This Week’s Favourites
Code that fits in a context window - Ploeh Blog
No-Hassle Visual Studio Code Theming: Building an Extension - CSS Tricks Blog
Your Idempotent Code Is Lying To You - Code Opinion
Dotnet, C#, Azure
February 2026 Insiders (version 1.110) - Visual Studio
.NET Framework 3.5 Moves to Standalone Deployment in new versions of Windows - Microsoft Dotnet Blog
Deploy Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts using Enterprise Policy as Code - Cloudtips blog
Containerize Your .NET Applications Without a Dockerfile - Milan Jovanovic Blog
Building a Greenfield System with the Critter Stack - Jeremy D. Miller Blog
AI
Context Engineering for Coding Agents - Martin Fowler Blog
Continuous AI in practice: What developers can automate today with agentic CI - Github Blog
AI Writes Code 3x Faster. So Why Aren’t We Shipping 3x Faster? - Builder.io Blog
Use Claude Opus 4.6 on AI Gateway - Vercel blog
The Vercel AI Accelerator is back with $6m in credits - Vercel blog
Pick your agent: Use Claude and Codex on Agent HQ - Github Blog
Parallel joins the Vercel Agent Marketplace - Vercel blog
Exploring the (underwhelming) System.Diagnostics.Metrics source generators: System.Diagnostics.Metrics APIs - Part 2 - Andrew Lock Blog
Introducing the new v0 - Vercel blog
Subagents: When and How to Use Them - Builder.io Blog
How to maximize GitHub Copilot’s agentic capabilities - Github Blog
Assistloop joins the Vercel Agents Marketplace - Vercel blog
Google’s AI advantage: why crawler separation is the only path to a fair Internet - Cloudflare blog
cubic joins the Vercel Agents Marketplace - Vercel blog
Making agent-friendly pages with content negotiation - Vercel blog
Misc
CSS Bar Charts Using Modern Functions - CSS Tricks Blog
2025 Q4 DDoS threat report: A record-setting 31.4 Tbps attack caps a year of massive DDoS assaults - Cloudflare blog
Developer Update - February 2026 - Supabase GitHub Release
Weekly Update 489 - Troy Hunt Blog
Fragments: February 4 - Martin Fowler Blog
Parallel’s Web Search and tools are live on Vercel - Vercel blog
Build logs now support interactive links - Vercel blog
No Hassle Visual Code Theming: Publishing an Extension - CSS Tricks Blog
What the fastest-growing tools reveal about how software is being built - Github Blog
Improve global upload performance with R2 Local Uploads - Cloudflare blog
The Vercel OSS Bug Bounty program is now available - Vercel blog
Python 3.13 and 3.14 are now available - Vercel blog
Run untrusted code with Vercel Sandbox, now generally available - Vercel blog
What’s !important #4: Videos & View Transitions, Named Media Queries, How Browsers Work, and More - CSS Tricks Blog
Building vertical microfrontends on Cloudflare’s platform - Cloudflare blog
Vercel Sandboxes are now generally available - Vercel blog
YouTube Videos
Is .NET Really Underrated in 2026? Well… - Nick Chapsas Youtube
Should I learn AI? - John Savill Youtube
Azure State of the Union 2026 - John Savill Youtube
Azure Update - 30th January 2026 - Hotel edition :-) - John Savill Youtube