Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – Coding for Security with Chris Ayers (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Tools and Skills: Better Together (Rocky Lhotka)
- Visual Studio Version 11619.145 Insiders Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.4.2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Build an Offline Hybrid RAG Stack with ONNX and Foundry Local (Lee Stott)
- Visual Studio Code 1.114 (Visual Studio Code Team)
- Resolve Merge Conflicts the Easy Way (Phil Haack)
Web and Cloud Development
- Deploying the TX Text Control Document Editor from the Private NuGet Feed to Azure App Services (Linux and Windows) (Bjoern Meyer)
- Contravariance on TypeScript Function Parameters (Dhananjay Kumar)
- WebStorm 2026.1: Service-powered TypeScript Engine, Junie, Claude Agent, and Codex in the AI chat, Framework Updates, and More (Vladislav Minaev)
- Jetpack Social Just Got a Major Upgrade: Create, Customize, Preview, and Share with Confidence (WordPress Team)
- Aspire on Azure App Service is now Generally Available (Tulika C.)
- A gentle intro to npm workspaces, with visuals (Carlos Precioso)
- What’s New for Blazor in .NET 11 Preview Releases 1 and 2 (Jon Hilton)
- A Guide to the Law of Common Region in Web Development (Andrew Peterson)
Windows Development
- How can I change a dialog box’s message loop to do a MsgWaitForMultipleObjects instead of GetMessage? (Raymond Chen)
- What’s new in Windows SDK build 10.0.26100.7705 and Windows App SDK 1.8 release notes – Version 1.8.6 (1.8.260317003) (Microsoft Learn)
.NET and Visual Studio
- How to Work With Dapper in .NET (Grant Riordan)
- Fast .NET CLI Downloader (Bryan Hogan)
- Compile-Time options validation with the OptionsValidator source generator (Bart Wullems)
AI
- Introducing Syncfusion Agent Skills: Component-Aware AI for Accurate, Faster Development (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
- Build a Star Wars Copilot in C# – Lesson 5: MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Lesson 6: RAG from a Database and Lesson 7: Multimodal Image Generation and Lesson 8: Agents and Orchestration (Jim Bennett)
- Everyone is a builder: Microsoft and OpenAI execs on the new era of AI-powered personal software (Taylor Soper)
- Apple Can Create Smaller On-Device AI Models From Google’s Gemini (BeauHD)
- Guardrails for Generative AI: Securing Developer Workflows (Siddhi Gupta)
- Langchain Multi-Agent Systems with Microsoft Agent Framework and Hosted Agents (Lee Stott)
- Building Real AI Agents in 2026 — My Ongoing Journey Over the past few months, I… (Kevin Logan)
- The Claude Code Handbook: A Professional Introduction to Building with AI-Assisted Development (Vahe Aslanyan)
- Deploying AI Models with Hugging Face (Beau Carnes)
- Getting My OpenClaw Around VS Code (David Ramel)
- Claude Code auto mode: a safer way to skip permissions (Anthropic Team)
- From Lights-On to Lights-Out: Rethinking Software Delivery in the Age of AI (Mirco Hering)
- Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more Google products (Myriam Hamed Torres)
- AI Safety Is a Category Error (Jeffrey Snover)
- OpenClaw v2026.3.24 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Build with Lyria 3, our newest music generation model (Guillaume Vernade)
- Run cloud agents in your own infrastructure (Cursor Team)
- Inside our approach to the Model Spec and Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program (OpenAI Team)
- New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction (Molly Taft)
- Spotting and Avoiding ROT in Your Agentic AI (Q McCallum)
- Closing the knowledge gap with agent skills (Philipp Schmid & Mark McDonald)
- Claw Camp – A self-directed way to learn more about using OpenClaw to create AI agent teams (Nathaniel Whittemore)
- Shared Agent Context: How We Are Tackling Partner Agent Collaboration (dbandaru)
- Agent Reasoning: The Thinking Layer (Oracle Developers Team)
- 5 ways to collaborate with our agentic advisors (Ashutosh Kumar Mishra)
- Advice for Startups: Build Without Waiting with Replit (Microsoft Student Developer Team)
Python
- Expanding Our Core Web Development Support in PyCharm 2026.1 (Ilia Afanasiev)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Why Octopus invests in developer experience (Steve Fenton)
- Best CI Tools for 2026: What the Data Actually Shows (Olga Bedrina)
- Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code (Sean Goedecke)
