• TechBash 2026 Welcomes Jeff Fritz! (TechBash Team)
• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | July and August 2026 (Nick Brady)
• Introducing Fast and Reliable Wireless Debugging with Android Debug Bridge (ADB) Wi-Fi 2.0 (Steven Jenkins, Sherif Eid & Fabien Sanglard)
• Prepare your app for iPhone Duo | Apple Developer (David Jackson)
• The Evolution of WSL Support in JetBrains IDEs (Kristina Pchelintseva)
• Doing it again, twenty years later: introducing Quill (Oren Eini)

Web and Cloud Development

• Passkey-themed social engineering leads to identity and cloud compromise (Krithika Ramakrishnan, Bharat Vaghela, Vaibhav Deshmukh, Subhajit Ghosh, Anusha Chakraborty, Akash Chaudhuri, Victor Chingtham & Ivan Macalintal)
• Decision Guide for Angular State Management: Signals, Services, SignalStore or NgRx? (Dany Paredes)
• WhatsApp One-Time Password (OTP) Login with Duende IdentityServer and User Management (Maarten Balliauw & Mattijs Hoekstra)
• What to Expect in Angular 23 (MacKenzie Albitz)
• Node.js 26.8.2 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
• Threat matrix: Mapping threats across cloud web applications (Lior Leizerovich)

Windows Development

• MSVC Build Tools Preview updates – September 2026 (Eric Brumer)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Introducing TX Text Control AI: Private AI for Real Document Workflows in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• Why Rider and ReSharper Were Slow to Start, and How Microsoft Helped Fix the Problem (Alexander Ulitin)
• Visual Studio Code 1.138 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)

AI

• Optimizing Token Usage for AI Coding Agents in 2026 (Sebastian Nilsson)
• Deploying to Foundry (Jesse Liberty)
• Picasso for Microsoft Agent Framework - See what your agents are actually emitting and what compaction quietly threw away (Vin Joseph)
• Anthropic Researcher Believes More Than 10% Chance AI ‘Could Kill All Humans’ and OpenAI's Rogue Agents Used At Least 10 More Sites For Unauthorized Communications (BeauHD)
• They really do think AI might kill everyone and LLMs Reward Expertise (Sean Goedecke)
• The Anatomy of Harness Engineering: How to Evaluate, Iterate, and Guard AI Coding Agents (Taylor Mullen & Christian Gunderman)
• 5 ways to use Gemini text-to-speech (TTS) in your apps with Firebase AI Logic (Ankita Saxena)
• What a Machine Learning Model is and How to Make One (Eva J. Patel)
• Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive AI approach drives scientific discovery (Aseem Datar)
• OpenClaw v2026.6.35 Release (RomneyDa)
• Own the Outer Loop (Addy Osmani)
• Get Gemini 3.8 Flash With 75% Off (Dmitry Savelev)
• Send RCS Messages With Google Gemini and Vonage MCP Server (Amanda Cavallaro)
• Protecting students in the age of AI: A new school standard (Microsoft Source)
• AI Norms & Values, Part 3 of 3: Things We Hold True (Charity Majors)
• Announcing ADK for Kotlin 1.0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents in Kotlin, Android, and Beyond (Guillaume Laforge)
• Students who use AI generally score worse at school (Dominic Preston)
• Use a local and open source code assistant (Seth Kenlon)
• When Spec-Driven Development Pays Off (Nitin Garg)
• Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it? (Theresa Loconsolo)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.18.0 Release (moonbox3)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• The Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No Interface (Carrie Webster)

Mobile and Game Development

• MAUI Designer - UI Designer for MAUI Applications (Prakhar Londhe)
• Get ready for iPhone Duo and App Store submissions now open for the latest OS releases (Apple Developer Team)
• Available for XBOX Insiders: More Ways to Customize, Play, and Connect (Alex Charters & Eden Marie)
• Apple unveils iPhone Duo and Apple advances health and fitness capabilities using Apple Intelligence and Introducing Apple Watch Series 12, with the all-new Health Sensing System and Apple debuts iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max (Apple)
• Only spend years on a game IF you have validation! (Code Monkey)
• Unreal Engine source control: how to choose and set it up in 2026 (Andrei Cusnir)
• Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening (Sarah Perez)
• The Modern Pitch for BlocSignal: Why Engineering Leads Are Moving to Reactive Primitives (Randal L. Schwartz)
• The incomplete history of Duo devices (Andrew Liszewski)

Screencasts and Videos

• Evolution of MCP auth | MCP Live! (Den Delimarsky)
• Uno Platform Studio Launch - Ship with Confidence (Sam Basu, Nick Randolph & Steve Bilogan)
• Quickstart: You don’t need code to build your first AI agent (Amy Boyd)
• What's the deal with these IQs? | One Dev Question (Marco Casalaina)
• Attach images and videos to issues and PRs with GitHub CLI (GitHub Team)
• Code it with AI Episode #45 - Qwen 3.8 on NInfer | DevExpress (Carl Franklin & Rocky Lhotka)
• MCP Live! | A half-day livestream about the latest in MCP (Pamela Fox & Liam Hampton)
• Why Astra Is the Most Significant and Confounding Model in a Very Long Time (AIDailyBrief)
• Exploring Astra vs. Fable 5.1: A Tale of Two Game Development AIs (Frank La Vigne)
• Introducing Audacity 4: New tools & a new look (Audacity 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

• .NET Rocks! - Numerics.NET with Jeffrey Sax (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #371 - Computer-Use Agents and the Future of the Agentic Internet (Demetrios Brinkmann & Chris Benson)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - Stray Russian words and made-up style rules, with Daniel Heuman and Chris Ryder (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Amp Hour Episode #733 - Perpetual Wearable Biosensing with Andy Kong (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #737 - Owen McGirr on Software Accessibility (Gavin Henry)
• Big Technology Podcast - Apple’s Most Ambitious Roadmap Ever? + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1037 - WebMCP is here (and you should care) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Scrum Masters Must Learn by Experimenting When AI Joins the Agile Team | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Sheik Meeajaun)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #525 - Using AI for Mock Interviews (Taylor Desseyn)

Community and Events

• Ten Years of PowerShell (Anthony Nocentino)
• My VS Code story (and why the new documentary is a must watch) (Bart Wullems)
• Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg placed on leave (Emma Roth)
• All the news from Apple’s ‘Surprise and shine’ event (Stevie Bonifield)

Database

• NOLOCK Can Miss Rows: The Order That Was Never Missing (Pinal Dave)
• Database Animations: How SQL Server’s JSON Indexes Work (Brent Ozar)
• Bi-directional logical replication in PostgreSQL: a practical guide (Lukas Vileikis)

Tools

• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2512.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• The Trump phone just got a $250 price hike (Dominic Preston)
• Windows 11 has a ridiculous Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Win+L shortcut that opens LinkedIn, and Microsoft actually documented it (Mayank Parmar)
• Apple is raising iPhone prices by $100 on all of its old models (Cameron Faulkner)
• Microsoft Fixes More Than 100 Critical Vulnerabilities in September Patch Tuesday (Rabia Noureen)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – September 9, 2026 (#863) (Richard Seroter)
• Web Weekly #199 (Stefan Judis)
• Series of Posts (Ricardo Peres)

The Geek Shelf

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

• Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 1 (.NET Team)
• TechBash 2026 Standard Registration and Room Discount End on Sunday (TechBash Team)
• Today I will… find hidden latency across a distributed .NET application (Justin Yoo)
• .NET Conf 2026 Community Days Call for Presenters Is Open (Javier Lozano, Chris Sfanos & Jon Galloway)
• Visual Studio 2026 September Update 18.10.0 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Introducing the Fifth Set of Open-Source Syncfusion .NET MAUI Controls (Naveenkumar Sanjeevirayan)

Web and Cloud Development

• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 11 Release Candidate 1 (Dan Roth)
• Faster reviews and quality recognition for Microsoft Edge extensions (Microsoft Edge Team)
• Why I Finally Switched from Fiddler Classic to Fiddler Everywhere (Robert Boedigheimer)
• Sveltekit 3 Release Candidate Available (Kay Ewbank)
• TypeScript 7 in WebStorm: Faster Coding Assistance for Angular and React, No Migration Required (Piotr Tomiak)
• Governing the Generative Drift: Why We Need the Assumptions & Constraints Manifest (ACM) (Rob Larsen)
• Your access token was stolen. Now what: three layers of defence in your own OpenID provider (Kozin Rinat)
• Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts (Declan Chidlow)
• Bun 1.4 Rewritten In Rust (I Programmer)

Windows Development

• A sample use of the winstart.bat file in Windows 95 (Raymond Chen)
• MSIX PackageVolume: How Package Storage Works (Howard Kapustein)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 8 September 2026 (Stephen Lines)
• Dynamically Playing Audio on Windows::Part 1a – Signalling Status (Joel Ivory Johnson)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Safer and Simpler Async Code with TaskExtensions (David McCarter)
• Mastering Nameof with Unbound Generic Types in C# 14 - Cleaner Reflection and Logging in .NET 10 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• .NET 8.0.31 / 8.0.131 Release Notes and .NET 9.0.20 / 9.0.121 Release Notes (.NET Team)
• .NET 11 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes (Jon Galloway)
• Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.11.60 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Sept 8 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• .NET and .NET Framework September 2026 servicing releases updates (Rahul Bhandari & Tara Overfield)

AI

• Your work might not need the smartest model (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Why we should anthropomorphize AI agents (Sean Goedecke)
• Getting started with GitHub Copilot Spaces and Using GitHub Copilot Spaces from VS Code (Bart Wullems)
• Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth from AI? (James Shore)
• Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 and The Work Now Within Reach (OpenAI Team)
• Bring your own model to GitLab Duo Self-Hosted with Microsoft Foundry (Evgeny Rudinsky)
• Meta Debuts Muse, Its Long-Planned Personal AI Agent (BeauHD)
• How Azure uses AI to turn feedback into improved customer experiences (bharadwajr)
• Codename MDASH brings agentic AI cybersecurity to the US government (Douglas Phillips)
• Prompt Engineering Is Not Enough (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Everyone Expected AI to Come From the Big Companies (Pinal Dave)
• SLMs for custom tasks: when small models beat frontier ones, and how to be sure (Jim Bennett)
• Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic (Antonio Tiene, Alejo Lopez Avila & Iker García-Ferrero)
• Wide Events vs. Three Pillars: AI Observability Costs (Nick Travaglini)
• OpenClaw v2026.9.3 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• DeepSeek is hiring 150 engineers, and none of them will touch a model (Amanda Caswell)
• Advanced Prompt Injection Techniques (Liam Cleary)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• 6 Benefits of Sandbox Environments (and How Docker Sandboxes Delivers Them) (Kevin Wittek)
• More Coverage, Less Confidence (Eli Lopian)
• DataGrids Are For… Legal Professionals (Peter Vogel)
• Kubernetes v1.37: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling (Antoni Zawodny, Bartosz Rejman, Heba Elayoty, Jon Huhn, Maciej Skoczeń, Maciej Wyrzuc & Matt Matejczyk)
• Kubernetes access via an identity provider: Public client, not confidential (Kolawole Olowoporoku)
• Adobe Has a Secret New Design Tool—and You Can Apply to Test It (Alex Harper)
• Let's not water down the terms Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (Steve Fenton)
• The Ampersand Is Nearly 2,000 Years Old — And Designers Still Can’t Agree How It Should Look (Alex Harper)
• Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive approach drives scientific discovery (Aseem Datar)

Mobile and Game Development

• .NET MAUI v11.0.100 RC1 Release Notes (kubaflo)
• Home Automation at .NET Zuid (Stephan van Rooij)

Screencasts and Videos

• Scott & Mark Learn To...Enjoy the Journey (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• GPT 6 Astra, GitHub and VS Code updates - Developer News 36/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• Feedback for DayFrame | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• How to teach GitHub Copilot about your codebase | Tutorial for Beginners (GitHub Team)
• NVIDIA’s Vision of the Future: Introducing the Personal AI Router (PAIR) (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

• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #41 - The Fight for the Public Record (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• RunAs Radio Show #1053 - State of WSUS with Adam Marshall (Richard Campbell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1041 - SHAME - Apple's $2,000 Foldable iPhone: Will Users Make the Leap? (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• Coffee and Open-Source Conversations - Mat Velloso (Isaac Levin)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #495 - Banned (Michael Kennedy)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Java’s age is its AI superpower (Ryan Donovan)
• HIT Like a Girl Pod: Empowering Women in Health IT - Changing Who Writes the Checks: Naseem Sayani on Women Investors, Social Capital, and Building the Women’s Health Pipeline (Grace Vinton & Naseem Sayani)
• Lenny's Podcast - How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• When Spillover Becomes Normal, Scrum Teams Stop Seeing the Cost | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Sheik Meeajaun)
• Inside Trader Joe's Podcast Episode #111 - Can't Help Falling for this Trader Joe's Shopping List (Trader Joe's Team)

Community and Events

• Moderators wanted for WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America on the 23rd! (Chris Heilmann)
• With a headcount topping 800, Helion opens Seattle office in pursuit of fusion energy (Lisa Stiffler)
• Do you even need a presentation? (Sumeet Gayathri Moghe)

Database

• Security Update for SQL Server 2025 RTM CU8 and Security Update for SQL Server 2025 RTM and Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM (SrinivasSQL)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.10.0 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• How to Add and Use Checkboxes in Excel (Michael Reinders)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.6.6 Release of PowerShell and v7.5.11 Release of PowerShell (J. Shigetomi)
• v7.4.20 Release of PowerShell (daxian-dbw)

Writing

• How to Take Smart Notes - Sönke Ahrens (Emily Munro)

Tools

• Helping families and educators support safer experiences and healthier habits on Windows and Listening to families. Improving Microsoft Family. (Rob Mauceri)

General

• The White House pulls its racist Tetris clone (Emma Roth)
• Think Like a Programmer 2026 eBook Bundle | No Starch Press (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Teen Reading Slumps to Worst This Century Due to Surge in Screen Time (BeauHD)
• A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over (Joseph Cox)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – September 8, 2026 (#862) (Richard Seroter)
• dotInsights | September 2026 (Rachel Appel)
• Fragments: September 8 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

Real-World Web Development with .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Build websites and services using mature and proven ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API, and Umbraco CMS.

• The Story of VS Code | Official Documentary (VS Code Team)
• Mono vs CoreCLR in .NET MAUI: Performance, Compatibility, and What Changes in .NET 11 (Imman Kumar Palanikumar)
• MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash: Quality and speed at production scale (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Microsoft Announces Project Zenith for Windows Developers (Paul Thurrott)
• Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration (GitHub Team)
• Azure SDK Release (August 2026) (Justin Bettencourt)

Web and Cloud Development

• Blazorise 2.3.2 - Performance and Stability Improvements (Mladen Macanović)
• The Gamepad API Lies to You: A Practical Guide to Reading Controller Input in JavaScript (Taimoor Bamazai)
• Pipeline vs Chain of Responsibility vs ASP.NET Core Middleware (Nick Cosentino)
• What is middleware in ASP.NET Core and the gotchas (David Grace)
• Microsoft Documented Its OpenAPI Extensions For A Decade And Never Registered Them (Kin Lane)
• jQuery Turns 20 (Ian Elliot)
• ESLint v10.10.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• Critter Stack Roadmap for September 2026 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How to Choose the Right DataManager Adaptor for React Gantt Chart Backend Integration (Lokesh Arjunan)
• CSS Centering: Grid vs. Flexbox vs. Anchor Positioning (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)
• Next.js: How we closed 1,500 GitHub issues in one month (Marcos Hernanz)
• Native memory for Microsoft Agent Framework with Azure Cosmos DB (Wes Steyn & Eduard van Valkenburg)
• Planning a Successful Migration from IdentityServer3 to Duende IdentityServer (Khalid Abuhakmeh & Wesley Cabus)

Windows Development

• Microsoft is ending Windows 11’s web app slop era, and AI now writes native apps in 30 minutes (Abhijith M B)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Using C# 14 to build “Smart records” for config & settings models (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• Worse is better: C# versus F# (Mark Seemann)
• The Rider 2026.3 Early Access Program Is Open (Alexander Kurakin)
• Mastering Null-Conditional Assignment in C# 14 - How the New Operator Cleans Up Null Checks in .NET 10 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Design Patterns Handbook: Learn Popular Design Patterns with C# Code Examples (Isaiah Clifford Opoku)
• Run temporary containers in .NET tests with Meziantou.Framework.TemporaryContainers (Gérald Barré)
• .NET Object Pooling: Reducing Allocation Costs and GC Pressure (David McCarter)
• Ardalis.Specification With EF Core: Current Guide and RAG Evaluation Metrics in .NET: Measure Retrieval and Grounding (Nick Cosentino)
• Installing Omarchy on My Surface Book for .NET Development (Laurent Kempe)

AI

• The Good Parts of MCP: Prompts and Resources (Kin Lane)
• Pushing the quality-cost frontier with MAI-Image-2.6 (Microsoft AI Team)
• Automatically detecting AI text in my browser (Sean Goedecke)
• Copilot Code Review and Migrating Agents to Foundry (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Blender with coding agents on macOS and Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers and OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis (Simon Willison)
• Excited to see early customers already using Astra on Azure! and Looking forward to this ecosystem with open models continuing to flourish and grow with NVIDIA and Hugging Face, and the continued partnership! (Satya Nadella)
• In a Few Weeks, I Won’t Know How My Own App Works (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Why AI Coding Agents Go Off Scope and How Guardrails Fix It (Yuvaraj Mohan)
• The TechBeat: Your AI Productivity Gains Are Creating a Talent Crisis (9/6/2026) (Techbeat)
• Choosing a real-time voice architecture on Microsoft Foundry: three enterprise patterns (Yassine El Ghali)
• Model Context Protocol Explained - Why MCP Is Replacing Custom Tool APIs in Enterprise Agentic AI Systems (2026) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI (OpenAI Team)
• How Figma Uses AI Agents for Security (Renato Losio)
• OpenClaw v2026.9.2 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Cutting tool output tokens in Microsoft Agent Framework with TOON (Bart Wullems)
• AI Ready - An agent skill that analyzes your repository and generates the configuration files AI agents need to contribute correctly - Release v1.3.0 (John Papa)
• OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki to Discuss Ways to Escape Their Sandbox (EditorDavid)
• Your Private Endpoint Does Not Cover Agent Egress: Locking Down Microsoft Foundry in Both Directions (rgarofalo)
• Microsoft engineer says “typing code is absolutely over,” and Windows 11 is already being built that way (Abhijith M B)
• AI programming: a layered model (Daniel Lemire)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.13 Release (Copilot SDK Team)
• Ten AI Phrases We Use Too Often (Pinal Dave)
• From AI Code to Trusted Software: Harness Engineering in Practice (Travis Frisinger)
• How to secure edge AI in customer-owned environments (Shayak Lahiri)
• Architecting memory and storage in the AI era (MIT Technology Review Insights)
• The Batch: Using Coding Agents, The Most Rapidly-Evolving Core AI Engineering Skill (DeepLearning.AI)
• Microsoft built a prompt injection detector. Then it caught a phishing campaign instead. and AI agents are creating more work, not less — and OpenAI’s own numbers back it up and OpenAI’s new model costs 2.5x more per token — and developers are saving money anyway (Amanda Caswell)
• How Basis builds long-horizon accounting agents with Cursor (Cursor Team)
• Introducing Onus - The Code Is Generated, The Responsibility Is Still Mine (James D. Randall)
• Microsoft is falling asleep at the wheel as hidden code reveals Google’s big Windows AI push (Ryan Merket)
• Astra Projections (Eleanor Berger)
• Build a digitally sovereign second brain (Jo Hinchliffe)
• Inside a Software Factory (Paul Iusztin)

Python

• Moving from Windows, .NET, and Visual Studio to Linux, Python, and Neovim (Michael Shpilt)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• 15 Rules of Design Leadership for 2026 (UX Magazine)
• Build Systems, Not Willpower. Engineering a Life That Holds Under Pressure (Jamie Maguire)
• The Real Reason Your IT Team Isn’t Getting Anything Done (Leon Adato)
• In defense of the meeting that could have been an email (Julie Yack)
• Different Types of Audio to Improve Your Mood and Mental Health at Work (Suzanne Scacca)

