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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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Reactive Extensions for .NET Status and Plans for .NET 10 | by Ian Griffiths

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Reactive Extensions for .NET Status and Plans for .NET 10 | endjin
Ian Griffiths discusses Rx.NET v6.1 release, upcoming packaging changes in v7.0 and the impact of .NET 10 at .NET Conf 2025.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Why does my Ctrl+M accelerator key activate when I press the Enter key? | by Raymond Chen

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#windows #coding
Why does my Ctrl+M accelerator key activate when I press the Enter key? - The Old New Thing
Understanding the difference between keys and characters for accelerators.
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December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Building a Complete FIRE Calculator App with GitHub Copilot in One Chat Session | by James Montemagno

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#vscode #githubcopilot #claudeopus #pwa #webdev #javascript #vibecoding #ai
Building a Complete FIRE Calculator App with GitHub Copilot in One Chat Session
In 30 minutes with GitHub Copilot, VS Code, and Claude Opus 4.5 I built my ultimate FIRE calcultor app that is private, secure, and free!
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December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
.NET Rocks! - Space Geek Out 2025 with Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell

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#podcast #devcommunity #geekout #space #astronomy #dotnet #developers
Space Geek Out 2025
Space Geek Out Time - 2025 Edition! Richard talks to Carl about the past year in space, starting with a reader comment about 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar comet pa
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December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Creating Your Own MSBuild SDK - It's Easier Than You Think | by Calvin Allen

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#dotnet #msbuild #csharp #programming #csharpadvent
Creating Your Own MSBuild SDK - It's Easier Than You Think!
An MSBuild SDK is basically a NuGet package that automatically imports .props and .targets files into your project. That's it. That's the whole thing.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Instagram CLI: The ultimate weapon against brainrot. The fastest, lightest, and most portable Instagram client.

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#instagram #socialmedia #cli #terminal
GitHub - supreme-gg-gg/instagram-cli: Instagram's terminal UI app - The ultimate weapon against brainrot
Instagram's terminal UI app - The ultimate weapon against brainrot - supreme-gg-gg/instagram-cli
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December 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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A 404-foot “ground-ball” double play?

A pitcher who struck out a hitter he never pitched to?

A HR “trot” that went on so long, half the infield got ejected before the hitter made it to home plate?

That & more in my Strange But True Feats of 2025!

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MLB’s Strange But True 2025: The plays, moments and stuff we couldn’t believe
It’s time for that end-of-year extravaganza you’ve been eagerly awaiting. Let's celebrate another Strange But True baseball season.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Burke and Pierce sit down to review a full year of releases, surprises, partnerships, and AI goodies in VS Code from 2025!

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VS Code - 2025 Wrapped with Burke Holland and Pierce Boggan
Burke and Pierce sit down to review a full year of releases, surprises, partnerships, and AI goodies in VS Code from 2025! Chapters: 00:00 Intro & why this year matters 01:00 Copilot Free & Universe: the acceleration moment 06:00 Agent Mode arrives (autonomous tools + loops) 10:00 March: MCP + BYOK (extensibility & model choice) 16:00 April: Prompt files (slash commands) & multi‑window chat 19:00 May: Cloud Agent + PR workflow (parallelizing work; abundance) 24:00 Open source Copilot Chat + terminal safety/sandboxing 28:00 July/Aug: Worktrees, checkpoints & Auto Mode (foundation + smart routing) 33:00 Sep/Oct: Plan Mode, Subagents, MCP Gallery & Codex integration 38:00 Nov/Dec: Background agents, unified view & Agent skills 42:00 Closing, community thanks Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: - Apple Podcasts: https://msft.it/63328ttqSG - Spotify: https://msft.it/63329ttqSH - Amazon Music: https://msft.it/63320ttqSy - Castbox: https://msft.it/63321ttqSJ - Overcast: https://msft.it/63322ttqSK - Pocket Casts: https://msft.it/63323ttqSz - and more: https://msft.it/63325ttqS3 Follow VS Code: * X: https://msft.it/63326ttqSO * Bluesky: https://msft.it/63327ttqSP * YouTube: https://msft.it/63328ttqSu * LinkedIn: https://msft.it/63329ttqSR * GitHub: https://msft.it/63320ttqSr #vscode #ai #githubcopilot
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December 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Modern C# Development: Custom Exceptions Made Simple | by Lou Creemers

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Modern C# Development: Custom Exceptions Made Simple
Hi lovely readers, Errors happen. Sometimes they are simple, and sometimes they are very specific to...
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December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Change dot org petition seeks to revive Windows Phone, and dozens are signing up! (including me ... ) — "Third time's a charm."

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#windowsphone #windows #changedotorg #mobiledev
Sign the Petition
Bring Back Windows Phone
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December 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Hello, here: generics are here for nanoFramework

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#dotnet #iot #nanoframework #dotnetnano #csharp
Hello, <T>here: generics are here for nanoFramework – .NET nanoFramework
.NET nanoFramework
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December 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
RunAs Radio Show 1016 - What Windows Wants for Christmas with Paul Thurrott and host Richard Campbell

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#podcast #windows #devcommunity #techtalk #trends #microsoft
What Windows Wants for Christmas with Paul Thurrott
So what does Windows want for Christmas? Paul Thurrott is back to talk about everything that happened to Windows in 2025, and what that might hold for 2026. Paul talks about Pavan Davuluri being…
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December 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient.

The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.

This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.

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Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM