Dew Drop – March 6, 2026 (#4619)
Daily tech link roundup covering AI models, .NET/C# tools, web dev, Windows updates, and VS Code releases.
Daily tech link roundup covering AI models, .NET/C# tools, web dev, Windows updates, and VS Code releases.
Explores the potential addition of a FullJoin operator to LINQ in .NET 11, detailing the proposed API and its use cases.
A bug report and analysis of an Adobe ColdFusion issue where nested closures with parallel array iteration destroy function arguments.
A personal reflection on SharePoint's 25-year evolution, from a developer's love-hate relationship to its role as the foundation of Microsoft 365.
A guide to building a real-time voice conversation app in .NET using local AI for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and LLM integration.
Highlights Handy, an open-source, offline speech-to-text tool for developers, emphasizing its local processing and multi-language support.
Guide on connecting any Apache Iceberg REST Catalog to Dremio Cloud for universal lakehouse data access and management.
Guide on connecting Amazon Redshift to Dremio Cloud for federated queries, AI analytics, and cost optimization.
A technical guide on implementing RPKI route validation for BGP security on MikroTik RouterOS 7.21.
Explains how a self-documenting semantic layer uses AI to automate data documentation, reducing manual work and governance risks for data teams.
Explains Data Vault data modeling, its core components (Hubs, Links, Satellites), and the problems it solves for complex, evolving data sources.
Explains the importance of pipeline observability for data health, covering metrics, logs, and lineage to detect issues beyond simple execution monitoring.
Explains the new 'with' operator syntax for passing arguments to collection expressions in the C# 15 preview.
A curated list of tech articles covering AI agents, database choices, career growth, and software development best practices.
Updates to the .NET Toolbox, a free, open-source collection of client-side tools for .NET developers, including new features like an Options Generator and SRP Analyzer.
A developer argues that using adblockers is not equivalent to piracy, exploring the implied agreements and user control over web content.
A daily tech reading list covering AI agents, software development trends, OpenTelemetry, low-code platforms, and new Google Cloud features.
Research paper analyzes LLM performance on large SQL schemas, comparing 11 models across 4 data formats for structured context engineering in agentic systems.
A research paper analyzes LLM performance on SQL generation tasks using different structured data formats and large schemas, comparing frontier and open-source models.
Martin Fowler reflects on the future of software development with AI, discussing cognitive debt, the role of LLMs, and how they might change programming.