Mobile and Game Development

• .NET MAUI v10.0.101 Release Notes (kubaflo)
• Kotlin 2.4.20 Released (Daniel Csorba)
• Is this the new HOT genre for indie devs? (Code Monkey)
• What's new in Swift: August 2026 Edition (Dave Lester)
• Shiny Controls 1.3 — Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Your App. Free. (Allan Ritchie)
• Zork - The Great Underground Empire - A first-person 3D adaptation of Zork I (emollick) - Source on GitHub

Screencasts and Videos

• Five questions about AI—and my answers (Bill Gates)
• Introducing DayFrame Boards | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• How does Aspire make Copilot more efficient when I'm building an app? | One Dev Question (Maddy Montaquila)
• Random.Code() - Improving Exception Handling in Rocks (Jason Bock)
• GitHub Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams | demo | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths & Meagan Cojocar)
• The Future of Visual Studio: Interactive Expert Panel | What’s Next for Visual Studio | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 and The Future of Visual Studio: Interactive Expert Panel | When Does Visual Studio Deprecate a Feature? | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 and The Future of Visual Studio: Interactive Expert Panel | Keeping Pace with AI Development | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 and The Future of Visual Studio: Interactive Expert Panel | Debugging and Performance | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Andy Sterland, Anson Horton & Mads Kristensen)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 329 - “Just the Two of Us” (Fall in love with manufacturing) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Agentic Loops for Knowledge Workers and How to Build an AI-Native Company Today and How AI Changed This Summer and The Multiplayer AI Sprint: Build Your Team’s First Shared Agent (AIDailyBrief)
• Random.Code() - Adding More Properties for CSLAGeneratorSerialization (Jason Bock)
• Peering into the Future: An In-Depth Look at GPT-6 Astra’s Claim to AGI (Frank La Vigne)
• The secret to cheaper, smarter coding agents (Warp Team)
• Your Code Isn't The Problem, Your Boundaries Are | UCP25 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Introducing Project HydraFusion: multi-model orchestration in GitHub Copilot (GitHub Team)
• What's a durable skill software engineers need to learn in 2026? | One Dev Question (Kent C. Dodds)
• The Download: Attach images in GitHub CLI, Qwen3.8-Max, AI pull request lingo & more (Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza)
• Open Source Friday - Your first contribution to OSS | GitHub (Angela Wen)
• Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers (OpenAI 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 - Who's a good boy? The science behind ‘dog voice.’ Is it ‘bated breath’ or ‘baited breath’? (Mignon Fogarty)
• Only Malware in the Building Episode #27 - Hackers gonna hack back (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1036 - Cursor & OpenAI Break Up (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• The Scrum Master Who Let Standups Stay Silent Until the Team Took Ownership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Sheik Meeajaun)
• Meta Cast - Most Leaders Can't Answer This One Capacity Question (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Jeffrey Palermo: AI-Driven Software Projects - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #418 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #531 - How AI Saved Our Lost Podcast Recording (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Lenny's Podcast - Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Fragmented AI Developer Podcast Episode #311 - Self learning harnesses are here (Kaushik Gopal)
• CppCast - Running Conferences and Processing Credit Cards with Kevin Carpenter (Mathieu Ropert & Jason Turner)
• RiYL Podcast Episode #771 - Laurie Berkner (Brian Heater)
• BONUS Why Software Projects Fail When Everyone Keeps Quiet | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mark Stringer)
• Developer Tea Podcast - You Don't Learn Helplessness - You Learn Control (Jonathan Cutrell)
• PPP 522 | Are You Removing the Wrong Friction?, with Maggie Sass and Ross Blankenship (Andy Kaufman)
• The Vergecast - AGI is whatever you want it to be (Travis Larchuk)
• Big Technology Podcast - GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #169 - Range Rover Launches Electric. Geely Goes New Money Luxury (Batteries Included Team)
• A Geek Leader Episode #485 - Julian Reeve (John Rouda)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Scaling your money safely with AI (Ryan Donovan)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #310 - Performance Engineering: Profiling and Making Apps Fast by Default (Christopher Bailey & Den Odell)
• Hard Fork Podcast - The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Call For Papers Listings for 9/04 and Job listings for week ending 9/04 (Leon Adato)
• W3C opens 2026 community survey (W3C)
• Ready, Set, Make: 5 Inaugural September Maker Faires (Jennifer Blakeslee)
• Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)

Database

• UPDATE Without WHERE Clause: The Day Everyone Got a Raise (Pinal Dave)
• How to mirror data from SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric: complete guide (Greg Low)
• Learning PostgreSQL with Grant: Preparing for the PostgreSQL certification (Grant Fritchey)
• The SSMS extension ecosystem is growing up: list, acquire and maintain extensions with ease (Erik EJ)
• Migrate a .bak to Azure SQL Database primary‑key violation (SQL Error 2627) (Kalyan Singh Bondili)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Excel keeps people on Windows, and a Linux distro creator wants Microsoft to end that (Abhijith M B)
• New Outlook quietly added 5 new features in August, but the All inboxes view still isn’t for everyone and Microsoft is adding an AI-powered Canvas to Excel that turns workbook data into interactive dashboards (Mayank Parmar)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.83 Release (GitHub Copilot CLI Team)
• ActiveReports.NET MCP: Using the Report Builder CLI (Alec Gall)

Writing

• 7 Things Dialogue Can Do In Your Story (Writers Write)
• Four Years of Writing Every Week (Milan Jovanović)

Tools

• VSCode/VSCodium Hanging on Startup Under COSMIC? Here's the Fix (Greg Bair)
• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2492.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor (Terrence O’Brien)
• Does VS Code's Integrated Browser Replace My 8-Year-Old Extension? Uh, No (David Ramel)
• NanaZip v7.0.1832.0 Release (Mouri Naruto)

General

• Where a Massive Solar Storm Could Take Down the US Power Grid for Millions (EditorDavid)
• Back to School Linux, Red Hat, Kubernetes and Cyber Security Certification Software Bundle with Practice Exams | Mammoth Club (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

More Link Collections

• Reading Notes #712 (Frank Boucher)
• Daily Reading List – September 4, 2026 (#861) (Richard Seroter)
• Android Weekly Issue #743 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #578 - 6th September 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #36, 2026 — Fable 5.16, FsLexYacc 12, and MSTest Goes Native AOT (Sergey Tihon)
• Friday Links #44: A Big Week for JavaScript (JS Dev)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, AWS Certified AI Business Strategist, and more (September 7, 2026) (Channy Yun)

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.

• Uno Platform Studio 3.1 Release: Ship with Confidence (Uno Platform Team)
• GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence (OpenAI Team)
• GPT-6 Astra: Frontier intelligence for work, now available in Microsoft Foundry (Steve Sweetman & Naomi Moneypenny)
• The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context engineering for enterprise AI agents (Jeff Hollan)
• Test what you ship: MSTest and Native AOT (Amaury Levé)
• Announcing Project Zenith: The ready-to-code Windows experience out of the box on developer-class devices (Logan Iyer)

Web and Cloud Development

• CSS Layout News in the ATmosphere (Rachel Andrew)
• Client Secrets, Mutual TLS and Private Key JWT, Oh My! (Wesley Cabus)
• Twenty Years of jQuery: How a Little Library Rewired Web Development (Daniel Curtis)
• Five Reasons Why Your Auth0 Permissions Are Not in your Access Token (Carla Urrea Stabile)
• How Turbopack chunks your JavaScript (Sam Poder)
• Bundle Viewer gets a timeline (David Hay)
• Astro 7.3 Release (Matthew Phillips)
• How OpenTelemetry Works: A Complete Guide (Chosen Vincent)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Adding Properties with extension methods in C# 14 (Steven Giesel)
• How To Unit Test a C# Processing Pipeline (Nick Cosentino)
• Control Flow Obfuscation: A Practitioner’s Guide for .NET and Java Teams (Michelle Pruitt)
• .NET bin and obj Directory Cleaner (Bryan Hogan)

AI

• GPT-6 Astra in Microsoft Foundry (Vesa Nopanen)
• Claude Code Observability with OpenTelemetry (Puneet Singh)
• Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today (Lily Hay Newman)
• Coding Agents vs. Workflows vs. Orchestration vs. Platforms: How to Architect the AI Dev Stack (Adam Bertram)
• Hikers let Gemini plan their Mount Shasta climb. Search and Rescue brought them home (Jason Weisberger)
• GPT‑6 Astra (Simon Willison)
• Introducing Factory Benchmarks (Zach Lloyd)
• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Meet MAI-Transcribe-2: A faster and more accurate speech recognition model (MAI Team)
• Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI v3.0.0 Beta 2 Release and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents v3.0.0 Beta 2 Release and Azure.AI.Projects v3.0.0 Beta 2 Release (Azure SDK Team)
• ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion (Noam Kochavi & Sarah Wolstencroft)
• Hey AI, Can You Just Give Me a Hat Tip Please? (Andrew Stellman)
• Learning to Code in the Age of AI: Advice From a Top Udemy Instructor (Regina Muradova)
• GPT-6 Astra aced the hardest AI benchmark. The asterisk matters more than the score. (Amanda Caswell)
• Past Labor, Into Cognition: Agentic AI Isn't Automating Work Anymore, It's Automating Judgment (Shannon Kuehn)
• Why Short AI Coding Prompts Can Cost You More Time (Dean Hume)
• How AI Helped Me Survive the Shift from Backend and DB Architecture to Native iOS (Martin Murcko)
• Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings (BeauHD)
• Rigorous Yet Sustainable Human Reviews in the AI Era (Ben Linders)
• YOLO Mode: Agent Autonomy Without the Guardrails (Srini Sekaran)
• How to use Wijmo MCP Server with AI Coding Assistants (Joel Parks)
• The new imperative for AI infrastructure: Useful yield (Rani Borkar)
• OpenClaw v2026.9.1 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Squad Release v0.13.1 (Brady Gaster)
• Claude Code skills (HumanLayer)

Python

• Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance (Daniel Lemire)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.17.0 Release (moonbox3)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Domain Events Are NOT Your Public API (Derek Comartin)
• Radical responsibility means treating people like tools (Sean Goedecke)

Mobile and Game Development

• Uno Platform Studio 3.1 Adds UI Previews, XAML Snippets and More AI Context (David Ramel)
• Taming Flutter Infinite Scroll: Why 3 Lines of async* Missed the Point, and How BlocSignal Fixes It and Taming Flutter Infinite Scroll (Part 2): Turning ScrollController into a Reactive State Machine with CubitSignalMixin (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Microsoft slashes Xbox Cloud Gaming to just 15 hours a month for Ultimate subscribers (Tom Warren)
• Kotlin Toolchain 0.12: Multiplatform Library Publishing, Wasm Apps, and More (Joffrey Bion)
• Perverts could push Norway to become the first country to ban smart glasses (David Uzondu)

Screencasts and Videos

• Interactive Terminals in the Browser with Aspire and .NET!!! (Isaac Levin)
• .NET MAUI Community Standup: Inspect, Record, Create: .NET MAUI Meets GitHub Copilot Canvas 🤝 (David Ortinau, Gerald Versluis & Dominik Titl)
• 5 things you didn't know about Azure SQL Database Hyperscale | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Bob Ward)
• Uno Platform Studio 3.1 Overview and Uno Platform Studio Launch - Ship with Confidence (Uno Platform Team)
• Introducing GPT-6 Astra: the most intelligent and aligned model in the world (OpenAI Team)
• New Version of DayFrame! Building a Feedback site | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Meet Your Claw: A Harness in Three Lines of C# | Microsoft Reactor (Bruno Capuano)
• The AI Grok Moment: Why Most Companies Miss It | Stacey Mulcahy Microsoft Senior Director (Samuel Boulanger)
• SQLite: The Tiny Database Engine Powering Over a Trillion Devices (Frank La Vigne)
• Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Content Engine with Max Johnson (Michelle Smith)
• Build Mode Podcast - Mistakes That Make Investors Nervous, According to a PhD in Pitching (Isabelle Johannesen & Dr. Eike Gerhardt)
• The future of designing & building Flutter design libraries with Widgetbook (Lucas Josefiak)

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

• Talk Python to Me Episode #561 - TonIO, a Multi-threaded Async Runtime for Python (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #588 - Check Your Bank Accounts (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• InfoQ Podcast: Personality Over Skillset: How Adam Wachtel Builds Engineering Teams (Adam Wachtel)
• The Changelog Podcast Episode #685 - Forking Cal.com to closed source (Peer Richelsen & Adam Stacoviak)
• .NET Rocks! - Numerics.NET with Jeffrey Sax (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google - Agent Substrate, with Tim Hockin and Brandon Royal (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• BONUS When the Team Becomes the Operating System for AI | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Marko Taipale)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #221 - Kiro, Strands Agents & MCP: 10 Updates You Missed (Clare Liguori)

Community and Events

• RSS feeds for individual authors of The Register using The Register's new API (Neil Brown)
• Uber laying off 93 Washington state workers, hitting engineer and management roles at Seattle office (Kurt Schlosser)
• Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6 (Carrie Koos)
• Register Now for JetBrains GameDev Day 2026 (Anna Ruban)
• Calling for Interop 2027 proposals (Patrick Brosset)
• The book is done! (Eric Lippert)

Database

• NOLOCK: Why It Counts Some Rows Twice and Misses Others (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Decomposition in a Nutshell and Advocating Uptime: Schema Changes in 6 Phases (Jerry Nixon)
• Database Animations: The Interview Question Everybody Gets Wrong (Brent Ozar)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: AT TIME ZONE Performance (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Introducing SharePoint News and Viva Engage cross-posting (Reetik Chandra)
• What's New in Copilot in SharePoint: September 2026 (Julie Seto)

Writing

• 6 Tips For Writing Better Scene Transitions (Writers Write)

Tools

• Audacity 4 Rebuilds the Open Source Audio Editor But Leaves Some Features Behind (BeauHD)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.9.10 Release and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.7.13 Release (Ben Hillis)
• MarkItDown Version 0.1.8b1 Release (afourney)
• Vivaldi 8.2 for Desktop Adds PWA, Address Bar Improvements and Brave is Still the Fastest Web Browser (Paul Thurrott)

General

• The Complete Certification eBook Bundle | Mammoth Club (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Announcing Rust 1.98.1 (Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – September 3, 2026 (#860) (Richard Seroter)
• Windows news you can use: August 2026 (Chris Morrissey)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #766 (Andyy Hope)

The Geek Shelf

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

• The perils of binding to value types in XAML (Raymond Chen)
• MAUI Designer - A powerful web-based Angular visual designer for creating MAUI (Microsoft App UI) layouts with drag-and-drop functionality (Prakhar Londhe)
• Stop alt-tabbing into the wrong Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
• Build an AI agent without leaving VS Code | Inside Microsoft Foundry (Bethany Jepchumba)
• Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code (Rachel Laycock)
• Constraining Agents for Software Development with Don Demcsak (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Don't Miss Out: TechBash 2026 Deadlines & Sponsorship Opportunities! (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Monitoring Claude Code usage with the Aspire Dashboard (Bart Wullems)
• Testing Vue Components That Use TanStack Query (Marina Mosti)
• Fixing Top-Level Await in Safari (Kai Tamkun)
• Breaking the Frame: Building a Real-Time Datamosh Effect with Three.js (Niccolò Fanton)
• The best dark mode toggle is probably none (Lea Verou)
• Azure Service Bus: Migrate topology one event at a time (Daniel Marbach)
• AI Gateway tier of Azure API Management — August 2026 updates (budzynski)
• FSMO Roles Still Matter in 2026 (And Why Entra ID Hasn't Replaced Them Yet) (Shannon Kuehn)
• Introducing langchain-oracledb: Build AI workflows in TypeScript with LangChain.js (Sharad Chandran)
• Go 1.27.1-1 and 1.26.8-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
• How to Handle Errors in Go (Dominika Stankiewicz)

Windows Development

• Microsoft Store CLI v0.4.2 Release (azchohfi)

.NET and Visual Studio

• C# 14 Extension Types and Static Members - Next-Gen Extension Architecture for Clean .NET 10 Code (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Visual Studio Code 1.137 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• VS Code 1.136 Pushes Agents Deeper Into the Development Workflow (David Ramel)
• Linq and XML (Mike James)

AI

• Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my! (Cassidy Williams)
• The Ultimate Equation about AI Coding (Jason Gorman)
• Why generative AI won't create 10x developers (Ricardo Piccoli) - Or writers
• Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv (Sergio Paniego)
• Nodes & Edges in Microsoft Agent Framework (Jesse Liberty)
• The MCP Authentication and Authorization Gap (Kin Lane)
• New stuff in Critter Stack AI Skills 1.10 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• AI Crash Course: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts (Russell Brandom)
• Available today: Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 in Microsoft Copilot (Bas Brekelmans)
• OpenAI's Altman Says the Use of AI is ‘Non-Negotiable’ and NYC Public Schools Ban AI Use Through Middle School (BeauHD)
• Run cloud agents on machines you manage (Cursor Team)
• Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (Raluca Ada Popa)
• 4 engineering patterns behind the strongest AI Agents Challenge submissions (Sergio Villani)
• How AI Agents Discover and Integrate Public APIs (Anthony Viard)
• A guide to the anatomy of effective commerce agents and Building commerce agents with Claude (Claude Team)
• How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality (Erik Kristensen)
• Building Reproducible AI Evaluation Workflows with Docker Sandboxes (Jennifer Kohl)
• AI on your terms: Firefox meets you where you are (Mozilla Team)
• JetBrains Reveals Widespread Adoption of AI Coding Agents (Janet Swift)
• Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (Simon Willison)
• MCP Explained: Most AI Agent Builders Are Rebuilding What This Protocol Already Solves (Santosh Mahale)
• Tired of Fragile AI Integrations? Learn MCP Before Your Next Project (Suchitha Ramesh)
• Below the Harness: Governing a Multi-Model, Multi-Harness World (Srini Sekaran)

Python

• My Python Learning Journey: Refactoring My Hangman Game from v1.0 to v2.0 (Tehreem Fatima)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Kubernetes v1.37: Scale Workloads to Zero with HorizontalPodAutoscaler (Johannes Würbach)
• Software Architecture 2026 eBook Bundle | O'Reilly (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• TeamCity 2026.2: Pipelines General Availability, BYOK for AI Assistant, and More (Dmitrii Korovin)
• Bliki: Paracelsus Maxim (Martin Fowler)
• An Accidental Blackboard (Giles Edwards-Alexander)

Mobile and Game Development

• Hello Developer: September 2026 (Apple Developer Team)
• Build an internet radio (Phil King)

Screencasts and Videos

• Getting started with Squad and GitHub Copilot | The DevTalk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
• Build Agents That Drive Faster Outcomes: Best Practices From Microsoft Partners (Microsoft Azure Team)
• Why Fable 5.1 Is Worth the Upgrade and OpenClaw 2.0 Shows Where AI Agents Are Going Next (AIDailyBrief)
• Pragmatic AI in .NET Show: Building Agents with Steve Bilogan (Sam Basu)
• On Your Desktop: Aidan Fitzpatrick (CEO of Camo) on Building Award-Winning Native Apps (Windows Developer Team)
• Code it with AI Episode #44 - Qwen 3.8 with Llama.cpp | DevExpress (Carl Franklin & Rocky Lhotka)
• What's new in AI? | One Dev Question (John Maeda)
• Random.Code() - Fixing Bugs in Rocks, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
• GitHub Copilot Day live: new releases, real workflows, and live coding (GitHub 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 - How we got from no spaces between words to the interrobang, with Florence Hazrat (Mignon Fogarty)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #370 - Less about Models; More about Architecture (Chetan Gupta, Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)
• Windows Weekly Episode #999 - Physical Goods - Acer SFF RTX Spark Desktop Design Showcased at IFA 2026 (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• BlizzCon 2026 Preview: We’re So Back! | Official XBOX Podcast (Aaryn)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #168 - Gas Prices Are Up. EV Sales Aren't. Why? (Batteries Included Team)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1035 - Why everyone is moving to Stylex? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• BONUS How Scrum Masters Turn AI Into a Thinking Partner | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Dave Westgarth)
• Big Technology Podcast - Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI (Alex Kantrowitz & Matthew Prince)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - The economics of agent scale: tokens, ROI, and building platforms for AI-first teams (Part 2) (Eira May)

Community and Events

• Spotlight: MVP-Led Lightning Talks from Microsoft Build 2026 (Kim Sanchez)
• Reflecting on 10 years at Microsoft (Tom Resing)
• Tech Conferences: Five Questions About the Money (Pinal Dave)
• From Microsoft Student Ambassador to Microsoft MVP: A Journey of Learning, Leadership, and Community (Sharda Kaur)
• How to make industry giants chase you, and other lessons from 28 years inside T-Mobile and Qualtrics cut 117 jobs tied to Seattle headquarters, new filing shows (Todd Bishop)
• Uber is laying off 10% of staff, or 3,300 people (Ram Iyer)

Database

• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Cross Table Date Math (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Introducing Viva Glint APIs for Survey Data Export and Visier Integration (Aadithya H. Hosabettu)
• Behind SPFx Dev Skills: testing what agents know and fixing what they miss (Waldek Mastykarz, Vesa Juvonen & Garry Trinder)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Introducing APIOps CLI (Sreekanth Thirthala)
• Introducing the S3 PowerShell Drive in AWS Tools for PowerShell (Andy Liao)

Writing

• What Is Steampunk? How To Write Steampunk Fiction (Writers Write)

General

• Global Heating Will Hit At Least 1.8C, UN Warns, and There Are ‘No Good Outcomes’ (BeauHD)
• Microsoft Announces Major Overhaul of its Financial Reporting (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft discloses Azure revenue as part of major financial reporting changes (Tom Warren)
• MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – September 2, 2026 (#859) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Tools and Skills for .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions.

