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Awesome GitHub Copilot just got a website, and a learning hub, and plugins!
Back in July, we launched the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo with a simple goal: give the community a place to share custom instructions, prompts, and chat modes to customize the AI responses from GitHub Copilot. We were hoping for maybe one community contribution per...
Read moreClick to read more about this postWhen Infrastructure Scales But Understanding Doesn't
We all know this, even if we don't like to admit it: modern infrastructure can scale infinitely, but human understanding doesn't.
We've all seen it happen - organizations going from managing dozens of servers to thousands of containers, from deploying weekly to deploying hundreds of...
Read moreClick to read more about this postAuthentication Tokens Are Not a Data Contract
Authentication tokens exist to answer one question: is this caller authorized to do this?
They are not intended to be a stable data interface, a schema you can depend on, or an input into application logic.
If your application decodes tokens and reads claims from them, this is an...
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Mar 6, 2026
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Announcing TypeScript 6.0 RC
Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 6.0!
To get started using the RC, you can get it through npm with the following command:
npm install -D typescript@rc
TypeScript 6.0 is a unique release in that we intend for it to be the last release based on...
TypeScript
Mar 6, 2026
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Go 1.26.1-1 and 1.25.8-1 Microsoft builds now available
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download.
Microsoft for Go Developers
Mar 6, 2026
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When ReadDirectoryChangesW reports that a deletion occurred, how can I learn more about the deleted thing?
It's already gone. If you need more information, you should have been remembering it.
The Old New Thing
Mar 6, 2026
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Using Agents to Setup Experiments
When setting up an experiment is complex, agents can automate the process to make it faster and more reliable.
ISE Developer Blog
Mar 5, 2026
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Visual Studio at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026
Join us at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 for a deep dive into Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys, and the Windows tools that speed up your daily dev workflow. We'll show how these tools work together to boost productivity and cut friction across your entire inner loop.
Session...
C++ Team Blog
Mar 5, 2026
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.25 Release
We briefly paused our quarterly release cycle to focus on reliability and performance, but now we're back with Windows Terminal 1.25!
We are also updating Windows Terminal stable to version 1.24, which will include all of the features from this previous blog post. Some notable features...
Windows Command Line
Mar 5, 2026
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Release v1.0 of the official MCP C# SDK
Discover what’s new in the v1.0 release of the official MCP C# SDK, including enhanced authorization, richer metadata, and powerful patterns for tool calling and long-running requests.
.NET Blog
Mar 5, 2026
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The mystery of the posted message that was dispatched before reaching the main message loop
Perhaps it's because you dispatched it.
The Old New Thing
Mar 5, 2026
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Platform Engineering for the Agentic AI era
Arnaud,
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For the last decade, platform engineering has relied on explicit API interaction layers: CLIs, SDKs, pipelines, wrappers, and UI workflows that translate human intent into machine‑safe API calls. AI agents are now short‑circuiting much of that stack. By combining natural language...
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