Apps That See: Bringing Vision AI to Your Projects | by Frank Boucher buff.ly/3wMa9WD #ai #vision #aimodels #python #csharp #dotnet

SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview 1 is here! 🎨 This major update brings years of Skia engine improvements, variable font support, and a new co-maintainer: UnoPlatform Check out the roadmap and try the preview: hubs.li/Q04dX5VS0 Read the announcement: hubs.li/Q04dXcBg0

WinDev Helper VS Code extension v2.10.0 release buff.ly/JUbt3C5 #windowsdev #vscode #winui #dotnet #csharp #xaml #devtools

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🎬 Coming to @platform.uno: AnimatedIcon from WinUI! It takes animated visuals generated by LottieGen and renders them in place of regular icons, allowing playful visual state transitions - super fun to play with! #winui #appdev

New blog series about MSIX: “Inside MSIX” devblogs.microsoft.com/insidemsix/

Updated to the latest Uno 5 SDK 🎉 Sorry for the delay. Can I get some cheers from the Uno side? Release notes: github.com/Mapsui/Mapsu... @platform.uno @stevebilogan.dev @joanmagnet.bsky.social

France is going all in on open source. 🇫🇷🐧 DINUM plans to migrate every ministry to Linux—building on the success of GendBuntu, which saves the French police millions each year. A G7 Linux shift is a big signal for the software industry. Here's why. ▶️

I’ve been writing tonight… And I’m gonna publish another short video tomorrow about the first website in my ARG We call that website, The Watcher

❤️ Recovering from a heart attack — this time I’ve been lucky. Very lucky. My friends, don’t forget this: 👇 - You are your most important agent. - Your skills are your real power. If you lose that, no AI model 🤖 will replace you.

After about a year of back and foth, my OpenTelemetry PR to enable #webassembly support .NET finally got through! The original code was using threads, and it's now using tasks on Wasm, allowing for Azure App Insights to work in Blazor and @platform.uno scenarios. github.com/open-telemet...

New course alert 📣 GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners is live—and it’s free. 8 chapters, a hands-on project, and everything you need to bring AI into your command line. Check it out: github.com/github/copil...

I created my first feature PR for #WinUI, adding some long-awaited simple properties: github.com/microsoft/mi...

The final preview of #ILSpy 10 is ready for download github.com/icsharpcode/...

This! I wish our leaders would understand it is about so much more than just global warming.

Stock trading terminal. Built from scratch in 2 hours Stack: .NET + Uno Platform + Studio + Claude Code Smooth lerp-animated charts, breathing gain/loss states, pulsing selection cues, slide-in trade drawer, and braille ticker tape streaming live data via Finnhub Full build recording coming soon

Going live a bit early today, as I have a commitment at 11:30. Today we cook.. more OBS particle system goodness! twitch.tv/finitesingul...

Dew Drop – March 4, 2026 (#4617) www.alvinashcraft.com/2026/03/04/d... #dotnet #webdev #csharp #ai #windowsdev #cloud #mobiledev #visualstudio #dewdrop

The winapp CLI agent skill in the awesome-copilot repo is updated to support the v0.2.0 release of the CLI, and I contributed a new skill for the msstore CLI. github.com/github/aweso... #windowsdev #ai #copilot #agents #winapp

In 1993, a 12-year-old rebooted a dinosaur park with a visual interface. In 2026, I'm managing Minecraft servers with .NET Aspire's dashboard. Same energy. youtu.be/7y_tYWrc240

WinDev Helper - A WinUI Extension for VS Code: v2.6.0 preview updated for winapp CLI v0.2.0 and new msstore CLI support buff.ly/zfQShaN #vscode #windowsdev #winui #dotnet #xaml #csharp #winapp

Weekend project: Was annoyed that getting my pool pump connected so I can remotely turn it on/off would cost me over $3000 plus labor so I said F it, using .NET and @platform.uno I can do that cheaper, better and with MQTT integration into @home-assistant.io

Let's catch up on the Uno Platform 🔎 Now With AI! 🔍️ In today's #VSToolbox... - Overview of Uno Platform and new AI support - Building your first Uno Platform app - Using Hot Reload and Hot Design - Using GitHub Copilot with Uno Platform MCP servers Drop in ➡️ buff.ly/3h39MXs

