Top Links
- Why Your .NET MAUI Layout Breaks Across Devices and How to Fix It (Anandh Ganesan)
- AI Toolkit for VS Code — February 2026 Update (Junjie Li)
- Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark (OpenAI Team)
- Welcome to the Eternal September of open source. Here’s what we plan to do for maintainers. (Ashley Wolf)
- Microsoft Edge and Interop 2026 (Patrick Brosset)
- Azure Data Studio Is Retiring—Here’s What’s Next for SQL Developers in VS Code | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Tauseef Siddique)
Web and Cloud Development
- npm Supply Chain Security: Understanding JavaScript Dependency Risks (Matt Goldman)
- jQuery 4.0.0 Support: What’s New and How Kendo UI Has You Covered (Nikolay Penev)
- Configuring Web.Server.Core for TX Text Control Document Editor: Changing Ports and IP Versions (Bjoern Meyer)
- How to Build WordPress Plugins with AI: Claude Code + WordPress Studio Setup Guide (Margarita Loktionova)
- How to Build a Custom PDF Text Extractor with Node.js and TypeScript (Chidera Humphrey)
- Mozilla – Launching Interop 2026 (Jake Archibald)
- Announcing Interop 2026 (Yulun Wu & Jen Simmons)
- The Modern React Data Fetching Handbook: Suspense, use(), and ErrorBoundary Explained (Tapas Adhikary)
- Multi-Source PDF Loading in JavaScript: Why Most Viewers Fail and How Syncfusion Fixes It (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
- Improve the quality of your Angular component snapshots with Vitest (Tim Deschryver)
- Quick and dirty linting (Stoyan Stefanov)
Windows Development
- How can I distinguish between the numeric keypad 0 and the top-row 0 in the WM_KEYDOWN message? (Raymond Chen)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1611 (Canary Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0-preview.260212.1 Release (eavanvalkenburg)
- Collection Expression Arguments in C# 15 are “out” (Steven Giesel)
- Abstract Factory Pattern Real-World Example in C#: Complete Implementation (Nick Cosentino)
AI
- 31 Days of Vibe Coding – Card Games (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Scaling LLM Post-Training at Netflix (Baolin Li, Lingyi Liu, Binh Tang & Shaojing Li)
- GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is now available in Windsurf (Windsurf Team)
- VS Code becomes multi-agent command center for developers (Darryl K. Taft)
- Additive vs. Mutative vs. Destructive Code Changes (and Why AI Agents Love the Wrong One at 2:13AM) (Adron Hall)
- Copilot Studio agent security: Top 10 risks you can detect and prevent (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
- Modernizing for the AI Era: Accelerating Application Transformation with Agentic Tools (Marco B.)
- The reason AI agents shouldn’t touch your source code — and what they should do instead (Nick Lucchesi)
- microgpt (Andrej Karpathy)
- Claude Enterprise, now available self-serve (Claude Team)
- 42% of Code Is Now AI-Assisted! (Anastasija Uspenski)
- AI Crash Course: AI, ML, LLM and more (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
- Build Intelligent Apps with SQL: Join the SQL + AI Datathon (Jasmine Greenaway)
- Expanding our long-running agents research preview (Cursor Team)
- Elevating the Role of Grounding on the AI Web (Bing Team)
- Gemini 3 Deep Think and Covering electricity price increases from Anthropic’s data centers (Simon Willison)
- OpenEnv in Practice: Evaluating Tool-Using Agents in Real-World Environments (Christian Washington, Ankit Jasuja, Santosh Sah, Lewis Tunstall & Ben Burtenshaw)
- Microsoft confirms plan to ditch OpenAI — as the ChatGPT firm continues to beg Big Tech for cash (Jez Corden)
- Microsoft Entra Agent ID explained (Zachary Cavanell)
Python
- Getting Started with mssql-python for Data Developers (Hristo Hristov)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0b260212 Release (giles17)
- Statistical language R is making a comeback against Python (Darryl K. Taft)
