• Announcing TechBash 2027 Dates and New Format (TechBash Team)
• Intelligent Terminal 0.3: A new way to manage your tabs and agents (Hamza Usmani)
• Bringing iPhone Duo APIs to .NET MAUI (Pieter Nijs)
• .NET Rocks! - The Future We Were Promised Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Keep learning, keep building! Make the most of VSLive! with your Visual Studio Subscription (James Rempt)
• Give your coding agent a head start with Microsoft Agent Framework skills for .NET and Python (Eduard van Valkenburg & Wes Steyn)

Web and Cloud Development

• React DOCX Editor: Add Word-Like Editing to Your Web App (Deepika Kathiravan)
• TypeScript PR: Add wasip1 support, enabling CLI, API, browser, sync/async (Jake Bailey)
• Discord to Drop Electron and React Native, Rewriting Its Clients in Rust With GPUI (Joho Todai)
• How to Validate PDF Digital Signatures in JavaScript with Timestamps and Long-Term Validation (LTV) (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
• How to Fix React State Updates with Immutable Data and How to Master JavaScript Destructuring and Spread Syntax and Stop Unnecessary React Context Re-renders (JS Dev)
• A new Go API for JSON (Michael Pratt, Joe Tsai, Daniel Martí, Johan Brandhorst-Satzkorn, Roger Peppe, Chris Hines & Damien Neil)
• Why React Server Components Need a Bundler (The React Systems Newsletter)
• A New Workspace for Building with WordPress (Rich Tabor)
• How to Debug and Validate HTML: A Practical Workflow (HTML5 Doctor)
• jQuery 4 - Plugins (Ian Elliot)

Windows Development

• There are things with ranks, but it’s not always clear what the ranks mean (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Your .NET parallel loop can become serial in a one-CPU container (Guilherme Appel)
• Designing C# Event Contracts: Payloads, Notifications, and Decisions and Connect an Existing C# MCP Server to Claude Code (Nick Cosentino)
• redb Route XML for VS Code: projects from templates, markup, a route graph and Mermaid diagrams (Kozin Rinat)
• Sync vs Async File I/O in .NET: Raw Throughput, Scalability, and Buffer Size (Gérald Barré)
• High performance data structures design & optimizing for the GC (Oren Eini)
• AutoMapper vs Mapster vs Manual Mapping (Softinbit Tech)

AI

• Is the cheap model good enough? How to test a new model in your agent (Jim Bennett)
• OpenClaw v2026.11.1 Release (RomneyDa)
• Nothing teases a screen-free AI device ahead of launch next month (Stevie Bonifield)
• How to Use AI for Rust Development: Lessons From an OpenAI Engineer (Irina Mihajlovic)
• Context Graph Makes GPT 6.1 Terra 42% Faster and Uses 43% Less Tokens (Talia Kohan)
• Thinking About AI, with AI (Eleanor Berger)
• Don’t vibe code your software factory (Zach Lloyd)
• How to Train Your own Decision Model like Jev using Unsloth (Kanwal Mehreen)
• Microsoft’s MAI-DxO: Could AI Transform Medical Diagnosis? (Kieron Allen)
• Daybreak Red is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) (OpenAI Team)
• Measuring AI’s Impact on Delivery Speed (James Shore)
• Resonant Computing and Common Fabric (Alex Komoroske & Tim O’Reilly)
• Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage (MIT Technology Review Insights)

Python

• Python Mastery eBook Bundle | Pragmatic Programmers Books (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Advanced Java Deployments with Octopus (Matthew Casperson)
• Open source as a research method (Daniel Lemire)
• Starting a new tutorial series on Event Modeling w/ the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Designing Dynamic Applications for Users and Agents (Hassan Djirdeh)

Mobile and Game Development

• Finally, Apple Frees us from Domains (Jordan Morgan)
• Xbox previews two new ways to control cloud games (Tom Warren)

Screencasts and Videos

• Code it with AI Episode #53: Testing Models on a Mac Mini (Rocky Lhotka & Carl Franklin)
• Protecting and Re-Monetizing Live Content with Agentic Intelligence | Support Partners (Microsoft Azure Team)
• Get your skills recognized with GitHub Copilot verified proficiency (GitHub Team)
• Sealed classes (Technique of the Week) (Flutter Team)
• Apple Intelligence Group Lab | 11/4/26 | Meet with Apple (Apple Developer Team)
• AI Lurches Towards RSI (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast - Grammarpalooza! The 20th anniversary game show extravaganza (Mignon Fogarty)
• BONUS AI Makes Starting Work Easy, But Flow Still Finishes It | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Liz Rettig)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #379 - Abundant Intelligence at the Midwest AI Summit Part 2 (Don Barger, Mark Lay, Darren Tallie & Daniel Whitenack)
• Developer Tea Podcast - Three Default Thinking Modes That Can Screw Up Your Planning and Vision (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Big Technology Podcast - Will the Democrats’ Big Win Stop the AI Buildout? (Alex Kantrowitz & Teddy Schleifer)
• The Changelog Podcast Episode #689 - We now have Kerr’s Law (Dave Kerr & Adam Stacoviak)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #745 - Andrew Tridgell on Flight Control Software (Jason Davey)
• Windows Weekly Episode #1008 - The Thurrottification of Tech - Microsoft FY27 Q1 Results & XBOX COO Mystery (Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell & Mikah Sargent)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #227 - CI/CD for coding agents: when validation becomes the bottleneck (Dan Manges)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #535 - How an SRE Leader Built an AI Engine to Navigate His Job Search (Taylor Dessyn)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1053 - What’s in Our Home Lab (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)

Community and Events

• Microsoft Ignite 2026: Build an agenda that moves your business forward (Jill Armour)
• JetBrains Foundation to discontinue new scholarships at Constructor University starting in 2027 (Alena Gupaisova)
• Microsoft announces change to director slate for Annual Shareholders Meeting (Samantha Kubota)

Database

• DOP and Tipping Points In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
• The Top 10 SQL Server Wait Types, Worldwide (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Limits, Verified: Eleven Records Pushed to the Edge (Pinal Dave)
• ANSI String Concatenation in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL Database (Leonard Lobel)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Deprecation notice: Low-trust SharePoint add-ins in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (SharePoint Team)
• OneDrive and SharePoint at Microsoft Ignite 2026: What to Expect (Sophia Peng)
• Your voice shapes SPFx: take our developer survey (Vesa Juvonen)

PowerShell and Terminal

• DSC 3.0: running your own PowerShell with getScript, testScript and setScrip (Bart Wullems)

Writing

• The Ultimate Rewriting Checklist For Authors (Writers Write)

General

• Linux Mint 27 arrives next month, and I like it already: New features and other upgrades to expect (Steven Vaughan-Nichols)
• 3D Print a Star Wars Control Panel (Will Muto)
• Knives Are Out in the White House (Hugo Lowell)
• Washington voters keep millionaires tax, splitting tech leaders over the state’s competitive edge (Kurt Schlosser)
• DuckDuckGo pitches itself to schools amid backlash over Google’s AI policy (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – November 4, 2026 (#903) (Richard Seroter)
• .NET R&D Digest (October, 2026) (Oleg Karasik)
• Windows news you can use: October 2026 (Chris Morrissey)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) - Referral Link A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.

• Delivering Skills in NuGet packages (Richard Lander)
• My Favorite Undocumented Feature in SQL MCP Server (Jerry Nixon)
• Raising the bar for 8 GB Windows 11 PCs: what’s improved and how to get it (Pavan Davuluri)
• Get Ready for .NET Conf 2026! (.NET Team)
• Introducing Tiny Clips Studio: Screen Recordings You Can Keep Editing (James Montemagno)
• Announcing XAML IntelliSense Support in the WinApp VS Code Extension (Chiara Mooney)

Web and Cloud Development

• Fun never gets old: 30 years of creative constraints on the web (Patrick Brosset)
• A Walk-Thru of Knowledge Graph Builder, the Blazor WebAssembly App That Runs Entirely In Your Browser (Michael Washington)
• Securing an Angular Firebase AI App with Email/Password Authentication (Part 2: Signal Forms Sign-In Modal) [GDE] (Connie Leung)
• Blazor Basics: Persisting Component State in Blazor with .NET 10 (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Re-Implementing :nth-child() With Modern CSS (Temani Afif)
• Wednesday, November 11, 2026 Security Releases (Node.js Team)
• Modern CSS Might Make Your Front-End More Complex (Gabriel Shoyombo)
• Next.js: November 2026 Security Release (Sebastian Silbermann)
• Jetpack 16.4 release: One Protect page, a new Backup dashboard, and more (Devin Walker)
• WebKit: Introducing Adaptive Dark Mode (Simon Fraser, Luming Yin, Lily Spiniolas, Joanne Pan, Veda Periwal & Jen Simmons)

Windows Development

• Sparse Package (Howard Kapustein)
• Windows App SDK v2.6.5 Stable Channel Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK v2.6.5 (NuGet Gallery)
• How do you implement a random-access database when you don’t have random-access external storage? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Code 1.146 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Data Smoothing with the Nadaraya-Watson Kernel Technique Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Create AI-Ready Enterprise Content with the Syncfusion .NET Document Chunking Library [Webinar Show Notes] (Anantha Lakshmi Kannan)
• Hear What Your IDE Is Doing: New Sound Cues in JetBrains IDEs (Sasha Ivanova)
• EF Core vs redb: an object graph against 54 tables and Include (Kozin Rinat)
• Migrating to runtime async (Gérald Barré)

AI

• Letting GitHub Copilot drive your desktop with computer use (Bart Wullems)
• Use Your GitHub Copilot Plan in JetBrains Air – in Your IDE and in the Cloud (Vladimir Gromozdin)
• Build an Offline AI Voice Notebook on Raspberry Pi with Microsoft Foundry Local (Jiong Shi)
• Siri AI is now open to all developers (Apple Developer Team)
• MCP vs API vs CLI: How Should AI Agents Connect to Your App? (Vince Canger)
• Go beyond the basics: Explore specialized Azure plugins for your AI agent (Yun Jung Choi)
• Top Gen AI Frameworks for Go in 2026: A Hands-On Comparison (Xavier Portilla Edo)
• MIT Researchers Used GPT-6 Astra To Edit Qwen's Open Weights Directly, Boosting Math Scores (BeauHD)
• Designing responsible AI for learning (Chris Phillips)
• Firefox Devtools MCP Updated (Ian Elliot)
• AI in the learning era (Google)
• Cost per task: Using cheap classifiers to route across Gemini models and thinking levels (Sergio Villani)
• My vacation agent is struggling: how AI-ready are services? (Anthony Viard)
• Run Open Source AI Models, Transcribe Audio And Search Datasets With Hugging Face (Kin Lane)
• How Developers Can Improve Their Learning and Productivity with AI (SitePoint Team)
• Local AI Is the Next Personal Computing Revolution (Chris Pietschmann)
• StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents (Kyle Wiggers)
• Palette: teaching a small model to build decks in your design language (Praveen Venkateswaran, Anupama Murthi & Hamid Adebayo)
• Microsoft says the future of AI doesn't require a monster PC, even 8GB Windows machines have a role (Sean Endicott)
• Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (Simon Willison)
• New context engineering challenges in late 2026 (Harrison Chase)
• Using CosmosDB for Chat History and Semantic Caching (Lino Tadros)

Python

• Python for AI Development eBook Bundle | EduXpress (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• mssql-python 1.17.0: more reliable bulk copy, faster pool recovery, and DB-API fixes (David Levy)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• TeamCity 2026.2.2 and 2026.1.6 Updates (Dmitrii Korovin)
• Turning Repeated Mentoring Help Into Reusable Learning (Nick Cosentino)
• Flow-based specifications with Bobcat (Jeremy D. Miller)

Mobile and Game Development

• Product compliance, demystified: how Raspberry Pi helps you get to market (Ashley)
• Swap File and Stability::OrangePi (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• The App Is Just the Tip: What It Takes to Build Mobile Infrastructure at Scale (Kirill Sokolov)
• Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world (Alex Perrault)

Screencasts and Videos

• A new way to use GitHub Copilot in JetBrains IDEs (GitHub Team)
• Scott & Mark Learn To...100 Duck-Sized Horses (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Emily Lovell (Isaac Levin)
• Building better computer use for agents (Warp Team)
• .NET on Mac with Live Tiles! | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Declarative Agents unleashed: What's New, What's Next - Copilot Dev Camp Summit Fall 2026 (Rabia Williams & Rachit Malik)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Legacy Code | NDC Oslo 2026 (William Brander)
• Random.Code() - Making Reflection Faster and (Hopefully) Safer, Part 5 (Jason Bock)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #45 - Will State Law Solve the Library eBook Crisis? (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• RunAs Radio Show #1061 - PowerShell 7.7 and DSC 3.3 with Jason Helmick (Richard Campbell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1049 - Touch It If You Like - The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display (Jason Snell, Andy Ihnatko & Christina Warren)
• PPP 527 | The Watermelon Problem: When Projects Look Better Than They Are, with Dr. Atif Ansar (Andy Kaufman)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #568 - Cloudflare Python Workers (Michael Kennedy)
• BONUS AI Is Not Just Typing Faster | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Marcus Hammarberg)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - 4 tiny writing errors that caused huge problems on the ballot. What does ‘batten down the hatches’ mean? (Mignon Fogarty)

Community and Events

• Microsoft Posts the .NET Conf 2026 Schedule (Paul Thurrott)
• JetBrains: The User Group Support Program Is Becoming the Developer Communities Program (Lena Morozova)
• SUSE To Cut One In Ten Employees Because of AI (BeauHD)
• Filing: Amazon’s previously announced layoffs include 95 jobs in Washington state and Microsoft opens Imagine Cup to startups, and the new rules show how its AI strategy has changed (Todd Bishop)
• Join me at Microsoft Ignite 2026: Sovereign Cloud and AI (Thomas Maurer)
• Don’t miss Seattle tech’s biggest holiday party: Get early bird tickets for the GeekWire Gala (John Cook)

Database

• ChatGPT runs on Azure Cosmos DB. Prove you can build what’s next. (Azure Cosmos DB Team)
• Migrate Arc-registered SQL Server instances to Azure without deploying the Arc agent (Subhojit Basak)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• How Outlook Search is changing: ranking, resilience, and the feedback loop (Elbio Abib)
• Introducing SharePoint tools in Work IQ (Patrick Rodgers)
• Your app needs documents. Do you really want to build a document platform? (Steve Pucelik)

PowerShell and Terminal

• The A2A CLI and Rust: The Same Code, Three Ways to Serve It (xbill)

Writing

• Date your writing (Emily Munro)
• Write mo' (Dave Rupert)

Tools

• GitHub Desktop Beta | GitHub Desktop - Now with Support for Multiple GitHub Accounts (GitHub Desktop Team)
• haptic-outside-labs: A small tray app that “makes more things haptic” on Windows. Supports Surface touchpads with haptics and the new Surface Haptic Mouse. (Scott Hanselman)
• PowerToys Dev Preview v0.103.3062.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Presidents of both parties defended libraries as allies of democracy for a century – until Trump (Alex H. Poole)
• Dinosaur Blood Found In Fossils For the First Time and Google Will Turn Off Search For Schools That Reject AI (BeauHD)
• Democrats Sweep Republicans in Nearly Every Race That Matters (Hugo Lowell)
• What Is ReactOS? How It Works and How to Try It Safely (Marcus Pruitt)
• The Xbox Nano has a hidden cloud secret (Tom Warren)
• What Is New in Linux Lite 8.2 — Linux Kernel 7.3, MyAI Local LLM Suite, Lite Game Center, and LUKS Fixes (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows 11’s September update reshapes key parts of the OS, and these 3 customizations instantly make the new release feel faster, cleaner, and more personal to use (Mauro Huculak)
• GM’s $220 Million Data Privacy Settlement: What Drivers Need to Know (Joseph Ofonagoro)
• HHS’ Office for Civil Rights Settles Ransomware Investigation of Lehigh Valley Health Network (Dissent)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – November 3, 2026 (#902) (Richard Seroter)
• Radar Trends to Watch: November 2026 (Mike Loukides)

The Geek Shelf

C# 15 and .NET 11 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Learn C# from scratch and build websites and web services with .NET 11 using Visual Studio 2027.

• TechBash 2027 - Save the Date (TechBash Team)
• Making the migration affordable (Mark Downie)
• Nine engineers, 1,211 pull requests in a day: Lessons from building Copilot Cowork (Bas Brekelmans)
• What is tool calling in AI? Build a simple .NET example (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• The value of long lived software in AI driven world (Oren Eini)
• Windows App SDK v2.6.5 Release (agniuks)

Web and Cloud Development

• Making features generic in CSS (Rachel Andrew)
• Ollama with C# and .NET: Run a Local LLM in ASP.NET Core (AI Engineering Foundry)
• Client-side threat detection: how Scareware blocker uncovered malicious notification abuse (Microsoft Edge Team)
• Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access: one offering for Private Access and Internet Access (Yair Tor)
• Introduction to gRPC as a Tool for Connecting Microservices (Christian Nwamba)
• Your First Performance Test in Postman: A Quick Guide (Giridhar)
• The Hidden Risk of Microsoft Entra Application Identities (Liam Cleary)

Windows Development

• In C++, = default and are not the same constructor (Daniel Lemire)
• Animations in one attribute - Live demo (OpenSilver Team)

.NET and Visual Studio

• DuckDB.NET 1.5.6.1: Appending Dates Up to 27× Faster (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• Retrofitting existing xUnit.Net tests to Bobcat (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Use Claude Code Hooks for Targeted .NET Verification (Nick Cosentino)
• The best way to create Claude skills in .NET (David Grace)
• Understanding Lazy thread safety modes (Andrew Lock)

AI

• Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test (James O'Donnell)
• AI readiness starts with data ownership (Yuvaraj Birari)
• Transformers Model Integration Contracts (Tarek Ziadé)
• What I Learned Building a RAG Server on my Home Server (Ian Miell)
• Progress on provable inference for large language models (Anthropic Team)
• Learnings from building our public MCP server (Calvin Li)
• OpenClaw v2026.10.10 Release (RomneyDa)
• Scaling Git at OpenAI (OpenAI Team)
• AI agent collisions: Worktrees aren't enough (Adron Hall)
• The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence” (Simon Willison)
• LLMs are not superhuman at reading and writing neural network weights (Sean Goedecke)
• 50 AI agents tried to build a thriving Minecraft civilization – it didn’t end well (Radhika Rajkumar)
• Five ways to build early-career readiness in the AI era (AncaIordache)
• Manage MCP context with Postman Fabric Gateway (Gbadebo Bello)
• OpenAI’s new shared usage limit pits ChatGPT against Codex (Paul Sawers)
• AI Helps Write the Translation. It Does Not Translate the Data. (John Moehrke)
• Jev AI vs. Structured-Output LLMs: Which One Should You Actually Use? (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)
• Hierarchical budgets: manage AI spend the way your company is organized (Devin AI Team)
• Make long-running agents faster with message threads (Claude Team)
• Systemic Approach to Memory, Knowledge, and Context in Agentic AI Architectures (Adi Polak)
• Practical Loop Engineering (Addy Osmani)
• Stop counting tokens, start counting what ships (Affan Syed)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Where should your code live in a Docker Sandbox? (Jin Kim)
• Gating Video Renders on Loudness and Format in a Jenkins Pipeline (Mark Santos)
• Speculating on Challenges of Spec-Driven Development (Tim Ottinger)
• My Team Is Growing, How Do I Structure Who Gets Access to What? (Iria Osara & Sudhanshu Khera)
• What exploited vulnerabilities have in common: A data-driven analysis of real-world attacks (Yair Tsarfaty & Or Begam)
• Thinking Like a Programmer: Turning a Vague Request Into Working Code (Softinbit Tech)
• More hats. Same head. (Peter Smulovics)

