Top Links
- GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Pages (Kedasha Kerr)
- Agent Skills in .NET: Three Ways to Author, One Provider to Run Them (Sergey Menshykh)
- LLM Chat in .NET with IChatClient: The Complete Guide | NDepend (Patrick Smacchia)
- Mastering Dynamic Components, HTTP Resources, and AI Writing Assistants ️ (Angular Team)
- Test Multi-Device Interactions with the Android Emulator (Steven Jenkins)
- MAI-Image-2 Just Dropped — And .NET Support Is Already Here (Bruno Capuano)
Web and Cloud Development
- Build a Movie Watchlist with Node.js, TypeScript, and MongoDB (Nic Raboy)
- AI Productivity for React Developers in 2026 (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Solving Problems with HTMX – Theme Switcher (Robodobdob)
- Build an AI Content Creation App in Blazor with AI AssistView (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)
- The Cookie Apocalypse Already Happened (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Embed a Secure Inline PDF Viewer in React: No Downloads, Full Control (Deepa Thiruppathy)
- Name-only @container queries: A solution to the naming wars (Saron Yitbarek)
Windows Development
.NET and Visual Studio
- EF Core query translation: Why does some LINQ never become SQL? (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Managing Long-Running Tasks Inside Akka.NET Actors (Aaron Stannard)
- Refactoring to SOLID in C# (Mark Heath)
- Suppressing Roslyn Analyzer Warnings Programmatically using DiagnosticSuppressor (Gérald Barré)
- Validate .NET configuration on startup (David Grace)
AI
- Reactive Writers: How Co-Writing with AI Changes How We Engage with Ideas (Advait Bhat, Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Mor Naaman & Maurice Jakesch)
- Comprehension Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code (Addy Osmani)
- Stanford Report Highlights Growing Disconnect Between AI Insiders and Everyone Else (BeauHD)
- How to Implement Tool Calling with Gemma 4 and Python (Matthew Mayo)
- Now in Foundry: Microsoft Harrier and NVIDIA EGM-8B (Osi)
- Postman’s MCP Server Now Works With Google Antigravity IDE (Quinton Wall)
- You can now easily call LLMs from your messaging engine. Should you? (Richard Seroter)
- Expanding Text Control Agent Skills: New ServerTextControl Skills for AI Assisted Document Processing (Bjoern Meyer)
- Keep your context short – Manual compaction is now available in VS Code (Bart Wullems)
- Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts. (Michelle Kim)
- Managing context in long-run agentic applications (Dominic Marks)
- How to Analyze Hugging Face for Arm64 Readiness (Jennifer Kohl)
Python
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Anti-patterns in event modelling – Passive Aggressive Events (Oskar Dudycz)
- Use Process Templates in Platform Hub to verify and deploy dependencies (Bob Walker)
- Event Sourcing: Simple is often enough (Urs Enzler)
- When You Can Safely Leave Sprints Behind (JB Rainsberger)
Mobile and Game Development
- Building an Instagram-Style Like Animation in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
- Swift Concurrency, Part 3: Bridging Legacy APIs With Continuations (Nikita Vasilev)
- Skia vs Impeller: A Performance Comparison (Raiden Lpf)
- Maker Monday: 10 non-traditional clock projects (Rob Zwetsloot)
Screencasts and Videos
- Stop Guessing, start fixing. Meet the Visual Studio Debugger Agent (Sireesha Pisipati)
- Building Intelligent .NET Applications: From AI Features to Agentic Systems | VS Live Las Vegas 2026 (Jon Galloway)
- Oh My Posh Customizations – Creating a Segment | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
- What’s New in C# | Visual Studio Live Las Vegas 2026 (Jason Bock)
- Websites and tools for developers | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1176 – Why ‘stressed’ spelled backwards reveals a delicious truth. ‘Me’ versus ‘myself’ (Mignon Fogarty)
- Fragmented: AI Developer Podcast Episode #310 – Mitchell Hashimoto on Ghostty & His Agentic Coding Workflow (Kaushik Gopal, Iury Souza & Mitchell Hashimoto)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #272 – More Than Just Packets: Is NDR a “First-Class” Cloud Security Control? (Anton Chuvakin)
- SQL Server Radio Episode #186 – Automatic Index Compaction and New DB DevOps Tooling (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #995 – Next.js Vendor Lock-in No More (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The Hidden Cost of Splitting the Scrum Master Role — And Why Stance Changes Make or Break Your Impact | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Efe Gümüs)
- Meta Cast – When AI Makes Your Pipeline Faster But Your Product Worse (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- InfoQ Podcast: How SBOMs and Engineering Discipline Can Help You Avoid Trivy’s Compromise (Viktor Peterson)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Who needs VCs when you have friends like these? (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Come meet the Flutter core team on tour in 2026 (Emma Twersky)
- Microsoft Global Agent-a-thon (Tiffiany)
Database
- SOFTMAX Function in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
- Cross-database ownership chaining in SQL Server: security risks, behavior, and privilege escalation explained (Fabiano Amorim)
- Normalization vs. Reality: When to Denormalize for Throughput on SQL Server & Azure SQL (Sudhir Mangla)
- How to Load Embedding Models into Oracle AI Database in 2026 (Daniela Pavlenco)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.25 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- 17 Ways To Think Like A Writer Every Day (Writers Write)
- Markdown Region Buddy for VS Code (Alvin Ashcraft) – Source on GitHub
Tools
- HVTools – first Community response is insane! (Michael Morten Sonne)
- Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.2 Release (OneBlue)
General
- The new Trump Phone design is here (Dominic Preston)
- Linux 7.0 Released (BeauHD)
- Booking.com confirms hackers accessed customers’ data (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
- Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators (Dell Cameron)
- “Giant superatoms” could finally solve quantum computing’s biggest problem (Chalmers University of Technology)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – April 13, 2026 (#762) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Mythos Preview in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Agent Registry, and more (April 13, 2026) (Micah Walter)
- Reading Notes #693 (Frank Boucher)