• ⏳ Don't Miss Out: TechBash 2026 Standard Registration & Discounted Rooms End Sept 13! (TechBash Team)
• Monitoring GitHub Copilot usage with the Aspire Dashboard (Bart Wullems)
• How to Generate Charts at Runtime in Blazor: No Custom Designer Required [Webinar Show Notes] (Anantha Lakshmi Kannan)
• Responsible AI in 2026: How we are adapting for what’s ahead (Natasha Crampton)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Sam Basu (Isaac Levin)
• Claude Fable 5.1 is now available in Microsoft Foundry (Amar Badal)

Web and Cloud Development

• Back to Basics: JavaScript and Timezones (Rick Strahl)
• Authentication made easy: Building a secure e-commerce shopping cart with Firebase (Karl Weinmeister)
• Azure Key Vault Control Plane API Update: Required Upgrade for Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell Users (Alex-wdy)
• Getting started with RAG in ASP.NET Core (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• Microsoft and AWS simplify cloud connections for the AI era (Narayan Annamalai)
• Ditch the Token Headache...SSH Just Works! (Shannon Kuehn)
• Build Real-Time Client-Side TTS in Angular Using Firebase AI Logic and Gemini (Connie Leung)
• WS-Trust over OAuth: a third transport for the OpenID server, for the estate that runs on SOAP (Kozin Rinat)

Windows Development

• Servicing While In Use and ERROR_PACKAGES_IN_USE (Howard Kapustein)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Simplify Thread Pool Execution with ThreadPoolHelper (David McCarter)
• Quadratic Regression with QR-Householder OLS Solve Training Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• The pain of serializing unions and closed class hierarchies with System.Text.Json: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 7 (Andrew Lock)

AI

• GPT-5.6 Sol vs. Terra vs. Luna: Choosing the Right Codex Model (Mahesh Chand)
• The yield imperative: Turning AI infrastructure into useful intelligence (Rani Borkar)
• LoRA backdoor threat: How OpenShift AI mitigates the risk (Mike Hepburn)
• OpenClaw v2026.8.2 Release (RomneyDa)
• Github Specify (Jesse Liberty)
• AI Assisted Production Support with CritterWatch (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Stop Letting Agents Run the Workflow (Kalaivanan)
• Open AI’s Astra model is on the way—and very good at breaking into computer systems (Tim Fernholz)
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) Architecture - Building Standardized Tooling for Production Enterprise AI Agents (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 is a bit cheaper, a bit smarter, and refuses a lot less (Frederic Lardinois)
• BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring? (Kyle Wiggers)
• Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican (Simon Willison)
• OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities (Maxwell Zeff & Lily Hay Newman)
• Developing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with our customers (Anthropic Team)
• How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability and Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT (OpenAI Team)
• How to Make Your AI Agent Enterprise-Ready: Enabling Enterprise-Managed Authorization for Client Apps in Auth0 (Mira Sharma & Tracy Toth)
• AI in Leadership: Practical Playbooks for Better Decisions and Team Collaboration (David Ramel)
• The Post-Deployment Security Gap in the Age of AI-Assisted Development (Ben Nettleton)
• Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI (Nico Martin & Joshua)
• Testing Linguistic Obfuscation and Prompt Encoding (Liam Cleary)
• Agents Should Write Code to Integrate, Not Infer It at Runtime (Kin Lane)
• How to protect yourself from workslop (Sean Goedecke)

Python

• Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here! (Simon Willison)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Today I will… review GitHub PRs (Aaron Powell)
• Nitpicking in code reviews wastes time (Dan Lew)
• We Need Garbage Collection for Test Suites (Eli Lopian)
• Kubernetes v1.37: etcd RangeStream Cuts Memory Use on Large List Reads (Jeffrey Ying)
• Enterprise Architecture in the AI Era: Tools, Capabilities, and the Road to Autonomy (Dr. Gopala Krishna Behara)

Mobile and Game Development

• Flutter 3.47 Decouples UI (Alex Denham)
• Pi-Sky flight-tracking dashboard (James Mitchell)

Screencasts and Videos

• Your first AI agent is only a few lines of Python away | Inside Microsoft Foundry (Bethany Jepchumba)
• Aspire 13.5 is here! Maddy's fave Aspire 13.5 features. (Maddy Montaquila)
• Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 (Anthropic Team)
• Aspire 13: One AppHost, Many Languages, Fewer Headaches? | NDC Toronto 2026 (Chris Ayers)
• How To Navigate the Next Wave of AI Competition (AIDailyBrief)
• Huge PowerToys update and more… - Developer News 35/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• Build Your Personal Brand with GitHub Copilot — Full Course for Students (Microsoft Developer Team)
• Unity 6.6 Just Released! Here's What's New (Stacey Haffner)
• How to build custom workflows with canvases in the GitHub Copilot app | Tutorial for beginners (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Let’s catch up with C#! Exciting new features in C# 9 to C# 14! | NDC Toronto 2026 (Filip Ekberg)
• Shield sensitive fields with Dynamic Data Masking for Microsoft SQL | Data Exposed MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Karen Lopez)
• Agents & Arbiters - An Adventurer’s Guide to Multi-Agent Collaboration with LangGraph.js | NDC Toronto 2026 (Guy Royse)
• The Case for Running AI Locally and Building AI Agents with Pure Python: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners (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

• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1040 - New CEO, Who Dis? - Apple's Era of John Ternus as CEO Begins (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• RunAs Radio Show #1052 - Reimagining Intranets with Susan Hanley (Richard Campbell)
• The GitHub Podcast Episode #48 - Decoding the New AI Lingo: Loops, Harnesses, Squads, and Hill Climbing (Cassidy Williams & GitHub Team)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #369 - Thirteen Billion Reasons to Hug This Face (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Mailin' It - The Official USPS Podcast - The Crime Ring That Left Clues on Social Media (United States Postal Service)
• HIT Like a Girl Pod: Empowering Women in Health IT - Prescribing Wealth: A Doctor's Prescription for Financial Freedom (Joy Rios & Dr. Nkem Ezeamama)
• BONUS How Scrum Masters Can Use AI Without Becoming the Human API | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Fred Deichler)
• Smooth Scaling Podcast Episode #28 - How to Trust an AI Agent with AWS's Alexander Günsche and Queue-it's Moji Sarooghi (José Quaresma)
• The Presentation Podcast Episode #253 - What Makes the 2026 Presentation Summit a Must-Attend Event for Presentation Professionals? (Briana Hernandez)

Community and Events

• Let's learn how to build with the GitHub Copilot SDK | Sept 24th (GitHub Team)

Database

• Finding the Root Cause of Slow Queries (Pinal Dave)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft 365 outage drags on, but things are improving (Sarah Perez)

Tools

• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2432.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Microsoft is auto-enabling Memory Integrity on Windows 11 PCs from October. Why you shouldn’t turn it off (Abhijith M B)
• A day-one briefing for Apple’s new CEO (Allison Johnson)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – September 1, 2026 (#858) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: September 1 (Martin Fowler)
• Radar Trends to Watch: September 2026 (Mike Loukides)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Is Designing (Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle) - Referral Link Words and the User Experience.

• OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally (Hannes Rudolph)
• Adding Full-Text Search to Blazor WebAssembly with Pagefind (David Pine)
• Merge Conflict Episode #530 - WinUI Goes Open Source & Mac Mini/Studio Upgrades! (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• From Leaderboards to Model Profiles: A Deep Dive Evaluation of LLMs for Agentic Coding (Dmitry Savelev)
• Building a Supply Chain Attack with .NET and NuGet (Maarten Balliauw)
• Enterprise Live Migrations is now in public preview (Soo Stahl)

Web and Cloud Development

• What’s new in Svelte: September 2026 (Dani Sandoval)
• Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers (Lee Meyer)
• Using multiline Parameters for Aspire and ASP.NET Core with user secrets and Azure default deployments (Damien Bowden)
• What’s !important #18: , Syntax ::highlight()ing, named-feature(), and More (Daniel Schwarz)
• Introducing a standalone SigV4 signer for the AWS SDK for .NET (Garrett Beatty)
• Aspire 13.5 Updates Dashboard (Kay Ewbank)
• OpenTelemetry has graduated… now what? (Adriana Villela & Reese Lee)
• The DOM Has Corners — Exploring the GeometryUtils API (Jochen Kühner)
• What's new in Astro - August 2026 (Sarah Rainsberger)

Windows Development

• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 31 August 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Understanding .NET 11 Automatic CSRF Protection: A Guide for Identity Developers (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.20.0 Release (Sergey Menshykh)
• Microservices in .NET without building a platform: a cluster of workers, one dashboard, hot-swapped module (Kozin Rinat)
• EF Core navigation property returning null? Here's why (David Grace)
• Making Visual Studio Open Links in Chrome Instead of Edge by Repairing Legacy URL Associations (Nietras)

AI

• Model Migration Process on Microsoft Foundry and Azure OpenAI (Meera Kurup)
• The Brains of the Operation (Allen Pike)
• Composable Agentic: Standardize Capabilities, Not Agents (Sebastian Nilsson)
• What’s New in Microsoft Copilot | August 2026 (Daniel Vargas)
• Orchestrate production RAG with OpenShift AI (Ana Biazetti & Saad Zaher)
• Setting up GitHub Copilot budget policies without GitHub Enterprise Cloud (Bart Wullems)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.13 Preview 4 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Improving our alignment and security efforts (Anthropic Team)
• Power Azure SRE Agent with the tools it needs (Lily Ma)
• Foundry Model Router Expands from Two Regions to 28, Refreshing Its Model Pool (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• Ollama's transparent pricing (Ollama Team)
• Cut coding agent token use with better tool output (Prasenjit A. Sarkar)
• You can just find and use agent skills mid-session (Richard Seroter)
• MCP was supposed to solve the agent tooling problem. It missed a step. (Amanda Caswell)
• Designing product simplicity for the AI era (Jenny Lanier Wolski)
• Architectural Guardrails for AI-Generated Code (Theo Valmis)
• DeepSeek’s first vision model vs. Gemini 3.7 Flash: It comes down to spend vs. speed (Jessica Wachtel)
• Agentic delivery: why AI demands you redesign the workflow, not just add tools (Clancy Whittle)
• Is AI already learning from our old, poor-quality code? (Greg Low)
• A milestone in expanding access to AI (OpenAI Team)
• Your agent context needs a development lifecycle (Ankit Jain)
• Securing Agentic Commerce (Bradford Peirce)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Ensuring Code Compliance in Public Sector Software Projects (Kerry Beetge)
• DataGrids Are For… Medical Professionals (Peter Vogel)
• Octopus Easy Mode - Runbook Webhooks (Matthew Casperson)
• Pondering Continuous Integration in our new AI World Order (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Authenticating TeamCity Builds to External Services With OIDC (Igor Brovtsin)
• Jenkins Plugin of the Month – September 2026: ORAS Artifact Manager (Valentin Delaye)
• From Classification to Data Extraction: New Document Analysis Samples (Bjoern Meyer)
• From Pilot to Production: Why CIOs Need Better Failure, Not Less of It (Leon Adato)
• Revisiting Joel's Test (Philip Zeyliger)
• Secure by default is your only way forward (Vishrut Iyengar)
• If you have to ask, is it accessible? (George Joeckel)

Mobile and Game Development

• Using the Camera in .NET MAUI with CameraView (Héctor Pérez)
• Optimize your Firebase Remote Config usage with 3 best practices for performance and fetch efficiency (Sumit Chandel & Siddhant Jain)
• Automate Flutter's New Split Package Migration with AI Agent Skills (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Emulator control for adaptive app development (Rob Orgiu)

Screencasts and Videos

• Bring Your Own Model in VS, Foundry Models, .NET Conf Sets Date | The Upload Episode 4 (Cameron Tomisser)
• Now that everything is agentic, what should I be learning? | One Dev Question (Filisha Shah)
• Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Building a Financial News Agent with Jayeeta Putatunda (Michelle Smith)
• Your agent skills should improve themselves (Warp Team)
• Where to Start AI Coding if You're Not Yet (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

• The Stack Overflow Podcast - The good ol’ days of building Java (Ryan Donovan)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - Why do so many last names sound like jobs? (Mignon Fogarty)
• React Native Radio Episode #372 - Looking back on Chain React 2026 (Robin Heinze, Mazen Chami & Gant Laborde)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast - How to Get Promoted from Engineering Manager to Director and The Happy Engineer Podcast - Why Great Engineers Get Passed Over for Promotion and The Happy Engineer Podcast - How Engineering Managers Get Promoted Without Bragging (Max Ahumada)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1034 - Omarchy Quattro Release (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• BONUS How AI Took the Boring Out of Agile Coaching | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Michael Dougherty)
• Meta Cast - Expectation Inflation Is Stronger Than Ever (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• InfoQ Podcast: Scott Jenson on Evolving Desktop OS, Local-First, & Agentic UX (Scott Jenson)

Community and Events

• Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI (Grace Huckins)
• Sunsetting of the JetBrains Teacher Pack for Bootcamps (Maria Sharobaeva)
• Today is Tim Cook’s last day as CEO of Apple (Rob Tiffany)
• Phil Schiller is leaving his biggest jobs at Apple (Emma Roth)

Database

• How I Built a SQL Diagnostic Tool That Works Without Touching Your Database (Sudhakararao Sajja)
• Bacpac and Dacpac, the similarities and differences (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
• Understanding DevOps Auditing API Migration Behavior in Azure SQL Database (Sravani Saluru)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• SharePoint Flexible Sections just got more predictable and easier to use (Katelyn Helms)
• Introducing the new Microsoft 365 Setup experience: A personalized dashboard for admins (John Vincent)
• Upcoming changes to classic experiences in SharePoint Online (Adam Harmetz)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.7.0-preview.4 Release of PowerShell (J. Shigetomi)

Writing

• How to Build API Documentation From Scratch [A Roadmap for Technical Writers] (Gloria Tejuosho)
• Get Up And Write (Writers Write)

Tools

• VLC crosses 7 billion downloads (Ivan Mehta)
• The Windows Security App (Eric Lawrence)

General

• I went to the loneliest baseball game on Apple Vision Pro (Mia Sato)
• Windows 95’s taskbar didn’t come from Steve Jobs’ NeXT Dock, and a former Microsoft VP explains what did (Abhijith M B)
• Atari Partners With Activision on 2600 Cartridge Reissues (Paul Thurrott)
• Type-Safe Authentication in Rust with Auth0 and Axum (Aniket Bhattacharyea)
• Berlin Is Being Blackmailed By Hackers (BeauHD)
• MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario (Sarah Perez)
• Cancelation Terminology (Alex Kladov)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 31, 2026 (#857) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026) (Daniel Abib)

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.

• WinUI OSS Update: Phased Rollout Toward Open Collaboration (Beth Pan) - Rollout complete
• TechBash 2026 - Communication Workshop Spotlight (plus don't miss out on Labor Day registration savings) (TechBash Team)
• What were the biggest technical shifts in Visual Studio and VS Code? | One Dev Question (Amanda Silver)
• Try the new SqlClient and Retry connections natively (Jerry Nixon)
• Architecture for AI Development - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #417 (Jeffrey Palermo & Joseph Guadagno)
• Lore for Visual Studio: Source control without leaving the IDE (Mads Kristensen)

Web and Cloud Development

• Boxed In: Working With Azure's Region Constraints Instead of Getting Surprised By Them (Shannon Kuehn)
• The new Go JSON API: twice as fast, or 1.5x slower? (Daniel Lemire)
• VisBug2: FireBug for designers › Edit any webpage, in any state (Jochen Kuehner)
• Your ASP.NET Core Endpoints Don't Have a Timeout (Milan Jovanović)
• How to Import and Export CSV Files Using Blazor (Kristina Ismail)
• Mintlify Put Signup in the CLI When It Was Already in the Protocol (Kin Lane)
• What’s inside a FHIR Measure (Alexander Zautke)
• htmx 4.0.0 has been released! (Big Sky Software)
• What Are the Biggest Time Wasters for Web Designers & Developers? (Suzanne Scacca)
• Styling Mastery and Declarative Form Submissions (Angular Team)

Windows Development

• Microsoft Moves WinUI/WASDK Development to GitHub (Paul Thurrott)

.NET and Visual Studio

• .NET 8 and .NET 9 Support Ends November 10th, 2026: Upgrade Now (Mitchel Sellers)
• Native PDF Annotation Support Is Coming to the TX Text Control Document Viewer (Bjoern Meyer)
• Visual Studio 2026 v18.9.2 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders v12120.281 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Collection Performance: Use Caution when using Range Expressions in Hot Paths when Collection Slicing (David McCarter)
• ClangSharp: Clang bindings for .NET written in C# (.NET Team)
• What's new in Visual Studio 2026 - GitHub Copilot Multi-File Edits, Native Memory Profiling, and .NET 10 Tooling and C# 14 Field-Backed Properties and Enhanced Pattern Matching - Clean Code Refactoring and Syntax Deep Dive (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Specification vs Repository vs Query Object in .NET and Register Pipeline Stages With .NET Dependency Injection (Nick Cosentino)
• The “Open Core” Model for Sustainable OSS Development in .NET (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Syncfusion PowerPoint Library vs. Aspose.Slides for .NET: Features, Performance Benchmarks, and Deployment Comparison (Atchaya Sekar)
• SOAP in .NET without WCF: WS-Security, MTOM and ?wsdl as a route step (Kozin Rinat)

AI

• Building an AI Agent Honeypot & Lead Engine with Model Context Protocol (MCP) & FastAPI (Mario Ezquerro)
• OpenClaw v2026.8.1 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• OpenClaw v2026.9.1-beta.1 Release (vincentkoc)
• Roots in the Machine (David Pine)
• RAG in Microsoft Agent Framework – Overview (Jesse Liberty)
• Copilot Cowork browser use – First Look (Vesa Nopanen)
• Understanding ChatGPT Work and Introducing Hy4 Preview (Simon Willison)
• A Skill Is Just an Agent. So Measure Your Changes. (Jim Bennett)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.13 Preview 2 Release (github-actions[bot])
• AI's ‘Creepy’ Crawlers Criticized by Linux Foundation's IT Infrastructure Director (EditorDavid)
• OpenAI leaving Cursor: “Developers have to be prepared to adapt when it happens.” (Adrian Bridgwater)
• Your AI agent is only as good as the harness around it (Jeremy Daly)
• AI is fucking awful (the guide) (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Taking Advantage of Gemini Managed Agents with Google Apps Script (Tanaike)
• Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU (Russell Brandom)
• The 3 roles AI agents play in your developer platform (Matar Peles)
• KONVO: Create Clearer Technical Content with AI (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX (OpenAI Team)
• Neo Security: Securing Infrastructure in the Agentic Era (Joe Duffy)
• How Anthropic employees use Claude Tag and Claude for Teachers, now available for schools and districts (Claude Team)
• IBM quantum computer solves classically intractable problem in 15 minutes | Science Daily (IBM)
• How startups in regulated industries are using AI (Microsoft for Startups Team)
• We’re introducing flexible usage limits for Gemini Notebook. (Yesul Shin)
• This Week in AI: The Guardrails Are Getting Tested (Michelle Smith)
• [AI in Practice] Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: Real-time Transcription and Speaker Diarization in a macOS Meeting Translation App (Evan Lin)
• Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft (Kirsten Korosec)
• MCP vs. Tools vs. Skills: What AI Architects Need to Know (Lino Tadros)
• The Batch: Software Engineering Fundamentals Remain Essential for AI Developers (DeepLearning.AI)
• You have to beat the models at something (Sean Goedecke)
• Inside the Agent-Readiness Score (Kin Lane)
• You Can't “Vibe Code” Love (Jeff Atwood)
• Tokens Aren’t Dollars (Tim O'Brien)