Just merged PlaneProjection & Matrix3DProjection API support for @platform.uno! 🚀 3D perspective transforms on any UI element - card flips, tilts, carousels - working across iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux & WebAssembly. This one was fun to build! #dotnet #csharp #xaml #winui

How to fully customize Windows Terminal with Oh My Posh (themes, fonts, icons, & more) | with Kayla Cinnamon buff.ly/ZoYXqtm #terminal #ohmyposh #powershell #cli #commandline

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Correcting Common Async/Await Mistakes in .NET 10 - Brandon Minnick - NDC London 2026 buff.ly/4KWZDgS #dotnet #ndc #async #csharp #dotnet10

Uno Platform keeps pushing productivity forward — from one codebase for mobile, web, desktop, and embedded apps to Hot Design, a visual designer built for rapid iteration. Catch the #dotNETConf session replay: buff.ly/y9no2x5

Run OpenClaw Securely in Docker Sandboxes buff.ly/2tK2DdQ #docker #ai #openclaw #containers

If you haven't read my newsletter this week (or if you want MORE of it), here it is in ✨️ video form ✨ youtu.be/otzC-0lvhIA

Many shape stroke rendering improvements coming to @platform.uno apps near you soon! 🔽

New features in FancyGist thanks to some open source contributions! - New /footnote slash command - New download options in markdown, HTML, and PDF formats - Quality-of-life updates around focus + keyboard commands fancygist.com

We must change our way of thinking.

Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI | by Mark Russinovich & Scott Hanselman buff.ly/wbGkdzi #ai #softwaredev #trends #acm #developers #softwareengineering

Dew Drop – February 23, 2026 (#4610) www.alvinashcraft.com/2026/02/23/d... #dotnet #ai #webdev #cloud #windowsdev #csharp #vscode #mobiledev #visualstudio #database #dewdrop

✏️ Blogged! Learn all about Agent Skills and how to use them with @platform.uno! kazo0.dev/uno-general/...

Meet WinDev Helper, a VS Code extension that lets you debug, build, and package WinUI 3 apps with MSIX and C# Dev Kit goodness. Templates and winapp CLI integration make Windows App SDK workflows feel smooth from project to signing. #csharp #winui #dotnet

A few parameter changes- using a wide emitter + negative gravity + a little bit of blur, and we've made fire! This plugin is going to have a lot of uses. youtu.be/D-KJZSW0KxY

Minimal changes can unlock powerful visibility. See how Aspire exposes request durations and API performance using OpenTelemetry and open standards, without writing code. Watch to learn more: youtu.be/Z4exwoBdKuU

I've been cooking today, and thought I'd throw this out there. All particles generated directly in OBS. Details below...

Windows Community Toolkit [Pre-release] v8.3.260211-preview1 | by Michael Hawker buff.ly/P6vwmwR #windowsdev #winui #wct #communitytoolkit #dotnet #cpp #xaml #appdev

🤖 The Scary Prophecy of Isaac Asimov is Coming True Isaac Asimov’s 1957 story "Profession" is the ultimate warning for the Generative AI era. In this future, knowledge is "downloaded" directly into people's brains. They become instant experts. They can only do what the "tape" told them to do.

You gotta check out Squad for GitHub Copilot - you'll write code and build apps like you've never built before youtu.be/TXcL-te7ByY

i am screaming. screaming!!!!!!!!

Just got the high voltage lid left to print on my home made pool controller. Starting to look super clean

From pixels to characters: The engineering behind GitHub Copilot CLI’s animated ASCII banner

I don't talk much about politics in my social media spaces as my online communities tend to be an escape for me, but I can't just sit in silence any more. What is happening in and around my community (Minneapolis/St. Paul area) is absolutely disgusting. I have close immigrant friends ...

Announcing the @raspberrypi.com AI Kit+ 2! Now with onboard Gen AI capability... www.raspberrypi.com/news/introdu...

The UK is introducing a law that makes it illegal to create non-consensual intimate deepfakes. It comes after Grok AI generated sexually explicit images of real people without consent.

...the year in review. Here is the top .NET blog posts of 2025. 🔗 msft.it/63324tFTGE