Mobile and Game Development

• Tips for Getting Started with .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• OAuth Token Exchange in Practice: Building a Snake Game (Maarten Balliauw)

Screencasts and Videos

• Do It With Style: Rethinking CSS | NDC Oslo 2026 (Dylan Beattie)
• Video Transcription with Microsoft Foundry and Agent Framework | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
• How to Run AI Agents at the Industrial Edge | The Azure Essentials Show (Jason Farmer)
• GitHub Universe 2026 was built different (GitHub Team)
• AI Won’t Make Our Minds Useless According to 400 Years of History (AIDailyBrief)
• How to build an agentic self improvement loop and Stop trusting public model benchmarks. (Warp Team)
• Picard Code: speak to your code from the bridge (Picard Code)
• Build an AI agent without leaving VS Code! (Bethany Jepchumba)
• Random.Code() - Making Reflection Faster and (Hopefully) Safer, Part 4 (Jason Bock)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• BONUS AI in the SDLC Puts Customer Feedback Before Faster Typing | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & David Mantica)
• The Presentation Podcast Episode #257 - Making PowerPoint Better, One Papercut at a Time (Troy Chollar & Derek Johnson)
• Only Malware in the Building - Taking the bait out of phishing (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #503 - It’s not 85% HTML (Michael Kennedy)
• CppCast - Learning C++ With C++26's Reflection (Jason Turner & Mathieu Ropert)
• The Modern .NET Show - The October 2026 Brotli Security Update: Who It Affects (Jamie Taylor)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1052 - Github Universe Keynote Recap (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• InfoQ Podcast: Educating an Architect (Luca Mezzalira)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Oh, your agents need OAuth2, too (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal (Raymond Chen)
• Webinar: Study and Learn limits/locks down Copilot Chat (Anoo Padte)
• Xbox's former COO has ‘serious concerns’ about her abrupt departure (Tom Warren)
• SUSE Cuts About 10% of Its Workforce, Citing AI and Automation (Joho Todai)
• Android Dev Summit Focuses On AI and Performance (Kay Ewbank)
• Comcast’s nationwide overhaul will cut 634 jobs at its Philly headquarters (Danya Henninger & Sarah Huffman)
• Livestream: Scaling Agentic Development With Air Governance (Valerie Kuzmina)
• Squarespace is laying off 19 percent of employees (Emma Roth)

Database

• SQL Server Full-Text Search: when a stop word broke our search (Bart Wullems)
• How to insert, query, and modify data in PostgreSQL (getting started with PostgreSQL, part three) (Grant Fritchey)
• How Microsoft SQL learned to recover without undoing everything first (Anna Hoffman)
• A Front Door for the DBA Team – AgentDBA UI (Arun Sirpal)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft Access: Deprecation of Legacy Web Browser Control (Courtney Owen)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Microsoft Store CLI v0.4.4 Release (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)

Writing

• How To Use Secrets To Create Suspense (Writers Write)
• Audience capture (Sean Goedecke)
• Meet Nimbus - The authoring tool for docs (Nimbus Team)

Tools

• Tiny Clips 2.0 is here with Studio mode! (James Montemagno)
• gputaskman - An htop for what's inside your NVIDIA GPU on Windows: process memory, engine activity, and LLM weights/KV-cache introspection (Scott Hanselman)
• PowerToys Dev Preview v0.103.3052.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Microsoft said Windows 11's movable taskbar wasn't a priority. Then it became Priority 0. (Sean Endicott)
• China Publicly Discloses Plan For a Lunar Landing Within Three Years (BeauHD)
• In one of the largest deals in tech history, Marvell buys Lumentum for $115B (Julie Bort)
• A Right-Wing Think Tank Has a Plan to Prevent Democrats From Being Seated in Congress (Vittoria Elliott)
• Picard Code - A tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart and Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Picard Code)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – November 2, 2026 (#901) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock, Step Functions as agent tools, and more (November 2, 2026) (Daniel Abib)
• Reading Notes #720 (Frank Boucher)
• The latest AI news we announced in October 2026 (Google)

The Geek Shelf

Getting Started with Visual Studio 2026 (Gerald Versluis) - Referral Link Master the New Era of Visual Studio, AI, and Productivity.

• Everything released in October 2026 for Azure Developer CLI (Kristen Womack)
• Your content, your choice: clearer preferences for training and grounding (Bing Team)
• .NET MAUI on the Web - and Most of Shiny Controls Just Works (Allan Ritchie)
• Does ‘eval’ in the workspace path change what your agent does? (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Merge Conflict Episode #539 - Everything from GitHub Universe 2026 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Windows Developer Config - Opinionated setups for Windows dev boxes. Idempotent. CI-tested. (Windows Dev Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Securing an Angular Firebase AI App with Email/Password Authentication (Part 1: Emulator, AuthService, and Route Guard) [GDE] (Connie Leung)
• Use Open.IdentityServer for OpenID Connect in an Aspire setup (Damien Bowden)
• MCP Is Not the New REST (But It Might Be REST's Second Chance) (Shannon Kuehn)
• Building Secure, Ephemeral GitHub Actions Runners on Azure Container Apps (Ibrahim Baig)
• AWS Capacity Largely Sold Out Through 2027, With On Demand Headroom Reserved (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• What's new in Astro - October 2026 (Sarah Rainsberger)
• How to Embed a DOCX Editor in a Web Application (ASP.NET Core) (Deepika Kathiravan)
• ESLint v10.14.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• How to Compare PDF Documents in JavaScript Using Syncfusion PDF Viewer (Deepa Thiruppathy)
• How to secure API keys in Microsoft Fabric Gen2 dataflows with Azure Key Vault (John Kerski)

Windows Development

• WPF Binding Without INotifyPropertyChanged: Why the Source Stays in Memory (S. Iguchi)
• What did I learn from building more than 31 apps for tray-tober? (Joseph Finney)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 30 October 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2026 v18.11.3 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders v12328.396 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Why Microsoft Just Shipped an Emergency Out-of-Band .NET Update for C♯ Developers After October Patch Tuesday (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Create a Reusable Claude Code Skill for a .NET Workflow (Nick Cosentino)
• Binary and JSON Compression in .NET: Brotli vs. LZ4 (David McCarter)

AI

• I narrated. Copilot recorded the demos. (Jeff Handley)
• Is AI the next layer of abstraction? (Mark Seemann)
• From Zero to Production: Build an AI Agent in C# with Microsoft Agent Framework (Bruno Capuano)
• GPT-6.1 Terra vs. GPT-6 Astra: One sacrifices accuracy for lower cost and higher speed at high effort and GPT-6.1 Terra vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Cheaper and faster in three tests at max effort (Jessica Wachtel)
• Reliably aligning LLMs is impossible in principle (Sean Goedecke)
• RockBot Can Know Where You Are (If You Want It To) (Rocky Lhotka)
• Squad v2.0.0 Preview 3 Release (Brady Gaster)
• Two Ways AI Is Changing the Developer Conference Presentation (Brian Rinaldi)
• OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round (Anthony Ha)
• Xbox Manager: AI Already Being Used In Xbox Game Development - And Throughout the Game Industry (EditorDavid)
• DeepSeek Releases Autonomous Development Agent Prototype That Executes Authorized Requests With the Operator's OS Privileges and 31 Fake AI Models on Hugging Face Install GPU Miners and Backdoors: Over 30,000 Downloads and Claude Code Restricts Recreating Existing Games: Anthropic Confirms Two Added Prompt Sentences (Joho Todai)
• Inside a malicious Claude Code-branded extension and its persistent SSH backdoor (Microsoft Security Research Team)
• Code AI can't write? - I have 6 examples (Matt Lacey)
• Data Science eBook Bundle | O'Reilly Books (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Claude 5 hour limit draining fast in T3 Code or Agent SDK (Stack & Ship Team)
• US Tech Stocks See Sharp Falls As AI Spending Nears $1 Trillion (BeauHD)
• AI-Native Observability Patterns and Anti-Patterns (Melissa Habit)
• Why AI Agents Fail in Production: The Data Layer Problem (Hannah Laurel)
• 5 lessons for getting agentic AI into production (Shawn DeVries)
• Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences (OpenAI Team)
• Who Governs What an Agent Learns? (Tim O'Brien)
• The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping and Pope Leo calls for the disarmament of AI: ‘Machines are tools, not persons’ (Emma Roth)
• From synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence (Microsoft Research Team)
• You shouldn’t trust AI agents in production (Marko Crnjanski)
• The evil Qwen you won't notice (Jim Bennett)
• The Irony of AI: Everyone Is Using It, but Apparently You Shouldn’t (Liam Cleary)
• 7 Ways Your AI Agent Is Wasting Tokens (And What to Do Instead) (Vinod Chugani)
• Your Agent Is a New Hire: Models, Harnesses, Skills, and the Secure Runtime (Shannon Kuehn)
• Security notice — malicious version of Anthropic.claude-code (2.1.313) identified in the Cursor Extension Marketplace (Cursor Team)
• AI Read the Procedure Nobody Dares to Touch (Pinal Dave)
• The agentic web is here (Grace Huckins)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Let your AI agent write integration tests for your API (Milan Martiniak)
• Guidelines and Guardrails Belong in Git (Allen Pike)
• Remote Development in 2026.3: What’s New? (Dejan Milicic)
• Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime (Anthony Nocentino)
• Mock, Mock. Who’s There? What to Mock in Integration Tests (Gil Zilberfeld)
• 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗼 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 (Peter Smulovics)
• I Turned Off CI for Pull Requests. Here's Why (Milan Jovanović)
• Run, Cancel And Re-Run Your Software Builds Automatically With GitHub Actions (Kin Lane)
• Opinion: Programmers Are Not The Welders (Michael Washington)

Mobile and Game Development

• Awesome .NET MAUI - A curated list of awesome .NET MAUI libraries and resources (Javier Suárez)
• MAUI Sherpa - Your guide to .NET MAUI development (Jonathan Dick)
• Price rises for some 16GB Raspberry Pi products (Eben Upton)
• Miyamoto on AI and Valve's reponse to Next Fest AI slop (Code Monkey)
• Microsoft killed Android apps on Windows 11, but they’re back in taskbar Search, streamed from your phone (Gareth Smith)
• Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Shipaton 2026 Winners, Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta2, and KotlinConf 2027 (Kodee)

Screencasts and Videos

• Technology & Friends - Julie Lerman on Pottery (David Giard)
• Running a 120B model offline on Surface RTX Spark Dev Box with Intelligent Terminal (Clint Rutkas & Hamazu Usmani)
• Why C# 14 Extension Members Look So Weird | Update Conference Prague 2025 (Kathleen Dollard)
• RAG with Microsoft Agent Framework Video Brian Capuano of Microsoft dives deep. (Jesse Liberty)
• The Most Valuable Skill of 2026: Mastering the Art of AI Agent Management and Unleashing the Power of Rust: A Deep Dive into AI-Driven Code Transformation (Frank La Vigne)
• Random.Code() - Making Reflection Faster and (Hopefully) Safer, Part 2 and Random.Code() - Making Reflection Faster and (Hopefully) Safer, Part 3 (Jason Bock)
• Special recap of Dragonwing IoT Day 2026 and IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 337 - “The Next Gajillion Dollar TAM!” (Don't count on it) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Getting Smarter, Not Just Faster | Live with Tim O’Reilly (Andrew Odewahn & Tim O’Reilly)
• New Leading AI Models as Benchmarks Shift and How the Most AI Pilled Company in the World Works (AIDailyBrief)
• This Week in AI: Agents Rewrite the Rules (Michelle Smith & Vicki Reyzelman)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• BONUS The Scrum Master's AI Prompt Library | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joshua McDonald)
• Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #139 - Building Software AI Agents Can Actually Work With. Hannes Lowette on Event Sourcing (Rick Ven Den Bosch & Oscar Van Tol)
• Derek Comartin: Architecture in the AI Age - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #426 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Meta Cast - 10 Questions to Ask Before You Accept a Tech Leadership Role (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Mac Power Users 873: iPhone Duo Review and Touchscreen MacBook Pro (David Sparks & Stephen Robles)
• Lenny's Podcast - How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company (Lenny Rachitsky & Hector Serrano)
• Big Technology Podcast - Big Tech's Ugly Week, Getting Rich At Anthropic, AI Costs Plunge (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Episode #627 - The History of Seinfeld (David Barr Kirtley & Blake J. Harris)
• PPP 526 | If AI Can Do Your Job, What Makes You Matter? with author John R. Miles (Andy Kaufman)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode #232 - The Hidden Cost of Being a High Achiever (Max Ahumada)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #178 - Ford Fathom Gets Trick Bidirectional Charging, Launches a Year After Slate (Batteries Included Team)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #317 - Demystifying Python Memory Management & Choosing a Project Layout (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• Geek Wire Podcast - Microsoft’s big buyout, Amazon’s trillion-dollar future, and an AI wearable reviews our show (Todd Bishop & John Cook)
• Great Product Owners Start the Conversation Instead of Becoming the Boss | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Kaloyan Chalakov)
• Hard Fork Podcast - Are We in an A.I. Bubble? We’re About to Find Out. (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• Paper Places Episode #30 - Column Writing for Newspapers (Kerry Provenzano)

Community and Events

• 20 Years of SQLAuthority: Twenty Books, One Family, and a Diary That Grew Up (Pinal Dave)
• Stack Overflow: ‘Reports of Our Death are Greatly Exaggerated’ (EditorDavid)
• Game Off 2026: The theme is SHIFT (Lee Reilly)
• Call For Papers Listings for 10/30 and Job listings for week ending 10/30 (Leon Adato)
• 10 Years on Mastodon (Terence Eden)

Database

• SQL Server Full-Text Search: an overview (Bart Wullems)
• SQL Server Blocking at 2 a.m.: You Are the On-Call DBA (Pinal Dave)
• Is Azure SQL Database Hyperscale “distributed SQL”? (Anna Hoffman)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.11.3 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• The GitHub app in Microsoft Teams is now generally available! (Arnav Gupta)
• Is There Still a Place for SharePoint Server On-Premises? (Liam Cleary)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot And Power BI: The Easiest Way To Chat With Your Data (Chris Webb)

Writing

• Do You Have What It Takes To Become A Novelist? (Writers Write)
• Chunking your content for agent readability (Tom Johnson)
• Writing is Magic; Machine Writing is Ash (Baldur Bjarnason)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.3.2 (Files Team)
• Help Test Dew Submitter for Android (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Compromised eMudhra Certificates: Update Your JetBrains IDEs, ReSharper, .NET Tools, Toolbox App, and Gateway Now (Ilya Petrov)
• Tray-tober Day 31: Set Sett (Joseph Finney)

General

• It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11 (Randolph West)
• College Students are Pushing Colleges to ‘De-Flock’ (EditorDavid)
• I took two iPhones on vacation. The Duo won me over. (Sarah Perez)
• Sam Altman Thinks Your PC Is Wasting Precious RAM (BeauHD)
• Binance hackers stole $6.3 billion in record-breaking crypto heist (Jess Weatherbed)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest: Aspect-oriented programming with Metalama in .NET and C# Digest: What's in a task? (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Links For You (11/1/26) (Raymond Camden)
• Table of contents of 66 articles about Agentic AI (Jesse Liberty)
• Daily Reading List – October 30, 2026 (#900) (Richard Seroter)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 25, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Android Weekly Issue #751 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• F# Weekly #44, 2026 – Plotly.NET 6.0, and a new F# Advent Calendar (Sergey Tihon)
• Azure Weekly #586 - 1st November 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #774 (Alex Ozun)

The Geek Shelf

Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms (Eric Lippert) - Referral Link This book invites you to step off the beaten path and explore interesting, unfamiliar, and even exotic algorithms that will challenge your perspective and elevate your code.

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• Blazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Syncfusion (Daniel Roth)
• TokenEconomizer: Experience-Driven Black-Box Cost Control for Coding Agents (Microsoft Research Team)
• GitHub Universe 2026: Highlights from the developer’s developer conference (Command Line Team)
• How to Build Interactive Blazor Sunburst Charts for Hierarchical Data (Mohammed Nowfel)
• Using AI Bots to Help Run Community Conferences (Kevin Griffin)
• Small devices, serious engineering: code quality in .NET nanoFramework (Laurent Ellerbach)

Web and Cloud Development

• 20 JavaScript Performance Tips That Actually Make a Difference (JS Dev)
• How to Create Effective Heatmaps in Blazor (Héctor Pérez)
• The Frankenstein Table (Preethi)
• Edge is faster on Windows with Accelerated App Launches (Microsoft Edge Team)
• HTTP Status Code Response Obligations (Hwee-Boon Yar)
• New Conditional Access policy plans in Microsoft Entra (Zachary Cavanell)
• Mocking Dependencies for Local Development (Talia Kohan)

Windows Development

• What’s New in vcpkg (Oct 2026) (Augustin Popa)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Intercepting Calls to Any Method with Metalama Interceptors (Gaël Fraiteur)
• C# Advent 2026 - 2 Days Until Sign-Ups Open (C# Advent)
• G# - A modern, simple, and accessible programming language for .NET (David Obando) - Kotlin- and Swift-style semantics, Go- and Python-inspired syntax, on the CLR you already know
• Encapsulation in C#: Preserve Invariants Through Public Operations (Nick Cosentino)
• .NET 11 runtime async: the runtime takes over await (Gérald Barré)
• Some Ardalis Packages Are Going Commercial: What You Need to Know (Steve Smith)

AI

• Mistral Large 4 in Microsoft Foundry: Build sovereign AI within a consistent platform experience (Trupti Parkar)
• Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan to Claude developer laptops worldwide (Kevin Beaumont)
• Cursor Removes Malicious Claude Code 2.1.313 Extension From Its Marketplace (Socket Research Team)
• Is RAG dead now that models have long context? (Adam Cogan)
• Microsoft Copilot harness across Foundry and Copilot Studio (Vesa Nopanen)
• AI-Assisted Authoring: How Copilot, Canvas Apps Authoring MCP, and Playwright MCP Worked Together (Ahmed Shaalan)
• Gemini 4 Carbon Explained - How Google's ♯1 Frontier Model Beats Claude Opus 5.5 in Cyber Defense and Multi-Day Coding (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Welcome Le Chonk: Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face (Hugging Face Team)
• What Are AI Agent Evaluations and Why Do They Matter? (Adam Bertram)
• Why are good developers so wary of agentic development? (Rachel Laycock)
• OpenClaw v2026.9.36 Release and OpenClaw v2026.10.9 Release (RomneyDa)
• From Prompt to Edge AI — Hackathon Participants Create Mobile Apps in Less Than An Hour (Jack Harper)
• I put a ghost in Claude Code. Then I evaluated it (Jim Bennett)
• A JSON schema Is not an AI governance layer (Fabio Marcello Salvadori)
• 7 core components for building a software factory (Ben Holmes)
• An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI and How we detect frontier model misalignment (OpenAI Team)
• Gemini Notebook makes hundreds of textbooks available to help students learn even more. (Priya Venkatraman)
• How to use Gemini to update your resume (Kimberly Fusaro)
• How Gemini is helping students and teachers in the classroom (Amanda Rosenburg)
• Skills Over MCP Is Now Officially Beta (Kin Lane)
• From Copilot to Orchestration (Justin Beck)
• Bliki: LLM Voice (Martin Fowler)
• Coding Agent Horror Stories: The CVE That Did Not Exist (Jennifer Kohl)
• Prompts That Can Write Themselves: A Kotlin Experiment (Nikita Khramov)
• Granite Switch 4.1.1 — Update models like you update software (Kate Soule, Luis A. Lastras, Subhajit Chaudhury & Abraham Daniels)
• Introducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple Platforms (Mattt)
• Cheap Code, Expensive Confidence (Markus Eisele)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Using Event Sourcing? Prefer the Decider over AggregateRoot (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Your GitHub language bar is lying (how to fix it) (Michael Kennedy)
• Avoid Public Functions Calling Other Public Functions (Alex Kladov)
• Software Engineering 2026 Software Bundle | Zenva (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Run Forever, Keep History Bounded: Recurring Durable Orchestrations (Tamir Dresher)
• PreEmptive’s guide to application hardening techniques (Hannah Son)

