Top Links
- React Native Windows v0.82 is here!! (Abhijeet Jha & Vivek Khare)
- Give your Foundry Agent Custom Tools with MCP Servers on Azure Functions (Lily Ma)
- Aspire Docs in Your Terminal (and Your AI’s Brain) (David Pine)
- Explore union types in C# 15 (Bill Wagner)
- Spec-Driven Development with Markdown for AI Workflows (Kaviya Priya Rajakumar)
- Gemma 4: The new standard for local agentic intelligence on Android (Matthew McCullough)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0 Release (Dmytro Struk)
Web and Cloud Development
- MCP Apps on Azure Functions: Quick Start with TypeScript (Swapnil Nagar)
- Cookie-controlled PHP webshells: A stealthy tradecraft in Linux hosting environments (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
- Smarter Live Streaming at Scale: Rolling Out VBR for All Netflix Live Events (Renata Teixeira, Zhi Li, Reenal Mahajan & Wei Wei)
- Making Complex CSS Shapes Using shape() (Temani Afif)
Windows Development
- What is and how do you create and open a CFG (config) file? (Alex Marin)
- Why doesn’t the system let you declare your own messages to have the same semantics as WM_COPYDATA? (Raymond Chen)
- New Native PowerShell Support for Intune Win32 Apps (Horatiu Vladasel)
.NET and Visual Studio
- What Is a .NET Obfuscator and How Does It Protect Your Code? (Ben Nettleton)
AI
- Model Upgrade and Migration Strategy for Microsoft Foundry (Dr. Ravi Nagvekar)
- Introducing MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
- AI broke your architecture? Here’s how to fix it (Jon Hilton)
- Give Your AI Coding Assistant Duende Expertise with Agent Skills and MCP Server (Maarten Balliauw)
- The Toolkit Pattern (Andrew Stellman)
- Programming (with AI agents) as theory building (Sean Goedecke)
- Why smart PMs are using vibe coding to cut design delays (Replit Team)
- Agents can now verify your UI changes without leaving VS Code (Bart Wullems)
- Meet the new Cursor (Cursor Team)
- Generate SDKs from your Postman collections in Six Languages (Postman Team)
- Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device (merve, Pedro Cuenca, Sergio Paniego, Ben Burtenshaw, Steven Zheng, Alvaro Bartolome & Nathan Habib)
- Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) for Azure AI Applications using Azure Machine Learning (Vaibhav Pandey)
- Microsoft releases new AI models to expand further beyond OpenAI (Todd Bishop)
- OpenClaw Gets a Microsoft 365 Champion While VS Code Tooling Stays Nascent (David Ramel)
- Introducing the Agent Governance Toolkit: Open-source runtime security for AI agents (Imran Siddique)
- Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take on Claude Code and Codex (Maxwell Zeff)
- Threat actor abuse of AI accelerates from tool to cyberattack surface (Sherrod DeGrippo)
- What the AI trust gap means for enterprise SaaS (Eira May)
- Prompty VS Code v2.0.0-pre.1 (Seth Juarez)
- Code like a PIRATE with Junie and GoLand (Anna Protsenko)
- Microsoft execs warn agentic AI is hollowing out the junior developer pipeline (Darryl K. Taft)
- Bring state-of-the-art agentic skills to the edge with Gemma 4 (Google AI Edge Team)
- Gemma 4 is Here: Now Available on Docker Hub (Jennifer Angeles)
- Why coding agents will break your CI/CD pipeline (and how to fix it) (Arjun Iyer)
- Securing AI Document Agents with LlamaIndex and Auth0 (Sam Bellen & Clelia Astra Bertelli)
- How Do We Know AI Isn’t Lying? The Art of Evaluating LLMs in RAG Systems (ditisaxena)
- Build a Fully Offline AI App with Foundry Local and CAG (Lee Stott)
- Essential Claude Code Skills for Mobile Developers (ProMobile.Dev)
- AI Hasn’t Made Developers Faster, It’s Made Their Review Queues Longer! (ShiftMag)
- Which AI Coding Tools Do Developers Actually Use at Work? (Mikhail Bogdanov)
- Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models (Simon Willison)
- Codex now offers more flexible pricing for teams (OpenAI Team)
- Harnessing Claude’s intelligence (Claude Team)
- OpenClaw v2026.4.2 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Harness engineering for coding agent users (Martin Fowler)
Python
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Systems Thinking (Rocky Lhotka)
- What’s New in Advanced Installer Version 23.6 (Advanced Installer Team)
- Defending Your Software Supply Chain: What Every Engineering Team Should Do Now (Dan Berezin Stelzer)
Mobile and Game Development
- Getting Started with the .NET MAUI Speech-to-Text Button Control (Héctor Pérez)
- Android Studio supports Gemma 4: our most capable local model for agentic coding (Matthew Warner)
- Announcing Gemma 4 in the AICore Developer Preview (David Chou & Caren Chang)
- Part 3 – Babylon.js 9.0: OpenPBR and additional engine updates (Steve Clarke)
- Increase Guidance and Control over Agent Mode with Android Studio Panda 3 (Matt Dyor)
- Xbox FanFest: Going on Tour for a 25th Anniversary Celebration (Joe Skrebels)
Screencasts and Videos
- Agent Skills Masterclass with Nufar Gaspar (AIDailyBrief)
- Migrations with Azure SQL | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Uros Milanovic)
- I built a website in 10 minutes with GitHub Copilot CLI and Copilot CLI for beginners: Plan, delegate, and review (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Tech talk, Web Dev, Open Source, and the Library has opened | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Welcoming Angular to native cross-platform .NET apps with Uno Platform! (Sam Basu)
- Create and install an F1 inspired MCP Server in VS Code | Visual Studio Code (Liam Hampton)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- A Geek Leader Episode #463 – Preston Zeller (John Rouda)
- The Modern .NET Show – IoT and .NET nanoFramwork: Andy Clark on Building Beyond the Limits (Jamie Taylor)
- No Dogma Podcast Episode #180 – Todd Gardner, CertKit, Part 1 – How Certificates Work (Bryan Hogan)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Tips and Tricks For Your Next EA Renewal (Mary Jo Foley)
- Lenny’s Podcast – An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #137 – Kia EV3 & Subaru Getaway: Two Massive Debuts for US Families (Batteries Included Team)
- Why Scrum Master Success Means Confronting the Ugly Truth With Data | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Bhavin Shukla)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The 3,000 hidden colors of the dictionary, with Kory Stamper (Mignon Fogarty)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #351 – Agentic Coding and the Economics of Open Source (Miklós Koren & Chris Benson)
- Build Mode Podcast – Diverse teams start with diverse VCs with Leah Solivan, Taskrabbit (Isabelle Johannessen)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #348 – Compliance Theater Now Available as a Subscriptions | Cloud Computing & AI News (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- The AWS Developer Podcast Episode #202 – Agent-Native Serverless Development (Shridhar Pandey)
- Fragmented, AI Developer Podcast Episode #309 – Background Agents (Kaushik Gopal)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – How can you test your code when you don’t know what’s in it? and The Stack Overflow Podcast – Seizing the means of messenger production (Phoebe Sajor)
Database
- Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Query Performance Tabs, Including Query Store (Erik Darling)
- Azure SQL Managed Instance as an AI‑Enabled PaaS Platform (Shivani Thadiyan)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Better contrast checking for slides in PowerPoint (Shireen Salma)
- Announcing Windows 365 connector for Microsoft Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps (Public Preview) (Ivaylo Ivanov)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.17 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Tools
- Visual Studio Code 1.114 Keeps Weekly Cadence Rolling with Chat, Search and TypeScript Updates (David Ramel)
- Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.1 Release (Ben Hillis)
General
- How to pass Microsoft certification exams: tips and guidance (Greg Low)
- A deep dive into….homebrew’s internals (Rachel Kaufman)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – April 2, 2026 (#755) (Richard Seroter)
- Fragments: April 2 (Martin Fowler)