The next frontier of agentic development is here, and you are in control. Today we announced releases that will keep you in the flow with your agents, all on the GitHub platform. ⬇️

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Is your Terminal intelligent? devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/...

🎤 The @code team is bringing a lot to #MSBuild this year! From live demos and AMAs to deep dives on agentic development, multi-agent workflows, and how we ship AI features at scale, here's a look at what we'll be sharing. 🧵👇

Building Intelligent .NET Applications: From AI Features to Agentic Systems hubs.li/Q04dFg2S0 via @jongalloway.bsky.social @vslive.bsky.social #dotnet

Modernization starts with knowing what you have. Then figuring out what changes safely. This session walks through that process. youtu.be/6JK2FRJD1v8 More sessions: aka.ms/VSLiveLV26

Directly reference issues and PRs in Copilot CLI - a gamechanger for OSS development youtube.com/shorts/Mfp7v...

Microsoft Edit v2.0.0 Release - Now with lightweight syntax highlighting buff.ly/paBskKj #cli #commandline #editor #terminal #microsoftedit #oss

🚀 Better prompts. Smarter agents. More control. The latest @code release introduces the Chat Customizations Evaluation extension, designed to help analyze and refine your prompts, agents, instructions, and skills.

Access your local dev environment from any device using the new GitHub Copilot CLI /remote command! Here's a full walkthrough: youtu.be/vazR-lBAvD8

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...

Spectre.Console 0.55.0 is out! 🎉 A lot of new features and bug fixes, but also some breaking changes, so make sure you read the release notes! spectreconsole.net/blog/2025-11-13-spectre-console-0-55-released #dotnet #csharp #opensource

This is no April Fools’ joke… we just hit 1M subscribers on YouTube 🎉 Thank you to our amazing community for building, learning, and growing with us. This milestone is yours, happy coding! 💙

Squad + Godot MCP Pro after a few hours narrowing down a good starting template and architecture. Crazy to see how fast it's spinning this up.

.NET STS releases are now supported for 2 years instead of 18 months starting with .NET 9 (the current STS). STS releases now go out-of-support on the same day as the previous LTS release. Upgrading to an STS release will no longer cause you to lose support! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotne...

Join me at Visual Studio Live! San Diego in September. Speakers include @jasonbock.net, @andrewbrust.info, @allenconway.bsky.social, @jongalloway.bsky.social, @rocky.lhotka.net, @brianrandell.com, @linotadros.bsky.social, and more. Links to my sessions and discounts: ericboyd.com/events/visua...

TIL you can pipe raw markdown to `python -m rich.markdown -` and it'll render it beautifully on the command line

🚀 New episode of Coding After Work! We chat with @jongalloway.bsky.social about vibe coding, Blazor, .NET Aspire, submarines (!), AI dev productivity & even that time he won a car on The Price Is Right. You don’t want to miss this one 🎧 ▶️ buff.ly/H3AHupP #dotnet #Blazor #DevCommunity #AI #Podcast

Love VS Code? Love GitHub Copilot? Want to be part of the future of Agentic Development and share it with the world? My team is hiring a Senior TPM focused on Agentic Dev Tools Advocacy! Work with the teams building it! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/sh... #vscode #githubcopilot #coreai

I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

BIG NEWS!!! my bff @james.montemagno.com is joining #aspirifridays tomorrow so @damianedwards.com and I can help him fix the Aspirification of an app he built based on an app that @davidfowl.com built?! the shenanigans will be high. bingo included. SEE YOU TOMORROW! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIVs...

🧠 Using SQL Server 2025 Vector Search in .NET Aspire – eShopLite Style! Introduction SQL Server 2025 is super cool 😎 — and naturally, I had to test out the brand-new vector capabilities! If you haven’t checked it out yet, start here:🔗 To explore these features, I leaned into one of my favorite…

Sorry Copilot you have to work Saturdays github.com/jongalloway/...

