Dew Drop – January 28, 2026 (#4592)
A daily roundup of top IT and developer news, including updates on .NET, AI agents, Visual Studio, web development, and Windows tools.
A daily roundup of top IT and developer news, including updates on .NET, AI agents, Visual Studio, web development, and Windows tools.
A daily roundup of links covering .NET, Azure, AI, web development, and software engineering news, tutorials, and updates.
Using C# extension methods to solve nullability issues when modeling optional DTOs for partial entity updates.
A tutorial on creating a planet gravity platformer prototype using Phaser 4, Arcade Physics, and TypeScript, focusing on dynamic gravity rotation.
A daily tech link roundup covering .NET, AI, web dev, Windows, mobile, and DevOps news, tools, and tutorials from January 16, 2026.
A guide to creating type-safe, reusable smart form components with react-hook-form and TypeScript, improving form field integration.
A guide to serving TypeScript definitions for Eden Treaty APIs in production using a dual-mode approach for Elysia and Bun.
Introduces an open-source, agentic approach to end-to-end testing that records user interactions to reduce flakiness and maintenance.
Introduces a free, open-source .NET Toolbox with utilities like JSON to C# conversion, middleware designer, and package centralizer for developers.
Explores the design and type-safety of compound components in React, discussing when they are and aren't the right pattern.
A December 2025 link roundup featuring TypeScript tips, the Bun/Anthropic acquisition, debugging quirks, and bug-fix challenges.
A software engineer reflects on their 2025 professional journey, focusing on joining a startup, scaling codebases, and personal project development.
A daily link roundup for developers covering .NET, web development, AI, and tech trends with numerous technical articles and resources.
A developer's reflection on how AI coding agents, particularly GPT-5 and Codex, have dramatically accelerated software development by handling routine coding tasks.
Discusses the value of using opaque wrapper types in software development to avoid primitive obsession and improve type safety.
A developer shares their experience building a Winter Wishlist app using the MCP-UI framework and Goose AI agent, focusing on UI integration and iframe sizing challenges.
A developer builds a complete FIRE calculator web app using GitHub Copilot's agent mode in VS Code in just 30 minutes.
Explores simplifying code by using a default 'identity' function to handle missing transformations, inspired by Sandi Metz's talk 'Nothing is Something'.
Updates to HTML Minifier Next include performance improvements, presets, new config options, and TypeScript definitions for better HTML minification.
A developer builds a gesture-controlled flight tracker using MediaPipe, TanStack Start, and OpenSky API for the Advent of AI 2025 challenge.