Mobile and Game Development

• Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models (Simon Willison)

Screencasts and Videos

• .NET on Mac with Live Tiles! | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Everything announced at GitHub Universe 2026: opening keynote recap and GitHub Universe 2026 closing keynote: open source voices, demos, and the craft of coding (GitHub Team)
• Playwright Workspaces MCP for browser automation | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Nandini Muralidharan)
• Get agent sessions off your machine (Warp Team)
• How to Use Database Agents in Microsoft Fabric | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Patrick LeBlanc)
• Quickstart: Stop wiring infrastructure, start building agents (Bethany Jepchumba)
• AI Can Now Create Worlds You Can Change in Real Time (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• A Geek Leader Episode #493 - Building or Diminishing with Doug Crandall (John Rouda)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #596 - So Much for the Embargo (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• InfoQ Podcast: AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report 2026 (Chip Huyen, Daniel Dominguez, Hien Luu & Arthur Casals)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #744 - Danilo Krummrich on Rust in the Linux Kernel (Gregory M. Kapfhammer)
• Building Scrum Master Success Around Trust and Unspoken Leaders | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Kaloyan Chalakov)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - It’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Get ready for Microsoft Ignite 2026 (Jill Armour)
• Microsoft’s AI future has fewer jobs (Tom Warren)
• 🚨 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗛 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨’𝗥𝗘 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗡𝗬𝗖. 🚨 (Peter Smulovics)
• Reddit Is Getting a ‘For You’ Feed (BeauHD)
• DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17 billion (Jess Weatherbed)

Database

• Find the Query That Ran at 3 a.m.: A Wanted Poster (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Problems You Can Reproduce, Measure and Fix: A Free Demo Library (Marlon Ribunal)
• Enums Can Be Enforced at the Database Level in PostgreSQL (Nelson Figueroa)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.7.0-rc.1 Release of PowerShell (J. Shigetomi)

Writing

• Building a writing-style skill for my blog (Marco Siccardi)
• Looking at a site like an agent — identifying semantics in styling (Tom Johnson)

Tools

• From GDScript to GDExtensions: One IDE for Your Godot Code (Anna Ruban)
• Tray-tober Day 29: Tray Traffic and Day 30: Tray Times (Joseph Finney)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v3.0.5 Release (beena352)

General

• Patrick Stewart has died at age 86 (Emma Roth)
• GM to pay $220 million to resolve claims it sold driving habits data (Emma Roth)
• I wish I really were a Traveler of all of space and time. (Wil)
• Bluesky blocks links to leaked DHS employee data as government seeks takedowns (Zack Whittaker)
• Apple finally combined a toaster and a refrigerator (Tom Warren)
• Binance pauses withdrawals as hackers suspected of stealing billions in crypto (Zack Whittaker)
• Windows 11 KB5127936 gets a much-needed Modern Standby hibernation improvement (Sayan Sen)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 29, 2026 (#899) (Richard Seroter)
• Interesting links - October 2026 (Robin Moffatt)
• Latest Blog Series (Liam Cleary)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor (Jimmy Engström) - Referral Link A practical guide to building interactive UIs with C# 14 and .NET 10.

• Introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness: Unlocking the potential of truly multi-model agentic work (Tina Schuchman & Vladimir Fedorov)
• Preparing for Your Next Certification Could Start with Your Visual Studio Subscription (James Rempt)
• Publish Visual Studio Marketplace extensions securely with Trusted Publishing (Lynn Dai)
• Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents (GitHub Staff)
• Introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service (Jeff, Viswa Balaji & Anthony Chu)
• Panel: When AI Feels Empathic | NDC Oslo 2026 (Richard Campbell, Martine Dowden, Michelle Frost & Tessel Haagen)
• GitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stack (Jay Parikh)

Web and Cloud Development

• Serverless Compute Operations with Azure Functions (Mark Heath)
• Azure API Management v2: Restoring Predictable Outbound IP Addresses with NAT Gateway (JPCalhau)
• The PHP Incident (Mike Loukides)
• Ship less JavaScript in Next.js with your AI agent (Will Binns-Smith)
• Node.js 26.13.0 (LTS) (Richard Lau)
• Vue Basics: Understanding useId in Vue 3 (David Adeneye Abiodun)

.NET and Visual Studio

• MongoDB BSON Mapping in C#: Typed Models and Immutable Records (Nick Cosentino)
• Async Commands Fallback Layer (Tanner Van De Walle)
• Visual Studio Code 1.145 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• DOCX Editor SDK: A Complete Evaluation Guide and Checklist (Deepika Kathiravan)

AI

• The AI advantage your company can keep (Jared Spataro)
• Microsoft Fabric IQ Explained - How Semantic Ontologies and OneLake Turn Raw Enterprise Data into Autonomous AI Action (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Getting Started with Air in JetBrains IDEs – Part 1 (Tanu Tams)
• Copilot UX components are generally available: bring interactive experiences into Copilot (Vesa Juvonen)
• GitHub Copilot Usage Metrics Now Identify Custom Skills, Agents and MCP Servers and GitHub Copilot Turns Microsoft Teams Bug Notifications Into Pull Requests (David Ramel)
• From Copilot adoption to agent-powered growth (Jill Armour)
• Microsoft is ending Copilot support on smart TVs (Andrew Liszewski)
• Gemini 4 Carbon: our next frontier model (Koray Kavukcuoglu)
• Goldfish in Claude (Steven Giesel)
• Junie Eco Mode (Helena Klause)
• Agentic Loops vs. Spec-Driven Development (Jesse Liberty)
• Beyond Chat: The Architecture of GitHub's Agentic Operating System (Oren Melamed)
• The WebMCP Directory - Explore agent-ready sites. Build and improve your WebMCP tools (nekuda)
• Understanding Human-Agent Collaboration Patterns (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Sovereign controls for Oracle AI Database@Azure (Ram Kakani)
• Replit’s Architecture Behind Secure Agent Work and ViBench 2.0: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Software Building (Replit Team)
• GitHub debuts Copilot Fusion, a new model selection & orchestration system that beats Claude Code for half the API cost (Meredith Shubel)
• AI agents need to be replaceable – without losing your work (Manveer Chawla)
• Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth From AI? (James Shore)
• github/lever - a library of skills for automating boring work so that us humans can focus on the things we love (Evan Boyle)
• Architecture decision records as long-term memory for an AI coding agent (Andrew Connell)
• How personal data leaks into AI tools by accident (and how to stop it) (Dejan Lukić)
• Getting good at AI takes time and practice and You can just ask AI to do things (Sean Goedecke)
• Run Claude and GPT on exe.dev Without API Keys (Philip Zeyliger & Maisem Ali)
• Anthropic Engineer Declares the Coding Interview Dead (BeauHD)
• How I Use Claude Code to Build Stuff (Erik Darling)
• Junie Local became 70% faster on Mac M5 (Stanislav Erokhin)
• Local Inference with LLMs (Jacques Mattheij)

Python

• How to Build a Command-Line Weather App with Python (Sameer Qaiser)
• The Ultimate Python, Machine Learning & AI Engineering Software Learning Bundle (Humble Bundle) - Referral Link
• CPython Dropping Experimental JIT (Mike James)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• If everything needs you, 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. You have built a bottleneck. (Peter Smulovics)
• Building Bobcat Specifications (Jeremy D. Miller)
• DRY isn't just for application code (Matthew Allford)
• Thinking about the evolution of forward-deployed engineers over the last 24 months (Kevin Shatzkamer)
• The CISO’s evolving role: Protecting and defending in the agentic era (Aarti Borkar)

Mobile and Game Development

• Flame Gallery: Drop-in Mini Games for Flutter Apps (Veli Bacık)
• PIX 2610.28 – the biggest release of 2026 (Austin Kinross)
• Google just handed its rivals the keys to Android (Amanda Caswell)
• Announcing Agility SDK 1.620 Retail and 1.722 Preview: DirectX Dump Files, Partial Graphics Programs, and So Much More! (Ross Coken & Isaac Bender)
• DirectX Dump Files are now ready for your retail games (Greg Gonyea & Deepali Bhagvat)
• Migrating A Flutter Project to Built In Kotlin (tomerpacific)
• Slim kiosk setup for my kitchen dashboard on Raspberry Pi (Jiří Činčura)
• The Capacitor 9 Beta is here (Eric Horodyski)
• XREAL AURA: Wired XR glasses to watch, work, and play (Shahram Izadi)
• [PREVIEW] Raytracing: Clustered Geometry, Partitioned TLAS, Indirect Acceleration Structure Builds (Amar Patel)

Screencasts and Videos

• Make Machines Smarter with Physical AI | The Azure Essentials Show (Michael MacKenzie)
• Opening keynote: building the next era of software at GitHub Universe 2026 (GitHub Team)
• Microsoft Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service | Demo (Foundry Team)
• Insecure Vibe Coding: When AI Writes Exploitable Software | NDC Oslo 2026 (Sana Talwar)
• The Undersea Infrastructure | NDC Oslo 2026 (Richard Campbell)
• The Past, Present & Future of Dungeon Crawler Carl | Nerdist (Matt Dinniman & Jeff Hays)
• What Claude Code Can Do That You Haven't Tried | NDC Oslo 2026 (Gui Ferreira)
• The framework for building software factories as code (Warp Team)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Practical AI Podcast Episode #378 - Abundant Intelligence at the Midwest AI Summit (Heidi Porter, Kevin Solorio, Chris Shinkle, Andrew Dunlap & Daniel Whitenack)
• .NET Rocks! - Building System Tray Windows Apps with Joe Finney (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #377 - The end of stack overflow and we know it… and AI feels fine (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Windows Weekly Episode #1007 - A Sea of Blues and Greens - Another Round of Buyout Offers Sent to Microsoft's Workforce (Mikah Sargent, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Big Technology Podcast - This AI Expert Argues We're Underestimating AI's Productivity Impact (Alex Kantrowitz & Ethan Mollick)
• Coaching Organizations to Challenge the Beliefs Behind Agile Pressure | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Kaloyan Chalakov)
• The GitHub Podcast - Universe Week, Hackable Badges, and GitHub’s Open Source Dilemma (Cassidy Williams, GPS & Martin Woodward)

Community and Events

• Power Without Binaries: Native Offensive Techniques in Fileless Runtimes | Jan 20th Meetup (Philly .NET Team)
• Visual Studio Live! Taps AI Expert Eric D. Boyd to Help Shape 2027 Conferences (David Ramel)
• Microsoft reveals strong cloud growth amid financial reporting overhaul (Tom Warren)
• Win the Agentic Era, Together: Introducing the Docker Navigator Partner Program (Jin Kim)
• Bigger than Bing or Xbox: Microsoft’s OpenAI haul reaches $10B in quarterly revenue and Microsoft Azure revenue surges 48% to $33.2B, beating expectations as cloud and AI demand grows (Todd Bishop)
• GitHub saw 7.4B commits in September, adding 4M CPU cores and 160 PB of storage to keep up (Frederic Lardinois)
• Without-love – a creative coding challenge (Chris Heilmann)

Database

• Claude on SQL Server: Read, Prove, Then Change (Pinal Dave)
• PostgreSQL to SQL Field Notes: Operational Statistics (Jerry Nixon)
• Couchbase Server 8.5 Private Preview: Easier to Run, Smarter to Query (Mike Broberg)
• Why You Don’t Get Parallelism When You Ask for The Whole Table (Brent Ozar)
• Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger (Steve Jones)
• Agentic CI/CD with Azure Cosmos DB: Isolated Environments for a Swarm of AI Agents (Jay Gordon)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Streamline creation and management of AI-ready, custom apps with SharePoint Embedded (Steve Pucelik)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Introducing the Logic Apps local CLI: develop Standard workflows from your terminal (W. Silveira)
• Introducing the Gemini API CLI (Dmitry Lyalin & Philipp Schmid)
• Hill-Climbing Agent Quality with Agents CLI Evaluation (Pier Paolo Ippolito & Elia Secchi)

Writing

• 5 Ways To Weave Setting Into Short Stories (Writers Write)

Tools

• EMACS Turns 50 (BeauHD)
• PowerToys Dev Preview Release v0.103.3012.0 (LegendaryBlair)
• Tray-tober Day 28: Traycer (Joseph Finney)
• Tiny Clips - A lightweight macOS & Windows menu bar app for capturing screenshots, video, and animated GIFs (James Montemagno)
• Greenshot - A free screenshot tool for Windows, optimized for productivity (Greenshot)

General

• Tim Cook compared touchscreen Windows laptops to a toaster-fridge, now Apple is selling one for $2,899 (Abhijith M B)
• Apple charges $14,549 for a fully specced touchscreen MacBook Pro (Andrew Liszewski)
• Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents (Dhruv Mehrotra, Maddy Varner & Dell Cameron)
• Apple unveils groundbreaking MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display (Apple)
• Say hello to Touch on Mac (Apple Developer Team)
• Apple raises the MacBook Neo's student pricing again (Stevie Bonifield)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 28, 2026 (#898) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: October 28 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

ChatGPT Visual Bible (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link A step-by-step, screenshot-by-screenshot guide to writing, researching, analyzing, and automating with ChatGPT

• Visual Studio October Update – Compare Commits to Your Code, Resolve Conflicts in Bulk, Keep Coding (Mark Downie)
• 60k MSFT Employees can't be wrong.. DayFrame Launch! | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Windows App SDK Version 2.6.4 Stable Channel Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• .NET Conf 2026 Agenda (.NET Team)
• MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry (Alexander Hughes)
• Blazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Infragistics (Daniel Roth)

Web and Cloud Development

• Issuing and Validating JWT Access Tokens in ASP.NET Core (Softinbit Tech)
• Upcoming Next.js November Security Release (Sebastian Silbermann)
• Can Postman do load testing? Yes, here’s how it works (Giridhar)
• How to Build Passkey Authentication with WebAuthn, Next.js and NestJS (Roland Mweze)
• HTML Unsupported Media Fallback: Working Video and Audio Examples (Steve Faulkner)
• Blazor Basics: Introduction to Logging with Serilog in Blazor Applications (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Build Snake in Aurelia 2 (Dwayne Charrington)

Windows Development

• External Location (Howard Kapustein)
• Where Exceptions from CommunityToolkit.Mvvm AsyncRelayCommand Go in WPF, and What FlowExceptionsToTaskScheduler Changes (s-iguchi)
• Microsoft's Reactor Brings C#-Only UI Development to WinUI (David Ramel)
• Windows App SDK 2.6.4 Release (agniuks)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Bobcat 1.0 is here! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Awesome .NET -A curated catalog of useful C# libraries, tools, and projects (Laurent Egbakou)
• Moving PostSharp Aspects to Dependency Injection (Gaël Fraiteur)
• How Microsoft Intune team upgraded a .NET service with GitHub Copilot modernization (Ramya Sharma)
• How to Loop Through a List in C#: Every Way, Benchmarked (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Why would you optimize this code at all? (Daniel Marbach)

AI

• Why AI-Generated code still needs tests (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.28 Release (GitHub Copilot SDK Team)
• What being Customer Zero taught us about scaling AI agents (David Lee)
• In an age of AI, deciding what to trust is a foundational skill. Here’s how we’re helping educators teach it. (Jenny Lay-Flurrie)
• 8 examples of Gemini 4 Argon in action (Kimberly Fusaro)
• AI Changed the Cost of Writing Code. It’s Time to Reestimate Legacy Modernization. (Chris Pietschmann)
• How Anthropic Redesigned Source Control for AI-Driven Development (Eran Stiller)
• Can we trust LLMs to judge whether a research idea is novel? (Kyle Wiggers)
• The new primitives of agentic software delivery (Tim Bozarth)
• GitHub Tracks Copilot Model Usage from OpenCode and Other Clients and Microsoft Adds 25 Languages to Azure AI Speech Transcription (David Ramel)
• Anyone can now bring their ideas into the company codebase (Replit Team)
• OpenClaw v2026.10.8 Release (RomneyDa)
• Waza - CLI / Framework for Agent Skills - create, test, measure and improve skill quality and effectiveness (Microsoft)
• Are agent harnesses dying? What harness distillation changes. (Laurie Voss)

Python

• Chameleon templates, modernized: chameleon-rs (Michael Kennedy)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Azure DevOps Server RC (26H2) Is Now Available (Gloridel Morales)
• Is “QA” just about manual testing? (Matt Lacey)
• The cost of immutability (Oren Eini)
• Why Database Generated IDs Can Complicate Your System Design (Derek Comartin)
• Apple Creator Studio adds powerful new AI features and even more creative tools (Apple)
• The platform approach to becoming Frontier (Judson Althoff)
• The protocol is not the policy (Peter Smulovics)
• How to Decide What Not to Modernize (Stacy Gordon)
• Two years later, I know what I got wrong about typed domain errors and what I’d keep (Karlo Bratko)

Mobile and Game Development

• My .NET MAUI App Meets the iPhone Duo: Ugly, Crash, Fix, Unfold (Pieter Nijs)
• Creating a PGO startup profile for .NET 11 Android Apps (Tomasz Cielecki)
• Robotics & Automation Engineering eBook Mastery Bundle | Packt Publishing (Humble Bundle) - Referral Link
• Building an Offline-First AI Coding Tutor for Low-End Android Phones (Chidi Nwaogu)

Screencasts and Videos

• AI Your Way: MCPs vs Skills vs SubAgents | NDC Oslo 2026 (Sam Basu)
• Applying the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications to Your AI Agents | NDC Oslo 2026 (Will Velida)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Golnaz Alibeigi (Isaac Levin)
• 4 Questions for AI This Week (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• RunAs Radio Show #1060 - PostgreSQL with Elizabeth Christensen (Richard Campbell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1048 - The Cupertino Coffin - New MacBook Pro and iPad Mini Before Apple's ‘Pro and Tell’ Event! (Jason Snell & Andy Ihnatko)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #567 - Personal AI Agents for Pythonistas and Python Bytes Episode #502 - Introducing chameleon-rs (Michael Kennedy)
• Security Cryptography Whatever Podcast - Everybody Is Losing Their Minds About AI Math and Crypto (David Adrian, Deirdre Connolly & Thomas Ptacek)
• Mailin’ It! - The Official USPS Podcast - Adopt a Letter, Deliver a Smile: Inside Operation Santa (Monica Johnson, Karla Kirby & Jeff Marino)
• The Agile Team That Built Great Architecture But Forgot the Customer | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Kaloyan Chalakov)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - 4 everyday words that started out as monsters. ‘Graveyard’ versus ‘cemetery.’ Which is which? (Mignon Fogarty)

Community and Events

• W3C launches second pilot of program to support Open Source projects (W3C)
• A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Physical Archive (Caralee Adams)

Database

• SQL Server Deadlock, Slow-Cooked: A Recipe That Serves Two Sessions (Pinal Dave)
• Inspecting Local Data with Azure Cosmos DB Shell (Jay Gordon)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Personalize PowerPoint Live with Theme, Navigation, and Notes pane controls (Rachelle Dong)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.105 Release (GitHub Copilot CLI Team)
• Terminal or Terminate? (Teon Beijl)
• The Terminal in JetBrains IDEs Now Runs on libghostty (Ekaterina Valeeva)

Writing

• How To Use Wants, Needs, And Fears To Create Better Characters (Writers Write)

Tools

• Microsoft pushes out PowerToys update to fix two troublesome crashes (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
• Skip the busywork with Smart Window and Five Firefox updates you might have missed, and a look ahead (Mozilla)
• PowerToys Release v0.102.3001.0 and PowerToys Dev Preview v0.103.3006.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Tray-tober Day 27: Tray Sounds (Joseph Finney)

General

• CDC Warns of Rising Threat of Drug-Resistant Germs and Greenhouse Gas Levels Set Records In 2025, UN Says and Ford's Most Affordable EV Will Offer Built-In Bidirectional Home Charging and Denmark Gives Up On Replacing Microsoft Office With Collabora (BeauHD)
• Microsoft earnings preview: Employee buyouts, AI spending and a new financial scorecard (Todd Bishop)
• Suffering as a Feature (Jeff Atwood)
• We've had touchscreen laptops for years. Can Apple make them better? (Antonio G. Di Benedetto)
• Windows 11’s Bing-free Search is showing up on more PCs, and it’s now better than Mac’s Spotlight (Mayank Parmar)
• University of Copenhagen data breach exposes data of 525,000 people (Dissent)
• Fitbit Edge: Premium design for an active life (Jonah Becker)
• Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 (Apple)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 27, 2026 (#897) (Richard Seroter)
• Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - October 26 (Peter Ritchie)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) - Referral Link A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C#.

