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icon 2026-09-05 lucumr-pocoo
Latent Powers

icon 2026-09-05 simonwillison
Using Blender with coding agents on macOS

icon 2026-09-04 simonwillison
The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting

icon 2026-09-04 simonwillison
OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis

icon 2026-09-04 github-ai
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration

icon 2026-09-04 erikej
The SSMS extension ecosystem is growing up: list, acquire and maintain extensions with ease

icon 2026-09-04 bartwullems
Firelighting vs. firefighting

icon 2026-09-04 seangoedecke
Radical responsibility means treating people like tools

icon 2026-09-04 steven-giesel
Adding Properties with extension methods in C# 14

icon 2026-09-04 stackoverflow
How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent

icon 2026-09-04 simonwillison
August newsletter is out

icon 2026-09-03 simonwillison
GPT‑6 Astra

icon 2026-09-03 azure-sql
SQL Decomposition in a Nutshell

icon 2026-09-03 azure-sql
Advocating for Uptime: The 6 Phases of Change

icon 2026-09-03 visualstudiomagazine
Uno Platform Studio 3.1 Adds UI Previews, XAML Snippets and More AI Context

icon 2026-09-03 dotnet
Test what you ship: MSTest and Native AOT

icon 2026-09-03 pragmaticengineer
The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI

icon 2026-09-03 github-ai
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once

icon 2026-09-03 stackoverflow
Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6

icon 2026-09-03 microservices
Architecting for uncertainty - part 2: fast flow defined

icon 2026-09-03 stackoverflow
The economics of agent scale: tokens, ROI, and building platforms for AI-first teams (Part 2)

icon 2026-09-03 bartwullems
Monitoring Claude Code usage with the Aspire Dashboard

icon 2026-09-02 martinfowler
Bliki: Paracelsus Maxim

icon 2026-09-02 github-ai
Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!

icon 2026-09-02 visualstudiomagazine
VS Code 1.136 Pushes Agents Deeper Into the Development Workflow

icon 2026-09-02 github-ai
How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality

icon 2026-09-02 github-eng
How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality

icon 2026-09-02 martinfowler
An Accidental Blackboard

icon 2026-09-02 visualstudio
Stop alt-tabbing into the wrong Visual Studio

icon 2026-09-02 martinfowler
Maybe We Shouldn’t Be Reviewing All This Code

icon 2026-09-02 bencane
At what point does better performance stop being worth it?

icon 2026-09-02 seangoedecke
How to protect yourself from workslop

icon 2026-09-02 microservices
Microservices and GenAI in 2026: my Dear Architects conversation

icon 2026-09-02 bartwullems
Monitoring GitHub Copilot usage with the Aspire Dashboard

icon 2026-09-01 martinfowler
Fragments: September 1

icon 2026-09-01 rickstrahl
Back to Basics: JavaScript and Timezones

icon 2026-09-01 pragmaticengineer
How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge

icon 2026-09-01 hillelwayne
A Crash Course in Predicate Logic

icon 2026-09-01 visualstudio
Today I will… review GitHub PRs

icon 2026-09-01 techtrenches
I Shipped 17 PRs Without Writing Code

icon 2026-09-01 jimmybogard
Vertical Slice Architecture Webinar Recording, and What’s Next

icon 2026-09-01 andrewlock
The pain of serializing unions and closed class hierarchies with System.Text.Json: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 7

icon 2026-09-01 stackoverflow
The good ol’ days of building Java

icon 2026-09-01 azuresqlblog
Understanding DevOps Auditing API Migration Behavior in Azure SQL Database

icon 2026-09-01 damienbod
Using multiline Parameters for Aspire and ASP.NET Core with user secrets and Azure default deployments

icon 2026-09-01 bartwullems
Setting up GitHub Copilot budget policies without GitHub Enterprise Cloud

icon 2026-08-31 azure-sql
Bacpac and Dacpac, the similarities and differences

icon 2026-08-31 bartwullems
Renovate hostRules silently ignored? Check your config level

icon 2026-08-31 codinghorror
You Can’t “Vibe Code” Love

icon 2026-08-31 dbreunig
Who Taught the Models to Do That?

