Top Links
- Copilot App on Windows: Opening web links alongside your conversations begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Microsoft Copilot Team)
- Get started with GitHub Copilot CLI: A free, hands-on course (Dan Wahlin)
- The Great Foundry Shift: Microsoft Foundry New vs Classic Explained (Vinod Soni)
- .NET Rocks! – CLI First with Kathleen Dollard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Windows Terminal v1.25.622.0 Release and Windows Terminal v1.24.10621.0 Release (Dustin L. Howett)
- Agent Skills: Curated Agent Skills for Microsoft & Azure – giving AI coding assistants structured, real-time expertise from Microsoft Learn docs (Microsoft Learn Team)
Web and Cloud Development
- AWS SDK for .NET V3 Maintenance Mode Announcement (Muhammad Othman)
- Container files (Aspire Team)
- How to Export Excel, CSV, and PDF Files from a React Spreadsheet (Parthasarathy Ranjan)
- WebGL for Designers: Creating Interactive, Shader-Driven Graphics Directly in the Browser (George Hastings)
- Turn Static Word Docs into Interactive Forms: Create and Manage DOCX Form Fields in ASP.NET Core (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
- W3C Invites Implementations of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.1 and First Public Working Draft: YAML-LD 1.0 (W3C)
Windows Development
- Aha, I found a counterexample to the documentation that says that QueryPerformanceCounter never fails (Raymond Chen)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0-rc3 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- MCP Tool Integration in Microsoft Agent Framework in C# (Nick Cosentino)
- Spreadsheet Analysis with Telerik Document Processing Libraries Agentic Tools (Anna Velcheva)
AI
- OpenAI’s Codex is now on Windows (Frederic Lardinois)
- Evaluating AI Agents: Techniques to Reduce Variance and Boost Alignment for LLM Judges (James Asher)
- Vibe Coding for the NPU (Frank Buchholz)
- Get started with GitHub Copilot SDK (Chris Noring)
- Navigating VS Code AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry for Agent Development (David Ramel)
- Nobody knows what it will look like in 2 years (Tom Johnson)
- Cursor Joined the ACP Registry and Is Now Live in Your JetBrains IDE (Jan-Niklas Wortmann)
- Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model (Jyoti Aneja, Michael Harrison, Neel Joshi, Tyler LaBonte, John Langford & Eduardo Salinas)
- The Glossary You Must Read If You Wanna Talk About AI (Zvonimir Petkovic)
- Introducing OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run your autonomous private AI agents (Channy Yun)
- 10 AI prompts to speed your team’s software delivery (Chandler Gibbons)
- Anti-patterns: things to avoid and Something is afoot in the land of Qwen (Simon Willison)
- Introducing Phi-4-Reasoning-Vision to Microsoft Foundry (yashlara)
- Phi-4-Reasoning-Vision-15B: Use Cases In-Depth (Kinfey Lo)
- How to Build MCP Servers for Your Internal Data (Mayur Vekariya)
- Bridging the operational AI gap (MIT Technology Review Insights)
- Cursor is now available in JetBrains IDEs (Cursor Team)
- My Bot Got Banned for Being a Bot (Matt Biilmann)
- Understanding AI and learning outcomes (OpenAI Team)
- How Agentic AI Platforms Organize Their Hardware Infrastructure (Exxact Team)
- Building High-Performance Agentic Systems (sgangaramani)
- The “Data Center Rebellion” Is Here (Ben Lorica)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0rc3 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- Microsoft Unifies Python Environments (I Programmer)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- How GitLab built a security control framework from scratch (Davoud Tu)
- Octopus Easy Mode – Lifecycles (Matthew Casperson)
- The Two-Layer Event Sourcing Architecture (Bnaya Eshet)
Mobile and Game Development
- Battery Technical Quality Enforcement is Here: How to Optimize Common Wake Lock Use Cases (Alice Yuan)
- A new era for choice and openness (Sameer Samat)
- Flutter Provider Best Practices You’re Probably Missing (Majid Hajian)
- The ONE trick to making good looking games! (Code Monkey)
- DirectX Innovation at GDC 2026 (Jacques van Rhyn)
- Hello Developer: March 2026 (Apple Developer Team)
- Building a Career Genie in Flutter using Gemini API (Akansha Jain)
- Cornell students’ 2025 Pico projects (Ashley Whittaker)
Screencasts and Videos