Python

• mssql-python 1.14.0: Faster Parameter Binding, Safer Errors, Correct Timeouts (David Levy)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Kubernetes v1.37: Pod Certificates and Cluster Trust Bundles (Taahir Ahmed)
• What a Side Project Built at Airports Taught Me About Shipping Before You’re Ready (Jamie Maguire)
• Commits on GitHub have doubled in four months. Verification capacity has not. (Arjun Iyer)
• Why Mouse Jigglers Defeat Activity-Based Time Tracking (Dmitry Baranov)
• On The Imaginary Trade-Off Between Agility & Rigour (Jason Gorman)
• MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale (Emma Yanyang Kong, Aditya Deshpande, Asad Abbasi, Bowei Yan, David Fagnan, Ashish Rastogi, Dhaval Patel & Ray Zhang)
• The Job That Was Never There (Pinal Dave)
• There’s nothing wrong with a faster horse (Julie Yack)

Mobile and Game Development

• Toolkit Tuesdays: ZoomContentControl (Steve Bilogan)
• Microcontroller Classics and More eBook Bundle | Make: (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Designing Android's missing WorkManager test rule (Segun Famisa)
• The Road to Capacitor 9 (Eric Horodyski)
• Overcoming Dart's Single Inheritance Wall: Composable CubitSignalMixin & BlocSignalMixin in Flutter and Production Flutter Networking Without the Boilerplate: Reactive Repositories with BlocSignal and Mechanically Eliminating FutureBuilder & StreamBuilder: Universal Signal, Future, and Stream Adapters in BlocSignal and Grand Central Station: Why BLoC, Riverpod, and BlocSignal Are Now True Peers (Randal L. Schwartz)
• A better model for silicon: quantifying chip carbon with Columbia and Cornell (Roger Thornton)
• Microsoft dumps its best file-sharing tool for Windows-Android-iOS, called Edge Drop (Mayank Parmar)

Screencasts and Videos

• Time to try DayFrame | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Automating Dependency Updates with Renovate Across 145 Repos | UCP25 (Susanne Bach Ladefoged Hou)
• Random.Code() - Tackling a Parallelism Issue With Tests in Rocks and Part 2 (Jason Bock)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 328 - “Texas Chainsaw IoT” (How IoT Can Save Your Life!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Apple’s Mac Studio M5 Ultra Revolutionizes Local AI Economics (Frank La Vigne)
• 5 Rules for AI Writing and How We Deal with Rogue AI (AIDailyBrief)
• What does it really take to ship an AI agent? | Inside Microsoft Foundry (Bethany Jepchumba)

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

• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #293 - Farewell (for now?) (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• Lenny's Podcast - AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #368 - Push, Pull, and Pray: GitHub Outage Strikes (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• PPP 521 | Neuroscience-Based Principles to Resolve Conflicts, with Dr. Jeremy Pollack (Andy Kaufman)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #167 - Santa Fe EREV Leads Hyundai's US Push, Europe Bets on BEVs (Batteries Included Team)
• Big Technology Podcast - Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #309 - Exploring Complex Systems & Maintainable Data Science Pipelines (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• Hard Fork Podcast - Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• Product Owners Who Create Better Product Conversations in Scrum | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Arun Parameswaran)
• The Practical AI Podcast Episode #369 - Building the Foundation for the Agentic AI Era (Angie Jones & Chris Benson)
• A Geek Leader Episode #484 - Valerie Holden (John Rouda)
• Adventures in DevOps Episode #283 - How to land a software job in the age of LLMs (Will Button & Warren Parad)

Community and Events

• Microsoft Spotlights VSLive! Takeaways, Upcoming San Diego and Orlando Events (David Ramel)
• Call For Papers Listings for 8/28 and Job listings for week ending 8/28 (Leon Adato)
• Bill Gates in his own words: How he’s using AI, and why he’s worried about the future (John Cook)
• Tech Moves: Former Xbox exec named Dolby CEO; Microsoft AI exits; new Fred Hutch leaders (Todd Bishop)
• Journal 200 - State of Open Source (Scott Banwart)

Database

• Multiplicative Aggregates with the PRODUCT Function in SQL Server 2025 (Leonard Lobel)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.9.2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• How to Survive Database Failover – Debezium and PostgreSQL in Production (Frane Jelavic)
• Why SQL Server’s default trigger execution model is a security flaw – and what Microsoft should do about it (Fabiano Amorim)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• INFO: Options for Teams Meeting “summaries” with or without Transcriptions (Kurt Shintaku)
• With GitHub Copilot Integration, Teams Powers Greater Developer-Agent Collaboration (Tom Smith)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.82 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• The MacGuffin And Chekhov’s Gun: 2 Literary Devices Writers Should Know and What Is Visual Storytelling? 10 Essential Techniques Every Writer Should Know (Writers Write)

Tools

• Updates to TinyFeeds (Alex White)
• akams.fyi - Search for aka.ms links (Merill Fernando)
• Vorssaint: Free and open-source macOS menu bar toolkit (vorssaint)
• Native CAD Viewer: A online CAD viewer with many file formats others do not support (Inventor, Catia, Creo, Fusion, etc.) (Jochen Kuehner)

General

• What Zig felt like, coming from Rust (Boris Zhguchev)
• Windows 11’s faster, Bing-free Search released, enable it using these steps (Abhijith M B)
• Advanced Windows Firewall (Orin Thomas)
• Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets (Terrence O’Brien)
• Google Maps Renamed Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ - But Only for U.S. Users (EditorDavid)
• US officials backpedal on claims that government agencies were hacked by Chinese and McKesson is investigating a cybersecurity incident after ShinyHunters claims patient data theft (Dissent)
• Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution (Justine Calma)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest: How fast is .NET 11 Runtime Async? (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Daily Reading List – August 28, 2026 (#856) (Richard Seroter)
• Android Weekly Issue #742 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• F# Weekly #35, 2026 — Fabulous 10, .NET Conf 2026 Announced, and C# 15 Preview (Sergey Tihon)
• Azure Weekly #577 - 30th August 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• Reading List 361 (Bruce Lawson)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #765 (Alex Ozun)

The Geek Shelf

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

• How Uno Platform uses .NET, MCP, and AI to build high quality apps (Sam Basu)
• VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ: Developer Takeaways and Must-Watch Sessions (James Rempt)
• AI Skills Navigator is now available in Microsoft Copilot (Matt Erni)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.81 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• What's the coolest thing coming in the next version of C#? | One Dev Question (Mads Torgersen)
• Azure Developer CLI (azd) – August 2026 (Kristen Womack & Jeffrey C.)

Web and Cloud Development

• Zonal redundancy in API management Standard v2 (Sreekanth Thirthala)
• Introducing Orbit: Turn Any Task Into the Right API Calls (Abhinav Asthana)
• Performance Plugins Need to Keep Pace With WordPress (Jetpack Team)
• Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API (Daniel Schwarz)
• How to Record Audio from Incoming Calls with Node.js (Amanda Cavallaro)
• Angular Signals vs RxJS: Should You Replace RxJS in Real Apps? (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)

Windows Development

• WPF — DevExpress Year-End Roadmap (v26.2) (Alexander Russkov)
• Releasing Windows 11, version 26H2 to the Release Preview Channel (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• High-Performance C# in Practice - Zero-Allocation Spans, Memory Safety, and .NET 10 Best Practices (Kunal Chowdhury)

AI

• AI's Memory Crunch Is Coming For Android Apps (BeauHD)
• Copilot Harness and Microsoft Agent Framework (Jesse Liberty)
• What Is Edge AI? Edge Computing Examples and Benefits (Iveta Dulova)
• Adding a Fallback Model to Hermes with Microsoft Foundry (suzarilshah)
• The Irresponsible AI Initiative (David Ramel)
• Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (Simon Willison)
• Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control (Alisa Fortin)
• Microsoft 2.5: Superintelligence leader Ali Farhadi points company toward AI self-sufficiency (Mary Jo Foley)
• Adobe is adding more AI to Photoshop (Emma Roth)
• OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent (Maxwell Zeff)
• OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it. (Gregg Cochran)
• Closing the loop with self-improving cloud software factories (Warp Team)
• The AI Delegation Lifecycle: Your Team Has AI Outputs. Where Are the Decisions? (Stefan Thorpe)
• AI in the SDLC: Security Risks and Controls 2026 (Michelle Pruitt)
• Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively With Agents (Maisem Ali)
• Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI (Martin Fowler)
• Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training (OpenAI Team)
• Differential Privacy for Hugging Face Trainers – Without Rewriting Your Training Loop (Katie Fraser)
• Your agent’s guardrails have a bypass (Mohammad Abuomar & Caitie McCaffrey)
• Previewing the Model Hardware Standard (Anthropic Team)
• The Wall Confronting Reliable Coding Agent Autonomy (Jason Gorman)
• Intelligent Model Routing on Replit (Replit Team)
• Understanding Microsoft GraphRAG (Liam Cleary)
• From Mixtral to Kimi K3: How Mixture-of-Experts Models Evolved (Botao Deng)
• Your Agent Should Run Its Own Observability Stack (Kin Lane)
• Agent Harness: Making your claw production-ready (Wes Steyn)
• When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer (Max Romanenko)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.16.0 Release (giles17)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Azure DevOps in the GitHub Copilot App (Dan Hellem)
• Security Lingo Explained: TOTP (Time-based One-Time Password) (Maarten Balliauw)
• How to recognize your team with GitLab Achievements (Lee Tickett)
• The Management Book I Still Recommend (Luke Nyswonger)
• Accelerating Frontier Transformation: Reinvent customer engagement (Kelly Soligon)
• Learning Mail Merge Templates from Basic Fields to Advanced Reporting Structures (Bjoern Meyer)
• Debunking the hotfix pipeline myth (Bob Walker)

Mobile and Game Development

• Meta addresses ‘pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaign (Emma Roth)

Screencasts and Videos

• Tackle real database changes with SQL projects in VS Code | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
• OpenClaw Went Viral. Meet the Maintainers Building and Securing It. | GitHub (Peter Steinberger)
• What was announced for developers on Windows at Build 2026? | One Dev Question (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Agentic Coding + Planning: Why Specs Matter More Than Code | IBM Developer and IBM Technology (Bri Kopecki)
• Build Mode Podcast - How a Crisis Turned Julia Hartz Into the CEO Eventbrite Needed (Isabelle Johannesen)

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 #587 - The Singularity Didn't Happen on the First (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• SyncUp, A OneDrive Podcast - Don't call it a comeback: HTML & Markdown in OneDrive and SharePoint (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast - How the Changing Cyber Landscape Affects Your Org (Mary Jo Foley)
• MS Cloud IT Podcast Episode #435 - Power BI Meets Git and MCP (Ben Stegink & Scott Hoag)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct (Phoebe Sajor)
• Success for Scrum Masters Means Teams Ask Better Questions Without You | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Arun Parameswaran)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - Explosions, chemistry, and dictionary ‘spite,’ with Kory Stamper (Mignon Fogarty)

Community and Events

• One Build, Every Language: How MVPs Took Microsoft Build //localhost to the World (Soyoung Lee)
• Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral (Sarah Perez)
• Operation Bluebird Launches New Twitter (BeauHD)

Database

• I Let AI Recommend SQL Server Indexes Across a Week of Queries (Pinal Dave)
• Couchbase Analytics + Apache Iceberg on Google Cloud: Query Your Lakehouse Without ETL (Shrishti Sinha)
• Azure SQL Managed Instance Removes a Capacity Planning Hurdle for Large Deployments (Rabia Noureen)
• What is cloud database vendor lock-in? The 3 types explained (and how to audit yours) (Chisom Kanu)
• Database Animations: What’s a Residual Predicate and Why Is It Bad? (Brent Ozar)
• I Need My CI/CD Pipeline to Access Cosmos DB Without Using a Secret (Iria Osara & Sudhanshu Khera)
• bit Obscene: ComplAInt Department (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – August 2026 (Vesa Juvonen)
• SharePoint Showcase: 5 Ways Organizations Improve Business Processes with Copilot in SharePoint (Sophia Peng)

Writing

• Writing with AI (Tim O’Reilly)
• What Is Mood? 140 Words To Describe Mood In Fiction (Writers Write)
• Is ChatGPT Changing How You're Writing? (BeauHD)

Tools

• Visual Studio Code Now Includes a Full Markdown Editor (Paul Thurrott)
• Global Secure Access – Now with Windows Update support! (Michael Morten Sonne)

General

• Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules (Hayden Field)
• Microsoft prepares Windows 11 26H2 installation media for public roll out, as it hits Release Preview Channel (Mayank Parmar)
• Windows 11’s 3 most requested features released today, enable them using these steps (Abhijith M B)
• How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations (Caroline Haskins)
• Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top US Universities and Trump Declares National Emergency to Ban Some Foreign Grid Equipment and Nvidia Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face For $13 Billion (BeauHD)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 27, 2026 (#855) (Richard Seroter)

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.

• Repeating the Same AI Prompts? The Agent Skills Handbook Helps You Build Reusable Skills (Suchitha Ramesh)
• Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos (public preview) (Dan Hellem)
• Visual Studio Code 1.136 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• .NET Rocks! - Arguing about AI with Billy Hollis (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows App SDK Version 2.4 Experimental (2.4.1-Experimental) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• The Visual Studio Debugger Agentic Workflow Gets a Test-Driven Upgrade (Harshada Hole)

Web and Cloud Development

• Node.js 26.8.1 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
• React in Production Mega eBook Bundle 2026 | Packt Publishing (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Learning LangGraph with TypeScript—Part 1: Understanding Nodes, State and Edges (Dhananjay Kumar)
• OpenTelemetry Comes to IntelliJ IDEA, GoLand, PyCharm, and WebStorm (Egor Klimov)
• Moving Around a Grid and Respecting Boundaries (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Use Speedlify2 to Continuously Measure Website Performance (Zach Leatherman)

Windows Development

• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 2.4.1-experimental Release (NuGet Gallery)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Syncfusion Word Library vs. Aspose.Words: Which .NET Word Library Is Better for Your Application? (Sindhu Ramesh)
• redb 3.7.1: props search up to 100x faster. An alternative to EF Core, or a companion to it and redb.Route: Control Bus for .NET routes: stop, restart and react to route events at runtime (Kozin Rinat)
• Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Simplify Entity Framework Core with DbContextExtensions (David McCarter)

AI

• Introducing agent and workflow channels | Microsoft Agent Framework (Eduard van Valkenburg)
• OpenAI Releases Its Official Report On the Hugging Face Breach (BeauHD)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.13 Preview 1 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Bill Gates is deeply worried about AI, and he’s no longer staying quiet (Robert Hart)
• OpenAI Brings Back 5-Hour Codex Limit for ChatGPT Plus (Aminu Abdullahi)
• AI agents aren’t safe from prompt injection, and spreadsheets prove it (Josip Antolis)
• Grok 4.6 comes to Microsoft Foundry Models: Built for long-horizon reasoning and complex workflows (Mahesh Balachandran)
• The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost (Steve Sweetman)
• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage (Christopher Harrison)
• Microsoft Formalizes VS Code Agent Host as Open Architecture for Persistent AI Sessions (David Ramel)
• Programming As A Hobby In The Age Of AI (Ben Nadel)
• 7 Best Datadog Alternatives for AI and Agent Observability (Kale Bogdanovs)
• How to Connect a Foundry IQ Knowledge Base to LangGraph Over MCP (Jubin Soni)
• The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face (Grace Huckins)
• When AI infrastructure becomes the target: Securing gateways and control points (Yash Gund & Sumith Maniath)
• Effective Patterns for Advanced MCP Usage (Adam Jones & Tadas Antanavicius)
• AI Is Making Junior Developers Faster, But Is It Making Them Better Engineers? (Marin Pavelić)
• Unit and Integration Testing with Claude Code & Codex: .NET Core, Angular/React, and SQL Server (Sudhir Mangla)
• What your AI strategy is missing (according to the people who know your data best) (Simple Talk Team)
• Claude Desktop can now easily run Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi models — after Ollama’s first effort stalled (Paul Sawers)
• When AI agent traces become application data (Manveer Chawla)
• Learning never stops: How AI makes learning continuous (OpenAI Team)
• How Much Code Do Developers Really Let Agents Write? (Mikhail Bogdanov)
• 7 ways to kick-start back to school using Gemini in Workspace (Yulie Kwon Kim)
• The Folly of Tokenmaxxing or Reinventing the Wheel (Stefan Wolpers)
• When Smaller Models Win (Sruly Rosenblat)

Python

• Build a Market Time Machine: Replay Trading Sessions with Python and WebSockets (Nikhil Adithyan)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Microsoft just released Agent Lightning v1.0. Here’s why it matters for platform engineers. (Adrian Bridgwater)
• AI UX Patterns to Show Meaningful User Benefit (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• Who Is Going to Do My Job Now? (Pinal Dave)
• Negative gaps, min/max sizing, and much more: What’s new in stacks? (Freddie Harrison)

Mobile and Game Development

• Toolkit Tuesdays: ZoomContentControl (Steve Bilogan) - More great Uno Platform tips
• Elevating app quality: Reducing memory usage and improving device migration (Raghavendra Hareesh Pottamsetty)
• FutureBuilder and StreamBuilder as Anti-Patterns: Why Your Async Boundary Should Be Far Away From Your Views (Randal L. Schwartz)
• My BEST Performance Tip (Code Monkey)
• Compose Multiplatform 1.12.0 Released (Elvira Mustafina)
• Pre-orders Begin Today for the XBOX 25th Anniversary Collection (Joe Skrebels)

Screencasts and Videos

• Code it with AI Episode #43 - Qwen 3.8 Evaluation | DevExpress (Carl Franklin & Rocky Lhotka)
• New Azure SQL Foundations video series with GitHub samples (Anna Hoffman)
• Flutter notable commits - July 2026 (Abdullah Shabban)
• What the Top AI Users Are Doing Differently (AIDailyBrief)
• The Unbelievable Evolution of AI with DeepSeek’s New System (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

• The Amp Hour Episode #732 - Hands-on Physical AI with Kevin Cloutier (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #735 - Vivek Yadav on Regression Testing Microservices (Adi Narayan)
• Windows Weekly Episode #998 - Laptop Fort - Bill Gates Warns About the Dark Side of AI (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #560 - Building a Research OS: From Django to 30,000 Samples (Michael Kennedy)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google - Kubernetes 1.37, with Dipesh Rawat (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• The Azure Security Podcast Episode #132 - Windows Server 2025 Security (Michael Howard, Sarah Young & Orin Thomas)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1033 - 8 New CSS, JS and HTML Features You Should Know (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Using Scrumban and WIP Limits to Help Agile Teams Find Focus | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Arun Parameswaran)
• Big Technology Podcast - How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health (Alex Kantrowitz & Campbell Brown)
• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #40 - Big Fiction (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #220 - Harness engineering: are you controlling your AI agents? (Mike Chambers)

Community and Events

• Surprise and shine (Apple Developer Team)
• Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement (Lauren Feiner)
• Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos (Ivan Mehta)

Database

• How to Download the Stack Overflow Database for Postgres (Brent Ozar)
• Using the SIGN() Function: #SQLNewBlogger (Steve Jones)
• Dealing With DDL and CDC (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft’s latest AI rebrand beats its own history of terrible rebrands, renaming Microsoft 365 Roadmap to “AI at Work” (Mayank Parmar)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Get started with the Agent Toolkit for AWS in the AWS CLI (Andrew Asseily)

Writing

• 5 Essential Exercises For Writing Dialogue (Writers Write)

Tools

• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2373.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Radiation Link In Flight Attendant's Breast Cancer, French Court Finds (BeauHD)
• Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition (Connie Loizos)
• Apple Maps has ads now (Stevie Bonifield)
• Ikea’s Xbox collection includes a giant thumbstick stool (Jess Weatherbed)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 26, 2026 (#854) (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.

