Anywhere .NET Runs and Shiny.Net.HttpServer — A Real HTTP Server Where ASP.NET Core Will Not Go (Allan Ritchie)
• Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie (Alexey Kopytin)
• Exploring Procedural Geometry with Three.js and WebGPU (Chiro Visuals)
• Updated W3C Recommendation: ARIA in HTML (W3C)
• Understanding Race Conditions in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
• Dialog API vs Popover API: Which One Should You Actually Use? (Manikanda Akash Munisamy)
• Microsoft Entra ID Token Protection (Liam Cleary)

Windows Development

• Remove and Package Lifetime (Howard Kapustein)
• What’s New in vcpkg (Jul 2026) (Augustin Popa)
• Dynamic Sound on Windows and Linux (Pi)::Part 1 (Joel Ivory Johnson)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2026 August Update v18.9.0 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 August Insiders Update Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Human-Friendly Encoding with Crockford Base32 (David McCarter)
• Visual Studio Code 1.134 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• NLog Performance: AsyncWrapper, Buffering, and High-Throughput Logging in .NET (Nick Cosentino)
• .NET 8.0.30 / 8.0.130 Release and .NET 10.0.11 / 10.0.400 Release (dotnet-sb-bot)
• .NET 11 Preview 7 Release Notes (Jon Galloway)
• ILSpy 11.0 Release (Christoph Wille)
• Learning to Program in NET in an AI World (David Ramel)
• .NET and .NET Framework August 2026 servicing releases updates (Rahul Bhandari & Tara Overfield)

AI

• From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer (Natalie Guevara)
• Configuration Management in Microsoft Agent Framework (Jesse Liberty)
• Latency vs. Tokens: What I Learned Optimizing an Agent with Gemma (and What Didn't Work) (leslysandra)
• How MVPs Use AI - Loop engineering: Building safer AI agent workflows for high-stakes infrastructure (Kim Sanchez)
• How to check if your model is supported by vLLM in Red Hat AI (Trevor Royer)
• AI has limits, even if many AI people can't see them (Henry Farrell)
• Tech Career Library in the Age of AI eBook Bundle | Apress (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering (Cameron Balahan & Richard Seroter)
• Querying the Postman Context Graph with the AI Engineer (Talia Kohan)
• OpenAI Brings ChatGPT and Codex to Linux (Paul Thurrott)
• Tunability: Microsoft, GitHub Put More Dials on AI Dev Tools (David Ramel)
• Compliance API coverage extends to Claude Cowork and Claude Code (Claude Team)
• Expanding the Google AI Professional Certificate with vibe coding (Lisa Gevelber)
• I’ve Been Brainstorming Durable AI for InterlinedList, and It Kept Pointing at Temporal (Adron Hall)
• The AI takeover of mathematics has begun (Robert Hart)
• A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts (Will Knight)
• Design End-to-End Claude AI Architectures: CCAR-P Exam Guide (Sudhir Mangla)
• Validating AI-Generated Index Recommendations (Pinal Dave)
• From Threat Model to Framework: Closing the Real Gaps in Agent Skill Security (Karthigayan Devan)
• A Home for Personal Context (Duncan Davidson)
• OAuth for Agents (Maisem Ali)

Python

• TBD

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value? (Martin Fowler)
• August Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
• Unit Testing in BlocSignal: The Practical Handbook (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Progressive Admission - pattern for data processing (Tim Ottinger)
• The Bottleneck Moved. Your Operating Model Hasn’t. (John Greisner)

Mobile and Game Development

• Media3 1.11 - What's new? (Toni Heidenreich)
• Celebrating the community: Douglas and Oasis Mathare (Sophie Ashford)
• Mastering edge AI on Raspberry Pi with LiteRT and Gemma (Naush Patuck)

