Top Links
- How I Used Squad to Tackle 78 Azure CLI Issues in a Day (Jordan Selig)
- How to Load and Save Images in Blazor Image Editor with SQL Server (Satheeskumar S.)
- ReSharper 2026.1: Built-in Performance Monitoring, Expansion to VS Code, and Faster Everyday Workflows and Rider 2026.1: More AI Choice, Stronger .NET Tooling, and Expanded Game Dev Support (Sasha Ivanova)
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – March 2026: Run and Debug AI Agents Locally, GitHub Copilot Integration, & Container App Jobs (PuiChee (PC) Chan)
- Part 2 – Babylon.js 9.0: Tooling updates and new geospatial features (Jason Carter & Thomas Lucchini)
- TechBash 2026 Call for Speakers Ends Tonight (Jason Gaylord)
Web and Cloud Development
- Aspire 13.2.1 Release (github-actions[bot])
- .NET Aspire 13.2 Adds AI-Agent CLI, TypeScript AppHost Support (David Ramel)
- Azure.Identity v1.20.0 Release (Azure SDK Team)
- Deploy JavaScript apps (Aspire Team)
- Bing Maps Goes Global with TomTom Orbis Addresses (Bing Team)
- Instantiating Objects and Accessing Properties in Blazor (Héctor Pérez)
- How to Design a Type-Safe, Lazy, and Secure Plugin Architecture in React (Jessica Patel)
- How to Build a QR Code Generator Using JavaScript – A Step-by-Step Guide (Bhavin Sheth)
- Writing Azure service-related unit tests with Docker using Spring Cloud Azure (Rujun Chen)
- Kendo UI for jQuery: AI Coding Assistant (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Launching Passkeys support on Report URI (Scott Helme)
Windows Development
- A question about the maximimum number of values in a registry key raises questions about the question (Raymond Chen)
- ReSharper C++ 2026.1: Better performance, improved Unreal Engine workflows, and language support updates (Sasha Ivanova)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for Canary Channel 29558.1000 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1797 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8142 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.8138 (Beta Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- How .NET handles exceptions internally (and why they’re expensive) (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Random Forest Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- Build QR Codes in .NET FAST with ElBruno.QRCodeGenerator (Bruno Capuano)
- URL Pattern Matching in .NET (Gérald Barré)
AI
- GitHub Copilot Agent vs. GitHub Copilot Code Review (Mitchel Sellers)
- RAG vs Fine-Tuning: How to Choose the Right GPT Approach (Manikanda Akash Munisamy)
- VS Code Memory Tool: Local Memory meets GitHub Copilot Memory (Bart Wullems)
- Microsoft Copilot Is Now Injecting Ads Into Pull Requests On GitHub (BeauHD)
- Microsoft says Copilot ad in GitHub pull request was a bug, not an advertisement (Mayank Parmar)
- Pi – Ollama integrations and Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview (Ollama Team)
- Opinion: AI coach or AI ghostwriter? The choice is yours (Oren Etzioni)
- Addressing the OWASP Top 10 Risks in Agentic AI with Microsoft Copilot Studio (Efim Hudis)
- Now in Foundry: NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B, IBM Granite-4.0-1b-Speech, and Sarvam-105B (Osi)
- Audit Claude Platform activity with the Compliance API (Claude Team)
- Build vs buy: how to deploy coding agents at scale (Zach Lloyd)
- Tech CEOs Suddenly Love Blaming AI For Mass Job Cuts (BeauHD)
- The moment AI skilling stopped being optional—and started being personal (Kavitha Radhakrishnan)
- How to Compute GPU Capacity for GPT Models (GPT‑4o and Later) (Yan Liang)
- 11 Terms You Need to Know Before Incorporating AI (Ivo Starešina)
- Beyond AI Code Review: Why You Need Code Simulation at Scale (PlayerZero)
- OpenFang—The Game-Changing Open Source Agent Operating System That Replaces OpenClaw (Thomas Cherickal)
- Microsoft’s Copilot makes Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT team up (Frederic Lardinois)
- Chatbots: Unsafe at Any Speed (Jeffrey Snover)
- AI: The Near Term (Jesse Liberty)
- How AI Hype Masks the Exploitation of African Workers (Marché Arends & Kathryn Cleary)
- Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer (Simon Willison)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0 RC6 Release (giles17)
- Vibe Coding Pong with Python and pygame (Mike Driscoll)
- What’s New in PyCharm 2026.1 (Ilia Afanasiev)
- How to set up a data analysis environment in esProc SPL (compared to Python) (Chisom Kanu)
- Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective (Michael Kennedy)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub security (Kedasha Kerr)
- Using Kiro Subagents to Improve Test Coverage (Dror Helper)