• How I Develop .NET Apps With AI and Still Trust the Code (Matt Mattei)
• Introducing DayFrame: Everything I Check All Day, in One Window (Jeff Fritz)
• Explore MauiReactor and the MVU Pattern (Héctor Pérez)
• GPT-6.1 Terra now generally available in Microsoft Foundry: build agents that see and act (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra (OpenAI Team)
• Keep your investigation between sessions (Jason Chlus & Mads Kristensen)

Web and Cloud Development

• How to Handle Large Datasets in JavaScript Spreadsheets Without Slowing Down Your Browser (Mackenzie Albitz)

Windows Development

• Billion-query-per-second lookup tables in C++ (Daniel Lemire)
• Puzzling out why a program doesn’t work when run from a batch file, but works when double-clicked from Explorer (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• ILSpy v11.2 Release (Christoph Wille)
• Visual Studio 2026 v18.11.2 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders v12324.72 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Visual Studio Adds a Way to Resume Unsaved Markdown Investigation Notes (David Ramel)
• Getting Your Apps Ready For .NET 11 (Tomasz Cielecki)
• Read Your Writes with the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
• List and HashSet in C#: Ordering, Membership, and Equality (Nick Cosentino)
• How to stop Claude Code permission prompts in .NET (David Grace)

AI

• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.27 Release (GitHub Copilot SDK Team)
• GPT-6.1 Terra (Simon Willison)
• Prompts are dead; long live loops! (Jesse Liberty)
• OpenClaw v2026.9.35 Release (RomneyDa)
• Data Science eBook Bundle | O'Reilly (Humble Bundle) - Referral Link
• Introducing the Power Platform Admin Plugin in Cowork: Agentic Governance with Natural Language (Thomas Zou)
• When AI rewrites millions of lines of code, verification becomes essential (Sriram Rajamani & Tim Bozarth)
• From classrooms to careers: The future of education in an AI-driven world (Juan Lavista Ferres)
• Announcing Azure AI Speech LLM 09-2026: Broader locale support (Rena Liu)
• The Rise of the Self-Driving Company (Replit Team)
• The Evolution of Agentic Harnesses: From Chains to Graph to Code (Karthik Ramgopal)
• Anthropic officially files for its public debut (Rebecca Bellan)
• Will the real Anthropic please stand up (Will Douglas Heaven)
• Soloists, Copy-Pasters, and Tourists (Sar Haidar)

Python

• How to Build a Simple Data Analyzer in Python with Pandas (Eva J Patel)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• PHP2Shell and Azure DevOps: what to check (Josef Sin)
• Open source project health is not a popularity contest (Peter Smulovics)
• Making Failure Diagnosis Reliable with Pensive AI (Praneeth Yenugutala, Victor Dusa, Anastasia Samoilova, Megan Ren, Justin Wei & Marcelo Mayworm)
• Todoist Founder: Developers Should Focus on Solving Customer Problems (Ivan Brezak Brkan)

Mobile and Game Development

• Reintroducing Code Classroom – now with the Blocks editor (Mel Farrington)
• Shipping Flutter Web to Firebase When Your GitHub Actions Budget Hits Zero (Esra Kadah)
• Emulate Apple II on Raspberry Pi (Brian Jepson)
• Omnibot Reborn: Giving a 1984 Robot Butler the Brain It Was Promised (Mario Cruz)
• Multi‑Ratio Video Resizing for Mobile Feed and Marketing (Serdar Cellat, Yuchen Xie, Bernadette Marcu, Blaid Burgess, Cody Jarrett, Carlos Pereira, Qing Shi, Samuel Carvajal, Manuel Pamplona, Dorothy Jung, Feiko Ritsema, Benjamin Klein, Alex Woo, Eugene Lok, Anna Pulido, Rebecka Swe, Sanford Holsapple & Ranjith Kumar Shetty)
• Train a Balance Bot With Reinforcement Learning (Shawn Hymel)

Screencasts and Videos

• Scale One AI Agent Across Sites (Part 2) | The Azure Essentials Show (Christoph Berlin)
• 9 Interesting New Unity Asset Store Releases This Week! (Oct 17–23) (Stacey Haffner)
• Microsoft Foundry: The Platform for Smarter AI Model Selection (Microsoft Foundry Team)
• Random.Code() - Resurrecting Partial Function Application in C#, Part 5 (Jason Bock)
• Deploying an AI Daily News Agent to Slack with Astropods (Postman Team)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Syntax Podcast Episode #1050 - Everyone Is Hacking Their TV (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Upgrade 643: The iPhone Duo Review (Jason Snell & Myke Hurley)
• When Textbook Scrum Hurt the Team, Learning to Adapt as a Scrum Master | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Kaloyan Chalakov)
• Made by Google Podcast - How Technology Helps Us See & Connect (Rachid Finge)
• Continuous Delivery Office Hours Episode #12 - The platform adoption shock (Steve Fenton)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Introducing a Voluntary Exit Offer (Amy Coleman)
• CSS-Tricks has a new owner! (Geoff Graham)
• A lurker pass for the Fall cohort (Rob Conery)
• AI optimism meets data center backlash as protesters disrupt Seattle AI Week kickoff (Todd Bishop)
• Skydance Offers Buyouts, Gives 5-Day RTO Order (BeauHD)

Database

• The Nightly Index Rebuild Job, 1998 to 2026: An Obituary and T-SQL Mistakes: Careless and Careful Write the Same Six Queries (Pinal Dave)
• PostgreSQL Like A Pro: Build, query, and troubleshoot without leaving VS Code (Cynthia Zanoni & Pooja Yarabothu)
• The key syntax differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL – everything you should know (Aisha Bukar)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.11.2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.104 Release (GitHub Copilot CLI Team)

Writing

• What’s The Difference Between A Commercial And A Literary Plot? (Writers Write)

Tools

• Firefox Tries to Bring Back the Internet's ‘Good Old Days’ (BeauHD)
• PowerToys Release preview v0.102.2993 (LegendaryBlair)
• Tray-tober Day 26: Tray Nudge (Joseph Finney)
• NanaZip v7.0.1882.0 Release (Mouri Naruto)
• own-your-glass: Harden a rooted LG webOS TV (Julio Ferrero)

General

• Why NVIDIA RTX Spark and DGX Spark End 30 Years of Traditional PC Architecture with 128GB Unified Memory (Kunal Chowdhury)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 26, 2026 (#896) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Polly Generative engine, TorchNeuron for Trainium, and more (October 26, 2026) (Daniel Abib)
• Reading Notes #719 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) - Referral Link Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML.

• .NET 11.0 RC 3 Release Notes (.NET Team)
• More AI Agents, More CI: Reducing GitHub Actions Costs & Build Time (James Montemagno)
• How to Build Resizable Layouts with the .NET MAUI Grid Splitter (Naveenkumar Sanjeevirayan)
• DayFrame - Mail, calendar, contacts, notes, GitHub, social feeds, Twitch, news, weather and scores in one window, with live tiles that tell you what’s new before you click (Jeff Fritz)
• Introducing TX Sheet Control: Excel Compatible Spreadsheets and Interactive Dashboards (Bjoern Meyer)
• Building a fully autonomous meeting invite capability for Autopilot (Omar Shahine)

Web and Cloud Development

• What's new in ASP.NET Core authentication in .NET 11 (Tore Nestenius)
• Aspire v13.6.4 Release (Aspire Team)
• Deploy Blazor Data Orchestrator Into Your Own Azure Subscription With BlazorData.net (Michael Washington)
• Infragistics Commits Engineers to Blazor's .NET 11 Development (David Ramel)
• HTML5 Audio Autoplay Loop: Background Music Guide (Steve Faulkner)
• Auto-navigating our Grid using Dijkstra's Algorithm (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Beyond API Compatibility: Building a Tool to Measure the Blast Radius of Library Changes (Roberto Perez Alcolea)
• Better Navigation and Version Selection in Duende Docs (Maarten Balliauw)
• Wasp 0.26: parallel worktrees, wasp show, docs updates, and safer auth defaults (Vibor Cipan)

Windows Development

• Why WPF Validation Errors Are Not Displayed, and Choosing Between IDataErrorInfo and INotifyDataErrorInfo and Why CommunityToolkit.Mvvm ObservableValidator Shows No Validation Error on Startup in WPF (s-iguchi)
• Introducing TableView: a native data table for WinUI 3 (Pranav Gupta)
• Windows 11’s native app framework isn’t being killed this time, Microsoft promises, after Silverlight and UWP (Mayank Parmar)
• Why didn’t we use the COM static store to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 23 October 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• .NET 10.0.14 / 10.0.403 Release and .NET 8.0.33 / 8.0.133 Release and .NET 9.0.22 / 9.0.123 Release (.NET Team)
• MCP C# SDK 2.0 Makes HTTP Stateless by Default and Adds Multi Round-Trip Requests (Edin Kapić)
• .NET October 2026 Out-of-Band Security Updates (Rahul Bhandari)
• Which device is on this COM port? A tiny .NET 10 utility (Bruno Capuano)
• Blazing Fast .NET - Tips & tricks to tune .NET workloads for better perf (mostly, targeting benchmarks) (Egor Bogatov)
• Primary constructors are more than syntactic sugar (Steven Giesel)
• Are Async Database Inserts Really Faster in .NET? (David McCarter)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.26.0 Release (Dmytro Struk)
• The Modern .NET Toolkit (SoftInBit Team)
• Your Aspects, Faster: Advice Parameter Binding in PostSharp 2027.0 (Gaël Fraiteur)
• Microsoft Highlights Azure Credits, Training and Tools Included with Visual Studio Subscriptions (David Ramel)
• SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT: From Behaviour to Recommendations in C# (Scott Galloway)

AI

• Squad v2.0.0 Preview 2 Release (Brady Gaster)
• C# + Ollama: Give Your App a Voice with Phonon (Bruno Capuano)
• Foundry Fine-Tuning: open-source model expansion, MAI-Code, and shared multi-LoRA deployments (wujohn)
• Enterprise Deployment Architecture for Agentic AI on IIS: ChatGPT-Style UI over Agents & MCP Servers (Enamul Khaleque)
• The Best Prompt Rule Is the One You Delete: Moving AI Guardrails Out of Markdown and Into Git Locks, Linux insmod, and 15ms Compiler Auto-Fixes (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Put Down the Jackhammer: Meet Jev and One Either Meets or One Works: So I Built an AI Agent (Marlon Grech)
• Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads (Terrence O’Brien)
• The Joy of Programming (Brian Rinaldi)
• Small models, specific purposes (Mark Downie)
• Speech models in Ollama (Ollama Team)
• VS Code Local vs Copilot harness: settings to stay on Local (Stack & Ship Team)
• How I ran a 415-issue project with Claude Code and superpowers (Andrew Connell)
• OpenClaw v2026.9.34 Release and OpenClaw v2026.10.7 Release (RomneyDa)
• Microsoft Raises the Stakes in AI Model Development (Kieron Allen)
• Hugging Face’s New AI Model Lets Scientists Analyze DNA at a Fraction of the Cost (Aminu Abdullahi)
• AI Coding Squads: How GitHub Copilot and Claude Code Are Transforming Software Development (Dewain Robinson)
• Web Pages Can Command AI Coding Agents: Over 90% Success Through the Downloads Folder (Joho Todai)
• Microsoft’s new voice AI can start working out what you want before you finish speaking (Adrian Bridgwater)
• Customer Conversation harness – a new way to build customer-facing agents in Copilot Studio (Vesa Nopanen)
• Locking down MCP at the gateway (David Martin & Jason Madigan)
• AI scope creep & productivity (Oren Eini)
• Skill Recorder v0.7.0 Release (Microsoft)
• AI Interview Questions Test You, Not the Machine (Pinal Dave)
• SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT (Part 1.5): Vectorise Anything With Decision Models (Scott Galloway)
• The Agentic Software Factory Hierarchy of Needs (Hugo Bowne-Anderson & Eleanor Berger)
• Securing our frontier model training environment (OpenAI Team)
• Alera builds a library factory: from 112 owner messages to 11 (Kurtis Welch)
• Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro (Simon Willison)
• Every Mac on macOS 27 now has a free LLM built into the Terminal (Alvaro Cintas)

Python

• Inside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compromise: Credential theft through Python startup hooks (Mahesh Mandava, Srinivasan Govindarajan, Sagar Patil, & Suriyaraj Natarajan)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Everything Is An API Now (Ian Miell)
• Is Kubernetes ready for AI agents? (Dan Ciruli)
• Introducing the pipeline explorer (Jed Lehmann)
• Teaching Software to Wander Like We Do (Marlon Grech)
• IT Management Toolkit eBook Bundle | Taylor & Francis (Humble Bundle) - Referral Link
• You Don't Need to Roll Back What You Never Merged and Your Retry Logic May Be Replaying an Authorization Decision (Christopher D. Cavell)
• Accordion Icons: Which Work Best? (Vitaly Friedman)
• Learn Out Loud. Teaching Is Learning With the Lights On. (Peter Smulovics)

Mobile and Game Development

• Respond to system theme changes - .NET MAUI (Microsoft Learn)
• 7,100 demos on Steam… should indie developers be WORRIED? (Code Monkey)
• Why bloc.add(...) Isn't What You Think: Synchronous Event Fast-Paths and 0ms Form Bindings (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Ray-Ban Meta Audio Review: The Best Smart Glasses (Boone Ashworth)

Screencasts and Videos

• Quickstart: My agent said something it shouldn't have (Bethany Jepchumba)
• Publishing to the Microsoft Store | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 336 - “The New Abnormal” (Cybersecurity in a Zero Trust Era) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• How Microsoft Is Putting Europe in Control of Its AI Future | Satya Nadella on Sovereign Cloud (Microsoft Azure Team)
• How to build and ship an AI agent in the GitHub Copilot app (GitHub Team)
• The AI vs AI Battle for the Internet and The Most Concerning AI Bubble Signals (AIDailyBrief)
• Random.Code() - Resurrecting Partial Function Application in C#, Part 3 and Part 4 (Jason Bock)
• JetBrains GameDev Day 2026: Watch the Recordings (Anna Ruban)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Inside Trader Joe's Podcast Episode #114 - Mapping One Neighborhood Trader Joe's, With A List (Trader Joe's Team)
• Henrik Kniberg: Autonomous AI Agents - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #425 (Jeffery Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #538 - AI Agents Rebuild My 13-Year-Old Blog (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Meta Cast - We Got Leadership Wrong for Years. Here’s What We'd Change. (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Lenny's Podcast - An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Developer Tea Podcast - Signs You May Have a Regressive Mindset (Jonathan Cutrell)
• BONUS: The Chip Race Behind AI | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Rakesh Kumar)
• Big Technology Podcast - Google’s Potential, AI Money Spigot Shutting?, PHP Bug & Cybersecurity’s “Black October” (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #287 - The Engineering Scoreboard and an Addiction to Speed (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode #231 - The Engineer the CEO Knows by Name (How to Get Noticed by Executives) (Max Ahumada & Pramit Baul)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #177 - Mercedes-AMG GT SUV: 1,153 HP and a 12-Minute Charge (Batteries Included Team)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #316 - The Future of Python Security: Trends, Challenges, and Solutions (Christopher Bailey & Seth Larson)
• The Product Owner View of Great Scrum Masters in Agile Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Marcin Klimaszewski)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Rumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggerated (Phoebe Sajor)
• A Geek Leader Episode #492 - Dr. Gleb Tsipursky (John Rouda)
• Mac Power Users 872: The Mighty Mac mini (David Sparks & Stephen Robles)

Community and Events

• r/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and more (Terrence O’Brien)
• F# Advent Calendar in English 2026 (Sergey Tihon)
• Text Control Proudly Sponsors .NET Conf 2026 (Bjoern Meyer)
• Call For Papers Listings for 10/23 and Job listings for week ending 10/23 (Leon Adato)

Database

• Can You Build an Agent Entirely in SQL? Almost (Nicholas Lisac)
• Managing security with Database Hub in Fabric: From signals to action (ShohamMSFT)
• SQL Server 2016 end of support: how to choose your upgrade path (Greg Low)
• Code with Cosmos: Build a Production-Ready AI App in Four Episodes (Azure Cosmos DB Team)
• From Local Development to CI Workflows with the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator (Jay Gordon)
• Lessons Learned #562: Measuring the Work Behind Statistics Updates in Azure SQL Database (Jose Manuel Jurado)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft confirms Teams will let third-party tools scan your meetings for deepfakes from November (Abhijith M B)
• Turn GitHub notifications into code with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams (Arnav Gupta)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.6.9 Release of PowerShell and v7.5.13 Release of PowerShell and v7.4.22 Release of PowerShell (J. Shigetomi)

Writing

• How To Use Colour Psychology In Your Writing and 7 Secrets To Writing Happy Characters Without Boring Your Audience (Writers Write)

Tools

• Paint.NET 5.2 Beta (build 9793) (Rick Brewster)
• Tray-tober Day 23: Mini Ink and Tray-tober Day 24: Tiny Solitaire and Tray-tober Day 25: Tiny ATC (air traffic control) (Joseph Finney)

General

• Microsoft is testing a cleaner, faster File Explorer context menu for Windows 11 (Sean Endicott)
• Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats. (Rebecca Bellan)
• QuickCheck property: Uncategorised bill (Mark Seemann)
• Don't anthropomorphize big tech companies (Sean Goedecke)
• TV OS frustrations are leading people to vibe-code (John Higgins)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 23, 2026 (#895) (Richard Seroter)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 18, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Android Weekly Issue #750 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• F# Weekly #43, 2026 –Fable 5.24 and Ionide 8 (Sergey Tihon)
• Azure Weekly #585 - 25th October 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #773 (Alex Ozun)
• This Week in the Angular Community - October 23, 2026 (Angular Team)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) - Referral Link A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.

