• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | September 2026 (Nick Brady)
• What will the next generation of developers do when AI writes the code? (Mark Russinovich & Scott Hanselman)
• Bring Azure SRE Agent into your developer workflow with the new canvas (Paul Yuknewicz)
• Vector stores in Agent Framework for Python: familiar foundations, streamlined for agents (Eduard van Valkenburg)
• What’s new in Windows 11: Everyday experiences, reimagined (Navjot Virk)
• Introducing dotnetup: A toolchain manager for .NET (Chet Husk)
• Stop waiting on a failed build (Mads Kristensen)

Web and Cloud Development

• Faster protection, fewer interruptions: How Microsoft Edge is rethinking updates (Patrick Brosset)
• web.config to appsettings.json converter for ASP.NET Core (free, in the browser) (Graham Church)
• React for Vue Developers, Part 4: Forms, useFormStatus and useOptimistic (Marina Mosti)
• How to Model Money in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
• What Duende IdentityServer costs a multi-tenant SaaS in 2026, and the alternatives (SaaS Infrastructure Team)
• What Traffic Engineering Taught Us About Building an Azure App (Jon Eric Eubanks)
• Pulumi ESC now issues OIDC tokens for any service (Devon Grove)

Windows Development

• MSVC Build Tools Version 14.52 Release Candidate Now Available (Eric Brumer)
• C++ futures part 3: The mental model for std::async and C++ futures part 4: What if I want an immediate on-thread std::async? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Set Up Claude Code for a .NET Solution on Windows (Nick Cosentino)
• packages.config to PackageReference converter (free, in the browser) (Graham Church)

AI

• GPT-chat-latest gets more intelligent, interactive, and personal in Microsoft Foundry (Trupti Parkar)
• IMF Warns of the Real AI Threat: Debt (BeauHD)
• Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs (Jay Peters)
• MCP standardized tools. Now we need the infrastructure around them. (Vijay Harre)
• New in Frontier: Delegate Business Processes to Copilot Studio Agents (Vesa Nopanen)
• Microsoft and GitHub Keep Giving AI Agents More Power – and More Restrictions (David Ramel)
• Enterprise Adoption Guide for Azure SRE Agent, Part 1: Deploying Your First Azure SRE Agent and Part 2: From One Team to Enterprise-Wide Adoption (dchelupati)
• AI has moved the bottlenecks in software development (Jeremy D. Miller)
• AI Is Making Code Generation Cheaper—and Engineering Judgment More Valuable (Chris Pietschmann)
• OpenClaw Windows update channel and OpenClaw v2026.10.4 Release (RomneyDa)
• Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint (Kate Soule, Subhajit Chaudhury, Hendrik Strobelt & Luis A. Lastras)
• Tactics for rolling out software factories: human and organizational changes (Zach Lloyd)
• Why AI Sounds Confident When It’s Wrong (Pinal Dave)
• The road to self-improving software (Ben Holmes)
• Code Review is now generally available (Claude Team)
• Your agents need a platform (Richard Seroter)
• An update on independent evaluators (Anthropic Team)
• Why your platform team shouldn't build an AI context layer (even though they probably could) (Eira May)
• AI in Platform Engineering: When Agents Join Your Platform (Ioannis Moustakis)
• Teaching students to think and learn through questions (OpenAI Team)
• How Netflix Made AI Coding Agents More Efficient with JetBrains IDE Intelligence (Anastasia Kazakova)
• Amazon’s new AI devices can listen to conversations and suggest things to buy — if you opt in (Todd Bishop)
• Introducing a team knowledge base, curated by Copilot and agents (Kripal Kavi)
• Agentic Code Quality (Addy Osmani)
• Introducing Devin Oncall (Devin Team)
• I Propose a Truce (Tom Schroeder)

Python

• python/2.0.3: Prompty Python 2.0.3 (Seth Juarez)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.22.0 Release (Eduard van Valkenburg)
• mssql-python 1.16.0: Python 3.15 support, Conda, and faster fetches (David Levy)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• From .sqlproj to production: generate a well documented Azure DevOps pipeline for your SQL Database Project (Erik EJ)
• From copy-paste to platform thinking (Matthew Allford)
• Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org (Greg Mohler)
• Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar (Srinath Setty)

Mobile and Game Development

• Android App Obfuscation: A Layered Approach to Security (Michelle Pruitt)
• How to Import Excel and CSV Data into a .NET MAUI DataGrid (Shalini Suresh)
• DIY Halloween Displays and Holiday Gifts eBook Bundle | Make: eBooks (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Screencasts and Videos

• How to Go from AI Power User to AI Leader (AIDailyBrief)
• Develop Portable Apps with Adaptive Applications | The Azure Essentials Show (Aaron Stark & Haishi Bai)
• First Steps with the GitHub Copilot app - Agent-First Development Masterclass (James Montemagno)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #594 - The Bottom Fell Out Of The Software Industry (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #375 - AWS Finally Automates the Blame Game (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• We Need a Hero...Link! | SyncUp Podcast - October 2026 (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
• Generative AI in the Real World: Observability for AI (Ben Lorica & Charity Majors)
• The Practical AI Podcast Episode #376 - Education is Failing our Students in this AI-Driven World (Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - AI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong (Phoebe Sajor)
• Success for Scrum Masters Is a Team That Improves Without You Driving Every Conversation | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joseph Osei-Kusi)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #225 - In-flight experience: a cloud inside the plane (Frédéric Faria & Yann Nicolas)

Database

• Know Your Wait Types: Six Profiles, All Induced and When a GUID Clustered Primary Key Gets Expensive (Pinal Dave)
• AI Agents: Meet the Azure Cosmos DB vNext Emulator (Theo van Kraay)
• sqlpackage can now skip Windows users and other Azure incompatible objects when exporting a .bacpac (Erik EJ)

Tools

• Meet the new Photos app on Windows 11 (Giorgio Sardo)
• Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more (Sarah Perez)
• PowerToys Preview v0.102.2883.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Tray-tober Day 15: Tray Clock (Joseph Finney)
• Secure Linux desktops with Microsoft Defender (Megha Priya)

General

• World's Timekeepers Vote to Eliminate the Leap Second and Ubuntu 26.10 Released (BeauHD)
• We test the RTX Spark Superchip in Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra — Nvidia's Windows on Arm platform impresses in local AI, but gaming isn't its strong suit (Jeffrey Kampman)
• Windows 11 could kill Control Panel faster, as Microsoft quietly tests Settings in the Microsoft Store (Gareth Smith)
• Leaked list shows what Microsoft, Amazon and other tech giants are giving for the White House ballroom (Todd Bishop)
• Announcing Rust 1.99.1 (Rust Release Team)
• End of Lifecycle for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 (Meagan McCrory)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 15, 2026 (#889) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) - Referral Link A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.

• New Tools, New Workflows and the Value of the Visual Studio Subscription: What We Learned at VSLive! San Diego (James Rempt)
• Python 3.15 delivers a native-by-default experience on Windows on Arm (Chris Anderson)
• Visual Studio 2026 Release Notes - October Update 18.11.0 and Visual Studio Insiders Release Notes - Released on October 13, 2026 (Microsoft Learn)
• From extraction to action: Using grounding and confidence to build reliable document workflows (Joe Filcik & Colin Murphy)
• Azure MCP Server 3.0 stable release: More tools. More possibilities (Sandeep Sen)
• Uno Platform Studio 3.2: See Your App’s Design System (Uno Platform Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Console and worker apps (Aspire Team)
• Next.js Security Update for Upstream Vulnerabilities (Sebastian Silbermann)
• Node.js 24.22.0 (LTS) and Node.js 26.12.0 (Current) (Richard Lau)
• Announcing Blazorise 2.4 - Bura (Mladen Macanović)
• Infrastructure for the frontier era: Scaling intelligence through open industry collaboration (Reynold D'Sa & Rani Borkar)
• ByteAether.Ulid v1.4.2 Expands the .NET Ecosystem with ASP.NET Core and CLI Support (Joonatan Uusväli)
• Create Reusable, Schema-Driven Forms with Syncfusion Form Builder and Form Renderer (Sabari Anand S)
• Better HTTP/1 connection reuse (Nicholas Husin & Damien Neil)

.NET and Visual Studio

• How to Use Copilot Agents for Code Review in Visual Studio 2026 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Reliable Document AI in .NET: LLM Tool Calling vs. LLM-Generated Files (Deepika Kathiravan)
• Visual Studio Code 1.143 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Human-in-the-Loop AI Agents in C#: Approval and Resume with Vercel Eve (Nick Cosentino)

AI

• Triaging Dependabot With a Copilot Canvas (Aaron Powell)
• Are We Losing Our Ability to Think in the Age of AI? (Adhithi Ravichandran)
• Getting visual explanations from your coding agent with the show-me skill (Bart Wullems)
• Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Then reviewers found a race. (Amanda Caswell)
• How to Fine-Tune Llama 3 for Custom Tool Calling with Unsloth in Python (Vinod Chugani)
• How Cloud-Based Agent Sandboxing Works in Air (Dennis Ushakov)
• Evaluating decision models for document categorization (Pallavi Sinha)
• OpenClaw v2026.9.33 Release (Romney Da)
• Why Does AI Write Like Yoda? (Andrew Stellman)
• AI Engineering Skills Roadmap (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Running Multiple Claude Code Accounts with herdr (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.22 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Agent observability on the Claude Platform (Claude Team)
• Meat Proxy (James Ashley)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Why Is My Kubernetes Job Still Pending? Tracing Kueue Admission with Headlamp (Utkarsh Raj René Dudfield & Kevin Hannon)
• Harbor + Docker Sandboxes: Run Safe, Reproducible Agent Evals (Srini Sekaran)
• Making n8n Workflows Testable and Maintainable with Runtime Variables (Caleb Jenkins)
• Boost Your Pipeline: Top 6 CI/CD Integrations for Qodana (Kerry Beetge)
• From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers (Taylor Cuilty)
• Playwright v1.64.1 Release (dgozman)

Mobile and Game Development

• One SDK, Multiple Platforms: Introducing the Auth0 SDK for Kotlin Multiplatform (Prince Mathew)
• Your widget tree is already a list of options: where Jev fits in a Flutter project (Yii Chen)

Screencasts and Videos

• The Hanselminutes Podcast - The Quantum Revolution with Turing Award Winners Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard (Scott Hanselman)
• Build and Run Azure Functions Hosted Skills in GitHub Copilot | Microsoft Azure Developers and SRE Agent Canvas | Microsoft Azure Developers (Paul Yuknewicz)
• Where Gemini 4 Argon Fits (AIDailyBrief)
• Quickstart: Ship an AI agent without leaving your terminal (Julia Muiruri)
• How to make a software factory that's not expensive (full walkthrough) (Warp Team)
• ASP.NET Core meets OWASP Top 10 2025 | NDC Oslo 2026 (Anders Abel)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! - AI in Live Broadcast with Tim Huckaby (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #742 - Tim Varelmann on Mathematical Optimization for Software Engineers (Sriram Panyam)
• Windows Weekly Episode #1005 - Nicely Frosted - Why Microsoft's Latest Event Left Us Baffled (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Episode #626 - Star City Season 1 Review (David Barr Kirtley, John Joseph Adams, Sara Lynn Michener & Rafael Jordan)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #531 - AI & Yap - AI Assistants & Bots (Taylor Desseyn)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - Your college essay doesn't need an extraordinary story, with Ethan Sawyer (Mignon Fogarty)
• Big Technology Podcast - AI Leaders Can't Get Along. So How Will They Keep Us Safe? (Alex Kantrowitz & Kevin Roose)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1047 - Adobe has a big problem (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Helping Agile Managers Move from Control to Enablement | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joseph Osei-Kusi)

Community and Events

• Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q&A with Corey Hymel of Andela (Ryan Donovan)
• Netflix is laying off around 1,000 employees (Andrew Liszewski)

Database

• Canada’s 2026 time zone updates: guidance for Microsoft SQL (Umachandar Jayachandran)
• Introducing sqlsimtools (Bob Ward)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.11.0 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• How to create roles, databases and tables in PostgreSQL (getting started with PostgreSQL, part two) (Grant Fritchey)
• Breaking News: Hold Off on SSMS 22.11.0 (Brent Ozar)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Time Zone Confusion (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• SharePoint Knowledge Base – Team Memory, Curated by AI (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.98 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• The 5 Top Tips For Turning Memories Into A Memoir (Writers Write)

Tools

• Tray-tober Day 14: Tray Sport (Joseph Finney)
• Microsoft Defender Now Supports Linux Desktops (BeauHD)

General

• Meet the XBOX Nano Controller (Danielle Partis)
• As a TV enthusiast, I was hoping for more from the Apple TV 4K (John Higgins)
• Repairing the iPhone Duo's folding screen costs as much as a new iPhone (Jay Peters)
• Microsoft’s wild ride: Stock hits new record after a year of ups and downs (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 14, 2026 (#888) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

C# 14 and .NET 10 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Build modern websites and services with ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and EF Core using Visual Studio 2026.

• Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 (.NET Team)
• Introducing XBOX LABS (Asha Sharma)
• GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise (Batu Ozturkler)
• Is it MSIX? Part 3: Find Package and Application Identity with TASKLIST and PowerShell (Howard Kapustein)
• From Answers to Actions with Work IQ (Vesa Nopanen)
• Trick or Tokens: Five Monsters Eating Your Context Window (J. Tower)

Web and Cloud Development

• Walk-Thru: A Blazor Azure Inventory, Knowledge Graph, and AI Chat Application (Michael Washington)
• What’s new in Microsoft Entra: October 2026 (Yina Arenas)
• Azure Verified Modules (AVM) is now owned by Azure engineering (J. Tracey)
• TypeScript Won. Now It’s Giving Up Its Superpowers. (Rob Larsen)
• Blazor Basics: Common Blazor Mistakes Beginners Make (and How to Avoid Them) (Claudio Bernasconi)
• React Gantt Chart Performance: Which Library Handles 100,000 Tasks Best? (Lokesh Arjunan)
• How Aurelia Knows Something Changed (Dwayne Charrington)
• Backstage 1.55 Adds Scaffolder Task Recovery and Removes Deprecated Catalog APIs (Mark Silvester)
• Introducing the Auth0 SDK for TanStack Start (Rengarajan R)

Windows Development

• C++ futures part 2: The mental model for stdpromise, stdpackaged_task (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• How C# 14 Extension Types Cut Microservice Memory Allocations to Zero (Kunal Chowdhury)
• .NET 8.0.32 / 8.0.132 and .NET 9.0.21 / 9.0.122 and .NET v10.0.402 Release (.NET Team)
• Swap System.Text.Json for REDox in a Minimal API and Collection Expression Arguments Fix the Comparer Problem in C# 15 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Human Prose from Human Evidence: SeekStorm, RRF and C# (Scott Galloway)
• Opening Up Your App to AI Agents: A Practical Guide to MCP with .NET (David Ramel)
• .NET and .NET Framework October 2026 servicing releases updates (Rahul Bhandari & Tara Overfield)
• Using FileLifecycleHooks in Serilog (Bart Wullems)

AI

• OpenSpec Tutorial: One Real Change, From Install to Archive and BMAD Method: A Real Run in Claude Code, From Install to Commit (Felipe Fontoura)
• Advanced AI Observability: Context, Loop Detection and Token Counts with Progress Agent Engineering (Dany Paredes)
• Introducing Topics Portfolio (Beta) in AI Performance (Bing Team)
• Microsoft Foundry Guardrails Getting in Your Way? Here’s How to Dial Them Down (suzarilshah)
• AI can act exactly like a human, but we still don't think it's conscious (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
• Run AI agents safely with Ollama and Fly.io (Ollama Team)
• Make every AI credit count: See, cap, and reduce agent spend (Allie Holland)
• The New Microsoft Copilot: From Asking Questions to Delegating, Building and Automating (Nicholas Aquino)
• Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? (Grace Huckins)
• Meta’s Generative Ads Model (GEM): Scaling the Central Model and Compute Engine for Frontier Ads AI (Huayu Li, Darren Liu, Xiaoyi (Leo) Liu, Ellie Wen, Jackie (Jiaqi) Xu, Chunzhi Yang & Reva Srinivasan)
• Build AI-powered apps without creating a vector database (Steve Pucelik)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.21 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• AI Productivity Gains Went Up and Nothing Shipped Faster (Pinal Dave)
• OpenClaw v2026.10.3 Release (Romney Da)
• Sharing Theories with Agents (Jessica Kerr)
• Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough (Arun Malik)
• Introducing remote MCP for Octopus Deploy (Gin Atkins)
• Introducing Replit Solutions Partners (Replit Team)
• GitLab's agent orchestration eliminates the wait between development stages (Elisabeth Burrows)
• Redesigning source control at Anthropic (Anthropic Team)
• The 3.7 Billion Token Diet (Simon Jackson)
• Devin in Pylon: Driving faster Median Time To Fix (Devin Team)

Python

• Python vs Go: A Practical Comparison for Developers (Dominika Stankiewicz)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• October Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
• CI/CD Pipeline Observability Tools: How to Choose the Right Setup (Olga Bedrina)
• Beyond Detection Engineering: Building Security Engineering at Scale (Matt Clemons)
• An Allowed Decision Does Not Mean the Operation Succeeded (Christopher D. Cavell)
• Visual Weight in Design: What Makes One Thing Feel Heavier Than Another (Shirish Shikhrakar)
• Why Early Releases Often Fail in Multi-Team Organizations (Vedran Petrović)
• Are Harnesses Worth the Cost? (Martin Fowler)
• Why Your Sandbox Never Quite Matches Production (And Why That's Fine) (Sancharini Panda)
• When Architecture Decisions Actually Apply (Theo Valmis)

Mobile and Game Development

• Getting Started with the .NET MAUI Map Control (Héctor Pérez)
• Mega Unreal Engine Software Bundle | Laya Design and DanStudios (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Building Bifröst: Replacing My Homelab VPN with Cloudflare Zero Trust and a Raspberry Pi (Shannon Kuehn)
• Don't forget the Raspberry Pi 3a (Rob Miles)

Screencasts and Videos

• How Muse Wonder Shifts the AI Landscape (AIDailyBrief)
• Speed up Research with Microsoft Discovery (Microsoft Developer Team)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Kevin Whinnery (Isaac Levin)
• The .NET MAUI Community Toolkits: 3 Essential Libraries for Every .NET MAUI Dev - NDC (Brandon Minnick)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• The GitHub Podcast Episode #53 - Stacked PRs, Ghost Merges, and the Merge Box: Inside GitHub's Biggest Pull Request Change in Years (Cassidy Williams, Andrea Griffiths & Sameen Karim)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #500 - Episode 500! (Michael Kennedy)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1046 - Trust Agnes! - Apple Unveils its Apple HomeView and Apple Home Collection (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• RunAs Radio Show #1058 - Choosing Tools in M365 with Joy Apple (Richard Campbell)
• Mailin' It - The Official USPS Podcast - If the Sirens Sounded: The Postal Service’s Cold War Plan (United States Postal Service)
• How Artificial Harmony Silences Agile Teams Before the Real Problems Surface | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joseph Osei-Kusi)

Community and Events

• Free Webcast: How to Think Like the SQL Server & Postgres Engines (Brent Ozar)
• Maker Faire Rome 2026: 400+ Stories Of Innovation, Creativity and Discovery (Maker Faire Rome)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Beyond Analysis: Copilot Gets to Work in Excel (Brian Jones)
• Office LTSC 2021 support ends today (Jeremy Carlson)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.6.7 Release of PowerShell and v7.5.12 Release of PowerShell and v7.4.21 Release of PowerShell (J. Shigetomi)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.97 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• How To Write A Prologue: 5 Good Reasons To Include One (Writers Write)

Tools

• PowerToys Preview v0.102.2862.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Tray-tober Day 13: Tray QR (Joseph Finney)

General

• Apple unveils the new Apple TV 4K, supercharged by Siri AI (Apple)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 13, 2026 (#887) (Richard Seroter)
• Web Weekly #201 (Stefan Judis)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Prime Day 2026 by the numbers, Claude Haiku 5.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, and more (October 13, 2026) (Daniel Abib)
• Reading Notes #717 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Building Agentic Applications with MCP and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft and Deepak Kamboj) - Referral Link Build distributed, AI-ready apps on Azure with .NET and MCP.

