Top Links
- Foundry Agent Service is GA: private networking, Voice Live, and enterprise-grade evaluations (Bala Venkataraman, Jeff Hollan & Nick Brady)
- Building Production-Ready, Secure, Observable, AI Agents with Real-Time Voice with Microsoft Foundry (Amanda K. Silver)
- Get the Inside Scoop on Visual Studio Subscriptions, Straight to Your Inbox (Jim Harrer)
- AI Toolkit for VS Code — March 2026 Update (Junjie Li)
- MAUI Avalonia Preview 1 (Tim Miller)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Agentic Workflows with Don Syme (Scott Hanselman)
- Awesome GitHub Copilot just got a website, and a learning hub, and plugins! (Matt Soucoup)
Web and Cloud Development
- How to Evaluate, Test, and Demo Azure Local (Thomas Maurer)
- Electron 41.0 (Charles Kerr & Noah Gregory)
- Developing Audit Logs with Duende IdentityServer Events (Maarten Balliauw)
- Lost Your SSH Key to an Azure VM? Don’t Panic. Here’s the Fix. (Shannon Kuehn)
- 4 Reasons That Make Tailwind Great for Building Layouts (Zell Liew)
- Introducing the Foursquare Ask API (Foursquare Team)
Windows Development
- Build Dynamic Data Logic with ExpressionEditor for WinForms and WPF (Greg Lutz)
- Windows stack limit checking retrospective: PowerPC (Raymond Chen)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Building a Remote MCP Server with .NET 10 and Prompts (Gora Leye)
- MCP C# SDK 1.0 Released (Kay Ewbank)
- Implementing RFC-compliant HTTP caching for HttpClient in .NET (Gérald Barré)
- How to Implement Decorator Pattern in C#: Step-by-Step Guide (Nick Cosentino)
- Natural Keys in the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
AI
- Foundry IQ: Give Your AI Agents a Knowledge Upgrade (Lee Stott)
- wt-mcp – An MCP server that helps reference and manage Windows Terminal settings and other terminal-related customizations (Carlos Zamora) – NuGet beta release here
- Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC: New solutions for Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI infrastructure and Physical AI (Yina Arenas)
- How I Set Up Claude Code to Run My Entire Dev Workflow (hyad)
- Nvidia Bets On OpenClaw, But Adds a Security Layer Via NemoClaw (BeauHD)
- Getting started with GitHub Copilot part 2, streamable responses (Chris Noring)
- Look Bro, I Know How to Write Good Code (Rob Conery)
- Comprehension Debt — the hidden cost of AI generated code (Addy Osmani)
- My custom agent used 87% fewer tokens when I gave it Skills for its MCP tools (Richard Seroter)
- Configure NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for Red Hat AI workloads (Erwan Gallen, Tarun Kumar, Antonin Stefanutti, Selbi Nuryyeva & Michey Mehta)
- Securing our codebase with autonomous agents (Cursor Team)
- New Microsoft Purview innovations for Fabric to safely accelerate your AI transformation (Darren Portillo)
- NVIDIA’s Open Models on Microsoft Foundry: (vaidyas)
- AI Snake-Oil Salesmen: How to Spot Them (Kellyn Gorman)
- OpenClaw Providers: Ollama Quickstart (OpenClaw Docs)
- Public preview: Voice-native agents in Microsoft Foundry (Qinying Liao)
- CodexBar v0.18.0 Release (Peter Steinberger) – Show usage stats for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, without having to login
- Generally Available: Evaluations, Monitoring, and Tracing in Microsoft Foundry (skohlmeier)
- Evaluating AI Agents: A Practical Guide with Microsoft Foundry (aprilk)
- Now in Foundry: VibeVoice-ASR, MiniMax M2.5, Qwen3.5-9B (Osi)
- Announcing the IQ Series: Foundry IQ (Ayca Bas)
- Interactive Rubber Ducking with GenAI (Oskar Dudycz)
- How to Deploy Your Own 24×7 AI Agent using OpenClaw (Manish Shivanandhan)
- Introducing Mistral Small 4 and How coding agents work and Coding agents for data analysis (Simon Willison)
- Anthropic makes a pricing change that matters for Claude’s longest prompts (Paul Sawers)
- Domain expertise still wanted: the latest trends in AI-assisted knowledge for developers (Erin Yepis)
- How We Taught AI Agents to See the Bigger Picture (Sergei Ugdyzhekov)
- Stop Writing Log File Viewers By Yourself (Alois Kraus)
- Agents write code. They don’t do software engineering. (Arjun Iyer)
- Cursor built a fleet of security agents to solve a familiar frustration (Frederic Lardinois)
- A Fraudster’s Paradise (Gilit Saporta & Shoshana Maraney)
- Trust, Two Truths, and the Coming Agent Swarm (Maxim Krivobok)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Actions (Kedasha Kerr)
- The Invisible Rewrite: Modernizing the Kubernetes Image Promoter (Sascha Grunert)
- Scaling Jenkins: Central Controller vs Instance Sprawl (Olga Bedrina)
- Kiro for Test-Driven Development (TDD) (Dror Helper)
- To test, or not to Test? Part 3 – Make it easier to recover from a defect (Urs Enzler)
