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icon 2026-08-16 seangoedecke
AI text watermarking is not a big deal

icon 2026-08-15 swizec
Stop burning tokens on code review

icon 2026-08-15 third-bit
A Quarto Question (or Six)

icon 2026-08-15 simonwillison
CORS Chat

icon 2026-08-15 simonwillison
Northern Gannet

icon 2026-08-14 simonwillison
Don’t classify. Hallucinate!

icon 2026-08-14 stackoverflow
No Dumb Questions: What is AI context architecture? Why not just build your own?

icon 2026-08-14 github-ai
How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps

icon 2026-08-14 jonskeet
Scratch a simple data model, find a complex one

icon 2026-08-14 stackoverflow
Solving integration woes with a hackathon

icon 2026-08-14 bartwullems
Renovate on Azure DevOps: picking the right work item type

icon 2026-08-13 simonwillison
sqlite-utils 4.2.1

icon 2026-08-13 visualstudiomagazine
Bigger Copilot Bills? GitHub Now Lets You Peek into Per-Model Token Usage

icon 2026-08-13 simonwillison
sqlite-utils 4.2

icon 2026-08-13 dotnet
Routing and Failover for Microsoft.Extensions.AI

icon 2026-08-13 azure-sql
Your best friend: BlockOnPossibleDataLoss=True

icon 2026-08-13 third-bit
First Closure Workshop

icon 2026-08-13 bencane
“We can’t run locally” is usually a design smell

icon 2026-08-13 bartwullems
Fixing “UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE” when running Renovate against an internal Azure DevOps server

icon 2026-08-12 third-bit
LLM Programming Exercises

icon 2026-08-12 github-ai
Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app

icon 2026-08-12 dotnet
Instructions Hygiene – What Frontier Models Still Need You to Say

icon 2026-08-12 visualstudiomagazine
VS Code 1.133 Flexes Claude Sessions

icon 2026-08-12 erikej
Launch: T-SQL Analyzer live analysis now in VS Code

icon 2026-08-12 bartwullems
Mixing AddDbContext and AddDbContextFactory: ‘Cannot consume scoped service’

icon 2026-08-11 dotnet
.NET 11 Preview 7 is now available!

icon 2026-08-11 dotnet
.NET and .NET Framework August 2026 servicing releases updates

icon 2026-08-11 visualstudiomagazine
Tunability: Microsoft, GitHub Put More Dials on AI Dev Tools

icon 2026-08-11 visualstudio
Today I will… manage Git Submodules without leaving the IDE

icon 2026-08-11 azuresqlblog
SQLCon is Back: 5 Reasons to Attend the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference

icon 2026-08-11 lethain
Roadmap decisions rather than dates.

icon 2026-08-11 martinfowler
TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value?

icon 2026-08-11 stackoverflow
Your tokenmaxxing is not valuemaxxing

icon 2026-08-11 bartwullems
Docker snapshot tags aren’t as static as I thought

icon 2026-08-11 seangoedecke
No, local models will not win

icon 2026-08-10 azure-sql
Build Locally, Ship to Cloud for $0: Azure SQL for Modern App Developers

icon 2026-08-10 visualstudiomagazine
Microsoft Study Shows Just How ‘Agentic’ GitHub Copilot Has Become

icon 2026-08-10 github-ai
Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java

icon 2026-08-10 github-eng
Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java

icon 2026-08-10 techtrenches
The Year Behind Tech Trenches

icon 2026-08-10 damienbod
Implement BFF using Auth0, Angular and ASP.NET Core

icon 2026-08-10 bartwullems
Remote control: steering your AI coding session from your phone

icon 2026-08-09 seangoedecke
Advanced AI sycophancy

icon 2026-08-09 seangoedecke
I got an email about resistance

icon 2026-08-08 lethain
Middle management roles are also a trap.