• WinUI Gallery 3.0 is here: TableView, Charts, InkCanvas and more (Niels Laute)
• Microsoft to expand Azure Maia system to multi-gigawatt deployments (Scott Guthrie)
• Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture (Rani Borkar & Saurabh Dighe)
• Build & Iterate on UI fast with Snippets in Uno Platform Studio (Sam Basu)
• Why Modern AI Apps Feel Faster: Streaming UX Patterns That Actually Work (Ankit Sharma)
• Durable Task in the Real World: What Problems Does It Actually Solve? (Tamir Dresher)

Web and Cloud Development

• Out Now: Building Serverless Applications with WebAssembly & Spin (Thorsten Hans)
• Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions (Micah Walter)
• HTMX 4 Adds findAll Support In CSS Selector Attributes (Ben Nadel)
• Building a Production-Ready PDF Generation Pipeline in C# with ASP.NET Core (Bjoern Meyer)
• Using Kendo UI with Svelte (Jonathan Gamble)
• OAuth 2.0 vs OpenID Connect: What's the Difference and Which Do You Need? (Dean Hume)
• We’re on a roll - EPUB 3.4 is coming (W3C)

Windows Development

• C++ futures part 1: The mental model (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• 10 MCP servers you need to install now as a .NET developer (Thomas Ardal)
• C# 15 Union Types: Build Serializable Workflows and Directory.Build.props: Share Settings Across .NET Projects (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• What's Coming Soon to Visual Studio? Mads Kristensen Knows (David Ramel)
• Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI_3.0.0-beta.4 and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents_3.0.0-beta.4 (Azure .NET SDK Team)
• Claude Code for .NET Developers: A Reviewable Repository Workflow (Nick Cosentino)
• AI is changing your .NET job: What you need to know (David Grace)
• Multi-tenancy in .NET 10: isolating tenant data with EF Core named query filters (Abdel Hakim Khammassi)
• Cleaning up old log files with Serilog (Bart Wullems)

AI

• EU AI Act compliance for AI agents: building the engineering foundation with Arize and evroc (Jim Bennett)
• AI Coding Agents Generate More Code, But Not More Software (BeauHD)
• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase (Christopher Harrison)
• Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Personal Assistant on OpenClaw (Michelle Smith)
• Designing Websites for People and AI Agents with WebMCP (Angie Jones)
• Coders with Agents Fixing Websites (Chris Sells)
• Andrej Karpathy says only 5,000 people have seen what AI can really do (Amanda Caswell)
• How to estimate the real cost of one LLM API request (AI//COST) (Yaroslav Vikhariev)
• Not Every Decision Needs an LLM: Getting Started with Microsoft-Decision-1 (Shreyan Fern)
• The rise of the programmer-producer (Rob Conery)
• Building a Local RAG Copilot with Foundry Local: Evidence Before Answers (FF99)
• Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring (Microsoft Research Team)
• Building machines that work with other machines (Tom Johnson)
• AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter (Anthropic Team)
• Decision Models Agreed On The Questions, Not The Contract (Kin Lane)

Python

• Python 3.15 Adds Lazy Imports (Mike James)
• Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11 (Simon Willison)
• Parsing JSON at tens of gigabytes per second… in Python (Daniel Lemire)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Event Sourcing: A close look at the projector for values (Urs Enzler)
• Sharing is (not always) caring. PgBouncer pooling modes in practice (Oskar Dudycz)
• Idempotency Does Not Prevent Authority Replay (Christopher D. Cavell)

Mobile and Game Development

• App Store Indie Games Week kicks off today (Apple Team)

Screencasts and Videos

• The 5 Debates Shaping AI (AIDailyBrief)
• From coding agents to software factories with Uber and Faire and How to build self-improving agents (full walkthrough) (Warp Team)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast - Why does ‘Here comes he’ sound so wrong? (Mignon Fogarty)
• Smooth Scaling Podcast Episode #29 - Bot Traffic as a Capacity and Cost Problem with Netacea CTO Andy Still (José Quaresma)
• InfoQ Podcast: What Does It Really Mean To Program With AI (Joy Ebertz)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1046 - The Pi Updates are insane (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• When the Jira Board Looked Fine but the Agile Team Was Drained | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Joseph Osei-Kusi)
• Meta Cast - The 4X rule every feature MUST pass (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Inside Trader Joe's Podcast Episode #113 - Trader Joe's Goes Viral (Trader Joe's Team)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Keep calm and call clone with Rust (Phoebe Sajor)

Database

• From Prompt to a Running App: Introducing Agent Skills for Couchbase Mobile (Priya Rajagopal)
• How to make database schema changes without downtime in MySQL: complete guide (Lukas Vileikis)
• Heads Up: SQL Server 2017 Support Ends One Year From Today. (Brent Ozar)
• Lessons Learned #559: Understanding query timeouts in Azure SQL Database (Jose Manuel Jurado)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Excel eBook Bundle | Wiley (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.96 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• Mozilla introduces Firefox Enterprise (Mozilla)
• Dew Submitter - Share developer articles and RSS feed suggestions with The Morning Dew | Microsoft Store (Alvin Ashcraft)
• PowerToys Preview v0.102.2851.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Tray-tober Day 12: Quick Places (Joseph Finney)

General

• Coding, Math, and AI: What’s Ahead for School Students in 2026–2027 (Alena Gupaisova)

More Link Collections

• Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - October 12 (Peter Ritchie)
• Daily Reading List – October 12, 2026 (#886) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms (Eric Lippert) - Referral Link This book invites you to step off the beaten path and explore interesting, unfamiliar, and even exotic algorithms that will challenge your perspective and elevate your code.

• Introducing Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making (Achint Srivastava)
• Building a TypeSafe's Jev MCP server with .NET (Laurent Kempe)
• European Law for .NET Developers: What the GDPR Means for Your Code (Lou Creemers)
• What’s New in Syncfusion .NET MAUI 2026 Volume 3: New Controls and Features (Vijayakumar Mariappan)
• Are bigger agents better? How to design agents that scale (Gary Pretty)
• Introducing the Agent Experience (AX) Practitioner Playbook (Waldek Mastykarz)
• The Handoff - 30-minute sessions on Discord to share demos, updates, Q&A and feedback on Microsoft Foundry (Nick Brady)

Web and Cloud Development

• Use multiple schemes in an ASP.NET Core Web application (Damien Bowden)
• The best way to use icons in Web UIs (Lea Verou)
• Tuning the default logging providers in ASP.NET Core through configuration (Bart Wullems)
• WebSocket servers in JavaScript: Node.js, Bun and Deno in 2026 (Daniel Lemire)
• Backstage with Azure: Microsoft Entra ID Authentication (Paul Yu)
• Build a Secure TypeScript MCP Client with Cross App Access (XAA) (Akanksha Bhasin)
• Go 1.27.2-1 and 1.26.9-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
• Signal Value Transforms, Routing Essentials, and Video Extension with Veo! ⚡ (Angular Team)
• Can One Worker Safely Execute Delayed Operations for Many Tenants? (Christopher D. Cavell)
• The First Reduction in Their History: 64-Day Let's Encrypt Certificates (Scott Helme)
• Deno is joining Cloudflare (Ryan Dahl)
• Multi-Tenant SaaS Apps with Auth0 Organizations — Part One (Felix Colaci & Andre Hochstein)

Windows Development

• Prepare for Windows Update certificate rotation in 2027 (Andrew Brown)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Simplify HTTP Request Handling with HttpRequestExtensions (David McCarter)
• Creating a Windows Service using .NET and OpenMSI (Open MSI Support)
• Governed Execution & Secure .NET Architecture Tutorials | AsiBackbone Learning (Christopher D. Cavell)
• What Actually Happens When a Durable Orchestration Awaits an Activity? (Tamir Dresher)
• Labcoat: the web UI I was missing for my .NET tests in Aspire (Erik Lieben)
• Less chat. More decisions: introducing ElBruno.AI.Decisions for .NET and From a ZIP Archive to an AI Ingestion Document with C# and MarkItDotNet (Bruno Capuano)
• Structured Extraction, Part 1: live semantic templates for unstructured documents (Scott Galloway)
• Created a Job Board Because I Was Tired of Lying Job Boards (Jamie Maguire)

AI

• Releasing AI-generated software (Mark Seemann)
• GenAI & Agentic AI eBook Bundle | bpb (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI (Sean Goedecke)
• OpenClaw v2026.10.2 Release (Romney Da)
• Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating (Antonio G. Di Benedetto)
• Creating Spec Kit Presets Step-By-Step and Creating a Spec Kit Extension (Jesse Liberty)
• Introducing Microsoft-Decision-1 in Microsoft Foundry for decision and classification workloads (Saumil Shrivastava)
• What LangGraph Actually Builds: Runnables, Channels, Bubble-Up, Agents and Deep Agents (Tamir Dresher)
• Introducing Office in the new Microsoft Copilot app (Sumit Chauhan)
• Microsoft-Decision-1 available in Microsoft Foundry (Vesa Nopanen)
• AI-Generated Code Still Needs Human Review (Chris Pietschmann)
• Experimenting with Claude Code Experimental Agent Teams (Andy Leonard)
• Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era (Satya Nadella)
• An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police (Amanda Silberling)
• What's New in Copilot Notebooks | October 2026 (Ezra Park)
• Trump’s attempt to rename AI is looking awfully artificial (Adi Robertson)
• Voice AI Is an Infrastructure Problem, Not Just a Model Problem (Marin Pavelić)
• AI Sounds Like Someone, But Nobody Is in There (Pinal Dave)
• Bringing CRM into the flow of work and agents into business process for sales and service teams (Jeff Teper)
• Herding Agents: How I Actually Use Herdr (on a Ridiculously Wide Screen) and Spaces, Tabs, Panes, and Precise Words: Why I Break Agent Work Out the Way I Do (Adron Hall)
• Jevfree - repurposing EmbeddingGemma 2 for Jev-like decisions (Johnny)
• Be Nice to Claude. It’s Not About Claude. (Jeffrey Snover)
• Five Mistakes People Make with Agentic Factories (Eleanor Berger)
• One Either Meets or One Works: So I Built an AI Agent (Marlon Grech)
• If You Never Do Anything Else to Fix Your Prompts, Do This One Thing (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Steer Your Agents Until They Steer Themselves (Rohan Vaidya)
• Intent, Not Identity (Vicki Reyzelman)

Python

• Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions (Simon Willison)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Use Stacked Pull Requests to Make AI Code Review Managable (Mitchel Sellers)
• Some quick thoughts on Unit Testing ActivityPub (Terence Eden)
• Leadership in the Age of Infinite Fluency (UX Magazine)
• Cloud Performance Testing with Postman: From Laptop to CI (Giridhar)
• Tribal Knowledge: Nobody Left to Ask (Pinal Dave)
• Software's centaur age may last decades (Sean Goedecke)
• Performance tuning is about finding the real bottleneck (Slawomir Luty)
• Where, Oh Where, Is Debugger-Man? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Test Time-Dependent Code Without Waiting (Milan Jovanović)
• The Golden Ratio in Design: What It Is, and Where It Actually Helps (Shirish Shikhrakar)
• A Treatise on Model Oriented Programming Languages (Dave Clemmer)

Mobile and Game Development

• How $560,000 in Steam sales turns into $73,000 for the dev (Code Monkey)
• Generating a dynamic background on .NET MAUI (anotherlab)
• Graphics with the SAM Coupé – Transparency and Graphics with the SAM Coupé – Keyboard Input and Graphics with the SAM Coupé – Animation (Pete Gallagher)
• Android Bench 2 Adds Support for Long-Horizon Tasks, Agentic Evaluation, and Continuous Scoring and Xcode 27.2 Introduces an Agent- and Merge-Friendly JSON Format for Project Configuration (Sergio De Simone)
• Announcing Stride 4.4 (ferafiks)
• Plinth! My first arcade-style game. (Gavin Rose)
• BluetoothLE between apps has never been easier - Enter BLE Hubs (Allan Ritchie)
• Amazon just fixed the worst thing about its tablets after 15 years (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

Screencasts and Videos

• Functional Programming with the aid of AI | NDC Oslo 2026 (Venkat Subramaniam)
• Live Coding with Wes Bos, Burke Holland, Pierce Boggan & Friends | GitHub Copilot Day (GitHub Team)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 334 - “Who is Your Industry Death Star?” (Disruption in Hype's Clothing) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• AspiriFridays - Let’s Go try Go 🦫 (Aspire Team)
• Can GPT-6 Luna Handle a 42-Step Coding Task? (James Montemagno)
• QDK Tutorial: Build Chemistry applications with the Quantum Development Kit for Chemistry (Microsoft Developer Team)
• The Best New AI Products and the Key Trends They Represent and AI’s First Full Field-Level Disruption (AIDailyBrief)
• This Week in AI: More Capability, More Responsibility (Christina Stathopoulos & Michelle Smith)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Daniel Vacanti: What's AI Done To Agile - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #423 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #536 - Decisions, Microsoft-Decision-1, Decisions (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Lenny's Podcast - Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• The Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #90 - Coding Agents for Everyday Life - with Gui Ferreira (Dan Clarke)
• BONUS AI Changes Management, Not Leadership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mateo Bervejillo)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #286 - How can browser and mobile app testing be so difficult? (David Burns, Will Button & Warren Parad)
• React Native Radio Episode #375 - RNR Explains: EAS Update (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
• The Changelog Podcast Episode #686 - From zero to NanoClaw (Gavriel Cohen & Adam Stacoviak)
• Women in Technology Podcast Episode #66 - Find Your Voice, Find Your People (WiT Team)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode #229 - Forget Networking. Build Your Career Crew. (Max Ahumada)
• Big Technology Podcast - Meta & Microsoft's Claude Slowdown, His Agent Leaked His Banking Info, Don’t Bully Your AI (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #175 - Volkswagen Ditches ID.4 — Meet ID. Tiguan, its Replacement (Batteries Included Team)
• Hard Fork Podcast - Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #314 - Codemoo: Demonstrating How Coding Agents Work (Christopher Bailey & Geir Arne Hjelle)
• Product Owners Who Turn Feedback Into Agile Team Learning | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Oluyomi Emmanuel)
• A Geek Leader Episode #490 - Dr. Mik Kersten on Output to Outcome (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• Where Community and Code Connect: MVPs at Nebraska.Code 2026 (Betsy Weber)
• Microsoft 2.5: GitHub COO Kyle Daigle on stitching the developer universe together (Mary Jo Foley)
• From H-1B to CEO: How Satya Nadella traveled the path the U.S. just cut off for Microsoft workers (Todd Bishop)
• Job listings for week ending 10/09 and Call For Papers Listings for 10/9 (Leon Adato)
• Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build (Ed Summers)
• 10 Unexpected Ways to Celebrate Halloween in Philadelphia in 2026 (Visit Philly)

Database

• Which Cable Reaches the Database? A Sunday Puzzle and Text to SQL: The SQL Was Never the Hard Part (Pinal Dave)
• How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) (SQLPals)
• The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server (Arun Sirpal)
• How to secure temporary objects, metadata visibility, and audit assurance in SQL Server (complete guide) (Fabiano Amorim)
• INFO: Extended Security Updates for SQL Server in Azure VMs not free for v2016 (13.x) (Kurt Shintaku)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• TBD

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.95 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• How To Write A Locked-Room Mystery: The Secret To The Impossible Crime and How To Use Method Writing To Create Better Characters (Writers Write)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.3 (Files Team)
• LiteBox v0.1.0 Release - A security-focused library OS supporting kernel- and user-mode execution (Microsoft)
• Tray-tober Day 9: Tray-MdB and Tray-tober Day 10: Tray 2048 and Tray-tober Day 11: Traysky (Joseph Finney)
• Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subscription-based services may come next (Jhet Borja)
• WhatsApp starts blocking logins from outdated operating systems (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)

General

• A College Told Flock to Remove Its Cameras. The Company Refused. (EditorDavid)
• AI was supposed to sell PCs. Instead, PC shipments just crashed 20% as AI eats the world’s RAM, and Windows 11’s Copilot agents aren’t convincing buyers (Abhijith M B)
• COVID-19 Cases Are Picking Up Again. These Are the Variants That Health Officials Are Watching (Jenny Lehmann)
• Microsoft tries to spark new life into Windows (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 4, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Android Weekly Issue #748 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #583 - 11th October 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #41, 2026 – Paket 11 & Firelight (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – October 9, 2026 (#885) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

So You Want To Be a Tech Lead (Greg Hatchuk) - Referral Link This is the unfiltered, blood-smeared, inbox-exploding truth about what happens when you step out of the safe zone of your IDE and into the jungle of tech leadership.