- Verified Argo CD deployments (Frank Lin)
- Thoughts on slowing the fuck down (Simon Willison)
- Identity security is the new pressure point for modern cyberattacks (Rob Lefferts & Nadim Abdo)
Mobile and Game Development
- .NET MAUI v10.0.51 SR5.1 Release (Shane Neuville)
- Swift 6.3 Brings First SDK for Android (Paul Thurrott)
- Android Sets New Record for Mobile Web Performance (Eric Seckler)
- March Xbox Update: New Console Updates Available to Insiders, Xbox at GDC, and More (Mike Nelson)
- New In-App Purchase and subscription data now available in Analytics (Apple Developer Team)
Screencasts and Videos
- Work AGI is the Only AGI that Matters (AIDailyBrief)
- What is MCP and how does it work with AI? (GitHub Team)
- Build & Deploy a fullstack JavaScript App with GitHub Copilot CLI and Azure MCP (Karishma Ghiya)
- Random.Code() – Excluding Properties From Records in C#, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
- Your Website Is Running Code You’ve Never Seen – NDC Security 2026 (Scott Helme)
- The Foundation of AI: Why Your Data Platform Matters Most | Building the AI Era Ep. 2 (MongoDB Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1171 – The crossword puzzle’s role in World War II and the fight against Nazism. (Mignon Fogarty)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #713 – Héctor Ramón Jiménez on Building a GUI library in Rust (Gavin Henry)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #542 – Zensical – a modern static site generator (Michael Kennedy)
- Windows Weekly Episode #976 – Full Thurrottle – Microsoft’s Plan To Save Windows in 2026 (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
- PPP 503 | How to Facilitate Meetings That Actually Lead to Decisions, with Evan Unger (Andy Kaufman)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #350 – AI at the Edge is a different operating environment (Brandon Shibley, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Big Technology Podcast – Senator Mark Warner: Nobody’s Ready for What AI Could Do To Us (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #990 – Vite Is Taking Over (Vite+) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Fighting Agile Theater, When Organizations Adopt the Ceremonies But Not the Mindset | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Iryna Stelmakh)
- InfoQ Podcast: [Video Podcast] Agentic Systems Without Chaos: Early Operating Models for Autonomous Agents (Joseph Stein)
Community and Events
- Announcing the winners of the SharePoint Hackathon 2026 (Vesa Juvonen)
- Meta is laying off hundreds of employees as it pours money into AI (Emma Roth)
- The 2026 Redgate Summit in New York City (Steve Jones)
- Meta is cutting several hundred jobs (Aisha Malik)
- This Week’s Health IT Jobs – March 25, 2026 (Neil Versel)
- Philadelphia Histories Month (Visit Philly)
Database
- An Introduction to Database System Design (Olasunkanmi Emmanuel Jesuferanmi)
- Hyper-threading on Azure VMs is a SQL Licensing Trap (Joe Obbish)
- SQL101: Top Ten SQL Server Performance Tuning Best Practices (Paul S. Randal)
- Announcing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless database creation in seconds (Channy Yun)
- Everything you should know about the SQL Server Resource database (Greg Low)
- Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Which Version Is Right For You? (Erik Darling)
- MySQL at 30 – does it still have a future? [Q&A] (Ian Barker)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- PowerPoint: Edit with Copilot, Brand Kit and Image Gen: Overview + demo- March 2026 M365 Champions Community call (Tiffany Lee)
- Microsoft 365 Copilot app learning series: Real‑world scenarios for your workday (Patrick Gan)
PowerShell and Terminal
Writing
- What Is Body Language? Cheat Sheets For Writing Body Language (Writers Write)
- Vim + Markdown = Writer’s Heaven (Armand Halbert)
Tools
General
- Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting a Windows 10-like compact taskbar, not just a movable taskbar (Mayank Parmar)
- Postal Service to Impose Its First-Ever Fuel Surcharge on Packages (BeauHD)
- The Government’s Shittiest Website (Todd Feathers)
- Stephen Colbert To Write Next ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie (BeauHD)
- The United States router ban, explained (Sean Hollister)
- Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case (Lauren Feiner)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 25, 2026 (#749) (Richard Seroter)
