Announcements
- Great new productivity features in Visual Studio - Visual Studio Blog - new minor features in Visual Studio which help screen real estate
- Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 - Microsoft Support - another MS product deprecation, but who still uses publisher with more customizable products such as Canvas
- Melbourne start-up launches ‘biological computer’ made of human brain cells - ABC News - some real syfy stuff, the idea is not to replicate the brain using ML, but instead use brain cells. There’s a lot of unknowns about how the brain works, so firing neurons into a chip might help us explain some things, who knows.
- Elastic Stack 8.17.3 released | Elastic Blog - ELK stack update, understanding how they do search re-ranks is quite interesting
- Banish bots from your Waiting Room and improve wait times for real users - Cloudflare now can send bots to an infinite loop of despair if traffic looks likely to be bot behaviour
- February 2025 Updates: What’s New in Auth0 - Node v12 is deprecated
Architecture
- Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale Part 3 | by Netflix Technology Blog (Part 1, Part 2) - Netflix article series around a high level solution for monitoring personalization stack and show/move (title) release leading up to being live. They standarize problems with the title and monitor every 30mins from announcement to post launch.
Technical Articles
- Writing an LLM from scratch, part 8 — trainable self-attention :: Giles’ blog - Follows the Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) book by Sebastian Raschka, 8th instalment
- Functions in CSS?! | CSS-Tricks - Interesting but did we really need this? Recursive functions in CSS crash your browser and these functions aren’t testable except for component rendering tests
.NET Aspire (getting some serious backing)
- .NET Aspirations - Tailor It To Your Stack · Alexandre Nédélec & .NET Aspire improves developer onboarding while reducing costs - run .net aspire with frontend apps using Vite. Save time to onboard/time to F5 and decrease time which developers lose setting up locally.
- Building and Debugging .NET Lambda applications with .NET Aspire (Part 1) | AWS Developer Tools Blog - running AWS lambda and API gateway emulator locally in Aspire. AWS seems to have better integrations than Azure
Infrastructure
- Converting Terraform to Pulumi Just Got Easier | Pulumi Blog - Plumi have released a tool to convert Terraform to many languages
Interesting Resources
- katanemo/archgw: AI-native (edge and LLM) proxy for agents. - interesting project for an AI prompt gateway, which guards from malicious activity such as jailbreaking
- Get Started with Neural Rendering Using NVIDIA RTX Kit | NVIDIA Technical Blog - Neural rendering and compression from NVidia, I’d love to see how much it’d affect FPS but the meshes rendered look great
- toddle.dev - A Visual Web Framework like Figma, but has direct API integrations and can do custom coding with AI.
- Available today: DeepSeek R1 7B & 14B distilled models for Copilot+ PCs via Azure AI Foundry – further expanding AI on the edge - Windows Developer Blog - Running Deepseek optimized model in AI Toolkit in VS Code on your local machine, insanely easy extension to get models running locally
- Unveiling .NET Secrets with the World’s Smallest C# Program - Steve Gordon - NDC London 2025 - ❗ Every C# dev should watch this video ❗ Steven Gordon goes through the .NET magic of how your app runs at a very low level