• Adding persistence to the Aspire dashboard (James Newton-King)
• Azure DevOps: New Wiki Editor Experience (Dan Hellem)
• VB6 Studio Web (Wieslaw Soltes)
• Got a Microsoft 365 subscription? Your storage is about to shrink (Ed Bott)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 593 - Markdown for the Masses (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Agent Buddy - A desk buddy for your AI coding agents (Dan Wahlin)

Web and Cloud Development

• Tiny Apps with TinyJS (Raymond Camden)
• Upcoming Next.js Security Update for Upstream Vulnerabilities (Sebastian Silbermann)
• A Modern Guide to Using OAuth 2.0 with Node.js (Dean Hume)
• The Superset Trap: Why Node’s Native TypeScript is Going to Break Enterprise Brains (Rob Larsen)
• Master Modern React Routing: TanStack Router Crash Course (Beau Carnes)
• Build a Real-Time Collaborative Notes App with Replicache (Christian Nwamba)
• Sign in quickly and securely with passkeys (Google)
• What’s new in the W3C Website Design System (W3C)

Windows Development

• If one anti-malware software is good, does that make two better? (Raymond Chen)
• AI-Powered Grammar Checking in TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms in C# (Bjoern Meyer)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Struggling with Complex Document Tasks? Explore Syncfusion Essential Studio 2026 Volume 3 (Kavitha Muralitharan)

AI

• GPT-6 brings interactive Intelligent UI answers to free ChatGPT users (Camila Nogueira)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.18 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Arize's next top decision model (Jim Bennett)
• Welcome to Gemini at Work 2026: Introducing the Gemini agent (Thomas Kurian)
• Mellum2.1 Gets to Work: A Fast Open Model for Coding Agents (Bulat Salimzianov)
• The Preservation Gap in the AI Stack: Why Capability Is Advancing Faster Than Reconstructability (Monika Dvorackova)
• Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide and Part 4: Safety and governance for LLM systems: guardrails, PII, audit, and memory (Varun Jindal)
• Agentic SDLC with the Claude Code Plugin (Talia Kohan)
• 4 Solutions to Spec Kit Issues (Jesse Liberty)
• EmbeddingGemma 2 Integration (Bruno Capuano)
• Build live dashboards and animate explainers with Claude (Claude Team)
• As AI Does the Coding, How Do Human Devs Stay Essential? (David Ramel)
• 6 Months of Claude and Cursor, Part 3: When the Machine Starts Learning on Its Own (Jefferson S. Motta)
• OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers (Robert Hart)
• The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself (Yuvraj Sharma & Abubakar Abid)
• Building on our commitment to American scientific discovery (Anthropic Team)
• Building out my agent skills course and rethinking product skills (Tom Johnson)
• Claude Haiku 5.5 Pricing: The 100K-Token Rule for Agents (Anup Karanjkar)
• Model Selection Criteria (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Real-world lessons in agentic authority and overreach (Jeremy Gordon)

Python

• Faster Python startup with lazy imports (Daniel Lemire)
• How to Create System Design Diagrams using Python (Zaira Hira)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.21.0 Release (jpalvarezl)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Post-quantum authentication: Why organizations should start testing certificate ecosystems now (Microsoft Security Research Team)
• Tests Aren’t Medicine (Code Curmudgeon)
• Make Honesty Less Risky Than Silence for Your Engineering Team (Marko Sertić)

Mobile and Game Development

• Amazon unveils Alexa Tablets running Android with Google Play, including a Pro model aimed at work (Todd Bishop)
• What's new in Swift: September 2026 Edition (Dave Lester)
• Announcing Genkit Dart 1.0: Build production-ready agentic apps with Dart and Flutter (Chris Gill)
• Building an iOS app in 6 hours with Firebase and Antigravity (Marina Coelho & Tim Condon)
• Gamer's Kitchen Cookbooks eBook Bundle | Insight Editions (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Screencasts and Videos

• How to run GitHub Copilot agent sessions across any device | GitHub Copilot Day (Patrick Nikoletich)
• Hangar DX Podcast - Why Teams Only Pretend to Review AI Code | Dr. Michaela Greiler (Hangar DX Team)
• Quickstart: When my agent is slow or wrong, where do I even look? (April Gittens)
• The Best Way To Test New AI Models (AIDailyBrief)
• What's new in Microsoft SQL at SQLCon/FabCon Barcelona 2026 | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
• Route Your Agent Traffic through an Agent Gateway (Postman Team)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Modern .NET Show - You Might Not Need to Upgrade: The Case for Staying Put (Jamie Taylor)
• InfoQ Podcast: The Minimum Viable Manager: Building Trust, Feedback, and Alignment (Matt Gjertsen)
• Uncanny Valley Podcast - Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree (Zoë Schiffer & Leah Feiger)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Taking a look under your agent’s hood (Phoebe Sajor)
• MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #438 - Taking your WorkOS and LLM Wiki to the Next Level (Ben Stegink & Scott Hoag)
• Constructive Independence as a Scrum Master Success Metric | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Oluyomi Emmanuel)

Community and Events

• Open-source databases in the AI era: Meet Microsoft at All Things Open (Bob Ward)
• Amazon confirms job cuts impacting hundreds of employees in retail unit (Todd Bishop)
• Introducing XP and New Leadership Appointments and XBOX Division (Joe Skrebels)
• Microsoft Comment on Recent Immigration Questions (Microsoft)

Database

• The SQL Project preplan script - the missing step in DACPAC publishing (Erik EJ)
• Free Database Performance Monitoring – The Web Viewer and Custom Views (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Angry users taking step against Microsoft after M365 OneDrive storage cut from 6TB to 2TB (Sayan Sen)
• Microsoft 365 Family subscribers will finally be able to share AI benefits (Tom Warren)
• Why DLP for External Web Search in Microsoft 365 Copilot Matters? (Amol Joglekar)
• Build bigger forms in Microsoft Access (Shane Groff)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.94 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Azure CLI on macOS got security upgrade: native broker authentication (Alex-wdy)
• Getting started with DSC 3.0 – Part 6: Using the DSC MCP server with your AI coding tools (Bart Wullems)

Writing

• 12 Steps To Self-Editing A Manuscript: A Stress-Free Guide (Writers Write)

Tools

• Tray-tober Day 8: Traymote (Joseph Finney)
• PowerToys Preview v0.102.2814.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Apple will reportedly debut its first touchscreen MacBook in three weeks (Jay Peters)
• Microsoft’s new Windows Search is exactly what Windows 11 needs (Tom Warren)
• Wi-Fi 8 vs Wi-Fi 7: Is TP-Link’s Archer 8 Ultra Worth It? (TechRepublic Staff)
• Microsoft responds to Trump administration accusation that it abuses foreign worker programs (Lisa Stiffler)
• Atari is bringing back one of its earliest 8-bit home computers (Andrew Liszewski)
• Fixing My Remote Control Server Sign-in Problems (Rocky Lhotka)
• This 100TB cloud storage sticks with you for life, and it just went on sale (Boing Boing)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 8, 2026 (#884) (Richard Seroter)
• Hit Subscribe Digest, October 2026 (Lyndsey Silker)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #770 (Andyy Hope)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #771 (Juan Marin)

The Geek Shelf

ChatGPT Visual Bible (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link A step-by-step, screenshot-by-screenshot guide to writing, researching, analyzing, and automating with ChatGPT

• Introducing Grok 4.7 on Microsoft Foundry (Mahesh Balachandran)
• Introducing the .NET MAUI Interactive Viewer Control for Interactive Content (Karthick Mani)
• Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available in Microsoft Foundry (Amar Badal)
• Pre-order our most powerful Surface devices ever (Brett Ostrum)
• Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot (Patrick Nikoletich & Stuart Schaefer)
• Building Windows for hybrid intelligence (Pavan Davuluri)

Web and Cloud Development

• Node.js 26.11.1 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
• Aspire v13.6.1 Release (Aspire Team)
• Supercharge your development with the Google Developer Knowledge API ecosystem (Christina Gonzalez)
• Wiring MCP Tools to Azure SQL and External APIs and Hosting an MCP Server in ASP.NET Core with Streamable HTTP (Taiseer Joudeh)
• React for Vue Developers, Part 3: Server Components, use and Actions (Marina Mosti)
• Should I break down my Blazor page into multiple components? (Blazrlytics)
• First Draft Notes: Verifiable Credential Threat Models (W3C)

Windows Development

• How can undefined opcodes ud0 and ud1 have parameters? How undefined were they? (Raymond Chen)
• Adding an AI Sidebar to TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms (Bjoern Meyer)
• BabySmash Release v4.2.1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 7 October 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET, VS Code and Visual Studio

• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.24.0 Release (Dmytro Struk)
• xUnit.net v3 4.0.1 Release Notes and Theory Data Attributes in xUnit.net v3 (xUnit.net Team)
• Visual Studio Code 1.142 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)

AI

• Microsoft Execution Containers: Policy-driven containment for AI agents (Logan Iyer)
• Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic Team)
• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners - Learn how to get started using the GitHub Copilot app (Dan Wahlin)
• RAG vs Graph RAG - Why Knowledge Graphs Are Transforming Enterprise AI in 2026 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Announcing the first ever no decision API! Not Jev - API Documentation (Not Jev)
• The Microsoft AI and Agent Platform — Securing and Governing Intelligent Agents (L. Murthy)
• Build, Deploy & Monitor AI Agents with Astropods (Pooja Mistry)
• Closing the AI Agent Governance Gap with Microsoft Foundry (Alexandra Miller-Browne)
• My flow through Copilot - Azure Heroes (Rob Bos)
• Cloudflare Open Sources Decision Models for AI Agents (Renato Losio)
• The Complete Claude and Anthropic Certification Software Bundle | Mammoth Club (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Requirements Traceability Matrix for AI Software Delivery—From Issue to Pull Request (Adam Bertram)
• Build and Train a 25M Parameter LLM From Scratch on Your CPU (Beau Carnes)
• Making cross-platform local AI easier with llamadart (Jhin Lee)
• Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available in Devin (Devin Team)
• Tokens and the Context Window: Out of the Window, Out of Mind (Pinal Dave)
• AI-assisted apprenticeship (Peter Smulovics)
• Azure Document Intelligence and Azure Content Understanding: a practical guide (Chu Lahlou)
• Code Quality Never Changes – Or Is AI Challenging This Notion? (Kerry Beetge)
• Warp Factories now works across Microsoft Teams and Azure DevOps (Warp Team)
• AI isn’t just copying artists anymore. It’s signing their names to work they never created (Kim Lyons)
• Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses (Zhiyuan He & Yuqing Yang)
• Your new AI friend is adorable. It also wants your data (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• 3 lessons from frontier AI vulnerability research (Taesoo Kim)
• GPT-6.1 Sol vs. GPT-6 Astra: Same accuracy at 18% of the cost (Jessica Wachtel)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.17 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• OpenClaw v2026.9.9 Release (Romney Da)
• Part 3: Knowing when your agent doesn’t know: the confidence layer (Varun Jindal)
• What’s up, Docsy? Google’s docs project joins the Linux Foundation as AI agents become readers (Paul Sawers)
• Evals as a deployment gate — and how to know when they drift (Varun Jindal)
• Touch Grass, Pack Your Docs: An Offline Coding Agent on a 4 GB Laptop GPU (xbill)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• New Report: The State of CI/CD in 2026 (Olga Bedrina)
• From Spec-First to Enterprise-Ready: Extending GitHub Spec Kit (Apoorv Gupta)
• Introducing Warm Agents, a TeamCity Plugin (Dmitrii Korovin)
• On Git Refs (Alex Kladov)
• Playwright v1.64.0 Release (dgozman)
• CRUD vs Task Driven: Are You Losing User Intent? (Derek Comartin)
• Faster Developers Don’t Make a Faster Team (Gleb Malkov)
• Secret protection must scale with software (Erin Havens)
• Humans Guessing About Humans (Charlie Kindel)

Mobile and Game Development

• Start Your Next KMP App With Kotlin Toolchain 0.13 (Anton Makeev)
• Pi IoT in Python Using Linux Drivers - GPIO Events (Harry Fairhead & Mike James)

Screencasts and Videos

• Outlook Is 30 Years Old. I'm Bringing Back Live Tiles to Replace It. (DayFrame) | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• IDE vs CLI: Mastering Efficiency in Modern DevOps Workflows (Frank La Vigne)
• Surface Laptop Ultra (Microsoft Surface Team)
• Intelligent local model routing is coming to GitHub Copilot (Burke Holland)
• Building the Modern Quantum Architecture—Lecture 10: From Cloud to Microarchitecture (Microsoft Azure Team)
• Consumers Will Never Pay for AI (AIDailyBrief)
• From Copilot to the Garden of Eden | NDC Oslo 2026 (Adam Cogan)
• Cut AI Agent Costs with TokenOps | The Azure Essentials Show (Gareth Bland)
• Change is inevitable: versioning event-driven systems | NDC Oslo 2026 (Laila Bougria)
• Microsoft Foundry Slow? Check These 12 Response Headers (Jan de Vries)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Practical AI Podcast Episode #375 - Narrative intelligence and the human advantage (Reed Frerichs, Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)
• Windows Weekly Episode #1004 - Fat-Washed - RTX Spark and Hybrid AI (Leo Laporte & Paul Thurrott)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #374 - Data Center Caught Gassing Up Without a Permit Slip (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #741 - Sahil Walia on Schema Changes and Data Migrations (Robert Blumen)
• Big Technology Podcast - Can AI Keep Growing Exponentially? Let’s Ask SemiAnalysis (Dylan Patel, Jordan Nanos & Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Amp Hour Episode #736 - Seeed in Shenzhen with Eric Pan (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Creating Agile Value Stream Visibility Without More Administration | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Oluyomi Emmanuel)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - Famous quotes we've been getting wrong, from Robert Frost to ‘Don't mess with Texas,’ with Eli Burnstein (Mignon Fogarty)

Community and Events

• Meet Microsoft at Oracle AI World 2026 (Alex Stairs)
• Join the momentum building for this year's Microsoft AI Tour (Jill Armour)

Database

• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Time Zones and Offsets (Erik Darling)
• Azure SQL Database is retiring Always Encrypted with Intel SGX enclaves (Pieter Vanhove)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.93 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Getting started with DSC 3.0 – Part 5: Guarding your configuration with Assertion (Bart Wullems)

Writing

• 10 Ways To Get Out Of A Writing Rut (Writers Write)
• Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging (Simon Willison)

Tools

• Remote PC connections in Windows App on Windows is now generally available (Marvin Quinzon)
• Tray-tober Day 7: Tray Voice Notes (Joseph Finney)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v3.0.3 Release (florelis)

General

• It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains (David Pierce)
• From searching to doing: Building a faster, more streamlined Windows Search (Anshul Rawat)
• The Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599 (Emma Roth)
• Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder for $5,999 (Stevie Bonifield)
• Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra has built-in magnetic USB-C charging (Tom Warren)
• 100 days later: Microsoft still steers Windows and Copilot users to Edge, everywhere the law lets it (Mozilla Team)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 7, 2026 (#883) (Richard Seroter)
• What is middleware in ASP.NET Core and the gotchas (jakub@csharpdigest.net (Jakub Chodounsky))

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) - Referral Link A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C#.

• Bringing Native AOT to the Aspire dashboard (James Newton-King)
• Building a 2D Game with WinUI and Win2D (Morten Nielsen)
• The results of the 2026 Stack Overflow Developer Survey are here! (Ryan Donovan)
• Introducing WinDbg MCP: Debug with natural language, grounded in evidence (Shanthi Rajan)
• Explore the Syncfusion Showcase App Browser: Discover Application Examples (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)
• A faster, lighter C# Dev Kit (Drew Noakes)

Web and Cloud Development

• Next.js 16.4 (Next.js Team)
• GraphLens v0.4.0 Release - Interactive architecture visualizer for Angular projects (Dmitry Kostyuk)
• Ready with WebMCP: Building Agent-Ready Apps with Telerik and Kendo UI (Dany Paredes)
• Build Azure canvases with the Canvas authoring plugin (Alex Weininger)
• Promptless AI-First Blazor Apps (Héctor Pérez)
• Updated Candidate Recommendation: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 (W3C)
• How to Write Your Own Template Controller (Dwayne Charrington)
• What Would You Build in Azure If You Didn’t Have to Ask for a Budget First? (James Rempt)
• Human-in-the-Loop AI Drafts in ASP.NET Core: Approval Queues, Audit Trails, and Safe Sending (Rahmat Afridi)
• Pulumi Google Cloud Provider Version 10.0.0 (Alberto Pose)
• Screening Supabase signups before the user is created (Elijah Brown)
• WordPress: Keep Up With Everything You Follow in the Reader (Rob Pugh)

Windows Development

• Why does the compiler sometimes use ud2 and sometimes int 3 for code that shouldn’t execute? (Raymond Chen)
• Is it MSIX? Part 2: Finding Package Identity with APIs (Howard Kapustein)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Before You Push or Deploy: Automate Nine .NET Project Checks with the Spargine Dev Tool (David McCarter)
• Stripping extra dependencies in .NET NativeAOT apps using linker substitutions (Andrew Lock)

AI

• What is Agent Experience (AX)? (Waldek Mastykarz)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.17 Preview 10 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Building and Serving a Custom Model With Azure ML, Then Wiring It Into a Foundry Agent (Jubin Soni)
• Claude now works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides (Claude Team)
• Need AI Agents To Run Workflows With No Exceptions? Microsoft Has A Hook for That (Tom Smith)
• Study and Learn Agent: Now in 50 Languages, images improvements, ready when you open Copilot (Anoo Padte)
• When Is the LLM Called? and MCP and Microsoft Agent Framework (Jesse Liberty)
• If AI Writes Slop, It's Your Fault (Chris Pietschmann)
• Introducing Survive the Sprint: a pixel-art game built (almost) in one shot with Claude Opus 5.5 (Mike Evans-Larah)
• Review AI Coding Agent Work Without Losing the Next Step (alterac.ai)

Python

• Bring agentic reasoning to Python function apps with Azure Functions Agent bindings (preview) (Victoria Hall)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• The future of data leadership: key strategies, challenges, and emerging trends (Joydip Kanjilal)
• Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development (Brian Celenza)
• Sprint Zero is about building momentum (Tim Deschryver)
• Software developers are not okay (Baldur Bjarnason)
• Cybersecurity Month 2026 eBook Bundle | O'Reilly (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Mature does not mean maintenance mode (Peter Smulovics)
• Event Sourcing: fun with bi-temporal timelines (Urs Enzler)
• How to read code (Sean Goedecke)

Mobile and Game Development

• Raspberry Pi Desktop now available for PC and Mac (Simon Long)
• Hello Developer: October 2026 (Apple Developer Team)
• Teaching an Old Echo Dot New Tricks (Mike Hole)

Screencasts and Videos

• Build Complex Enemy AI in Minutes with Behavior Trees (Stacey Haffner)
• Scott & Mark Learn To… SemanticStart (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• Turn Meeting Transcripts into Project Plans with GitHub Copilot Agents | MVP Unplugged (Justin Garrett & Mahmoud A. Atallah)
• Quickstart: Your Agent Is Only as Smart as Its Context (Ayca Bas)
• Blazor Community Standup: Build agentic experiences with the Blazor AI Components (Daniel Roth & Jon Galloway)
• The Open Weight AI Renaissance Coming to America (AIDailyBrief)
• Random.Code() - Handling Inaccessible Abstract Members Automatically in Rocks, Part 3 (Jason Bock)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! - Critter Stack Update with Jeremy Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results (Phoebe Sajor)
• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #43 - Mass Surveillance and the Loss of Fun (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• Microsoft Research Podcast - What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us (Chad Atalla & Jennifer Neville)
• PPP 524 | Why More Discipline May Not Be the Answer, with 100 Days of Rejection expert Jia Jiang (Andy Kaufman)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1045 - The iCup Specialist - Will We Finally See an Apple Smart Home Device? (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• RunAs Radio Show #1057 - Cloudflare Edge Workers with Bob Fornal (Richard Campbell)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #499 - So many questions?? (Michael Kennedy)
• From My Task to Our Work in Agile Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Oluyomi Emmanuel)
• CppCast - Safety and Interoperability with Rust and C++ (Mathieu Ropert & Jason Turner)
• Continuous Delivery Office Hours Episode #10 - Modernizing legacy software (Steve Fenton)

Community and Events

• Upcoming SQL and AI Events to Put on Your Calendar (Jerry Nixon)
• JetBrains Joins the Open Source Security Foundation (Katherine Druckman)
• Beyond co-working: Former tech leader launches new hub for Seattle’s women founders (Lisa Stiffler)

Database

• Try SqlClient’s new connection pool for faster parallel connections (Malcolm Daigle)
• I Built My First VS Code Extension: Meet Rainbow SQL (Frank Boucher)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Microsoft Graph Dependency issues (Stephan van Rooij)
• Getting started with DSC 3.0 – Part 4: Configuring IIS with multiple resources and dependsOn (Bart Wullems)

Writing

• What Is A Denouement? How It Works In Fiction (Writers Write)

Tools

• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2781.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Tray-tober Day 6: Tray Radar (Joseph Finney)

General

• A Trump Mobile breach may have exposed data of more than 3,600 people (Emma Roth)
• Copilot+ PCs suck, but they don’t, but that’s irrelevant, and the battle is elsewhere. It’s complicated. (Michael Niehaus)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 6, 2026 (#882) (Richard Seroter)
• Web Weekly #200 (Stefan Judis)
• Radar Trends to Watch: October 2026 (Mike Loukides)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) - Referral Link Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML.