- Why Your Growth Strategy Needs Auth0 Tenancy-as-a-Service (Eric Wu)
Mobile and Game Development
- Get inspired and take your apps to desktop (Ivy Knight)
- Accessibility (A11y) in .NET MAUI: What It Is and How to Implement It (Leomaris Reyes)
- Help Us Define The Direction Of Ionic! (Logan Brade)
- Marionette MCP – MCP server enabling AI agents to interact with Flutter apps at runtime – v0.4.0 Release (Jakub FijaĆkowski)
- Powered by Raspberry Pi: Singing fish, educational synths, and agile robots (Rosie Hattersley)
- Android 17 Leaks Reveal Major Redesign, AI Features, and Privacy Upgrades (Aminu Abdullahi)
Screencasts and Videos
- The Evolving Role of Architects in an AI World | Armchair Architects (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
- A new Agenting IDE by JetBrains and a Copilot Debuff for Students?? – Developer News 11/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- Meta Delays New AI Model and What to Expect from Nvidia This Week (AIDailyBrief)
- Foundry Agent Service: Build, Host, and Scale Intelligent Agent Systems at Scale (Microsoft Azure Team)
- AI Agentic Workflows in Terminal – GitHub Copilot CLI + Uno Platform! (Sam Basu)
- Build and Ship a Hosted Agent with VS Code AI Toolkit & Microsoft Foundry (Microsoft Developer Team)
- Build, Debug, and Deploy a Blender Hosted Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot (David Rousset)
- Tighten your Dev Loop with Hot Reload | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Kevin Bost)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Smooth Scaling Podcast Episode #22 – Observability as a Product — Building Platforms Engineers Actually Use with Iris Dyrmishi (José Quaresma)
- Betatalks, The Podcast Episode #126 – GenAI: Is Your Azure Architecture Ready? – with Toon Vanhoutte (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
- Fragmented AI Developer Podcast Episode #307 – Harness Engineering – the hard part of AI coding (Kaushik Gopal)
- The Presentation Podcast Episode #242 – Is Your Content a Presentation or a Document? (Troy Chollar, Sandy Johnson & Nolan Haims)
- React Native Radio Episode #356 – How Vercel Built the v0 App with React Native (Fernando Rojo, Mazen Chami & Robin Heinze)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #473 – A clean room rewrite? (Michael Kennedy)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Start Small and Keep Building in PowerShell with Mason Moser (James Petty)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #267 – AI SOC or AI in a SOC? Cutting Through Hype, Pricing Models, and SIEM Detection Efficacy with Raffy Marty (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- BONUS Why the Spotify Model Didn’t Work (Even at Spotify) With Marcus Hammarberg and Tore Fjaertoft | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #987 – Remote Coding Agents (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why leprechauns are shoemakers. The March equinox versus the vernal equinox. (Mignon Fogarty)
- InfoQ Podcast: Andres Almiray on How to Release Any Software to Any OS with JReleaser (Andres Almiray)
Community and Events
- My 2026 “Coding Retreat” (Rachel Kaufman)
Database
- Memory Grant Feedback Reduces the Impact of Outdated SQL Server Statistics (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
- CPU efficiency for MariaDB, MySQL and Postgres on TPROC-C with a small server (Mark Callaghan)
- Now Generally Available: Cosmos DB Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric with Private Networks (Jai Maldonado)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Outlook and 365 Hit by Widespread Outages, Users Report Login and Email Failures (Aminu Abdullahi)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.6 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Tools
- Announcing Files v4.0.36 (Files Team)
- đNew app Alert! Trowser (Joseph Finney)
- Introducing sshimg.nvim: Paste Images into Remote Neovim over SSH (Alexander Zeitler)
General
- Microsoft introduces new power settings in latest Windows 11 Canary build (Sofia Elizabella WyciĆlik-Wilson)
- Microsoft teases image support in Notepad for Windows 11 ahead of roll out (Mayank Parmar)
- How to efficiently prepare for a Microsoft exam: a complete guide (Greg Low)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 16, 2026 (#742) (Richard Seroter)
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – March 15 (Peter Ritchie)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon S3 turns 20, Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver general availability, and more (March 16, 2026) (Esra Kayabali)
- Reading Notes #689 (Frank Boucher)
- Fragments: March 16 (Martin Fowler)
