Top Links
- Running Multiple Instances of an Aspire AppHost Without Port Conflicts (James Newton-King)
- Why .NET MAUI Popups Lag and How to Fix Performance Issues (Kompelli Sravan Kumar Kompelli Lakshman)
- What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | March 2026 (Nick Brady)
- Expanding the MCP Maintainer Team (David Soria Parra)
- Visual Studio Code 1.116 Release (Visual Studio Code Team)
- Build a rail menu in WinUI (Stephan van Rooij)
- Foundry Local is now Generally Available (Sam Kemp)
Web and Cloud Development
- Selecting a Date Range in CSS (Preethi)
- 5 Layout Patterns for Integrating the TX Text Control Document Editor in ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- How I refactored a legacy Node.js test suite with Claude (and saved 3 days of work) (Tomas Juhasz)
- How to Protect Sheets and Workbooks in a React Spreadsheet (Parthasarathy Ranjan)
- Safari Adds scrollend Event Support, Completing Baseline Browser Coverage (Daniel Curtis)
- Simplified Authentication with Better Auth (Christian Nwamba)
- Escaping the Fork: How Meta Modernized WebRTC Across 50+ Use Cases (Boris Tsirkin & Joachim Reiersen)
- New library to read and create excel files from typescript (supports charts, sparklines, vba, images, forms, computation, etc.) and A designer for ZPL labels, wich can be included in your application (Jochen Kühner) See demo too
Windows Development
- C++23 Support in MSVC Build Tools 14.51 (Daniel Griffing)
- How do you add or remove a handle from an active WaitForMultipleObjects? (Raymond Chen)
- A brief history of C/C++ programming languages (Daniel Lemire)
- Effortless Digital Signatures for Everyone: Sign PDFs with a User-Friendly Tool in a WPF PDF Viewer (Vikas S.)
.NET and Visual Studio
AI
- My Journey to Agent-First Development With Air (Valerii Tepliakov)
- Agent Governance Toolkit: Architecture Deep Dive, Policy Engines, Trust, and SRE for AI Agents (mosiddi)
- How Drasi used GitHub Copilot to find documentation bugs (Aman Singh)
- The “IQ Layer”: Microsoft’s Blueprint for the Agentic Enterprise (harshul05)
- Cloud Cost Optimization: How to maximize ROI from AI, manage costs, and unlock real business value (Fernando Vasconcellos)
- Build Multi-Agent AI Apps on Azure App Service with Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 (Jordan Selig)
- Getting Started with GitHub Copilot SDK (Anishek Kamal)
- What are AI gateways in 2026, and do you actually need one now? (Sam Richard)
- What to do when AI is removing the lower rungs of the career ladder (Mirco Hering)
- The advisor strategy: Give agents an intelligence boost and Making Claude Cowork ready for enterprise (Claude Team)
- Debugging your VS Code agent interactions (Bart Wullems)
- Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers (Tom Aarsen)
- The Gemini app can now generate interactive simulations and models | The Keyword (Google)
- Advancing to Agentic AI with Azure NetApp Files VS Code Extension v1.2.0 (Geert Van Teylingen)
- Claude + GPT | Multi-model intelligence in Copilot (Zachary Cavanell)
- Strengthen your research workflow with generative AI (Darcy Ogden)
- Opinion: How to read with AI (Oren Etzioni)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.1 Release (moonbox3)
- Data analysis in Python and esProc SPL compared – what are the differences, and which is best? (Chisom Kanu)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Architecture as Code to Teach Humans and Agents About Architecture (Neal Ford & Mark Richards)
- Embedding Security from Code to Cloud (Yash Mehta)
- Spec Driven Development isn’t Waterfall (Marc Brooker)
- The agentic SOC—Rethinking SecOps for the next decade (Rob Lefferts & David Weston)
Mobile and Game Development
- Intent redirection vulnerability in third-party SDK exposed millions of Android wallets to potential risk (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
Screencasts and Videos
- Migrate Oracle Workloads to PostgreSQL Using AI-Powered Tools in the VS Code PostgreSQL Extension | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Jonathon Frost)
- Use AI to Achieve Operational Excellence with the Well-Architected Framework practices (Boris Scholl & Niels Buit)
- Copilot CLI update: chronicle, plugins, and fleet mode | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths & Ryan Hecht)