• UWP and WinUI 3 apps: UI testing with MSTest (Amaury Levé)
• Hello, Aspire 13.6 (Maddy Montaquila)
• Ink comes to WinUI 3 (Pranav Gupta)
• Voice agents in Foundry Agent Service: architecture, trust boundaries, and real-audio latency (Yassine El Ghali)
• Connect Azure Functions to more services with managed connectors (Lily Ma)
• Final Call for TechBash 2026 Registration - Join Us Next Week! (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Bridge Azure Workload Identity to Client Identity with Dynamic Client Registration (Maarten Balliauw)
• Designing APIs for AI agents: your API has a new user (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• Rails to ASP.NET Core: A Developer's Map (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Meet Nub: A Bun-like TypeScript Toolkit, Running on Node.js (Peter Mbanugo)
• Aspire 13.6 Adds Persistent Dashboards (Alex Denham)
• The Hardest Working Header on the Internet (Philip Zeyliger)
• Ember 7.3 Released (Jared Galanis)

Windows Development

• If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function, how do they avoid conflicts? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• The Ultimate Guide to Modern C# 14 and .NET 10 Ecosystem Development (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Typemock October Release: .NET 11 RC, Better C++ Coverage, and More (Eli Lopian)
• Stop treating .NET upgrades as projects (Peter Smulovics)
• Why every .NET library deserves a proper start (Dennis Doomen)
• AI added a vulnerable NuGet package to our .NET app (David Grace)

AI

• Sovereign AI: Accelerate innovation with control and choice (Didier Ongena)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.17 Preview 7 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Build the factory. Let it run. Go kayaking. (Ben Holmes)
• RemoveMacAI - Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible. | GitHub (Om Lahore)
• When You Work with AI, You’re a Middle Manager. (Brent Ozar)
• Memory and dreaming: how Devin learns from working with you (Devin Team)
• Building an agentic system and a learning loop around customer IP (Milena Marinova, Kanio Dimitrov, Don Hejna & Yousef Al-Kofahi)
• One MCP server used 18,000 tokens before doing anything. Here’s the workaround. (Amanda Caswell)
• ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review (Michelle Zhou)
• Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge (MIT Technology Review Insights)
• Beyond violation rates: Are your AI evaluations measuring the right things? (Xiawei Wang, Riccardo Fogliato, Abhinav Palia, Chang Liu, Yeming Tang, Heba Elfardy & Sandeep Atluri)
• How to Build Reliable AI Agent Systems for Production (Angie Jones)
• AI Agent Observability: The 8 Best Tools for Production Agents (John Blust)
• Publishing Markdown to Substack from an Agent Skill (xbill)
• The Platform Engineering Playbook for Production LLMs (Aditya Mulik)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• TeamCity 2026.2.1 and 2026.1.5 Are Out (Dmitrii Korovin)
• Configuring generic OIDC provider for authentication (Shawn Sesna)
• How much moat do you have? (Peter Smulovics)
• The Power of Polish (Teon Beijl)

Mobile and Game Development

• Prepare and submit your apps for iPhone Duo and Showcase your apps with new assets on the App Store (Apple Developer Team)
• Seeing, understanding, and responding: low-power CNN, VLM and SLM workloads on Raspberry Pi 5 (Ashley)
• Discontinuing Swift Language IDE Support in the Kotlin Multiplatform Plugin (Anton Makeev)

Screencasts and Videos

• Reduce Database Costs with Flexible Savings Plans | The Azure Essentials Show (Maria Jose & Kyle Ikeda)
• How to Choose Your Personal Agent and AI Agents Are Moving Into the Real World (AIDailyBrief)
• Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build Your First Agent with MCP (Michelle Smith)
• Random.Code() - Handling Inaccessible Abstract Members Automatically in Rocks, Part 2 (Jason Bock)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Sam Nasr: AI Transformation - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #422 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #137 - New Betatalks the Podcast Episodes Coming - with Rick & Oscar (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - Is it ‘try and’ or ‘try to’? What does an epilogue do? (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Presentation Podcast Episode #255 - “The Ask vs The Offer” (Troy Chollar)
• Only Malware in the Building - Loose lips sink AI ships. (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
• Big Technology Podcast - Who Wins The AI Assistant Wars? + Why Didn’t Google Build Muse? (Alex Kantrowitz)
• CIO Podcast Episode #123 - AI Governance and Security (Neil Versel & Joe Diver)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1044 - Ruby on Rails is Dead (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• When Agile Team Trust Breaks Before the Scrum Master Acts | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Oluyomi Emmanuel)
• InfoQ Podcast: Future Cybersecurity: Hardware Memory Safety, Automated Governance and Post-Quantum Cryptography (Chris Swan)

Community and Events

• Hello from Seattle: XBOX FanFest Comes Home November 12 (Joe Skrebels)
• Open Source, a relic, a charity or still the thing? (Oskar Dudycz)
• Opt Out October - How to Opt Out of Software Made by Big Tech (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Vonage Developer Office Hours Are Back! (Julia Biro)
• Goodbye, Microsoft (Randolph West)

Database

• SQL Server Network Latency: When the Database Isn’t the Slow Part (Pinal Dave)
• I’m the Only Developer on This Project. Do I Really Need RBAC? (Sudhanshu Khera & Iria Osara)
• How to secure MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers connected to your database – a practical guide (Dejan Lukić)
• From an Empty Folder to an AI Agent: Meet create-cosmos-agent (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Excel eBook Bundle - Excel-erate your output with Microsoft 365 | Wiley (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.92 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Getting started with DSC 3.0 – Part 3: Capturing the current state with dsc config export (Bart Wullems)

Writing

• How To Write A Passive Lead Character (Writers Write)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.2.38 (Files Team)
• Tray-tober Day 5: Tray Do (Joseph Finney)

General

• Sam Altman said something true. Said it badly. The internet lost its mind. (Jeffrey Snover)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 5, 2026 (#881) (Richard Seroter)
• dotInsights | October 2026 (Rachel Appel)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Q3 service availability updates, Kiro workflows, and more (October 5, 2026) (Channy Yun)
• Reading Notes #716 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) - Referral Link A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.

• Build expressive voice experiences with new MAI models in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Credential Explorer - A modern WinUI 3 metadata-only explorer for Windows credentials and Credential Locker (Scott Hanselman)
• Meet the A2A CLI: discover, message, and manage agents from your terminal (A2A Protocol Team)
• Semantic Design in Uno Themes - Part 2 (Steve Bilogan)
• A model guide for the GPT-6 family (OpenAI Team)
• Squad v1.0.1 Release (github-actions[bot]) - Squad hit v1.0 last week!

Web and Cloud Development

• Aspire 13.6 Adds Persistent Dashboard Telemetry and First-Party Java and Rust Hosting (Almir Vuk)
• A Not-So-Simple RSS App in TypeScript (Raymond Camden)
• Write Markdown Once, Publish It Everywhere: dev.to, Medium, AWS Builder Center and LinkedIn (xbill)
• Back to Basics: CSS @container Filtering ((Rick Strahl))
• Aurelia 2 RC.1 and RC.2: What You Missed (Dwayne Charrington)
• Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence (Cha Zhang)
• How to Add Native Lazy-Loading Images, Conditionally, to a Jekyll Blog (Rachel Kaufman)
• Front-End Web Development Bootcamp Software Bundle | Treehouse (Humble Bundle) - Referral link

Windows Development

• winapp CLI v0.7.1 Release (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi & Nikola Metulev)
• Windows 11’s WinUI lacks a 26-year-old scroll shortcut even Electron has, and a Microsoft veteran only just learned it (Abhijith M B)
• Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS? (Raymond Chen)
• What’s new in Windows 365: September 2026 recap (Sylvia Liu)
• Adventures in Credential Manager Trivia (Steve Syfuhs)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 2 October 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Code Quality: Designing Method Parameters in .NET (David McCarter)
• The timeout that never fired (Josef Ottosson)

AI

• One Repository, Two AI Assistants: Structuring Guidance for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code (Mitchel Sellers)
• Foundry IQ in Microsoft Copilot Studio is now generally available (Angie-Silva-Pereyra)
• 7 Programming Legends Predict the Future of AI Coding (Matthew MacDonald)
• AI is rewriting the developer career ladder. Here’s how to stand out. (Gwen Davis)
• AI needs fewer Iron Men and more Smart Hulks (Chris Heilmann)
• VS Code - Reconnecting GitHub Copilot (Mike Irving)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.17 Preview 4 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm (Terrence O’Brien)
• NVX: An Ultra-Light Micro-VM Sandbox for Agentic Workloads (Microsoft)
• Earn the new Clinical Applications specialization for Dragon Copilot (JS5)
• The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed. (Tuhin Kundu)
• Why Almost Nothing You Read Online About AI Is True (Jason Gorman)
• OpenClaw v2026.8.35 Release and OpenClaw v2026.9.8 Release (RomneyDa)
• HOL Guard: Policy checks on agent tools, before the command runs (HOL)
• Meta open sources code to let you make Muse AI gadgets (Jay Peters)
• Your Agent Shouldn't Wait for a Prompt: Build an Event-Driven Microsoft Foundry Routine (Tania Muley)
• GitHub’s advice for its new Copilot feature is to try something else first (Amanda Caswell)
• LLM-as-translator pattern: Adding natural language understanding to an existing system without rewriting it (Simon Thurman)
• How to Build an AI Support System That Automatically Routes Bugs to GitHub with Next.js and Jev (Andrew Baisden)
• AI agents can read every line of your code. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. (Peter Smulovics)
• What It Actually Took to Port the GitHub Copilot Runtime to Rust (Milan Jovanović)
• Benchmarking AI decision models against traditional guardrails (Dr. Rob Geada, Dr. Mac Misiura & Shelton Cyril)
• Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force (Anthony Ha)
• The Brain Sandwich (Matheus Lima)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.20.0 Release (eavanvalkenburg)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Ephemeral testing (Daniel Lemire)
• Curse of Knowledge in UX Design: Why Experts Build Things Beginners Cannot Use (Shirish Shikhrakar)
• We Don't Need to Slow Down; We Need to Engineer Acceleration (Irfan Mirza)
• Stress-Free Interviewing of Software Developers (Part 2): What Actually Works? (Scott Galloway)
• Building Kubernetes PR Previews with Shared Pulumi Components (Sangharsh Agarwal)
• The 18-Month Rule and the Small Business Problem (Charlie Kindel)
• We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (Simon Willison)
• Shipping is the foundation (Sean Goedecke)
• What Happens When Your Authentication Is Misconfigured (Stefano Pinato)
• Reading Jenkins CI Failures Across Pipelines, Not One Build at a Time (Anas Hassari)
• Knowing the Words Isn’t Knowing the Language (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Ordering, Grouping and Consistency in Messaging systems (Oskar Dudycz)
• Color Psychology in UI Design: How Color Shapes User Behavior (Palette Vault)

Mobile and Game Development

• How a hit Steam game made $10mil, and what a small (successful) Steam launch looks like (Code Monkey)
• iOS development in VS Code with SweetPad: a step-by-step guide (ProMobile.Dev)
• Device Streaming and Android skills - available in Android CLI (Simona Milanovic)

Screencasts and Videos

• WSL Containers, JetBrains Air and more… - Developer News 40/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• Random.Code() - Handling Inaccessible Abstract Members Automatically in Rocks, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 333 - “Is AI Too Big to Fail?” (American AI's Pearl Harbor Moment) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Introducing OpenDots | The Open-Source Alternative to OpenAI Dots (CopilotKit)
• Azure Copilot Troubleshooting Agent is now general available (Microsoft Azure Team)
• Monogame Development with Github Copilot | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
• What Is Jev? The AI Model That Doesn't Generate Text (IBM Technology)
• The Rise of the AI Moderates and What the Best Business AI Users Are Doing Different (AIDailyBrief)
• Inside Project HydraFusion: multi-model orchestration in the GitHub Copilot | demo | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths)
• This Week in AI: Agents Are Outrunning the Systems Around Them (Michelle Smith)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Dave Thackeray on Critical Thinking and Staying Human with AI | Interviews with Creative People (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Merge Conflict Episode #535 - Next-Gen Siri: Disappointingly Not the Chatbot We Wanted (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Lenny's Podcast - OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) (Lenny Rachitsky & Tibo Sottiaux)
• BONUS Why AI Needs More Than Silicon Valley Moonshots | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Salima Bhimani)
• React Native Radio Episode #374 - Building “Dreaming: Language Learning” with React Native (Mazen Chami & Wojciech Ogrodowczyk)
• Big Technology Podcast - Anthropic’s IPO Leak, OpenAI’s Dots vs. Meta’s Muse, Visual Turing Test (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Hard Fork Podcast - A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous? (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)

Community and Events

• The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory (Steve Jones)
• Call For Papers Listings for 10/2 and Job listings for week ending 10/02 (Leon Adato)
• Wolverine’s Community is Busy! (Jeremy D. Miller)

Database

• SQL Server 2025 Cheat Sheet: Every Query Tested, Free PDF and AI Row Count Estimates Come From Nothing (Pinal Dave)
• Someone Got Doom In an SQL Database (BeauHD)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• What's New in Microsoft Teams | August - September 2026 (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
• What’s new in Copilot in SharePoint: October 2026 (Julie Seto)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Getting started with DSC 3.0 – Part 2: Managing a Windows service end to end (Bart Wullems)
• kusto CLI - A native CLI for Azure Data Explorer (Damian Edwards)

Writing

• How To Name Characters: 10 Things To Consider and How To Use The Five Senses In Your Writing (Writers Write)

Tools

• Paint.NET 5.2 Beta (build 9771) (Rick Brewster)
• Long-Time Slashdot Reader Announces New Open Source Web Browser ‘Northstar’ (EditorDavid)
• Tray-tober Day 2: Tray Converter and Tray-tober Day 3: Tray Battleship and Tray-tober Day 4: Traydio (Joseph Finney)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v3.0.2 Release (OneBlue)

General

• Windows 11 26H2 New Features - The Complete In-Depth Guide to the 2026 Update (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 1 In 8 Cancer Cases Worldwide Are Due to Infections and The University of Washington Is Moving a Graduate Program to Microsoft's Campus (BeauHD)
• Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS (Apple Developer Team)
• Slovenia’s .si domain sees a surge in registrations after Trump’s ‘super intelligence’ order (Dominic-Madori Davis)
• Paramount’s Warner Bros. megamerger will just be called Skydance (Emma Roth)
• Medical records giant Epic pauses product development to fix security bugs that risk patients’ data (Zack Whittaker)

More Link Collections

• Fragments: October 4 (Martin Fowler)
• Daily Reading List – October 2, 2026 (#880) (Richard Seroter)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 27, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Azure Weekly #582 - 4th October 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• Android Weekly Issue #747 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• F# Weekly #40, 2026 – Agentic .NET UI and FSharp.CloudEdge (Sergey Tihon)
• Windows news you can use: September 2026 (Chris Morrissey)
• The Batch: The Next Top Open Model, Google Voice Agents, DeepSeek Shrinks Caches: Plus a letter on open weight cybersecurity capabilities (DeepLearning.AI)

The Geek Shelf

C# 14 and .NET 10 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Build modern websites and services with ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and EF Core using Visual Studio 2026.