• Use the Azure OpenAI Decisions API (Microsoft Learn)
• The GitHub Copilot app Settings I Change Before Anything Else (James Montemagno)
• Are You Getting Everything You Can from Your Visual Studio Subscription? (James Rempt)
• The Modern .NET Show - .NET 8 and .NET 9 End of Support: What Stops, and What Does Not" (Jamie Taylor)
• Build more responsive apps with the Decisions API (OpenAI Team)
• Copilot Code: Make the power of coding accessible to everyone (Marc Wautier)
• Join Syncfusion at .NET Conf 2026! (Marissa Keller Outten)

Web and Cloud Development

• A tale of two PHP remote vulnerabilities (Calif Research)
• Dapr v1.19 is now available (Dapr Project Maintainers)
• NgRx 22: Resource Extensions and Dynamic Deep Signals for Angular (Daniel Curtis)
• Security Update on PHP2Shell: Impact for Docker Customers (PeiFang Sung)
• React for Vue Developers, Part 5: The Ecosystem Translation Cheat Sheet (Marina Mosti)
• From HTML to Structured Content: Why We Built the Modern Rich Text Editor (Thangavel E.)
• Security Lingo Explained: WebAuthn (Passkeys and Passwordless Authentication) and Server-Timing Headers in ASP.NET Core: Backend Metrics in Browser DevTools (Maarten Balliauw)
• Designing smarter access policies for hybrid enterprises (SuleTatar)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Sizoscope - A .NET tool to analyze the size of Native AOT binaries (Michal Strehovský)
• How to Extract Structured Data from Word Documents in C# and Convert DOCX to PDF, PDF/A and PDF/UA in C# Using TX Text Control (Bjoern Meyer)
• dotnet-inspect - A tool to inspect .NET assets, like docker inspect and kubectl describe (Richard Lander)

AI

• Building agents: When to fold subagents into your main agent loop (Claude Team)
• How to build a software factory that tests its own prompts (Jim Bennett)
• Microsoft Work IQ Explained - Workplace Intelligence, MCP Tools, A2A APIs, and Capabilities in Depth (Kunal Chowdhury)
• How to Test AI Agents Before Production: LLM Evaluations, Tool Calls, and Failure Scenarios (Sudhir Mangla)
• Learn Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security (Beau Carnes)
• Beyond static charts: Helping AI create visualizations you can explore (Chenglong Wang, Yuwei Xiao, Alper Sarikaya, Michel Galley, Chris Quirk & Jianfeng Gao)
• Designing an AI serving harness built to last (Anand Logani)
• 30 Popular AI Agent Skills Every Developer Should Know (JS Dev)
• Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’ (Rebecca Bellan)
• OpenAI donates Open Responses, its spec for a common LLM API, to the Agentic AI Foundation (Frederic Lardinois)
• Expanding AI literacy with the Public Library Association and community-based programs (Justin Spelhaug)
• The TechBeat: GPT-6 Astra: How to Write Better Prompts and Skills (10/22/2026) (Techbeat)
• DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 vs. Claude Haiku 5.5: More accurate at a fraction of the price (Jessica Wachtel)
• What happens when attackers get AI too? (Alexis Tiacoh)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.26 Release (GitHub Copilot SDK Team)
• How to build an AI agent that checks order status and processes refunds (Jesse Sumrak)
• What Is AI Agent Governance and Why Does It Matter? (Adam Bertram)
• Replit Monitoring Agent: Your very own software engineering team and Security vulnerabilities across the internet: How Replit is protecting your business (Replit Team)
• The Foundations of Scalable AI (MIT Technology Review Events)
• The Latest Anthropic Claude Models Contain AI Text Watermarks: What Does This Mean for You? (Bruce Hopkins)
• OpenClaw v2026.10.6 Release (RomneyDa)
• My Grok bot had me panicking for 15 minutes (Rob Conery)
• 1Password for Agents is Now Available (Paul Thurrott)
• Making the case for context-aware AI (MIT Technology Review Insights)
• Alignment: AI Can Write the Code. Can It Remember Why? (Anthony Grace)
• Give Your Agents Less Internet (Josh Bleecher Snyder)
• Build Offline Agent Loops for a Vonage Voice Agent (Benjamin Aronov)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.23.0 Release (eavanvalkenburg)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages (Sean Goedecke)
• The Regression Tests Nobody Writes: Capturing How Software Actually Behaves (Sancharini Panda)
• How to Build Golden Paths in Platform Engineering (Ioannis Moustakis)
• How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills (Shilpa Kumari)

Mobile and Game Development

• DIY Halloween Displays and Holiday Gifts eBook Bundle | Make: Books (Humble Bundle) - Referral Link
• Developers bring incredible new app experiences to iPhone Duo (Apple)
• Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer (David Crookes)
• Offer your subscriptions to businesses and schools (Apple Developer Team)
• Universal Hubs - Write the Hub Once, Connect Over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi (Allan Ritchie)

Screencasts and Videos

• Azure Functions Serverless Agents Runtime | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Nick Greenfield)
• How to Build an App with Azure SQL Using AI Coding Agents | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Iqra Shaikh)
• Code with Cosmos: AI-Assisted Development with Azure Cosmos DB (Marko Hotti & Patty Chow)
• DeltaDB: A New System of Record for Agents (Zed Industries Team)
• How AI is Changing What Work Means (AIDailyBrief)
• How PHP2Shell Temporarily Broke the Internet (Frank La Vigne)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Women in Technology Podcast Episode #67 - Civic Tech: Who Gets to Shape the Technology That Shapes Us? (WiT Team)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #595 - The Silent Disco (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• The Changelog Podcast Episode #687 - Building what's next (Zeno Rocha & Adam Stacoviak)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast - Changing how Engineering works with Ironclad CTO Sunita Verma (Scott Hanselman)
• MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #439 - Azure SRE Agent vs. the Azure Copilot Troubleshooting Agent (Ben Stegink & Scott Hoag)
• Product Owner Ownership That Gives Agile Teams Real Direction | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Marcin Klimaszewski)

Community and Events

• Microsoft at PASS Data Community Summit 2026: (Govanna)

Database

• The Perils of Secondary Metrics in SQL Server (Erik Darling)
• Embeddings and Vectors: The Map of Meaning (Pinal Dave)
• GemDB Releases VS Code Extension (Kay Ewbank)
• Modern Query Editor for Azure SQL Database is now generally available (ivujic)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Explore user feedback with Microsoft 365 Insights Agent (Fabian Williams)
• Making Microsoft Teams more responsive, reliable, and ready for work (Ihor Lukyanenko)
• Develop enterprise-grade apps with SharePoint Embedded (Steve Pucelik)
• Publish rich and interactive content with HTML pages in SharePoint (Nicole Woon)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.6.8 Release of PowerShell (J. Shigetomi)
• I can't believe PowerShell is actually good (Corbin Davenport)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.103 Release (GitHub Copilot CLI Team)

Tools

• PowerToys 0.102 Brings Two New Utilities, Other Updates (Paul Thurrott)
• Discord now formats Markdown previews right and Arc browser is shutting down (Jay Peters)
• Tray-tober Day 22: Tray Git (Joseph Finney)

General

• My annual letter: Building the frontier ecosystem (Satya Nadella)
• UN Says Breaching 1.5C Warming Limit Is ‘Imminent and Unavoidable’ and Moderna Shares Plunge After Leak of Cancer Vaccine Data (BeauHD)
• Microsoft is quietly testing another Recall for Windows 11, but this one doesn’t record your screen (Gareth Smith)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 22, 2026 (#894) (Richard Seroter)
• Friday Links #45: Fresh Tools, Frameworks, and JavaScript Updates (JS Dev)

The Geek Shelf

Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms (Eric Lippert) - Referral Link This book invites you to step off the beaten path and explore interesting, unfamiliar, and even exotic algorithms that will challenge your perspective and elevate your code.

• Microsoft.UI.Reactor: a C#-first way to build WinUI apps (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)
• Compare today’s code with an earlier commit (Leah Tran)
• React Native Windows v0.85 is here (Anukrati Agrawal)
• .NET Rocks! - XAML.io with Giovanni Albani (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Introducing Agentic Autofix for code and dependencies (Laura Jiang)
• PowerToys 0.102 is here: new mouse utilities, Command Palette improvements and much more (Niels Laute)

Web and Cloud Development

• Blazorise 2.4.1 - Tooltip Fixes, DataGrid Improvements, and Better Documentation (Mladen Macanović)
• A critical PHP vulnerability may take websites down today (Jess Weatherbed)
• Go update your PHP version now! (Alex White)
• Government Websites Go Dark After Severe PHP Vulnerabilities Disclosed (BeauHD)
• Walk-Thru: Aspire Deploy, Deploy Any Aspire Solution To Azure From A Blazor Desktop App (Michael Washington)
• Your React Learning Path (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• How to Diagnose vite: not found After npm ci in a Container Build (Ahmed Tariq)
• What is OctaneJS? A compiler-first alternative to React (Emmanuel John)
• Moving to Angular Zoneless (Dany Paredes)
• Make a Bounded ASP.NET Core Change with Claude Code (Nick Cosentino)
• The SpeechRecognition API (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Help set Go's priorities for next year (Cameron Balahan)
• Node.js 26.12.1 (Current) and Node.js 24.22.1 (LTS) and Node.js 22.23.4 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
• W3C and the State of the Web in the AI Era (W3C)
• When the Web Was Actively Trying to Kill You: A Field Guide to Early Front-End Lore (Rob Larsen)

Windows Development

• Why didn’t we use Ro­Register­For­Apartment­Shutdown to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• C# 15 Union Types for API Results: Examples, Trade-Offs, and Migration (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)
• .NET 11 and the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
• A Comparison between IronBarcode and ZXing.NET (Curtis Chau)

AI

• HydraFusion in GitHub Copilot: My cure for model fatigue (AJ Bajada)
• Embeddings and vector search in Microsoft Agent Framework for Go (Quim Muntal)
• AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind (Tim Rausch)
• Your Agent Runs in a Docker Sandbox. Now It Can Join a Team. (Jennifer Kohl)
• Introducing the customer conversation harness in Microsoft Copilot Studio (Omar Aftab)
• Powering the Agent Development Lifecycle with any framework, from ADK to LangChain and beyond (Pier Paolo Ippolito & Elia Secchi)
• Qwen and Gemma With Thinking On: Thinking Pays Qwen on Tool Calls, Gemma Still Leads (xbill)
• Why Chat Is Not the Future of AI UX (Hassan Djirdeh)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.25 Release (GitHub Copilot SDK Team)
• Broad access through consistent standards (OpenAI Team)
• OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system (Emma Roth)
• Conversational Gemini navigation comes to Apple CarPlay (Jess Weatherbed)
• Stop Making AI Guess Your Database: Oracle SQLcl MCP Server, Agent Memory, and Oracle AI Database (Srinidhi Sathyamurthy)
• Claude Desktop + IconVectors MCP: SVG Editing and PNG Export Walkthrough (Marc Emile)
• Before you evaluate an AI SRE, give your existing agent context (Roy Libman)
• Nvidia bets open models can give enterprise AI agents the context they’re missing (Frederic Lardinois)
• Article Series: Agentic AI Architecture (Rafał Gancarz)
• What Is Model Distillation? A Guide for Developers (Mene-Ejegi Ogbemi)
• Announcing SimReady Central: An Open Library of Simulation-Ready 3D Assets for Robotics and AI Factories (John Kosnik, Frank DeLise & Pomi Lee)
• Survey Says: You'll swap the model, but everything you build around it is staying put (Craig McLuckie)
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Embed, Rerank, and Parse: Advancing Agents with World-Class Retrieval Models (Yauhen Babakhin, Ryan Chesler, Jiarui Cai, Sean Sodha & Isabel Hulseman)
• Solving a 31-year-old grand challenge in mathematics – the KLS conjecture (Xinzhi Zhang)

Python

• Jumping the Trampoline: How a 2009 C# Trick Helped Me Bridge yield and async/await in Python (Tamir Dresher)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure (Eleanor White)
• The eMudhra CA compromise and ngrok: what's affected and what to do (Sam Richard)
• Multi-node support for Polling Tentacles (Luke Butters)
• Platform Engineering Tools: A Buyer's Guide to the Internal Developer Platform Stack (John Blust)
• Engineer Your Brain – How to Apply Brain Neuroplasticity to Engineering Learnings (Peter Smulovics)
• From baseline to Secure Software Factory: securing the systems that build your software (Dan Berezin Stelzer)
• Fix the System, Not the Symptoms: The Twelve Scrolls of Systems Thinking (UX Magazine)

Mobile and Game Development

• Advanced Shader Delivery is Available Now Across Hardware and Coming Soon to Other Storefronts (Wendy Ho)
• Nvidia’s latest GPU driver brings a new way to speed up PC games (Tom Warren)

Screencasts and Videos

• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Jonathan Archer (Isaac Levin)
• Quickstart: When prompting is not enough for your agent (Bethany Jepchumba)
• Find Root Causes Faster with AI (Part 1) | The Azure Essentials Show (Christoph Berlin)
• .NET AI Community Standup: Data Ingestion with .NET (Bruno Capuano & Luis Quintanilla)
• Random.Code() - Resurrecting Partial Function Application in C#, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
• Why AI Companies Are Betting Personality Beats Intelligence (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Practical AI Podcast Episode #377 - Exploit Development, Agentic Vulnerability Discovery, and Fake PoCs (Spencer McIntyre, Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #534 - Navigating Layoffs in Real Time w/ Dan DiGangi, Engineering Leader (Taylor Dessyn)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #376 - Google Gemini Agents Gemini, Gemini Confused (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #743 - Sowjanya Pandruju on Managing Agent State (Gavin Henry)
• Windows Weekly Episode #1006 - Are You Lying to Me Now, Paul? - OmniBook Ultra 16, ProArt P16, & Lenovo Pro 9n Impressions (Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell & Mikah Sargent)
• People and Projects Podcast Episode #525 | 39% Fired and Still Reinventing, with author John Tarnoff (Andy Kaufman)
• The Amp Hour Episode #737 - Things are looking up (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1049 - WTF is a Software Factory? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Product Owner Discovery When Agile Stakeholders Want Delivery First | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Marcin Klimaszewski)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - Beowulf’s ‘you know,’ Shakespeare’s ‘prithee,’ and the myth of Valley Girl ‘like,’ with Dr. Laurel Brinton (Mignon Fogarty)
• Intentional AI 11: AI Task Management (David Sparks & Chris Bailey)

Community and Events

• Automattic begins layoffs following board upheaval and executive departures (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft CppCon 2026 Trip Report (Michael Price)
• Register for .NET Conf 2026 - Nov 10-13 (Microsoft Reactor)
• .NET Conf 2026 - Local Event Submission - Organize an event any time from November 10th, 2026 - January 15th, 2027 (.NET Team)

Database

• Why’s This Query So Slow in Prod? Check sp_BlitzPlanCompare. (Brent Ozar)
• Why the Version Store won’t clear if any database has open transactions (Erik Darling)
• Announcing GA of Safe Key Rotation in Azure Cosmos DB (Iria Osara)
• How to fix “too many connections” in PostgreSQL (step-by-step guide) (Achyut Tripathi)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• SharePoint agents are changing – .agent files stop working in spring 2027 (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.102 Release (GitHub Copilot CLI Team)
• Your Agent Can Better Drive the Auth0 CLI with Agent Mode (Bharath Natarajan, Kunal Dawar & Ramya Anusri Ankisetty)

Tools

• NEWS: Retirement of Microsoft DevBox in Sept 2028 (Kurt Shintaku)
• YouTube Player – Open Source (Jesse Liberty)
• Tray-tober Day 21: Tray Random (Joseph Finney)
• Coreutils for Windows: Installer & Packaging (Microsoft)
• MarkItDown Version 0.1.9 Release (A. Fourney)
• Bloatynosy: The Windows debloater (Belim)

General

• Java eBook Bundle | Apress (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Neural Networks Are Already Clean (Nick Cammarata)
• Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra Cheat Sheet: Price, Specs, Features, and More (Matt Gonzales)
• Snapdragon X2 Linux Laptop Support: What Works, What Doesn’t and Microsoft Is Removing 8 Copilot Shortcuts From File Explorer — Here’s What Stays (TechRepublic Staff)
• Microsoft Reportedly Projects $1,200 To $1,800 Price For Next-Gen Xbox (BeauHD)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 21, 2026 (#892) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: October 21 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

So You Want To Be a Tech Lead (Greg Hatchuk) - Referral Link This is the unfiltered, blood-smeared, inbox-exploding truth about what happens when you step out of the safe zone of your IDE and into the jungle of tech leadership.

• AI Software Factory: How to Deliver Features During Lunch | TechBash 2026 Keynote Recording (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Azure DevOps available in Microsoft Copilot (Dan Hellem)
• Announcing TypeScript 7.1 Beta (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Squad 1.1.0 is out (Brady Gaster)
• Why We Still Need an IDE (Isaac Levin)
• Meet the WinUI Chart control: native charts for your WinUI 3 apps 📈 (Pranav Gupta)

Web and Cloud Development

• What’s new in Azure SRE Agent: October Update (sonjagu)
• React Tutorials, Updated for React 19 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Aspire 13.6.2 Release (Aspire Team)
• Syncfusion Document SDKs 2026 Volume 3: New JavaScript Libraries and Faster Excel Processing (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
• “We are not forking TypeScript”: Cloudflare spearheads Rust port written by agents, for agents (Paul Sawers)
• Enhancing the Default Navigation Menu in Blazor (Héctor Pérez)
• How to Build an AI Agent Harness from Scratch in TypeScript (Gabor Koos)
• Retries Can Make Outages Worse: Building Resilient ASP.NET Core APIs with Polly (Sudhir Mangla)
• GPU Memory Profiling on AKS: Find the Code Behind Memory Pressure (John Sonshi)
• Blazor and Razor in VS Code: C# Tooling for .razor Files (SharpLsp Team)
• Advancing digital sovereignty with greater control and choice (Douglas Phillips)
• Embracing Playful Imperfection With The CSS random() Function (Brecht De Ruyte)
• Go 1.27.3-1 and 1.26.10-1 Microsoft builds now available (George Adams)
• Reducing the size of your authentication cookie with ITicketStore (Bart Wullems)
• Ten Aurelia 2 Features You've Probably Never Used (Dwayne Charrington)

Windows Development

• Activatable Extension Points (Howard Kapustein)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v4.4.0 Release Notes (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Your Windows release information toolbox (Chris Morrissey)

.NET and Visual Studio

• csharp/2.1.0: Prompty C# 2.1.0 (Seth Juarez)
• Are C# and .NET Worth Learning in 2026? (Al Rodriguez)
• Visual Studio Code 1.144 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Visual Studio 2026 v18.11.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Microsoft Previews dotnetup: Toolchain Manager for .NET SDKs and Runtimes (Almir Vuk)
• Global Visual Studio Files (Ricardo Peres)
• New ODP.NET Releases for AI Agent Development and AI Skills (Alex Keh)
• The Interval Is the Thing: Modelling Range Types as First-Class Domain Objects in .NET and EFCore.ComplexIndexes: Index support for complex type properties in EF Core migrations, the missing piece for value object-driven architectures. (Ricardo Groß)
• Collections in C#: Access, Mutation, and Ownership Explained (Nick Cosentino)
• DuckDB.NET 1.5.6.1: Reading Data Up to 12× Faster (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• EF Core Performance Optimization: Fixing N+1 Queries, Slow SQL, and Memory Problems (Sudhir Mangla)
• An introduction to Compact Binary Object Notation (CBOR) in .NET (Andrew Lock)

