Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Top Links

• Uno MCP vs App MCP: When to Use Each (Matt Mattei)
• Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry-Frontier Performance for Scale (Amar Badal)
• Making music with MIDI just got a real boost in Windows 11 (Pete Brown)
• XAML Source-Generation in .NET MAUI makes your app so much better (Daniel Hindrikes)
• JetBrains Editor Improvements: Smooth Caret Animation and New Selection Behavior (Bulat Davletov)
• JMESPath support comes to azd JSON output (Scott Addie)

Web and Cloud Development

• Spiral Scrollytelling in CSS With sibling-index() (Lee Meyer)
• Introducing the WordPress AI Assistant — Now Built Into WordPress.com (Ronnie Burt)
• Angular 21: Internal Mechanics, ARIA, and AI-Powered Coding! (Angular Team)
• Azure API Management – Unified AI Gateway Design Pattern (Nicole Haugen)
• How I built a custom agent skill to configure Application Insights (Bart Wullems)
• First Public Working Draft: Selectors Level 5 (W3C Team)
• Build a Custom Backstage View in ASP.NET Core with TX Text Control (Deepika Kathiravan)
• Ultimate Angular Firebase Setup with AnalogJS (Jonathan Gamble)
• Building Real-World Web Apps with ASP.NET Core Razor Pages (David Ramel)
• Choosing a React Animation Library: Performance Trade-Offs in Real Apps (Sumankumar G.)
• Federated Identity vs. Single Sign-On: Key Differences (Andrea Chiarelli)
• TypeScript Utility Types: A Complete Guide (Umesh Malik)
• Using go fix to modernize Go code (Alan Donovan)

Windows Development

• Building a Real-Time Security Monitoring Dashboard with Telerik UI for WinForms (Jefferson S. Motta)
• It rather involved being on the other side of the airtight hatchway: Tricking(?) a program into reading files (Raymond Chen)
• Releasing Windows 11 Builds 26100.7918 and 26200.7918 to the Release Preview Channel and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7859 (Beta Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)

.NET and Visual Studio

• T4 templates on modern .NET (Ian Griffiths)

AI

• How To Think About AI-Assisted Development (J. Tower)
• Generative AI has broken the subject matter expert/editor relationship (Rachel Andrew)
• Meta’s new deal with Nvidia buys up millions of AI chips (Stevie Bonifield)
• Acting urgently to close the growing AI divide (Brad Smith & Natasha Crampton)
• Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now available in Windsurf (Windsurf Team)
• Introducing Agent Plugins for AWS (Anita Lewis)
• Top 7 Small Language Models You Can Run on a Laptop (Vinod Chugani)
• Better code, fewer tokens: Introducing Agent Skills for Firebase (Luke Schlangen)
• Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 as Default Model for Free and Paid Users (TechRepublic Staff)
• Securing the AI software supply chain: Security results across 67 open source projects (Gregg Cochran)
• Anthropic’s new Claude Sonnet 4.6 promises Opus-level coding at Sonnet pricing (Frederic Lardinois)
• Alkimo – Your AI assistant for everything (Alkimo Team)
• AI vin – A Windows desktop chat application. Connect to local and online models. (Alvin Ashcraft) – Initial release built with WinUI. Help me find bugs and request new features.
• Meta and Other Tech Companies Ban OpenClaw Over Cybersecurity Concerns (Paresh Dave)
• The uncomfortable truth about vibe coding (Todd Wardzinski)
• ServiceNow Expands AI Strategy with Anthropic Claude Integration for Agentic Workflows (Kieron Allen)
• AI, A2A, and the Governance Gap (Shreshta Shyamsundar)
• OpenAI Publishes Codex App Server Architecture for Unifying AI Agent Surfaces (Eran Stiller)
• CLAUDE.md Best Practices: Mermaid for Workflows (Gábor Mészáros)
• Increase web search accuracy and efficiency with dynamic filtering (Claude Team)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Simplify managing your Docker compose files with this handy tool (Jack Wallen)
• Microspeak: Escrow (Raymond Chen)
• Hashing vs Encoding vs Encrypting vs Signing (Keith Casey)
• A Minimum Viable Content Strategy for Startups (Rachel Roumeliotis)
• Security Lingo Explained: Encode vs Encrypt vs Hash (AL Rodriguez)
• Harness Engineering (Martin Fowler)
• Platform engineering: Rebuilding the core for developer effectiveness (Tom Holbourn & Matthias Scholz)

