Top Links
- Building real-world AI automation with Foundry Local and the Microsoft Agent Framework (Lee Stott)
- Rider 2026.1 Release Candidate Is Out! and ReSharper 2026.1 Release Candidate Released! (Sasha Ivanova)
- I’d Rather Be Writing Podcast – Will tech writers survive AI? Perspectives from two professors, Nupoor Ranade and Jeremy Merritt (Tom Johnson)
- Securing Azure AI Agents: Identity, Access Control, and Guardrails in Microsoft Foundry (Sudha S.)
- Squad: Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned (Joseph Guadagno)
- Our commitment to Windows quality (Pavan Davuluri)
Web and Cloud Development
- Arshid.Aspire.ApiDocs.Extensions (Arash Zandi)
- GCC Is Not Azure. And That Mix-Up May Cost You Later! (Shannon Kuehn)
- Why WebAssembly won’t replace Kubernetes but makes Helm more secure (B. Cameron Gain)
- Your AI agent can now create, edit, and manage content on WordPress.com (Jonathan Bossenger)
- ESLint v10.1.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
- Dropdowns Inside Scrollable Containers: Why They Break And How To Fix Them Properly (Godstime Aburu)
- Blazorise 2.0.3 – Introducing the New Gantt Component (Mladen Macanović)
- Look into the future of the web platform (Rachel Andrew)
- Scaling SignalR With a Redis Backplane (Milan Jovanović)
- State of JavaScript 2025: Survey Reveals a Maturing Ecosystem with TypeScript Cementing Dominance (Daniel Curtis)
- Delivering more cost-efficient healthcare with Epic on Azure (Microsoft in Business Team)
Windows Development
- Windows stack limit checking retrospective: arm64, also known as AArch64 (Raymond Chen)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for Canary Channel 29553.1000 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1743 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8085 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.8079 (Beta Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Password Purgatory, a C# Scammer Trap (Lance McCarthy)
- General Performance: Exploring Thread ID Retrieval Methods (David McCarter)
- A quarter of a billion NuGet downloads (Mattias Karlsson)
- File Based Document Repository with Version Control in .NET with TX Text Control (Bjoern Meyer)
- How to Customize Page Numbering Options in a .NET Report (Chelsea Devereaux)
- AutoMapper’s last free version has a security flaw (David Grace)
AI
- General Availability of Dapr Agents Delivers Production Reliability for Enterprise AI (Kaitlin Thornhill)
- Exploring Claude Code Hooks with the Coding Agent Explorer (.NET) (Tore Nestenius)
- Microsoft Olive & Olive Recipes: A Practical Guide to Model Optimization for Real-World Deployment (Lee Stott)
- You no longer have to wait for Copilot to finish thinking (Bart Wullems)
- MCP In Depth (Jesse Liberty)
- Will you go to prison for an AI? (Mark Seemann)
- Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol Specification (Protocol.org)
- AI Agents: The Next 24 Months Will Rewrite the Enterprise Playbook (Krish)
- Model Buddy – Manage and chat with on-device AI models powered by Foundry Local | Microsoft Store (Alvin Ashcraft)
- How I use Claude for web development: a designer’s guide to building from scratch (Shinobis IA)
- Run OpenClaw Agents on Azure Linux VMs (with Secure Defaults) (John Sonshi)
- What a security audit of 22,511 AI coding skills found lurking in the code (Darryl K. Taft)
- Will AI force code to evolve or make it extinct? (David Cassel)
- Using Git with coding agents (Simon Willison)
- Learning Vercel AI SDK—Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Live from Replit HQ: Agent 4 Launch Pt. 1 (Replit Team)
- Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines (Sean Hollister)
- Trump’s AI framework targets state laws, shifts child safety burden to parents (Rebecca Bellan)
- Secure agentic AI end-to-end (Vasu Jakkal)
- AI Won’t Replace Security Tools – It’s Helping Them Prioritize Biggest Threats (Marin Pavelić)
- Auth0 MCP Server Extension for Gemini CLI (Jessica Temporal)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: Retrieval Augmented Generation (Erik Darling)
- Build a Domain-Specific Embedding Model in Under a Day (Steve H., Rucha Apte, Sean Sodha & Oliver Holworthy)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Understaffing as a form of enshittification – A way to shift value from workers, patients and shoppers to investors (Cory Doctorow)
- Beyond Code Review (Mike Loukides)
Mobile and Game Development
- Indie dev cries (of happiness!) and NVIDIA does an Oopsie! (Code Monkey)
- Flutter Refactoring Masterclass — Part 1 (Veli Bacık)
- New: Remote updates on Raspberry Pi Connect (Phil E.)
