Top Links
- Many agents, one team: Scaling modernization on Azure (Jeremy Winter)
- Refactoring the heart of PowerToys from C++ to C# (Noraa Junker)
- How VS Code Builds with AI (Pierce Boggan)
- Windows App SDK Version 2.0 Experimental 6 (2.0.0-Experimental6) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- What’s New in Agent Skills: Code Skills, Script Execution, and Approval for Python (Sergey Menshykh)
- The Avalonia WebView Is Going Open-Source (Steven Kirk)
- Cross-Platform Layout Bugs: Runtime Inspection Beats Guessing (Matt Mattei)
Web and Cloud Development
- GraphLens v0.3.0 Release (Dmitry Kostyuk)
- Overview of Azure Workload Modernization (Orin Thomas)
- htmxRazor v1.3.0: Data Table, Accessibility, and Modern CSS (Chris Woodruff)
- Dapper in Depth with ASP.NET Core 10 (Soumyadip Majumder)
- Why HTML to PDF Conversion is Often the Wrong Choice for Business Documents in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
- Code Blocks in Blazor Rich Text Editor: Setup and Best Practices (Saravanan G.)
- Duende Patch Releases: Addressing CVE-2026-26127 in Microsoft.BCL.Memory (Damian Hickey)
- 5 Enterprise Use Cases for Real-Time Collaboration in JavaScript Spreadsheet Apps (Chris Bannon)
- I wrote an amazing React Book (Gabriel-Ionut Enache)
- Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API (Joe Attardi)
Windows Development
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 2.0.0-experimental6 Release (NuGet Gallery)
- Windows stack limit checking retrospective: MIPS (Raymond Chen)
- Microsoft Hasn’t Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold (Jeffrey Snover)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for Canary Channel 29550.1000 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1737 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8068 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.8062 (Beta Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- How to Seed Data to EF Core (Ricardo Peres)
- C# class types explained with examples (David Grace)
- Building a Remote MCP Server with .NET: Resources, and VS Code Integration (Gora Leye)
- Decorator Design Pattern in C#: Complete Guide with Examples (Nick Cosentino)
- How to Create Fillable PDF Forms in C# for Server-Side .NET Apps (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
- Regular Expression Performance: Supercharge Your Match Counting (David McCarter)
- records ToString and inheritence (Steven Giesel)
- AutoMapper 16.1.1 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
- CoreSync – A .NET library that provides data synchronization between databases (Adolfo Marinucci)
AI
- Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI (Tim O’Reilly)
- JetBrains Air Quick start (JetBrains Air Docs)
- Spec-Driven Development with AI Using SpecKit in Syncfusion Code Studio (Yuvaraj Mohan)
- If AI Writes the Code, Who Builds the Next Open Source Project? (Colin Eberhardt)
- Beginners guide to vibe coding (Jessica Wachtel)
- Paperclip – Open-source orchestration for zero-human companies (Paperclip Team)
- Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP (Sebastian Benz & Alex Rudenko)
- Microsoft Is 6 Months Away from an AI Powerhouse. Here’s Why That Matters for Healthcare (Paul J. Swider)
- AI Agent Governance Toolkit — Policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution sandboxing, and reliability engineering for autonomous AI agents (Microsoft)
- A retrospection on an AI task (Jeroen Vannevel)
- Will AI Bring ‘the End of Computer Programming As We Know It’? (EditorDavid)
- Why AI systems are failing in familiar ways (Steve Fenton)
- AI Won’t Replace Developers, But It Will Redefine Us (Simon Foster)
- AI Isn’t the Thing. It Gets You to the Thing. (Chris Pietschmann)
- 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (Claude Team)
- Microsoft Copilot Studio Case Study Shows 61% Faster AI Support With Multi-Agent Architecture (Kieron Allen)
- How to Run Claude Code with Docker: Local Models, MCP Servers, and Secure Sandboxes (Yiwen Xu)
- From Prompt Engineering to AI Programming: Building Enterprise-Ready Generative AI Solutions (James Broome)
- The Oil and Water Moment in AI Architecture (Shweta Vohra)
