Reading Notes #670

Dives into the intersection of AI and development, exploring tools like GitHub Copilot’s AGENTS.md and the MCP Toolkit for automations, alongside .NET 10.0’s performance gains and OpenAI’s recent updates. Whether you’re optimizing serverless APIs with AWS Lambda or mastering the Web Animation API, this post highlights breakthroughs in code efficiency, model customization, and cloud innovation. Dive into these thought-provoking reads to stay ahead in a rapidly changing world.

Have a nice week!

Suggestion of the week

• OpenAI - 2 Updates That Might Change How You Build Software - Many new things from OpenAI. It's definitely a post to read. A lot of new things and changes that will impact our way of building stuff.

Cloud

• Building Fast Serverless APIs With Minimal APIs on AWS Lambda (Milan) - Nice post to get started with the serverless cloud AWS offering aka: lambda

AI

• Developer and AI Code Reviewer: Reviewing AI-Generated Code in .NET - .NET Blog (Wendy Breiding) - Interesting post that suggests a little twist on how to use AI to make code review with a little bit more focus.

• GitHub Copilot's starts supporting AGENTS.md: A step toward unified AI Instructions (Bart Wullems) - Nice move from GitHub to share a common instruction set across all different AI services

• Add MCP Servers to Claude Code with MCP Toolkit (Ajeet Singh Raina) - Very cool way to create automations. I have used a lot of low-code and different alternatives to create automation workflows in the past, but this mCP server interactivity is pretty awesome.

• Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) Explained (Ignasi Lopez Luna) - Nice post that shows how we can specialize a model ourselves for a very narrow, specific topic

Programming

• How .NET 10.0 boosted JSON Schema performance by 18% (Matthew Adams) - Another example of the gain in performance just by upgrading to the latest .NET version.

• The Web Animation API (Christian Nwamba) - It's the first time I've read about this web animation API, pretty cool even if we need to be careful, I think that precision offers could be very interesting for some animations.

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Reading Notes #669

This week explores the synergy between Dapr and WebAssembly for modern microservices, highlights the transformative potential of Wasm 3.0 for .NET developers, and delves into best practices for structuring Rust web services. In the AI realm, we examine the emergence of developer-friendly AI frameworks like Microsoft’s Agent Framework and Google’s Jules Tools, which bridge AI capabilities directly into terminals and workflows. Additionally, we examine AI obfuscation techniques and their implications, alongside updates on Perplexity’s free Comet AI browser and its new background assistant. Whether you’re building scalable systems, optimizing code, or integrating cutting-edge AI tools, this post offers a snapshot of trends shaping tech today.

Cloud

• How Dapr and WebAssembly Team Up for Microservices (B. Cameron Gain) - New and better version of Dapr.

Programming

• Wasm 3.0 for .NET Developers (Sam Basu) - Wasm 3 looks amazing! And that Uno Studio.. I'll have to try!

• The best way to structure Rust web services - LogRocket Blog (Jude Miracle) - I don't code in Rust, but I was curious about the project structure. This is a nice post to learn exactly that.

AI

• Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer - .NET Blog (Luis Quintanilla) - The new SDK was released last week, and honestly, after trying it, it works really well, so more to come on that. This is a great post to get started

• Meet Jules Tools: A Command Line Companion for Google’s Async Coding Agent (Jiahao Cai, AK Kulkarni) - The Google AI is now also available directly from our terminal. More options for the users.

• Obfuscation for AI: How it Works, Best Practices, and Metrics – PreEmptive (preemptive) - It's been a while since I last used a station in my code because I'm doing demos most of the time, but it always fascinated me. I feel I should try it with AI, it looks very interesting and powerful. This post shares a lot about what's possible, the risk, and so much more

• Perplexity’s Comet AI browser now free; Max users get new 'background assistant' (Rebecca Bellan) - Interesting new product from Perplexity

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Reading Notes #664

Welcome to another edition of my weekly reading notes! This week's collection brings together some fascinating developments across the tech landscape. From the intricacies of building cross-platform .NET tools to impressive AI breakthroughs like Warp's stellar performance on SWE-bench, there's plenty to explore. I've also discovered some thought-provoking content about leadership, product management, and the art of meaningful communication. Whether you're interested in the latest AI tools, looking for career insights, or simply want to stay current with industry trends, this week's selection has something valuable for every developer and tech professional.

Programming

• Using and authoring .NET tools (Andrew Lock) - Interesting post that shares the behind-the-scenes when you're building a tool for multiple targets and the challenge that it represents. Those also share the new ways of .NET 10

AI

• Warp scores 75.8% on SWE-bench Verified! (Suraj Gupta, Daniel Peng) - New Warp update, great performance.

• Spec-driven development with AI: Get started with a new open source toolkit ( Den Delimarsky) - A new tool that looks very promising. A multi-agent specification driven and compatible with Visual Studio Code. Worth trying it

• Google Gemma3 270M : The best Smallest LLM for everything (Mehul Gupta) - Interesting... It makes sense to have a tiny model available on our phone; smaller devices and much simpler tasks.

Podcasts

• Design at GitHub with Diana Mounter (.NET Rocks!) - Very interesting, discussion about so many things: career, the balance between design and engineering, GitHub, and so much more.

• How to Lead with Value with Dr. Morgan Depenbusch (How to Lead with Value with Dr. Morgan Depenbusch) - I really enjoyed this episode about the little things we can do to shift the way we interact with others.

• 746: How to Make Small Talk with Executives, with Lorraine K. Lee (Coaching for Leaders) - A very rich episode to start improving the way we see and use small talk.

Miscellaneous

• The two-ear Product Manager: Why balanced listening is your superpower (Bart Wullems) - This post shares great insight about how to become a better product manager. It's a good read, I strongly suggest it to everyone.

Sharing my Reading Notes is a habit I started a long time ago, where I share a list of all the articles, blog posts, and books that catch my interest during the week.

If you have interesting content, share it!

~frank