• Explore new features available in C# 15 preview (Bill Wagner)
• .NET Conf 2026 (Jon Galloway)
• Unlocking the Power of AI for Every Developer in Visual Studio with Bring your Own Model (Tanmayee Kamath)
• From dotnet run to Foundry Hosted Agent in 3 lines of C# (Bruno Capuano)
• Windows App SDK v2.4 Experimental (2.4.1-experimental) 🧪 Release (agniuks)
• Visual Studio August Update — Work Smarter Across Models and Branches (Mark Downie)
• PowerToys 0.101 is here: Window Hopper, Insider updates, and Command Palette compact mode (Niels Laute)

Web and Cloud Development

• WebView2 is moving to a 2-week release cadence (Microsoft Edge Team)
• Update: August Next.js Security Release (Sebastian Silbermann)
• Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 3 is now a W3C Recommendation (W3C)
• Supercharge Auth with Signals and the New Okta Angular SDK (Alisa Duncan)
• Blazorise 2.3.1 - First Maintenance Update for 2.3 (Mladen Macanović)
• Aspire v13.5.3 Release (Aspire Team)
• Azure Service Bus: Designing for blast radius (Daniel Marbach)
• Intent to Ship: JPEG XL (Jake Archibald)
• Building your first MCP server in ASP.NET Core (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• Try Azure SRE Agent with no always-on charges (Nir Mashkowski)
• Build with Your Expert WordPress Agent: WordPress Studio’s New Desktop Experience is in Beta (Jonathan Bossenger)
• Wolverine 6.30: Optimized at least once delivery with “Native Acks” (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Your WordPress.com Site Now Works from Inside ChatGPT (WordPress Team)
• What are JWT tokens and why your app needs them (Stefano Pinato)
• 10 JavaScript Async Concurrency Tips and Common Pitfalls (JS Dev)
• How Postman Passport keeps API secrets inside your network (Talia Kohan)
• Auth0, Made for Whatever You Are Building (Chris Sevilleja)
• When to Use ListView vs. DataGrid in Real-World Projects (Héctor Pérez)

Windows Development

• What Kind of Packaged Process Is It? (Howard Kapustein)
• Expanding the Windows on Arm app ecosystem across key workloads (Klaus Diaconu)
• Is an Application the same with a Package? MSIX Example (Alex Marin)
• Windows Package Manager (WinGet) v1.29.290 Release (hackean-msft)
• Microsoft Warns Windows Code Signing Changes Could Affect Older Applications (Rabia Noureen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Hands on: How to Bring Your Own Local AI Model to Visual Studio Insiders (Preview) (David Ramel)
• Stop ignoring API failures. Use Polly (David Grace)
• Finding the total number of processors on a machine with .NET (Andrew Lock)
• A directory is an integration: file exchange in .NET without cron, FileSystemWatcher or hand-rolled pollers (Kozin Rinat)
• Azure.AI.Projects .NET SDK v3.0.0-beta.1 Release and Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI .NET SDK v3.0.0-beta.1 Release and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents .NET SDK v3.0.0-beta.1 Release (Azure SDK Team)
• Limit what NuGet packages can do in your project (Gérald Barré)

AI

• GitHub Copilot Coding Agent Can Now Use Microsoft Teams Conversations (Joseph Ofonagoro)
• DevExpress Agent Skills — Recent Updates (Dmitry Tokmachev)
• Reducing Token Usage and Deploying to Foundry (Jesse Liberty)
• AI Adoption Isn’t About Agreeing with AI. It’s About Iterating. (Julie Yack)
• How to evaluate LLMs before production (Mariko Wakabayashi)
• MCPs Aren’t APIs – Stop Treating Them Like One (Toni Babic)
• JetBrains’ Junie now runs entirely offline. Can you spare a 64 GB M5 Mac? (Paul Sawers)
• Perplexity’s Computer agent can now run locally — if you can afford it (Frederic Lardinois)
• The Federation Aspect MCP Needs and Bringing Order To The Agentic Realm With The CLI Agent Spec (Kin Lane)
• Benchmark Retrieval Patterns for Copilot Studio and Foundry IQ (Brittany Pugh)
• Enabling A2A endpoint and Agent Card for a Hosted Agent (srisatyakrishna5)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.13-preview.0 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Maia 300 Could Give Microsoft Azure a Major AI Infrastructure Advantage (Kieron Allen)
• Understanding the Modern AI Stack (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built (Yousaf Shah, Swanand Kadhe, Riddhiman Moulick & Ashish Sunil Agrawal)
• Moving beyond release waves with the AI at Work roadmap (Richard Riley)
• Claude Desktop support with Ollama (Ollama Team)
• How to Evaluate Live & Voice Agents in ADK (Stephen Allen)
• The full stack behind abundant intelligence and Introducing the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex and Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro (OpenAI Team)
• Claude's memory works everywhere, and you decide what's in it (Claude Team)
• Ensuring Safety in the Generative AI Ecosystem: Protecting Users from Non-Consensual Intimate Content (Ron Aquino)
• How to Run Local AI Models in 2026 - The Complete Developer Guide to Ollama, SLMs, and Private Inference (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Data Intelligence: Building Your Competitive Advantage in the Era of AI (Michelle Smith)
• OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them? (Tim Fernholz)
• Responsible AI adoption needs developer workflow design (Gleb Tsipursky)
• Understanding Harnesses: The Concept That Changes How You Build Agents in Copilot Studio (Jon Eric Eubanks)
• Microsoft Moves AI Governance From Policy to Runtime Enforcement (Leela Kumili)
• How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom (Peter Hall)
• Run LoRA fine-tuning on Red Hat OpenShift AI with Ray (Fiona Waters)
• Testing Role-Playing and Context Manipulation (Liam Cleary)
• One requirement, many failure paths: Evaluate, control, and optimize with ASSERT and ACS (Chang Liu)
• We’re partnering with the State of Delaware to provide free AI and career training. (Google)

Python

• EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins! (Simon Willison)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• WikiKB: a fast, repository-native knowledge base for people and agents (Russell Horton)
• Shadow Agents, Standing Privileges, and the Governance Gap Between Deployment and Discovery (Tushar Badlani & Mohit Bansal)
• Daily Life as a Jenkins Administrator (Mark Schulz)
• How to Fix a Leaked API Key: A Developer’s Guide to Git Security (Eva J. Patel)
• The Design System as the Control Plane for AI-Generated UI (Niharika P. Pujari)
• Cursor Releases Origin as an Agent-Native Alternative to GitHub (Matt Saunders)
• Testability Is a Feature. Does Your Code Agent Know About It? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• From Concept to Restaurant Pilot in Under a Year (Ryan Bush & Kartik Patel)
• The Infinite Scroll Was a Design Crime. Now Meta is Paying for It. (Simon Sterne)
• Rightsizing Platform Engineering: Building the Platform Your Organization Actually Needs (John Keates)
• Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn't mean it's any good. (Taarik Ashenafi)
• These rules are NOT made to be broken [Don't overlook a project's contribution guidelines!] (David Anson)
• The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane (Igor Sakhnov)
• Getting to know the stages of the interview process at Thoughtworks (Heytor Terra)

Mobile and Game Development

• Shiny Controls 1.0 — The Ultra Control Suite for .NET MAUI & Blazor and Shiny HTTP Transfers: Background Transfers, and Knowing What They're Doing (Allan Ritchie)
• Preorder the ROG XBOX Ally X20 Starting Today (Joe Skrebels)
• Designed for XBOX 25th Anniversary Collection is now available for preorder (Anna Vo)
• AAOS SDV - Secure by Design (Markus Vill, Sean Keys & Istvan Nador)
• Skeleton in .NET MAUI: What It Is and How to Use It (Leomaris Reyes)
• Update: New domain for Sign in with Apple (Apple Developer Team)
• Pi Alternatives (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Create your own cyberdeck (Ashley)

Screencasts and Videos

• Scott & Mark Learn To...Game (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• Debugger Agentic Workflow Gets a Test-Driven Upgrade | Visual Studio (Sireesha Pisipati)
• GitHub Copilot app for beginners: using the diff, terminal, and browser (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Understanding the Inner Workings of AI: The Crucial Role of Agentic Harnesses (Frank La Vigne)
• Evening Coding with MAUI and C# | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter and DayFrame does it ALL! | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• XXL Episode with various updates! - Developer News 33&34/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• The AI Model Tier List and The Future of AI and Work (AIDailyBrief)
• Start here: Azure SQL Foundations series (Anna Hoffman)
• Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Never Type Again with Craig Hewitt (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

• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1039 - The Hand of Ryan Tedder - Apple Stealthily Updates the Mac mini and Mac Studio! (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #493 - CalVer and LTS (Michael Kennedy)
• RunAs Radio Show #1051 - Security Features of PowerShell 7 (Richard Campbell & Mike O'Neill)
• HIT Like a Girl Pod: Empowering Women in Health IT - From Patient to Pioneer: Mariya Filipova on Investing, Convergent Care, and the Oral-Systemic Health Revolution (Mariya Filipova & Rebecca Love)
• The Scrum Master Mistake of Fixing Trust With Process | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and How Powerful Questions Help Scrum Teams Handle Stakeholder Conflict | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Arun Parameswaran)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #368 - AI Proficiency: From Users to Builders (Mike Lewis, Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - It's Greek to me: Why is the language of ‘The Odyssey’ shorthand for all that we don’t understand? (Mignon Fogarty)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #292 - Inside Chrome Security: AI Patching, Agents, Rust, and … Your Tabs (Google)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1032 - Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7B (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Meta Cast - Just Ask Us For Help (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• InfoQ Podcast: The Human Edge: Why Brownfield Codebases Need Mob Programming, Not Just AI Vibes (Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom & Ola Hast)
• Anna Hoffman: AI Database Development - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #416 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #529 - Agent, MCP, and Tooling: Taming Cross‑Platform DevFlows (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Xbox layoffs fallout: ‘South of Midnight’ creator Compulsion Games successfully goes independent (Thomas Wilde)

Database

• T-SQL Tuesday #201 Round-Up: Temp Tables, Friend or Foe? (Jeff Taylor)
• Full, Differential and Log Backups: A Practical Guide and Using Historical Data to Confirm Performance Improvements (Pinal Dave)
• Powering Memory in Foundry Agent Service, with Azure Cosmos DB (Theo van Kraay)
• 9 things I wish SQL Server had (and why they’d matter) (Louis Davidson)
• Your executable is a SQLite database (Simon Willison)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft is speeding up OneDrive for macOS with new Native Sync Engine (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Meet the Built-In Agents in GitHub Copilot CLI (Ken Muse)

Tools

• PowerToys Release v0.101.2362.0 (LegendaryBlair)
• PowerToys 0.101 Arrives With Window Hopper, Numerous Updates (Paul Thurrott)
• Announcing Files v4.2.20 (Files Team)
• Sysinternals Autoruns 13.100 is last working final version for Windows 7 (Mark Pahulje)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.9.9 Release (florelis)

General

• Apple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra and Apple unveils a more powerful Mac mini featuring the all-new M6 and M5 Pro and Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute (Apple)
• Software Engineering eBook Bundle | Manning Books (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Archiving Democracy: How the U.S. End of Term Web Archive Preserves Government History (Merrilee Proffitt)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 25, 2026 (#853) and Daily Reading List – August 24, 2026 (#852) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, Local Zone in Las Vegas, and more (August 24, 2026) (Esra Kayabali)
• Fragments: August 24 (Martin Fowler)

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.

• Today I will… Modernize a .NET application (Matt Soucoup & Pablo Lopes)
• The New MCP Roadmap (David Soria Parra & Den Delimarsky)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.19.0 Release (Roger Barreto)
• Build AI agents without leaving VS Code, join our 3-part Reactor Series (bethanyjep)
• Beyond Boundaries Is Getting a Major Update for .NET 11 and C# 15 (Chris Woodruff)
• TechBash 2026 Workshop Spotlight: Hands-On API Building with .NET (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• How to apply CSS only if there are a certain number of nested elements (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Aspire 13.5.2 Release (Aspire Team)
• How to Build a REST API for an AI Application (Anya Summers)
• ESLint v10.9.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• Announcing Azure Web PubSub chat in public preview (Kevin Guo)
• Cloudflare Cuts Astro Github Issues by 85% with AI Agents (Leela Kumili)
• Entra SSO: AWS Took 15 Minutes, GitHub Took a Migration (Joey Dantoni)
• How React Keeps You Logged In With JWT and Zustand (JS Tools Team)
• Running our OpenID server through the official conformance suite, and what it found in us (Kozin Rinat)
• JavaScript Intl API: A Practical Guide to Built-In Internationalization (JS Dev)

Windows Development

• Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function, practical exam (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 21 August 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• A Green CI Badge Does Not Prove Your .NET Package Is Trustworthy | ASI Backbone Learning (Christopher D. Cavell)
• Syncfusion PDF Library vs Aspose.PDF: Comparing Features, Performance, and Accessibility (Sameerkhan NainarAliBadusha)
• Local transcript cleanup in .NET with s1-mini (Bruno Capuano)
• Collection Performance: Sort List Faster with CollectionsMarshal.AsSpan() (David McCarter)
• The .NET OSS Relicensing Panic Is an Incentives Problem (Aaron Stannard)
• DocumentDB in .NET Orleans (Allan Ritchie)

AI

• One-Third of Web Pages are Now Written With AI, Says Pew Research (EditorDavid)
• Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive (Simon Willison)
• AI Should Multiple your Team - It Shouldn't Replace Your Judgement (Mitchel Sellers)
• AI Is Writing Code Faster. So Why Is Software Still Slow to Deliver? (Munish Munagala)
• Turn conversations into code with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams (arnavgupta)
• Using the Cursor SDK to Build a Project Documenter (Raymond Camden)
• Model router updates: new regions, a refreshed model pool, and understanding the hill climb (Sanjeev Jagtap)
• Bridging the AI Cutoff: Teaching Coding Agents Every Dart Feature from 1.0 to 3.14 (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Turning a single work session into a reusable Skill with Microsoft's Skill Recorder (Bart Wullems)
• The AI-Native SDLC playbook and Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders (Claude Team)
• AI Boosted Homework Scores, Then Exam Scores Dropped (BeauHD)
• My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality (Fabien Sanglard)
• Running AI agents in GitHub Actions with Docker Sandboxes (Jennifer Kohl)
• Tired of Rewriting AI Prompts? The Prompt Engineering Handbook Shows What Actually Works (Suchitha Ramesh)
• Anthropic’s new browser tool doesn’t actually run a browser (Amanda Caswell)
• Stop restricting the agent. Start restricting its environment. (Sanchit Mehta & Vishesh Agarwal)
• Dispatches from O'Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic development (Markus Eisele)
• The Agent-Era Career (Addy Osmani)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.15.0 Release (giles17)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• 7 Cost-Saving Strategies Observability Vendors Don't Want You to Know (Michael Shpilt)
• The Book of Redgate: Evidence (Steve Jones)
• The JasperFx / CritterStack AI and Event Modeling Strategy (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Automated testing vs. autonomous testing (Rob McNeil)
• Your Authorization Check Runs Too Late | ASI Backbone Learning (Christopher D. Cavell)
• You should never be angry at work (Sean Goedecke)
• Less Is More (Jason Gorman)
• A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers (Samuel Yeboah, Francesco Di Chiara & Mingliang Liu)

Mobile and Game Development

• Scaffold: Modern App UI in .NET MAUI (Alberto Aldegheri)
• Is the era of co-op ONLY games coming? (Code Monkey)
• When to Use Bloc vs. Cubit vs. Signal: An Architectural Decision Guide (Randal L. Schwartz)

Screencasts and Videos

• Did you know this Windows Secret? | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• Random.Code() - Handling Recursive Type Models in CslaGeneratorSerialization (Jason Bock)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 327 - “Kinetic IoT” (Why Digital Transformation is Physical) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• How to Make AI Writing Suck Less and Why Everyone Suddenly Hates AI Data Centers and 9 AI Techniques You Probably Haven't Tried (AIDailyBrief)
• Running Qwen 3.8 27B on a Mini PC: A Deep Dive into Local AI Performance (Frank La Vigne)
• Build Reusable Copilot Workflows with Skills and Agents | Building Your Personal Brand (Kurt Emrich & Kaleb Cole)
• Optimizing GitHub Copilot: Better Results, Fewer Tokens | Building Your Personal Brand (Emily Rothrock & Shivani Sundaresan)
• Control GitHub Copilot Remotely from Your Phone | Building Your Personal Brand (Grant Harris & Kaleb Cole)
• The Download: GitHub OAuth refresh tokens, Cloudflare MCP detection, terminal animations & more (Andrea Griffiths)
• Teams + Copilot in Action: Making Voice a Platform for AI (Farhan Hussain & Mat Batterbee)

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

• Lenny's Podcast - How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step (Lenny Rachitsky & Jen Abel)
• BONUS When Burnout Looks Like Productivity—The Hidden Risk to Innovation Capacity | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Alison Campbell)
• Interviews with Creative People (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Inside Platform Engineering with Nigel Douglas (Matthew Allford)
• PPP 520 | Are Smarter AI Tools Making Us Less Capable?, with LEGO® Serious Play® co-creator Johan Roos (Andy Kaufman)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #166 - Genesis GV90 First Look — Inside Korea’s New Flagship Luxury EV SUV (Batteries Included Team)
• React Native Radio Episode #371 - RNR Explains: Pan Responder (Robin Heinze & Tyler Williams)
• Big Technology Podcast - Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #308 - Navigating Silent Failures in AI: Strategies for Effective Oversight (Christopher Bailey & Calvin Hendryx-Parker)
• Hard Fork Podcast - OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• Product Owners Earn Team Loyalty By Showing Up, Learning, And Deciding | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joshua McDonald)
• A Geek Leader Episode #483 - Nick Jonsson (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• Call For Papers Listings for 8/21 and Job listings for week ending 8/21 (Leon Adato)
• Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri (Jay Peters)
• Starbucks cuts another 224 Seattle jobs, including tech roles, as restructuring winds down (Todd Bishop)

Database

• What AI Thinks a DBA Does All Day (Pinal Dave)
• From 17ms to 0.04ms: How to Design the Right SQL Index (Milan Jovanović)
• How Azure Arc allows a DB admin to become SQL Server sysadmin – the vulnerability explained (Fabiano Amorim)
• About Neo4j (Jesse Liberty)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Stop Making TUIs (Simon Willison)

Tools

• My Go-Anywhere Dev Setup: Tern, Starlink Mini, and RDP Over Tailscale (Jamie Maguire)
• Process Huge Image Batches in the Browser Without Freezing the UI (Free Image Tools)

General

• Flock is Secretly Building a Powerful New Prompt-Based AI Tool for Police (EditorDavid)
• Embedded Firmware Developer Toolkit eBook Bundle | Packt Publishing (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• American Who Wiped His Phone With ‘Duress’ Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges (BeauHD)
• Want to Be a Chief AI Officer? That'll Be $28,000. (Bloomberg)

More Link Collections

• Links For You (8/23/26) (Raymond Camden)
• C# Digest: A field guide to .NET data formats and C# Digest: Passkeys in ASP.NET Core 10 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 16, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Android Weekly Issue #741 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #576 - 23rd August 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #34, 2026 — Every Repo is A Software Factory Now (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – August 21, 2026 (#851) (Richard Seroter)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #764 (Konstantinos Nikoloutsos)

The Geek Shelf

Tools and Skills for .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions.

