Rider 2026.3 is out, and it's 🔥 🔥 Day-one .NET 11 support, inc. C# 15 & Runtime Async debugging. 🔥 JetBrains Air: Run your coding agents in the IDE & review changes in one place. 🔥 New Home screen: Edit files, use terminal, or attach the debugger w/o opening a solution Try it now: jb.gg/rd-263-bs
What's New in Rider 2026.3
Rider 2026.3 brings JetBrains Air, new AI agent skills, .NET 11 and C# 15 support, faster performance and debugging, plus updates for Unreal Engine and Godot.
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✍ Blogged: How I stay in control while building and delivering software with AI How I work with AI agents to focus my time where it adds value. The key is to maintain control and oversight throughout the rapid development process. In my experience. timdeschryver.dev/blog/how-i-s...
How I stay in control while building and delivering software with AI
How I work with AI agents to focus my time where it adds value. The key is to maintain control and oversight throughout the rapid development process. In my experience, it starts with data quality and integrity to ensure reliable outcomes.
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Helping my sister fix her online e-commerce site is pretty fun, and it’s also fun to find issues and plan how to fix them. Little things here and there, and strategizing and planning in hopes of positive outcomes. Fun work, highly recommend.
🐢 App feels slow... but WHICH process is guilty? 🔍⚡ This deep dive shows how to hunt hidden latency across a distributed .NET app using Visual Studio Performance Profiler + GitHub Copilot Profiler Agent. 📖 Read the blog: msft.it/63325akVpD
Any companies looking to hire #dotnet experts? Asking for a friend looking for new opportunities.
EfQueryComplexity github.com/SimonCropp/E... Detects overly complex Entity Framework Core queries and either logs them or throws. Each check has two levels: the level a query is logged at, which has defaults, and the level a query throws at, which is opt in.
GitHub - SimonCropp/EfQueryComplexity: Detects overly complex Entity Framework Core queries and either logs them or throws. Each check has two levels: the level a query is logged at, which has default...
Detects overly complex Entity Framework Core queries and either logs them or throws. Each check has two levels: the level a query is logged at, which has defaults, and the level a query throws at, ...
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I've compiled a study book list for the next 6-12 months. Let's see where this will get me. - Acing the System Design Interview (Zhiyong Tan) - API Design Patterns (JJ Geewax) - Architecture Modernization (Nick Tune) - Continuous Architecture in Practice (Murat Erder, Pierre Pureur, Eoin Woods)
🎸 .NET 11 goes to 11. 🔥 Smarter JIT deabstraction, fewer allocations, fewer bounds checks, tighter loops, SIMD boosts, and hundreds of runtime/library optimizations. ⚡ Your code may get faster without changing a line. 📖 Read: msft.it/63320abvXk
AI can write code — developers shift to architecture, validation, reviews, testing, ethics, and integrating systems. Focus on design, domain expertise, and tooling. #AI #CodeReview #DevOps https://isaacl.dev/g3h
A really useful video about what happens when you try to offload learning to AI... Thanks @jetbrains.com for saying this out loud www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTUh...
What AI does to the minds of novice coders
YouTube video by JetBrains Academy
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Saturday Copilot save list: 1. Keep sessions PR-sized 2. Ask for bug review, not “thoughts” 3. Give broken-test tasks a stop condition The pattern is boring but useful: smaller scope, clearer constraints, easier review.
If you build apps with .NET MAUI, we would really appreciate a few minutes of your time. There is a .NET MAUI survey open now to help us understand what is working, what still hurts, and where we should focus next. Survey: https://nam.dcv.ms/ikqOCfb9K3 Thank you!
The future of .NET identity is here. 🚀 Hear from the architects shaping the ecosystem. The Duende leadership team dives into ISv8, modular add-ons, and our commitment to expanding identity infrastructure. 📺 Watch the full walkthrough: www.youtube.com/live/qloCmdG...
We're proud to announce that Duende Software is sponsoring xUnit.net for the next 12 months! xUnit.net is the foundation of our testing strategy, powering everything from our IdentityServer tests to our E2E Playwright suites. Join us in supporting this incredible project […]
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Last year I got myself a 65% keyboard for travel. It didn't fit me well so I just replaced it with a #NuPhy #AirV3 65 that arrive today. Initial impressions? I love it! stacy-clouds.net/blogposts/20...
NyPhy Air 65 First Impressions | Stacy Clouds
Late last year I ordered a Cherry low profile travel keyboard for use on the go. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either... I struggled with it for an age - it seemed a waste not to, but last month d...
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Blogged: Improvements to reading Process outputs - Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 5 andrewlock.net/exploring-th... In this post I show some of the improvements to the Process API in .NET 11 for running processes and reading their outputs without risk of deadlock #dotnet
I'm pretty generous with my time, with one exception, AI. I love interacting with people. Not their bots.
New (fiscal) year, new Aspire roadmap! Let us know what you think about our latest and greatest plans 💫 github.com/microsoft/as...
Our Latest Aspirations (Roadmap) - 2026 -> 2027 · microsoft aspire · Discussion #18581
Aspire Roadmap (2026 → 2027) Hi everyone 💫 What a year! Since last July, 128 of you merged 3,191 pull requests, closed 2,277 issues, shipped 31 releases, and pushed Aspire past 6k ⭐stars⭐ on…
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i think major publishers and console manufacturers should go a step further, and actively confiscate physical games from the decorative shelves of streamers and youtube guys
Thoughts and Prayers! Let them burn.
404 Media@404media.co · 5mo agoConsulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.
🛒 Aspire Shop: a full Blazor storefront, end to end — a paginated catalog on PostgreSQL and a gRPC basket on Redis, all orchestrated + observable with @aspire.dev. Clone it, `aspire run`, start shopping. 👇 aspire.dev/reference/sa... #aspire #postgres #blazor #grpc #dotnet
Aspire is an open-source cloud and agent-ready developer toolchain transforming how you build, run, and deploy observable, production-ready distributed apps. In today's #MSBuild session replay...Aspire for agents. Drop in to meet the new Aspire. buff.ly/mdYvpQF
Had a great time chatting with Stacy Cashmore on @coffeeandopensource.com today about all kinds of #tech topics. Video is live on YouTube and podcast is available wherever you find them. Take a look/listen and thanks! https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/guest/stacy-cashmore.html
I cannot stress how important the no-hello rule is in IM. Folks are probably just trying to be polite when they just ping "Hello", but in this case, it's not rude to be direct and just ask the question: nohello.net/en/
no hello
please don't say just hello in chat
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Rediscovering mutation testing 🧬 with Claude. My favorite cure for the "are my tests actually worth anything?" anxiety (it tests your tests) stryker-mutator.io
Stryker Mutator
Stryker Mutator: Test your tests with mutation testing.
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