Alvin Ashcraft
@alvinashcraft.com
Sr. Content Developer at Microsoft on the Microsoft Foundry docs; Writer of WinUI and .NET Concurrency books for Packt; Philadelphia area; Mets fan; TechBash organizer. alvinashcraft.com
Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack github.blog/engineering/... #github #ai #pullrequests #codereview #oss #softwaredev
Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack
Instead of one huge, un-reviewable pull request, teach coding agents to decompose work into a clean, ordered stack with GitHub stacked pull requests.
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Beyond Chat: live Speech-to-Text with Foundry Local and C# devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/found... #ai #foundrylocal #dotnet #models #csharp
Beyond Chat: live Speech-to-Text with Foundry Local and C# - .NET Blog
Build a live speech-to-text app in C# with Foundry Local, a compact Nemotron model, and local model lifecycle management.
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Build Azure Skills Faster with Cloud Academy, a Visual Studio Subscriber Benefit devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio... #visualstudio #learning #cloudacademy #azure #cloud
Build Azure Skills Faster with Cloud Academy, a Visual Studio Subscriber Benefit - Visual Studio Blog
If you've been looking for a practical way to build Azure skills, Cloud Academy (a QA company) gives Visual Studio subscribers hands-on learning that fits
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He, it, but rarely she: When AI models write kids’ stories about animals, female characters vanish https://www.geekwire.com/2026/he-it-but-rarely-she-when-ai-models-write-kids-stories-about-animals-female-characters-vanish/
Get some essential #javascript foundational tips from Nerando Johnson at #techbash 2026. Get the app, build your schedule, and register today at techbash.com #webdev #devcommunity #kalahariresort #poconos #devconference #learning
SwiftDotNet — It Started With "What If I Could Just Write SwiftUI in C#?" | by Allan Ritchie allanritchie.com/blog/2026/08... #csharp #appdev #swift #jetpackcompose #mobiledev
SwiftDotNet — It Started With "What If I Could Just Write SwiftUI in C#?"
A shower thought about writing SwiftUI from C# turned into a Kotlin shim for Jetpack Compose, and then into the realization that the shim was never the point. One C# view tree, a diff engine, and a…
allanritchie.com
Introducing the Warp Agent CLI: a CLI coding agent that does what others can't www.warp.dev/blog/introdu... #ai #warp #cli #agents #softwaredev
Introducing the Warp Agent CLI: a CLI coding agent that does what others can't
The Warp Agent is now available as a standalone CLI that you can use anywhere – Ghostty, iTerm 2, VS Code, built-in Windows and Mac Terminals – and provides a superior experience for developers who…
warp.dev
So, I started building something with the GitHub Copilot SDK, Windows App SDK, and the Windows AI APIs to see if I could use Phi Silica in VS Code's Copilot Chat window. Initial tests look promising, but it's got some limitations.
Celebrating 25 Years of Play: New Community Designs, XBOX Updates, FanFest Tour Dates, and More buff.ly/urEQeRB #xbox #fanfest #gaming #community #events
Celebrating 25 Years of Play: New Community Designs, XBOX Updates, FanFest Tour Dates, and More
Today, we’re sharing more XBOX 25th anniversary details: community-created designs, curated Game Pass collections, the full FanFest Tour schedule, and more.
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Modern authentication in #ASPNETCore with 2FA and passkey buff.ly/wpujVt8 #dotnet #webdev #auth #passkeys #security #csharp
Modern authentication in ASP.NET Core with 2FA and passkey
This walkthrough builds a .NET 10 ASP.NET Core Web API (TwoFaNET10) implementing two-factor authentication and WebAuthn/FIDO2 passkey login, using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore…
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Devtools must be open source | by David Crenshaw
Devtools must be open source - exe.dev blog
The age of personalized software is here.