- Evaluating Claude’s dbt Skills: Building an Eval from Scratch (Robin Moffatt)
- Why physical AI is becoming manufacturing’s next advantage (Microsoft & NVIDIA)
- Vibe Coding Enterprise Data Apps with Replit and Databricks (Replit Team)
- What is agentic engineering? (Simon Willison)
- How I Use Audio Notes and the Microsoft Agent Framework to Save Hours Each Week (Jamie Maguire)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Introducing the Jenkins Plugin of the Month (Stefan Spieker)
- Secure Agent Execution with NanoClaw and Docker Sandboxes (Jin Kim)
- Capability Architecture for AI-Native Engineering (Juliette van der Laarse)
- Digital Workers Are Changing the Future of Work—And I am Experiencing It Firsthand (Vesa Nopanen)
- Call for Testing: Build Dir Layout v2 (Ed Page)
- Full Circle Development (Rocky Lhotka)
- Developer Relations Activity Patterns (David Neal)
- March Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
- Stop Learning. Create Your Way to Success (Chris Pietschmann)
- Behavioural Inference: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Probabilistic Systems (Scott Galloway)
Mobile and Game Development
- Kotlin 2.3.20 Released (Sarah Haggarty)
- The State of the Game Dev Industry (Code Monkey)
- How a Raspberry Pi Saved the Super Nintendo’s Infamously Inferior Version Of ‘Doom’ (EditorDavid)
- Room 3.0 – Modernizing the Room (Daniel Santiago Rivera)
Screencasts and Videos
- Random.Code() – General Refactorings in Rocks, Part 5 (Jason Bock)
- AI Agents Get Their Own Credit Cards and The 16 Coolest Agents I’ve Built So Far and The Social Network for Agents Just Got Acquired and Pro Worker AI (AIDailyBrief)
- Giving a robot dog a personality using GitHub Copilot (April Gittens)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 304 – Old Wrinkled Brains (The Secret to Staving off the AI Apocalypse) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Custom Instructions vs Custom Agents vs Agent Skills (Explained) (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Building Computer Use Agents (CUA) | AI Agents for Beginners (Korey Stegared-Pace)
- How is hardware reshaping LLM design? (Frank La Vigne)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Meta Cast – Why Technical Leaders Undersell Themselves and How to Stop (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Daniel Ward: AI Agents – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #393 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- VS Code Insiders Podcast #20 – Autopilot Mode with Justin Chen (James Montemagno)
- Merge Conflict Episode #506 – We have no skills (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Getting better at networking | Adventures in DevOps Episode #265 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- Lenny’s Podcast – The tactical playbook for getting 20-40% more comp (without sounding greedy) | Jacob Warwick (Executive Negotiator) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Big Technology Podcast – AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Talk Python to Me #540 – Modern Python monorepo with uv and prek (Michael Kennedy)
- AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Gina Montgomery on Designing Trusted Copilot, Agent Experiences (Giuseppe Ianni)
- Meta Tech Podcast Episode #83 – Patch Me If You Can: AI Codemods for Secure-by-Default Android Apps (Pascal Hartig)
- AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #018 – AI and the Creative Industries (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #287 – Crafting and Editing In-Depth Tutorials at Real Python (Christopher Bailey, Brenda Weleschuk, Philipp Acsany & Martin Breuss)
- Product Owner Anti-Patterns, From Team Owner to Product Owner, And The PO Who Got It Right | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and BONUS The Human Architect Still Matters—AI-Assisted Coding for Production-Grade Software With Ran Aroussi | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
- Hard Fork Podcast – A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #510 – AI and Your Career w/ Aaron Francis (Taylor Desseyn)
- A Geek Leader Episode #460 – Joe Evangelisti (John Rouda)