AI

• Squad v1.1.0 Release (Brady Gaster)
• New GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Business Professional (Liberty Munson)
• Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find AI chats on the web (Emma Roth)
• New Gemini tools for small business owners (Vishnu Sivaji)
• MCP Is Coming to Your Desktop Applications (Peter Verhas)
• AI Agents Need Tools, Not Just Smarter Models (Eli Lopian)
• AI Can Hurt Learning. Can It Help Too? (Sebastian Nilsson)
• RAG and Microsoft Agent Framework Step By Step Step by Step (2) (Jesse Liberty)
• Can a local git remote replace GitHub in your agent eval? (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Microsoft Foundry IQ Explained - Agentic Retrieval, Knowledge Bases, and Capabilities in Depth (Kunal Chowdhury)
• How to review AI code without reading the code (Ankit Jain)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.24 Release (GitHub Copilot SDK Team)
• Securing AI Agents with Auth0 CIMD and Token Exchange (Andre Hochstein & Jan Singer)
• US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems (Kate Park)
• What Is Tool Calling in AI? How It Works and Why It Matters (Aminu Abdullahi)
• Redesign how your team ships software with AI agents (Chandler Gibbons)
• Our Limits Are Not Our Imagination (Jessica Kerr)
• Forget ‘Super Intelligence,’ GitHub Announces ‘Ambient Intelligence’ – With a Keypad (David Ramel)
• Study and Learn Agent: Now in 48 Languages, images improvements, ready when you open Copilot (Anoo Padte)
• DeepSeek open-sources the inference engine behind its API. And Huawei gets equal billing with Nvidia. (Paul Sawers)
• AnyLanguageModel 1.0: One Year of Local Models on Apple Platforms (Mattt)
• The Understudy: A Story About the Human in the Loop (Pinal Dave)
• I Did a Thing: The Friction of Letting an Agentic Workflow Do the Work (Teon Beijl)
• Coding-Agent Benchmarks Should Match Their Users’ Task Flows (Igor Slinko)
• The Second-User Test (Kaiyao Duan)

Python

• MPS in PyTorch 2.15 (Irakli Salia & Khushi Agrawal)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How to resolve merge conflicts in an Azure DevOps pull request (JR DevTools)
• Wrong git email again? Pick the identity from the remote URL (Sandeep Shelke)
• The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs (Dan Goodin)
• 5 Event Driven Architecture Problems (And How to Avoid Them) (Derek Comartin)
• IT Management Toolkit eBook Bundle | Taylor & Francis (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Mobile and Game Development

• .NET MAUI v11.0.100-rc.2.26513.2 Release Notes (Jakub Florkowski)
• Microsoft reportedly plans Xbox handheld in 2027, next-gen console in 2028 (Tom Warren)
• Building a cross-platform Flutter festival assistant with llamadart (Jhin Lee)
• Battle Drones - a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayer (Simon Willison)
• Introducing the Raspberry Pi Guide to Retro Gaming (Rob Zwetsloot)

Screencasts and Videos

• SQL Server 2025: AI-Ready Wherever You Run It | SQL Modernization Day (Bob Ward)
• Uno Platform Development with a Squad of AI Agents! (Sam Basu)
• Scott & Mark Learn To...Scroll TikTok (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• The AI Wealth Problem (AIDailyBrief)
• Random.Code() - Resurrecting Partial Function Application in C# (Jason Bock)
• Performance Tuning with AI | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Introducing Azure Maia 300 (Microsoft Azure Team)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Future Knowledge Podcast - The Internet Archive at 30: A Conversation with Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• RunAs Radio Show #1059 - OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications with Will Velida (Richard Campbell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1047 - Warm Up Your Zombie Arms - Pro and Tell: MacBook Pro Event Is Officially Coming! (Jason Snell, Andy Ihnatko & Christina Warren)
• React Native Radio Episode #376 - RLRN: Giggable (Robin Heinze & Andy Perlitch)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #501 - A Nod to Sir-Mix-Alot (Michael Kennedy)
• Big Technology Podcast - Google CEO Sundar Pichai: AI’s Infinite Possibilities, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Boagworld Podcast Episode #39 - How to Get Your Organization Mentioned by AI (Paul Boag)
• The Product Owner Lesson From Agile Teams That Forget the User | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Marcin Klimaszewski)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #533 - Will AI Agents Replace Devs or Just 10x Them w/ Peter Bell (Taylor Dessyn)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - What's a familect? The words only your family uses (Mignon Fogarty)

Community and Events

• How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity (Julien Dubois)
• Microsoft shuts the door on The Garage, the central program behind its hackathon and maker spaces (Todd Bishop)
• Xbox CEO is reportedly planning three more rounds of layoffs (Jay Peters)
• At NVIDIA, “Senior Software Engineer” can mean three different levels (Anastasija Uspenski)

Database

• I’m Probably Not Supposed To Show You Microsoft’s Auto-Indexing Tool. (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.11.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• The Query Optimizer Interview: Twenty Minutes, No Hints and The SQL Advisor: Seven Answers, All Measured (Pinal Dave)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• OneDrive Just Got a Major Upgrade: New Copilot Capabilities, Simpler Sharing, and Smarter Photos (Arwa Tyebkhan)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.101 Release (GitHub Copilot CLI Team)
• Working with Alternative Data Streams in PowerShell (Joel Ivory Johnson)

Writing

• 7 Reasons To Write The Ending Of Your Novel First (Writers Write)
• Documentation-Driven Development (Chris Ferdinandi)
• What to do when your writing doesn't match your idea (Emily Munro)

Tools

• PowerToys Release v0.102.2933.0 (LegendaryBlair)
• Announcing Files v4.3.1 (Files Team)
• Tray-tober Day 20: Tray-Casts (Joseph Finney)

General

• OpenBSD 8.0 Released (BeauHD)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 20, 2026 (#892) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

.NET MAUI Cookbook (Alexander Russkov) - Referral Link Build a full-featured app swiftly with MVVM, CRUD, AI, authentication, real-time updates, and more.

• Get Your .NET MAUI App Ready for Xcode 27 (Gerald Versluis)
• Securing the agentic insider (Hayete Gallot)
• Browser automation tool in Microsoft Foundry is now GA (Nandini Muralidharan)
• TypeScript 7.0 Migration Guide: Performance, Compatibility, and Upgrade Steps (Manikanda Akash Munisamy)
• Work IQ: the new retrieve tool (Paolo Pialorsi)
• How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code (Kayla Cinnamon)

Web and Cloud Development

• Memory-efficient JSON in .NET 10 web APIs with PipeReader (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• JSON vs. JSONL: One Little Letter, a Big Difference for AI (Lino Tadros)
• Creating a Copy Code Button in Kendo UI for Vue (Jonathan Gamble)
• Go 1.27.2-2 Microsoft build now available (George Adams)
• Advancing digital sovereignty with greater control and choice (Douglas Phillips)
• How to Read MP4 Duration with HTTP Range Requests and CSS in 2026: Modules, Tailwind, CSS-in-JS, and More (JS Dev)
• Do web components have a future if nobody is writing them? (Nolan Lawson)
• First Public Working Draft: Animation Triggers (W3C)

.NET and Visual Studio

• C# Code Intelligence in Claude Code: Setup and Limits (Nick Cosentino)
• Bring Your Own Model to the GitHub Copilot SDK with C# (Bruno Capuano)
• Why MCP Matters: Understanding Model Context Protocol and Building Your First MCP Server in .NET (Nilesh Vishwakarma)
• Microsoft.Testing.Platform (MTP) in the Test Explorer: dotnet test, xUnit v3, MSTest and NUnit for C# and F# (SharpLsp Team)
• .NET tasks AI is better at than developers (David Grace)
• Microsoft Agent Framework: Agent to Agent (A2A) with .NET (Jaliya Udagedara)

AI

• Now in Foundry: Meta Muse Spark Open, NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, and Reflection Beam (Osi)
• Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Decision Routing for GitHub Copilot in CLI & VS Code (Kinfey Lo)
• Coding Agents Guess Which Tests to Run. They Should Look It Up. (Paul Hammant)
• Microsoft IQ Stack for Beginners - A Simple Guide to Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, and Web IQ (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft Foundry Update Brings Scheduled AI Agents, Smarter Tool Use and GPT-6 Models (David Ramel)
• Building an AI Analyst, One Football Argument at a Time (Chester Ismay & Michelle Smith)
• A Reference Architecture for Constrained AI-Assisted Design (Mahesh S.)
• DevExpress Agent Skills — October Update (Dmitry Tokmachev)
• CPU vs. GPU vs. TPU vs. NPU: Meet the Processors Powering AI (Lino Tadros)
• Native Model Authoring for Edge with LiteRT Tensor API (Ping Yu, Quentin Khan, Chintan Parikh & Lu Wang)
• A smarter approach to AI cost controls: allocating spend by efficiency (Devin AI Team)
• Dynamics of Sentiment and Attitudes Toward AI Among Developers (Mikhail Bogdanov)
• AI Changed How We Code. It Hasn’t Changed How We Work Together. (Dhruv Deshpande)
• Stress-Testing Gemini 4 Argon: Building a 3D Flutter Kart Game in 15 Prompts with Zero Assets (Jhin Lee)
• Context Graph Makes Haiku 5.5 23% faster, for 19% less money, in fewer steps (Talia Kohan)
• Step by Step guide: Build a Voice Agent That Never Goes Silent using ADK (Stephen Allen & Kaz Sato)
• Three developer tasks worth handing to an agent (Julie Griffin)
• My obituary for programming (Simon Willison)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Apache Ant Deployments with Octopus (Matthew Casperson)
• Deliberate Practice and Continuous Improvement in Software Teams (Dean Hume)
• Career Conversations With Your Manager: Start With Your Own Goals (Nick Cosentino)
• Event Sourcing: Is our Projection Code fast enough? (Urs Enzler)
• Laypeople support technical fields for technology, not art (Sean Goedecke)
• Napkin math: know what your system should do before you measure it (Bart Wullems)
• Cheaper code won't kill software development, but it’s already reshaping it (Chris Ford)
• Thoughts on Dynamic Consistency Boundary (Oskar Dudycz)
• From Microservices to Agents: The Next Evolution of Distributed Systems (Mallika Rao)

Mobile and Game Development

• Shiny.Net.Http - The Mobile Library Workhorse You Didn't Know You Needed (Allan Ritchie)
• How to Build and Publish a Native Android App in 2026: From Jetpack Compose to the Google Play Store (Nikheel Vishwas Savant)
• Generative UI Without the Async Tax: Introducing bloc_signals_genui 1.0 (Randal L. Schwartz)
• A Raspberry Pi Pico Halloween (Rob Zwetsloot)
• Replicating Project Pad UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)

Screencasts and Videos

• Why AI agents Cost So Much | The Azure Essentials Show (Takuto Higuchi & Sindhura Bandhakavi)
• Live Tiles with Gunnar and Talking Tech Projects | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• What a software factory actually is (Warp Team)
• From issue to pull request with GitHub Copilot in IntelliJ (GitHub Team)
• A Potentially Historic AI Breakthrough (AIDailyBrief)
• How We Built an Autonomous Coding Agent on Astropods (Postman Team)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Presentation Podcast Episode #256 - Are PowerPoint’s Interactive Slides Right for You? (Troy Chollar)
• Fragmented Podcast Episode #312 - Understanding Pi Durable with Mario & Armin of Earendil (Mario Zechner & Armin Ronacher)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1048 - Deno Is Dead (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• When Product Owner Success Creates Blind Spots for Agile Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Marcin Klimaszewski)
• Meta Cast - The 1 Measuring Stick We Hold Every Leader To (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• InfoQ Podcast: The Future of Web Apps: Will AI Agents Generate UIs on the Fly? (Rachel Lee Nabors)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Don't forget about the UI for AI (Phoebe Sajor)
• Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.11: Haute culture (Steve Fenton)

Community and Events

• Seattle ag-tech startup Carbon Robotics reduces workforce, citing economic conditions (Kurt Schlosser)

Database

• Why your schema shouldn’t mirror your database (and what to do instead) (Nick Harrison)
• Storing and Querying a Hierarchy of Types with Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Truncating a 1 TB Table in an Availability Group (Josh Darnell)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Troubleshooting playbook for Auto labelling in SharePoint and OneDrive (Harysh9)
• Transform your storytelling with interactive slides in PowerPoint (Derek Johnson)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.100 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• How To Know When To Quit Writing (Writers Write)

Tools

• Tray-tober Day 19: Trayulator (Joseph Finney)
• Wine Ported to OpenBSD (BeauHD)

General

• Semicolon is on the App Store (James Ashley)
• Major European mobile carriers are teaming up for a ‘direct’ satellite program without Starlink (Stevie Bonifield)
• Microsoft Restores Extended Support for Legacy Windows Component Through 2029 (Rabia Noureen)
• Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back (Rebecca Bellan)
• Clang Bytecode interpreter update 2026 (Timm Baeder)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 19, 2026 (#891) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #718 (Frank Boucher)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda Web Functions, Amazon S3 on the Vercel Marketplace, and more (October 19, 2026) (Daniel Abib)
• Links For You (10/19/26) (Raymond Camden)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor (Jimmy Engström) - Referral Link A practical guide to building interactive UIs with C# 14 and .NET 10.

• Snippets in Uno Platform Studio: Iterate on UI Fast (Sam Basu)
• Muse Spark Open is available in Microsoft Foundry Models (Mahesh Balachandran)
• WinApp extension for Visual Studio Code to assist in building, debugging, and packaging Windows applications (Microsoft DevLabs)
• Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #138 - Beyond Vibe Coding: Jesse Houwing on Building Better Software with AI (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
• A Free .NET Profiler for VS Code: CPU, Memory and Leaks in C# and F# (SharpLsp Team)
• Dew Submitter - Submit Links Your Way (Preview) - Google Play Store (Alvin Ashcraft) - Reach out if you want access to test the app

Web and Cloud Development

• What's New in React 19.3 and How It Changes UI Development (JS Dev)
• Improving navigation experience in v0 with Next.js 16.4 (Aurora Scharff)
• What’s New in Syncfusion Document SDKs 2026 Volume 3: AI Chunking, PDF Security, and Data Extraction (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
• Deno Acquired by Cloudflare, Will Work on Open Source Self-Hosting Platform for Applications (EditorDavid)
• ESLint v10.13.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• Build Lightweight APIs That Run Anywhere with Hono (Christian Nwamba)
• Jakob's Law: People Expect Your Site to Work Like the Others (Shirish Shikhrakar)
• Self-Hosting at Home With Cloudflare Tunnel (Milan Jovanović)

Windows Development

• C++ futures part 5: stdfuture and stdshared_future (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft explains why Windows 11 still uses MS-DOS file names, and why it can’t change them (Abhijith M B)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 16 October 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• MongoDB in C#: Connecting, Mapping, and Reading Documents (Nick Cosentino)
• .NET 11 Release Candidate 2: Go-Live License and Updates Across Libraries, F#, MAUI, and WinForms (Almir Vuk)
• Pipes vs. Streams in .NET: Choosing the Right Tool for Performance (David McCarter)
• Background Job Retries: Prevent Duplicate Business Operations (Mitchel Sellers)
• TypeSafe Jev .NET SDK 0.7.0: Experimental Images and Bounding Boxes (Laurent Kempe)
• Simplifying NAudio 3 Target Frameworks (Mark Heath)

AI

• Agents and skills for Windows development and debugging (Windows Dev Team)
• Running local AI models on Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra: What we found (Frederic Lardinois)
• Copilot remembered the bookings. Why couldn't it resume the workflow? (Tamir Dresher)
• Muse Wonder vs. Claude Fable 5.1: Meta’s new model came closer than I expected (Jessica Wachtel)
• Linux Maintainers Can Now Submit AI-Generated Code Without Declaring It and Websites Are Closing Their Doors to AI Agents and LinkedIn Fights AI Slop, Now 40% of Its Long-Form Posts (EditorDavid)
• Why AI Agents Need External Grounding (B. King)
• OpenClaw v2026.10.5 Release (RomneyDa)
• Junie Local Comes to the NVIDIA RTX Spark (Vladimir Sotnikov)
• Agentic Coding: Where I Am At Now [October 2026] (Michael Washington)
• Build a Tenant-Wide Microsoft Foundry Model Operations Dashboard (Anishek Kamal)
• Five Web IQ use cases: bring the outside world into your AI agent and Web IQ: Web Search and Grounding APIs for AI Agents (Roberto Carli)
• Artificial General Intelligence and Sentient AI (Liam Cleary)
• EmberLLM (M. Smith)
• Can decision models play games from screenshots? (Jim Bennett)
• We’re sharing 3 tips to study smarter with Gemini Notebook (Lisa Oguike)
• Is Your Organization Messing Up AI Adoption? (Paul Boag)
• Building Production-Ready Open-Weights AI Agents with Gemma, Google ADK, and Cloud Run GPUs (Robina Mirbahar)
• How to Build a Voice AI Agent with OpenAI's GPT-Live, Twilio Agent Connect, and TypeScript (Wen Zhu & Xinghao Huang)
• Managing open-weight model risk in enterprise deployments (Michael Scovetta)
• Your AI Agent wants your data, part 2 (Anya Summers)
• Agentic Development: Time to Shift the Focus (Riccardo Cocetta)
• Your agent will try to be helpful. Make sure helpful can't reach prod (Mike Coleman)
• Local Small Language Models vs Cloud APIs for Automated Pull Request Review (Kunal Chowdhury)
• NVIDIA Personal AI Router (PAIR) - Let your AI apps and agents run across all your local devices (NVIDIA Team)
• What I learned after a weekend of AI troubleshooting gone wrong (8 key lessons) (Grant Fritchey)
• How the Claude Code team does code review (Claude Team)
• Is Agentic Modernization Finally Possible? (Stacy Gordon)
• clinFHIR does AI (David Hay)

Python

• Decoding base64 in Python at 10 gigabytes per second (Daniel Lemire)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Jenkins Plugin of the Month – October 2026: Kubernetes Plugin (Stefan Spieker)
• The Art of Learning (Liam Cleary)
• Test, Heal Thyself! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• What requirements don't you have? (Sean Goedecke)
• Properties for a budgeting exercise (Mark Seemann)
• On-Behalf-Of Is a Pattern. Token Exchange Is the Standard. (Andrea Chiarelli)
• Why You Shouldn't Build Your Own Authentication From Scratch (Stefano Pinato)
• Speculative Challenges of Spec-Driven Development (Tim Ottinger)
• From Containers to Sandboxes: Developer Trust in the Agentic Era (Jin Kim)
• Syntax Recall Was Never The Goal (Jamie Maguire)
• Code Review After Code Gets Cheap (Markus Eisele)
• Buildkite Adds Scoped Secrets and New Agentic CI Tools (Matt Saunders)

Mobile and Game Development

• This AI-proud game made $200k with 92% POSITIVE reviews! (Code Monkey)
• FSF Criticizes Raspberry Pi DRM Blocking RAM Upgrades (EditorDavid)
• Video game ownership bill introduced in Congress (Terrence O’Brien)
• Strengthening App Review Guidelines against nonconsensual intimate imagery and bait-and-switch apps (Apple Developer Team)
• .NET MAUI Localization docs (Microsoft Learn)
• Gamer's Kitchen Cookbooks eBook Bundle | Insight Editions (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Screencasts and Videos

