Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - August 17

Published on Wednesday, August 19, 2026

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Open-source

Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project? by The GitHub Blog

Software Architecture

Fractal Architecture, Cognitive Load, Vertical Slices and other terms that do(n't) fit your head by Oskar Dudycz

How Do You Build a Social Media Feed? (System Design) by Milan Jovanovic

Enforced application architecture for agents and humans by Nick Tune

.NET

C# ExceptionDispatchInfo Class by Karen Payne

Using the Wolverine “Side Effect” Model to Simplify Code by Jeremy D. Miller

Introducing Fisher: Sqlite Backed Document Db & Event Store Critter by Jeremy D. Miller

.NET 11 Preview 7 is now available! by .NET Team

.NET and .NET Framework August 2026 servicing releases updates by .NET Team

Today I will... manage Git Submodules without leaving the IDE by Visual Studio Blog

Project Management/Administration

Your Internal Docs Need the Same Scoring Discipline as Your Public APIs by Oskar Dudycz

REST/APIs

OpenAPI Overlays for Compliance and Redaction Profiles by Oskar Dudycz

APIs Are 100x More Important Than Five Years Ago, and Still Uncool by Karen Payne

Azure

Azure Developer CLI extension framework is GA: build dev workflows for apps using Azure by Azure SDK Blog

Software Development

GitHub Quietly Built the Onboarding Flow Everyone Else Is Missing by Oskar Dudycz

What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era by The GitHub Blog

Why use ORMs if LLMs write code? by Mark Seemann

GitHub availability report: July 2026 by The GitHub Blog

From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer by The GitHub Blog

AI

Instructions Hygiene - What Frontier Models Still Need You to Say by .NET Team

Approved by Management #26-07 by Mike Amundsen

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