Bluesky is not twitter because we block losers before we even see their sad attention seeking. Think of it as vaccinating your account. Here’s an example: 1. Go to @skywatch.blue 2. Tap Lists and scroll down to MAGA 3. Tap subscribe & then block accounts. 4. All the magas now rot on the vine

Charlie Wilson's War is one of the few movies I wish had been made during the modern miniseries era.

We're going to be talking about the new support in .NET 10 to directly run a .cs (C#) file without a project on the Languages & Runtime Community Stand-up this morning! Come ask your questions 😁 www.youtube.com/live/rb9oXSp...

How Microsoft Office Moved from Source Depot to Git | Discussion

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So, so true. The gap between design tools and the possibilities of the CSS based web platform is getting bigger year by year. @ishadeed.com at #cssday. (Reminds me of @matthiasott.com‘s talk last year cssday.nl/2024/#matthias)

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Sonnet 3.7 has been amazing, excited to see what 4 brings!

One of my favorite little hidden features of the new release of the AI Chat Template for @dot.net - the Qdrant dashboard is linked from the dashboard!

Woo-hoo! 🎉 Visual Studio and VS Code hit 50M devs! From all of us here, THANK YOU for helping us reach this giant milestone. Read more from CVP Amanda Silver. 📖 https://msft.it/63320Sw9x4 Keep on coding!

#MSBuild is right around the corner! @jongalloway.bsky.social and I put together a developer's guide if you are attending in person or remote! devblogs.microsoft.com/blog/a-devel... #dotnet #vscode #visualstudio #ai #githubcopilot

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2nd (and final) C# 13 post covers 'ref struct' improvements, the new 'Lock' type, and [OverloadResolutionPriority] developers.redhat.com/articles/202... cc @jongalloway.bsky.social @zikicz.bsky.social

LIVE TODAY at 10AM PT... Today's @ASPNET Community Standup explores how you can build Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with #ASPNET Core and the new MCP C# SDK to extend AI systems with all sorts of useful information and tools. Join us LIVE. https://msft.it/63321SOWRF

Blog post on C# 13 params collections, partial properties/indexers, index access in object initializers and ref/unsafe in iterators and async methods developers.redhat.com/articles/202... @jongalloway.bsky.social @chethusk.bsky.social @zikicz.bsky.social @antonfrv.bsky.social @jaredpar.bsky.social

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This is the home page of Fox News today. There's a tiny blurb about the stock market being down, way down the page below articles about trans athlete injustice, Snow White's gender, and a lost puppy that was found after being missing for a year.

Remembering Val Kilmer in Real Genius (1985). Somehow laser science got an astonishingly accurate pop culture movie. It didn’t have to accurately depict building and troubleshooting excimer lasers and yet somehow it did.

I need everyone to know that you don't actually need a special EV charger to own an EV. I still haven't installed one since buying my EV in September. I plug it into the wall and move on. No problems at all.

I can’t tell you the amount of contempt real coders have for Musk’s stolen valor at pretending to be technical. His years (decades?) of pseudo-code revealing that he doesn’t actually know how software works are so offensive to genuinely talented developers that they’ve always hated him.

Xbox + .NET Aspire: Transforming Local Development Practices - .NET Blog devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/xboxs... @dot.net #aspire

Coding horror’s Jeff Atwood is putting a heap of money into demonstrating how Guaranteed Minimum Income can rebuild communities from the ground up. I’ve always enjoyed picking on Jeff any chance I get, but check out what he’s actually doing here: blog.codinghorror.com/the-road-not...

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Hey friends. I'm running a session later this month on cool stuff that's been added to the web in the last decade or so. Stuff like CSS flex and grid, <details> and <summary>, styleable <selectlist>. No frameworks: all native HTML/JS/CSS stuff. What are your favourite new web things since 2015-ish?

!! Introducing support for SLNX, a new, simpler solution file format in the .NET CLI !! Say goodbye to GUID clutter〰️XML-based solutions now streamline builds, edits, and migrations. Learn more and explore new support across the #dotnetCLI. https://msft.it/63325qurz9

The new SLNX solution file format for is here!!! Upgrade your .sln files today to take advantage of the new and much simpler format. Use either the .NET CLI or Visual Studio to do it.