Screencasts and Videos

• Stop Rewriting Into Microservices — Do This Instead | Update Talk (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET Community Standup: What's new in .NET 11 Preview 7? (Daniel Roth, Javier Calvarro Nelson & Daria Tiurina)
• 41 Stats About AI Adoption (AIDailyBrief)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Brady Gaster (Isaac Levin)
• Automate recurring developer tasks with the GitHub Copilot app | Tutorial for beginners (GitHub Team)
• New ways to promote App Store apps and more… - Developer news 32/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• Unconventional Thinkers: The Hidden Catalysts Driving the AI Revolution and Unlocking the Power of Context Engineering for Smarter AI Agents (Frank La Vigne)
• It's like 10,000 streams when what you need is a queue | NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Chris Simon)

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

• Kubernetes Podcast from Google - Measuring Sustainability via Project Kepler, with Niki Manoledaki (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #491 - Feeling Judged (Michael Kennedy)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1037 - Mechanical Donut - OpenAI Responds to Apple's Lawsuit (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• RunAs Radio Show #1049 - The Content Management System Landscape with Matt Garrepy (Richard Campbell)
• Mailin' It! - The Official USPS Podcast - The Gold Rush, Railroads & the Mail: Connecting the Frontier (United States Postal Service)
• When a Scrum Team's Silence Becomes a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Wasim Osman)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - Why does ‘shh’ mean the same thing in so many languages, and what's ‘broad’ about daylight? (Mignon Fogarty)

Community and Events

• The full story of PASS Data Community Summit: 25 years of connect, share, and learn (Simple Talk Team)
• Syncfusion 25th Anniversary Content Roundup: Celebrating a Quarter Century of Innovation (Colette Davis)
• Made by Google 2026: all the Pixel news and announcements (Emma Roth)

Database

• When Do You Reach For A #temp Table? (Marlon Ribunal)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.9.0 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables (Steve Jones)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Turn meetings into momentum with Microsoft 365 Copilot (Meera Ajam)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Preventing Quota Crashes via Antigravity CLI Agent Hooks (Tanaike)
• Proton Drive CLI Updated for Businesses (Paul Thurrott)

Tools

• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2222.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Extending Home Assistant: Custom Integration and Home Assistant: Adding PKCE support (Stephan van Rooij)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.9.7 Release (OneBlue)

General

• I tested Windows 11 August 2026 update, here’s everything new, improved, and fixed (Abhijith M B)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 11, 2026 (#843) (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.

• Building Bookmark Studio: bookmarks that belong to the codebase (Mads Kristensen)
• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2211.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• GitHub Admin UI + Billing API: Better together for smarter spend decisions (Chris Noring)
• Jimmy Bogard: AI-Driven Development - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #414 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• JetBrains .NET Day Online 2026: Save the Date and Submit a Talk (Mehul Harry)
• Intelligent Terminal 0.2 is here with local model support (Hamza Usmani)

Web and Cloud Development

• Animating CSS border-image (Preethi)
• Building an AI-Powered Incident Triage Agent with .NET Aspire (Muhammad Asif Nawaz)
• I Enabled RBAC and Everything Broke. What Did I Do Wrong? (Sudhanshu Khera & Iria Osara)
• Chrome DevTools Connect for WebStorm: Your AI agent can now interact with the browser (Valeriya Masyachenko)
• A simpler way to deploy ZIP packages to Azure App Service from the Azure portal (Tulika C.)
• React Compiler Explained: Do You Still Need useMemo, useCallback, and React.memo? (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)
• CloudFlare Previews Automatic WebMCP Support for Web Pages (Sergio De Simone)
• Security Is a Spectrum: How to Choose Session Lifetimes in Duende IdentityServer (Khalid Abuhakmeh & Maarten Balliauw)

Windows Development

• How can I perform a Copy­File&shy in unbuffered mode? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Keyed Services (Named registrations) in .NET Service Provider (Maarten Balliauw)
• .NET Tools Stop Working When You Upgrade .NET (John Smith)
• 🚀s build our own Claw, live s build our own Claw, live in C# (Bruno Capuano)
• Snapshot testing in .NET with Meziantou.Framework.SnapshotTesting (Gérald Barré)
• Stop updating NuGet packages on every project (David Grace)

