Top Links
- Visual Studio February Update (Mark Downie)
- New Azure Open AI models bring fast, expressive, and real‑time AI experiences in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
- Guardrails, Hard Cases, and Daily Habits for MCP Adoption (Matt Mattei)
- Flutter & Dart’s 2026 roadmap (Emma Twersky)
- The Dongle Died at Midnight – WinForms Agent Saved my German Mom’s Business Trip (Klaus Loeffelmann)
- .NET MAUI: C# Expressions in XAML: throw out your converters (Steven Thewissen)
- claw-monitor – TUI monitor for OpenClaw sub-agents and more (Dan Wahlin)
Web and Cloud Development
- Rethinking Background Workloads with Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps (DeepGanguly)
- Why Service Endpoint Policies Only Work for Azure Storage (And Why Everyone Gets Confused About This) (Shannon Kuehn)
- The React Foundation: A New Home for React Hosted by the Linux Foundation (Matt Carroll)
- Build Your Own AI Application Using Prebuilt Blazor Components (Héctor Pérez)
- Developer-targeting campaign using malicious Next.js repositories (Microsoft Defender Experts & Defender Security Research Team)
- Blazor — DevExpress June 2026 Roadmap (v26.1) (Slava Khudyakov)
- How to Embed a Tweet or X Feed in WordPress (Jen Swisher)
- Node.js 25.7.0 (Current) and Node.js 24.14.0 (LTS) (Ruy Adorno)
- First Public Working Draft and supporting notes: EPUB Annotations 1.0 (W3C Team)
- Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 (Tom Schuster)
- A Guide to Jakob’s Law in Web Development (Andrew Peterson)
Windows Development
- Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Isolating the Close pathway (Raymond Chen)
- WinForms — DevExpress June 2026 Roadmap (v26.1) (Alexander Russkov)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Cleaner switch expressions with pattern matching in C# (Bart Wullems)
- Reactive Extensions for .NET – Rx.NET v7 and Futures (Ian Griffiths)
- .NET 11 First Preview Released (Kay Ewbank)
- VSIX Cookbook (Fellow VS Extenders)
- Why Microsoft Office Automation Is Unsafe on Servers (and the Right .NET Alternative) (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
- Builder Pattern Best Practices in C#: Code Organization and Maintainability (Nick Cosentino)
- Devs Diss Visual Studio’s AI (David Ramel)
- From Hero to Zero: How I wrote a GPS Parser Four Times (Doug Wilson)
AI
- The AI Coding Loop: How to Guide AI With Rules and Tests (Sumit Saha)
- Azure.AI.Projects_2.0.0-beta.1 and Azure.AI.Projects.OpenAI_2.0.0-beta.1 (Azure SDK Team)
- How RockBot Remembers (Rocky Lhotka)
- Google Brings Its Developer Documentation Into the Age of AI Agents (Claudio Masolo) – Catching up to Microsoft Learn 😉
- As AI reshapes work, Microsoft and UW expand partnership for training, research — and a looming jobs gap (Taylor Soper)
- Building an AI-Ready America: Teaching in the AI age (Allyson Knox)
- OpenClaw v2026.2.24 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Implementing a clear room Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code (antirez)
- Run OpenClaw for free – Here’s the GLM 4.7 Flash + Ollama setup (Julian Goldie)
- In Agentic AI, It’s All About the Markdown (David Ramel)
- Cursor agents can now control their own computers (Cursor Team)
- Apple Researchers Introduce Ferret-UI Lite, an On-Device AI Model for Seeing and Controlling UIs (Sergio De Simone)
- How to turn off AI features in Firefox, or choose the ones you want (Mozilla)
- Microsoft Execs Worry AI Will Eat Entry Level Coding Jobs (msmash)
- Celebrating 250 million: Empowering communities to enable the global AI economy (Melanie Nakagawa)
- Cowork and plugins for teams across the enterprise (Claude Team)
- Grok 4.2 vs. Sonnet 4.6: Early Impressions From Hands-On Testing (Sherveen)
- Control Planes for Autonomous AI: Why Governance Has to Move Inside the System (Varun Raj)
- I Tried Recreating OpenClaw – And The Hype Is Real (Josip Antolis)
- Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy: Version 3.0 (Anthropic Team)
- Multi-agent workflows often fail. Here’s how to engineer ones that don’t. (Gwen Davis)
- OpenClaw Says It Can’t Update Itself. Here’s the Fix. (Agent Paaru)
Python
- azure-ai-projects 2.0.0b4 release (Azure SDK Team)
- Improved Python (PyPi/uvx) support in Azure MCP Server (Sandeep Sen)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- How to Change the Installer Icon for EXE Application (Alex Marin)
- On Debugging Problems (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Delivering Virtual Burgers, One Instance at a Time with Multi-Tenancy (Fabian Vergara)
- Beyond the Build Log: How TeamCity Provides Actionable Build Insights (Olga Bedrina)
- How OKRs Power People (Ryan Lowdermilk)
- OpenTelemetry roadmap: Sampling rates and collector improvements ahead (B. Cameron Gain)