- How to use agentic workflows for your repos | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths)
- Blazor Authentication? Hold My Beer! – NDC London 2026 (Roland Guijt)
- Application Performance Optimisation in Practice – NDC London 2026 (Steve Gordon)
- Code & Community with Copilot CLI | GitHub (Ryan Hecht)
- Optimizing your HttpClient usage – NDC London 2026 (Nico Vermeir)
- 5 New VS Code Features for Smarter Agents (Olivia Guzzardo McVicker)
- RolePl-AI – NDC London 2026 (Jo Franchetti)
- The Rise of the Zero Human Company (AI Daily Brief)
- Code that writes code – .NET Source generators – NDC London 2026 (Glenn F. Henriksen)
- The weekly developer show: Yes, CSS Can Do That! (We Are Developers)
- Accessibility by Everyone (and for Everyone) – NDC London 2026 (Amy Kapernick)
Dometrain Course
Hands-On: Data Structures & Algorithms in C#: Learn data structures and algorithms in C# with practical hands-on exercises (Nick Chapsas) – Referral Link
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Mapping the American Tongue: The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), with Joan Houston Hall (Mignon Fogarty)
- Windows Weekly Episode #973 – Bob’s Rumor Store – ASUS & Dell Unveil Windows 365 Cloud PC Devices (Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell & Mikah Sargent)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #710 – Marc Brooker on Spec-Driven AI Dev (Kanchan Shringi)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #344 – Amazon’s Coding Bot Bites the Hand That Runs It | Cloud Computing & AI News (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- The Amp Hour #717 – Back on the road in ’26 (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Big Technology Podcast – Pentagon Insider: What’s Next For Anthropic and The Department of War — With Michael Horowitz (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Three Smart Guys: It’s All About the Data (Mary Jo Foley)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #984 – How to Make a DOM Library Render Anything w/ Paolo Ricciuti (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The “Death of Agile” and Why It’s Really the Death of Empowerment That Should Frighten Us | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nigel Baker)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #198 – Evolving Lambda: from ephemeral compute to durable execution (Michael Gasch)
- Last Week in AI Podcast #235 – Sonnet 4.6, Deep-thinking tokens, Anthropic vs Pentagon (Andrey Kurenkov & Jeremie Harris)
Community and Events
- Join me – AgentCon NYC – March 9, 2026 – M365 Copilot Agent Options (Andrew Connell)
- Humble Games’ Former Bosses Buy the Studio’s Back Catalog (BeauHD)
- Amazon lays off robotics staff in latest cuts (Taylor Soper)
Database
- My thoughts on Redgate’s 2026 State of the Database Landscape report (Greg Low)
- What’s New in SSIS 2025? (Koen Verbeeck)
- SQL101: Indexing Strategies for SQL Server Performance (Paul S. Randal)
- How to secure MySQL and PostgreSQL in the world of AI (Lukas Vileikis)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: Vector Indexes Just Not There Yet (Erik Darling)
- 8 New T-SQL Analysis Rules to Catch Bugs Before They Reach Production (Erik EJ)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Microsoft is bringing clearer messaging to OneDrive errors (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- SharePoint at 25: How Microsoft is putting knowledge to work in the AI era (Jeff Teper)
- Altering M365 Copilot’s Default Workflow – It’s Possible! and My approach to DOM manipulation in SharePoint Framework (Andrew Connell)
- Microsoft SharePoint Gets New Agentic Capabilities and Governance Tools (Rabia Noureen)
PowerShell and Terminal
Writing
- A Quick Start Guide To Writing Emotions (Writers Write)
Tools
General
- Say hello to MacBook Neo (Apple)
- Microsoft isn’t launching a subscription-based Windows 12 AI OS in 2026. The rumors are just AI hallucinations. (Abhijith M B)
- A new video from the White House mixes Call of Duty footage with actual video of Iran strikes (Jay Peters)
- The State of Rust In 2025 (Janet Swift)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 4, 2026 (#734) (Richard Seroter)
- dotInsights | March 2026 (Rachel Appel)
The Geek Shelf
.NET MAUI Cookbook (Alexander Russkov) – Referral Link
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