AI

• We gave AI the work people used to learn from (Julie Yack)
• No, local models will not win (Sean Goedecke)
• Run Muse Glimmer locally (LM Studio Team)
• Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java (Edward Burns)
• Why the GitHub Copilot app became my daily driver (AJ Bajada)
• Solving bugs with elmah.io and Claude Code - a real-life example (Thomas Ardal)
• Introducing Microsoft IQ Live: A New Biweekly Series for Developers (Ayca Bas)
• Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a YouTube Analytics Agent with Vicki Reyzelman (Michelle Smith)
• OpenAI built a model it doesn’t want most people to use (Amanda Caswell)
• AI Evaluation Engineering: Build a Production-Grade LLM Evaluation Platform from Scratch [Full Handbook] (Ayobami Adejumo)
• Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale (Antonio Tiene, Iker García-Ferrero, Ali Hashemi & Bakbergen Ryskulov)
• AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research (Grace Huckins)
• Linus Torvalds calls AI code review the new normal as Linux 7.2 nears release (Marcus Pruitt)
• Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS (Maryam Motamedi, Mikyas Desta, Jason Li & Jason Roche)
• Part 2: Advanced AI Jailbreak Techniques and Real-World Attack Scenarios (Liam Cleary)
• How to build an AI agent: A simple guide for anyone (Samantha Kubota)
• AI Model Drift: How to Keep Models Reliable (Dan Juengst)
• Your AI Bill Will Be Your Cloud Bill on Steroids and Markdown Became the Control Plane for AI (Kin Lane)
• AI for science needs reasoning, not just data (Eric Schmidt & Suhas Mahesh)
• Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source (Pedro Cuenca, Merve, Ben Burtenshaw & Aritra Roy Gosthipaty)
• The Base Is Under Attack (Tim O'Brien)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Docker snapshot tags aren't as static as I thought (Bart Wullems)
• Performance Testing in the Cloud with Postman: What We Built (Arvind Khadri)
• A Security-Critical Project Where I Don't Read the Code (Aaron Stannard)
• That Gap Is Still Widening, But The Bottleneck Was Never Engineering (Adron Hall)
• Am I neglecting my open source projects? (Zach Leatherman)
• Agile Leadership (Dave Ogle)
• Vertical slices, their ownership and external dependencies (Oskar Dudycz)
• End-to-end Kubernetes deployments with the Octopus Deploy MCP server (Kostis Kapelonis)

Mobile and Game Development

• Building an Onboarding and Registration UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Robotics and Electronics: From Beginner to Expert Apress eBook Bundle (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Embed Account Security Management in Your Android App with Auth0 Universal Native Components (Juan Quintero & Carla Urrea Stabile)
• Curiously minty Raspberry Pi Zero cyberdeck (Andrew Gregory)
• Flutter Frontend Systems Design: How to Think Like a Senior Engineer in the AI Age (Jesutoni Aderibigbe)
• The first rival Android app store just arrived in the US Play Store (Dominic Preston)
• Cordova: File Transfer Plugin 2.0.1 Released! (Manuel Beck)

Screencasts and Videos

• The Design Systems Graveyard | NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Kristoffer Nordström)
• Live Tiles and Gunnar | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• What the Heck is Graph Engineering? (AIDailyBrief)
• Intelligent Terminal 0.2 is here! (Michael Jolley)
• From “Trust Me” to “Verify Me” | NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Tom van den Berg)
• ZoomIt for Mac: Ultimate Presentation Enhancement Tool (James Montemagno)
• Managing Licenses in GitHub Enterprise for Visual Studio subscriptions (Visual Studio Team)
• How Anthropic uses Claude Code: Agentic Software Engineering at Scale | NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Daisy Hollman)
• How to build stacked PRs with the gh-stack skill (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