• Bringing rich terminal experiences to Aspire (Mitch Denny)
• Semantic Design in Uno Themes - Part 1 (Steve Bilogan)
• A New Agentic Experience: JetBrains Air in IDEs – EAP Now Open (Dominique Rolink)
• Data API builder 2.1.5: JSON and Vector Data Type Support, and More (Carlos Robles, Aniruddh Munde & Matt Hyon)
• Introducing Syncfusion A2UI: Build Agent-Driven Interfaces with Reusable UI Components and Design Agent-Driven UIs Faster with Syncfusion A2UI Composer (Siddhartha Devaraj)
• GitHub-hosted agents with Pay-as-you-Go pricing are now generally available in Azure Pipelines (Eric van Wijk)
• Hot Design Previews Demystified (Sam Basu)

Web and Cloud Development

• SvelteKit 3 is here (The Svelte team)
• How to Track Every API Your Organization Owns with API Catalog (Aanchal Mishra)
• Responsible infrastructure at hyperscale: Managing the full lifecycle of Azure hardware (Alistair Speirs)
• From standards to software: Microsoft’s ongoing work on OpenAPI and developer tooling (Vincent Biret)
• Bring Azure Logic Apps connectors into your .NET applications with the Azure Connectors SDK (David Burg)
• How to Build a Code Graph in TypeScript Using VS Code's Language APIs (Otobong Peter)
• Using ASP.NET Core Passkeys for Second Factor Authentication (Maarten Balliauw)
• React for Vue Developers, Part 2: State, Effects and Why React Re-renders Differently (Marina Mosti)

Windows Development

• Windows on Itanium also provided for hot-patching, in an even simpler way (Raymond Chen)
• Windows 11’s WinUI just got basic features and less RAM hogging, after years of losing apps to the web (Mayank Parmar)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Using Nimble from C# (Part 2): local alternatives to Jev and a layered mail classifier (Scott Galloway)
• AS4 in .NET without a Java MSH: ebMS 3.0, WS-Security and non-repudiation receipts as a route step (Kozin Rinat)

AI

• Available today: OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5 in Microsoft Copilot (Xia Song)
• Meet the Hosted Skills Canvas: Build, Run, and Debug in GitHub Copilot (Paul Yuknewicz)
• RAG in Microsoft Agent Framework Step By Step (Jesse Liberty)
• Coding Agents Love Decision Records (Duncan Davidson)
• OpenAI Alerts More Than 100 Groups About Rogue AI Agent Activity (BeauHD)
• What really happens when you let AI design your database schema (everything you should know) (Lukas Vileikis)
• Announcing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered intelligence to optimize your cloud environment (preview) (Channy Yun)
• OpenClaw v2026.8.34 Release (Romney Da)
• Customize Claude Code with mods (Claude Team)
• Do not build the LLM torture factory (Sean Goedecke)
• Inside Microsoft’s big Copilot rethink (Tom Warren)
• How a 30B Model Runs on Your Laptop (Akash Lomas)
• What a Burger Combo Taught Me About Agents: Jev, LLMs, and Model Routers (Kinfey Lo)
• On The Jev Bandwagon (Part 1.5): StyloMail Gets Chatty with Specialists (Research) (Scott Galloway)
• Ollama ASP.NET Core: Running Local LLMs (and Switching to OpenAI with One Setting) and Adding RAG to an Existing ASP.NET Core App: SQL Server Chunks, Embeddings and Hybrid Ranking (Rahmat Afridi)
• The Real Danger of AI Is Humans, Not the Singularity (Chris Pietschmann)
• How to Develop Software Engineering Skills in the Age of AI (Ben Linders)
• The eternal complement (OpenAI Team)
• The Unread Proof (Mark Downie)
• Your Agentic Identity Problem Probably Isn't New (Joe DeCock)
• I am so tired of this bullshit (Robin Moffatt)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Trust Docker for the agents you don’t (Jin Kim)
• Open source has a new scaling problem (Peter Smulovics)
• Redesign without fear (Mark Seemann)
• The guess and check pattern (Evan Martin)
• Preparing governments for an era of interconnected cyber risk (Mike Yeh)

Mobile and Game Development

• How to Stop Your Android App from Draining the Battery with Wake Locks (Nikheel Vishwas Savant)
• Build and Publish a Full-Stack Mobile App with AI (Beau Carnes)
• Advanced Shader Delivery Available for Gears of War: E-Day and Coming Soon across Windows 11 (Wendy Ho)
• DLC Joystick for Your Keyboard (Sam Freeman)

Screencasts and Videos

• Uno Platform 6.7 Release Community Standup (Sam Basu, Steve Bilogan & Martin Zikmund)
• Scale Cloud Native Workloads with Azure Linux | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Poorvi Narang)
• Artisinal Coding for fun an profit | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Gemini 4 Argon, Sonnet 5.5 and What Models You Should Be Using Right Now (AIDailyBrief)
• Quickstart: Am I paying for a giant model I don't need? (April Gittens)
• Navigating OpenAI Dev Day 2026: Opportunities Wrapped in Innovation and Claude Opus 5.5 AI: A Monumental Leap Forward in Simulation (Frank La Vigne)
• 1B row vector search in less than a second with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman, Pooja Kamath & Krithika Subramanian)
• Dr. Cat Hicks on the Psychology of Software Teams (Rox Williams)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Real Python Podcast Episode #313 - Python 3.15: Exploring the New Features (Christopher Bailey, Christopher Trudeau & Bartosz Zaczyński)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast - What Are Microsoft Enterprise Customers Thinking? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Product Owners Who Prepare the Ground for Agile Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Pankaj Kumar)
• A Geek Leader Episode #489 - Maximos Lih (John Rouda)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #592 - Don't Think for Me (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #565 - Tachyon, Python 3.15's Built-in Sampling Profiler (Michael Kennedy)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Constraints that make developers faster (Phoebe Sajor & Ryan Donovan)

Community and Events

• Microsoft 365 and LinkedIn leadership update (Satya Nadella)
• 10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026 (Andrea Griffiths)
• Microsoft Makes the Case for VSLive! in the AI Era (David Ramel)

Database

• Translating an Elasticsearch Search Request to Azure Cosmos DB (Madeline Egan)
• SQL Server Developer Edition: Free Download Links From SQL Server 2017 to SQL Server 2025 (Pinal Dave)
• Why PostgreSQL shouldn’t be your app’s answer to everything (Pat Wright)
• Azure Cosmos DB Shell is now available in the Azure portal (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• What's new in Microsoft Planner | September 2026 (Therese Liwanag)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.91 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Getting started with DSC 3.0 – Part 1: What is DSC and what changed? (Bart Wullems)

Tools

• Tray-tober Kickoff: Tray Folder (Joseph Finney)

General

• 100+ Years of Student Radio History in the DLARC College Radio Collections (Jennifer Waits)
• Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers (Jess Weatherbed)
• Announcing Rust 1.99.0 (Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – October 1, 2026 (#879) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

So You Want To Be a Tech Lead (Greg Hatchuk) - Referral Link This is the unfiltered, blood-smeared, inbox-exploding truth about what happens when you step out of the safe zone of your IDE and into the jungle of tech leadership.

• Updates to Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos (Dan Hellem)
• TechBash 2026 Kicks Off in Two Weeks! (TechBash Team)
• .NET Rocks! - Controlling your Digital Legacy with Mattias Karlsson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Bring your plugin to Microsoft Copilot with Work IQ Developer Tools (Seth T. Bacon, Sébastien Levert & Rachit Kumar Malik)
• Using Jev with Agents in Microsoft Foundry for Model Evaluation (Robin Lester)
• Everything released in September 2026 for Azure Developer CLI (Kristen Womack)

Web and Cloud Development

• What's new in Astro - September 2026 (Sarah Rainsberger)
• Build Fast, Scalable React Data Grids for Large Datasets Using Virtualization [Webinar Show Notes] (Prabhavathi Kannan)
• Next.js - September 2026 Security Release (Sebastian Silbermann)

Windows Development

• Windows on AArch64 also provides for hot-patching, but it’s much simpler than on x86 (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• A .NET Agent Orchestration Framework - The Orchestrator (Ricardo Peres)
• Coding Faster with dotNetTips.com Spargine 10: October 2026 Release (David McCarter)
• Visual Studio September Update Expands BYOM, Adds NuGet Fixes (David Ramel)
• Visual Studio Code 1.141 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)

AI

• AI in Production: Governance, Reliability, and Application eBook Bundle | Manning (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.16 Release (github-actions[bot])
• What’s New in Microsoft Copilot | September 2026 (Daniel Vargas)
• Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw: I Read Both Codebases Twice (Felipe Fontoura)
• Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence (Koray Kavukcuoglu)
• Let skills in Gemini tackle your most repetitive tasks (Deven Tokuno)
• Microsoft Work IQ Could Cut AI Token Usage by 80% (Dewain Robinson)
• Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear (Maddy Varner)
• Don't know what to do while your agents work? The VS Code team has an answer. (Bart Wullems)
• Bring Your Azure DevOps Repos to Azure SRE Agent Plugins (Dalibor Kovacevic)
• Organizations need decision-grade knowledge. AI makes it urgent. (Alex Lato)
• Skill vs. will: What leaders must solve for AI adoption (William Nations)
• Are AI agents the new platform engineering customers? (Aj Bajada)
• Bring managed browser automation to your agent applications (Arun Kumar Thiagarajan)
• Assessing Your AI Needs (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Thinking About AI ... with AI (Eleanor Berger)
• AI Basics: The Four Circles, and Four More Questions (Pinal Dave)
• Why Coding-Agent Governance Needs More Than Approval Gates (Adam Bertram)
• Claude for Government is now generally available (Claude Team)
• The Agentic Data Science Playbook (Hugo Bowne-Anderson, Luca Fiaschi & Thomas Wiecki)
• Stop asking the reasoning model to decide everything (Jeremy Daly)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms by Eric Lippert (Manning) (I Programmer)
• Your app’s frontend UI is now optional (Richard Seroter)
• Anyone can start building verified knowledge with Stack Internal (Caroline Thomas)
• The Future of Software May Be Conversational Rather Than Autonomous (Robert Englander)
• PreEmptive’s complete guide to app shielding (John Brawner)
• The Future of Platform Engineering report (Charlotte Fleming)

Mobile and Game Development

• Price increases for 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 (Eben Upton)
• Introducing DxTimingCaptureLibrary (Austin Kinross)

Screencasts and Videos

• The Biggest AI Announcements from OpenAI Dev Day (AIDailyBrief)
• What It Takes To Ship A MCP Specification (Den Delimarsky)
• The Biggest Tech Trap: Building More Than Users Need (Isaac Levin)
• Coding up a cribbage board with the GitHub Copilot App | The Dev Talk Show (Chris Gomez & Rich Ross)
• Cleared for Takeoff: Build Your First Agent | Build Your First Agent and Skills in Agent Builder | Fly with Copilot (Seema Bansal)
• Skill up on Copilot Studio Oct 8th! (Jack Rowbotham & April Dunham)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Scrum Master Success Metric of Team Independence | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Pankaj Kumar)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - ‘Rizz,’ ‘lost in the sauce,’ and Dictionary.com's newest words, with Steve Johnson (Mignon Fogarty)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #374 - Open models and the future of Physical AI with NVIDIA (Ming-Yu Liu, Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #740 - Raju Dandigam on Building Production AI Agents (Amey Ambade)
• Windows Weeekly Episode #1003 - Another Story Ruined By Keith - Windows 11, version 26H2 Is Now Available! (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• PPP 523 | The New PMP® Exam: What Project Leaders Need to Know Now, with PMI VP Kelly Heuer (Andy Kaufman)
• Big Technology Podcast - SAP CEO: AI Won't Kill Software, But It Will Change Your Job — With Christian Klein (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #373 - Raiders of the Lost Claude Artifact (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #224 - Is AWS Lambda still serverless? (Yan Cui)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1043 - I’m Using GPUI For Everything (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Introducing Ctrl + Manage: Your shortcut to practical Windows management (Aria Updated)

Community and Events

• Small Basic 18th Anniversary (Nonki Takahashi)
• Taking control of your digital legacy (Mattias Karlsson)
• ​​Secure what’s next: Your guide to Microsoft Security at Microsoft Ignite 2026 (Lindsay Myers)
• Getting ready for 2026 results: A look back on Developer Survey findings (Erin Yepis)
• There’s a new No. 1 on the GeekWire 200 as AI and hardware reshape our Pacific Northwest startup index (Todd Bishop)

Database

• Migrating Elasticsearch Mappings to Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Cosmos DB Migration Guide for Elasticsearch Users (Madeline Egan)
• SQL Server Migration, Reimagined with AI-Powered Skills (neelball)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – September 2026 (Vesa Juvonen)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.90 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• More than words (Rachel Andrew)

Tools

• RustRover vs VS Code + rust-analyzer: What Changes in Your Rust Workflow (Irina Mihajlovic)

General

• Windows Hardware Compatibility Program guidance for Windows 11, version 26H2 (Andy W.)
• Windows 11, version 26H2 security baseline (Rick Munck)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – September 30, 2026 (#878) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

.NET MAUI Cookbook (Alexander Russkov) - Referral Link Build a full-featured app swiftly with MVVM, CRUD, AI, authentication, real-time updates, and more.

• Aspire 13.6: Your dashboard gets memory (Maddy Montaquila)
• WSL containers is now generally available (Logan Iyer)
• Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol in Microsoft Foundry: Advanced intelligence, optimized for production agents (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Enabling Consistent AI-Assisted Engineering with GitHub Copilot Plugins (Fernando de Oliveira, Fernanda Lasmar & Denise Mignoli)
• Windows App SDK Version 2.5 Experimental (2.5.4-Experimental) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Visual Studio September Update – Power Your Workflow with Your Model (Mark Downie)
• TechBash 2026 kicks off in exactly TWO weeks! (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• SvelteKit 3 Reaches Release Candidate, Moving Config to Vite and Retiring the $lib Alias (Daniel Curtis)
• 7 Useful JavaScript Features Added in ECMAScript 2026 (JS Dev)
• Azure SDK Release (September 2026) (Justin Bettencourt)
• Build with Azure Canvases: a shared workspace for agents (Matt Hernandez)
• Managing File Uploads and Administration in Blazor (Héctor Pérez)
• What’s New in Syncfusion Essential Studio 2026 Volume 3: A2UI, New JavaScript Document Libraries, and More (Rajeshwari P)
• Aspire 13.6.0 Release and Use interactive terminals in the dashboard and Automate terminals from your AppHost and Deploy to Azure Container Apps Sandboxes (Aspire Team)

Windows Development

• Is it MSIX? Part 1: How to Tell if a Process Is Packaged (Howard Kapustein)
• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 2.5.4-experimental Release (NuGet Gallery)
• How to get the Windows 11 2026 Update (John Cable)

.NET and Visual Studio

• NetWasm rebuilds .NET for WebAssembly - because cramming .NET Core into Wasm doesn’t make it a WASM platform (Zion Sati)
• Simplify Directory File Operations in .NET with Spargine’s DirectoryInfoExtensions (David McCarter)
• Introducing Shiny.AppFunctions — One C# Declaration for Siri and Gemini (Allan Ritchie)
• How to Augment Voice Calls with Twilio Intelligence in C# (Amanda Lange & Matthew Setter)
• FromCurl — paste a curl command, get a .NET 10 Minimal API stub (Recs Ventures)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET (part 4): static methods, instance methods, MCP Clients as custom Agent tools (Davide Bellone)
• The hidden trap of fixed buffers in C# (Kevin Gosse)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.23.0 Release (semenshi)

AI

• Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol and DevDay 2026 Recap (OpenAI Team)
• Why Microsoft’s Growing AI Agent Ecosystem Could Make Work IQ More Valuable (Kieron Allen)
• Anthropic says it fixed Claude's writing. I ran the evals to check. (Jim Bennett)
• Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models (Ollama Team)
• GitLab and Claude Code: Fast, compliant AI (Elisabeth Burrows)
• Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents (Julie Bort)
• OpenAI answers TypeSafe’s Jev with a Decision API built on Luna (Frederic Lardinois)
• OpenAI just launched Dots. Here’s why they matter for developers. (Amanda Caswell)
• Postman Plugin for OpenAI Codex (Quinton Wall)
• Integrating Claude Code with Auth0 APIs (Manish Hatwalne)
• AI Is Writing Code Faster Than Humans Can Review It. Using Another AI to Check It Isn’t the Answer (Eli Lopian)
• 6 Months of Claude and Cursor, Part 2: Teaching AI to Work with a Senior Engineer (Jefferson S. Motta)
• Assessing AI Impact: Notes for Your CFO (James Shore)
• Why content extraction still matters in the GenAI era (Chu Lahlou & Cha Zhang)
• GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (Simon Willison)
• Sign in to Warp with ChatGPT (Warp Team)
• OpenClaw v2026.9.7 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Free the models: Harness design at the frontier (Replit Team)
• Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents (Antonio Tiene, Ander Alvarez Sanz, Oliver Wirjadi & Alessandro Genuardi)
• A Deep Dive into the Microsoft Foundry Document Intelligence SDK: From PDF to Structured Data (Jubin Soni & FBCS)
• Superpowers for Humans (Tim O’Reilly)
• Build Offline Agent Loops for a Vonage Voice Agent (Benjamin Aranov)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• WSLC Architecture deep dive (Pierre Boulay)
• Octopus Approvals (Michelle O'Brien)
• Cybersecurity Month eBook Bundle 2026 | O'Reilly (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Evaluating AI-Generated Frontend Code: What Should We Actually Test? (Niharika P. Pujari)
• Software Quality Assurance Tools and Tips for Developers (Kerry Beetge)
• Measuring the Performance of Deterministic Exceptions (Thomas Neumann)
• Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead (Margaret Tucker)
• How do you deal with people who strongly disagree with your views? (Daniel Lemire)
• ​​Beyond source code: A path to the keys to the kingdom (Microsoft Defender Experts Cybersecurity Incident Response Team)
• Deterministic When Possible. Probabilistic When Necessary. Human When Cheaper. (Jason Gorman)
• Upgrading Dependency Track from v4 to v5 (Bart Wullems)
• Review fatigue is real. Here’s what my team did about it (Ivona Skorjanc)
• Why redesign doesn't happen (enough) (Tim Ottinger)
• Bliki: Sensible Default (Martin Fowler)
• Modeling Software’s Business Impact (James Shore)

Mobile and Game Development

• .NET 10 - Xcode 27.0 support (27.0.10722) for .NET MAUI (Alex Soto)
• Driving growth on Google Play: The next era of subscriptions (Sheenam Mittal)
• Multiplayer Game Development with TypeScript, Phaser, Socket.io, and MongoDB (Nic Raboy)
• The State of Kotlin in 2026 Report (Daria Voronina)
• Apple’s HomePad will reportedly launch on October 13th (Tom Warren)

Screencasts and Videos

• Keep Your AI Accurate with Microsoft Learn MCP Server | The Azure Essentials Show (Ben Brauer & Eric Imasogie)
• Quickstart: Tools your agent can actually trust (Bethany Jepchumba)
• How to Build Team Agents (AIDailyBrief)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Carter Rabasa (Isaac Levin)
• Random.Code() - Yet Another Accessibility Issue in Rocks With Nested Types, Part 2 (Jason Bock)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Using Agile Prioritization to Handle Competing Roles | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Pankaj Kumar)
• The GitHub Podcast Episode #50 - Tiny Wins for Maintainers: PR Limits, the “AI Slop” Problem, and Rating Repos with Copilot (Cassidy Williams, GPS Peña-Siguenza & Camilla Moraes)
• Developer Tea Podcast - How History Can Inform a Dynamic Understanding of Technological Revolutions Mirroring this Moment In Software Engineering (Jonathan Cutrell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1044 - Live, Love, Re-Org - The Strength of the M5 Mac Studio Running Local Agents (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko & Christina Warren)
• Mailin' It - The Official USPS Podcast - The Return on Returns: Turning Reverse Logistics Into a Competitive Advantage (United States Postal Service)
• RunAs Radio Show #1056 - AI and Penetration Testing with Paula Januszkiewicz (Richard Campbell)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #498 - A Tiny Episode (Michael Kennedy)

Community and Events

• The Fog After a Layoff: Rules for the First 30 Days (Pinal Dave)

Database

• Cosmos DB Mirroring in Fabric Now Supports Virtual Network Data Gateways (Jai Maldonado)
• The same connection string keywords now work across our SQL drivers (David Levy)
• Public Preview: Performance monitoring for Azure SQL (Lance Wright)
• SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available (Raj Pochiraju)
• How ORMs Still Let SQL Injection Through (and How to Close the Gaps) (Hackita)
• Marten Just Crossed 20 Million Downloads (Jeremy D. Miller)
• SQLCon Barcelona 2026: Advancing SQL with greater control, scale, and intelligence (Shireesh Thota)
• DiskANN Vector Index and Vector Search Are Now Generally Available in Azure SQL (Pooja Kamath)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• What's New in Excel (September 2026) (Ms Excel)
• Now in public preview: Microsoft 365 SharePoint Storage and OneDrive Storage (Sharon Yam)

Tools

• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2712.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• The Night Sky Is Getting 10% Brighter Every Year (BeauHD)
• As a general rule, calling product support while drunk is not recommended (Raymond Chen)
• Download Windows 11 26H2 ISO (offline installer) directly from Microsoft (Abhijith M B)
• macOS 27 Cheat Sheet: Compatible Macs, Siri AI, Features and What Changed (TechRepublic Staff)

More Link Collections

• Interesting links - September 2026 (Robin Moffatt)
• Daily Reading List – September 29, 2026 (#877) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: September 29 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor (Jimmy Engström) - Referral Link A practical guide to building interactive UIs with C# 14 and .NET 10.

