Top Links
- .NET 11 Preview 1 is now available! (.NET Team)
- Introducing Oz: the orchestration platform for cloud agents (Zach Lloyd)
- I Started Programming When I Was 7. I’m 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed (James D. Randall)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 11 Preview 1 (Dan Roth)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Atari 2600) – Reverse Engineered Source (Joshua Walker)
- .NET MAUI v11.0.0-preview.1.26107 Release (rmarinho)
Web and Cloud Development
- Introducing AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Tools Public Preview (Bing Team)
- Implementing Zero Trust with Resource Isolation (Maarten Balliauw)
- Mastering the ASP.NET Core Request Pipeline: Middleware Patterns and Endpoint Filters for Real Apps (Sudhir Mangla)
- Image Optimization in Angular Applications (Christian Nwamba)
- Customizing Validation Messages in Blazor Forms (Héctor Pérez)
- Integrating HTMX with React and Next.js for Dynamic HTML Updates (Satheeskumar S.)
- Node.js 25.6.1 (Current) and Node.js 24.13.1 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
- PDF Rendering Engines Compared: Choosing the Right One for Your App (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
- Supporting safer and scalable online learning in K–12 (Microsoft Edge Team)
- Fortifying your stack with Cloudflare: A security playbook (Peter Aideloje)
- How to Force Content Security Policy (CSP) Headers on WordPress (Jen Swisher)
- Go 1.26 is released (Carlos Amedee)
Windows Development
- Accelerating Arm momentum in Japan with App Assure (Phani Krishna Maringanti)
- Windows Package Manager 1.28.190 (florelis)
- Refreshing the root of trust: industry collaboration on Secure Boot certificate updates (Nuno Costa)
.NET and Visual Studio
- EF Core State Validation (Ricardo Peres)
- Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Efficient String Prefix Checks — StartsWith() vs. IndexOf() and Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Modern Password Hashing Using PasswordHasher (David McCarter)
- .NET 8.0.24 / 8.0.124 Release (.NET Team)
- .NET 10.0.3 Release (Rahul Bhandari)
- .NET v11.0.0-preview.1.26104.118 Release (Jonathan Peppers)
- .NET Toolbox February Update (Steven Giesel)
- .NET and .NET Framework February 2026 servicing releases updates (Rahul Bhandari & Tara Overfield)
- Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 7: Marking handles (Kevin Gosse)
AI
- Making Gemini CLI extensions easier to use (Jack Wotherspoon, Christine Betts & Bala Narasimhan)
- Agmente – An iOS client for coding agents (Peng Lyu)
- The First Signs of Burnout Are Coming From the People Who Embrace AI the Most (msmash)
- Agentic AI: Design reliable workflows across the hybrid cloud (Suleiman Sadiq)
- 80% of Fortune 500 use active AI Agents: Observability, governance, and security shape the new frontier (Vasu Jakkal)
- Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
- AI in China and the United States (Mike Loukides)
- Something Big Is Happening (Matt Shumer)
- One Shot Prompting is Dead (Ebony Louis)
- Context Is Now a First-Class Architectural Concern (Jeremy Daly)
- GitHub Copilot SDK Lets Developers Integrate Copilot CLI’s Engine into Apps (Sergio De Simone)
- Windsurf Introduces Arena Mode to Compare AI Models During Development (Daniel Dominguez)
- A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions (Michelle Kim)
- From Local Models to Agent Workflows: Building a Deep Research Solution with Microsoft Agent Framework on Microsoft Foundry Local (Kinfey Lo)
- Export Your ML Model in ONNX Format (Abid Ali Awan)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0b260210 Release (Dmytro Struk)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Deploy VMs on Azure Local with Portal, CLI & Bicep (IaC) (Thomas Maurer)
- February Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
- Docker: Hardened Images Are Free. Now What? (Jin Kim)
- It’s Time to Redesign How Product Teams Work (Alexander Kirillov)
- The Secret to Faster Migrations? AI, Pandas, and a Little Prompt Engineering (Arth Shah)
- Software 2.0: Code is Cheap, Good Taste is Not (Aaron Stannard)
- On screwing up (Sean Goedecke)
Mobile and Game Development
- Standardizing HLSL (Chris Bieneman)
Screencasts and Videos
- C# Expressions is coming to .NET MAUI – A huge improvement for productivity (Daniel Hindrikes)
- Minecraft with Aspire, AI, and Blazor | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter and Introducing your AI Dev Team Squad with GitHub Copilot | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Building an App in VS Code with AI Agents with Elijah King | Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
- Microsoft Entra Agent ID explained | Microsoft Mechanics (Leandro Iwase)
- Introducing Oz: the orchestration platform for cloud agents | Warp (Zach Lloyd)
- Supercharged Testing: AI-Powered Workflows with Playwright + MCP | NDC London 2026 (Debbie O’Brien)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #21 – The Catalogue Of Shipwrecked Books (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
- RunAs Radio Show #1023 – Securing Active Directory Certificate Services with Ron Arestia (Richard Campbell)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #536 – Fly inside FastAPI Cloud (Michael Kennedy)
- Node.js Performance, Kubernetes, and Why “Fast” Isn’t Always Fast – JavaScript Jabber #702 (Charles Max Wood)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Fraud, Forgery, and a Dead Man in Sherman Oaks (United States Postal Service)
- The AI Fix Episode #87 – OpenAI’s $6.5 billion pen and the AIs obsessed with Tokyo’s weather (Mark Stockley)
- AI Unprompted Episode #015 – Opus 4.6, 5.3 Codex, and Open Claw (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- When Lack of Trust Turns Teams Into Isolated Individuals | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Prabhleen Kaur)
- Extend Women in Tech Podcast – Interview with Aashima Lakhanpal, AI Product Lead at Google (Jonah Andersson & Tsedey Terefe)
- SQL Down Under Show #94 with guest Ben Weissman (Greg Low)
Community and Events
- Public Speaking at Tech Events 101: Being Uncomfortable Is Worth It (Lou Creemers)
- Discord to start requiring face scan or ID to access adult content (Dissent)
- ‘What a great way to kill your community’: Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (Mark Wilson)
- The Time I Asked My Boss: Are You An Idiot? (Jeffrey Snover)
- Agents League: Two Weeks, Three Tracks, One Challenge (Ayca Bas)
- Five Reasons to attend SQLCon (Anna Hoffman)
- My MVP Story: How a 12+ Year MVP Veteran Sparked a Nationwide AI Movement in Vietnam (Kim Sanchez)
- Former GitHub CEO launches new developer platform with huge $60M seed round (Taylor Soper)
Database
- Find Duplicate Rows in SQL Server with a CTE (Rick Dobson)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: A Little About Vectors and Distances (Erik Darling)
- Building AI-Powered Apps with Azure Cosmos DB and the Vercel AI SDK (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.407-1 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- 6 Fascinating Fictional Character Types (Writers Write)
General
- How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video Buddy Holly on the CD? (Raymond Chen)
- Software Origin, Compliance, and Trust: Made in Germany (Bjoern Meyer)
- Microsoft releases Windows 11 26H1, but it’s not for existing PCs. Windows 11 26H2 is coming for all PCs (Mayank Parmar)
- Trump’s new ‘Buy American’ requirement for EV charging would dramatically curtail build-out (Andrew J. Hawkins)
- What to know about Windows 11, version 26H1 (AriaUpdated)
More Link Collections
- A Beginner’s Reading List for Large Language Models for 2026 (Iván Palomares Carrascosa)
- dotInsights | February 2026 (Rachel Appel)
- Daily Reading List – February 10, 2026 (#718) (Richard Seroter)