• Syntax Podcast Episode #1028 - Cloudflare Wallets (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #558 - Hyper-Personal Software with Python (Michael Kennedy)
• SQL Server Radio Episode #190 - SQL Server 2025 gains RDS but loses Web (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
• Meta Cast - 10 Leadership Habits Most Managers Skip (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• From Finance to Scrum Master, a Deliberate Career Pivot | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Wasim Osman)
• Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #136 - Green Software: Building More Sustainable Systems - with Wilco Burggraaf (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
• Merge Conflict Episode #527 - AI Agents Meet Mobile: GitHub Copilot Canvas Revolution (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Your tokenmaxxing is not valuemaxxing​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌‍​​​​‌​​​‌​‍​​‍‌​​​​‌‌‌‍‌‌​‍​​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‍​​‍​‍​​‍‌​‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‌​​‌​‍‌‌‍​​‌​​‌​​‍​‌‍​​​‌​​‍​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌‍​​​​‌​​​‌​‍​​‍‌​​​​‌‌‌‍‌‌​‍​​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‍​​‍​‍​​‍‌​‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‌​​‌​‍‌‌‍​​‌​​‌​​‍​‌‍​​​‌​​‍​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌ (Phoebe Sajor)
• Cloud Security Podcast by Google Episode #290 - Project Atlas: Wiz's AI Vulnerability Research (Google)

Community and Events

• Rebuilding communities (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Gates Foundation gives $540 million to UW health institute, the largest gift in university history (Todd Bishop)
• Bluesky now lets you hide reposts from that annoying person you follow (Jay Peters)
• Where I’m Writing Now: The Complete 14-Part BlocSignal Series on DEV.to (Randal L. Schwartz)

Database

• Build Locally, Ship to Cloud for $0: Azure SQL for Modern App Developers (Vandana Mahtani & Andrew Carter)
• MSDB attack paths: how to secure SQL Server Agent, triggers, and restores (Fabiano Amorim)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.79 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• 7 Reasons Introverts Make Great Writers (Writers Write)

Tools

• Paint.NET 5.2 Alpha (build 9719) (Rick Brewster)
• Home Assistant: does it Matter? (Stephan van Rooij)

General

• Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer's (BeauHD)
• Blazingly Fast or Blazingly Hyped? A Reality Check on Rewriting in Rust (Irina Mihajlovic)
• Will AI Data Centers Overwhelm the Power Grid? What US Grid Data Shows (TechRepublic Staff)
• Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses (Emma Roth)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 10, 2026 (#842) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and more (August 10, 2026) (Channy Yun)
• Reading Notes #710 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor (Jimmy Engström) - Referral Link A practical guide to building interactive UIs with C# 14 and .NET 10.

• Multi-Language Support for Cross-Platform .NET (Sam Basu)
• How to keep thinking (Sean Goedecke)
• 7 Powerful Ways to Automate PowerPoint Generation in C# (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
• Implement BFF using Auth0, Angular and ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
• ZoomIt for Mac: How AI Ported a 20+ Year-Old Windows Tool (Mark Russinovich)
• Moving the Microsoft Edge extensions ecosystem forward with Manifest Version 3 (Microsoft Edge Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• 20 Modern JavaScript Tricks for Cleaner Everyday Code (JS Dev)
• Using and Styling the Dialog Element (Geoff Graham)
• How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript (Jad Joubran)
• Profile-guided optimization in Go (Daniel Lemire)
• React Router v8 in Action: Lazy Loading and Nested Routes (React Systems Newsletter)
• OAuth 2.0 explained without code (IdentitySuite Team)

Windows Development

• Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 5 (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• .NET Threads: The Performance Trap Hiding in Your Code (David McCarter)
• Persisting a Rich Domain Model With EF Core (Milan Jovanović)
• A real local database in Blazor WebAssembly and MAUI: no EF DbContext, no Include, no migrations (Kozin Rinat)