- Women in Technology Podcast Episode #59 = Curiosity as a Superpower: Inside the Mind of a Solution Architect, OR Designing with Purpose: Leadership Through the Customer Lens, OR Tech with Intention-Designing Solutions That Matter (WiT Team)
- freeCode Camp Podcast #211 – How to Land Freelance Clients with Small Business Whisperer Luke Ciciliano (Developer Interview) (Beau Carnes)
Community and Events
- Meta Plans Sweeping Layoffs As AI Costs Mount (BeauHD)
- Meta reportedly considering layoffs that could affect 20% of the company (Anthony Ha)
- Taylor Soper named director of Seattle’s AI House after remarkable run at GeekWire (Todd Bishop)
- Rock Your Career: The Recruiter Survival Guide for Software Engineers – How to Use Recruiters Without Getting Used (David McCarter)
- Women+ in Open Source Day: Community and Code at Snowflake (Liz Acosta)
- Apple hosts 50th anniversary celebrations around the world (Apple)
- ID@Xbox at GDC 2026: Indie Developers at the Heart of Great Games (Mike Nelson)
- Google Cloud’s Agentic Moment in Healthcare Is Real. I Saw It at HIMSS26. (Paul J. Swider)
- Job listings for week ending 3/13 and Call For Papers Listings for 3/13 (Leon Adato)
- Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools (Sarah Perez)
- AI Agents Conference 2026 (C# Corner Team)
Database
- Calculate Rolling Average with SQL DATE_BUCKET Function (Koen Verbeeck)
- Fixing SQL Server 2025 LocalDB in Visual Studio 2026: Enabling REGEXP and VECTOR Support (Erik EJ)
- Use SSIS Framework Manager to Build an SSIS Application (Andy Leonard)
- Why the cloud is not a disaster recovery strategy for your critical databases (Umair Shahid)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: Generating Chunks (Erik Darling)
- Validation Options in Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Datalore 2026.1: New Data Explorer Cells, Instance-Wide BYOK for AI, Stronger Security via Sidecar Containers in Kubernetes, and More (Vlad Ivoninskii)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Copilot Cowork: A new way of getting work done (Charles Lamanna)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Azure Developer CLI (azd): Debug hosted AI agents from your terminal (PuiChee (PC) Chan)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.5 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- About plugins for GitHub Copilot CLI and GitHub Copilot CLI programmatic reference – Find options for running Copilot CLI programmatically (GitHub Docs)
- Copilot Memory: onboarding + session memory plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI (Rishabh Thosani)
- Keeping The Streak: Just Under The Wire. Something, Something, Error Handling. (Nathan Ziehnert)
- Gemini CLI v0.33.0: Introducing Plan Mode for Safer, Smarter Gemini CLI (Srinath Padmanabhan)
Writing
- What Is A Character Flaw? 123 Ideas For Character Flaws and All About Betrayal In Fiction (Writers Write)
Tools
- Microsoft Edge feels more like Copilot than a browser now, but some AI features can be turned off (Mayank Parmar)
- InterlinedList Is Live: Lists, Posts, and Markdown Finally in One Place (Adron Hall)
- Sunsetting Code With Me (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
General
- 2026’s EV Sales Hit 1.1M – But Europe Surges While North America Slides (EditorDavid)
- Spotify will let you edit your Taste Profile to control your recommendations (Sarah Perez)
- Live Nation Execs Brag About ‘Robbing’ Ticket Buyers In Slack DMs (BeauHD)
- The New Chevy Bolt Charges Quicker Than GM’s Pricier EVs. It’s More Proof That Voltage Matters (Mack Hogan)
More Link Collections
- C# Digest #599: Messaging in .NET: Queues and topics (Jakub Chodounsky)
- Android Weekly Issue #718 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
- Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 8, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
- Azure Weekly #555 – 15th March 2026 (The Editor)
- F# Weekly #11, 2026 – F# in .NET 11 Preview 2 (Sergey Tihon)
- iOS Dev Weekly Issue #745 (Dave Verwer)
- Daily Reading List – March 13, 2026 (#741) (Richard Seroter)
- The Batch: GPT-5.4 Makes A Splash, AI’s Growth on Mobile, Data Centers Go Off-Grid, Apple’s Diffusion Research (DeepLearning.AI)