- ‘Using PRIMM to teach programming’: A new short course for educators (Kate Irwin)
- Rock Your Career: When Recruiters Treat Interviews Like Lottery Tickets (David McCarter)
- How to use auto-instrumentation with OpenTelemetry (Robert Baumgartner)
- Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.1: Continuous Delivery should be your top priority (Steve Fenton)
Mobile and Game Development
- VLC for Android 3.7.0 (Nicolas Pomepuy)
- Agmente – An iOS client for coding agents (Peng Lyu)
- Publishing a second game using pico-8 (Ben E. C. Boyter)
- uConsole::The Best Pi Mini Console You Won’t Have Any Time Soon (Joel Ivory Johnson)
Screencasts and Videos
- Correcting Common Async/Await Mistakes in .NET 10 – NDC London 2026 (Brandon Minnick)
- You’re Not Behind (Yet): How to Build AI Agents in 2026 (no coding) and Guide to Architect Secure AI Agents: Best Practices for Safety (Frank La Vigne)
- Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) | Microsoft Ignite (Roelant Dieben)
- Learn Notion – Full Course for Beginners (freeCodeCamp)
- Prompt Crafting 101: Get Better Results with Copilot | Microsoft Ignite (Shari Oswald)
- Quantum Physics for Software Developers – NDC London 2026 (Filip W.)
- Security Copilot in Action: From Alert to Remediation in 25 Minutes | Microsoft Ignite (Ugur Koc)
- Minecraft Mayhem, Blazor, and the Squad | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Random.Code() – Fixing an Ref Struct Out Parameter Issue in Rocks (Jason Bock)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- MacBreak Weekly #1013 – Boopgate – Steve Jobs’ 71st Birthday (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #22 – AI as Normal Technology (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
- RunAs Radio Show #1025 – SaaS on Multiple Clouds with Steve Buchanan (Richard Campbell)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #197 – From OpenClaw to AI Functions — What’s Next for Agentic Development (Mike Chambers)
- The Vergecast – How Claude Code Claude Codes (David Pierce)
- The AI Fix Episode #89 – Stop using ‘vibe’ passwords, and AI’s Dunning-Kruger problem (Mark Stockley)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why ‘Tonka’ sounds big and ‘bitty’ sounds small. Why you CAN start a sentence with ‘because.’ (Mignon Fogarty & Valerie Fridland)
- Why the Us-Versus-Them Mentality Is the Fastest Path to Team Self-Destruction | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Lai-Ling Su)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – That’s good Mojo – Creating a Programming Language for an AI world with Chris Lattner (Scott Hanselman)
- OneDrive Sync Up Episode 22: File Archive with Trent Green (Stephen Rice)
Community and Events
- Spotlight: Top 10 MVP Theater Sessions from Microsoft Ignite (Kim Sanchez)
- The JavaScript AI Build-a-thon Season 2 starts March 2! (Julia Muiruri)
- Microsoft Partners: Accelerate Your AI Journey at AgentCon 2026 (Free Community Event) (Dux Raymond Sy)
- Let me see some ID: age verification is spreading across the internet and Discord is delaying its global age verification rollout (Stevie Bonifield)
Database
- The Hidden Work Behind SELECT TOP in SQL Server (Jared Westover)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: Full Text Keyword Search In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- JSON + Graph + Vector + Analytics in a Single Query: The Multimodal Database Deep Dive (Aditya Badramraju)
- An Introduction to Oracle Database MCP Toolkit (Juarez Junior)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- What’s New in Excel (February 2026) and App Skills is evolving with Copilot in Excel (Ms. Excel)
- SharePoint Showcase: Using SharePoint Embedded to create AI-ready infrastructure (John Mighell)
- Query your local Excel files with Copilot Chat (Prash_MSFT)
- Increased control over Office Add-in user experiences (Office Add-ins Team)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.417 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Flutter Demon – A blazingly fast TUI for Flutter development (edTheGuy00)
Writing
- Why A Good Vocabulary Is Important For Writers (Writers Write)
Tools
- This tiny app exposes a massive problem at Microsoft — and shows how smooth Windows could be (Sean Endicott)
General
- Apple’s Touch-Screen MacBook Pro To Have Dynamic Island, New Interface (msmash)
- Supreme Court rules the Postal Service can’t be sued, even when mail is intentionally not delivered (Mark Sherman)
- Mickey Tunes In: 1930 Comics and Cultural Production (Sterling Dudley)
- Apple accelerates U.S. manufacturing with Mac mini production (Apple)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 24, 2026 (#728) (Richard Seroter)