• JetBrains .NET Day Online 2026: Watch the Recordings (Mehul Harry)
• I'm BACK! Flying cars, Surfaces, and Live Tiles! | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Random.Code() - Handling Inaccessible Abstract Members Automatically in Rocks, Part 5 (Jason Bock)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 335 - “Shift Pragmatic Left” (Derisking AI and IoT Nonsense) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• How the Latest AI Model Jump is Disrupting Business Models and The Most Important AI Model Announcements This Week (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Greg Leonardo: AI & Azure - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #424 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #537 - Going ULTRA with RTX Spark and New Surface Devices (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Lenny's Podcast - Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #566 - State of the art in Python 2026 (Michael Kennedy)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode #230 - The Hidden Cost of Being a High Achiever (Max Ahumada)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #176 - Tesla Roadster Flies, Arrives in 2028, Price TBD (Batteries Included Team)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #532 - Get Promoted w/o Being the Loudest In the Room (Taylor Dessyn)
• Big Technology Podcast - Anthropic IPO Panic, A Spy At OpenAI?, The Great Food Slop Debate (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #315 - Python Pitfalls: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• Great Product Owners Bring Customer Problems, Not Just Backlog Items | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joseph Osei-Kusi)
• A Geek Leader Episode #491 - Chris Dyer on Moments that Matter (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• Upcoming October 2026 Microsoft 365 Champion community call (Jessie Hwang)
• Call For Papers Listings for 10/16 and Job listings for week ending 10/16 (Leon Adato)
• Wolverine passed 10 million downloads (Jeremy D. Miller)

Database

• Deadlock or Just a Queue? Sunday SQL Puzzle and AI in Production Without a WHERE Clause (Pinal Dave)
• Security Update for SQL Server 2025 RTM CU9 and Security Update for SQL Server 2025 RTM (SrinivasSQL)

Writing

• How To Write A Character’s Moment Of Truth (Writers Write)

Tools

• Tray-tober Day 16: Tray Wiz and Tray-tober Day 17: Mini Sweeper and Tray-tober Day 18: Traydog (Joseph Finney)
• PowerToys Preview v0.102.2911.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• LocalMorph - Convert video, audio, and images locally without uploading your files (James Montemagno)
• NanaZip v7.0.1873.0 Release (Mouri Naruto)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v3.0.4 Release (OneBlue)
• Coming to Windows 11: An updated Photos experience (Vyankatesh Gadekar)

General

• Windows 11 will block ReFS on USB drives, even as Microsoft bets big on its NTFS alternative (Mayank Parmar)
• Programming Language Popularity Increases for R, Julia, and Rust (but Not Go) and MapQuest Shows Location of Flock (and Other ALPR) Cameras and Personal Data for Millions of California Students Stolen in Massive Breach (EditorDavid)
• Windows 11’s last Secure Boot deadline hits Monday, Microsoft reveals what happens to your PC (Abhijith M B)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 16, 2026 (#890) (Richard Seroter)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 11, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• C# Digest: Upgrading to .NET 10 and C# Digest: A fruit fly's brain simulated in C# (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Azure Weekly #584 - 18th October 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• Android Weekly Issue #749 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• F# Weekly #42, 2026 – F# 11 RC2 & compiler performance improvements (Sergey Tihon)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #772 (Konstantinos Nikoloutsos)
• Reading List 362 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

ChatGPT Visual Bible (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link A step-by-step, screenshot-by-screenshot guide to writing, researching, analyzing, and automating with ChatGPT

• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | September 2026 (Nick Brady)
• What will the next generation of developers do when AI writes the code? (Mark Russinovich & Scott Hanselman)
• Bring Azure SRE Agent into your developer workflow with the new canvas (Paul Yuknewicz)
• Vector stores in Agent Framework for Python: familiar foundations, streamlined for agents (Eduard van Valkenburg)
• What’s new in Windows 11: Everyday experiences, reimagined (Navjot Virk)
• Introducing dotnetup: A toolchain manager for .NET (Chet Husk)
• Stop waiting on a failed build (Mads Kristensen)

Web and Cloud Development

• Faster protection, fewer interruptions: How Microsoft Edge is rethinking updates (Patrick Brosset)
• web.config to appsettings.json converter for ASP.NET Core (free, in the browser) (Graham Church)
• React for Vue Developers, Part 4: Forms, useFormStatus and useOptimistic (Marina Mosti)
• How to Model Money in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
• What Duende IdentityServer costs a multi-tenant SaaS in 2026, and the alternatives (SaaS Infrastructure Team)
• What Traffic Engineering Taught Us About Building an Azure App (Jon Eric Eubanks)
• Pulumi ESC now issues OIDC tokens for any service (Devon Grove)

Windows Development

• MSVC Build Tools Version 14.52 Release Candidate Now Available (Eric Brumer)
• C++ futures part 3: The mental model for std::async and C++ futures part 4: What if I want an immediate on-thread std::async? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Set Up Claude Code for a .NET Solution on Windows (Nick Cosentino)
• packages.config to PackageReference converter (free, in the browser) (Graham Church)

AI

• GPT-chat-latest gets more intelligent, interactive, and personal in Microsoft Foundry (Trupti Parkar)
• IMF Warns of the Real AI Threat: Debt (BeauHD)
• Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs (Jay Peters)
• MCP standardized tools. Now we need the infrastructure around them. (Vijay Harre)
• New in Frontier: Delegate Business Processes to Copilot Studio Agents (Vesa Nopanen)
• Microsoft and GitHub Keep Giving AI Agents More Power – and More Restrictions (David Ramel)
• Enterprise Adoption Guide for Azure SRE Agent, Part 1: Deploying Your First Azure SRE Agent and Part 2: From One Team to Enterprise-Wide Adoption (dchelupati)
• AI has moved the bottlenecks in software development (Jeremy D. Miller)
• AI Is Making Code Generation Cheaper—and Engineering Judgment More Valuable (Chris Pietschmann)
• OpenClaw Windows update channel and OpenClaw v2026.10.4 Release (RomneyDa)
• Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint (Kate Soule, Subhajit Chaudhury, Hendrik Strobelt & Luis A. Lastras)
• Tactics for rolling out software factories: human and organizational changes (Zach Lloyd)
• Why AI Sounds Confident When It’s Wrong (Pinal Dave)
• The road to self-improving software (Ben Holmes)
• Code Review is now generally available (Claude Team)
• Your agents need a platform (Richard Seroter)
• An update on independent evaluators (Anthropic Team)
• Why your platform team shouldn't build an AI context layer (even though they probably could) (Eira May)
• AI in Platform Engineering: When Agents Join Your Platform (Ioannis Moustakis)
• Teaching students to think and learn through questions (OpenAI Team)
• How Netflix Made AI Coding Agents More Efficient with JetBrains IDE Intelligence (Anastasia Kazakova)
• Amazon’s new AI devices can listen to conversations and suggest things to buy — if you opt in (Todd Bishop)
• Introducing a team knowledge base, curated by Copilot and agents (Kripal Kavi)
• Agentic Code Quality (Addy Osmani)
• Introducing Devin Oncall (Devin Team)
• I Propose a Truce (Tom Schroeder)

Python

• python/2.0.3: Prompty Python 2.0.3 (Seth Juarez)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.22.0 Release (Eduard van Valkenburg)
• mssql-python 1.16.0: Python 3.15 support, Conda, and faster fetches (David Levy)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• From .sqlproj to production: generate a well documented Azure DevOps pipeline for your SQL Database Project (Erik EJ)
• From copy-paste to platform thinking (Matthew Allford)
• Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org (Greg Mohler)
• Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar (Srinath Setty)

Mobile and Game Development

• Android App Obfuscation: A Layered Approach to Security (Michelle Pruitt)
• How to Import Excel and CSV Data into a .NET MAUI DataGrid (Shalini Suresh)
• DIY Halloween Displays and Holiday Gifts eBook Bundle | Make: eBooks (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Screencasts and Videos

• How to Go from AI Power User to AI Leader (AIDailyBrief)
• Develop Portable Apps with Adaptive Applications | The Azure Essentials Show (Aaron Stark & Haishi Bai)
• First Steps with the GitHub Copilot app - Agent-First Development Masterclass (James Montemagno)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #594 - The Bottom Fell Out Of The Software Industry (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #375 - AWS Finally Automates the Blame Game (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• We Need a Hero...Link! | SyncUp Podcast - October 2026 (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
• Generative AI in the Real World: Observability for AI (Ben Lorica & Charity Majors)
• The Practical AI Podcast Episode #376 - Education is Failing our Students in this AI-Driven World (Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - AI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong (Phoebe Sajor)
• Success for Scrum Masters Is a Team That Improves Without You Driving Every Conversation | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joseph Osei-Kusi)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #225 - In-flight experience: a cloud inside the plane (Frédéric Faria & Yann Nicolas)

Database

• Know Your Wait Types: Six Profiles, All Induced and When a GUID Clustered Primary Key Gets Expensive (Pinal Dave)
• AI Agents: Meet the Azure Cosmos DB vNext Emulator (Theo van Kraay)
• sqlpackage can now skip Windows users and other Azure incompatible objects when exporting a .bacpac (Erik EJ)

Tools

• Meet the new Photos app on Windows 11 (Giorgio Sardo)
• Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more (Sarah Perez)
• PowerToys Preview v0.102.2883.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Tray-tober Day 15: Tray Clock (Joseph Finney)
• Secure Linux desktops with Microsoft Defender (Megha Priya)

General

• World's Timekeepers Vote to Eliminate the Leap Second and Ubuntu 26.10 Released (BeauHD)
• We test the RTX Spark Superchip in Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra — Nvidia's Windows on Arm platform impresses in local AI, but gaming isn't its strong suit (Jeffrey Kampman)
• Windows 11 could kill Control Panel faster, as Microsoft quietly tests Settings in the Microsoft Store (Gareth Smith)
• Leaked list shows what Microsoft, Amazon and other tech giants are giving for the White House ballroom (Todd Bishop)
• Announcing Rust 1.99.1 (Rust Release Team)
• End of Lifecycle for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 (Meagan McCrory)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 15, 2026 (#889) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) - Referral Link A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.

• New Tools, New Workflows and the Value of the Visual Studio Subscription: What We Learned at VSLive! San Diego (James Rempt)
• Python 3.15 delivers a native-by-default experience on Windows on Arm (Chris Anderson)
• Visual Studio 2026 Release Notes - October Update 18.11.0 and Visual Studio Insiders Release Notes - Released on October 13, 2026 (Microsoft Learn)
• From extraction to action: Using grounding and confidence to build reliable document workflows (Joe Filcik & Colin Murphy)
• Azure MCP Server 3.0 stable release: More tools. More possibilities (Sandeep Sen)
• Uno Platform Studio 3.2: See Your App’s Design System (Uno Platform Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Console and worker apps (Aspire Team)
• Next.js Security Update for Upstream Vulnerabilities (Sebastian Silbermann)
• Node.js 24.22.0 (LTS) and Node.js 26.12.0 (Current) (Richard Lau)
• Announcing Blazorise 2.4 - Bura (Mladen Macanović)
• Infrastructure for the frontier era: Scaling intelligence through open industry collaboration (Reynold D'Sa & Rani Borkar)
• ByteAether.Ulid v1.4.2 Expands the .NET Ecosystem with ASP.NET Core and CLI Support (Joonatan Uusväli)
• Create Reusable, Schema-Driven Forms with Syncfusion Form Builder and Form Renderer (Sabari Anand S)
• Better HTTP/1 connection reuse (Nicholas Husin & Damien Neil)

.NET and Visual Studio

• How to Use Copilot Agents for Code Review in Visual Studio 2026 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Reliable Document AI in .NET: LLM Tool Calling vs. LLM-Generated Files (Deepika Kathiravan)
• Visual Studio Code 1.143 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Human-in-the-Loop AI Agents in C#: Approval and Resume with Vercel Eve (Nick Cosentino)

AI

• Triaging Dependabot With a Copilot Canvas (Aaron Powell)
• Are We Losing Our Ability to Think in the Age of AI? (Adhithi Ravichandran)
• Getting visual explanations from your coding agent with the show-me skill (Bart Wullems)
• Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Then reviewers found a race. (Amanda Caswell)
• How to Fine-Tune Llama 3 for Custom Tool Calling with Unsloth in Python (Vinod Chugani)
• How Cloud-Based Agent Sandboxing Works in Air (Dennis Ushakov)
• Evaluating decision models for document categorization (Pallavi Sinha)
• OpenClaw v2026.9.33 Release (Romney Da)
• Why Does AI Write Like Yoda? (Andrew Stellman)
• AI Engineering Skills Roadmap (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Running Multiple Claude Code Accounts with herdr (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.22 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Agent observability on the Claude Platform (Claude Team)
• Meat Proxy (James Ashley)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Why Is My Kubernetes Job Still Pending? Tracing Kueue Admission with Headlamp (Utkarsh Raj René Dudfield & Kevin Hannon)
• Harbor + Docker Sandboxes: Run Safe, Reproducible Agent Evals (Srini Sekaran)
• Making n8n Workflows Testable and Maintainable with Runtime Variables (Caleb Jenkins)
• Boost Your Pipeline: Top 6 CI/CD Integrations for Qodana (Kerry Beetge)
• From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers (Taylor Cuilty)
• Playwright v1.64.1 Release (dgozman)

Mobile and Game Development

• One SDK, Multiple Platforms: Introducing the Auth0 SDK for Kotlin Multiplatform (Prince Mathew)
• Your widget tree is already a list of options: where Jev fits in a Flutter project (Yii Chen)

Screencasts and Videos

• The Hanselminutes Podcast - The Quantum Revolution with Turing Award Winners Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard (Scott Hanselman)
• Build and Run Azure Functions Hosted Skills in GitHub Copilot | Microsoft Azure Developers and SRE Agent Canvas | Microsoft Azure Developers (Paul Yuknewicz)
• Where Gemini 4 Argon Fits (AIDailyBrief)
• Quickstart: Ship an AI agent without leaving your terminal (Julia Muiruri)
• How to make a software factory that's not expensive (full walkthrough) (Warp Team)
• ASP.NET Core meets OWASP Top 10 2025 | NDC Oslo 2026 (Anders Abel)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! - AI in Live Broadcast with Tim Huckaby (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #742 - Tim Varelmann on Mathematical Optimization for Software Engineers (Sriram Panyam)
• Windows Weekly Episode #1005 - Nicely Frosted - Why Microsoft's Latest Event Left Us Baffled (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Episode #626 - Star City Season 1 Review (David Barr Kirtley, John Joseph Adams, Sara Lynn Michener & Rafael Jordan)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #531 - AI & Yap - AI Assistants & Bots (Taylor Desseyn)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - Your college essay doesn't need an extraordinary story, with Ethan Sawyer (Mignon Fogarty)
• Big Technology Podcast - AI Leaders Can't Get Along. So How Will They Keep Us Safe? (Alex Kantrowitz & Kevin Roose)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1047 - Adobe has a big problem (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Helping Agile Managers Move from Control to Enablement | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joseph Osei-Kusi)

Community and Events

• Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q&A with Corey Hymel of Andela (Ryan Donovan)
• Netflix is laying off around 1,000 employees (Andrew Liszewski)

Database

• Canada’s 2026 time zone updates: guidance for Microsoft SQL (Umachandar Jayachandran)
• Introducing sqlsimtools (Bob Ward)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.11.0 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• How to create roles, databases and tables in PostgreSQL (getting started with PostgreSQL, part two) (Grant Fritchey)
• Breaking News: Hold Off on SSMS 22.11.0 (Brent Ozar)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Time Zone Confusion (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• SharePoint Knowledge Base – Team Memory, Curated by AI (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.98 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• The 5 Top Tips For Turning Memories Into A Memoir (Writers Write)

Tools

• Tray-tober Day 14: Tray Sport (Joseph Finney)
• Microsoft Defender Now Supports Linux Desktops (BeauHD)

General

• Meet the XBOX Nano Controller (Danielle Partis)
• As a TV enthusiast, I was hoping for more from the Apple TV 4K (John Higgins)
• Repairing the iPhone Duo's folding screen costs as much as a new iPhone (Jay Peters)
• Microsoft’s wild ride: Stock hits new record after a year of ups and downs (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 14, 2026 (#888) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

C# 14 and .NET 10 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Build modern websites and services with ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and EF Core using Visual Studio 2026.

• Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 (.NET Team)
• Introducing XBOX LABS (Asha Sharma)
• GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise (Batu Ozturkler)
• Is it MSIX? Part 3: Find Package and Application Identity with TASKLIST and PowerShell (Howard Kapustein)
• From Answers to Actions with Work IQ (Vesa Nopanen)
• Trick or Tokens: Five Monsters Eating Your Context Window (J. Tower)

Web and Cloud Development

• Walk-Thru: A Blazor Azure Inventory, Knowledge Graph, and AI Chat Application (Michael Washington)
• What’s new in Microsoft Entra: October 2026 (Yina Arenas)
• Azure Verified Modules (AVM) is now owned by Azure engineering (J. Tracey)
• TypeScript Won. Now It’s Giving Up Its Superpowers. (Rob Larsen)
• Blazor Basics: Common Blazor Mistakes Beginners Make (and How to Avoid Them) (Claudio Bernasconi)
• React Gantt Chart Performance: Which Library Handles 100,000 Tasks Best? (Lokesh Arjunan)
• How Aurelia Knows Something Changed (Dwayne Charrington)
• Backstage 1.55 Adds Scaffolder Task Recovery and Removes Deprecated Catalog APIs (Mark Silvester)
• Introducing the Auth0 SDK for TanStack Start (Rengarajan R)

Windows Development

• C++ futures part 2: The mental model for stdpromise, stdpackaged_task (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• How C# 14 Extension Types Cut Microservice Memory Allocations to Zero (Kunal Chowdhury)
• .NET 8.0.32 / 8.0.132 and .NET 9.0.21 / 9.0.122 and .NET v10.0.402 Release (.NET Team)
• Swap System.Text.Json for REDox in a Minimal API and Collection Expression Arguments Fix the Comparer Problem in C# 15 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Human Prose from Human Evidence: SeekStorm, RRF and C# (Scott Galloway)
• Opening Up Your App to AI Agents: A Practical Guide to MCP with .NET (David Ramel)
• .NET and .NET Framework October 2026 servicing releases updates (Rahul Bhandari & Tara Overfield)
• Using FileLifecycleHooks in Serilog (Bart Wullems)

AI

• OpenSpec Tutorial: One Real Change, From Install to Archive and BMAD Method: A Real Run in Claude Code, From Install to Commit (Felipe Fontoura)
• Advanced AI Observability: Context, Loop Detection and Token Counts with Progress Agent Engineering (Dany Paredes)
• Introducing Topics Portfolio (Beta) in AI Performance (Bing Team)
• Microsoft Foundry Guardrails Getting in Your Way? Here’s How to Dial Them Down (suzarilshah)
• AI can act exactly like a human, but we still don't think it's conscious (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
• Run AI agents safely with Ollama and Fly.io (Ollama Team)
• Make every AI credit count: See, cap, and reduce agent spend (Allie Holland)
• The New Microsoft Copilot: From Asking Questions to Delegating, Building and Automating (Nicholas Aquino)
• Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? (Grace Huckins)
• Meta’s Generative Ads Model (GEM): Scaling the Central Model and Compute Engine for Frontier Ads AI (Huayu Li, Darren Liu, Xiaoyi (Leo) Liu, Ellie Wen, Jackie (Jiaqi) Xu, Chunzhi Yang & Reva Srinivasan)
• Build AI-powered apps without creating a vector database (Steve Pucelik)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.21 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• AI Productivity Gains Went Up and Nothing Shipped Faster (Pinal Dave)
• OpenClaw v2026.10.3 Release (Romney Da)
• Sharing Theories with Agents (Jessica Kerr)
• Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough (Arun Malik)
• Introducing remote MCP for Octopus Deploy (Gin Atkins)
• Introducing Replit Solutions Partners (Replit Team)
• GitLab's agent orchestration eliminates the wait between development stages (Elisabeth Burrows)
• Redesigning source control at Anthropic (Anthropic Team)
• The 3.7 Billion Token Diet (Simon Jackson)
• Devin in Pylon: Driving faster Median Time To Fix (Devin Team)

