Another week, another batch of interesting reads. This edition covers AI video experiments, extending coding agents with .NET skills, open source contributions, and a few podcast episodes worth adding to your queue.
AI
I Spent $50 on AI Video Generation and Got Nothing Usable (Golnaz) - Interesting to see how a prof3esional video studio sees AI and what they can and cannot do with this tool.
Extend your coding agent with .NET Skills - .NET Blog (Tim Heuer) - New repo and vscode extension to give us access to a bank of managed skill files for our agents.
Reka Edge: Frontier-Level Edge Intelligence for Physical AI - Launch of the latest version of Reka Edge, a vision language model that you can run locally.
Programming
- We are still engineers (Mark Downie) - Just like Mark, many engineers feels the same way.
Open Source
How to make your first contribution to an open source project (Salma Alam-Naylor) - Another great post from Salma, this time sharing her experience about open source projects and how to get started in the lowest stress way.
OpenWebUI + Model Runner: Zero-Config Local AI (Ignasi Lopez Luna) - I'm a fan of OpenUI, and seeing this synergy between projects is awesome! This post is a must if you are thinking of running some AI locally, which will save you some pain.
Podcasts
Run your AI Agent in a Sandbox, with Docker President Mark Cavage (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - Very nice episode about all the more AI features that Docker have and more precisely Sandbox.
The Rise of The Claw with OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - Finally! The OpenClaw that we all needed. Peter has been interviewed many times, and many people have written about OpenClaw, but this episode was exactly what I needed.
Paul Duvall: AI-Driven Development - Episode 390 (Azure & DevOps Podcast) - Another great discussion with a real DevOps expert about the impact of AI on our processes, and how we can use it.
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