• Build Agentic UI with the new Blazor AI components (Daniel Roth)
• Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now available in Microsoft Foundry (Amar Badal)
• MSSQL Extension for VS Code: New Getting Started Page, Agent skills, SQL Formatter, and more (Yo-Lei Chen)
• Get started with the GitHub Copilot app: a free, hands-on course (Dan Wahlin)
• Rider 2026.2.3 Is Released! (Alexander Kurakin)
• Highlights from Git 2.56 (Elijah Newren)

Web and Cloud Development

• Blazorise 2.3.3 - Custom Colors, Scheduler Improvements, and a New Website (Mladen Macanović)
• A Simple Weather App in TypeScript (Raymond Camden)
• Global Secure Access – Multiple Traffic Forwarding profiles for Private Access is finally here! (Michael Morten Sonne)

Windows Development

• C++ reminder: Function-local static variables are initialized only once, even if it looks like they get initialized multiple times (Raymond Chen)
• How to Visualize Trends Using Sparklines in a WinForms Datagrid (Greg Lutz)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Securing Minimal APIs with Scope-Based Authorization in .NET 10 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.23.0 Release (Dmytro Struk)
• Delegates and events in C# explained (David Grace)
• PackageGuard can now fail your build on risk scores and package age (Dennis Doomen)
• Adding JsonPath support to custom object models in .NET (Gérald Barré)
• A .NET Agent Orchestration Framework - Introduction (Ricardo Peres)

AI

• FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona: Building the data foundation for Microsoft Copilot and agents (Arun Ulag)
• NVIDIA proposes an AI agent kill switch in silicon after a year of sandbox escapes (Jim Bennett)
• Making AI an asset, not an expense (Cheri Williams)
• Your Coding Agent Needs Observability, Too (Mitchel Sellers)
• From Jev to Your Laptop: Building “System One” Decision Models in ONNX with Mobius (Kinfey Lo)
• How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent (Kevin Stubbings)
• Air Teams: Bring Your Best Agentic Workflows to the Whole Team – and Automate Repeatable Work (Vladimir Gromozdin)
• Hands-On With OpenAI's Mandatory Custom GPT-to-Plugin Migration (Deadline Coming) (David Ramel)
• Why model versioning is not enough for production AI (Silu Panda)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.15 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Simon Willison)
• The Firebase plugin is now available in Codex (Sumit Chandal)
• When can we say AI made a scientific discovery? (James O'Donnell)
• Are you a Codex Original? (OpenAI Team)
• Is Your “Human-in-the-Loop” Actually Slowing You Down? Here’s What We Learned (Kavin Xavier)
• Giving companies more control over their AI agents, with NVIDIA (Claude Team)
• Bill Gates Says an AI ‘Kill Switch’ Isn't Enough (BeauHD)
• From Raw Data to Graph-Native AI (Ammar Mohanna)
• Auth0 for ChatGPT - Build and Manage Identity by Just Asking (Juan Cruz Martinez)
• Oracle and DeepLearning.AI Launch Agent Memory Course for AI Developers (Francesca Stott)
• Using Jev and Oracle AI Database to govern agent memory (Anya Summers)
• The Agentic Sweet Spot? The Human IS The Loop (Jason Gorman)
• AI Crash Course: WebMCP (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• Auto-accepting AI edits in VS Code (Bart Wullems)
• Route every Claude Code message to the right model with Jev (Engin Diri)
• Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents (Hugging Face Team)
• Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? (Michelle Kim)
• ACP Muse Agent Client Protocol and Muse Code (Ryan S.)
• Small Decisions: Engineering a Leading Model (Marc Brooker)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• What's new in Git 2.56.0? (Karthik Nayak)
• Event Sourcing: two ways to enable accept/reject workflows (Urs Enzler)
• Fido2 showdown: Security key form factors (Stephan van Rooij)

Mobile and Game Development

• Creating an Account UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module available now at $30 (Simon Burgess)
• Build intelligent Android apps: In-app agentic workflows (Jolanda Verhoef)
• New regions and networks: Firebase Phone Number Verification adds more networks (Micah Baker)
• Navigating the Android background lifecycle: Lessons from building Muffle (Haseeb)
• A More Reliable Compilation Scheme for Kotlin Multiplatform Modules (Aleksey Zamulla)

Screencasts and Videos

• The Real Risks of AI Agents (AIDailyBrief)
• Random.Code() - Yet Another Accessibility Issue in Rocks With Nested Types (Jason Bock)
• Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Give Your Agent Its Own Computer (Michelle Smith)
• Build, test, monitor and optimize a voice agent in Microsoft Foundry and Introducing Voice Agents in Microsoft Foundry Agent Service (Microsoft Foundry Team)
• Warp Factories - the complete guide (Warp Team)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast - Why are ships called ‘she’? (Mignon Fogarty)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1042 - Is the Jev Hype Overblown? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Building Agile Trust One Small Scrum Sprint at a Time | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and The Agile Team Split Between Seniors and Juniors | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Pankaj Kumar)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Your phone is AI’s newest hardware (Phoebe Sajor & Ryan Donovan)
• Meta Cast - The “New” AI Hiring Skills Are the Ones You Always Needed (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #530 - Don't Walk Away from AI w/ Mark Hinkle (Taylor Desseyn)
• Mark Michaelis: Mastering the Agentic Coding Workflow - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #421 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• InfoQ Podcast: The AI Revolution Fails Without Psychological Safety For Developers (Erin Doyle)

Community and Events

• Syncfusion Hits a Century with 109 G2 Badges in Fall 2026 (Lucy Njeri Muturi)
• Consortium Members elect Board of Directors (W3C)

Database

• What’s new across Microsoft SQL at SQLCon/FabCon Europe 2026 (Anna Hoffman)
• New Microsoft data innovations unlock what only your business knows (Jessica Hawk)
• Announcing the Public Preview of Local Time Zone Support in Azure SQL Database (Umachandar Jayachandran)
• Announcing Public Preview for Azure Cosmos DB in Fabric Database Hub! (Jai Maldonado)
• How to build an app on Azure SQL with an AI coding agent (Iqra Shaikh)
• SQLAlchemy 2.1 brings built-in support for mssql-python (Matt Hyon & David Levy)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.90-0 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• Neo - Write your next book without the friction (Hugh Howey)

Tools

• VS Code Expands Codex Harness (Kay Ewbank)

General

• Trump finalizes rule to make cars less fuel efficient (Justine Calma)
• Volkswagen replaces ID.4 with all-electric Tiguan (Andrew J. Hawkins)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – September 28, 2026 (#876) (Richard Seroter)
• Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - September 28 (Peter Ritchie)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Claude Opus 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock, Strands harness, and more (September 28, 2026) (Daniel Abib)
• Reading Notes #715 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

ChatGPT Visual Bible (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link A step-by-step, screenshot-by-screenshot guide to writing, researching, analyzing, and automating with ChatGPT

• AG-UI Protocol now has a first-class .NET SDK (Daniel Roth)
• Syncfusion Releases First Set of Open-Source Blazor Controls (Syncfusion Team)
• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Introducing the new Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot (Jared Spataro)
• Windows App SDK Version 1.8.12 (1.8.260921001) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• WinAppCLI v0.7.0 – Windows Sandbox automation, Native AOT support, single-file applications, and more (Zachary Teutsch)

Web and Cloud Development

• Do Angular apps need WebMCP when agents can already use the UI? (Erik Lieben)
• From API Keys to Access Control: Rethinking Secrets Management (Aanchal Mishra)
• Architecting the Modern Web: Debounce APIs, Rendering Strategies, and Automated AI Setup! and An update on Angular’s TypeScript 7-powered Compiler (Angular Team)
• Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (Josh Black)
• CoreDNS in AKS: service discovery, upstream DNS, and failover (varghesejoji)
• Trading a Cloud Identity for Your Own: Workload Attestation on Managed Compute (Dhruv Pratap)
• Stop Building MFA from Scratch (And What to Do Instead) (Alisha Tingle)
• Blazor Basics: SEO Basics for Blazor Web Applications (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Crafting WCAG 3 for more accessible user experiences (W3C)

Windows Development

• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.8.260921001 Release (NuGet Gallery)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 25 September 2026 (Stephen Lines)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v4.3.0 (Alvin Ashcraft) - Added support for the latest Microsoft Store CLI and winapp CLI releases

.NET and Visual Studio

• How fast can you fix a UTF-16 string in C#? (Daniel Lemire)
• HttpClient Keep-Alive: Why Disabling Connection Reuse Can Destroy Performance (David McCarter)
• C# 15 Collection Expression Arguments: What's New vs C# 12 and 13 (Laurent Kempe)
• Visual Studio Code CMake Tools 1.24 (Hannia Valera)
• Critter Stack Round Up for the Past 2 Weeks and Critter Stack Roadmap: CritterWatch 1.1, Spec Driven Development, and Event Modeling (Jeremy D. Miller)

AI

• ChatClient v ResponsesClient in Microsoft Agent Framework and Running Microsoft Agent Framework Locally (Jesse Liberty)
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Beginners - A Complete Guide (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Why not use DeepSeek Flash for everything? (Ryan S.)
• Copilot Home, Code and Autopilot Are the Headlines. FinOps Is the Story. (Vesa Nopanen)
• Human-AI partnerships are for alignment, not capability (Sean Goedecke)
• “Does anyone use Copilot?”: Microsoft employee says “most people love it,” blames the San Francisco tech bubble (Abhijith M B)
• OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’ (Terrence O’Brien)
• Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User-Uploaded Images Onto the Internet, Accessed US Government Websites (EditorDavid)
• AI agents need continuity, not just context (Derek Schaller)
• Run-assert-eval: How developers can find AI agent risks, fix them, and prove the fix worked (Alex Ngo, Chang Liu, Mehrnoosh Sameki, Mike Shi, Katelyn Rothney & Ahmed Magooda)
• This Week in AI: AI’s Safety Problem (Michelle Smith)
• Human Judgment Doesn’t Leave the Software Factory, It Relocates (Addy Osmani)
• Putting business analysis in everyone’s hands (Replit Team)
• Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test (Tim Fernholz)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• The Test Was Wrong. Rewriting. (Gil Zilberfeld)
• If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? (Jeff Atwood)
• Advice to a beginning software engineer (Sean Goedecke)

Mobile and Game Development

• Does 1000 wishlists at announcement mean $1,000,000? (Code Monkey)
• Raspberry Pi Stock Jumps 30% as Demand Surges. (And Boards Now Locked to Their Original RAM Size) (EditorDavid)
• Azure IoT Central is evolving: what you need to know (JesusbarMsft)
• Flutter Gemma: The hidden gem of cross-platform local AI (Mobile@Exxeta)
• Announcing Tauri 2.12 (Tauri Team)

Screencasts and Videos

• How to use GitHub Copilot with WSL on Windows (Kayla Cinnamon)
• How to automate issue metadata with GitHub issue intents (GitHub Team)
• How People Are Actually Using Jev (AIDailyBrief)
• AspiriFridays - 13.6 is coming!! (Aspire Team)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 332 -“Wham Bam Amsterdam” (The Things Conference 2026) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• One model deployment to route them all (Microsoft Developer Team)
• Connect Azure Functions to SharePoint using Managed Connectors (Microsoft Azure Developers Team)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Merge Conflict Episode #534 - Why Developers Are Obsessed with Budget LLMs (Jev, Luna, & more) (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Lenny's Podcast - The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham (Lenny Rachitsky)
• BONUS Why AI Is Agile's Best Use Case | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Melissa Reeve)
• Big Technology Podcast - Meta’s Muse Revival, Frontier AI Under Threat, The Rise Of Dopamine Sites (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast - You Don’t Have to Live at Work to Become a Director of Engineering (Max Ahumada)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #173 - $15K Chinese EV Charges 2x Faster Than A $200K Bentley Torcal (Batteries Included Team)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #312 - Navigating AI in Open Source: Insights From Wagtail (Christopher Bailey, Meagen Voss & Thibaud Colas)
• The Ezra Klein Show: Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far (Ezra Klein & Rollin Hu)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #529 - State of the Market from a Veteran Recruiter (Taylor Desseyn)
• InfoQ Podcast: The Future of AI: From Enterprise Adoption to Open Source Sovereignty (Meryem Arik, Clara Higuera Cabañes & Jeff Smith)

Community and Events

• GitHub Student Developer Pack: What You Can Get as a Student (Ramiro Quintana)
• Call For Papers Listings for 9/25 and Job listings for week ending 9/25 (Leon Adato)
• Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
• Wired's Women in Tech Survey (Brian Rinaldi)

Database

• Outdated Statistics in SQL Server: The Optimizer Is Planning for Last Year and The Longer Query: A Sunday SQL Illusion and AI Hallucinated a Table That Was Never There (Pinal Dave)
• How to close SQL Server operational blind spots (linked servers, DMVs, and KILL command security risks & fixes) (Fabiano Amorim)
• Add SQL Server on VM DB (CDC) source to an eventstream (Microsoft Learn)

Writing

• How to Level Up Your Portfolio in the AI Era: From Technical Writer to Developer Educator (Casmir Onyekani)
• What I Learned throughout the Last Years Writing with AI (Simon Späti)
• Gothic Fiction: 8 Essential Elements Every Writer Should Know and What Is Automatic Writing? (Writers Write)

Tools

• SimpleMarkDown: The Markdown Editor I Actually Needed (Jamie Maguire)
• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2684.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Spotifast - Spotify, native and fast. One lightweight Rust app for your whole library, local playback, and Spotify Connect on Linux, macOS, and Windows. (Carmine Paolino)
• SpotLight - A blazingly fast, ultra-lightweight Spotify client written in Rust. (Devid Rrucaj)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v3.0.1 Release (OneBlue)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest: Creating a memory dump in C# and C# Digest: Performance improvements in .NET 11 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 20, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Android Weekly Issue #746 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• F# Weekly #39, 2026 – Oxpecker 3 (Sergey Tihon)
• Azure Weekly #581 - 27th September 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• Daily Reading List – September 25, 2026 (#875) (Richard Seroter)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #769 (Alex Ozun)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) - Referral Link A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C#.

• From Chatbots to Automated Agents: Routines in Microsoft Foundry Are Now Generally Available (Linda Li)
• winapp CLI Release v0.7.0 (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)
• Control where your hosted agent connects with network egress in Foundry Agent Service (Muzz Imam)
• Migrating Reactive Forms to Angular 22 Signal Forms: When and How (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)
• What’s new in Microsoft Agent Framework: Interactive experiences, memory, and resilient execution (Dan Taylor)
• Uno Platform 6.7: Your Apps on TVs, Cars, and Watches, Plus More Efficient Skia Rendering (Uno Platform Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• How I Learn APIs Quickly Using VS Code REST Client (Frank Boucher)
• React for Vue Developers, Part 1: Components, Props and the Mental Reset (Marina Mosti)
• Introducing bicep docs: generate documentation from your Bicep modules (Jared F. Holgate)

Windows Development

• How many strings can you create per second? (Daniel Lemire)
• XAML.io Adds Full Coding Agent (Kay Ewbank)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Memory in BlogWriter and BlogWriter Architecture Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
• Logical Message Deduplication with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Union types as a Result - how it compares (Josef Ottosson)

AI

• Introducing voice agents in Microsoft Foundry (Yiwen Rong)
• When chat is the wrong UI (Burke Holland)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.15 Preview 3 Release (GitHub Copilot SDK Team)
• Microsoft Foundry Prompt Agents vs. Hosted Agents: What Are You Actually Choosing? (Lino Tadros)
• Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw (Hayden Field)
• Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar (CJ Zheng)
• AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent (Antonio Morales)
• Getting the best out of Azure SRE Agent (Puneet Gupta)
• Coding sessions are longer and use more context. Claude Opus 5.5 is built with that in mind. (Claude Team)
• OpenAI agent breached Australian government health website, Albanese says (Dissent)
• RAG vs. Fine-Tuning for Domain Adaptation: When to Use Which (Shittu Olumide)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• From Dockerfile to Kit: the Docker Sandboxes Kit Specification (Jin Kim)
• Introducing run-assert-eval: Find the risk, fix it, prove it (Alex Ngo, Chang Liu, Mehrnoosh Sameki, Mike Shi, Katelyn Rothney & Ahmed Magooda)
• A milestone in our quantum journey. We’re delivering our Majorana-2 tech to DARPA for on-site testing and evaluation at our new research center in Maryland. (Satya Nadella)
• Toggle Switches When the Thing Behind the Switch Is a Whole System (Adron Hall)
• Introducing Cloud Sandboxes: Start on Your Laptop, Finish in the Cloud (PeiFang Sung)
• What Is Runtime Security? Threats, Tools, and Best Practices (Ben Nettleton)
• Healthy Feedback (Anuja Karnik & Sumeet Gayathri Moghe)
• You should all be asking way more questions (Sean Goedecke)
• ​​​​​​​​What’s new in Microsoft Security: September 2026​​ (Alym Rayani)
• “The” IP Address (Eric Lawrence)
• Multi-Tenant Best Practices Can Backfire (Derek Comartin)
• Start at the beginning: how to get the most out of discovery and alpha (Ann Cooper)

Mobile and Game Development

• Build your way: Use any AI agent of your choice in Android Studio (Matthew Warner)
• Community Spotlight: Ionic Theme iOS 27 (Masahiko Sakakibara)
• What iOS Developers Need to Change in their Apps to prepare for the iPhone Duo (Sergio De Simone)

Screencasts and Videos

• Pragmatic AI in .NET Show: Building Agents (Steve Bilogan & Sam Basu)
• .NET + Foundry, better together | Microsoft Reactor (Bruno Capuano)
• Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6-Sol and Luna (AIDailyBrief)
• Agentic RAG and chat completion in the Microsoft SQL engine | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Bob Ward)
• New DayFrame version is live! | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #591 - Fall Down With the Ball (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• A Geek Leader Episode #488 - Bruno Lecoq (John Rouda)
• Women in Technology Podcast Episode #65 - Why Women Pivot: Ambition, Identity, and Reinvention (WiT Team)
• The Modern .NET Show - It's Still Your Code: AI Contributions to Open Source, Live at Codegarden (Jamie Taylor)
• MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #437 - Nasuni and AI-Ready Unstructured Data with Nick Burling (Ben Stegink & Scott Hoag)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #373 - From AGENTS.md to Enterprise Deployment (Nick Kuhn, Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Professional skepticism is a dev’s best skill (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• The Xbox reset gets ugly (Tom Warren)

Database

• Guid.CreateVersion7() is NOT a sequential guid for SQL Server (Bart Wullems)
• AI Generated ETL Worked on Day One. Then Came Monday. (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready (James Serra)
• SQL Database Projects and AI: A Match Made in Heaven (Lou Creemers)
• MariaDB Community Server 13 Now Generally Available (Kay Ewbank)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Copilot CLI (Jesse Liberty)

Writing

• What Is A Plot Twist? The Secret To Writing A Great One (Writers Write)

General

• Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1 (Ryan Whitwam)
• Microsoft puts Brad Smith in charge of communications (Tom Warren)
• Top 10 Ways to Spot a Cybersecurity Expert (2026 Edition) (Arthur Hicken)
• Internal memos: Microsoft shakes up communications as Nadella makes a push to build in public (Todd Bishop)
• Microsoft is killing off the ‘Copilot Plus PC’ brand (Sean Hollister)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – September 24, 2026 (#874) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: September 24 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

C# 14 and .NET 10 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Build modern websites and services with ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and EF Core using Visual Studio 2026.

