Top Links
- Ralph Wiggum Explained: Stop Telling AI What You Want — Tell It What Blocks You (Matt Mattei)
- Testing ads in ChatGPT (OpenAI Team) – And it begins…
- Strengthening Windows trust and security through User Transparency and Consent (Logan Iyer)
- AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It (Simon Willison)
- How to Set Up Claude Code with Microsoft Foundry Models on macOS (suzarilshah)
- What It Took to Implement VS Code Debugging for .NET nanoFramework (Laurent Ellerbach)
Web and Cloud Development
- Introducing Multipart Download Support for AWS SDK for .NET Transfer Manager (Garrett Beatty)
- Global Expertise: AI Blueprints, Resource API Fixes, and Angular v20 (Angular Team)
- How to Open and Render DOCX Files in the Browser with React (Ramkumar Ravy)
- How to Convert an HTML to an EXE file (Alex Marin)
- Secure Image Uploads in Blazor Rich Text Editor Using JWT (Saravanan G.)
- DNS-PERSIST-01; Handling Domain Control Validation in a short-lived certificate World (Scott Helme)
Windows Development
- What should I do if a wait call reports WAIT_ABANDONED? (Raymond Chen)
- Can you go to bed with specs and wake up to a Windows app? (Joseph Finney)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7755 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7760 (Dev Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Open Source in Focus: .NET Projects and the Tools Behind Them (Lena Morozova)
- Implementing strongly-typed IDs in .NET for safer domain models (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0-preview.260209.1 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- Announcing Application Insights SDK 3.x for .NET (MattMc)
- Page vs RDL vs Section Reports in a .NET C# Application (Chelsea Devereaux)
- ACID in Practice for .NET: Isolation Levels, Anomalies, and Transaction Pitfalls (Sudhir Mangla)
- Getting more information in MSBuild binlogs with property tracking (Gérald Barré)
- Automatic Service Discovery in C# with Needlr: How It Works (Nick Cosentino)
AI
- Claude Opus 4.6 Now Available in Microsoft Foundry (Vesa Nopanen)
- Leverage AI for root-cause analysis with MCP servers in VS Code and Cursor (Louis Imershein)
- Amplifier in Your Browser – Introducing webruntime and webllm bundles for fully serverless AI (Amplifier Team)
- How AI coding makes developers 56% faster and 19% slower (Steve Fenton)
- VS Code: Fine-tune your AI instructions with /init (Bart Wullems)
- Why demand for code is infinite: How AI creates more developer jobs (Eira May)
- Building GitHub Copilot Agents in C# with Microsoft Agent Framework (Bruno Capuano)
- GECK – The Garden of Eden Creation Kit (Charles Russella)
- Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6 (Claude Team)
- Awesome OpenClaw Skills (VoltAgent)
- Sentinel – Zero-trust governance for AI agents. One decorator. Full control. (Renato Guedes)
- Jan 29, 2026AlignmentHow AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills (Anthropic Research Team)
- OpenClaw (Ollama Team)
- RIP Low-Code 2014-2025 (Zack Liscio)
- Towards self-driving codebases (Cursor Team)
- Comparing File Systems and Databases for Effective AI Agent Memory Management (Richmond Alake)
- Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes (Anthropic Engineering Team)
- Claude is a space to think (Anthropic Team)
- Access public data insights faster: Data Commons MCP is now hosted on Google Cloud (Kara Moscoe)
- DuckDuckGo says 90 percent of users don’t want AI in search (Wayne Williams)
- A one-prompt attack that breaks LLM safety alignment (Mark Russinovich, Giorgio Severi, Blake Bullwinkel, Yanan Cai, Keegan Hines & Ahmed Salem)
- /last30days v2 – Claude Code skill that researches any topic across Reddit + X from the last 30 days, then writes copy-paste-ready prompts (Matt Van Horn)
- DuckDuckGo Brings Real-Time AI Voice Chat to Duck.ai (Paul Thurrott)
- OpenClaw Runs Amok, Kimi’s Open Model, Ministral Distilled, Wikipedia’s Partners (DeepLearning.AI)
- Why Microsoft Copilot Adoption Is Lagging: The ROI Dilemma (Russell Smith)
- Now in Foundry: Qwen3-Coder-Next, Qwen3-ASR-1.7B, Z-Image (vaidyas)
- Transformers.js v4 Preview: Now Available on NPM! (Nico Martin & Joshua)
- Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon (James O’Donnell)
- Opus 4.6 (fast mode) is now available in Windsurf (WIndsurf Team)
- Building LLMs in Resource-Constrained Environments: A Hands-On Perspective (Olimpiu Pop)
- Hands on with New Multi-Agent Orchestration in VS Code (David Ramel)
- Designing Effective Multi-Agent Architectures (Nicole Königstein)