- AI, Budget, and the Future of Databases | Budget Bytes (Shireesh Thota & Priya Sati)
- Observability for the Age of Generative AI (Microsoft Azure Team)
- Next-Level SQL in VS Code: GitHub Copilot Custom Instructions, Plan Mode & Skills | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Carlos Robles)
- All the agents all at once (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Ditch converters in XAML with this! (Gerald Versluis)
- Flutter AI skills | Observable Flutter #88 (Rody Davis & Craig Labenz)
- Hangar DX Podcast – Are You Using AI to Go Faster in the Wrong Direction? | Steve Pereira on Flow and Engineering (Hangar DX Team)
- All of AI’s New Models and Tools (AIDailyBrief)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Software Defined Talk Episode #567 – Building Voice and Streaming Apps for the Enterprise with Alberto (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Women in Technology Podcast Episode #61 – The Power We Hold: Women Spies, Storytelling, and the Courage to Create (WiT Team)
- InfoQ Podcast: Tiger Teams, Evals and Agents: The New AI Engineering Playbook (Sam Bhagwat)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Thinking Realistically About Digital Sovereignty (Mary Jo Foley)
- GPU versus CPU: What is engineering really doing for us | Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #268 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #271 – Can AI-Native MDR Actually Fix Your Broken SOC Workflows or Just Automate the Mess? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #425 – Exploring Collaboration and Governance at the MVP Summit with Joy Apple (Ben Stegink)
- Microsoft Research Podcast – Ideas: Steering AI toward the work future we want (Jaime Teevan, Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman & Rebecca Janssen)
- Microsoft Research Podcast – New Future of Work: AI is driving rapid change, uneven benefits (Jaime Teevan, Sonia Jaffe, Rebecca Janssen, Nancy Baym, Siân Lindley, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Brent Hecht, Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman & Sean Rintel)
- Build Mode Podcast – How to handle layoffs with compassion with Ayal Yogev, Anjuna (Isabelle Johannessen)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #138 – Rivian R2 vs Tesla Model Y: Official EPA Data Crowns a New King (Batteries Included Team)
- Why Scrum Master Success Means Owning the Entire Idea-to-Deployed Pipeline | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nate Amidon)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #352 – Post-Mortem of Anthropic’s Claude Code Leak (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Gen Z needs a knowledge base (and so do you) (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Open source maintainers are drowning in AI-generated pull requests. Enterprise teams are next. (Arjun Iyer)
- Webinar – OSS Power-Ups: XenoAtom.Terminal.UI (Matthias Koch)
- Mastodon is about to launch its take on Bluesky’s starter packs (Emma Roth)
- Maker Faire Returns to the City of Light (Jennifer Blakeslee)
- EFF Is Leaving X (BeauHD)
Database
- Sysbench vs MySQL on a small server: another way to view the regressions (Mark Callaghan)
- Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring Blocking and Deadlocking (Erik Darling)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.22 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Tools
- Open VSX Registry – Extensions for VS Code Compatible Editors (Open VSX Working Group)
- Process Explorer v17.11 Release | Sysinternals (Alex Mihaiuc)
General
- Tesla is un-canceling its plan to build a smaller, cheaper EV: report (Andrew J. Hawkins)
- Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps (Tom Warren)
- Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit Programmable Logic Controllers Across US Critical Infrastructure (CISA)
- Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30,000 private Facebook photos and A hacker has allegedly breached one of China’s supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data (Dissent)
- Microsoft begins removing Copilot from Windows 11, starting with Notepad, Snipping Tool (Abhijith M B)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – April 9, 2026 (#760) (Richard Seroter)
- Fragments: April 9 (Martin Fowler)
