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Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework
What does it take to build your own "claw" - a capable, CLI-style agent that can plan, use tools, remember things, and safely act on your behalf? Coding agents and assistants like these can feel like magic, but underneath they are an agent harness: a loop around a language model wired up...
Read moreClick to read more about this postIn memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
Read moreClick to read more about this postStop overloading your skills
You built a skill for your technology. API references, authentication flows, SDK patterns, error handling, version info, all packed into one skill. The agent calls it, gets all that context, and generates code. The kicker? You've just wasted a lot of tokens.
It already knows
Models have...
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Apr 21, 2026
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Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta
Today we are absolutely thrilled to announce the release of TypeScript 7.0 Beta!
If you haven't been following TypeScript 7.0's development, this release is significant in that it is built on a completely new foundation.
Over the past year, we have been porting the existing TypeScript...
TypeScript
Apr 21, 2026
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General Availability: Dynamic Data Masking for Azure Cosmos DB
Protecting sensitive data is a foundational requirement for modern applications. As organizations scale their use of Azure Cosmos DB across teams, environments, and workloads, controlling who can see sensitive information becomes increasingly important.
Today, we are excited to...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Apr 21, 2026
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Aspire 13.2: Bun Support and Container Enhancements
Aspire 13.2 keeps the JavaScript story moving with Bun for Vite, more predictable containers, and small but meaningful fixes across debugging and builds.
Aspire Blog
Apr 21, 2026
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Sure, xor'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub?
Somehow xor became the most popular version.
The Old New Thing
Apr 21, 2026
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Azure DevOps MCP Server April Update
This update brings a set of improvements and changes across both local and remote Azure DevOps MCP Servers.
Here’s a summary of what’s changed.
Query work items with WIQL
We’ve introduced a new wit_query_by_wiql tool that enables users to construct and run work item WIQL queries....
Azure DevOps Blog
Apr 20, 2026
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GitHub Copilot meets Azure Developer CLI: AI-assisted project setup and error troubleshooting
The Azure Developer CLI (azd) now integrates with GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted project scaffolding and intelligent deployment error troubleshooting, helping you resolve common Azure errors like MissingSubscriptionRegistration, SkuNotAvailable, and StorageAccountAlreadyTaken without leaving the terminal.
Azure SDK Blog
Apr 20, 2026
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Writing Node.js addons with .NET Native AOT
The C# Dev Kit team replaced C++ Node.js addons with C# and Native AOT, removing a dependency on Python. This post walks through building a Node.js native addon entirely in C# using N-API, LibraryImport, and UnmanagedCallersOnly.
.NET Blog
Apr 20, 2026
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How did code handle 24-bit-per-pixel formats when using video cards with bank-switched memory?
You still have to use aligned accesses, even though the pixels might not be aligned.
The Old New Thing
Apr 20, 2026
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Discoverable - Observable MCP Server
How to build an observable MCP Server with discoverable tools and agents.
ISE Developer Blog