Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - October 12

Published on Monday, October 12, 2026

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Open-source

Open Source, a relic, a charity or still the thing? by Oskar Dudycz

Software Architecture

CRUD vs Task Driven: Are You Losing User Intent? by Derek Comartin

Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development by The GitHub Blog

.NET

Building a TypeSafe's Jev MCP server with .NET by Laurent Kempé

TimeProvider and FakeTimeProvider in .NET Tests by Milan Jovanović

A faster, lighter C# Dev Kit by .NET Team

What Would You Build in Azure If You Didn’t Have to Ask for a Budget First? by Visual Studio Blog

Stripping extra dependencies in .NET NativeAOT apps using linker substitutions by Andrew Lock

Software Design

REST/APIs

A Year After OpenAPI 3.2, Most API Tooling Cannot Read It by Kin Lane

Trappings of Individual API Patterns and the Benefits of a Diverse API Toolbox by Kin Lane

An Overlay Is a Layer, Not a Diff by Kin Lane

Azure

New Wiki Editor Experience by Azure DevOps Blog

Introducing the Native Confluent Cloud Connector Experience in Azure Cosmos DB! by Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Dynamic Workflows in Azure Functions Hosted Skills: Durable, AI-Led Work for Event-Driven Apps by Azure SDK Blog

Connect Azure Functions to more services with managed connectors by Azure SDK Blog

Software Development

Use Stacked Pull Requests to Make AI Code Review Managable by Mitchel Sellers

How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate by The GitHub Blog

Fixing My Remote Control Server Sign-in Problems by Rockford Lhotka

Seasoned developer advice by Karen Payne

AI

Releasing AI-generated software by Mark Seemann

Structured Extraction, Part 1: from fragile rules to live semantic templates (English) by Scott Galloway

Business Capabilities Provide the Context You Need for AI Engineering by Kin Lane

The protocol proliferation problem: Making sense of the open agent stack by Mary Branscombe

ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review by The GitHub Blog

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