Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - February 8

Published on Monday, February 9, 2026

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Open-source

Stopwatch Overlay - Always-on-top timer for recordings & presentations by Clemens Vasters

Software Architecture

.NET

.NET Framework 3.5 Moves to Standalone Deployment in new versions of Windows by Tara Overfield

WinGet Configuration: Set up your dev machine in one command by Kayla Cinnamon

Lease Pattern in .NET: A Lock With an Expiration Date That Saves Your Data by Chris Woodruff

Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (February) by Rhea Patel

Exploring the (underwhelming) System.Diagnostics.Metrics source generators by Andrew Lock

Building a Greenfield System with the Critter Stack by Jeremy D. Miller

Integrate Keycloak with ASP.NET Core Using OAuth 2.0 by Milan Jovanović

Encrypting Properties with System.Text.Json and a TypeInfoResolver Modifier (Part 2) by Steve Gordon

Project Management/Administration

Welcome to the Room by Jeffrey Snove

Shortwave: When institutions stop thinking for themselves by Mike Amundsen

REST/APIs

Sustainable APIs by Alexander Karan

Azure

Auto-install azd extensions in dev containers by PuiChee (PC) Chan

How to Enable Microsoft Entra ID for Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL) by Sudhanshu Khera

Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot includes custom agent support by Dan Hellem

Software Development

Bjarne-s Last Stand: How the Father of C++ Is Fighting a Losing War Against Rust by Henrique Bucher

Code that fits in a context window by Mark Seemann

Essential Rules of Software Engineering by Gérald Barré

Your Idempotent Code Is Lying To You by Derek Comartin

Windows

Microsoft Adds Sysmon To Windows by Slashdot

AI

Using personal instructions in GitHub Copilot Chat by Cassidy Williams

What Senior Engineers Need to Know About AI Coding Tools by Marc Grabanski

How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories by Matt Nigh

Continuous AI in practice: What developers can automate today with agentic CI by GitHub Staff

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