AI

• Remote control: steering your AI coding session from your phone (Bart Wullems)
• Understanding the OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications (Liam Cleary)
• AI coding got faster. Why didn’t engineering? (Jennifer Riggins)
• Advanced AI sycophancy (Sean Goedecke)
• Detecting AI and ChatClient Middleware vs. Agent Middleware (Jesse Liberty)
• Microsoft Agent Framework: The Complete Series (Jamie Maguire)
• AI and Me - Issue 2026.3 (Scott Watermasysk)
• AI alignment is a red herring (Matt Webb)
• OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it's supposedly too powerful (Jay Peters)
• TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back? (Kyle Wiggers)
• Microsoft Foundry Tool Search: Your Agent Pays a Tax on Every Tool It Never Calls (Jubin Soni & FBCS)
• GitHub Models is now retired and Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) and The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI (Simon Willison)
• Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (OpenAI Team)
• Meta’s new coding agent is cheap (but it’ll cost you your data). (Meredith Shubel)
• Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans and Running auto mode in production (Claude Team)
• Microsoft Hits 40 Million AI Agents: What It Means for Enterprise AI (Dewain Robinson)
• Microsoft and Tech Leaders Push Back on Restrictions for Open-Weight AI Models (Kieron Allen)
• Suno Says It Will Start Watermarking Songs (BeauHD)

Python

• Python, Rust, and Data eBook Bundle | O'Reilly (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Building API Reference Documentation From Code, Part 1: The Pipeline (Matthew Adams)
• A Better Fire Alarm Is Still a Fire (Pinal Dave)
• The New Technical Debt (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Why Every Pull Request Should Include a Test Review (Eli Lopian)

Mobile and Game Development

• How saturated is X genre? Don't let AI atrophy your skills! (Code Monkey)
• AI on the Pi: Build Your Own Local Voice Agent (Pete Warden)

Screencasts and Videos

• Coding ALL NIGHT LONG - Building DayFrame | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Random.Code() - Adding Union Support to CslaGeneratorSerialization - Part 9 and Part 10 (Jason Bock)
• How Google's AI Leaders Leaving Could Lead to Better AI Models for You (AIDailyBrief)
• This Week in AI: Who Controls AI? (Michelle Smith)
• Iot Coffee Talk: Episode 325 - Agentic Accountability (Who is on the hook for bad AI behavior?) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Embracing the Complexity: Code for People, AI, and The Future of Software Integrity (Frank La Vigne)
• Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK) (Microsoft Quantum Team)
• The Download: Stacked PRs on GitHub, an escaped AI model, and pixel art NYC (Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza)
• Everything a .NET developer needs to know about configuration & secret management | NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Sander ten Brinke)

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

• CppCast - From Self Taught to Committee Member's First Accepted Paper (Jason Turner & Mathieu Ropert)
• Lenny's Podcast - The playbook for building high talent density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Big Technology Podcast - Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick (Alex Kantrowitz)
• PPP 518 | Why Better AI Prompts Aren't Enough for Better Decisions, with author Cheryl Strauss Einhorn (Andy Kaufman)
• React Native Radio Episode #369 - RNR Explains: AppRegistry (Robin Heinze & Tyler Williams)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #282 - Why does anyone use Crossplane? (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #163 - Ford’s $28,350 Electric Truck Is Real: Meet the Ford Fathom (Batteries Included Team)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #306 - Programmatically Developing LLM Prompts With DSPy (Christopher Bailey & Brett Kennedy)
• Hard Fork Podcast - The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• From “Scrum Master Is the Secretary” to True Co-Leadership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Havva Sevay)

Community and Events

• Reflections on Ai4 conference - some absences from a tech writer's POV (Tom Johnson)
• Job listings for week ending 8/7 and Call For Papers Listings for 8/7 (Leon Adato)

Database

• How to ensure replication stability in PostgreSQL (fix/prevent lag, bloat, and bottlenecks) (Lukas Vileikis)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• INFO: Copilot Analytics Labs – Tools for measuring usage & adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot (Kurt Shintaku)

Writing

• What Is A Magic System? 7 Ways To Create A Spectacular Magic System For Your Novel (Writers Write)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.2.4 (Files Team)
• Real accurate gears for Figma! (Joseph Finney)

General

• Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta ‘Photos’ App on Enterprise Machines (EditorDavid)
• An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country (Terrence O’Brien)
• Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms (Tim De Chant)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest: .NET 11 performance edition (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 2, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Android Weekly Issue #739 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #574 - 9th August 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #32, 2026 — FSharp.Data 8.2.0, Mibo 4.0, and F# MCP Ecosystem Grows (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – August 7, 2026 (#841) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Real-World Web Development with .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Build websites and services using mature and proven ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API, and Umbraco CMS.

