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The Code Brew's Weekly Newsletter - Week 22

Welcome back to The Code Brew! ☕ Big Release Week: TypeScript 6.0 Beta and .NET 11 Preview 1 are officially out! In industry news, Brendan Gregg has joined OpenAI. We also have major updates for AI Agents, with Cloudflare launching Markdown for Agents and Vercel adding runtime log access for agents. Plus, check out the new Vercel Flags public beta and Geist Pixel. Dive in!

This Week’s Favourites

Announcing TypeScript 6.0 Beta - Microsoft Typescript Blog

.NET 11 Preview 1 is now available! - Microsoft Dotnet Blog

Simplifying assertions with lenses - Ploeh Blog

Dotnet, C#, Azure

.NET 11.0 Preview 1 - Dotnet Runtime GitHub Release

Collection Expression Arguments in C# 15 are “out” - Steven Giesel blog

.NET and .NET Framework February 2026 servicing releases updates - Microsoft Dotnet Blog

.NET 8.0.24 - Dotnet Runtime GitHub Release

Unified Tenant Configuration Management (UTCM) APIs in Microsoft Graph = ❤️ - Cloudtips blog

Getting more information in MSBuild binlogs with property tracking - Meziantou Blog

Integrate Keycloak with ASP.NET Core Using OAuth 2.0 - Milan Jovanovic Blog

Must-have tool to hide Azure secrets during presentations or screen recordings - Cloudtips blog

.NET Toolbox February Update - Steven Giesel blog

AI

Use MiniMax M2.5 on AI Gateway - Vercel blog

Browserbase joins the Vercel Agent Marketplace - Vercel blog

Introducing Markdown for Agents - Cloudflare blog

GitHub Copilot Testing for .NET Brings AI-powered Unit Tests to Visual Studio 2026 - Microsoft Dotnet Blog

GLM-5 is live on AI Gateway - Vercel blog

Claude Code for Product Managers - Builder.io Blog

Keeping community human while scaling with agents - Vercel blog

MCP Apps are the Future of Agentic Workflows - Builder.io Blog

Building a self-driving skills.sh leaderboard - Vercel blog

Anyone can build agents, but it takes a platform to run them - Vercel blog

How we built AEO tracking for coding agents - Vercel blog

Why I joined OpenAI - Brendad Gregg Blog

Agents can now access runtime logs with Vercel’s MCP server - Vercel blog

Misc

GitHub availability report: January 2026 - Github Blog

Making a Responsive Pyramidal Grid With Modern CSS - CSS Tricks Blog

Automating RDS Postgres to Aurora Postgres Migration - Netflix Tech Blog

New deployments with vulnerable versions of the third-party package next-mdx-remote are now blocked by default - Vercel blog

Welcome to the Eternal September of open source. Here’s what we plan to do for maintainers. - Github Blog

Upgraded Custom ASPM Dashboards: Build Security Views That Match How Your Teams Work - Legit Security Blog

Approximating contrast-color() With Other CSS Features - CSS Tricks Blog

Vercel Flags is now in public beta - Vercel blog

Advanced egress firewall filtering for Vercel Sandbox - Vercel blog

Support for Sign in with Apple - Vercel blog

Weekly Update 490 - Troy Hunt Blog

Trying to Make the Perfect Pie Chart in CSS - CSS Tricks Blog

Introducing new token formats and secret scanning - Vercel blog

Fragments: February 9 - Martin Fowler Blog

Paths of MySQL, vector search edition - Phil Eaton Blog

Introducing Geist Pixel - Vercel blog

YouTube Videos

Fabric IQ Overview - John Savill Youtube

Microsoft IQ Overview (Work IQ, Foundry IQ and Fabric IQ) - John Savill Youtube

Why I Moved to Mac from Windows as a .NET Developer - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Azure Update - 6th February 2026 - John Savill Youtube