- Kubernetes v1.36 Sneak Peek (Chad Crowell, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao & Utkarsh Umre)
- Cyber risk is financial risk: Why CFO leadership matters more than ever (Microsoft in Business Team)
- WorkDrive 6.0: Advancing toward intelligent enterprise content management (Phase 1) (Durai Murugan S)
- Software, in a Time of Fear (Ed Lyons)
- Practical Platform Engineering in 5 Lunches: 1. Getting Started (Matthew Casperson)
- The one where Oskar explains Example Mapping (Oskar Dudycz)
Mobile and Game Development
- Efficient State Management in Flutter Using IndexedStack (Atuoha Anthony)
- Media3 1.10 is out (Andrew Lewis)
- Component hydration patterns that actually work with Jaspr (Muhammed Salih Guler)
- Android developer verification: Rolling out to all developers on Play Console and Android Developer Console (Matthew Forsythe)
- Weird Science: Building Android Apps with NativePHP (James Seconde)
- Get ready with the latest beta releases (Apple Developer Team)
- Pico chess timer (Rosie Hattersley)
Screencasts and Videos
- Native Regex in SQL Server 2025 | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman)
- Contributing to Aspire – Aspire Conf 2026 (Jose Perez Rodriguez & Adam Ratzman)
- Warp terminal deep dive (Warp Team)
- Ordering pizza from a text-to-speech avatar! | The Dev Talk Show (Chris Gomez & Rich Ross)
- Labeling Files is Worth It | Speed & Protection Benefits in Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Mechanics (Matt McSpirit & Jeremy Chapman)
- Generate .NET Unit Tests with GitHub Copilot | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & McKenna Barlow)
- Beyond Vector Search: Scaling the AI Data Layer with Morphik & MongoDB Atlas (MongoDB Team)
Dometrain Course
From Zero to Hero: Source Generators in C#: Master the art of writing code that writes code with source generators in C#. (Mel Grubb) – Referral Link
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1172 – Denim: Secret place names hiding in plain sight. Why the principal is more than your pal. (Mignon Fogarty)
- Merge Conflict Episode #508 – Agentic Workflows – Markdown Automation for GitHub Actions (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #475 – Haunted warehouses (Michael Kennedy)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #269 – Reflections on RSA 2026 – Beyond AI AI AI AI AI AI AI (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Poking Around Until Something Breaks (And Then Reporting It to Microsoft) with Morten Mynster (James Petty)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #991 – Vite’s bet on Cloudflare (VOID Framework) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- When Protecting Your Agile Team Becomes the Barrier to Their Growth | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Bhavin Shukla)
- Meta Cast Podcast – The Meta Management Gamble and Why We’re Worried Every Other Company Will Copy It (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Community and Events
- Apple @ 50 (Verge Staff)
- ‘Transformative’: Amazon and Microsoft celebrate opening of light rail line between Seattle and Eastside (Kurt Schlosser)
- Innovative Design and Collaboration at Game On. (Gillian Mutti)
- Become a Member (.NET Foundation Team)
Database
- Build a Celebrity Look-Alike App With Multimodal Vector Search and Couchbase (Tushar Madaan)
- Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
- Oracle SQL Plan Management (SPM) Demo: Capture, Preserve, and Safely Evolve Execution Plans (Vijay Balebail)
- DataSpell 2026.1: AI Agents Ecosystem, Export Notebooks to PDF, Editor Improvements (Stanislav Garkusha)
- AWS Cost Optimization for SQL Server (Rajendra Gupta)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.14 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Enhance GitHub Copilot CLI with skills (Jim Bennett)
Tools
- Windows App Updates: Reliability, Productivity, and Security Improvements (Hilary Braun)
- What’s New in RustRover 2026.1 (Irina Mihajlovic)
General
- Microsoft Plans To Build 100% Native Apps For Windows 11 (BeauHD)
- Report: Amazon buys 1,300 acres near Columbia River that could become a giant data center (Lisa Stiffler)
- Is the Smartphone Theory of Everything Wrong? A Comprehensive Investigation (Derek Thompson)
- This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms (David Gilbert)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 30, 2026 (#752) (Richard Seroter)
- Things That Caught My Attention The Last Two Weeks – March 29 (Peter Ritchie)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS AI/ML Scholars program, Agent Plugin for AWS Serverless, and more (March 30, 2026) (Prasad Rao)
- Reading Notes #691 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML.