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The Developing New Experiences track at VSLive! San Diego is designed for .NET deves building modern apps across Windows, web & mobile. Explore cross-platform frameworks, WebAssembly & design-to-code workflows that help teams deliver better UX. View the full track & register: buff.ly/i6SmBWs
Eric Adamski will discuss how #ai is reshaping roles in the industry at #techbash 2026. Check out the schedule and register today: techbash.com/schedule #devcommunity #devconference #trends #softwaredev #kalahari #poconos
Tame Configuration in #ASPNETCore with IValidateOptions | by Michael Jolley buff.ly/6QwAITy #dotnet #webdev #configuration #csharp
Tame Configuration in ASP.NET Core with IValidateOptions
Silent misconfiguration is sneaky and expensive. Learn how to validate strongly typed settings in .NET using IValidateOptions, add cross property rules, inject services, support named options, and…
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Merge Conflict Episode 526 - GitHub Stacked PRs: Managing Complex Code Changes | with James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger buff.ly/sHhJtvM #podcast #devcommunity #oss #github #ai #codereview
526: GitHub Stacked PRs: Managing Complex Code Changes
In this episode, James and Frank dive deep into GitHub's biggest release in years: Stacked Pull Requests. Learn how this long-awaited feature finally solves the challenge of managing massive, complex…
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Announcing public preview: Markdown for Agents in Azure App Service buff.ly/Q8Ic9xR #azure #ai #agents #markdown #appservice #cloud #html
Announcing public preview: Markdown for Agents in Azure App Service | Microsoft Community Hub
Why Markdown for Agents? Web pages often contain scripts, styles, and HTML markup that are useful to browsers but add noise when the content is sent to an AI...
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What AI features do users actually want in your #dotnet apps? Join J. Tower at #techbash Oct 13-16 to find out! Full schedule and registration at techbash.com #ai #csharp #appdev #softwaredev #poconos #kalahariresort #devcommunity #learning
Strengthening NuGet Supply Chain Security: Reducing API Key Lifetime buff.ly/uiidOyw #dotnet #nuget #security
Strengthening NuGet Supply Chain Security: Reducing API Key Lifetime - .NET Blog
NuGet API key durations will be reduced to 30 days starting August 17th. This change will significantly strengthen the integrity of the NuGet supply chain.
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Announcing Azure Linux on WSL - Beta buff.ly/N6M24Pp #wsl #linux #azure #azurelinux #cloud
Announcing Azure Linux on WSL - Beta | Microsoft Community Hub
What is Azure Linux? Azure Linux is Microsoft's internal Linux distribution, designed and maintained to support Azure-scale cloud workloads. Today, Azure...
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Learn how to use the four IQs: Web IQ, Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ | by Pamela Fox buff.ly/RaegLZK #foundry #python #ai #cloud #workiq #fabriciq #azure #microsoftfoundry
Learn how to use the four IQs: Web IQ, Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ | Microsoft Community Hub
We just concluded Microsoft IQ Deep Dive with Python, a three-part livestream series all about Microsoft IQ. We showed how to use the four IQs to ground...
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Why AI Struggles with Multi-Repository Projects and How Code Studio Helps buff.ly/Mn2hkGO #ai #syncfusion #codestudio #ref #softwaredev
Why AI Struggles with Multi-Repository Projects and How Code Studio Helps | Syncfusion Blogs
Building features across multiple repositories? Learn how Code Studio helps AI understand your architecture and reduce integration issues.
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How Much Agency Should We Delegate to AI? buff.ly/QxO2Cge #ai #trends #agency #enterprise
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That's a wrap on VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ 2026! From inspiring keynotes & expert-led sessions to the inaugural Microsoft AI Hackathon and meaningful conversations. Get a head start and register now for VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ 2027: buff.ly/aEyhZKb See you next year!
The Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode 88: Agent Skills - with Matt Pocock and host Dan Clarke buff.ly/vpLKNEE #podcast #devcommunity #ai #agents #skills #softwaredev
Episode 88: Agent Skills - with Matt Pocock // The Unhandled Exception Podcast
Software Development podcast hosted by Dan Clarke
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Windows quality: an update on the commitment we made in March buff.ly/fi9LW0i #windows #windows11
Windows quality: an update on the commitment we made in March
In March I wrote to you about our commitment to Windows quality. Four months in, the team and I have been reflecting on our progress and wanted to s
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ILSpy 11.0 Preview 1 Release | GitHub buff.ly/TkunlVt #dotnet #ilspy #dotnet11 #devtools
Release ILSpy 11.0 Preview 1 · icsharpcode/ILSpy
WarningWe DO NOT own the domain ilspy[.]org See #3709 Download ILSpy only from GitHub Releases! This release is based on .NET 10.0. Please make sure that you have it installed on your machine befo...
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