• WPF Hot Reload in Rider | JetBrains (Michael Hawker)
• GitHub: The August 17 outage, and the work ahead (Vlad Fedorov)
• terminal-code - VS Code Inside Your Terminal (Rob Pruzan) - Source on GitHub here
• The Hanselminutes Podcast - Compile after Class Crossover Episode (Scott Hanselman)
• Improving Performance in .NET Applications | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Jason Bock)
• How to run .NET tools without the SDK (Daniel Cazzulino)

Web and Cloud Development

• Integrating French IGN Maps into the Blazorise Map Component (Mladen Macanović)
• Create a Kendo UI for Angular Dinner Picker (Jonathan Gamble)
• Protecting Modern JavaScript: What’s new in JSDefender 2.12.0 (Michelle Pruitt)
• Windows 365 turns five: Cloud PCs recognized for enabling flexible, trusted workspaces at scale (Stefan Kinnestrand)
• The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live (Daniel Holmgren)
• Next.js 16.3: Instant Navigations, Up to 90% Less Dev Memory and Faster Builds (Daniel Curtis)
• OAuth Identity Chaining, Transaction Tokens, and Human-in-the-Loop: Summer 2026 Identity Standards Recap (Joe DeCock)
• Ready for Go 1.27 on Day One (Artem Pronichev)

Windows Development

• WinForms — Year-End Roadmap (v26.2) (Alexander Russkov)
• accept() and socket inheritance (Alisa Sireneva)
• Microsoft Store CLI v0.4.1 Release (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)

.NET and Visual Studio

• What’s New in Modern C#: From Enhanced Lock Objects to Zero-Allocation Params Collections (Kunal Chowdhury)
• An Overview of Agent Memory for .NET (Jesse Liberty)
• Best Code Obfuscation Tools for .NET, Java, Android, and JavaScript (Ben Nettleton)
• Introducing the New TX Text Control Technical Demos (Bjoern Meyer)
• CritterWatch 1.0 is live! (Jeremy D. Miller)

AI

• Browser automation with Pydantic-AI + Playwright (Pamela Fox)
• Agents Can Curl, So Why Do I Need an MCP Server? (Kin Lane)
• How to trust your AI-assisted data analysis (James Broome)
• How to Find an Exact Gmail Thread with Codex or Claude (Harry Roberts)
• Google’s AI coding agent just escaped its own IDE (Amanda Caswell)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.12 Preview 0 Release (github-actions[bot])
• AI Won't Replace Project Managers, But It is Reshaping How Work Gets Done (Emim Vigin Lumina)
• AI Is Only as Good as the Document Pipeline Behind It (Marko Crnjanski)
• Ask, Plan, Confirm: Making Agents Stop Before They Start (Adron Hall)
• Warp wants to make it easier to build your software factory (Meredith Shubel)
• A New Framework for Open Source AI (Mark Surman)
• AI Bubble: I Hope It Pops (Pinal Dave)
• Graph Engineering: Building the Next Generation of AI Systems (Liam Cleary)
• AI UX Patterns for User Transparency (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels (Jess Weatherbed)
• Building an AI-Powered Incident Bot with Octopus Deploy (Patroklos Papapetrou)
• How Code in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Becomes Write-Only and Disposable (Ben Linders)
• Scheduled AI in practice: turning telemetry into a daily health report (Tim Deschryver)

Python

• PyCharm for AI-assisted Django Workflows (Will Vincent)
• Python, Rust, and Data eBook Bundle | O'Reilly (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Docker Verified Publisher Applications Are Now Self-Serve (Dan Berezin Stelzer)
• Howie Did It: Principled Apps (Charlie Kindel)
• Architecture of a ticket-search engine: three GDS, rail, and an itinerary changed mid-journey (Kozin Rinat)
• A Convention Is Not a Constraint (Alex Sandberg-Bernard)
• Principal Drift in Practice (Shreshta Shyamsundar)

Mobile and Game Development

• .NET MAUI v10.0.100 Release Notes (kubaflo)
• Flutter Performance Optimization: Fix Jank and Dropped Frames and PayPal Android SDK with Flutter: Integrate PayPal Checkout Using Platform Channels (vmodal_ai)
• Keep coding when your internet drops: Offline support in the Code Editor (Greg Annandale)
• Building Enterprise Storage, Backups & Cosign Image Security in Go & Flutter with Google Antigravity (Mario Ezquerro)
• What I Get to Forget About Riverpod Now That I Have BlocSignal (Randal L. Schwartz)

Screencasts and Videos

• C# Finally Got Unions!!! (Isaac Levin)
• The AI Backlash Is Getting Stupider But Also Smarter (AIDailyBrief)
• AI at scale: How Azure Storage powers your agentic data foundation (Aung Oo & Vybava Ramadoss)
• Customize Windows Terminal for your classes and projects (Kayla Cinnamon)
• I Let AI Recreate Our 3D Models | Meshy7 & Smart Topology v2 (Stacey Haffner)
• Modern WinForms Development: How AI is Reshaping Your Approach | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Klaus Loeffelman)
• Automatic backup immutability for Azure SQL DB and Azure SQL MI | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Dinakar Nethi)
• Windows 365: Five Years In, See What's New | Microsoft Mechanics (Bhavya Chopra & Jeremy Chapman)
• What is: Agentic Looping? (Postman Team)
• DeepSeek’s Revolutionary Approach: A New Dawn in AI Coding (Frank La Vigne)
• Full-stack hot reload with Serverpod 4.0 | Observable Flutter #94 (Craig Labenz & Viktor Lidholt)

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 #586 - Watermark Away, Baby (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Developer Tea Podcast - Why Reducing Complexity Is A Sign of Seniority (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Build Mode Podcast - What $1B+ in startup fundraising teaches you about investors (Maggie Nye & Sasha Orloff)
• Scrum Master Success Means People Feel Heard, Respected, And Safe To Speak Up | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joshua McDonald)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Get rid of your CAPTCHA, the future of the web is bots (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Former Microsoft product manager launches bid to end clock change in Washington state, Congress or not (Sydney Jackson)

Database

• SQL Formatter Previews in Microsoft's MSSQL VS Code Tool and What's New for Developers in SQL Server 2025 (David Ramel)
• sp_TexasHoldEm: Multi-Player Poker in T-SQL (Brent Ozar)
• Performance Monitor is Going Enterprise (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft quietly hides the new OneDrive app it force-installed on Windows 11, but it’s still on your PC (Mayank Parmar)

Writing

• How To Choose A Book Title: 10 Things Every Writer Should Know (Writers Write)

Tools

• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2323.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Windows 11 26H2 will auto-enable Point-in-Time Restore by default, how to check yours (Mayank Parmar)
• GitHub added 3 million CPU cores. It still couldn’t keep up with your commits. (Frederic Lardinois)
• Quantum-Augmented Applications: Integrating Quantum Subroutines into Classical Software Stacks (Dr. Ahmad Mateen Ishanzai)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 20, 2026 (#850) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

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

• MSSQL Extension for VS Code: SQL Formatter, Azure SQL Database Provisioning, and More (Yo-Lei Chen)
• Rider 2026.2.1 and ReSharper 2026.2.1 Are Here! (Alexander Kurakin)
• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work (Christopher Harrison)
• .NET MAUI in 2026 - How AI has Transformed App Development Forever | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (James Montemagno)
• Rider Hands AI Agents The Keys To Its Refactoring Engine For Safer, Faster, And Cheaper Results (Sasha Ivanova)
• Choosing the Right Agent in Microsoft Foundry (supriyas)

Web and Cloud Development

• Hosting the .NET Aspire Dashboard as a Standalone Container in Azure Web Apps (Maarten Balliauw)
• Microsoft Releases Aspire 13.5 With a Refreshed Dashboard and Workflow Improvements (Almir Vuk)
• Passkeys by Default: Entra Retires SMS and Voice MFA (Shannon Kuehn)
• Build, Automate and Observe: What You Can Do with Telerik, Kendo UI and AI Engineering This August (Iva Borisova)
• There Is Finally an OpenAPI for MCP Servers, and It Is Called mcpdesc (Kin Lane)
• Go 1.27.0-1 Microsoft build now available and Go 1.26.7-1 and 1.25.14-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
• React scrollIntoView + useRef: Scroll to Any Element (React Systems Newsletter)
• Every Site, One Click Away in the Hosting Dashboard (Peter Schimke)

Windows Development

• Task Manager features for visibility into AI workloads (Larry Hu)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Building Max Line Length: Making EditorConfig Formatting Visible in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
• Visual Studio Code 1.134 Puts Agent Sessions Front and Center and .NET 11 Preview 7 Turns On NativeAOT CLI and MSBuild Server by Default (David Ramel)
• Parsing IP addresses in C# at crazy speeds (Daniel Lemire)
• Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.9.1 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 12113.136 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• .NET 11 Preview 7 Brings Updates Across C#, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and Windows Forms (Almir Vuk)
• Visual Studio 2026 lets developers dial up or down Copilot's thinking (Marcus Pruitt)
• Visual Studio Code 1.135 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)

AI

• Expanding Open Model Choice in Microsoft Foundry with New DeepSeek and NVIDIA Nemotron Models (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Microsoft Foundry Toolboxes: Designing Centralized AI Tool Governance (Niharika Gupta)
• How to Set Up T3 Code and Tailscale on Windows and Phone (Steve Smith)
• The Open-Sourcing of DeepSeek Harness Opens the Door to Modular, Unbundled AI Agent Infrastructure (Olimpiu Pop)
• How we built ThinkingBox to measure whether agents finish the job (Liang-Chun Tsai)
• College Students: Start the semester with one year of Gemini, on us (Jennifer Shen)
• AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought (Emily Atkin)
• Meta AI is getting a Mac app (Emma Roth)
• New in JetBrains Air: Claude Subscriptions, Multiproject View, and Improved Markdown (Vladimir Gromozdin)
• Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks (Isabella Ward)
• When Your Buyer Is an AI Agent (Rudrendu Paul & Sourav Nandy)
• What a Useful AI Trace Should Actually Contain (And How to Build One) (Nikolay Iliev)
• Giving Every Agent Its Own Branch: Git Worktrees for Parallel AI Work (Adron Hall)
• Develop and test MCP in Postman: jhipster-mcp in action (Anthony Viard)
• Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models (OpenAI Team)
• Nobody Could Have Written the Ticket (James D. Randall)
• How Docker Is Becoming an AI Development Platform (Pruthvi Raj Seknametla)
• Citizens Build, Agents Execute, Experts Govern (Rachel Laycock)
• An open source rival to Claude Managed Agents just launched (Adrian Bridgwater)
• AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model (Will Alpine, Nathan Geldner, Holly Alpine & Maksym G. Chepeliev)
• Building Secure AI Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework and Auth0: Sending Email with Token Vault (Andrea Chiarelli)
• Why I Tell My AI Coding Agent: “Prefer Dart Over Python” (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Replit Introduces Free Mode to Expand What is Possible with AI (Replit Team)
• Codex can now keep coding while it waits for your answer (Amanda Caswell)
• When Guardrails Go Wrong (Mike Loukides)
• Why Is the Agent Card Important? (Ajay Singh)

Python

• Microsoft Releases Agentic Skills For Python (Nikos Vaggalis)
• What’s Fixed and Improved in PyCharm 2026.2 (Will Vincent)
• Code Naturally with Python Software Bundle | Janets (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• GitHub Stacked PRs: A Practical Guide to Smaller, Faster Code Reviews (Arindam Majumder)
• Event Driven Architecture and Coupling: You’re Not as Decoupled as You Think (Derek Comartin)

Mobile and Game Development

• Frictionless Authentication on iOS: Silent Network Verification with Vonage Verify (Benjamin Aronov)
• Preparing your app for broader memory limits (Blair Harmon)
• Announcing Ionic Framework 9 (Gonçalo Martins)
• Signatures, be true: domain errors and functional handling in Kotlin (Viliam Sedliak)
• If you make 100 games, do you have 100% chance of success? (Code Monkey)

Screencasts and Videos

• Language Model Builder with Felix Rieseberg (Scott Hanselman)
• The AI Engineering Skills Map for Knowledge Workers (AIDailyBrief)
• Pragmatic AI in .NET Show: Beautiful UI/Games with AI & SkiaSharp, with Daren May (Sam Basu)
• A guide to layout in SwiftUI | Meet with Apple (Apple Developer Team)
• What's it like to work at Warp? (Warp Team)
• Building and Using MCP Servers in Visual Studio | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Leslie Richardson & Stephan Halter)
• SQL Projects in SSMS and Visual Studio | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
• Explore the Future of ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 11 | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Daniel Roth)
• The Developers Guide to Azure SQL Hyperscale | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Bob Ward)
• CritterWatch 1.0 Live Stream Today (Jeremy D. Miller) - Watch yesterday's recording
• SQL and AI for Developers in Action | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Anna Hoffman & Bob Ward)
• Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK) Installation (Microsoft Developer Team)
• Random.Code() - Handling Recursive Type Models in Rocks (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

• Grammar Girl Podcast - Sarah L. Kaufman on the shared rhythm of dance, critical writing, and finding better verbs (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #367 - Claude introduces DLP, I thought it always stole Data (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• .NET Rocks! - Beside, Inside, and Outside AI with Chad Michel (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Amp Hour Episode #731 - E&M Reality Emerges with Robert Fennis (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #734 - Sathiesh Veera on Engineering Data-Protection Guardrails with LLMs (Brijesh Ammanath)
• Windows Weekly Episode #997 - Bear Swamp & The Boathouse - New Context Menu Customization Debuts for Insiders (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #559 - 12 Things You Should (and Shouldn't) Do in AWS (Michael Kennedy)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1031 - My Coding Skills Are Atrophying (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Using Cycle Time As A Storyteller, Not A Scorecard In Agile Retrospectives | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joshua McDonald)
• Big Technology Podcast - Worries About AI Existential Risk Just Became More Concrete (Alex Kantrowitz & Nick Bostrom)
• Cortex Episode #182 - Reporting on the World’s Most Secretive Tech Company, with Mark Gurman (Myke Hurley)

Community and Events

• Qualtrics cuts jobs in Seattle, Utah and overseas as it absorbs $6.75B acquisition and TikTok cuts 75 jobs in Seattle area, hitting e-commerce teams and Internal memo: Eight execs out at Expedia Group in AI-driven shakeup (Todd Bishop)
• I Found My Coordinates: Code, Community, and Okta (Vanshika Pandey)

Database

• Eleven SQL Server Interview Questions That Look Far Too Easy (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.9.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Database Animations: The Difference Between Row Compression and Page Compression (Brent Ozar)
• Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code (Steve Jones)
• Data tools for developers and AI agents (sbaynes)
• New Claude Plugin For SQL Server Query Plan Analysis (Erik Darling)
• Don't stand up a second database just for objects: redb vs MongoDB and RavenDB (Kozin Rinat)
• Outgrowing SQL Server Express? Upgrade to Azure SQL Database Free Tier in 3 Steps (Vandana Mahtani & Amit Khandelwal)
• JSON indexing in SQL Server 2025: how it works and current limitations (Greg Low)
• Providing comparative context with DAX Calculated Tables under Row Level Security (James Broome)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• How to Set Up Copilot Skills in PowerPoint (and Build Your Own) (Michael Goad)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Packaging skills in a plugin, this time for GitHub Copilot CLI (Bart Wullems)
• Microsoft Store CLI v0.4.0 Release (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)

Writing

• Practitioner Voice: The Writing Category Nobody has Named Yet (Jim Highsmith)

Tools

• Process Monitor v4.1, ZoomIt 12.3 for macOS, RDCMan v3.21, and ZoomIt v12.21 | Sysinternals (Alex Mihaiuc)
• Announcing Files v4.2.11 (Files Team)
• New app: Clipboard Inspector (Joseph Finney)
• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2312.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning (BeauHD)
• Framework gave its 12-inch laptop some hardware upgrades (Jess Weatherbed)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 19, 2026 (#849) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Real-World Web Development with .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Build websites and services using mature and proven ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API, and Umbraco CMS.

• Aspire 13.5: Fresh pixels and better workflows (Maddy Montaquila)
• Announcing AppxManifest IntelliSense Support in the WinApp VS Code Extension (Chiara Mooney)
• What’s a PFN? (Howard Kapustein)
• .NET Developer Productivity with AI | On .NET (Sam Basu & Matt Soucoup)
• Spec-Driven Development Handbook: Build the Right Software Before You Write the First Line of Code (Gowthaman Thavasiyappan)
• TechBash 2026 Workshop Spotlight - Threat Modeling with AI (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• .NET 11 Preview 7 Improves WebAssembly (Kay Ewbank)
• Aspire 13.5.0 Release Notes (Aspire Team)
• Computing is changing, so is Postman – Introducing Postman.ai (Abhinav Asthana)
• The Throwaway API and the Foundational API (Kin Lane)
• How to Build More Accessible Websites with WCAG 2.2 (Aiyedogbon Abraham)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Boost Your .NET Networking with Spargine: SocketExtensions That Röck (David McCarter)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.18.0 Release (Sergey Menshykh)
• Build a Type-Safe C# Pipeline From Scratch (Nick Cosentino)
• Top 10 Ways to Reduce .NET Memory Usage in Kubernetes (Steve Smith)
• Building a Browser-Based PDF Workflow for Medical Billing using .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• CritterWatch RC.10 — the final one! (Jeremy D. Miller)

AI

• Add a Microsoft Foundry model to the GitHub Copilot app (Bruno Capuano)
• Testing Instruction Hierarchy and Prompt Override Attacks (Liam Cleary)
• The Codex Mastery eBook Bundle | Zenva (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• The tokenomics of self-hosted LLMs (Trevor Royer)
• Tap into the power of Gemini in Chrome on Android. (Charmaine Dsilva)
• Azure Copilot Introduces Direct Access to Agents (artigulwadi)
• Power Azure SRE Agent with the tools it needs (Lily Ma)
• A Claude Code skill was eating 200,000 tokens before answering a single question (Amanda Caswell)
• Claude Memory Admin (Steven Giesel)
• The New Full-Stack Developer: Building Applications for Humans, AI Assistants and Autonomous Agents (Hassan Djirdeh)
• How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need? (Vatche Isahagian, Gaodan Fang, Jayaram Radhakrishnan, Punleuk Oum, Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan, Evelyn Duesterwald, G. Thomas, Vinod Muthusamy, Merve Unuvar & Ayhan Sebin)
• Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities and Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation and Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections (OpenAI Team)
• Packaging skills into a plugin (Bart Wullems)
• Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development (Russell Brandom)
• Advanced Prompt Engineering for Software Developers: Frameworks, Patterns, and Best Practices (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Is Open-Source AI Really the Dangerous Path? (Raffi Krikorian)
• AI Coding Agents: Adoption Trends (Mikhail Bogdanov)
• MCP vs A2A vs ACP: How AI Agents Talk to Each Other (Yakaiah Bommishetti)
• Getting Started with MCP Servers (David Ramel)
• Want to use AI agents safely? Start with design (Colin Eberhardt)
• Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers (Tom Aarsen, Antoine Chaffin & Rafael Sourty)
• The Claude Science product guide (Claude Team)
• Microsoft Research and Paige Unveil PRISM 2 Pathology AI Model (Kieron Allen)
• Single-Query Tuning Versus Workload Tuning (Pinal Dave)
• AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (Michelle Kim)
• Mojo🔥 is now open source (Simon Willison)
• What happens to your indexed data when Mistral flips the switch? (Amanda Caswell)
• 17,600 Actions: Agent Security Is a Systems Problem (Jin Kim)
• A Research Agent on a Budget Leash, and How I’d Sequence the Whole Build (Adron Hall)
• Coding Agent Horror Stories: The Command You Already Approved (Jennifer Kohl)
• Context Camp: Knowledge Management for Personal Agents (Eleanor Berger)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Have an Agent Babysit Your Deployments (Josh Bleecher Snyder)
• GitHub Brings Stacked Pull Requests to Public Preview (Craig Risi)
• Interviews are better with Behavioral Questions (Charlie Kindel)
• Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform (Lucas Ropek)

Mobile and Game Development

• Introducing the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig (Tom Dewey)
• I’ve Been a Flutter GDE for 8 Years. Here’s the Ground Truth on “Flutter is Dying” (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Changes for apps in the European Union and Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement now available (Apple Developer)
• Jetpack XR SDK core libraries reach beta: The next milestone for Android XR (Amy Zeppenfeld, Greg Underwood & Yasmine Evjen)
• How to Work with Material and Cupertino Decoupling in Flutter [Full Handbook] (Atuoha Anthony)
• Introducing Factory Fields (Leon Bambrick)

Screencasts and Videos

• How People Are Fixing AI's Problems (AIDailyBrief)
• Warp Software Factory Live Demo (Warp Team)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Ed Charbeneau (Isaac Levin)
• Turn Every Idea into an AI App with the GitHub Copilot SDK | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (James Montemagno & Kayla Cinnamon)
• Fast Focus: Using Copilot to Build Migration Tools | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Jason Bock)
• Modernizing .NET Applications | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Jon Galloway)
• Fast Focus: Dream a Little Dream: Dev with the CLI | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 and How to run parallel AI agents in the GitHub Copilot app | Tutorial for beginners (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Fast Focus: What’s New Across Microsoft SQL and Developer Tooling in 2026 | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2026 (Anna Hoffman)
• Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: From Prompting to Loop Engineering with Ofer Mendelevitch (Michelle Smith)
• The Dark Arts of Web Automation: Mastering the Art of Teaching Agents to Navigate the Web and Claude Sonnet 5.5: A Game-Changer in AI Pricing and Performance? (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

• Welcome back to The GitHub Podcast! (Cassidy Williams, Marlene Mhangami & GPS Peña-Siguenza)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1038 - The Silicon-Controlled Rectifier - Will Apple's Upcoming Folding iPhone Cost A lot? (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• RunAs Radio Show #1050 - Automatic Attack Disruption with Liz Tesch (Richard Campbell)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #492 - Codeberg Puts Head in Sand (Michael Kennedy)
• AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #032 - AI & Creativity: Exploring New Frontiers with Sara Nemati (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• HIT Like a Girl Pod: Empowering Women in Health IT - Investing in Women's Health Isn't a “Nice-to-Have”—It's Infrastructure. Here's Why. (Melissa Fayer & Joy Rios)
• Boagworld Episode #37 - Brand Guidelines Are Ruining Your Website (Paul Boag)
• The Distributed Agile Team That Hid Problems Behind Follow-Up Stories | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joshua McDonald)

Community and Events

• Microsoft MVP Creates Site to Remind You of All the Brands Redmond Replaced (BeauHD)
• Bluesky says its recent outage was caused by another DDoS attack (Zack Whittaker)

Database

• Azure Cosmos DB in the Agentic Era: Data Tools for Developers and AI Agents (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
• The Two Hybrid Searches in Microsoft SQL (Jerry Nixon)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Using Microsoft Graph to bulk delete file version history (Loryan Strant)

Writing

• 10 Ways To Create Dangerously Nuanced Antagonists (With Examples) (Writers Write)

Tools

• JetBrains Toolbox App 3.7: JVM Memory Optimizations and Update Improvements (Lana Novikova)
• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2293.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Top Album Releases Linked To Rise In Fatal Crashes and Memory Prices Climb 500% In 12 Months (BeauHD)
• Strengthening Democratic Oversight in National Security (OpenAI Team)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 18, 2026 (#848) (Richard Seroter)
• Web Weekly #198 (Stefan Judis)
• Fragments: August 18 (Martin Fowler)

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#.