• Control iOS and Android Emulators Inside GitHub Copilot app Canvas (James Montemagno)
• Test reporting in Microsoft.Testing.Platform: from red build to root cause (Amaury Levé)
• Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users (OpenAI Team)
• Announcing the preview of the Work IQ Developer Tools (Sébastien Levert)
• The Ultimate .NET Workflow for Cursor, Antigravity, and AI-First Editors (Isaac Levin)
• Native AOT in Uno Platform: faster startup on five platforms (Matt Mattei)

Web and Cloud Development

• Passkeys and WebAuthn with Duende IdentityServer and User Management (Maarten Balliauw)
• Securing the Autonomous Engineer: Postman’s Approach to API Security in the Agentic AI Era (Tara Wyman)
• Astro 7.2 Release (Matthew Phillips)
• Making navigations instant in v0 (Jude Gao)
• Build React, Angular, and Vue Applications Faster with Syncfusion CLI (Piramanayagam Ramakrishnan)
• Entra ID Protection – User Risk with Unified Identity Signals from Defender is here! (Michael Morten Sonne)
• Figma Connect for WebStorm: Stage One of a Better Design-to-Code Experience (Valeriya Masyachenko)
• Adopting the Cross App Access Protocol: Get Ready for MCP Enterprise-Managed Authorization with Auth0 (David Lozano & Tracy Toth)
• Dark mode toggles: two states are enough (Lea Verou)

Windows Development

• Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 4 (Raymond Chen)
• Windows Package Manager 1.30.90-preview Release (hackean-msft)
• SideKick - A Windows worker application that renders a configurable dashboard to a Waveshare e-paper display through an FT232H USB adapter (Morten Nielsen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• How to Build Headless .NET Apps with ComponentOne Data Services (Greg Lutz)
• 8 .NET Obfuscators Compared for 2026 (Michelle Pruitt)
• Modern C# URI Handling: Absolute, Relative, Query & Fragment URLs (Sebastian Nilsson)

AI

• Introducing Project Manager in Code Studio: Structured AI Development (Yuvaraj Mohan)
• Take back-to-school tasks off your plate with Microsoft Copilot (amaguire)
• Bring your organization’s data into Excel with new Copilot synced connectors (jokahati)
• Microsoft Foundry's New Model Wave (Christian Coello)
• GPT-5.6 Sol just got better in one place and stayed the same everywhere else (Amanda Caswell)
• Writing Effective Copilot Instructions for Complex Codebases (Matthew Adams)
• A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app (Jacklyn Carroll)
• AI, ML, and Decision Engines eBook Bundle | The Pragmatic Programmers (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• GPT-5.6 Sol Ascends for Token Efficiency; How Does It Stack Up Against Other Models? and VS Code Agent Plugins Go Cross-Client with New Open Standard (David Ramel)
• Designing AI Agents That Can Self-Correct (Shittu Olumide)
• Microsoft expands AI model choice for startups (sbaynes)
• What OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Rollout Can Teach Beginners About Choosing AI Model Effort for AI App Builds (Marcus Kim)
• We Usually Blame the AI Model, But the Harness Is What Breaks Production (Ivan Pelivanovic)
• Your AI Agent Isn’t a Static Artifact. It’s Growing Up. (Wendi Soto)
• AI UX Patterns for User Clarity (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• Agent Plugins package your skills, tools, and more (Kevin Hou, Haoyu Wang & Alan Blount)
• Anthropic recommends a git worktree per agent. Your runtime infra makes that a problem. (Arjun Iyer)
• They Finished the AI Training. Eleven Days Later, the Job Was Gone (Pinal Dave)
• How Cursor Router chooses the right model for the task (Cursor Team)
• How to accelerate agentic adoption (Simon Sear)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Pull request annotations on work item cards (Dan Hellem)
• Octopus Easy Mode - Progressive Rollout (Matthew Casperson)
• Enabling diagnostics in a YAML pipeline in Azure DevOps (Bart Wullems)
• How we took malware advisories beyond npm (Ankit Kumar Honey)
• The End of No Code (Philip Zeyliger)
• GitHub Merge, Rebase, Squash or Fast Forward (Lino Tadros)
• A Software Factory Is a Workflow, Not a Product. Build One in 20 Minutes. (Victor Savkin)
• Decoupling in Software Architecture Moves Complexity (Derek Comartin)
• How to Harden GitHub Actions Permissions with Least Privilege by Default (Ilyas Rufai)

