Daily tech news roundup covering .NET, AI, web development, Windows tools, and more for August 7, 2026.
The LLMs-from-scratch GitHub repo hits 100k stars; author shares highlights and future plans for new architectures and projects.
This article explains how to build an IT AI insight engine that connects operational signals like tickets and incidents into a governed context layer for better decisions.
A runbook for VCF 9.1 management-component backup and fleet disaster recovery, focusing on protecting the recovery control plane.
VCF Protection and Recovery 9.1 enables self-service disaster recovery via VCF Automation, balancing tenant autonomy with governance controls.
Explains VMware Cloud Foundation as a vertical city mental model, highlighting how its layers (compute, storage, networking, governance) work together for private cloud architecture.
Datasette plugin release 0.4a13 for API token authentication, upgraded for sqlite-utils 4 compatibility.
Datasette 1.0a38 fixes a SQL injection security issue affecting mixed public/private table instances, advising permission changes.
Datasette 0.65.3 release backports a SQL Injection security fix from 1.0a38, an open-source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data.
Simon Willison shares insights on technical blogging, including his top tip to lower standards and publish despite imperfections.
Marten adds TimescaleDB support for hypertables, enabling time-partitioned tables with compression, retention, and continuous aggregates via opt-in configuration.
EA Sports releases Madden NFL 27 Arcade Edition for Apple Arcade, optimized for Apple devices with cross-platform play and 120Hz support.
A roundup of podcast episodes covering app experiments, gaming recomps/decomps, and a fun tier list of Euro banknotes.
Explores methods to calculate log(1000!) without modern computing, using math, tables, and manual techniques.
Brent Ozar explains why wide columns in SQL Server tables may not increase logical reads, using database animations and sp_tableoption.
Explores how decoupling in software architecture moves complexity rather than removing it, and why it's a spectrum, not a goal.
Explains how SQL Server Query Store helps investigate performance issues after they occur by analyzing historical query plans and runtime behavior.
Daily digest of IT/tech links: Azure DevOps, Uno Platform, .NET, AI agents, web dev, and more.
Explores treating prompt engineering as an enterprise operating model, covering versioning, evaluation, governance, and lifecycle management for production prompts.
Guide to designing NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet fabrics for AI factories, covering topology, RoCE, congestion control, and validation.
