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icon 2026-05-22 simonwillison
The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

icon 2026-05-22 azuresqlblog
Regex support for LOB types in T-SQL—available in Azure SQL & SQL Server 2025

icon 2026-05-22 azure-sql
Regex support for LOB types in T-SQL—available in Azure SQL & SQL Server 2025

icon 2026-05-22 visualstudiomagazine
Angry Devs Persist on Visual Studio Blue Theme Revival: ‘Once More, We Ask…’

icon 2026-05-22 github-ai
GitHub recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Coding Agents for the third year in a row

icon 2026-05-22 stackoverflow
Dispatches from O’Reilly: The accidental orchestrator

icon 2026-05-22 bartwullems
Always know where you stand: Setting up a live status line in GitHub Copilot CLI

icon 2026-05-22 stackoverflow
Breaking your AI storage bottlenecks

icon 2026-05-22 simonwillison
FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service

icon 2026-05-21 simonwillison
Datasette Agent

icon 2026-05-21 visualstudiomagazine
.NET 11 Preview 4 Roundup: MAUI, Blazor, EF Core, SDK and Runtime Updates

icon 2026-05-21 simonwillison
datasette-agent-sprites 0.1a0

icon 2026-05-21 visualstudio
Plan Before You Build: Introducing the Plan agent in Visual Studio

icon 2026-05-21 visualstudiomagazine
The Rise of OpenTelemetry in Microsoft Dev Tooling

icon 2026-05-21 dotnet
Announcing Agent Governance Toolkit MCP Extensions for .NET

icon 2026-05-21 dotnet
Improving C# Memory Safety

icon 2026-05-21 simonwillison
datasette-agent-charts 0.1a2

icon 2026-05-21 stackoverflow
Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue

icon 2026-05-21 third-bit
Enshittification

icon 2026-05-21 erikej
SqlServer.Rules 5.0.0 is out 🎉

icon 2026-05-21 martinfowler
Bliki: Vibe Coding

icon 2026-05-21 bencane
Health-check the listener your gRPC traffic actually uses

icon 2026-05-21 seangoedecke
The famous o3 “GeoGuessr” prompt did not work

icon 2026-05-21 bartwullems
Always know where you stand: Setting up a live status line in GitHub Copilot CLI

icon 2026-05-20 third-bit
Women’s Work

icon 2026-05-20 visualstudiomagazine
VS Code 1.121 Adds Remote Agents, Boosts Claude Code Functionality Again

icon 2026-05-20 martinfowler
Three more static code analysis sensors

icon 2026-05-20 seangoedecke
Prompts are technical debt too

icon 2026-05-20 third-bit
Setting the Standard

icon 2026-05-20 third-bit
SDGC Glossary

icon 2026-05-20 erikej
Launching the SSMS Extension Gallery

icon 2026-05-20 pragmaticengineer
Google Cloud deletes Australian trading fund’s infra

icon 2026-05-20 bartwullems
Get more out of your GitHub Copilot session history with /chronicle

icon 2026-05-20 stackoverflow
Pack your agentic stack in Slack

icon 2026-05-20 third-bit
Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding

icon 2026-05-19 swizec
Engineering levels aren’t about skill anymore

icon 2026-05-19 martinfowler
Maintainability sensors for coding agents

icon 2026-05-19 visualstudiomagazine
Devs Weigh In on Visual Studio Database Tools

icon 2026-05-19 techtrenches
The Bias Lives in the Weights

icon 2026-05-19 andrewlock
.NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types🎉: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 2

icon 2026-05-19 microservices
GenAI-based development platform - part 4: The coding agent sandwich pattern

icon 2026-05-19 stackoverflow
Your fridge could be a threat to national security

icon 2026-05-19 antirez
Alternatives for the EDIT tool of LLM agents

icon 2026-05-19 bartwullems
Deploying and scaling the GitHub Copilot SDK (continued)

icon 2026-05-18 dotnet
NuGet Package Pruning: Cleaner Dependencies and Actionable Vulnerability Reports

icon 2026-05-18 github-ai
Take your local GitHub sessions anywhere

icon 2026-05-18 seangoedecke
The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon

icon 2026-05-18 steven-giesel
Zstandard compression in .NET 11

icon 2026-05-18 damienbod
Aspire Azure SQL deployment bug

icon 2026-05-18 bartwullems
Deploying and scaling the GitHub Copilot SDK

icon 2026-05-16 seangoedecke
How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026

icon 2026-05-16 seangoedecke
DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

icon 2026-05-16 addyosmani
Don’t Outsource the Learning

icon 2026-05-15 github-ai
Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process

icon 2026-05-14 antirez
A few words on DS4

icon 2026-05-14 martinfowler
Fragments: May 14

icon 2026-05-14 azure-sql
Considering NL2SQL? Should your database really be the prompt? How can SQL MCP Server help?