- Microsoft Entra authentication using Device Code Flow for Snap Spectacles (Joost van Schaik)
- Why Amazon’s second shot at a smartphone might not be as crazy as it sounds (Todd Bishop)
- What’s new in DCM 1.36.0 (Dmitry Zhifarsky)
Screencasts and Videos
- PowerToys 0.98 introduces new dock and more! – Developer News 12/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- Random.Code() – Fixing a Refactoring Bug in Rocks (Jason Bock)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 305 – “OpenClaw” (The COVID Moment of AI) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Introducing Migration Assistant for SQL database in Fabric (Preview) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Neel Ball)
- The Download: MCP funeral, Perplexity computer, and Doom on a badge | GitHub (Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza)
- What People Really Want From AI (AIDailyBrief)
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Podcasts
- James World – AI – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #394 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Lenny’s Podcast – The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- BONUS Why 98% of Innovation Fails Before It Reaches a Single Customer | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Lorraine Marchand)
- The Azure Security Podcast Episode #126 – Microsoft Baseline Security Mode (Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Sophie Ke & Dave Minasyan)
- React Native Radio Episode #357 – React Native 0.82–0.84 & Expo 55 (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
- There’s no way it’s DNS… | Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #266 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- AI Agent and Copilot Podcast: Google Cloud Showcases Big AI Healthcare Advances (Tom Smith)
- The Vergecast – Why people really hate AI (David Pierce)
- Big Technology Podcast – OpenAI’s Superapp Ambitions, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund (Alex Kantrowitz)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #288 – Automate Exploratory Data Analysis & Invent Python Comprehensions (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
- Hard Fork Podcast – ‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- GeekWire Podcast – Microsoft Copilot shakeup, Amazon phone ambitions, and pushing Claude to the limits of LinkedIn (Todd Bishop)
- BONUS Why Every Organization Reinvents Silos—And What to Do About It | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Roland Flemm)
- A Geek Leader Episode #461 – Ben Fox (John Rouda)
Community and Events
- HackIndia Becoming India’s Largest Hackathon Organizer (Maheshh Chand)
- Call For Papers Listings for 3/20 and Job listings for week ending 3/20 (Leon Adato)
- Everything Announced at Minecraft Live: March 2026 (Joe Skrebels)
- It’s been 20 years since the first tweet (Anthony Ha)
- We Give, We Grow: Celebrating Women’s History Month at New Relic (Essence Walden)
Database
- Why use a Composite Index in SQL Server (Deepak Vohra)
- Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate (Shireesh Thota)
- Announcing Polecat: Event Sourcing with SQL Server (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Access announces retirement of Database Compare tool in June 2026 (Linda Lu)
- SQL Server Indexing – Non Clustered Indexes (MSSQL Tips)
- SSMS v22.4.1: Copilot is GA. So What’s It Do Right Now? (Brent Ozar)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Copilot Notebooks New Features Landing soon (Vesa Nopanen)
- What’s new in Power Platform: March 2026 feature update (Tiffany Treacy)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.10 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- Beats now have notes (Simon Willison)
Tools
General
- This is Microsoft’s plan to fix Windows 11 (Tom Warren)
- The Dullest $3,000 I Ever Spent on Technology (Alan Mendelevich)
- Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely (Sean Hollister)
- Seahawks star Marshawn Lynch had one Amazon exec on edge when he took the wheel of Treasure Truck (Kurt Schlosser)
More Link Collections
- Links For You (3/22/26) (Raymond Camden)
- Daily Reading List – March 20, 2026 (#746) (Richard Seroter)
- F# Weekly #12, 2026 – 11 years of Ionide (Sergey Tihon)
- Android Weekly Issue #719 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
- The Batch: Attacks On Data Centers, Qwen3.5 In All Sizes, DeepSeek’s Huawei Play, Apple’s Multimodal Tokenizer (DeepLearning.AI)
- Azure Weekly #556 – 22nd March 2026 (The Editor)
- Projects (Brian Peek)
