Top Links
- Accelerate Enterprise UI Development with Syncfusion MCP Servers (Lokeshwaran Ragavan)
- Run OpenClaw Securely in Docker Sandboxes (Jennifer Kohl)
- The simplest and fastest way to setup OpenClaw (Ollama Team)
- Technology & Friends – Rachel Appel on Dark Patterns (David Giard)
- The Token Police (Rob Conery)
- The TechBash 2026 Call for Speakers Is Open (TechBash Team)
- Use Windows on-device AI in your Electron app (Chiara Mooney)
Web and Cloud Development
- Blazorise 2.0.1 – First Stability Update for 2.0 (Mladen Macanović)
- It’s Probably DNS – Can You Dig It? (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- ESLint v10.0.2 released (Milos Djermanovic)
- AWS creates a sandbox for its agent experiments (Frederic Lardinois)
- 6 React Server Component performance pitfalls in Next.js (Temitope Oyedele)
- What the FOUC? (Chris Lorenzo)
- Bun Adds Parallel Script Support (Kay Ewbank)
- How to Use Cursor with Modern Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
- WebMCP updates, clarifications, and next steps and Embrace the chaos — The shape and flow of masonry layouts (Patrick Brosset)
- Hackers Exploit OAuth Device Code Flow to Breach Microsoft Entra Accounts (Rabia Noureen)
- Loading Smarter: SVG vs. Raster Loaders in Modern Web Design (Mariana Beldi)
Windows Development
- Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, second (failed) attempt (Raymond Chen)
- Windows Server Secure Boot playbook for certificates expiring in 2026 (Roy Sasabe)
- DevExpress: WPF — June 2026 Roadmap (v26.1) (Alexander Russkov)
- Reserved filenames on Windows (CON, PRN, AUX, NUL…) (Gérald Barré)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Polymorphic Relationships in EF Core: Three Approaches (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- C# Extension Members (Rachel Appel)
- Recording metrics in-process using MeterListener: System.Diagnostics.Metrics APIs – Part 4 (Andrew Lock)
- Assembly Scanning in Needlr: Filtering and Organizing Type Discovery (Nick Cosentino)
AI
- Local AI Voices in .NET — VibeVoice & Qwen TTS and Microsoft Agent Framework is Release Candidate! Let’s Go (Bruno Capuano)
- Thrust – AI Powered Software Archaeology (James D. Randall)
- Book Review: Vibe Coding by Gene Kim and Steve Yegge (Mike Hadlow)
- Claude the Instructor (Robin Moffatt)
- Gordon: Docker’s AI Agent Just Got an Update (Srini Sekaran)
- Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected (Douglas Phillips)
- Anthropic Study: AI Coding Assistance Reduces Developer Skill Mastery by 17% (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
- Things to expect when starting to work with Copilot (Oded Sharon)
- You Can Host OpenClaw on Azure App Service — Here’s How (Jordan Selig)
- AI “Vibe Coding” Threatens Open Source as Maintainers Face Crisis (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
- Anatomy of AI: Why Velocity Needs Visibility (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Comparing Amazon Q and GitHub Copilot Agentic AI in VS Code (David Ramel)
- Building MCP Apps with Azure Functions MCP Extension (Lily Ma)
- goose v1.25.0: Sandboxed, Streamlined, and More Secure (Debbie O’Brien)
- Deploying Open Source Vision Language Models (VLM) on Jetson (Mitesh Patel, Johnny Nuñez Cano & Raymond Lo)
- How AI helps break the cost barrier to COBOL modernization (Claude Team)
- Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI (Emma Roth)
- I Used AI to Build a Full Golf Scoring Web App – Here’s What Happened. (Gregor Suttie)
- MediaFM: The Multimodal AI Foundation for Media Understanding at Netflix (Avneesh Saluja, Santiago Castro, Bowei Yan & Ashish Rastogi)
- Structured Output for AI Coding Agents: Why I Built Pare (Dave London)
- Building AI Agents in TypeScript with the Strands Agents SDK (Gunnar Grosch)
- How AI agents could destroy the economy (Russell Brandom)
- The Hidden Cost of Agentic Failure (Nicole Koenigstein)
- AI Tool Switching Is Stealth Friction – Beat It at the Access Layer (Colette Des Georges)
- Synthetic data for RAG evaluation: Why your RAG system needs better testing (Aditi Saluja, William Caban Babilonia & Suhas Kashyap)
- OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners (OpenAI Team)
- Coding agents are only as good as the signals you feed them (Arjun Iyer)
- So, you want to run OpenClaw? (Jim Gumbley)
- Detecting and preventing distillation attacks (Anthropic Team)
Python
- How to Build and Deploy a Multi-Agent AI System with Python and Docker (Balajee Asish Brahmandam)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns (Simon Willison)
- TDD as induction (Mark Seemann)
- HyperVideo – GitHub Issues (Jesse Liberty)
- Cracking the Code of Serverless Design: Patterns that Scale and Patterns that Fail (David Ramel)
- Building an AI Pull Request Agent for Azure DevOps using GitHub Copilot SDK (Dominique St-Amand)
- container – A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac (Apple)
- New in Pulumi IaC: `onError` Resource Hook (Tom Harding)
- Kubernetes as AI’s operating system: 1.35 release signals (Angel Ramirez)
- Defense against uploads: Q&A with OSS file scanner, pompelmi (Ryan Donovan)
- Octopus Easy Mode – Project Tenant Variables (Matthew Casperson)
- A Designer’s Guide To Eco-Friendly Interfaces (Carrie Webster)