Python

• Python vs Go: A Practical Comparison for Developers (Dominika Stankiewicz)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• October Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
• CI/CD Pipeline Observability Tools: How to Choose the Right Setup (Olga Bedrina)
• Beyond Detection Engineering: Building Security Engineering at Scale (Matt Clemons)
• An Allowed Decision Does Not Mean the Operation Succeeded (Christopher D. Cavell)
• Visual Weight in Design: What Makes One Thing Feel Heavier Than Another (Shirish Shikhrakar)
• Why Early Releases Often Fail in Multi-Team Organizations (Vedran Petrović)
• Are Harnesses Worth the Cost? (Martin Fowler)
• Why Your Sandbox Never Quite Matches Production (And Why That's Fine) (Sancharini Panda)
• When Architecture Decisions Actually Apply (Theo Valmis)

Mobile and Game Development

• Getting Started with the .NET MAUI Map Control (Héctor Pérez)
• Mega Unreal Engine Software Bundle | Laya Design and DanStudios (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Building Bifröst: Replacing My Homelab VPN with Cloudflare Zero Trust and a Raspberry Pi (Shannon Kuehn)
• Don't forget the Raspberry Pi 3a (Rob Miles)

Screencasts and Videos

• How Muse Wonder Shifts the AI Landscape (AIDailyBrief)
• Speed up Research with Microsoft Discovery (Microsoft Developer Team)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Kevin Whinnery (Isaac Levin)
• The .NET MAUI Community Toolkits: 3 Essential Libraries for Every .NET MAUI Dev - NDC (Brandon Minnick)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• The GitHub Podcast Episode #53 - Stacked PRs, Ghost Merges, and the Merge Box: Inside GitHub's Biggest Pull Request Change in Years (Cassidy Williams, Andrea Griffiths & Sameen Karim)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #500 - Episode 500! (Michael Kennedy)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1046 - Trust Agnes! - Apple Unveils its Apple HomeView and Apple Home Collection (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• RunAs Radio Show #1058 - Choosing Tools in M365 with Joy Apple (Richard Campbell)
• Mailin' It - The Official USPS Podcast - If the Sirens Sounded: The Postal Service’s Cold War Plan (United States Postal Service)
• How Artificial Harmony Silences Agile Teams Before the Real Problems Surface | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joseph Osei-Kusi)

Community and Events

• Free Webcast: How to Think Like the SQL Server & Postgres Engines (Brent Ozar)
• Maker Faire Rome 2026: 400+ Stories Of Innovation, Creativity and Discovery (Maker Faire Rome)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Beyond Analysis: Copilot Gets to Work in Excel (Brian Jones)
• Office LTSC 2021 support ends today (Jeremy Carlson)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.6.7 Release of PowerShell and v7.5.12 Release of PowerShell and v7.4.21 Release of PowerShell (J. Shigetomi)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.97 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• How To Write A Prologue: 5 Good Reasons To Include One (Writers Write)

Tools

• PowerToys Preview v0.102.2862.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Tray-tober Day 13: Tray QR (Joseph Finney)

General

• Apple unveils the new Apple TV 4K, supercharged by Siri AI (Apple)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 13, 2026 (#887) (Richard Seroter)
• Web Weekly #201 (Stefan Judis)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Prime Day 2026 by the numbers, Claude Haiku 5.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, and more (October 13, 2026) (Daniel Abib)
• Reading Notes #717 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Building Agentic Applications with MCP and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft and Deepak Kamboj) - Referral Link Build distributed, AI-ready apps on Azure with .NET and MCP.

• WinUI Gallery 3.0 is here: TableView, Charts, InkCanvas and more (Niels Laute)
• Microsoft to expand Azure Maia system to multi-gigawatt deployments (Scott Guthrie)
• Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture (Rani Borkar & Saurabh Dighe)
• Build & Iterate on UI fast with Snippets in Uno Platform Studio (Sam Basu)
• Why Modern AI Apps Feel Faster: Streaming UX Patterns That Actually Work (Ankit Sharma)
• Durable Task in the Real World: What Problems Does It Actually Solve? (Tamir Dresher)

Web and Cloud Development

• Out Now: Building Serverless Applications with WebAssembly & Spin (Thorsten Hans)
• Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions (Micah Walter)
• HTMX 4 Adds findAll Support In CSS Selector Attributes (Ben Nadel)
• Building a Production-Ready PDF Generation Pipeline in C# with ASP.NET Core (Bjoern Meyer)
• Using Kendo UI with Svelte (Jonathan Gamble)
• OAuth 2.0 vs OpenID Connect: What's the Difference and Which Do You Need? (Dean Hume)
• We’re on a roll - EPUB 3.4 is coming (W3C)

Windows Development

• C++ futures part 1: The mental model (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• 10 MCP servers you need to install now as a .NET developer (Thomas Ardal)
• C# 15 Union Types: Build Serializable Workflows and Directory.Build.props: Share Settings Across .NET Projects (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• What's Coming Soon to Visual Studio? Mads Kristensen Knows (David Ramel)
• Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI_3.0.0-beta.4 and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents_3.0.0-beta.4 (Azure .NET SDK Team)
• Claude Code for .NET Developers: A Reviewable Repository Workflow (Nick Cosentino)
• AI is changing your .NET job: What you need to know (David Grace)
• Multi-tenancy in .NET 10: isolating tenant data with EF Core named query filters (Abdel Hakim Khammassi)
• Cleaning up old log files with Serilog (Bart Wullems)

AI

• EU AI Act compliance for AI agents: building the engineering foundation with Arize and evroc (Jim Bennett)
• AI Coding Agents Generate More Code, But Not More Software (BeauHD)
• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase (Christopher Harrison)
• Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Personal Assistant on OpenClaw (Michelle Smith)
• Designing Websites for People and AI Agents with WebMCP (Angie Jones)
• Coders with Agents Fixing Websites (Chris Sells)
• Andrej Karpathy says only 5,000 people have seen what AI can really do (Amanda Caswell)
• How to estimate the real cost of one LLM API request (AI//COST) (Yaroslav Vikhariev)
• Not Every Decision Needs an LLM: Getting Started with Microsoft-Decision-1 (Shreyan Fern)
• The rise of the programmer-producer (Rob Conery)
• Building a Local RAG Copilot with Foundry Local: Evidence Before Answers (FF99)
• Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring (Microsoft Research Team)
• Building machines that work with other machines (Tom Johnson)
• AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter (Anthropic Team)
• Decision Models Agreed On The Questions, Not The Contract (Kin Lane)

Python

• Python 3.15 Adds Lazy Imports (Mike James)
• Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11 (Simon Willison)
• Parsing JSON at tens of gigabytes per second… in Python (Daniel Lemire)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Event Sourcing: A close look at the projector for values (Urs Enzler)
• Sharing is (not always) caring. PgBouncer pooling modes in practice (Oskar Dudycz)
• Idempotency Does Not Prevent Authority Replay (Christopher D. Cavell)

Mobile and Game Development

• App Store Indie Games Week kicks off today (Apple Team)

Screencasts and Videos

• The 5 Debates Shaping AI (AIDailyBrief)
• From coding agents to software factories with Uber and Faire and How to build self-improving agents (full walkthrough) (Warp Team)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast - Why does ‘Here comes he’ sound so wrong? (Mignon Fogarty)
• Smooth Scaling Podcast Episode #29 - Bot Traffic as a Capacity and Cost Problem with Netacea CTO Andy Still (José Quaresma)
• InfoQ Podcast: What Does It Really Mean To Program With AI (Joy Ebertz)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1046 - The Pi Updates are insane (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• When the Jira Board Looked Fine but the Agile Team Was Drained | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joseph Osei-Kusi)
• Meta Cast - The 4X rule every feature MUST pass (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Inside Trader Joe's Podcast Episode #113 - Trader Joe's Goes Viral (Trader Joe's Team)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Keep calm and call clone with Rust (Phoebe Sajor)

Database

• From Prompt to a Running App: Introducing Agent Skills for Couchbase Mobile (Priya Rajagopal)
• How to make database schema changes without downtime in MySQL: complete guide (Lukas Vileikis)
• Heads Up: SQL Server 2017 Support Ends One Year From Today. (Brent Ozar)
• Lessons Learned #559: Understanding query timeouts in Azure SQL Database (Jose Manuel Jurado)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Excel eBook Bundle | Wiley (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.96 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• Mozilla introduces Firefox Enterprise (Mozilla)
• Dew Submitter - Share developer articles and RSS feed suggestions with The Morning Dew | Microsoft Store (Alvin Ashcraft)
• PowerToys Preview v0.102.2851.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Tray-tober Day 12: Quick Places (Joseph Finney)

General

• Coding, Math, and AI: What’s Ahead for School Students in 2026–2027 (Alena Gupaisova)

More Link Collections

• Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - October 12 (Peter Ritchie)
• Daily Reading List – October 12, 2026 (#886) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms (Eric Lippert) - Referral Link This book invites you to step off the beaten path and explore interesting, unfamiliar, and even exotic algorithms that will challenge your perspective and elevate your code.

• Introducing Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making (Achint Srivastava)
• Building a TypeSafe's Jev MCP server with .NET (Laurent Kempe)
• European Law for .NET Developers: What the GDPR Means for Your Code (Lou Creemers)
• What’s New in Syncfusion .NET MAUI 2026 Volume 3: New Controls and Features (Vijayakumar Mariappan)
• Are bigger agents better? How to design agents that scale (Gary Pretty)
• Introducing the Agent Experience (AX) Practitioner Playbook (Waldek Mastykarz)
• The Handoff - 30-minute sessions on Discord to share demos, updates, Q&A and feedback on Microsoft Foundry (Nick Brady)

Web and Cloud Development

• Use multiple schemes in an ASP.NET Core Web application (Damien Bowden)
• The best way to use icons in Web UIs (Lea Verou)
• Tuning the default logging providers in ASP.NET Core through configuration (Bart Wullems)
• WebSocket servers in JavaScript: Node.js, Bun and Deno in 2026 (Daniel Lemire)
• Backstage with Azure: Microsoft Entra ID Authentication (Paul Yu)
• Build a Secure TypeScript MCP Client with Cross App Access (XAA) (Akanksha Bhasin)
• Go 1.27.2-1 and 1.26.9-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
• Signal Value Transforms, Routing Essentials, and Video Extension with Veo! ⚡ (Angular Team)
• Can One Worker Safely Execute Delayed Operations for Many Tenants? (Christopher D. Cavell)
• The First Reduction in Their History: 64-Day Let's Encrypt Certificates (Scott Helme)
• Deno is joining Cloudflare (Ryan Dahl)
• Multi-Tenant SaaS Apps with Auth0 Organizations — Part One (Felix Colaci & Andre Hochstein)

Windows Development

• Prepare for Windows Update certificate rotation in 2027 (Andrew Brown)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Simplify HTTP Request Handling with HttpRequestExtensions (David McCarter)
• Creating a Windows Service using .NET and OpenMSI (Open MSI Support)
• Governed Execution & Secure .NET Architecture Tutorials | AsiBackbone Learning (Christopher D. Cavell)
• What Actually Happens When a Durable Orchestration Awaits an Activity? (Tamir Dresher)
• Labcoat: the web UI I was missing for my .NET tests in Aspire (Erik Lieben)
• Less chat. More decisions: introducing ElBruno.AI.Decisions for .NET and From a ZIP Archive to an AI Ingestion Document with C# and MarkItDotNet (Bruno Capuano)
• Structured Extraction, Part 1: live semantic templates for unstructured documents (Scott Galloway)
• Created a Job Board Because I Was Tired of Lying Job Boards (Jamie Maguire)

AI

• Releasing AI-generated software (Mark Seemann)
• GenAI & Agentic AI eBook Bundle | bpb (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI (Sean Goedecke)
• OpenClaw v2026.10.2 Release (Romney Da)
• Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating (Antonio G. Di Benedetto)
• Creating Spec Kit Presets Step-By-Step and Creating a Spec Kit Extension (Jesse Liberty)
• Introducing Microsoft-Decision-1 in Microsoft Foundry for decision and classification workloads (Saumil Shrivastava)
• What LangGraph Actually Builds: Runnables, Channels, Bubble-Up, Agents and Deep Agents (Tamir Dresher)
• Introducing Office in the new Microsoft Copilot app (Sumit Chauhan)
• Microsoft-Decision-1 available in Microsoft Foundry (Vesa Nopanen)
• AI-Generated Code Still Needs Human Review (Chris Pietschmann)
• Experimenting with Claude Code Experimental Agent Teams (Andy Leonard)
• Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era (Satya Nadella)
• An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police (Amanda Silberling)
• What's New in Copilot Notebooks | October 2026 (Ezra Park)
• Trump’s attempt to rename AI is looking awfully artificial (Adi Robertson)
• Voice AI Is an Infrastructure Problem, Not Just a Model Problem (Marin Pavelić)
• AI Sounds Like Someone, But Nobody Is in There (Pinal Dave)
• Bringing CRM into the flow of work and agents into business process for sales and service teams (Jeff Teper)
• Herding Agents: How I Actually Use Herdr (on a Ridiculously Wide Screen) and Spaces, Tabs, Panes, and Precise Words: Why I Break Agent Work Out the Way I Do (Adron Hall)
• Jevfree - repurposing EmbeddingGemma 2 for Jev-like decisions (Johnny)
• Be Nice to Claude. It’s Not About Claude. (Jeffrey Snover)
• Five Mistakes People Make with Agentic Factories (Eleanor Berger)
• One Either Meets or One Works: So I Built an AI Agent (Marlon Grech)
• If You Never Do Anything Else to Fix Your Prompts, Do This One Thing (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Steer Your Agents Until They Steer Themselves (Rohan Vaidya)
• Intent, Not Identity (Vicki Reyzelman)

Python

• Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions (Simon Willison)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Use Stacked Pull Requests to Make AI Code Review Managable (Mitchel Sellers)
• Some quick thoughts on Unit Testing ActivityPub (Terence Eden)
• Leadership in the Age of Infinite Fluency (UX Magazine)
• Cloud Performance Testing with Postman: From Laptop to CI (Giridhar)
• Tribal Knowledge: Nobody Left to Ask (Pinal Dave)
• Software's centaur age may last decades (Sean Goedecke)
• Performance tuning is about finding the real bottleneck (Slawomir Luty)
• Where, Oh Where, Is Debugger-Man? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Test Time-Dependent Code Without Waiting (Milan Jovanović)
• The Golden Ratio in Design: What It Is, and Where It Actually Helps (Shirish Shikhrakar)
• A Treatise on Model Oriented Programming Languages (Dave Clemmer)

Mobile and Game Development

• How $560,000 in Steam sales turns into $73,000 for the dev (Code Monkey)
• Generating a dynamic background on .NET MAUI (anotherlab)
• Graphics with the SAM Coupé – Transparency and Graphics with the SAM Coupé – Keyboard Input and Graphics with the SAM Coupé – Animation (Pete Gallagher)
• Android Bench 2 Adds Support for Long-Horizon Tasks, Agentic Evaluation, and Continuous Scoring and Xcode 27.2 Introduces an Agent- and Merge-Friendly JSON Format for Project Configuration (Sergio De Simone)
• Announcing Stride 4.4 (ferafiks)
• Plinth! My first arcade-style game. (Gavin Rose)
• BluetoothLE between apps has never been easier - Enter BLE Hubs (Allan Ritchie)
• Amazon just fixed the worst thing about its tablets after 15 years (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

Screencasts and Videos

• Functional Programming with the aid of AI | NDC Oslo 2026 (Venkat Subramaniam)
• Live Coding with Wes Bos, Burke Holland, Pierce Boggan & Friends | GitHub Copilot Day (GitHub Team)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 334 - “Who is Your Industry Death Star?” (Disruption in Hype's Clothing) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• AspiriFridays - Let’s Go try Go 🦫 (Aspire Team)
• Can GPT-6 Luna Handle a 42-Step Coding Task? (James Montemagno)
• QDK Tutorial: Build Chemistry applications with the Quantum Development Kit for Chemistry (Microsoft Developer Team)
• The Best New AI Products and the Key Trends They Represent and AI’s First Full Field-Level Disruption (AIDailyBrief)
• This Week in AI: More Capability, More Responsibility (Christina Stathopoulos & Michelle Smith)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Daniel Vacanti: What's AI Done To Agile - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #423 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #536 - Decisions, Microsoft-Decision-1, Decisions (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Lenny's Podcast - Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• The Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #90 - Coding Agents for Everyday Life - with Gui Ferreira (Dan Clarke)
• BONUS AI Changes Management, Not Leadership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mateo Bervejillo)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #286 - How can browser and mobile app testing be so difficult? (David Burns, Will Button & Warren Parad)
• React Native Radio Episode #375 - RNR Explains: EAS Update (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
• The Changelog Podcast Episode #686 - From zero to NanoClaw (Gavriel Cohen & Adam Stacoviak)
• Women in Technology Podcast Episode #66 - Find Your Voice, Find Your People (WiT Team)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode #229 - Forget Networking. Build Your Career Crew. (Max Ahumada)
• Big Technology Podcast - Meta & Microsoft's Claude Slowdown, His Agent Leaked His Banking Info, Don’t Bully Your AI (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #175 - Volkswagen Ditches ID.4 — Meet ID. Tiguan, its Replacement (Batteries Included Team)
• Hard Fork Podcast - Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #314 - Codemoo: Demonstrating How Coding Agents Work (Christopher Bailey & Geir Arne Hjelle)
• Product Owners Who Turn Feedback Into Agile Team Learning | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Oluyomi Emmanuel)
• A Geek Leader Episode #490 - Dr. Mik Kersten on Output to Outcome (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• Where Community and Code Connect: MVPs at Nebraska.Code 2026 (Betsy Weber)
• Microsoft 2.5: GitHub COO Kyle Daigle on stitching the developer universe together (Mary Jo Foley)
• From H-1B to CEO: How Satya Nadella traveled the path the U.S. just cut off for Microsoft workers (Todd Bishop)
• Job listings for week ending 10/09 and Call For Papers Listings for 10/9 (Leon Adato)
• Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build (Ed Summers)
• 10 Unexpected Ways to Celebrate Halloween in Philadelphia in 2026 (Visit Philly)

Database

• Which Cable Reaches the Database? A Sunday Puzzle and Text to SQL: The SQL Was Never the Hard Part (Pinal Dave)
• How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) (SQLPals)
• The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server (Arun Sirpal)
• How to secure temporary objects, metadata visibility, and audit assurance in SQL Server (complete guide) (Fabiano Amorim)
• INFO: Extended Security Updates for SQL Server in Azure VMs not free for v2016 (13.x) (Kurt Shintaku)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• TBD

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.95 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• How To Write A Locked-Room Mystery: The Secret To The Impossible Crime and How To Use Method Writing To Create Better Characters (Writers Write)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.3 (Files Team)
• LiteBox v0.1.0 Release - A security-focused library OS supporting kernel- and user-mode execution (Microsoft)
• Tray-tober Day 9: Tray-MdB and Tray-tober Day 10: Tray 2048 and Tray-tober Day 11: Traysky (Joseph Finney)
• Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subscription-based services may come next (Jhet Borja)
• WhatsApp starts blocking logins from outdated operating systems (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)

General

• A College Told Flock to Remove Its Cameras. The Company Refused. (EditorDavid)
• AI was supposed to sell PCs. Instead, PC shipments just crashed 20% as AI eats the world’s RAM, and Windows 11’s Copilot agents aren’t convincing buyers (Abhijith M B)
• COVID-19 Cases Are Picking Up Again. These Are the Variants That Health Officials Are Watching (Jenny Lehmann)
• Microsoft tries to spark new life into Windows (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 4, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Android Weekly Issue #748 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #583 - 11th October 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #41, 2026 – Paket 11 & Firelight (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – October 9, 2026 (#885) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

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