Top Links
- Visual Studio: Unlock language-specific rich symbol context using new find_symbol tool (Sinem Akinci & Hannah Hong)
- Announcing TypeScript 6.0 Beta (Daniel Rosenwasser)
- Let Go, Let Claude (Rob Conery)
- Uno Platform February Release: Studio Productivity and Platform Improvements (Uno Platform Team)
- What’s new in Flutter 3.41 (Kevin Chisholm)
- GitHub Copilot Testing for .NET Brings AI-powered Unit Tests to Visual Studio 2026 (McKenna Barlow)
- Enhanced developer tools on the Microsoft Store (Giorgio Sardo)
Web and Cloud Development
- Approximating contrast-color() With Other CSS Features (Kevin Hamer)
- WordPress Hosting vs Web Hosting: Explained for Beginners (Nick Schäferhoff)
- Aspire 13.1.1 Release (github-actions[bot])
- WPF to React (Jason Hales)
- Agentic cloud operations: A new way to run the cloud (Pang Ngernsupaluck)
- WebKit features for Safari 26.3 (Jen Simmons, Jon Davis, Ada Rose Canon, Eric Kinnear, Anne van Kesteren & Jeffrey Twu)
- Migrating to Blazorise 2.0 and Announcing Blazorise 2.0 – Velebit (Mladen Macanović)
- Top Heroku Alternatives for Deployment in 2026 (Manish Shivanandhan)
- Integrating HTMX into a React Data Grid for Real‑Time Updates in Next.js (Satheeskumar S.)
Windows Development
- Windows Community Toolkit [Pre-release] v8.3.260211-preview1 (Michael Hawker)
- How do I suppress the hover effects when I put a Win32 common controls ListView in single-click mode? (Raymond Chen)
- Windows Sandbox: What It Is and How to Enable, Configure, and Use It for Safe Testing (Rohit Gupta)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Visual Studio 2026 Release Notes – February Update 18.3.0 and Visual Studio Insiders release notes – February 10, 2026 (Microsoft Learn)
- Devs Souring on .NET 11? (David Ramel)
- .NET 11 Preview 1 Release (James Montemagno)
- The Syringe Class: Needlr’s Fluent API Explained (Nick Cosentino)
AI
- The Best AI Models for Coding: Accuracy, Integration, and Developer Fit (Conrad Schwellnus)
- Anthropic Safety Researcher Quits, Warning ‘World is in Peril’ (msmash)
- The Two Best Books on AI Aren’t About AI (Eleanor Berger)
- Agentic Coding with Xcode and Gemini CLI (Peter Friese)
- Teaching AI Development Through Gamification: and Building a Local Research Desk: Multi-Agent Orchestration (Lee Stott)
- You’ve Generated Your MVP Using AI. What Does That Mean for Your Software Architecture? (Pierre Pureur & Kurt Bittner)
- Hands-On: Developing a Rule-Aware QA Mode with VS Code 1.109 Agent Skills (David Ramel)
- Copilot Memory in VS Code: Your AI assistant just got smarter (Bart Wullems)
- I Loved My OpenClaw AI Agent—Until It Turned on Me (Will Knight)
- Windsurf Arena Mode Leaderboard: The People Want Speed (Windsurf Team)
- The strategic SIEM buyer’s guide: Choosing an AI-ready platform for the agentic era (Scott Woodgate)
- Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability (Victor Yocco)
- Deploying Custom Models with Microsoft Olive and Foundry Local (Abdulhamid Onawole)
- Is a secure AI assistant possible? (Grace Huckins)
- Using OpenClaw with Windows Sandbox (Rohit Gupta)
- Skills in OpenAI API and GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering (Simon Willison)
- Beyond the Prompt – Why and How to Fine-tune Your Own Models (Radhika Bollineni)
- Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world (OpenAI Team)
- Consent about AI (John Moehrke)
- Increased usage for agents (Cursor Team)
- Five Architectural Primitives Every Agent Swarm Rediscovers (Alex Lavaee)
- Agents, OpenAI, deepfakes, and the messy reality of the AI boom: A conversation with Oren Etzioni (Todd Bishop)
- Agents Can Either Be Useful or Secure (Abhishek Hingnikar & Kundan Kolhe)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- How to build an image mode pipeline with GitLab (Preethi Thomas & Chris Kyrouac)
- Git forked (Randolph West)
- The Death of Traditional Testing: Agentic Development Broke a 50-Year-Old Field, JiTTesting Can Revive It (Mark Harman)
- Octopus Easy Mode – Runbooks (Matthew Casperson)
- Organizational Strategies from the Collective Wisdom of Nature (Shreshta Shyamsundar & Anmol Jain)
- Expert generalists (Jimmy Nilsson)
Mobile and Game Development
- Announcing Dart 3.11 (Connie Ooi)
- Exploring Compiled Bindings in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
- Visualizing Supply Chain Metrics in .NET MAUI with Charts and Gauges (Hariram Subramanian)
- .NET MAUI Xcode 26.3 Support (GitHub Issues) – .NET 10 is compatible. See this comment to make it work.
