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Alvin Ashcraft
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Sr. Content Developer at Microsoft on the Microsoft Foundry docs; Writer of WinUI and .NET Concurrency books for Packt; Philadelphia area; Mets fan; TechBash organizer.
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The minivan era is over for our crew. We're now a three EV family... A Bolt and two Equinoxes (Equinoxen?) The 2015 Passat is our one remaining gas vehicle.
February 11, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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Supercharging Local Development with Aspire - Jimmy Bogard - NDC London 2026
Supercharging Local Development with Aspire - Jimmy Bogard - NDC London 2026
This talk was recorded at NDC London in London, England. #ndclondon #ndcconferences #developer #softwaredeveloper Attend the next NDC conference near you:…
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February 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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/last30days v2 - Claude Code skill that researches any topic across Reddit + X from the last 30 days, then writes copy-paste-ready prompts

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GitHub - mvanhorn/last30days-skill: Claude Code skill that researches any topic across Reddit + X from the last 30 days, then writes copy-paste-ready prompts
Claude Code skill that researches any topic across Reddit + X from the last 30 days, then writes copy-paste-ready prompts - mvanhorn/last30days-skill
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February 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Building GitHub Copilot Agents in C# with Microsoft Agent Framework | by Bruno Capuano
Building GitHub Copilot Agents in C# with Microsoft Agent Framework
GitHub Copilot just crossed a very interesting line. It’s no longer “just” helping you write code — it can now run as an agent, with goals, tools, and autonomy, using Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF…
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February 10, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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What It Took to Implement VS Code Debugging for .NET nanoFramework

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#dotnet #IoT #nanoframework #vscode #debugging #csharp
What It Took to Implement VS Code Debugging for .NET nanoFramework – .NET nanoFramework
.NET nanoFramework
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February 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

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February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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How to Set Up Claude Code with Microsoft Foundry Models on macOS

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How to Set Up Claude Code with Microsoft Foundry Models on macOS | Microsoft Community Hub
Introduction Building with AI isn't just about picking a smart model. It is about where that model lives. I chose to route my Claude Code setup through...
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February 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
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February 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Strengthening Windows trust and security through User Transparency and Consent | by Logan Iyer
Strengthening Windows trust and security through User Transparency and Consent
Today, Windows 11 powers over a billion devices and supports millions of apps across business, creativity, education, gaming and productivity. For decades, our commitment to openness and…
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February 10, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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a man wearing glasses and a helmet with the words ludicrous speed go !!! written on it .
Alt: a man wearing glasses and a helmet with the words ludicrous speed go !!! written on it .
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February 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Testing ads in ChatGPT | Ads that support free access and don’t change ChatGPT answers
Testing ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
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February 10, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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PowerToys release v0.97.2 is now available

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#powertoys #windows #devtools #cmdpal #windows11
Release Release v0.97.2 · microsoft/PowerToys
Installer Hashes Description Filename sha256 hash Per user - x64 PowerToysUserSetup-0.97.2-x64.exe 54A39F62334F7481C1BDDE8ABF4928F2E74F100A049F50C7339DABFD34134C98 Per user - ARM64 PowerTo...
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February 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Ralph Wiggum Explained: Stop Telling AI What You Want — Tell It What Blocks You

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Ralph Wiggum Explained: Stop Telling AI What You Want — Tell It What Blocks You
Neumorphism looks simple until you ship it cross-platform. Learn why shadows differ on iOS/Android/Windows/web, and how Uno + Skia makes them match.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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The Partner Center review team doesn't seem to understand the concept of Foundry "Local" models, even after giving them explicit instructions to make a local model available to my app for testing. They're still failing it after expecting it to provide a list from the cloud in its settings.
February 10, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Dew Drop – February 10, 2026 (#4601)

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#dotnet #webdev #ai #visualstudio #mobiledev #csharp #cloud #windowsdev #devops #dewdrop
Dew Drop – February 10, 2026 (#4601) – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft
Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft
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February 10, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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Build an AI-Powered Space Invaders Game: Integrating LLMs into HTML5 Games with Microsoft Foundry Local | by Lee Stott

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#gamedev #ai #html5 #llm #foundry #foundrylocal #models
Build an AI-Powered Space Invaders Game | Microsoft Community Hub
Build an AI-Powered Space Invaders Game: Integrating LLMs into HTML5 Games with Microsoft Foundry Local Introduction What if your game could talk back to...
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February 9, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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If you are an affected developer (at Riot or anywhere hit by live service cuts), I would be interested in hearing from you. Email me at jay.peters@theverge.com.
February 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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Lease Pattern in .NET: A Lock with an Expiration Date That Saves Your Data | by Chris Woodruff

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#dotnet #patterns #designpatterns #programming #csharp
Lease Pattern in .NET: A Lock With an Expiration Date That Saves Your Data - Chris Woody Woodruff | Fractional Architect
Indefinite locks belong to a world where processes never crash and networks never split. That world does not exist. In a distributed system, “I hold the lock” can mean “I held the lock before my VM…
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February 9, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Windows is very keen to save your battery life or your power bill; sometimes that gets annoying but usually, if your PC keeps going to sleep when you don't want it to there's a setting you can tweak. For @askwoody.bsky.social I dig in to where all those settings live and what to change
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February 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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What’s New in vcpkg (Nov 2025 – Jan 2026)

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#cpp #vcpkg #packagemanager
What’s New in vcpkg (Nov 2025 - Jan 2026) - C++ Team Blog
This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2025.12.12 and 2026.01.16 registry releases and the 2025-11-13, 2025-11-18, 2025-11-19, 2025-12-05, and 2025-12-16 tool…
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February 9, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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The VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #19 - Subagents: Parallel Execution and Context Isolation

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#podcast #vscode #ai #agents #githubcopilot #programming
Subagents: Parallel Execution and Context Isolation
Discover how VS Code's subagents revolutionize parallel execution and context management. Learn the fundamentals of agent loops and context windows, then dive into how subagents isolate tasks, run…
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February 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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The danger of glamourizing one shots | by Scott Hanselman

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#ai #prompting #coding #vibecoding #devcommunity
The danger of glamourizing one shots
People should not be judging AI-augmented coding by '1 shots.' If someone told ...
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February 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Microsoft Agent Framework: Exposing an Existing AI Agent as an MCP Tool
Microsoft Agent Framework: Exposing an Existing AI Agent as an MCP Tool – Jamie Maguire
AI Engineer | Architect | Microsoft MVP (AI and Developer Technologies) and Technical Author
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February 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Building an AI Skills Executor in .NET: Bringing Anthropic’s Agent Pattern to the Microsoft Ecosystem

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#ai #foundry #cloud #dotnet #anthropic #agents #azure
Building an AI Skills Executor in .NET: Bringing Anthropic's Agent Pattern to the Microsoft Ecosystem | Microsoft Foundry Blog
Learn how to build a reusable AI Skills Executor in .NET using Azure OpenAI and the Model Context Protocol to standardize enterprise agent workflows.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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I guess I'll have a teen-appropriate experience in their app then. Discord doesn't have a great history of keeping data secure.
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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

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