Top Links
- .NET 11 Preview for .NET MAUI: Simplify XAML with Inline C# Expressions (Sri Radhesh Nag Subash Sankar)
- Integrating Microsoft Foundry with OpenClaw: Step by Step Model Configuration (suzarilshah)
- I used to be a Windows Developer….. and I still am (sort of) (Nick Randolph)
- Connect agents to OpenAPI tools | Microsoft Foundry (Microsoft Learn) – Includes C#, Java, TypeScript, Python, and REST API samples
- Agent Skills + Uno Platform (Steve Bilogan)
- The Emerging Picture of a Changed Profession: Cyborg Technical Writers — Augmented, Not Replaced, by AI (Tom Johnson)
- Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI (Mark Russinovich & Scott Hanselman)
Web and Cloud Development
- How to Troubleshoot Azure Functions Not Visible in Azure Portal (vikasgupta5)
- Wasm vs. JavaScript: Who wins at a million rows? (Jessica Wachtel)
- Potentially Coming to a Browser :near() You (Daniel Schwarz)
- ESLint v10.0.1 released and ESLint v9.39.3 released (Milos Djermanovic)
Windows Development
- Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, first (failed) attempt (Raymond Chen)
- Plan for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 2016 LTSB end of support (Sarthak Agrawal)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7872 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7877 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1619 (Canary Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Automating PDF Workflows in C#: Merge, Split, Convert, and Secure Documents (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
- A smarter way to learn .NET without reading the docs (David Grace)
- How to Implement Builder Pattern in C#: Step-by-Step Guide and When to Use Builder Pattern in C#: Decision Guide with Examples (Nick Cosentino)
- Remote MCP Server using .NET SDK with VS Code Support (Gora LEYE)
- .NET 11 Preview 1 Arrives With Runtime Async, Zstandard Support, and C# 15 Features (Almir Vuk)
- IOBluetooth for .NET Refreshed (Peter Foot)
AI
- Should Job-Seekers Stop Using AI to Write Their Resumes? (EditorDavid)
- Prompt engineering: Big vs. small prompts for AI agents (Michael Dawson)
- MCP Apps: Interactive Dashboards Inside Your AI Conversations (AJ Bajada)
- Learning Cost Efficient AI Agents Development on Azure (Carlotta Caste)
- How I think about Codex and The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software (Simon Willison)
- Context Engineering for Commercial Agent Systems (Jeremy Daly)
- copilot-instructions.md (Jesse Liberty)
- The Agentic Coding Workflow: A Practical Example (Michael Washington)
- OpenClaw v2026.2.22 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Microsoft tests a Windows 11 taskbar feature that lets AI see your open apps when you share window (Abhijith M B)
- AI Context Kit, Evolved: Why I Moved to AGENTS.md + Agent Skills (and how I used the Codex macOS App for the Migration) (Marco Siccardi)
- Claude Code comes to Roadmap, OpenClaw loses its head, and AI workslop (Matthew Burns)
- Beyond the vibe code: The steep mountain MCP must climb to reach production (David Eastman)
- Microsoft Agent Framework: Adding RAG to Your AI Agent Using TextSearchProvider and In-Memory Vector Store (Jamie Maguire)
- Vision Memory Agent: local image search with CLIP + Ollama + Microsoft Agent Framework (Bruno Capuano)
- Building Mobile Apps on Replit: Case Study + Inside Look From Product Team (Replit Team)
- Bringing automated preview, review, and merge to Claude Code on desktop (Claude Team)
- I tested Google Docs’ new AI audio summaries, and they’re a massive time-saver (Lance Whitney)
- Welcome to Micepe – No-Code MCP Server for AI-Native API Access (Micepe Team)
- Write Modern Go Code With Junie and Claude Code (Arseniy Terekhov)
- How to Write a Good Spec for AI Agents (Addy Osmani)
- Seedance 1.5 pro: A Native Audio-Visual Joint Generation Foundation Model (Seed Vision Team)
- The reason big tech is giving away AI agent frameworks (Janakiram MSV)
- State of Agentic AI Report: Key Findings (Yiwen Xu)
- Prompt Caching 201 | OpenAI Developers (Erika Kettleson)
- How I used Cursor to Migrate Frameworks (Kent C. Dodds)
- The Strange Emotional Shift of Working Alongside a Machine That “Thinks” (Pinal Dave)
- OpenAI Cookbook – Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API (OpenAI Team)
- Why Your AI Agents Need an Identity Layer: Lessons from OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications (Carla Urrea Stabile)
- Building an AI Study Agent – How GitHub Copilot CLI & SDK helped Reimagine LMS (Julia_Muiruri)
- Frontline AI in action: How AI-powered tools are reshaping work where it matters most (Microsoft in Business Team)
- GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI (Georgi Gerganov, Xuan-Son Nguyen, Aleksander Grygier, Lysandre, Victor Mustar & Julien Chaumond)
- Introducing A2H: A Protocol for Agent-to-Human Communication and How to Use the Agent-to-Human Communication (A2H) Protocol with OpenClaw (Ryan Ferguson & Rikki Singh)
- Context Arena (Dillon Uzar)
- NanoClaw’s answer to OpenClaw is minimal code, maximum isolation (Frederic Lardinois)
- Lyria 3 – Create custom tracks for any moment (Google Gemini)
Python
- Python Performance News – Benchmark of Python Drivers for SQL Server (Hristo Hristov)
- Python?? (Jesse Liberty)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- UX Chronicles: A Software Engineer’s Reality Check on Modern Air Travel (David McCarter)
- Git-Driven Deployments for Microsoft Fabric Using GitHub Actions (Vinod Soni)