• Changes to Microsoft Learn’s public documentation repositories (Martin Ekuan)
• Microsoft is updating its author-signing certificate starting September 23, 2026 (NuGet Team)
• Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work (Amar Badal)
• Introducing the next Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch with Snapdragon X2 Plus: Greater performance that travels light (Brett Ostrum)
• .NET Rocks! - RockBot with Rocky Lhotka (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app (Alberto Gimeno)
• Building the system for AI at work (Jared Spataro)
• Get the TechBash app for iOS and Android, check out the schedule, and register today!

Web and Cloud Development

• Azure Container Apps Sandboxes, Now Generally Available (Jan Kalis)
• Beyond Images: Bringing Rust Brotli to Edge Network Stack (Marco Bartoli)
• Azure Container Apps Express is now Generally Available (simonjj)
• Node.js 22.23.3 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
• Upcoming Next.js September Security Release (Sebastian Silbermann)
• Run Local Akka.NET Clusters with Aspire (Aaron Stannard)
• First Public Working Draft: Bitstring Status List v1.1 (W3C)

Windows Development

• When working with Win32 FILETIME, don’t forget that you have std::chrono now (Raymond Chen)
• C++ Programming Masterclass eBook Bundle - Code Faster, Build Smarter. Master C++ | Packt (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Giving you more control over camera, microphone, and location (Rohit Kurup)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.10.2 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 12217.175 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• EF Core Reporting Views: Design the Row Before Writing the Query (Mitchel Sellers)
• Entity Framework Core Pitfalls - Getting a Single Record by Key (Ricardo Peres)
• Are C# Pipeline Stages Parallel? Throughput, Ordering, and Benchmarks (Nick Cosentino)
• Redis in .NET routes: cache, Pub/Sub, Streams with consumer groups and Claim Check in one connector (Kozin Rinat)
• While Microsoft Is Busy Learning Rust, I'm Rebuilding .NET for WASI (Zion Sati)

AI

• Microsoft’s AI Framework for Schools May Be a Blueprint for Wider AI Regulation (Kieron Allen)
• Will TypeSafe’s Jev Change How We Build AI Applications? (Laurie Voss)
• DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is coming to Microsoft Foundry (Rashaud Savage)
• Create agents fast with Agent Builder in Copilot (Zachary Cavanell)
• Building Legal Document AI with TX Text Control: From RAG and Contract Analysis to AI-Assisted Editing (Bjoern Meyer)
• Jev After Eight Days of Independent Tests: Level With Mid-Price LLMs, Behind the Frontier (xbill)
• Introducing Support for Local AI Models in the Antigravity SDK (Sachin Kotwani & Taylor Mullen)
• OpenAI cut GPT-6 token prices in half. The bigger lever may be the cache. (Meredith Shubel)
• Multi-Agent Orchestration for Software Delivery: Patterns for Multi-Repository Workflows (Adam Bertram)
• Anthropic made Opus 5.5 cheaper. Then it broke four things your agent depends on. (Amanda Caswell)
• GitHub Copilot auto mode: should you disable models? (Bart Wullems)
• GPT-6 Astra Scores At Cryptanalysis (Sue Gee)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.15 Preview 2 Release (github-actions[bot])
• OpenClaw v2026.9.6 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• How to prepare for AI-driven code modernization projects (Claude Team)
• Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the work (Mike Hulme)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Stop saying no, just build it (Rob Conery)
• Your architecture diagram is not your resilience (Mark Russinovich, Adam Bogobowicz & Molina Sharma)
• Developers want more efficient software. Here’s what over 1000 GitHub users told us they need. (Paull Young)
• Reducing Waste Is the Real Point of Agile Product Design (UX Magazine)
• Designing the Kotlin Multiplatform and TeamCity Integration (Bozidar Rakicevic)

Mobile and Game Development

• How to Build a Dart Package Analytics Tool with the pub.dev API: Beyond the 30-Day Window (Oluwaseyi Fatunmole)
• Bringing Private Processing to Meta AI Glasses (Pritam Shah & Oskar Linde)

Screencasts and Videos

• Skill up on Copilot Studio Oct 8th! (Microsoft Developer Team)
• Stop guessing which model your agent needs (Bethany Jepchumba)
• Resilience at Cloud Scale: Azure CTO on Outages, Hardware, and AI | Azure Essentials Show (Mark Russinovich)
• GitHub Copilot everywhere: building code across Slack, Teams, mobile, and VS Code (GitHub Team)
• I Tested Unity Level Design Tools (These Are My Favorites) (Stacey Haffner)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast - What's in a word? Mapping America's regional vocabulary and the Linguistic Atlas Project, with Allison Burkette (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #372 - Welcome to Microsoft Patch-A-Palooza (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• The Amp Hour Episode #735 - The Onio Batteryless Vision with Kjetil Meisal (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Windows Weekly Episode #1002 - Only B & D Matter - Big Reorganization & Job Cuts Within XBOX (Leo Laporte & Paul Thurrott)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #739 - Erin Catto on Video Game Physics Engines (Jason Davey)
• Big Technology Podcast - YouTube CEO Neal Mohan: Why We're Betting On AI And Not Afraid Of It (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1041 - What are normies using AI for? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• BONUS Real-Time Research for Change Leaders Using AI | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Ari-Pekka Skarp)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #528 - Building Your AI Job Search System (Taylor Desseyn)
• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #42 - Open for Whom? (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #223 - Jev: is it just a smarter if-statement? (Mike Chambers)

Community and Events

• Microsoft Ignite: Build the skills customers are searching for (Jill Armour)
• So It’s Starting to Look Like My Generation Ruined the World (Matthew MacDonald)
• Open source is free to use. It is not free to sustain (Peter Smulovics)
• Join the Copilot Dev Camp Summit Fall Edition on September 30 (Paolo Pialorsi)
• Meta Connect 2026: The biggest news and announcements (Verge Staff)
• Here’s what was announced at Made On YouTube 2026 (News from Google)
• Pleased and proud… (Jesse Liberty)

Database

• MongoDB: One write, two logs (Frane Jelavic)
• 100 AI Interview Questions and Answers for Data Professionals (Pinal Dave)
• How to run PostgreSQL in Docker (getting started with PostgreSQL, part one) (Grant Fritchey)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.7.0-preview.5 Release of PowerShell (J. Shigetomi)
• Signal Diff CLI for coding agents (Simon Foster)

Writing

• How To Write Positive And Negative Character Arcs (Writers Write)

Tools

• Paint.NET 5.2 Beta (build 9762) (Rick Brewster)
• BlogWriter Goes Open-Source (Jesse Liberty)
• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2652.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)
• Stardock Rethinks the Windows 11 Clipboard with Snipboard (Paul Thurrott)

General

• Microsoft’s new Surface Mouse has haptic feedback and a customizable action button (Tom Warren)
• 100 Exercises to Learn Rust, Updated (Daria Kolodzey)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – September 23, 2026 (#873) (Richard Seroter)
• Hit Subscribe Digest, September 2026 (Erik Dietrich)

The Geek Shelf

Getting Started with Visual Studio 2026 (Gerald Versluis) - Referral Link Master the New Era of Visual Studio, AI, and Productivity.

• Creating a memory dump in C# and Today I will… debug a production crash (Aaron Powell)
• GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna for production AI agents in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Developer Deep Dive | Build native Windows apps faster with agents (Nikola Metulev)
• Foundry hosted agent isolation with Microsoft Agent Framework (Roger Barreto & Tao Chen)
• Is your Windows App Ready for the Arm PC Moment? (Oct 1st) | Developer Webinars (Arm Developer Team)
• Better prompt caching for GPT-6 (OpenAI Team)
• Single-Day Tickets Now Available for TechBash 2026! (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Update to WordPress 7.1.2 to fix a critical security flaw (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
• MCP Is Not Just Another API Standard (Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar)
• Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud and Azure Local: Much More Than a Virtualization Platform (Thomas Maurer)
• A Simple Alpine.js Template with Vite and TypeScript (Raymond Camden)
• FHIR data sync patterns every developer needs in their toolkit (Mat Osmanski)
• Node.js 26.10.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
• Experimental support for Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) in ASP.NET Core: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 8 (Andrew Lock)
• Make your website printable - a short guide (Juha-Matti Santala)
• Web-Perf Wednesday 010 – Safari Keeps Scrolled Content in Place (Harry Roberts)

Windows Development

• Footprint vs Payload files (Howard Kapustein)
• Text Console and ANSI color Codes (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Faster C++ code intelligence for Copilot CLI with Whole Codebase Indexing (Sinem Akinci)
• Microsoft Store CLI v0.4.3 Release (Windows Dev Team)

.NET and Visual Studio

• GitHub Copilot and .NET Performance: Benchmark Every Optimization (David McCarter)
• Visual Studio Code 1.140 (Insiders) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Hot Exit in Visual Studio (Bart Wullems)
• System.Text.Json vs Newtonsoft.Json on a Crestron MC4-R (Mono/net472): measured on the processor (Neil Colvin)
• How to Add AI to Your Existing .NET Application Without a Rewrite (Stuart Dobson)
• XML routes in redb.Route: a schema the editor picks up, checks at build time, modules swapped live (Kozin Rinat)

AI

• GPT-6 Astra in Copilot Cowork and in Foundry (Vesa Nopanen)
• OpenClaw v2026.8.33 Release (RomneyDa)
• Azure.AI.Projects v3.0.0 Beta 3 Release (Azure SDK Team)
• JetBrains Air: Building a System of Products for Agentic Software Development (Kirill Skrygan)
• AI in Production: Governance, Reliability, and Application eBook Bundle | Manning Books (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• On The Jev Bandwagon: Building a Behavioural Bidirectional Spam Blocking Proxy with Jev & .NET Core (Scott Galloway)
• Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’ (Richard Lawler)
• Your AI coding agent is a junior engineer with root access (Peter Smulovics)
• 6 Months of Claude and Cursor, Part 1: Building Skills in Claude to Use with Cursor (Jefferson S. Motta)
• Using Azure Blob Storage as a durable filesystem for LangChain Deep Agents (Vishnu Charan TJ)
• Measuring AI’s Unintended Consequences (James Shore)
• Steelmanning AI Policy with the AI Rosetta Stone (Jeffrey Snover)
• Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (Simon Willison)
• Governance is becoming agentic, too: How enterprises can operate AI at scale (niravshah)
• Introducing GPT‑6 Sol and Luna and Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra (OpenAI Team)
• What a task costs on Opus 5.5 (Claude Team)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.15 Preview 1 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Turn text input into actions with Needle, a 14MB function-calling LLM (Ashley)
• AI coding agents need a secrets-safe context boundary (Taylor Luttrell-Williams)
• AI Sovereignty: Bargaining with Big Tech and the Promise of Full Stack Open Source AI (Nicole Butterfield)
• GitLab Duo Expands Self-Hosted AI Options Through Microsoft Foundry (Craig Risi)
• Top AI Infrastructure Tools and How to Choose the Right One (James Walker)
• Claude Code now supports AGENTS.md Natively - Here's how it actually works (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• Why not use DeepSeek Flash for everything? and Using Opus 5 Without Going Insane (Ryan S.)

Python

• Airbnb has no public API - how to get listing and price data for any city (Python) (Feedsmith)
• Before You Ship Your Python AI Agent: Testing, Observability, and the $0 Stack (Peyton Green)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• MVVM and Clean Architecture: Understanding Where Our Code Actually Belongs (Vijesh KR)
• Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms by Eric Lippert | Last Day to Save 50% (Manning Books)
• The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing (Venkatesh Rao)
• The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (Malte Skarupke)
• The quantum countdown: Why post-quantum cryptography is a strategic imperative (Rav Hayer)

Mobile and Game Development

• Land your apps on Googlebook with adaptive development (Fahd Imtiaz & Loryn Hairston)
• .NET MAUI v10.0.110 Release (kubaflo)

Screencasts and Videos

• Scott & Mark Learn To...Fool's Gold (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• dotNetDave Goes To .NET Dev Day Switzerland (David McCarter)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Jason Torres (Isaac Levin)
• DayFrame Notes, Rust, and Preview Release day! | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Francis Ma on Systems Thinking for Teams of AI Agents (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Agent Wars (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #497 - Faster than light profiling and Talk Python to Me Episode #564 - EVE Online Departs for Python 3 (Michael Kennedy)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1043 - The Irrational Phone - The New Mac Mini & Mac Studio (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• RunAs Radio Show #1055 - Building Agents with Andrew Connell (Richard Campbell)
• The Azure Security Podcast Episode #133 - News about the Azure Key Vault Family (Keith Prunella, Michael Howard & Mark Simos)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Multiplayer AI: Why your team (and its agents) need a group chat (Ryan Donovan)
• BONUS From AI Curiosity to Practical Project Tools | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & William Davis)
• Continuous Delivery Office Hours Episode #9 - The compliance ratchet (Steve Fenton)

Community and Events

• Xbox: Continuing Our Reset (Joe Skrebels)
• Move over, WPF! Avalonia for X-Plat Desktop Apps (with a lot of AI help) (2026-10-06) (Christoph Wille & Siegfried Pammer)
• Microsoft is laying off 268 Xbox staffers and Ninja Theory may close and Activision is taking over Halo as part of a massive Xbox shake-up (Tom Warren)
• Expedia Group laying off 58 employees in Washington state in latest cuts at travel giant (Kurt Schlosser)
• Exploring Zürich: The Scenery, the Culture, and a Different Way of Life (David McCarter)

Database

• Install AdventureWorks and WideWorldImporters: Updated 2026 (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.1.0 is now generally available (David Levy)
• Unicode String Literals with UNISTR in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL Database (Leonard Lobel)
• The one big difference between MySQL and MariaDB you may have overlooked (Lukas Vileikis)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.88 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• ILSpy v11.1 Release (Christoph Wille)

General

• Are Students Suddenly Losing Interest in Computer Science as AI Coding Takes Off? (EditorDavid)
• Fake LastPass Authenticator Installs a Microsoft-Signed Driver That Kills 145 Security Tools (Etairos.ai)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – September 22, 2026 (#872) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Tools and Skills for .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions.

• Introducing XAML.io v0.9: Build .NET Apps From a Prompt, in Your Browser (XAML.io Team)
• Single Day Tickets Now Available for TechBash 2026 (TechBash Team)
• New in Edge for developers – Create better components and make your site agent-ready (Patrick Brosset)
• 7 Document Automation Tasks Every .NET Application Should Handle Server-Side (Deepa Thiruppathy)
• Aspire Bytes: Take a tour of the dashboard (Maddy Montaquila)
• Introducing System One Models & Jev (TypeSafe AI Team)
• Why TechBash 2026 Should Be On Your Calendar (Jason Gaylord)

Web and Cloud Development

• Blurry before beautiful: image previews for the web (Patrick Brosset)
• Swagger vs. Scalar: A comprehensive comparison for ASP.NET Core developers (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• Upcoming Next.js Security Update for a Critical Upstream Issue (Sebastian Silbermann)
• Visual Project Management with Blazor Gantt Charts (Héctor Pérez)
• IdentityServer4 Is End-of-Life: Your Options in 2026 (Stefano Pinato)

Windows Development

• What’s the highest legal FILETIME? Is it safe to use? and Comparing exception behavior of magic statics, stdcall_once, and stdasync (Raymond Chen)
• Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows (Steve Jones)
• Windows Package Manager (WinGet) v1.29.380 Release (JohnMcPMS)
• Beyond the Build – September 2026 (Stephen Lines)
• Microsoft keeps rebuilding Windows for developers, but a new poll puts Windows at just 12% (Abhijith M B)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Iterating Tuples in C# (Jason Bock)
• .NET 11 for Duende IdentityServer Developers (Al Rodriguez)
• Using JsonPath with System.Text.Json to query JSON in .NET (Gérald Barré)
• Interfaces in C# explained (David Grace)
• What's in a Task? (Ricardo Peres)

AI

• A summer of AI optimization (Daniel Lemire)
• Claude Code Remote Control Server (Rocky Lhotka)
• Modern Design and Creative eBook Bundle 2026 | Packt Publishing (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (Simon Willison)
• Removing the Noise for Better Prompts (Ken Muse)
• Grok Build vs. Claude Code: I tested which one has the better memory (Jessica Wachtel)
• TypeSafe launched Jev because sequential LLMs are “totally useless for computers” (Adrian Bridgwater)
• Expanding free AI training for educators (Maggie Johnson)
• The continued state of global AI diffusion in 2026 (Juan Lavista Ferres)
• Muse, Meta’s extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day (Dan Goddin)
• The Post-training Process OpenAI Used for ChatGPT (Sharon Zhou)
• When everything looks like a nail: jev, intent detection, and everything old is new again (Jim Bennett)
• Grok 4.7 was built to work for hours. It still fails most of the time. and Your AI agent is burning tokens on choices that don’t need words (Amanda Caswell)
• Building Secure AI Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework and Auth0: Human-in-the-Loop Approval (Andrea Chiarelli)
• Where do AI norms come from? (Charity Majors)
• Vibe coding has arrived in Power Platform and technical debt has never been easier to create (Dela Nakhaei)
• Building standards for the next phase of AI and Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths (OpenAI Team)
• tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured (Arthur Zucker, Simon Brandeis, Luc Georges & Lysandre)
• 10 tips to improve your coding agent game (Engin Diri)

Python

• How to Port a Jekyll Blog Theme to Python: Lessons From Actually Doing It (brooklyn)
• Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available (Simon Willison)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• PackageGuard: know what you are really pulling into your codebase (Dennis Doomen)
• How test data management helps meet DORA’s resilience testing requirements (Tony Davis)
• The Secret Formula for Running Experiments (Teon Beijl)

Mobile and Game Development

• Googlebook: The laptop your Android phone has been waiting for (John Solomon)
• MAUI Android Application Restarts After Backgrounding: Crash or Process Death? (Mitchel Sellers)
• XAML.io Lets You Build .NET Apps in a Web Browser (Paul Thurrott)
• Swift 6.4 Improves Interoperability (Kay Ewbank)
• Your Adaptive UI Has No Screenshot (Rudraksh Shukla)
• Bring your Android game to the car screen today (Jan Kleinert)
• The Death of Apps Has Already Begun (Noah Davis)

Screencasts and Videos

• September 22, 2026 (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• The Rise of Jev: A Leap Beyond Traditional Large Language Models (Frank La Vigne)
• Glasses, DayFrame and More! | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• What’s it like for Microsoft to manage open source projects? What’s in it for Microsoft? | One Dev Question (Amanda Silver)
• How to move AI from code completion to agentic workflows (GitHub Team)
• The State of the AI Debate and The AI Challenges Businesses Are Actually Focused On Right Now (AIDailyBrief)
• Code it with AI (Rocky Lhotka)
• Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Sports Concierge Agent with Chester Ismay (Michelle Smith)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast - How often do you use ‘the’? Meet Zipf's law (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Presentation Podcast Episode #254 – Confessions of a Reluctant AI Presentation Designer (Troy Chollar)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #285 - SQL is the worst DSL, except for all the other ones (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm (Ryan Donovan & Phoebe Sajor)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1040 - Developing for the iPhone Duo (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• BONUS How Scrum Masters Can Use AI Without Losing the Human in the Loop | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Mike Lyons, Greg Pfister & Vasco Duarte)
• Inside Trader Joe's Podcast Episode #112 - Time for Tacos at Trader Joe's (Trader Joe's Team)
• InfoQ Podcast: Securing AI Agents: Identity, Authorization, and the DPACT Framework (Sahil Agarwal)
• AI Book Club recording: I Am Not a Robot by Joanna Stern (Tom Johnson)

Community and Events

• The data does not show mass unemployment (Daniel Lemire)

Database

• NOLOCK Double Counting: One Employee, Two Lunches (Pinal Dave)
• PostgreSQL to SQL Field Notes: Date & Time (Jerry Nixon)

PowerShell and Terminal

• PowerShell Restart-Computer: Restart Local and Remote Computers (Brien Posey)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.87 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• How To Turn Your Short Story Into A Novella (Writers Write)

Tools

• MarkItDown v0.1.8 Release (afourney)

General

• Googlebook’s built-in intelligence reinvents the way you use your laptop (Alexander Kuscher)
• These are the first five Googlebook laptops (Stevie Bonifield)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – September 21, 2026 (#871) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center mobile apps, Amazon Connect Talent GA, Amazon Corretto 27, and more (September 21, 2026) (Esra Kayabali)
• Reading Notes #714 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

So You Want To Be a Tech Lead (Greg Hatchuk) - Referral Link This is the unfiltered, blood-smeared, inbox-exploding truth about what happens when you step out of the safe zone of your IDE and into the jungle of tech leadership.

