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May 3, 2026
- What Invariants Are (and Why a Domain Model Is the Best Place to Enforce Them) - Milan Jovanovic Blog
- Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB - Phil Eaton Blog
- Gym tour 2026 - John Savill Youtube
- AI coding tools are quietly atrophying our skills, and aviation figured this out 30 years ago - Reddit Web dev
- Migrating from .NET 4.8 to modern versions of .NET, best practices, recommendations, third party tools or services...whatever! - Reddit Dotnet
- Has anyone actually seen an outsourced dev team from a big Indian IT firm deliver something on time that didn’t need to be rebuilt? - Reddit Experienced Devs
- Ti-84 Evo - Hacker news
May 2, 2026
- Code Orange: Fail Small is complete. The result is a stronger Cloudflare network - Cloudflare blog
- State of Routing in Model Serving - Netflix Tech Blog
- Introducing Dynamic Workflows: durable execution that follows the tenant - Cloudflare blog
- What’s !important #10: HTML-in-Canvas, Hex Maps, E-ink Optimization, and More - CSS Tricks Blog
- Azure Update 1st May 2026 - John Savill Youtube
- Grok 4.3 on AI Gateway - Vercel blog
- How are you structuring larger .NET applications to avoid service layer bloat? - Reddit Dotnet
- Interviewer got upset with me because I refused to provide an example of how I implemented a concurrency control policy in my former employer's production codebase. How would you handle this? - Reddit Experienced Devs
- AI posts are flooding the sub, and it's worse than before. - Reddit Web dev
- Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity - Hacker news
May 1, 2026
- Visual Studio Code 1.119 - Visual Studio
- Building an AI-Powered Conference App with .NET’s Composable AI Stack - Microsoft Dotnet Blog
- GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Interactive v. non-interactive mode - Github Blog
- The Importance of Native Randomness in CSS - CSS Tricks Blog
- Custom tags available in beta on Vercel Sandbox - Vercel blog
- Post-quantum encryption for Cloudflare IPsec is generally available - Cloudflare blog
- Maester ❤️ Multi-Tenant Reports — Microsoft Security Test Automation Framework - Cloudtips blog
- Anyone think the job hopping culture produces too many engineers that don’t care about maintainability? - Reddit Experienced Devs
- I just “bought” a domain, built branding around it… turns out I never owned it - Reddit Web dev
- React/Vue vs Blazor for a mmall sushi shop app - Reddit Dotnet
- Zed 1.0 - Hacker news
Apr 30, 2026
- Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy - Cloudflare blog
- contrast() - CSS Tricks Blog
- Governing MCP tool calls in .NET with the Agent Governance Toolkit - Microsoft Dotnet Blog
- Vercel now supports Pro plan in Stripe Projects - Vercel blog
- v3.0.260429-beta - NitroJS GitHub Release
- Critter Stack 2026 - Jeremy D. Miller Blog
- Fragments: April 29 - Martin Fowler Blog
- v2.13.4 - NitroJS GitHub Release
- How do you handle more senior teammates who raise flags, but never propose solutions? - Reddit Experienced Devs
- Not once in 12 years have I found UI snapshot testing useful - Reddit Web dev
- Humble Bundle - .NET and C# - Reddit Dotnet
- Ghostty is leaving GitHub - Hacker news
Apr 29, 2026
- Native Deployment Checks are now available - Vercel blog
- GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown - Github Blog
- Welcome to SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview 1 - Microsoft Dotnet Blog
- Shutdowns, power outages, and conflict: a review of Q1 2026 Internet disruptions - Cloudflare blog
- Scroll-Driven Animations - Josh Comeau blog
- Securing the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability - Github Blog
- Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD) - Martin Fowler Blog
- New features in Git 2.54: easier rebasing, hooks, and statistics - Andrew Lock Blog
- An update on GitHub availability - Github Blog
- Weekly Update 501 - Troy Hunt Blog
- Agentic Coding is a Trap | Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy - Reddit Web dev
- C# just feels right - Reddit Dotnet
- Dealing with Career Fatigue - Reddit Experienced Devs
- CS Professor: To My Students - Hacker news