Top Links
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – February 2026: JMESPath Queries & Deployment Slots (PuiChee (PC) Chan)
- The Rise of The Claw with OpenClaw’s Peter Steinberger | Hanselminutes (Scott Hanselman)
- Codex 5.3 vs 5.2 for .NET Developers (Sam Basu)
- GitHub Copilot CLI is now generally available (GitHub Team)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET 1.0.0 RC2 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- How to fully customize Windows Terminal with Oh My Posh (themes, fonts, icons, & more) (Kayla Cinnamon)
- XAML.io v0.6: Share Running .NET Code With a Link (XAML.io Team)
Web and Cloud Development
- Aspire 13.1.2 Release (Aspire Team)
- How to Access a Shared OneDrive Folder in Azure Logic Apps (Arpit)
- Signal Forms: Angular’s best quality of life update in years (Lewis Cianci)
- How to Build a Custom Toolbar in a React PDF Viewer? (Parthipan R.)
- Stop Wrestling with JavaScript: htmxRazor Gives ASP.NET Core the Component Library It Deserves and I’m looking for contributors and feedback on an open-source project I’ve been working on called htmxRazor (Chris Woodruff)
- An Exploit … in CSS?! (Lee Meyer)
- Building a 10× Faster, Cloud-Ready Document Pipeline Without Office or Adobe (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
- Stop Writing Plumbing! Use the New Logic Apps MCP Server Wizard (Kent Weare)
- WebAssembly is everywhere. Here’s how it works (Jessica Wachtel)
- Deno 2.7: Temporal API, Windows ARM, and npm overrides (Phil Hawksworth)
- A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets (Declan Chidlow)
- DevExtreme — June 2026 Roadmap (v26.1 – Angular, React, Vue, jQuery & ASP.NET Core) (Svetlana Troitskaya)
Windows Development
.NET and Visual Studio
- Semantic Kernel in C#: Complete AI Orchestration Guide (Nick Cosentino)
- Visual Studio Insiders Version 11519.219 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.3.2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Is it faster to index into an array or use switch statement for look ups? (Jiří {x2} Činčura)
AI
- Order Lunch Without Leaving Your AI Agent (Debbie O’Brien)
- Building a Dual Sidecar Pod: Combining GitHub Copilot SDK with Skill Server on Kubernetes (Kinfey Lo)
- Microsoft Agent Framework RC Simplifies Agentic Development in .NET and Python (Edin Kapić)
- Bullshit Benchmark – Test whether models challenge nonsensical prompts instead of confidently answering them (Peter Gostev)
- Stop Drawing Architecture Diagrams Manually: Meet the Open-Source AI Architecture Review Agents (Shivam Goyal)
- Fine-tune AI pipelines in Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 (Ana Biazetti, Brian Gallagher & Michal Stokluska)
- VS Code v1.110 Insiders: AI Agents Gain Native Browser Access and Global Instructions (David Ramel)
- Reducing OpenClaw Token Costs with claw-llm-router (Donn Felker)
- Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity, and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected (Douglas Phillips)
- AI Crash Course: Tokens, Prediction and Temperature (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
- Gemini is getting its first agentic capabilities (Allison Johnson)
- OpenClaw creator’s advice to AI builders is to be more playful and allow yourself time to improve (Sarah Perez)
- I vibe coded my dream macOS presentation app and Claude Code Remote Control (Simon Willison)
- A Primer: MCP Servers and the Model Context Protocol (Priya Patil)
- Migration, Modernization & Agentic Tools (Orin Thomas)
- Open WebUI + Docker Model Runner: Self-Hosted Models, Zero Configuration (Yiwen Xu)
- Disrupting malicious uses of AI | February 2026 (OpenAI Team)
- Here’s how to set up Claude Code on your own machine (free + fully private) (Md Riyazuddin)
- Token Anxiety (Nikunj Kothari)
Python
- Python vs PySpark notebooks in MS Fabric (Bart Wullems)
- Microsoft Agent Framwork for Python 1.0.0 RC2 Release (Dmytro Struk)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Hidden Gems in Octopus Deploy: Resources You Might Have Missed (Robert A. McCarther, II)
- Azure DevOps with TX Text Control .NET Server 34.0: Private NuGet Feed and Azure Artifacts (Deepika Kathiravan)
- Passkeys now available for passwordless sign-in and 2FA on GitLab (GitLab Team)
- Octopus Easy Mode – Community Step Templates (Matthew Casperson)
- These are my favorite books about persuasive communication (Richard Seroter)