Screencasts and Videos
- Resilient by Design – NDC London 2026 (Chris Ayers)
- Introduction to Deep Learning from MIT (Frank La Vigne)
- .NET AI Community Standup: Foundry Local for .NET Devs 🚀 (Bruno Capuano & Maanav Dalal)
- Why AI Leads to More Work, Not Less (AIDailyBrief)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Legacy Code – NDC London 2026 (William Brander)
- The new agent conversation experience in Warp (Warp Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – The Role of AI in Secure Software with Ben Dechrai (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Software Engneering Radio Episode #707 – Subhajit Paul on ERP Automation and AI (Kanchan Shringi)
- Engineering for System Uptime | Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 387 (Kevin Griffin)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #676 – Building the machine that builds the machine (Paul Dix, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- AI & I Podcast – Inside OpenAI’s Agentic Browser, Atlas (Rhea Purohit)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #978 – Should A New Coder Use AI? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- PPP 496 | How to Deliver Faster with Less Stress. In the Trenches with Norman Patnode (Andy Kaufman)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Writing for ‘civic clarity’ (plus, the power of short sentences), with Roy Peter Clark (Mignon Fogarty)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #195 – From MCP to Multi-Agents: The Evolution of Agentic AI (and What’s Next) (Mike Chambers)
- AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: TMC CEO Jen Harris on Building the Partner of the Future (John Siefert)
- InfoQ Podcast: [Video Podcast] The Craft of Software Architecture in the Age of AI Tools (Grady Booch)
- Big Technology Podcast – Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #129 – Fixing the Flaw of Gravity: Emad Dlala on Lucid’s 3.4.1 Solution (Batteries Included Team)
- How AI Is Changing the Way Agile Teams Deliver Value | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Prabhleen Kaur)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Is anyone using AI for good? (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- How to Build a Real-Time Public Speaking and Presentation Coach (Timothy Olanrewaju)
- Celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science with help from Copilot (Stephanie Parry)
- Celebrating the 2025 Xbox Excellence Awards (Mike Nelson)
- Highguard’s developer reportedly lays off ‘most’ of its staff just over two weeks after launch (Jay Peters)
- Security Slam Returns for 2026 — Now Open to All Open Source Projects (Eddie Knight)
Database
- Release Notes for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.3.0 (Microsoft Learn)
- When to use DENSE_RANK instead of SQL RANK (Jared Westover)
- Announcing database instructions and a lot of fixes in SQL Server Management Studio 22.3 (Erin Stellato)
- Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler (Steve Jones)
- CockroachDB CDC to Kafka (Bryan Hogan)
- SQL in 30 – INSERT Basics (MSSQL Tips)
- New course: SQL Server Vector Search in Practice (Paul S. Randal)
- Announcing Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring That Doesn’t Suck (Erik Darling)
- Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for February 2026 (Brent Ozar)
- Maximize Azure Cosmos DB Performance with Azure Advisor Recommendations (Iria Osara)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Publisher: You won’t be able to access Publisher or open files (.pub) in October 2026 (Abhishek Mishra)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Deploy to Azure App Service deployment slots with azd (PuiChee (PC) Chan)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.407 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- winget-tui – A terminal UI for Windows Package Manager (winget) (Scott Hanselman)
- Getting Started with Gemini CLI (Google Cloud Tech)
Tools
- Announcing Files v4.0.27 (Files Team)
- Tired of Edge’s busy New Tab? Someone finally made a cleaner version with this new extension (Mauro Huculak)
- Welcome to Tiny Tool Town (Scott Hanselman)
General
- Microsoft fixes Notepad flaw that could trick users into clicking malicious Markdown links (Emma Roth)
- US Had Almost No Job Growth in 2025 (msmash)
- Moderna Says FDA Refuses To Review Its Application for Experimental Flu Shot (msmash)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 11, 2026 (#719) (Richard Seroter)
- The Replay (2/11/26): React performance wins, fine-grained frameworks, and more (Matt MacCormack)