• TechBash 2026 Fast Approaching (Jason Gaylord)
• Introducing Previews: Storybook for .NET (Sam Basu)
• .NET Rocks! Podcast - Post-Quantum Crypto with Michael Howard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Uno Extensions: MSAL Auth Across Platforms (Steve Bilogan)
• Culture Matters Build a Good One (Maria Naggaga)
• XAML.io v0.9: AI App Builder for .NET | 60-Second Demo (OpenSilver Team)
• Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot (Stephen Toub)

Web and Cloud Development

• Azure Service Bus sessions: Pub/sub without autoforwarding (Daniel Marbach)
• It's only a decade late, I'll learn TypeScript! (Raymond Camden)
• ESLint v10.11.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
• Motion vs GSAP in React: Which Animation Library Should You Choose? (Prashant Yadav)
• 10 JavaScript Error Handling Patterns That Actually Matter (JS Dev)
• WebMCP: Stop scraping the web, start calling it (dotAI, Paris) (Patrick Brosset)
• Introducing a Guided Copilot Experience for Building Azure Apps in VS Code (fiveisprime)
• Node.js 26.9.0 (Current) (Antroine du Hamel)
• Build a WordPress Site with ChatGPT or Claude (Adam Pickering)
• Angular State Management: From Local Signals to NgRx SignalStore (Dany Paredes)
• Getting Started with the TreeList Control in Blazor (Héctor Pérez)
• Microsoft Entra Connect Sync – Passwordless Authentication is now GA, plus the new Entra Connect Migration Tool is here! (v2.6.91.0) (Michael Morten Sonne)
• Public preview of self-service onboarding for new Microsoft Entra App Gallery applications (hildak)
• Moving Around a Grid and Avoiding Obstacles (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Learn How to Deploy, Secure, and Automate Full-Stack Web Apps (Beau Carnes)
• Optimize Your Identity Flows with Auth0 Identity Conversion Suite (Jessica Shao, Michael Swanson & Antonio Ortells)
• WebKit Features for Safari 27.0 (Jen Simmons, Saron Yitbarek, Tim Nguyen, Antoine Quint, Anuj Panta, Ahmad Saleem, Anne van Kesteren, Alex Christensen, Dominic Mazzoni, Aditya Keerthi, Jean Haberer, Karl Dubost, Keith Miller, Youenn Fablet, Lily Spiniolas, Yoel Hawa, Rupin Mittal, Elika Etemad, Jer Noble, Yija Huang, Etienne Segonzac, Kai Tamkun, Shu-yu Guo, Kiet Ho, Nathan Solomon, Chris Dumez, Charlie Wolfe, Joanna Pan, Simon Fraser, Jean-Yves Avenard, Aleksei Marchenko & Mike Wyrzykowski)

Windows Development

• stdcall_once vs. stdasync and Magic statics vs. std::call_once (Raymond Chen)
• Bringing Correctly Rounded Math to Production with LLVM-libc (Cody Miller, Tue Ly & Michael Jones)
• How fast is C++23’s std::flat_map? and Faster JSON parsing with SVE2 on ARM processors (Daniel Lemire)
• Microsoft engineer explains why Windows gives new files the date of ones you deleted (Abhijith M B)
• Windows App SDK 2.5.1 Release (agniuks)
• Paint Sample App | XAML.io (XAML.io Team)
• WinUI.TableView v1.5.0 Release Notes (Waheed Ahmad)
• Matter WinRT - Native C++/WinRT Matter controller APIs and a WinUI 3 sample for x64 and ARM64 Windows (Morten Neilsen)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 18 September 2026 (Stephen Lines)
• WinUI agents and skills for Windows app development (Windows Dev Team)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Hunting a Memory Leak in Production .NET: A Three-Day War Story (Stefan Đokić)
• Querying Roslyn syntax trees with XPath (Gérald Barré)
• Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Monitor and Log HTTP Traffic (David McCarter)
• TypeSafe's Jev AI Model in .NET: A Community SDK for Structured AI Output in C# (Laurent Kempe)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.22.0 Release (westey-m)
• How to Test C# and EF Core Specifications Correctly and Securing RAG in .NET: Indirect Prompt Injection and Corpus Poisoning and Build a TPL Dataflow Pipeline in Modern .NET (Nick Cosentino)
• Build Your Own AI Agent Harness in C#, the MafClaw Live Series (Bruno Capuano)

AI

• OpenClaw v2026.7.34 Release (RomneyDa)
• Making Local AI Smarter and Faster (Vladimir Sotnikov)
• Microsoft Brings GPT-6 Astra to Foundry With Enterprise Controls for Agentic AI (Kieron Allen)
• Announcing the Playwright Workspaces Remote MCP Server for Agentic Browser Automation (Nandini Muralidharan)
• Lessons from Microsoft’s own AI transformation (Kathleen Hogan)
• OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web (Terrence O’Brien)
• AI Insiders Issue New Warnings - Including Former Anthropic Engineer Jacob Coxon (EditorDavid)
• Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch (Lauren Feiner)
• How to Get from AI-Assisted to AI Native (Tim O’Reilly)
• Your diff has a demo now with Junie /demo (Aliaksei Kartynnik)
• OpenClaw FaceTime plugin (OpenClaw Docs)
• Claude couldn’t hack OpenAI. Then Anthropic shipped Opus 5. (Amanda Caswell)
• AI Can Build Your UI. Now Figma Can Tell It When It Screwed Up. (Alex Harper)
• Making AI safer makes it more dangerous (Jason Weisberger)
• Knowledge cutoff is a poor proxy for model capability (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Why the basics still matter for cybersecurity in the AI era (Ron Pessner)
• Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP? (GPS)
• This Week in AI: Capability, Capital, and Consequences (Michelle Smith)
• Solving the Human-AI Alignment Problem (McAkins)
• WebMCP is here: PayPal is helping every merchant become agent-ready (PayPal Team)
• Zoho Quietly Shipped The Largest MCP Vocabulary Deployment (Kin Lane)
• Spec Driven Development and Spec Kit Phases and Adding Cosmos with Spec Kit & Copilot (Jesse Liberty)
• Headroom vs Caveman: A Practical Guide to Reducing AI Coding Costs (Yuvaraj Mohan)
• What happens when your AI coding agent starts a database on its own (building an app with AI, part six) (Grant Fritchey)
• Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered. (Will Douglas Heaven & Grace Huckins)
• OpenClaw v2026.9.5 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• OpenPencil: AI-native design editor - v0.15.0 Release (OpenPencil Team)
• GPT-6 Astra Is the First Model OpenAI Classifies as Critical for Cybersecurity (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• Trump suggests rebranding AI with a new name, says he’s also creating an AI Force (Anthony Ha)
• How To Write With An LLM and Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (Simon Willison)
• AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs (Thomas Ricker)
• Software Factories, Light and Dark (Addy Osmani)
• Your Coding Agent’s Leaderboard Score Isn’t a Production Guarantee (Felipe Godoy)
• VS Code Release Notes Now Generated by Copilot – ‘Might Contain Inaccuracies’ (David Ramel)
• Building a RAG Pipeline for Semantic Code Search: A Developer Diary and Field Notes (Adam Malek)
• New MCP tools help platform teams scale automation safely (Rebecca Carter)
• See who spent your AI credits and set fair caps per team (Bryan Rothwell)
• SDK vs CLI vs MCP, a dev story (Anthony Viard)
• A Gentle Introduction to Model Distillation (Vinod Chugani)
• AI Coding Standards and Repeatable Workflows (Adam Bertram)
• Microsoft’s commitment for AI in education (Justin Spelhaug)
• I Ran the Same Usability Study Twice—Once with AI, Once as a Human Moderator. (Haley Welliver)
• AI makes Agile more alive (Jainish Shah)
• Session References and Introspection and Splash Engine - the fastest local Qwen3.8 on Apple Silicon (LM Studio Team)
• I don't like LLMs (Martin Fowler)
• Using LLM-as-a-judge scoring to measure your software factory (Zach Lloyd)
• Projects redesigned: from folder to conversation (Claude Team)
• OpenAI Admits Six More Instances of AI Models Acting Deceptively and Ex-Google DeepMind Researcher Also Warns AI Could ‘Kill All Humans’. But Meta's Zuckerberg Believes Safety is Up to Each AI Company (EditorDavid)
• Using Opus 5 Without Going Insane (Ryan Svihla)
• Sparkle Pills - A flexible templating convention for contextual inference (Russell Horton)
• Navier-Stokes Problem: What It Is and What AI Found (Pinal Dave)
• Your agent is only as good as your infrastructure (Selene Cecchinel)
• Human vs. Agent Reliability Over Long Horizons – How Can We Do What They Can’t? (Jason Gorman)
• Agent Anomaly Detection, now in Private Preview on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Achuth Narayan Rajagopal)
• Continuous AI, one automation at a time and Continuous AI lands in VS Code too (Bart Wullems)
• MCP for Project Management: Give Your Project Manager Superpowers (Mark Meitzler)
• From Specialist Agents to Distributed Skills over MCP (Tommaso Stocchi)
• Why client SDK generation belongs in the open (Amir Hardon & Philipp Schmid)
• Vibe Production-Ready Apps with Auth0 and v0 (Juan Cruz Martinez)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• It's hard to read and parse code you didn't write (Jon Hilton)
• The two questions code coverage can't answer: property-based and mutation testing for .NET and Angular (Erik Lieben)
• We Finally Got the Tests. Now We Don’t Trust Them. (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Writing A Front End (Jesse Liberty)
• SSH Is Not a Desktop (Rocky Lhotka)
• Lessons From Testing Distributed Systems (Jepsen)
• Navigating the Modern Data Lexicon: A Working Vocabulary for the Semantic Era (Jeremy Arendt)
• What Does the System Need to Know Before It Builds Anything? (Adhithi Ravichandran)
• Why are short videos bad for learning? (Baldur Bjarnason)
• Code review is burning out your best engineers (Ankit Jain)
• Gestalt Principle: Common Region (Grouping by a shared boundary) (Shirish Shikhrakar)
• Finding Bugs (Alex Kladov)
• Grit your teeth and ship it (Sean Goedecke)

Mobile and Game Development

• What to do when your Raspberry Pi memory card wears out (Rob Miles)
• Build Modern .NET MAUI Apps with .NET 11 [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
• Auto SR Comes to Intel Core Ultra Series-3 Processors (Stefan Bojanic)
• Replicating a Room Sublet App UI with .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Should you pay $370 to post your game on X? (Code Monkey)
• Shiny.AppDeviceBridge — Stop Waiting on App Review, and Stop Needing the Phone to Test (Allan Ritchie)
• Introducing the AndroidX Security State Libraries: A Unified View of Device Security (Maunik Shah, Alec Garcia & Joseph Yong)
• Share State Across Dart Isolates Without Losing Your Mind: Enter shared_map and Dart Enhanced Enums Are Secretly Factories: Unlocking Constructor Tearoffs (Randal L. Schwartz)
• Android Bench 2.0: Pushing the frontier with challenging long-horizon tasks (Matthew McCullough)
• Build for iPhone Duo with new resources and Get your subscriptions ready for iOS 27 (Apple Developer Team)
• Everything is better with lasers (Chris Boross)

Screencasts and Videos

• 25 agent skills to improve your workflow in GitHub Copilot | GitHub Copilot Day (Matt Pocock)
• Random.Code() - More Fun With Unions and Nullability in CslaGeneratorSerialization (Jason Bock)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 331 - “Love is All You Need” (Fight the AI Apocalypse!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Dream it, Build it, Ship it! | GitHub Copilot Day (GitHub Team)
• How Project HydraFusion reduces the cost of frontier AI | GitHub Copilot Day (Aashna Garg & Julia Kasper)
• .NET 11 Just Got Cleaner Call Stacks! (Isaac Levin)
• What was the process of open-sourcing TypeScript, Chakra, .NET, VS Code, and the Copilot extension? | One Dev Question (Amanda Silver)
• DeepSeek’s Revolutionary Leap in Neural Network Architecture (Frank La Vigne)
• Developer Deep Dive | Intelligent Terminal (Windows Developer Team)
• Why Everyone is Now Getting Excited About Personal AI Agents and 10 Ways to Think Bigger with Opportunity AI and 7 Ways How We Use AI Is Changing and Why a New Class of AI “Judgement Models” Could Have Big Business Implications (AIDailyBrief)
• What if you could customize your agent from a Chat Window (Carlotta Castelluccio)
• You should have an agent that grades your agents (Warp Team)
• Enterprise-ready Vibe Coding with Rayfin | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Developer Tea - Fundamentals Will Help You Survive the Constant Acceleration of Software Engineering (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Made by Google Podcast - Pixel Watch's New Life-Saving Feature, Explained (Rachid Finge)
• Justin Martin: Commanding Fleets of AI Agents - The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #420 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #533 - iPhone Duo Development: Navigating Dual Screens and Layouts (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Lenny's Podcast - 90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Big Technology Podcast - AI Doom Backlash Arrives, Anthropic & OpenAI IPO Outlook, Frontier Business Momentum Slows (Alex Kantrowitz)
• BONUS The Hidden Dangers of AI at Work | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Ari-Pekka Skarp)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - The AI magic words (Phoebe Sajor)
• The Amp Hour Episode #734 - The Walmart Greeter of Electronics (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast - Why Winning Never Feels Like Enough: The Runner-Up Mindset with James Reid (Max Ahumada)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #171 - Tesla Euro Semi Specs Revealed, BYD Blade Beats It on Charging (Batteries Included Team)
• Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #89 - Claude Code with Gui Ferreira (Dan Clarke)
• Product Owners Who Protect Focus and Enable Ownership | Deborah Colombari (Vasco Duarte)
• A Geek Leader Episode #487 - Sean Campbell (John Rouda)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #590 - Transparency will save us (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• InfoQ Podcast: Signals and Levers: Building Thriving Engineering Organizations (Elisabeth Hendrickson & Joel Tosi)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast - Uncovering the Hidden Costs of M365 Copilot (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #371 - MrBeast Bets on Gemini for Survival (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Stable Agile Teams Make Delivery Predictable | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Deborah Colombari)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #371 - How to get discovered in AI search (LIam Dunn, Ben Moore, Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - Min-maxxing, looksmaxxing, and Nixon-maxxing, with Roger Kreuz (Mignon Fogarty)
• Windows Weekly Episode #1001 - Corporate Surveillance With Watercolors - Out-of-Band Updates & the New Normal for Windows (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #738 - Milan Milanovic on the Laws of Software Engineering (Giovanni Asproni)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #222 - Building Software Will Never Be The Same (Romain)

Community and Events

• Outseta and the .NET Foundation – changes coming up! (Peter Smulovics)
• Save the Date: Join us October 20 for the OneDrive + Copilot Digital Event (Arwa Tyebkhan)
• Recap: XBOX at Tokyo Game Show 2026 (Danielle Partis)
• Job listings for week ending 9/18 and Call For Papers Listings for 9/18 (Leon Adato)
• W3C launches first pilot of program to support Open Source projects (W3C)
• Microsoft sets October 7 Windows and Surface event with Nvidia CEO (Marcus Pruitt)

Database

• Spec-Driven Development comes to Azure Cosmos DB: The First Database Extension for GitHub Spec Kit (Theo van Kraay)
• The Migration of a Row: Tagged, Followed, Found Again and Your Index Rebuild Maintenance Plan Is Rebuilding Indexes Nobody Uses (Pinal Dave)
• Query Store Cleaning And Mysterious Broker Tasks (Erik Darling)
• Adding an Index Made This Query Slower (Milan Jovanović)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• What’s new in Power Platform: September 2026 feature update (Tiffany Treacy)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub CLI Installation on Ubuntu (Bryan Hogan)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.86 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• GitLab Duo CLI takes a task from goal to done (Rebecca Carter)
• Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.3.0 (Jason Helmick)

Writing

• Love v. Wiley Book Writers: A Publishing Scam Gets a Rare Comeuppance (Victoria Strauss)
• How To Use Genre As A Source Of Conflict (Writers Write)

Tools

• Sharing your VS Code automations (Bart Wullems)
• Announcing Files v4.2.37 (Files Team)
• Setting Up a Modern Windows 11 Developer Workstation in 2026 - WSL 2, Dev Home, and Git Config (Kunal Chowdhury)
• NanaZip v7.0.1843.0 Release (Mouri Naruto)
• PowerToys Preview v0.101.2632.0 Release and PowerToys Preview v0.101.2601.0 Release (LegendaryBlair)

General

• How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? (Daniel Lemire)
• Rust is Now a ‘Tier One’ Language at Microsoft (EditorDavid)
• NVidia Introduces CUDA GPU Programming In Rust (Kay Ewbank)
• Hundreds of Election Deniers Will Be on the Ballot This November (David Gilbert)
• GM brings back Apple CarPlay as buyers demand it (Pras Subramanian)

More Link Collections

• Links For You (9/20/26) (Raymond Camden)
• Android Weekly Issue #745 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #580 - 20th September 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #38, 2026 — Fantomas 8.0, Myriad 1.0 and Fable.Ripple (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – September 18, 2026 (#870) and Daily Reading List – September 17, 2026 (#869) and Daily Reading List – September 16, 2026 (#868) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: September 16 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

.NET MAUI Cookbook (Alexander Russkov) - Referral Link Build a full-featured app swiftly with MVVM, CRUD, AI, authentication, real-time updates, and more.