Dew Drop – January 28, 2026 (#4592)
A daily roundup of top IT and developer news, including updates on .NET, AI agents, Visual Studio, web development, and Windows tools.
A daily roundup of top IT and developer news, including updates on .NET, AI agents, Visual Studio, web development, and Windows tools.
Explores the new Invoker Commands API for declarative UI actions in HTML, reducing the need for JavaScript.
A guide on using Google Antigravity to build and customize agents for IBM's watsonx Orchestrate platform, leveraging MCP and AI development tools.
A guide on backporting security fixes to older releases in Conda Forge, using a Dask vulnerability patch as a practical example.
A developer details optimizing a PHP script to process 11 million database rows in seconds, focusing on SQL query batching and moving logic to PHP.
A software engineer shares a technique for handling critical feedback by focusing on finding the 'kernel of truth' to improve professionally.
A guide explaining Git worktrees, including commands for creating, listing, and removing them to manage multiple branches simultaneously.
Explores the CSS corner-shape property for creating beveled, scooped, and other unique border corners with modern CSS.
Improving Fortran test framework by replacing boolean assertions with custom error types for better error handling and output control.
A developer enhances the GildedRose kata test output in ColdFusion by implementing the Myers Diff algorithm for better error visualization.
A developer uses a single AI coding agent to build a basic web browser from scratch in Rust over three days, challenging assumptions about AI-assisted development.
A developer uses a single AI coding agent to build a functional web browser from scratch in Rust over three days, challenging assumptions about AI-assisted development.
A practical talk on .NET application performance optimization, covering monitoring, profiling, and iterative improvement using tools like dotTrace and BenchmarkDotNet.
Explores how AI coding agents impact internal code quality, using a case study of adding GitLab support to a Swift app.
GExperts code formatter updated to support new Delphi 13 language constructs: noreturn directive, is not, and not in operators.
Kimi K2.5 is a new multimodal AI model with visual understanding and a self-directed agent swarm for complex, parallel task execution.
Kimi K2.5 is a new multimodal AI model with visual understanding and a self-directed agent swarm for complex task execution.
A lecture on control theory, explaining feedback as an algebraic interconnection for robust system design, using amplifier gain as an example.
A debate on whether SQL Server DBAs need to know Windows clustering and if high availability features are worth the operational complexity.
A daily roundup of tech links covering AI, web development, .NET, Windows, and developer tools, including updates on OpenSilver, GitHub Copilot, and MCP.