icon 2026-08-31 third-bit
ACM Certificate

icon 2026-08-30 seangoedecke
You have to beat the models at something

icon 2026-08-29 third-bit
Summer Projects Revisited

icon 2026-08-29 azure-sql
Try the new SqlClient and Retry connections natively

icon 2026-08-28 visualstudiomagazine
Microsoft Spotlights VSLive! Takeaways, Upcoming San Diego and Orlando Events

icon 2026-08-28 netflix
MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale

icon 2026-08-28 seangoedecke
Selling out

icon 2026-08-28 stackoverflow
When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct

icon 2026-08-27 third-bit
Outline for an SDGC Workshop

icon 2026-08-27 pragmaticengineer
The Pulse: We need to talk about migrations with AI

icon 2026-08-27 dotnet
How Uno Platform uses .NET, MCP, and AI to build high quality apps

icon 2026-08-27 swizec
Focus and followthrough are the moat

icon 2026-08-27 visualstudiomagazine
VS Code Tries Rubber Duck for AI Second Opinions

icon 2026-08-27 hanselman
Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits

icon 2026-08-27 visualstudio
VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ: Developer Takeaways and Must-Watch Sessions

icon 2026-08-27 martinfowler
Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI

icon 2026-08-27 pragmaticengineer
Why you’re not getting a response to your podcast pitch from me (or others)

icon 2026-08-26 github-ai
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage

icon 2026-08-26 visualstudiomagazine
Microsoft Formalizes VS Code Agent Host as Open Architecture for Persistent AI Sessions

icon 2026-08-26 visualstudio
The Visual Studio Debugger Agentic Workflow Gets a Test-Driven Upgrade

icon 2026-08-26 azuresqlblog
ICYMI: New Azure SQL Foundations video series with GitHub samples

icon 2026-08-26 azure-sql
New Azure SQL Foundations video series with GitHub samples

icon 2026-08-26 bencane
Sometimes good engineering looks like over-engineering

icon 2026-08-25 dotnet
.NET Conf 2026 – Save the Date

icon 2026-08-25 visualstudio
Visual Studio August Update — Work Smarter Across Models and Branches

icon 2026-08-25 andrewlock
Finding the total number of processors on a machine with .NET

icon 2026-08-25 microservices
Architecting for uncertainty - part 1: thriving in a VUCA world requires frequent deployment

icon 2026-08-24 github-eng
Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good.

icon 2026-08-24 dotnet
From dotnet run to Foundry Hosted Agent in 3 lines of C#

icon 2026-08-24 dotnet
Explore new features available in C# 15 preview

icon 2026-08-24 steve-yegge
Fences, not Sandboxes

icon 2026-08-24 sqlperformance
Dirty Reads, Permanent Damage

icon 2026-08-24 azuresqlblog
Introducing Simplified Regional Limits for Azure SQL Managed Instance

icon 2026-08-24 lucumr-pocoo
Anger, Anxiety and Agency

icon 2026-08-23 hanselman
Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel, and Surprising Performance Traps

icon 2026-08-23 dbreunig
Fable & The End of the Free Lunch

icon 2026-08-22 lucumr-pocoo
Fast and Hard Code

icon 2026-08-22 microservices
Speed limits, GenAI coding agents and Autobahns - part 2: raising the safe speed

icon 2026-08-22 seangoedecke
You should never be angry at work

icon 2026-08-21 third-bit
What Else Should I Read?

icon 2026-08-21 netflix
A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers

icon 2026-08-21 addyosmani
Human judgment doesn’t leave the software factory. It relocates.

icon 2026-08-20 pragmaticengineer
The Pulse: Meta’s self-inflicted resignation-wave

icon 2026-08-19 lucumr-pocoo
What Is Reasoning

icon 2026-08-19 ardalis
How to Set Up T3 Code and Tailscale on Windows and Phone

icon 2026-08-19 bencane
AI makes code cheap to create, not cheap to own

icon 2026-08-18 steven-giesel
Claude Memory Admin

icon 2026-08-18 azuresqlblog
Public Preview: Zone-Redundant Next-Gen General Purpose for Azure SQL Managed Instance

icon 2026-08-18 ardalis
Top 10 Ways to Reduce .NET Memory Usage in Kubernetes

icon 2026-08-18 sqlperformance
A script to script a script that scripts jobs