Mobile and Game Development
- Billions of dollars later and still nobody knows what an Xbox is (Andrew Webster)
- Xbox will be “sunsetted” under new CEO, original co-founder expects: “Her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night” (Austin Wood)
- Simplifying Grid Layout in .NET MAUI Using Extension Methods (Leomaris Reyes)
- OpenClaw Alternatives That You Can Run on Raspberry Pi Like Devices (Edmar Pereira)
- Build a dinosaur runner game with Deno, pt. 6 (Jo Franchetti)
Screencasts and Videos
- The Perils of the AI Exponential (AIDailyBrief)
- Async Await Just Got A Massive Improvement in .NET (Nick Chapsas)
- Agents in Microsoft Intune | Automate Policy Creation, Troubleshooting & Fix Guidance | Microsoft Mechanics (Jason Githens)
- Random.Code() – Fixing a Deserialization Bug in CslaGeneratorSerialization (Jason Bock)
- Google AI Professional Certificate: Learn how to become AI fluent (Google Career Certificates)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Smooth Scaling Podcast Episode #21 – Online Traffic in the Age of Agentic AI with Hans Skovgaard (José Quaresma)
- Developer Tea Podcast – Listener Question – Abdul Asks About How to Balance Career Strategy Between Money, Meaning, and Skill Transitions (Jonathan Cutrell)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #182 – The mythical agent-month (Jerod Santo)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #470 – A Jolting Episode (Michael Kennedy)
- Talking Agentic AI with Julien Brun on the Secret Sauce Podcast (Eleanor Berger)
- CppCast Episode #404 – Job Hunting and Optimizing Compilers with Jamie Pendergast (Jason Turner)
- Made by Google Podcast – The $499 AI Superphone: Pixel 10a Deep Dive (Rachid Finge)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Escaping Tutorial Hell with Pablo Correchel (James Petty)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #264 – Measuring Your (Agentic) SOC: Two Security Leaders Walk into a Podcast (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #981 – Browsers Are Finally Catching Up (Interop 2026) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Meta Cast – How to Step Down From Leadership Gracefully (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- CIO Podcast Episode 109 – Fractional CIO Work with Ryan Thousand (Neil Versel)
- AI Agent & Copilot Podcast – Cisco Engineering Leader on AI’s Impact in Product Support (Tom Smith)
- AI Agent & Copilot Podcast – Stoneridge Software CEO Eric Newell on Building Secure AI Strategies (John Siefert)
- InfoQ Podcast: Software Evolution with Microservices and LLMs (Chris Richardson)
- The Product and Service Story That Every Scrum Master Needs to Hear | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Lai-Ling Su)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Dogfood so nutritious it’s building the future of SDLCs (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Inside Microsoft’s big Xbox leadership shake-up (Tom Warren)
- TechBash 2026 – October 13-16 (Community Days)
- Meet the organiser of one of the longest-running Raspberry Pi community events (Rob Zwetsloot)
- OpenAI Calls In the Consultants For Its Enterprise Push (BeauHD)
- Who is Asha Sharma? A closer look at Microsoft’s surprise pick to lead the Xbox business (Todd Bishop)
- EVENT: SharePoint at 25: Digital celebration event + live AMA – March 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM PT (Kurt Shintaku)
- Nominate the best in Pacific NW tech and help set the stage for the 2026 GeekWire Awards (Kurt Schlosser)
Database
- Run SQL queries on local parquet and delta files using DuckDB (Bart Wullems)
- Develop SSIS Packages with SSIS 2025 (Koen Verbeeck)
- Learning PostgreSQL with Grant: Data Storage (Grant Fritchey)
- How We Load Data into Snowflake in Seconds with Pulumi (Lucas Crespo)
- Managed Identity on SQL Server On-Prem: The End of Stored Secrets (Ryad B.)
- MariaDB innovation: vector index performance (Mark Callaghan)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
PowerShell and Terminal
- How to Build a CLI Tool to Auto-Translate OpenAPI Specifications (Ademola Thompson)
- I Built a CLI That Scores How Much of Your Code Was Written by AI (Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.415 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- Writers’ Brains (Writers Write)
Tools
- How to take full-page screenshots in Chrome on any device – it’s easy and free (Elyse Betters Picaro)
- Introducing ToDoOrDie (Scott Watermasysk)
General
- ‘Abolish ICE’, ‘Caleb Chilliams’ Among Winners of Annual Snowplow Naming Contest (Heather Cherone)
- I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day (Anonymous)
- How to blur your home on Google Street View – and why you should do it ASAP (Elyse Betters Picaro)
- Security baseline for Windows Server 2025, version 2602 (Rick Munck)
- Installing Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode (Davanna White)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – February 22 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – February 23, 2026 (#727) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more (February 23, 2026) (Channy Yun)
- Reading Notes #686 (Frank Boucher)
- Fragments: February 23 (Martin Fowler)