- Keep control when sharing design work with clients and teams (Ale Cubero)
- What will tomorrow look like? and Decision speed (Jimmy Nilsson)
- Wrapping Code Comments (Alex Kladov)
- Deadlines As An Act Of Love (JB Rainsberger)
Mobile and Game Development
- Excellent tool for Game analysis to help you work on the RIGHT idea! (Code Monkey)
- How to Build Reusable Modular Unity Packages to Speed Up Development (Talha Cagatay ISIK)
- Read Microsoft gaming CEO Asha Sharma’s first memo on the future of Xbox (Sean Hollister)
- Announcing Swift System Metrics 1.0: Process-Level Monitoring (Vladimir Kukushkin)
- Raspberry Pi Stock Rises Over Its Possible Use With OpenClaw’s AI Agents (EditorDavid)
- flutter_blueprint v2.0.3 Release – Production-ready Flutter CLI scaffolding tool (Chirag Chaudhary)
Screencasts and Videos
- GitHub Copilot in Zed and other Quality of Life updates – Developer News 08/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- Random.Code() – Adding Another Suppressor to Rocks, Part 3 (Jason Bock)
- Does Gemini 3.1 Pro Matter? (AIDailyBrief)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 301 – “AI Abundance” (The Era of Nonsense) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- How to Automate API Testing and CI/CD with AI (Postman Team)
- (Not) AspiriFridays – Maddy and Pine talk Docs (Aspire Team)
- The Download: Agentic Workflows, new AI models, OpenClaw news & more (Andrea Griffiths)
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Podcasts
- Merge Conflict Episode #503 – Welcome to Tiny Tool Town (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Paul Duvall: AI-Driven Development – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #390 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- PPP 499 | How Much of Success Is Luck or Something Else, with Wharton’s Judd Kessler (Andy Kaufman)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #537 – Datastar: Modern web dev, simplified (Michael Kennedy)
- BONUS From Combat Pilot to Scrum Master – How Military Leadership Transforms Agile Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nate Amidon)
- Big Technology Podcast – OpenAI’s $100 Billion Funding Round, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie (Alex Kantrowitz)
- AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #016 – The Future of AI Is What We Choose Not to Build (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #421 – Microsoft 365 Mergers and Divestitures with Frank Lesniak (Ben Stegink)
- Copilot Podcast – AI Agent and Copilot Podcast: Microsoft AI Model ‘Self Sufficiency’ Requires Customers to Hedge Bets (Tom Smith)
- Hard Fork Podcast – The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #285 – Exploring MCP Apps & Adding Interactive UIs to Clients (Christopher Bailey & Den Delimarsky)
- BONUS From Individual AI Wins to Team-Wide Transformation | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Monica Marquez)
- A Geek Leader Episode #457 – Adrian Martinca (John Rouda)
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #208 – The three paths AI could take from here – Shawn Wang SWYX interview (Beau Carnes)
Community and Events
- Asha Sharma named EVP and CEO, Microsoft Gaming (Microsoft)
- Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond Are Leaving Xbox (Paul Thurrott)
- Microsoft says today’s Xbox shake-up doesn’t mean game studio layoffs (Sean Hollister)
- Tech Moves: Code.org has a new leader; Synapse vet joins Amazon; ex-Tableau CEO lands at Code Metal (Kurt Schlosser)
- Dev.to Got Acquired. What’s in It for You as a Developer? (Ivan Pelivanovic)
- What to Expect from the Copilot & AI Sessions at Microsoft 365 Community Conference (Jon Jones)
- Call For Papers Listings for 2/20 (Leon Adato)
Database
- Emulating GETDATE() on Azure SQL Database (Joe Obbish)
- Light up Multiple Databases with a Single API with Data API builder’s multi-source configuration (Jerry Nixon)
- SQL101: Introduction to SQL Server Transactions (Paul S. Randal)
- How to optimize planned availability group failovers in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: A Little About Cross Table Searches (Erik Darling)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migration: Everything You Need to Know (Kunal Chowdhury)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.414 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- What Is Imagery & How Do You Use It In Fiction Writing? (Writers Write)
Tools
- Presenting with Visual Studio Code (Andrew Pruski)
- MarkItDown v0.1.5 Release (afourney)
- Tiny Clips – Screenshots and video capture for macOS (James Montemagno)
General
- Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it’s “NOT a VPN” (Abhijith M B)
- EVs Are Already Making Your Air Cleaner, Research Shows (EditorDavid)
- Trump says Netflix will ‘pay the consequences’ if it doesn’t fire Susan Rice (Terrence O’Brien)
- Discord’s age verification data has a frontend leak — now what? (Dissent)
- PayPal Flaw Exposed Email Addresses, Social Security Numbers for 6 Months (Ken Underhill)
- Internet Poisoning (James Ashley)
- When Microsoft Authenticator Says “Too Many Devices” and You Know That’s Not True (Shannon Kuehn)
More Link Collections
- Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 15, 2026 (GeekWire)
- Links For You (2/22/26) (Raymond Camden)
- Android Weekly Issue #715 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
- F# Weekly #8, 2026 – Boosting F# Libraries with Automated Agentic AI (Sergey Tihon 🦔🦀🦋)
- #552 – 22nd February 2026 (The Editor)
- Daily Reading List – February 20, 2026 (#726) (Richard Seroter)