Mobile and Game Development
- Borrowing from Kotlin/Android to Architect Scalable iOS Apps in SwiftUI (Ivan Bliznyuk)
- The Intelligent OS: Making AI agents more helpful for Android apps (Matthew McCullough)
- When and why you might need the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 (Naush Patuck)
- Where is D3DX12.h? (Joel Ivory Johnson)
Screencasts and Videos
- Quick Overview of Uno Platform Studio (Sam Basu)
- Native Windows Integrations in Electron apps with the winapp CLI (Nicola Metulev)
- The Anti-AI Movement (AIDailyBrief)
- Claude Code for free is real. You just need a local model. Do this. (Julian Goldie)
Dometrain Course
Hands-On: Learn TypeScript: Learn TypeScript from scratch by completing practical exercises and writing real TypeScript code. (Nick Chapsas) – Referral Link
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast – How ‘be like’ took over the world, with Sali Tagliamonte (Mignon Fogarty)
- The Amp Hour #716 – Electronics Manufacturing History with David Ray (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The Cloud Pod – AWS CloudWatch Finally Hits Snooze | Cloud Computing & AI News (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker & Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- Windows Weekly Episode #971 – Texas English – Where Does Xbox Go Next? and Windows Weekly Episode #972 – I’m A Tolkien Scholar – Phil Spencer & Sarah Bond Depart Xbox (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
- .NET Rocks! – Leading Teams in the Time of AI with Andrew Murphy (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Mongoose 9, AI-Powered Database Tools & the Future of Server-Side JavaScript with Val Karpov – JavaScript Jabber Episdoe #703 (Charles Max Wood)
- AI & I Podcast – Inside an AI High School, Through the Eyes of a 17-Year-Old Founder (Rhea Purohit)
- AI Agent & Copilot Podcast – Christopher Lochhead on Creator Capitalists and the Future of Work (John Siefert)
- World Brain: No Experts podcast – Three tech writers and a photographer walk into a bar (with Tom Johnson and Floyd Jones) (Tom Johnson)
- Big Technology Podcast – Can AI Achieve Consciousness? — With Michael Pollan (Alex Kantrowitz)
- When Leadership Changes—Supporting Teams Through the Uncertainty | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Lai-Ling Su)
Community and Events
- EVENT: Security at Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Kurt Shintaku)
- Introducing CoreCollective for the next era of open collaboration for the Arm software ecosystem (Mark Hambleton)
- Imagine Cup 2026 Semifinalist: Builder Series Mentors (Microsoft Student Developer Team)
- Your sneak peek at the redesigned Stack Overflow (Zach Rutta)
Database
- Query Hint Recommendation Tool in SSMS 22 (Daniel Calbimonte)
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Query Profiler, ADS Migration Toolkit & More (Carlos Robles, Tauseef Siddique & Yo-Lei Chen)
- Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger (Steve Jones)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: Helping Vectors Rank Better With Keyword Boosts (Erik Darling)
- Couchbase’s Data API in Practice With NodeRed (Laurent Doguin)
- SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Version 22.3.2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – February 2026 (Vesa Juvonen)
- Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” (Kevin Okemwa)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.418 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- When You Think You’re Done (Writers Write)
- Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud (Stephanie Melchor)
Tools
- I tested Microsoft Edge’s AI tab organizer, and it’s shockingly good (Abhijith M B)
- Dev Feed Curator for VS Code – Release v3.7.0 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Initial localization added with English and Spanish to start
General
- Cancer‑Eating Bacteria Could Devour Tumors From the Inside Out (RJ Mackenzie)
- US cybersecurity agency CISA reportedly in dire shape amid Trump cuts and layoffs (Zack Whittaker)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 25, 2026 (#729) (Richard Seroter)
- Fragments: February 25 (Martin Fowler)
The Geek Shelf
Programming APIs with C# and .NET (Jesse Liberty & Joseph Dluzen) – Referral Link
Develop high-performance APIs that ensure seamless application communication and enhanced security.