icon 2026-05-14 pragmaticengineer
The Pulse: Did capacity shortages turn Anthropic hostile to devs?

icon 2026-05-14 github-eng
From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance

icon 2026-05-14 azuresqlblog
Automatic Connectivity Tests for Azure SQL Managed Instance

icon 2026-05-14 visualstudio
VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026: Send Your Team Home With Working Code

icon 2026-05-14 martinfowler
Bliki: Interrogatory LLM

icon 2026-05-14 bencane
Weighted load balancing has saved me more times than I can count

icon 2026-05-13 azure-sql
Microsoft SQL Security Across the MAESTRO Stack: Building Secure Agentic AI with Defense-in-Depth

icon 2026-05-13 dotnet
Process API Improvements in .NET 11

icon 2026-05-13 swizec
Just fix their PR

icon 2026-05-13 dotnet
.NET MAUI Moves to CoreCLR in .NET 11

icon 2026-05-13 visualstudio
Agent Skills in Visual Studio: Teach Copilot How Your Team Works

icon 2026-05-13 rickstrahl
Getting the Client IP Address in ASP.NET Core

icon 2026-05-12 pragmaticengineer
TechPays has been acquired by Levels.fyi

icon 2026-05-12 github-ai
Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI

icon 2026-05-12 techtrenches
Silicon Valley Eats the War

icon 2026-05-12 andrewlock
Running background tasks in Blazor with Web Workers: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 1

icon 2026-05-11 damienbod
Using configurable token lifetimes in Microsoft Entra ID, .NET and Microsoft Graph

icon 2026-05-10 dbreunig
The Cost of Overfitting the Harness

icon 2026-05-10 steven-giesel
BackgroundService exceptions now propagate in .NET 11

icon 2026-05-09 swizec
“But if AI does it all, what’s *my* job?”

icon 2026-05-08 azure-sql
Generate Embeddings Function and External Model Object Support Are Now Generally Available in Azure SQL

icon 2026-05-08 netflix
Scaling ArchUnit with Nebula ArchRules

icon 2026-05-08 lucumr-pocoo
Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish

icon 2026-05-07 github-ai
Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows

icon 2026-05-07 pragmaticengineer
The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?

icon 2026-05-07 bencane
YOLO Is a Terrible Strategy for Validating Production Changes

icon 2026-05-05 swizec
What you need to make an agent

icon 2026-05-05 techtrenches
AI Is a Mirror of Our Engineering Culture

icon 2026-05-05 slack
From SSH to REST: A Security-Driven Modernization of Slack’s EMR Data Pipelines

icon 2026-05-05 dbreunig
10 Lessons for Agentic Coding

icon 2026-05-05 addyosmani
Cognitive Surrender

icon 2026-05-04 lucumr-pocoo
Content for Content’s Sake

icon 2026-05-04 azure-sql
SQL MCP Server as an App Service

icon 2026-05-04 netflix
Democratizing Machine Learning at Netflix: Building the Model Lifecycle Graph

icon 2026-05-04 antirez
Redis array type: short story of a long development

icon 2026-05-03 addyosmani
Agent Skills

icon 2026-05-01 netflix
State of Routing in Model Serving

icon 2026-05-01 swizec
Quick note on evals and putting AI in your resume

icon 2026-04-30 visualstudio
TypeScript 7 Beta Now Enabled by Default in Visual Studio 2026 18.6 Insiders 3

icon 2026-04-30 pragmaticengineer
The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?

icon 2026-04-30 bencane
Deterministic routing is one of the most effective ways distributed systems reduce consistency problems at scale

icon 2026-04-29 developertoarchitect
Lesson 219 - Fitness Function Driven Architecture Revisited (May 4, 2026)

icon 2026-04-29 visualstudio
SDK-Style Support for Extension Projects