- Magic Words (Dave Rupert)
Python
- How to Use the Factory Pattern in Python – A Practical Guide (Bala Priya C.)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Building a TX Text Control Project with GitHub Actions and the Text Control NuGet Feed (Bjoern Meyer)
- How to Prevent UAC Prompts for MSI Self-Repair (Horatiu Vladasel)
- Threats from the Shadows: Securing the CI/CD Pipeline Against Modern Attacks (David Ramel)
- Simplifying assertions with lenses (Mark Seemann)
- Octopus Easy Mode – Tenants (Matthew Casperson)
- How to Save Multiple Drafts in Git: A Guide to Using Stash (Chidiadi Anyanwu)
- The Claude Skills I Actually Use for DevOps (Engin Diri)
- Building a safer digital future, together (Courtney Gregoire)
Mobile and Game Development
- Simplifying State Management in Flutter with Command and Result (Pedro Bueno)
- Build a dinosaur runner game with Deno, pt. 5 (Jo Franchetti)
Screencasts and Videos
- Pinning GitHub issue comments and VS Code 1.109 – Developer News 06/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- NuGet Audit Sources UI in Visual Studio (Sean Iyer)
- Supercharging Local Development with Aspire – NDC London 2026 (Jimmy Bogard)
- VisualStudio.Extensibility with Both In- and Out-of-proc Components | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Matteo Prosperi)
- RIP Converters, XAML C# Expressions are here (Gerald Versluis)
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Podcasts
- The Amp Hour #715 – Shiny New Pebble with Eric Migicovsky (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – How bored tourists invented an Olympic sport. Centigrade or Celsius? Piqua (Mignon Fogarty)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #469 – Commands, out of the terminal (Michael Kennedy)
- The PowerShell Podcast – PowerShell Is Fun mkay with Harm Veenstra (James Petty)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #180 – Vouch for an open source web of trust (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #262 – Freedom, Responsibility, and the Federated Guardrails: A New Model for Modern Security (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- SQL Server Radio Episode #184 – The Role of the DBA is Dead (Again) (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #977 – We built a CSS Challenge platform (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Meta Cast – The Proven Hiring Framework Two Leaders Discovered Independently (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Merge Conflict Episode #501 – Autopilot, Fleets, and Parallel Agents Explained (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Run your AI Agent in a Sandbox, with Docker President Mark Cavage (Scott Hanselman)
- Letting Teams Own Their Process Through Working Agreements | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Prabhleen Kaur)
- InfoQ Podcast: [Video Podcast] Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson (Madelyn Olson)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – The logos, ethos, and pathos of your LLMs (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Bluesky finally adds Drafts (Aisha Malik)
- Call for speakers: TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 (TechCrunch Events)
- Is Open Source in Trouble? (B. Cameron Gain)
Database
- Going raw dog on the database (Michael Kennedy)
- SQL Identity and Plan Fingerprints (Kellyn Gorman)
- AI-Powered Search in SQL Server 2025 (MSSQL Tips)
- SQL Server 2025 CREATE EXTERNAL MODEL and AI_GENERATE_EMBEDDINGS Commands Explained (Rodrigo Ribeiro Gomes)
- Time Travel in Azure SQL with Temporal Tables (Jerry Nixon)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Fixing the Windows Syntax Boof-a-Rama (Jeffrey Snover)
Tools
- PowerToys Release v0.97.2 (vanzue)
General
- Snapdragon X2 Elite beats Apple’s M5 in major benchmarks — New tests unveil Qualcomm’s second-gen power, and it’s now Microsoft’s turn to deliver a strong Windows update (Cale Hunt)
- Linux 6.19 arrives with a teaser for Linux 7.0 (Stevie Bonifield)
- Office workers leave devices on standby despite knowing the cost (Ian Barker)
- Windows Admin Center Architectural Changes (Dan Cuomo)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – February 8 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – February 9, 2026 (#717) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Builder ID Sign in with Apple, and more (February 9, 2026) (Sébastien Stormacq)
- Fragments: February 9 (Martin Fowler)
- Reading Notes #684 (Frank Boucher)