• Improving File Explorer & Context Menu: faster, simpler, and more customizable (Michael Novak)
• How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient (Ayan Gupta)
• Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C# | VSLive! @ MS HQ 2026 (Dustin Campbell)
• Apple Silicon and Xcode 27 images available in pay-as-you-go (preview) (Eric van Wijk)
• Build a .NET 10 Web API - Minimal APIs, EF Core & SQL Server (David Grace)
• Toolkit Tuesdays: LoadingView (Steve Bilogan)

Web and Cloud Development

• WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan (Sarah Perez)
• 10 Debounce and Throttle Patterns Every JS Developer Should Know (JS Dev)
• Useful JavaScript Additions in ECMAScript 2026 (Peter Mbanugo)
• Dark mode toggles: two states are enough (Geoff Graham)
• The WordPress.com Student Plan Is Here: Give Your Students a Website They Can Keep (Alvaro Gómez)
• Auth0 Learning: The New Skill-Building Platform for Developers (Sara Kazemi)
• Cloudflare Turns CI Pipelines into TypeScript Workflows (Mark Silvester)
• Active Directory Domain Services modules on Microsoft Learn (Orin Thomas)
• Shadow-piercing local component variables (Dave Rupert)

Windows Development

• How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 17 August 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• xUnit.v3 4.0.0 released (Steven Giesel)
• How to Implement a Specification in C# From Scratch (Nick Cosentino)
• What happens when you call await? A step-by-step runtime breakdown (Ali Hamza Ansari)

AI

• An operating model for enterprise AI agent reliability (Arun Srinivasan & Zichuan Xiong)
• There Is No Defensible AI Position (Kin Lane)
• Build AI Agent-Driven Document Processing with Syncfusion Document SDK [Webinar Show Notes] (Anantha Lakshmi Kannan)
• Build zero-trust AI agents with Google's Agent Development Kit (Shubham Saboo & Eric Dong)
• How to Scale LLM Inference for AI Agents Using vLLM (Darsh Shah)
• Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (Simon Willison)
• 4 Infrastructure Layers Every Production AI Agent Needs (Quinton Wall)
• The AI Agent Ate My Budget! Here Is What I Should Have Built Instead (Jefferson S. Motta)
• Making LLM Features Cheap Enough to Actually Ship (Adron Hall)
• Black-box pen tests on Replit (Replit Team)
• What’s an Orchestrator—and Why Does Software Need One? (Tim O'Brien)
• OpenAI Ditches Recall-Style Screenshot Surveillance For Friendly Keylogging (BeauHD)
• Cursor and Nokia: AI Matters Less for Speed Than Expanding Developers’ Capabilities (Anastasija Uspenski)
• Understanding agents, their five controllers and one graph (Zichuan Xiong)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• What is Identity? - The Question Every Team Should Answer Before Writing Code (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• The Hands-On DevOps Software Learning Bundle | Packt Publishing (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Microsoft Releases Open Source Test Unit Agent (Kay Ewbank)
• Azure DevOps Server – Git submodule support (Bart Wullems)
• Your Second Skill Was Never a Parachute (Pinal Dave)
• Make zero CVEs your new default (Vishrut Iyengar)
• Visibility Is a Technical Skill (David Ramel & Tony Champion)

Mobile and Game Development

• Apple ordered to change app data consent prompts on iPhones and iPads (Stevie Bonifield)

Screencasts and Videos

• We fixed Claude Code's biggest problem… (Warp Team)
• Building Intelligent .NET Applications: From AI Features to Agentic System | VSLive! @ MS HQ 2026 (Jon Galloway)
• SQL MCP Server: Bringing AI Agents to Your SQL Data | VSLive! @ MS HQ 2026 (Bob Ward)
• Beyond Embeddings: Practical Vector Search with DiskANN in SQL Server | VSLive! @ MS HQ 2026 (Anna Hoffman)
• AI Engineer: Fixes API from Slack Thread (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

• Grammar Girl Podcast - What ‘kith and kin’ and ‘beck and call’ have in common (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Presesntation Podcast Episode #252 – Midyear Check – Where Do You Use “AI” for Presentations? (Troy Chollar)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #291 - Ruthless Prioritization: How CISOs Can Execute a Minimum Viable Security Program (Google)
• Inside Trader Joe's Podcast Episode #110 - Expect the Unexpected (Cheddar) at Trader Joe's (Trader Joe's Team)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #524 - Using AI In Your Job Search - DMs & Cover Letters (Taylor Desseyn)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1030 - AI Assistant Hacks Gym (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - What does an agentic SDLC actually look like? (Phoebe Sajor)
• When Your Agile Enthusiasm Creates Resistance, Start With Trust | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joshua McDonald)

Community and Events

• GitHub outage disrupts developers worldwide in latest setback for Microsoft coding platform (Todd Bishop)
• What Your First Months at JetBrains Look Like? (Grete Kivi)
• Registration is Now Open For Internet Archive’s Annual Celebration (Chris Freeland)

Database

• SQL Server gMSA: Why So Many DBAs Still Aren't Using It in 2026 (SQLPals)
• How to implement Deep Data Security (DeepSec) in Oracle 26ai: complete step-by-step guide (part one) (Jim Czuprynski)

Writing

• Nothing informs the writing process like writing (Rob Miles)

Tools

• DevToys-Preview - An Open-Source Swiss Army knife for developers | Microsoft Store (Etienne Baudoux)

General

• Time for a new lab environment – Part 2 (Michael Morten Sonne)
• OpenAI Announces Massive Data Center In Ohio With $105 Billion Nvidia Guarantee (BeauHD)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 17, 2026 (#847) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: EC2 application status checks, IAM role manager, OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock, and more (August 17, 2026) (Channy Yun)

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.

• Windows App Development CLI v0.6 – create new WinUI applications, sign packages with Azure, and more (Zachary Teutsch) - *Release notes available on *GitHub
• Uno Apps Inside of Uno Apps (Steve Bilogan)
• How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps (Sam Zhang)
• Mobile Canvas - Mobile iOS / Android Canvas extension for GitHub Copilot App (Jonathan Dick)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.11 Release (github-actions[bot])
• What's new in .NET 11 | .NET Docs (Microsoft Learn)

Web and Cloud Development

• Use Aspire to implement and deploy the BFF security architecture (Damien Bowden)
• OpenAPI Overlays for Compliance and Redaction Profiles and Your Internal Docs Need the Same Scoring Discipline as Your Public APIs (Kin Lane)
• The Forms Evolution, Web AI, and Architectural Vision! (Angular Team)
• Modeling Legal Emancipation for Healthcare Access Control with FHIR Consent (John Moehrke)
• I’m Writing a Book on WebAssembly and Spin (Hans Thorsten)
• What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More (Daniel Schwarz)
• Exploring Compose HTML for Server Side Rendering (Frederik Pietzko)
• Keep React Responsive with Web Workers and useRef (React Systems Newsletter)
• Go 1.26.6-1 and 1.25.13-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
• Introducing Lewp (Scott Watermasysk)

Windows Development

• Windows 11 is heading for a new look as Microsoft replaces another legacy interface with WinUI 3 (Mayank Parmar)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v4.2.0 (Alvin Ashcraft) - Updated to support winapp CLI v0.6.0 features
• Microsoft removes Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) from Windows 11 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
• Announcing new Windows Insider Release Preview builds for 14 August 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio finally gets proper Git submodule support (Bart Wullems)
• .NET Toolbox August Update (Steven Giesel)
• AS2 in .NET without a separate Java gateway: EDI with trading partners, right inside the route (Kozin Rinat)
• Consuming MCP Servers from .NET: When Your App Becomes the Client (Juan Gómez)
• General Performance: Object Initializers – Readability Versus Performance (David McCarter)
• The Evolution of Modern C#: Practical Best Practices for Cloud-Native and Enterprise Apps (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Pipeline Pattern in C#: A Modern .NET Guide (Nick Cosentino)
• NAudio 3 (Mark Heath)

AI

• Update on the upcoming OpenClaw release (Hannes Rudolph)
• There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (Sophie Alpert)
• DeepSeek Harness - An open-source agent harness (DeepSeek AI Team)
• Skills Sprawl: When Too Much of a Good Thing Confuses Your AI Agent (Darren “Dazbo” Lester)
• When AI Writes the Code, Specifications Need an Exit Strategy (Markus Eisele)
• Consumption-Based Billing Is Reshaping the AI Industry (Dewain Robinson)
• Junie’s New Default Runs on Gemini 3.7 Flash, at 40% Off Base Pricing (Dmitry Savelev)
• I Want Scout to Win. Codex Just Works. Cursor Might Beat Them All. (Paul J. Swider)
• How to Implement Retrieval in RAG (Carmel Eve)
• Sandboxing local AI Agents (Matthew Casperson)
• AI vs CI: Nobody Told the Pipeline (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Agent Plugins Specification (Agent Plugins)
• OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team (Terrence O’Brien)
• AI Inference vs. Training: Key Differences and AI Stack Consolidation with a Database-as-a-Service (Hannah Laurel)
• LOOP ⭢ GRAPH ⭢ HARNESS: build the whole pipeline in one sitting (ArchiveExplorer)
• MCP Wrote Itself the Deprecation Policy It Has Not Written for You (Kin Lane)
• Serving Gemma4 with Rust on vLLM and Build an MCP server in Rust with rmcp: a walk-through (xbill)
• qm: A multiplayer agent harness for work. In Slack and on the web. (Y Combinator)
• Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI? (EditorDavid)
• Run Claude for FREE Locally (Using Ollama + Claude Code) (TJ)
• How Claude’s text watermark works (Anthropic Team)
• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things (Simon Willison)
• [Dev Log][Python] Create short videos from photos and clips with Gemini 3.7 Flash: ReelCraft (Evan Lin)
• Loops and beads: orchestrating AI agents with Postman (Quinton Wall)
• State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations (Adina Yakefu, Apolinário & Irene Solaiman)
• Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them (BeauHD)
• The Six Questions Every AI Trace Should Be Able to Answer (Nikolay Iliev)
• AI success depends on data foundations (James Heward)
• Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions (Claude Team)
• Alibaba’s new model promises Opus 4.6-level performance on your laptop (Frederic Lardinois)
• Tag Everything, Expand Anything, Without Re-Billing the Model (Adron Hall)
• Welcome to Learn Harness Engineering (Learn Harness Engineering)
• How Kenn is doing Agentic Engineering (Wes McKinney)
• The Intent Debt (Addy Osmani)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Octopus Easy Mode - Policies (Matthew Casperson)
• Microsoft Testing Platform GitHub and Azure DevOps Reporting (Tomasz Cielecki)
• Reproducible ESP32 Firmware Development with Docker and Docker Sandboxes (Jennifer Kohl)
• The Packager’s Role in Enterprise Software Deployment (Radu Popescu)
• Renovate on Azure DevOps: picking the right work item type (Bart Wullems)
• How I Support Humans in the AI Era (Ileanell Perez)
• How Syncfusion Uses Its Own Developer Tools to Build SaaS Products (Meena Alagiah)
• GH Desktop Plus - A GitHub Desktop fork with advanced functionality and improvements (Desktop Plus Team) - Multiple GitHub accounts and multiple stashes are two nice features
• GitHub Quietly Built the Onboarding Flow Everyone Else Is Missing (Kin Lane)
• Introducing HEDBridge: A Modern Migration Path for Legacy HighEdit HED Documents (Bjoern Meyer)
• Take Time to Gain Perspective (K. Brian Kelley)
• How Do You Build a Social Media Feed? (System Design) (Milan Jovanović)
• Keep Building Without Getting Paid (Teon Beijl)

Mobile and Game Development

• Building Enterprise Active Directory, LDAP & Dynamic RBAC in Go & Flutter with Google Antigravity (Mario Ezquerro)
• Iris colour detection with Raspberry Pi (Rob Zwetsloot)
• Why BlocSignal Doesn't Need Provider (And Why Classic BLoC Always Did) and One-Shot UI Side Effects in BlocSignal: Snackbars, Dialogs, and Navigation Without State Pollution and Dogfooding BlocSignal on the Web: Building a 100K Ops/sec Reactive App with Jaspr and Dart 3.13 (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party (BeauHD)
• How well do Turn-Based strategy games sell on Steam? (Code Monkey)
• Just released: Raspberry Pi Book of Making 2027 (Andrew Gregory)
• Four iOS apps, one year, and a lot of help from AI (Omar Shahine)

Screencasts and Videos

• Random.Code() - Upgrading Rocks to .NET 11 (Jason Bock)
• How to Help AI Do Your Work Better (AIDailyBrief)
• Kimi K3 in GitHub Copilot, Multi-Agent AI, and more | The Upload (Cameron Tomisser)
• What's new in vector indexing for Microsoft SQL | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Bob Ward)
• I Don't Look At The Code - GitHub Copilot app for Absolute Beginners (James Montemagno)
• This Week in AI: When agents outnumber people (Michelle Smith)
• AI Engineer: Fixes 3 Way Drift (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

• Meta Cast - When Being Stubborn Is Leadership And When It's Ego (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Mark Seemann: AI Code Quality - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #415 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #528 - Build, Ship, Repeat: AI Tools Changing App Development (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• InfoQ Podcast: Will Agentic AI Bring Fantasia’s Sorcerer's Apprentice to Life?: A Conversation with Tracy Bannon (Tracy Bannon)
• Lenny's Podcast - OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber (Lenny Rachitsky)
• React Native Radio Episode #370 - CopilotKit with Mike Ryan (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
• PPP 519 | Overcoming the Inner Propaganda That Sabotages Projects and Teams, with Owen Fitzpatrick (Andy Kaufman)
• Big Technology Podcast - Best of Big Technology: How Ozempic Changes Our Bodies, Minds, and Economy — With Johann Hari (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #165 - 2027 Kia EV3: $29,890 Opens the Door, 321-Mile Range Costs You More (Batteries Included Team)
• Hard Fork Podcast - Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #307 - Improving NumPy Performance on Free-Threaded Python (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• The Agile Product Owner Who Runs Two Quarters Ahead of the Team | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Wasim Osman)
• A Geek Leader Episode #482 - Ekaterina Gorbacheva (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• Welcome to the New CodeMash.org (Matt Hopkins)
• MCP Live! | A half-day livestream about the latest in MCP | Sept 9th @ 9am PT (Pamela Fox & Liam Hampton)
• 3 Million Strong: Celebrating the DZone Community (Dominique Roller)
• No Dumb Questions: What is AI context architecture? Why not just build your own? (Phoebe Sajor)
• Connections, Part One (Jonathan Snook)
• EVENT: Microsoft 365 Copilot Roadmap: What’s New & Available – August 25, 2026 (Kurt Shintaku)
• Call For Papers Listings for 8/14 and Job listings for week ending 8/14 (Leon Adato)
• Celebrating National Nonprofit Day 2026: Empowering Organizations That Strengthen Communities (Moses Mitch)
• Cursor is now a part of SpaceX (Cursor Team)
• Bluesky's Active User Base Shrinks 52% Over 18 Months, But Its Protocol is Spreading (EditorDavid)
• Disney D23 2026: Everything announced for Star Wars, Marvel, and more (Richard Lawler)

Database

• Beautiful T-SQL Queries: Three Could Delete the Company (Pinal Dave)
• Vector Database Architecture: What Tech Buyers Should Evaluate (Tushar Madaan)
• Enterprise NoSQL Modernization: What Migration Planning Gets Wrong (Hannah Laurel)
• How to avoid nested REPLACE functions with TRANSLATE in SQL Server (Greg Low)
• Ribboncreator2021 (fmsap1968)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Defending Against Token Theft with PowerShell Just Enough Administration (JEA) (Liam Cleary)
• v7.5.10 Release of PowerShell and v7.6.5 Release of PowerShell (jshigetomi)
• PowerShell v7.4.19 Release (andyleejordan)

Writing

• Writing A Memoir? Narrow Your Focus and The 2 Types Of Science Fiction & How To Write Them (Writers Write)

Tools

• Ex-Microsoft engineer builds Outlook rival using a lost Windows feature (Sayan Sen)
• My JetBrains Rider Setup for Surviving Live-Coding Demos (Lou Creemers)
• Announcing Files v4.2.7 with a faster context menu and more (Files Team)
• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2282.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Smartify your doorbell (Stephan van Rooij)

General

• Software Engineering eBook Bundle | Manning Books (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Amazon is trying to crush class-action suits before they get started (Terrence O’Brien)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 14, 2026 (#846) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #711 (Frank Boucher)
• Android Weekly Issue #740 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Early-stage startups & pre-launch tools, curated daily (Julian Paul)
• Azure Weekly #575 - 16th August 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #33, 2026 — .NET 11 Preview 7 Ships with F# Updates and PaketaBot (Sergey Tihon)

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.

