Top Links
- Technology & Friends – Rachel Appel on Retro AI and How Algorithms from the Commodore 64 Era Still Apply (David Giard)
- Uno Platform – Now With AI! | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green, Sam Basu & Jerome Laban)
- Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (Jennifer Kohl)
- JetBrains Rider Settings for Presentations (Joseph Guadagno)
- Readonly vs Immutable vs Frozen in C#: differences and (a lot of) benchmarks (Davide Bellone)
- The Most Popular AI Tools: What Developers Use and Why (Conrad Schwellnus)
Web and Cloud Development
- AWS Tools Installer V2 Preview (Jonathan Nunn)
- Three Plug-N-Play CSS Libraries (Raymond Camden)
- 9 Steps to Prepare Your WordPress Site for AI Search Engines (Maddy Osman)
- How to Build a NestJS API for Full-Text Search with OpenSearch (Christian Nwamba)
- Creating Drag-and-Drop ListBoxes in Blazor (Héctor Pérez)
- Build a Query Builder in React 19 with Server Components and Server Actions (Satheeskumar S.)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Local Image Embeddings in .NET — CLIP + ONNX (Bruno Capuano)
- Abstract Factory Pattern Best Practices in C#: Code Organization and Maintainability (Nick Cosentino)
- Deep C# – Multicast Delegates and Events (Mike James)
- Creating standard and “observable” instruments: System.Diagnostics.Metrics APIs – Part 3 (Andrew Lock)
- Big Critter Stack Releases (Jeremy D. Miller)
AI
- Automate Rider Search and Replace Patterns with Agent Skills (Laurent Kempe)
- The Agentic Coding Workflow (Michael Washington)
- Human-centered AI: How to keep humans at the center of your AI efforts (Tiankai Feng, Patrick Schidler & Alice Crohas)
- LLM-generated skills work, if you generate them afterwards (Sean Goedecke)
- Subagents and web search in Claude Code (Ollama Team)
- I didn’t notice this VS Code feature until it made me question how I code (Bart Wullems)
- WebMCP – a much needed way to make agents play with rather than against the web (Chris Heilmann)
- Consuming an authenticated MCP server with a custom engine agent in Copilot Studio (Matteo Pagani)
- Rodney and Claude Code for Desktop and Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (Simon Willison)
- VS Code Improves Agent Skills (Kay Ewbank)
- GLM-5 and Minimax M2.5 are now available in Windsurf (Windsurf Team)
Python
- Levelling up with Python: Create with data (Sarah Lygoe)
- How to Take Machine Learning Beyond Python Notebooks with These Helpful Tools (Oyedele Tioluwani)
- Python virtual environments: isolation without the chaos (Jessica Wachtel)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Condensed views on Kanban and Sprint boards (Dan Hellem)
- Validating PowerShell script syntax in GitHub Actions workflows (Gérald Barré)
- Does AI Make the Agile Manifesto Obsolete? (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
- Build a CI/CD pipeline with OpenShift Dev Spaces and GitOps (Rishabh Singh)
- Octopus Easy Mode – Library Variable Sets (Matthew Casperson)
- Using curiosity to decenter (Tom Johnson)
- Critiquing tests (Mark Seemann)
- Part 1: From Chaos to Clarity: How to Structure and Solve Problems in Projects (Paulina Nowinska)
Mobile and Game Development
- Object detection with Ultralytics YOLO26 on Raspberry Pi (Lucy Hattersley)
- Get ready with the latest beta releases (Apple Developer)
Screencasts and Videos
- OpenClaw Goes to OpenAI (AIDailyBrief)
- GCast 210: Incorporating Playwright Tests into a GitHub Action and Technology & Friends – Tim Rayburn on How AI Resets the Agile Manifesto and Technology & Friends – Brian McKeiver on Microsoft Foundry (David Giard)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Battle of the moguls. ‘Awhile’ versus ‘a while.’ Crittador. (Mignon Fogarty)
- Fragmented – AI Developer Podcast Episode #305 – Subagents explained – What they are, when (not) to spawn them (Iury Souza & Kaushik Gopal)
- PPP 498 | Have Better Conversations: Small Moves That Save Projects and Relationships, with Joe Ferraro (Andy Kaufman)
- Apple introduces a new video podcast experience on Apple Podcasts (Apple)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #181 – All the Claw things (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #263 – SOC Refurbishing: Why New Tools Won’t Fix Broken Processes (Even With AI) (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #979 – WebMCP: New Standard to Expose Your Apps to AI (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- When AI Decisions Go Wrong at Scale—And How to Prevent It | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Ran Aroussi)
- Meta Cast – Take Part in Your Own Rescue Instead of Blaming Leadership (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode #102 – This Blonde Chocolate Walks Into Trader Joe’s (Trader Joe’s Team)
- Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #124 – The Reality of AI in Software Development – with Rick & Oscar (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
- InfoQ Podcast: [Video Podcast] Building Resilient Event-Driven Microservices in Financial Systems with Muzeeb Mohammad (Muzeeb Mohammad)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Learning PowerShell in 2026 with Tara (James Petty)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Data is the new oil, and your database is the only way to extract it (Phoebe Sajor)
Database
- SQL Server Long-Running Query Detection: How to Find and Monitor Slow Queries (Edward Pollack)
- Redgate Test Data Manager Product Updates – January 2025 (James Hemson)
- MariaDB innovation: binlog_storage_engine (Mark Callaghan)
- Compliant Test Data Used to Be Hard. It Isn’t Anymore. (Saskia Parks)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Code Spelunker a Code Search Command Line Tool Redux (Ben E. C. Boyter)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.411-0 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Tools
- LINQPad 9.6 Release Notes (Joseph Albahari)
General
- How NOT to Answer the Salary Question (Leon Adato)
- Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas (Mario Trujillo)
More Link Collections
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026) (Esra Kayabali)
- Daily Reading List – February 16, 2026 (#722) (Richard Seroter)
- Reading Notes #685 (Frank Boucher)