Mobile and Game Development

• Promptfall - A modern browser platformer for learning the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications (Steve Wilson)
• Uno Platform 6.6 Adds Native AOT, Vulkan Rendering, and Broader Accessibility Support (Edin Kapić)
• Inside Android Skills - Built for deprecation (Jose Alcérreca)
• Build a Raspberry Pi Pico route finder using Dijkstra’s algorithm (Rob Miles)

Screencasts and Videos

• Deploying Aspire Apps to Azure App Service for Linux | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Tulika Chaudharie)
• GitHub and Live Tiles | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Convert ScriptableObjects to Runtime Assets | Game Systems Explained (Stacey Haffner)
• Getting Started with the Visual Studio Subscriber Portal (Visual Studio Team)
• Get Started with FREE Azure SQL Managed Instance | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Strahinja Rodic)
• How to create, review, and merge stacked PRs on GitHub | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths)
• Random.Code() - Adding Union Support to CslaGeneratorSerialization - Part 8 (Jason Bock)
• Why the Data Center Debate Has Little to Do with AI (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

• A Geek Leader Episode #481 - Rob Snyder and The Power of PULL (John Rouda)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #584 - It’s All God Throwing Dice (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Success Is Feedback, Not Metrics—And the Power of Standing in Someone Else's Shoes | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - How to be fearlessly AI native​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍​‌‍‌​​‌‍‌‍‌​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌​‍​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‌​​​‍​‌​​​​‍‌​‍​‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‌​​‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​‌‌‌‍​‍​​​‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​​​​‌​​‌​​​‌​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍​‌‍‌​​‌‍‌‍‌​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌​‍​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‌​​​‍​‌​​​​‍‌​‍​‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‌​​‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​‌‌‌‍​‍​​​‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​​​​‌​​‌​​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍ (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Microsoft 2.5: How EVP Charles Lamanna is helping turn Microsoft into the ‘Copilot company’ (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Global Hackathon 2026: Where MVP and RD Community Expertise Meets Innovation (Alice Piras)
• Last Chance: 42 Things to Do Before the End of Summer in Philly (Visit Philly)

Database

• Get started faster in the PostgreSQL extension for VS Code (Jane Yoon)
• From 20+ seconds to 2 - faster SQL Database Project .dacpac deployments are finally here (preview) (Erik EJ)
• Database Animations: Why Big Columns May Not Affect Logical Reads (Brent Ozar)
• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Where Things Are And Where Things Are Going (Erik Darling)
• TimescaleDB Support within Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• What's New in Copilot in SharePoint: August 2026 (Julie Seto)

Writing

• What Is A Synopsis? How To Write A One-Page Synopsis (With Examples) (Writers Write)
• Simon Willison on Technical Blogging (Simon Willison)

General

• Ford’s new electric truck, ‘Fathom’, starts at $28,350 (Sean O'Kane)
• OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 (Lucas Ropek)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 6, 2026 (#840) (Richard Seroter)

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.

• 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.