Reading Notes #674

This week: Cake v6.0.0 is out, Docker Desktop adds helpful debugging tools, and .NET 10 brings a ton of changes worth exploring. Plus some thoughts on working with AI coding assistants and a great cybersecurity podcast.

AI

• Treat Your AI Assistant Like an Overconfident Junior Developer (Marko Crnjanski) - I really like that I meant, I think it's pretty close to reality, and this post contains a lot of good tips.

• AI Vision: Turning Your Videos into Comedy Gold (or Cringe) (Frank Boucher) - A cool demo in Python that leverage AI Vision to watch your video and generate a funny roast.  

DevOps

• Cake v6.0.0 released - Great news! I will have to upgrade my pipeline. Hopefully, the upgrade will be smooth.

• Docker Desktop 4.50 Release (Deanna Sparks) - Nice update, and oh wow! I'm looking forward to try that debug, that's great news

Programming

• Get Ready for .NET Conf 2025! (Jon Galloway) - 3-day event and all about that net dispose chair, what is happening each day, so a good way to plan your listening

• ReSharper 2025.3: Day-One C# 14 Support, Visual Studio 2026 Compatibility, and Major Performance Gains | The .NET Tools Blog (Sasha Ivanova) - Great to see that those tools are ready for .NET so quickly

• Announcing .NET 10 - .NET Blog (.NET team) - There are so many changes. This post list a lot of things that just change with that .NET 10, and I really looking forward to watch in that video and read a more specific article to see demos and try it myself

Podcasts

• 116. The Evolution of Cybersecurity - with Paula Januszkiewicz (Betatalks the podcast) - What a great episode! Yes, about Cybersecurity but also about how to talk about a topic and share.

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.

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~frank

Reading Notes #668

This week covers Microsoft’s open-source Agent Framework for agentic AI, prompt-injection risks and mitigations, and the causes of language model hallucinations. It also highlights NuGet package security updates, Azure SQL Data API Builder improvements, Reka’s new Parallel Thinking feature, and the latest in AI benchmarking.

Cloud

• Announcing Aspire 9.5 - .NET Blog (Jeffrey Fritz) - I'm genuinely excited to try it. Aspire is such a great tool 🔥.

Programming

• Publishing NuGet packages from GitHub actions the easy way with Trusted Publishing (Andrew Lock) - Nice post that[explains the details of this new secured process on Nuget (.NET package library)

AI

• MCP Prompt-Injection: The Trust Paradox in AI (Saurabh Davala, Sundeep Gottipati) - This is a good post to learn to start learning about the real danger. To be aware of the potential risk and learning about what we can do.

• Why language models hallucinate - Very interesting post that explains the reason why we still have hallucinations and how it works

• Introducing Parallel Thinking for Reka Research (reka) - New feature released that improves the performance of our web research, fantastic!

• Measuring the performance of our models on real-world tasks - Interesting idea of benchmark looking forward to see how evolves

• Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework: The Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI Apps (Takuto , Shawn , Elijah) - Nice evolution of semantic kernel and AutoGen. It comes hot supporting .NET and Python.

Databases

• Data API builder 1.6: Advanced Behaviors with Special HTTP Headers (Jerry Nixon) - Nice quick post about more advanced features on the data API builder (aka DAB)

Miscellaneous

• We all have a choice (Salma Alam-Maylor) - It's all in the title
  

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.

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~frank

Reading Notes #644

This post gathers my recent reading notes on artificial intelligence, programming, and a few inspiring podcasts. It includes links to articles, tutorials, and fascinating discussions. Whether you're interested in the latest AI developments, .NET tools, or modern architectures, there's plenty here to spark your curiosity. 

Happy reading!

AI

• Microsoft Copilot in Azure is now generally available | Microsoft Community Hub (Ruhiyyih Mahalati) - Oh wow! That was fast! If you haven't tried it yet, you should it's extremely useful and quick. Ask something about your resources or services you would like to use.

• Build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in C# - .NET Blog (James Montemagno) - A nice tutorial about the MCP server and how to use one in VSCode

Programming

• Generating architecture diagrams from .NET Aspire resources at publish time (Anthony Simmon) - This is one new feature that will be so useful. How many times did I need to refer to a diagram that was outdated.

• Exploring new .NET releases with Dev Containers - .NET Blog (Mike Kistler) - Really cool trick shared in this post. Yes, trying the new version in a container but how that container is build; that's cool!

• .NET Aspire 9.2 is Now Available with New Ways to Deploy - .NET Blog (Jeffrey Fritz) - This week was the release of Aspire new version, and it's packed with many features. The launch party video is also very interesting.

• Aspire: A Platform for Reusable Infrastructure (David Fowler) - For once, I think Aspire is the perfect name because it's inspiring.

• How we ended up rewriting NuGet Restore in .NET 9 - .NET Blog (The NuGet Team) - A very interesting article that explains how a tool that all .NET developers use got rewritten

• Porting Code with LLMs (Mark Heath) - It's always interesting to see how people use AI to help them do their work. Love it!

Podcasts

• Per Kops: Architecture of Ollama and Local LLMs - Episode 342 (Azure & DevOps Podcast) - An interesting discussion about Olama (local LLMs), .NET architecture, and Semantic Kernel.

• Vertical Slice Architecture with Jeremy Miller (.NET Rocks!) - This episode is about Vertical Slice Architecture, what it is, when it makes sense to use it, and some comparisons with the others that we know.

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