Mobile and Game Development

• Under the hood: Android 17’s lock-free MessageQueue (Shai Barack & Charles Munger)

Screencasts and Videos

• The AI Productivity Boom Finally Shows Up and The Latest AI Models and Model Rumors (AIDailyBrief)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Steve Smith and Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Tim Heuer (Isaac Levin)
• Microsoft Store CLI, .NET 11 Preview 1 and more! – Developer News 07/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• AI with Zero Trust Security | Microsoft Mechanics (Michael Madrigal)
• Aspire Conf 2026 (Aspire Team)
• Our most capable Sonnet model yet (Claude Team)
• Minecraft Magic with the Squad | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Random.Code() – Adding Another Suppressor to Rocks, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
• Intro to the GitButler CLI (GitButler Team)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: AWS Services for C# Developers: Take your first step into the world of cloud computing. (Nick Chapsas) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Developer Tea Podcast – AI-Era Employability and Job Security for Software Engineers – Mental Models for Finding a Competitive Advantage Without Selling Out (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Blue Blazes S04E02: GitHub Copilot App Modernization for .NET – featuring Matt Soucoup (Jonathan “J.” Tower)
• RunAs Radio Episode #1024 – Hacking using AI with Erica Burgess (Richard Campbell)
• The AI Fix Episode #88 – Claude Code, the rise of AI agents, and the AI that called its human (Mark Stockley)
• The Presentation Podcast Episode #240 – From Sofia to London: We Chat with Boris Hristov About the Journey of the Present to Succeed Conference (Troy Chollar, Sandy Johnson & Nolan Haimes)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast Episode #1035 – The AI Vampire with Gas Town’s Steve Yegge (Scott Hanselman)
• Boagworld Podcast Episode #31 – From Agency Work to Product Success (Paul Boag)
• AI Assisted Coding: Stop Building Features, Start Building Systems with AI | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Adam Bilišič)

Community and Events

• Uno Platform 6.5: Community Standup (Sam Basu)
• My MVP Story: Nathalie Leenders’ Journey From Salon Chair to Solution Builder (Betsy Weber)
• Why I’m One of the Last People to Still Visit StackOverflow (Rachel Kaufman)
• Get ready for Google I/O May 19-20 (Google I/O Team)
• GeekWire’s AI summit to feature key leaders from Amazon, Microsoft, and more, on March 24 in Seattle (Todd Bishop)
• MySQL community calls for discussions on the future of the ecosystem (Ian Barker)
• How I Spent My Last 17 Months (Joey Dantoni)
• Sharp Economy Becomes Official Sponsor of HackIndia 2026 (Mahesh Chand)

Database

• Dear Copilot, can you help me with SQL? (Jerry Nixon)
• Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
• PostgreSQL with Windows and The Code Page Trap No One Warned You About (Kellyn Gorman)
• Get AI-Ready With Erik: A Little About Generating Embeddings (Erik Darling)
• How to Help Copilot Encourage Good Database Standards (Brent Ozar)
• The Multi-Model Database for AI Agents: Deploy SurrealDB with Docker Extension (Jennifer Kohl)
• MariaDB innovation: binlog_storage_engine, small server, Insert Benchmark (Mark Callaghan)

PowerShell and Terminal

• PowerShell, OpenSSH, and DSC team investments for 2026 (Steve Lee)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.412-0 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• How To Deal With A Writer’s Inner Critic (Writers Write)

General

• Andrew Yang says mass white-collar layoffs are closer than people think (Roya Shahidi)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – February 17, 2026 (#723) (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.