icon 2026-08-08 swizec
Beware the spaceships

icon 2026-08-07 visualstudiomagazine
Copilot Credit Complaints Keep Coming: ‘Too Expensive to Use’

icon 2026-08-07 netflix
How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC…

icon 2026-08-07 seangoedecke
How to keep thinking

icon 2026-08-07 stackoverflow
How to be fearlessly AI native

icon 2026-08-06 github-ai
A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app

icon 2026-08-06 erikej
From 20+ seconds to 2 - faster SQL Database Project .dacpac deployments are finally here (preview)

icon 2026-08-06 dotnet
Test reporting in Microsoft.Testing.Platform: from red build to root cause

icon 2026-08-06 bencane
To make a service more stable, eliminate dependencies

icon 2026-08-06 db-berater
Partition a big table with zero downtime

icon 2026-08-05 third-bit
A Survey of Programmers’ Beliefs

icon 2026-08-05 pragmaticengineer
The Pulse: Bending Spoons’ Acquisition Strategy

icon 2026-08-05 azuresqlblog
HostNameInCertificate changes in Azure SQL Managed Instance affecting client connectivity

icon 2026-08-05 microservices
Microservices Platforms: When Team Topologies Meets Microservices Patterns - QCONSF 2025 video

icon 2026-08-05 stackoverflow
Explorers, exploiters, and the myth of the 100x engineer

icon 2026-08-04 third-bit
Rainy Day Thoughts on AI

icon 2026-08-04 github-ai
How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows

icon 2026-08-04 azuresqlblog
Announcing Automatic Backup Immutability for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance

icon 2026-08-04 github-eng
Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack

icon 2026-08-04 techtrenches
The Guardrail Is Now Part of the Attack

icon 2026-08-04 visualstudio
Build Azure Skills Faster with Cloud Academy, a Visual Studio Subscriber Benefit

icon 2026-08-04 martinfowler
Fragments: August 4

icon 2026-08-04 andrewlock
Automatic CSRF protection based on Fetch Metadata headers: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 6

icon 2026-08-04 microservices
Speed limits, GenAI coding agents and Autobahns - part 1: how fast should you go?

icon 2026-08-03 idunno
Group your Dependabot Updates

icon 2026-08-02 developertoarchitect
Lesson 222 - Transactional Sagas and Atomicity (August 3, 2026)

icon 2026-08-01 swizec
Agents change the math on big bang migrations

icon 2026-08-01 steven-giesel
.NET 11 Performance Edition

icon 2026-07-31 netflix
Modeling Device Capabilities for Analytics

icon 2026-07-31 github-eng
Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

icon 2026-07-31 martinfowler
The Conductor Developer

icon 2026-07-30 netflix
GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix

icon 2026-07-30 pragmaticengineer
The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability

icon 2026-07-30 martinfowler
The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

icon 2026-07-30 bencane
Caching isn’t hard. Some data is hard to cache

icon 2026-07-29 hillelwayne
Logic for Programmers is Now Available

icon 2026-07-29 github-eng
Tame Dependabot: Group your updates, slow the cadence, keep security fast

icon 2026-07-29 visualstudio
Tell your model when to think harder

icon 2026-07-29 andrewlock
Understanding the Fetch Metadata HTTP headers: Sec-Fetch-Site and friends

icon 2026-07-28 visualstudio
Visual Studio July Update — Meet the New Agent, Powered by the GitHub Copilot SDK

icon 2026-07-28 martinfowler
The Orchestrator’s Tax

icon 2026-07-28 azure-sql
Refactor your database with SQL projects in VS Code

icon 2026-07-28 antirez
The real AI risk is inside the labs

icon 2026-07-27 techtrenches
Substack Asked for Volume, Then Shipped a Scanner

icon 2026-07-27 sqlperformance
It’s Time to Break Up with Archive Tables

icon 2026-07-27 damienbod
Implement SAML as an external provider in an ASP.NET Core Identity application using Duende as an OIDC server

icon 2026-07-26 paulhammant
Charting AI Today: What It Leaves Behind

icon 2026-07-25 swizec
How to be useful as a software architect

icon 2026-07-25 antirez
Being Linux Torvalds

icon 2026-07-24 lucumr-pocoo
Codeberg Divides

icon 2026-07-24 dbreunig
Manage Your Agent’s Loadout with Dr. Skill

icon 2026-07-23 jimmybogard
Vertical Slice Architecture Webinar

icon 2026-07-23 pragmaticengineer
The Pulse: New trend - concern about massive increase in code review load

icon 2026-07-23 azure-sql
Build locally, ship to Azure: meet Azure SQL Developer

icon 2026-07-23 bencane
The closer to the edge, the more stable a platform must be