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The Code Brew's Weekly Newsletter - Week 3

Welcome to your third weekly serving from The Code Brew! The big news this week is boiling hot: .NET 10 has officially hit Release Candidate 1! 🚀 Microsoft dropped a massive blog post detailing all the incredible performance improvements you can expect. We've got the links to the announcement, the release notes, and community buzz from Reddit about what the next version of Visual Studio might require. On the frontend, Josh Comeau is back with a masterful guide to creating stunning color-shifting effects in CSS. We've also got more CSS goodness from CSS-Tricks on composition and color interpolation, plus a look at Pico, a minimal new CSS framework that's making waves. In the world of AI, the focus is shifting to agentic workflows. Check out GitHub's guide on getting started with the Copilot coding agent. On a more serious note, we're covering critical security alerts, including Vercel's response to an npm supply chain attack and a data leak notice from PostSharp. Finally, we're brewing up some career talk. Don't miss the fantastic Reddit discussion on a question we all face: How do you determine your value as a developer? That's just a taste of what's inside. Pour yourself a fresh cup and enjoy the links!

This Week’s Favourites

Performance Improvements in .NET 10 - Microsoft Dotnet Blog

Color Shifting in CSS - Josh Comeau blog

How do you determine your value? - Reddit Experienced Devs

Dotnet, C#, Azure

August 2025 (version 1.104) - Visual Studio

Packaging self-contained and native AOT .NET tools for NuGet: Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 7 - Andrew Lock Blog

Building Semantic Search with Amazon S3 Vectors and Semantic Kernel - Milan Jovanovic Blog

.NET and .NET Framework September 2025 servicing releases updates - Microsoft Dotnet Blog

Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 1 - Microsoft Dotnet Blog

.NET 10.0 RC 1 - Dotnet Runtime GitHub Release

ToDictionaryAsync retrieves the whole object from the database in Entity Framework - Steven Giesel blog

Misc

GitHub Copilot coding agent 101: Getting started with agentic workflows on GitHub - Github Blog

v2.12.6 - NitroJS GitHub Release

A simple clustering and replication solution for Postgres - Phil Eaton Blog

Git Branching for Designers - Builder.io Blog

@solidjs/[email protected] - Solid-Start GitHub Release

GitHub Availability Report: August 2025 - Github Blog

What’re Your Top 4 CSS Properties? - CSS Tricks Blog

MongoDB Atlas is now available on the Vercel Marketplace - Vercel blog

Your guide to GitHub Universe 2025: The schedule just launched! - Github Blog

Critical npm supply chain attack response - September 8, 2025 - Vercel blog

Improve your AI code output with AGENTS.md (+ my best tips) - Builder.io Blog

Bringing Node.js HTTP servers to Cloudflare Workers - Cloudflare blog

Security Notice: Data Leak Affecting a Limited Number of Accounts - PostSharp Blog

A more flexible Pro plan for modern teams - Vercel blog

How to use the GitHub and JFrog integration for secure, traceable builds from commit to production - Github Blog

IO is special - Ploeh Blog

Composition in CSS - CSS Tricks Blog

Vercel Functions now support graceful shutdown - Vercel blog

Weekly Update 468 - Troy Hunt Blog

Analytics query goes 6x faster with EDB Postgres Distributed’s new analytics engine - Phil Eaton Blog

GitHub is enabling broader access for developers in Syria following new government trade rules - Github Blog

What You Need to Know About CSS Color Interpolation - CSS Tricks Blog

Sneak Peek at the SignalR Integration in Wolverine 5.0 - Jeremy D. Miller Blog

Zero-configuration Express backends - Vercel blog

How to debug a web app with Playwright MCP and GitHub Copilot - Github Blog

YouTube Videos

NEW File Shares Resource Types - John Savill Youtube

User secrets are awesome in .NET - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Temp files in C# are awesome - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Application Gateway Network Isolation - John Savill Youtube

Checking your OS in .NET is easy - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Nullable regions in C# are awesome - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Run code before Main in .NET - Nick Chapsas Youtube

Azure Update - 5th September 2025 - John Savill Youtube

HackerNews Posts

KDE launches its own distribution - Hacker news

iPhone Air - Hacker news

Signal Secure Backups - Hacker news

Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML - Hacker news

Utah’s hottest new power source is 15k feet below the ground - Hacker news

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors - Hacker news

What Is the Fourier Transform? - Hacker news

Reddit Posts

Visual Studio 2026. Super excited. Looking for a machine with Windows 11 64GB ram and 16 CPU core as recommended. - Reddit Dotnet

Heads up for anyone thinking about getting into webdev in 2025… - Reddit Web dev

Self Hosted Portfolio Project With Interactive Screen and Servo on Raspberry Pi Pro - Reddit Web dev

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Reddit Dotnet

API-First, Consumer-Last - Reddit Experienced Devs

Are daily standups ever actually about unblocking? - Reddit Experienced Devs

Public announcement: AI is cool and all, but please use it wisely. Just because “it works” doesn’t mean it’s good enough. - Reddit Web dev

Six Labors License Enforcement Changes and a New Subscription Tier - Reddit Dotnet

What are things you wish your team members did, but won’t do? - Reddit Experienced Devs

Stop letting your DB schema define your API - Reddit Web dev

Any favorite MCP servers for .NET programming agents? - Reddit Dotnet

Disrupted team dynamic - Reddit Experienced Devs

Snake in the tab title - Reddit Web dev

Code signing external library .dll’s - Reddit Dotnet

Anyone with a very young manager or tech lead? - Reddit Experienced Devs

I miss when coding felt… simpler - Reddit Web dev

Incrementalist v1.1.0 released - 10x faster incremental builds for large .NET solutions - Reddit Dotnet

For the 6th year in a row, Blazor multhreading will not be in the next version of .NET - Reddit Dotnet

A 5 min weekly habit completely changed my performance review and got me a bigger raise - Reddit Experienced Devs

How do so many media downloader websites manage to get around the CORS policy? - Reddit Web dev