- Python is good, but not perfect – here are 10 reasons to avoid it (Andy Brown)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Synchronous vs Asynchronous API Calls (Bryan Hogan)
- The Interesting Case of Flattening Mean Time to Mediocrity (Erik Dietrich)
- git recent: what branch did I work on? (Remy Sharp)
- Celebrate the Small Wins (Dylan Noel)
- Schema Validation Comes to Pulumi ESC with fn::validate (Claire Gaestel)
- Believing In People (Tim Ottinger)
Mobile and Game Development
- What is .NET MAUI? The ultimate guide to Microsoft’s cross-platform framework (Ben Nettleton)
- .NET MAUI v10.0.40 SR4 Release (Shane Neuville)
Screencasts and Videos
- Harness the power of your data with SQL Server 2025, the AI-ready enterprise database storyboard | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Bob Ward)
- Oz Live Workshop: Build Your First Cloud Agent (Warp Team)
- AI Makes Verifying the Bottleneck with Dave Farley | Hangar DX Podcast (Hangar DX Community)
- Develop a Web App with CoPilot and Azure SQL Database for Under $10! | Budget Bytes (Arvind Shyamsundar & Amar Digamber Patil)
- How the Global AI Race Has Changed and Is This the Best AI Video Model in the World? (AIDailyBrief)
- My AI Squad is better than yours | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Analyzing user data with Oz (Ian from Warp)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- The Cloud Pod Episode #341 – AWS Layoffs: Scaling Down Instead of Scaling Out (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #559 – A series of OODA loops (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- InfoQ Podcast: Beyond Code: How Engineers Need to Evolve in the AI Era (Ben Greene)
- Build Mode Podcast – Build Mode is back: Building world-class founding teams (Isabelle Johannessen)
- PPP 497 | A Practical System for Navigating Chaos, with author Richard Carson (Andy Kaufman)
- Generative AI in the Real World: Fabiana Clemente on Synthetic Data for AI and Agentic Systems (Ben Lorica & Fabiana Clemente)
- Lenny’s Podcast – “Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – SQL Server Migrations: Tips to Help You Prepare (Mary Jo Foley)
- Tools and Weapons Podcast – His Excellency Khaldoon Al Mubarak: Investing in an AI-Driven World (Brad Smith)
- When Team Members Raise Concerns with Clarity, Not Anger | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Prabhleen Kaur)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Even your voice is a data problem (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Xbox Celebrates the Legacy of id Software (Mike Nelson)
- Announcing the 2026 Microsoft 365 Community Conference Keynotes (Heather Cook)
- Xbox at GDC 2026: Build for What’s Next (Danielle Partis)
- Second W3C Team appointment to the TAG (W3C)
- IBM Plans To Triple Entry-Level Hiring in the US (msmash)
Database
- Cumulative Update #2 for SQL Server 2025 RTM (SrinivasSQL)
- Release Announcement of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.5 (subhojitbasak)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: A Little About The StackOverflow Demo Database (Erik Darling)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Handling Legacy User Settings in SharePoint Framework (Paolo Pialorsi)
- AI for Communicators celebrates SharePoint’s 25th (Laurel D.)
PowerShell and Terminal
- RepoDoctor – AI-Powered Repository Health Analysis with GitHub Copilot CLI (k1lgor)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.409 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- >_TerminalSplash – Windows Terminal Themes (TerminalSplash)
- Gemini CLI Weekly Update [v0.28.1]: Custom Themes, Background Shells, and Integrations (Srinath Padmanabhan)
Writing
- What Is Exposition In A Story? (Writers Write)
General
- Announcing Rust 1.93.1 (Rust Release Team)
- Windows 11 is finally giving users a feature they’ve begged for since launch (Zac Bowden)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 12, 2026 (#720) (Richard Seroter)