• Microsoft Copilot app – one app, new name, new icon, new URL! (Vesa Nopanen)
• Who spent all the tokens? Real-time, run-scoped cost control for AI agents (Tisha Chawla & Susheem Koul)
• Windows App SDK v2.4.0 Release (agniuks)
• Explore What’s New in SkiaSharp 4.0 (Sam Basu)
• The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6 (OpenAI Team)
• Routing and Failover for Microsoft.Extensions.AI (Joshua Yue)

Web and Cloud Development

• Azure Service Bus: One topic, many subscriptions (Daniel Marbach)
• Resilient Azure Platforms: Durable Functions, Cosmos DB, and DR by Design (Pierre Roman)
• Using the Wolverine “Side Effect” Model to Simplify Code (Jeremy D. Miller)
• RegExp /v in JavaScript: Sets, Intersections, and Unicode (JS Tools)
• Threat Modeling and Post Quantum Cryptography (Michael Howard)
• How ESLint Actually Works in Modern JavaScript Projects (JS Dev)
• Multi-repo API changes with the Postman AI Engineer (Talia Kohan)
• Vercel Launches v0 API for Headless App Building (Daniel Dominguez)
• GraphQL as Connective Tissue (Kin Lane)

Windows Development

• MSVC Build Tools Preview updates – August 2026 (Eric Brumer)
• Windows App SDK Stable Version 2.4.0 Release Notes and Windows App SDK Stable Version 1.8.11 (1.8.260804001) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 2.4.0 Package and Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.8.260804001 Package (NuGet Gallery)
• Clearer Build Optimization Results with GitHub Copilot | C++ Team Blog (David Li)
• Windows Package Manager 1.30.100-preview (hackean-msft)

.NET and Visual Studio

• How Fast is .NET 11 Runtime Async? (Kai Sawano)
• Rx.NET 7.0 Reduces Deployment Size by Splitting Windows UI Support (Edin Kapić)
• NLog vs Serilog in .NET: Which Should You Choose? (Nick Cosentino)
• TypeDeclaration: An Abstraction for Understanding JSON Schema (Matthew Adams)
• redb 3.6.0: a bug report that turned out to live in six providers — plus AS2/EDI and a shared port (Kozin Rinat)

AI

• Updates to GPT-chat-latest in Microsoft Foundry (Trupti Parkar)
• Microsoft Agent Framework and Foundry (Jesse Liberty)
• MAI-Thinking-1 – First Look (Vesa Nopanen)
• Copilot Notebooks now works with Markdown, plain-text, and rich-text files (abhkaushik)
• When AI Agents Fail: Engineering Reliable Recovery with Microsoft Foundry (Pavan Kalyan Chilakalapalli)
• Building Reliable AI Systems? Explore Our New Context Engineering Handbook (Suchitha Ramesh)
• Running Gemma 4 on EC2 G5g: Graviton2 AMD with NVIDIA GPU (xbill)
• Scratch a simple data model, find a complex one (Jon Skeet)
• Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. (Rebecca Bellan)
• AI UX Patterns for User Control (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• A Generate Button That Survives a Timeout and Asks Before It Writes (Adron Hall)
• Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps (Sarah Perez)
• What Is Free on ChatGPT in 2026? (TechRepublic Staff)
• AI Assist vs AI Complete: The Real Gap in Most AI Workflows Today (Muralidharan Lakshmanan)
• DeepSeek open sources an agent harness where everything is a plugin (Frederic Lardinois)
• Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets (Sundar Raghavan, Steven Palma, Cagatay Cali, AWS Arron & Yin Song)
• Cursor earns AIUC-1 certification for agent security and reliability and Cloud agents start 3x faster with builds (Cursor Team)
• Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed (OpenAI Team)
• Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’ (Jess Weatherbed)
• Human Skills in an AI World: How Technologists Stay Essential and Bigger Copilot Bills? GitHub Now Lets You Peek into Per-Model Token Usage (David Ramel)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.11 Preview 2 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Claude Tag now reads even more of the room (Claude Team)
• New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling (Vitaly Friedman)
• Hybrid and Local AI course at DeepLearning.AI (Paul Everitt)
• How Artificial Intelligence Disrupts Engineering Progression (Ben Linders)
• Prompt Debt and “Fighting the Weights” (Tim O’Reilly)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.14.0 Release (moonbox3)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Which hill are we climbing? The missing piece in Satya’s learning loop. (Sherlie)
• What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era (Gregg Cochran)
• Octopus Deploy: Act faster with our new Slack integration (Michelle O'Brien)
• Developer experience improvements you can apply to your own projects (Helber Belmiro)
• Code review is a taste problem (Ankit Jain)

Mobile and Game Development

• Level Up Animation with Keyframes for MAUI & Blazor and Shiny Controls 1.0 — The Ultra Control Suite for .NET MAUI & Blazor and Shiny.DocumentDb — Hidden Gems (Allan Ritchie)
• Dart 3.13 Primary Constructors + BlocSignal: Boilerplate-Free Reactive Architecture (Randal L. Schwartz)
• The Modern Indie Game Studio eBook Bundle | Packt Publishing (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Screencasts and Videos

• Grok 4.6 Shows How Fast Your AI Options Are Expanding and How Grok Bot is Finally Making AI Agents Easy and The Right Way to Worry About AI (AIDailyBrief)
• Building a Doom-Like World to Explore Agentic Systems | NDC Toronto 2026 (Alexander Chernov)
• Three Lessons from a Woman in Enterprise Architecture | NDC Toronto 2026 (Sarah Wimberley)
• Copilot, Cursor, and Custom LLMs: Navigating the New .NET Developer Experience | NDC Toronto 2026 (Isaac Levin)
• Code Review Is a Taste Problem | David Poll @GitHub | Hangar DX Podcast (Hangar DX 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 Hanselminutes Podcast - Robots, Nukes, and AI: A Career at the Frontier with Maynard Holliday (Scott Hanselman)
• Developer Tea Podcast - A Pragmatic Definition for Accountability (Jonathan Cutrell)
• InfoQ Podcast: Founders, Friction, and Focus: Building Engineering Teams at Early-Stage Startups (David Gudeman)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #585 - I'm not a total AI hater, I'm a finance hater (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #733 - Max Corbridge on Securing AI Agents (Amey Ambade)
• Build Mode Podcast - The VC Backing the American Dream with Manan Mehta, Unshackled Ventures (Maggie Nye & Isabelle Johannessen)
• The Vergecast - Does Google even want to win at AI? (Nilay Patel)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Solving integration woes with a hackathon (Phoebe Sajor)
• Generative AI in the Real World: AI for Real Estate with Ben Miller (Ben Lorica & Ben Miller)
• HIT Like a Girl Pod: Empowering Women in Health IT - The $70 Billion Blind Spot: Why Women’s Health is Underfunded and How We Fix It (Rebecca Love, Joy Rios & Grace Vinton)
• The Scrum Master as a Router, Redefining Success Through Efficient Communication | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Wasim Osman)

Community and Events

• Tech Conferences Are Worth It. The Sessions Are Not. (Pinal Dave)
• My MVP Story: Jess Stratton on Sharing, Storytelling, and Lifelong Learning (Betsy Weber)
• Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched! (Ariel Kanter)
• Can social media start over? Bluesky’s CEO and COO deliver their case at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (Morgan Little)

Database

• Cumulative Update #8 for SQL Server 2025 RTM (SrinivasSQL)
• Your best friend: BlockOnPossibleDataLoss=True (Jerry Nixon)
• sqlite-utils 4.2.1 (Simon Willison)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Performance Solutions For DATEDIFF Queries (Erik Darling)
• Running the same SQL checks in a browser, CLI and pull request (Miłosz Kordziński)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• OIDC in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition: Where It Fits and Why It Matters (Liam Cleary)
• Co-create slides with Copilot in PowerPoint for iPad (Aparna Jethani)
• Building Agents for Teams: Managing the noise of collaboration (Lily Du)
• Link to a location in Word for Windows and Mac (Rubba)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.80 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• My perfect email client was there all along (Michael Shpilt)
• Tig’s Toolbox for Product Management (Charlie Kindel)

General

• VLC blames Windows 11 bug for slow performance, defends open source and calls out Microsoft (Abhijith M B)
• Dell XPS 13 Review: Move Over, Neo (Luke Larsen)
• Windows device recovery in 2026: A guide for IT pros (Lia_Vargas)
• Farewell, Mico: Microsoft’s cute little AI blob is going the way of Bob (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 13, 2026 (#845) (Richard Seroter)
• Friday Links #43: What Mattered in JavaScript This Week (JS Dev)

The Geek Shelf

Tools and Skills for .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions.

• Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Instructions Hygiene – What Frontier Models Still Need You to Say (Wendy Breiding)
• Introducing Fisher: Sqlite Backed Document Db & Event Store Critter (Jeremy D. Miller)
• From Sync APIs to support for the GPT-5 model series and agentic workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding – August 2026 (Peyton Fraser, Krishnakumar Muthukrishnan & Joe Filcik)
• How to Evaluate an AI IDE in 2026: Features That Matter for Development Teams (Yuvaraj Mohan)
• Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project? (Andrea Griffiths)

Web and Cloud Development

• Add AI to the workflows you already have using Serverless Agents in Azure Functions (Anirudh Garg)
• How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Color Overlay Tool Using JavaScript (Bhavin Sheth)
• Swagger Was A Config File Until We Made It A Format (Kin Lane)
• Astro 7: Rust Compiler, Rust Markdown Pipeline and Vite 8 for Builds Up to 61% Faster (Daniel Curtis)
• GitHub Admin UI + Billing API: Better together for smarter spend decisions (Chris Noring)
• Telerik UI for Blazor TaskBoard for Enterprise Workflows (Dimo Dimov)
• Build an AI-Powered Content Creation App in Blazor Using Structured Prompting [Webinar Show Notes] (Prabhavathi Kannan)

Windows Development

• The comments that go into code versus those that go into the pull request description (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• F# in .NET 11 Preview 7 - Release Notes (.NET Team)
• AS2 in .NET without a separate Java gateway: EDI with trading partners, right inside the route (Kozin Rinat)

AI

• Building MCP servers for your database: Flexibility, safety, and tradeoffs (Pamela Fox)
• Coding agents ignore open source contribution guidelines, researchers find. (Meredith Shubel)
• How kids feel about AI, in their own words (Jen Swetzoff & Keeley McNamara)
• Why use ORMs if LLMs write code? (Mark Seemann)
• Attack Technique: AI Clones (Eric Lawrence)
• Building Autonomous Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework and GitHub Copilot SDK Part 2/5 (Lee Stott)
• AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say? (Jason Gorman)
• AI programming : are you angry yet? (Daniel Lemire)
• MCP Configuration for Looker with Codex (xbill)
• Governing a Risk Operations Agent with the Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and AGT (daisami)
• Building Secure AI Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework and Auth0: RAG Filtering (Andrea Chiarelli)
• Part 3: Building AI Systems That Can Defend Themselves (Liam Cleary)
• Azure Content Understanding GPT-5 Series Guide: Model Selection, Grounding Improvements, and Confidence Enhancements (Joe Filcik & Krishnakumar Muthukrishnan)
• From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work (OpenAI Team)
• The Claude in Chrome side panel is now Claude Cowork (Claude Team)
• Introducing Grok 4.6 (Cursor Team)
• Agentic Reasoning Loops Could Drive a 17x Increase in AI Token Consumption (Dewain Robinson)
• Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work (Jess Weatherbed)
• Top 5 AI Features in IntelliJ IDEA (Anton Arhipov)
• Agent Skills in IntelliJ IDEA (Siva Katamreddy)
• AI Slop: The Literary Offenses of the Machine (Pinal Dave)
• A new security baseline for enterprise agentic adoption (Dan Berezin Stelzer)
• The Two Pillars of Post-training: Reinforcement Learning and Supervised Fine-Tuning (Sharon Zhou)
• Agents Turn Broken Auth Into a Breach at Machine Speed (Kin Lane)

Python

• The Ultimate Python Development eBook Bundle | Packt Publishing (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Understanding GitHub Billing and management: from licenses to fair AI credit controls (Chris Noring)
• Why “It Depends” Is the Most Future-Proof Phrase in Software (Neal Ford & Mark Richards)
• Data Analysis Methods: Qualitative vs. Quantitative (Couchbase Team)
• Hiring First. Everything Else Second. (Charlie Kindel)
• “Everything is High Priority” (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• When a Missed Message Becomes a Missed Meal (Samuel Hapgood)

Mobile and Game Development

• Announcing Dart 3.13 (Connie Ooi)
• .NET MAUI v11.0.0 Preview 7 Release (kubaflo)
• Get started with LiteRT on Raspberry Pi (Naush Patuck)
• Shiny.DocumentDb — Hidden Gems and Shiny.DocumentDb v13 — Encryption, an Outbox, and a Front Door (Allan Ritchie)
• Riverpod to BlocSignal: Incremental Migration and Zero-Codegen Signals for Flutter (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Android Is No Longer Open Source (Mike James)
• Enhance your app for the new Pixel lineup: Unveiled at Made by Google (Fahd Imtiaz, Loryn Hairston & Tracy Agyemang)
• Bring one-handed gestures to your Wear OS app (Chiara Chiappini)
• What's new in the Jetpack Compose August '26 release (Nick Butcher)

Screencasts and Videos

• Code it with AI - Claude Utils (ep.41) (Carl Franklin & Rocky Lhotka)
• Grok Bot Finally Makes AI Agents Easy and AI Optimism Has a Trust Problem (AIDailyBrief)
• Will this architecture still make sense when my app 10x’s? Or will I have to rebuild? | One Dev Question (Aditya Badmaraju)
• If I’m a startup founder with limited budget, why should I build this on Azure SQL? | One Dev Question (Priya Sathy)

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 - Word wagons and bobbasheelys: Life at DARE, with Joan Houston Hall (Mignon Fogarty)
• .NET Rocks! - OpenClaw with David Guttman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Weekly Episode #996 - Security Through Lack of Features - MV3 in Edge, Quake Turns 30, & AltTabby (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #366 - You just can’t kill a good JWT (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Made by Google Podcast - From Feature Phones to Gemini: The Evolution of Pixel (Rachid Finge)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #164 - When an Audi Q6 e-tron is the Perfect Replacement for a Rivian R1T (Batteries Included Team)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1029 - The Workflow of the Future With Zed (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• How Agile Teams Can Start Adopting AI in Software Development | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Wasim Osman)
• Big Technology Podcast - Here's How The AI Bubble Bursts (Alex Kantrowitz & Paul Kedrosky)
• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #39 - Reclaiming Fair Use (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• InfoQ Podcast: Cloud and DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2026: AI, Resilience, Platforms, FinOps, and Sovereignty (Daniel Bryant, Matt Saunders, Shweta Vohra, Steef-Jan Wiggers & Mark Silvester)

Community and Events

• Made by Google 2026 (Shakil Barkat)

Database

• Announcing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22.9.0 (mbarickman)
• Building safe MCP servers for your PostgreSQL database (Pamela Fox)
• Launch: T-SQL Analyzer live analysis now in VS Code (Erik EJ)
• Database Animations: Why Higher Maxdop Equals More TempDB Spills (Brent Ozar)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: DATEDIFF Precision (Erik Darling)
• Optimising DAX: Practical Examples (Carmel Eve)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Built for business: How Microsoft 365 Copilot keeps you in the flow of legal work (Caroline Stanford)

Writing

• How To Show Character Change Without Telling (Writers Write)

Tools

• How to use the Power BI Desktop Bridge to automate tasks in Power BI Desktop and GitHub Copilot (John Kerski)
• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2242.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Oracle Wins $7 Billion Pentagon Contract in Major Government Deal (Kieron Allen)
• US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers (BeauHD)
• Exclusive: This is Lenovo’s IdeaPad Vibe, its answer to the MacBook Neo, and it comes in 7 colors (Abhijith M B)
• FEMA's ‘Shadow Administrator’ Was Paid by a DOGE Member's Startup for Months (Vittoria Elliott)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 12, 2026 (#844) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Is Designing (Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle) - Referral Link Words and the User Experience.

• .NET 11 Preview 7 is now available! (.NET Team)
• Agentic Skills Demystified (Sam Basu)
• MAI-Code-1-Flash Highlights Microsoft’s Lower-Cost Approach to Coding AI (Ali Farhat)
• Today I will… manage Git Submodules without leaving the IDE (Harshada Hole)
• Scott & Mark Learn To...Rethink Authorship (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• TechBash 2026 Labor Day Registration Sale & Party with Palermo Returns (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Azure Developer CLI extension framework is GA: build dev workflows for apps using Azure (Kristen Womack)
• Introducing Shiny.Net.HttpServer — HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 & HTTP/3 Anywhere .NET Runs and Shiny.Net.HttpServer — A Real HTTP Server Where ASP.NET Core Will Not Go (Allan Ritchie)
• Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie (Alexey Kopytin)
• Exploring Procedural Geometry with Three.js and WebGPU (Chiro Visuals)
• Updated W3C Recommendation: ARIA in HTML (W3C)
• Understanding Race Conditions in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
• Dialog API vs Popover API: Which One Should You Actually Use? (Manikanda Akash Munisamy)
• Microsoft Entra ID Token Protection (Liam Cleary)

Windows Development

• Remove and Package Lifetime (Howard Kapustein)
• What’s New in vcpkg (Jul 2026) (Augustin Popa)
• Dynamic Sound on Windows and Linux (Pi)::Part 1 (Joel Ivory Johnson)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2026 August Update v18.9.0 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 August Insiders Update Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Human-Friendly Encoding with Crockford Base32 (David McCarter)
• Visual Studio Code 1.134 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• NLog Performance: AsyncWrapper, Buffering, and High-Throughput Logging in .NET (Nick Cosentino)
• .NET 8.0.30 / 8.0.130 Release and .NET 10.0.11 / 10.0.400 Release (dotnet-sb-bot)
• .NET 11 Preview 7 Release Notes (Jon Galloway)
• ILSpy 11.0 Release (Christoph Wille)
• Learning to Program in NET in an AI World (David Ramel)
• .NET and .NET Framework August 2026 servicing releases updates (Rahul Bhandari & Tara Overfield)

AI

• From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer (Natalie Guevara)
• Configuration Management in Microsoft Agent Framework (Jesse Liberty)
• Latency vs. Tokens: What I Learned Optimizing an Agent with Gemma (and What Didn't Work) (leslysandra)
• How MVPs Use AI - Loop engineering: Building safer AI agent workflows for high-stakes infrastructure (Kim Sanchez)
• How to check if your model is supported by vLLM in Red Hat AI (Trevor Royer)
• AI has limits, even if many AI people can't see them (Henry Farrell)
• Tech Career Library in the Age of AI eBook Bundle | Apress (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering (Cameron Balahan & Richard Seroter)
• Querying the Postman Context Graph with the AI Engineer (Talia Kohan)
• OpenAI Brings ChatGPT and Codex to Linux (Paul Thurrott)
• Tunability: Microsoft, GitHub Put More Dials on AI Dev Tools (David Ramel)
• Compliance API coverage extends to Claude Cowork and Claude Code (Claude Team)
• Expanding the Google AI Professional Certificate with vibe coding (Lisa Gevelber)
• I’ve Been Brainstorming Durable AI for InterlinedList, and It Kept Pointing at Temporal (Adron Hall)
• The AI takeover of mathematics has begun (Robert Hart)
• A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts (Will Knight)
• Design End-to-End Claude AI Architectures: CCAR-P Exam Guide (Sudhir Mangla)
• Validating AI-Generated Index Recommendations (Pinal Dave)
• From Threat Model to Framework: Closing the Real Gaps in Agent Skill Security (Karthigayan Devan)
• A Home for Personal Context (Duncan Davidson)
• OAuth for Agents (Maisem Ali)

Python

• TBD

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value? (Martin Fowler)
• August Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
• Unit Testing in BlocSignal: The Practical Handbook (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Progressive Admission - pattern for data processing (Tim Ottinger)
• The Bottleneck Moved. Your Operating Model Hasn’t. (John Greisner)

Mobile and Game Development

• Media3 1.11 - What's new? (Toni Heidenreich)
• Celebrating the community: Douglas and Oasis Mathare (Sophie Ashford)
• Mastering edge AI on Raspberry Pi with LiteRT and Gemma (Naush Patuck)

Screencasts and Videos

• Stop Rewriting Into Microservices — Do This Instead | Update Talk (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET Community Standup: What's new in .NET 11 Preview 7? (Daniel Roth, Javier Calvarro Nelson & Daria Tiurina)
• 41 Stats About AI Adoption (AIDailyBrief)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Brady Gaster (Isaac Levin)
• Automate recurring developer tasks with the GitHub Copilot app | Tutorial for beginners (GitHub Team)
• New ways to promote App Store apps and more… - Developer news 32/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• Unconventional Thinkers: The Hidden Catalysts Driving the AI Revolution and Unlocking the Power of Context Engineering for Smarter AI Agents (Frank La Vigne)
• It's like 10,000 streams when what you need is a queue | NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Chris Simon)

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

• Kubernetes Podcast from Google - Measuring Sustainability via Project Kepler, with Niki Manoledaki (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #491 - Feeling Judged (Michael Kennedy)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1037 - Mechanical Donut - OpenAI Responds to Apple's Lawsuit (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• RunAs Radio Show #1049 - The Content Management System Landscape with Matt Garrepy (Richard Campbell)
• Mailin' It! - The Official USPS Podcast - The Gold Rush, Railroads & the Mail: Connecting the Frontier (United States Postal Service)
• When a Scrum Team's Silence Becomes a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Wasim Osman)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - Why does ‘shh’ mean the same thing in so many languages, and what's ‘broad’ about daylight? (Mignon Fogarty)

Community and Events

• The full story of PASS Data Community Summit: 25 years of connect, share, and learn (Simple Talk Team)
• Syncfusion 25th Anniversary Content Roundup: Celebrating a Quarter Century of Innovation (Colette Davis)
• Made by Google 2026: all the Pixel news and announcements (Emma Roth)

Database

• When Do You Reach For A #temp Table? (Marlon Ribunal)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.9.0 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables (Steve Jones)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Turn meetings into momentum with Microsoft 365 Copilot (Meera Ajam)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Preventing Quota Crashes via Antigravity CLI Agent Hooks (Tanaike)
• Proton Drive CLI Updated for Businesses (Paul Thurrott)

Tools

• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2222.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Extending Home Assistant: Custom Integration and Home Assistant: Adding PKCE support (Stephan van Rooij)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.9.7 Release (OneBlue)

General

• I tested Windows 11 August 2026 update, here’s everything new, improved, and fixed (Abhijith M B)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 11, 2026 (#843) (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.