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If you're building apps that need to comply with upcoming age verification requirements in Texas (January 1, 2026), Utah (May 7, 2026), or Louisiana (July 1, 2026), you might be wondering how to handle age verification across Android, iOS, and Windows. The good news? Each platform provides its own age verification …
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December 10, 2025 8 am - 10 am Pacific Registration: https://aka.ms/OSSAISummitRegistration Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/blog/join-the-oss-ai-summit-building-with-langchain-event
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In the explosive era of Agentic AI, we're not just seeking more powerful models—we're searching for a development experience that lets developers actually get some sleep. When building Agents locally, we've traditionally faced three major challenges: Link to article: …
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Visual Studio 2026 introduces new GitHub Copilot capabilities to support C++ developers in three development tasks: Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/upgrade-msvc-improve-c-build-performance-and-refactor-c-code-with-github-copilot
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A customer had a Win32 dialog with a bunch of edit controls inside. In their WM_INITDIALOG message handler, they filled those edit controls with information and then decided which one should get initial focus when the dialog is shown to the user. To set the focus, they did SetFocus(GetDlgItem(hDlg, initialCon Link to …
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Starting today, Babu Annamalai is taking a larger role at JasperFx Software (LLC) to help expand our support coverage to just about every time zone on the planet. Babu is a long time member of the Marten and now Critter Stack core team. In addition to some large contributions like the Partial API in Marten … Continue …
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Join us as we welcome the Spring team and Evgeny Borisov for a new IntelliJ IDEA livestream, where we’ll discuss what’s new in Spring Boot 4 and how all the new updates work in IntelliJ IDEA. Date: December 11, 2025 Time: 4:00–5:00 pm UTC REGISTER FOR THE LIVESTREAM Session abstract In this livestream, we’ll explore …
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Imagine you’re working on a project and jotting down every single idea, experiment, and failure. After a while, your notes pile up so high that finding what’s useful takes more time and energy than the work itself. A similar problem faces users of software engineering (SE) agents: the agents “take notes” on every …
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Embeddings have become the backbone of many modern AI applications. From semantic search to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and intelligent recommendation systems, embedding models enable systems to understand the meaning behind text, code, or documents, not just the literal words. But generating embeddings comes …
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Written by Destiny Hillis (Software Engineer II), Rachel Johnson (Software Engineer II), Tempest van Schaik (Principal Data Scientist), and Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/accelerating-ai-development-with-github-copilot-real-world-use-cases
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OpenAI and NORAD are bringing new magic to “NORAD Tracks Santa” with three ChatGPT holiday tools that let families create festive elves, toy coloring pages, and custom Christmas stories. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/norad-holiday-collaboration
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Accenture and OpenAI are collaborating to help enterprises bring agentic AI capabilities into the core of their business and unlock new levels of growth. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/accenture-partnership
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OpenAI takes an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings to accelerate enterprise AI adoption, embedding frontier research and engineering directly into accounting and IT services to boost speed, accuracy, and efficiency while creating a scalable model for industry-wide transformation. Link to article: …
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The article emphasizes the importance of defensive programming in .NET applications by validating resource availability before access. It outlines guidelines for checking connectivity, setting timeouts, and managing user experiences when resources are unavailable. The author shares personal insights and promotes …
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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss different approaches for keeping AI on track when writing code. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2025/11/29/keeping-ai-from-going-off-the-rails-dev-leader-weekly-117
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Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#! Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2025/11/29/weekly-recap-20251129
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Deciding where shared logic lives is the most critical moment in Vertical Slice Architecture adoption, as choosing incorrectly reintroduces the coupling the architecture aims to eliminate. This article proposes a three-tier approach to sharing code that balances technical infrastructure, domain concepts, and local …
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Join us live for five days of Advent of Code puzzles and five Kotlin livestreams on December 1–5. Solve the puzzles in Kotlin with help from Kotlin team experts and fun community guests, climb the leaderboard, learn new tricks, and have a chance to win some prizes along the way! Here’s what we have planned […] Link to …
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A customer was writing a Win32 program and was looking for something like a combo box, in that it gave the user a choice among various fixed options, but sometimes the program would come up with a new option that wasn't on the list, and it would want to show that as the selection. On the other hand, the customer didn't …
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A year ago, I wrote a blog post about solving Advent of Code puzzles using Rust as the implementation language. I believe it’s still relevant if you plan to use Rust this year. In one section, I advised limiting the use of AI and demonstrated how to disable the relevant functionality in RustRover, either partially […] …
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