MCP auth for enterprise is confusing and most of the confusion comes down to one thing: mixing up agent identity and MCP authentication.
It’s incredibly easy to blur the lines between agent identity and MCP authentication, which is exactly where things can get messy for an architecture team.
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This Extension of the Week is a serious time-saver.
It cuts down the repetitive stuff and speeds up your workflow fast.
Watch to see👇
You might have seen it in the past, but in case you haven't looked recently, GitHub has a couple really nice font sets:
Mona Sans & Hubot Sans:
github.com/mona-sans
Monaspace:
monaspace.githubnext.com
Multi-Head Latent Attention
🔗 github.com/rasbt/LLMs-f...
What a dream
"If it takes longer to make your coffee than it does for you build pipeline to complete, you're doing one of them wrong"
- @abangser.bsky.social
Fantastic technical post about experiments in making LLMs deterministic by making kernel operations act invariant of batch sizes: thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...
Curious if we'll see something like this roll out more broadly in the future!
dir 1.txt.* matches 1.txt
I just learned that Directory.GetFiles with pattern 1.txt.* matches 1.txt, and it's the OS behavior:
Screenshot of running a file-based C# app from stdin to dotnet run -
File-based C# apps & support for stdin to `dotnet run -` makes it incredibly easy to check behavior of APIs in .NET 10!
Not entirely sure what I'm going to do with all that money.
Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?” Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.” Snowy is very excited about the drink he has found.
The SCUMM Bar screenshot of the day
Daily scene from “Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge” (VGA): Part II — Four Map Pieces #MonkeyIsland
Semantic code search is now built into Visual Studio Copilot Chat, making it easier to find code based on meaning.
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio... #visualstudio
spot art. Photo of presenter(s). text reads: MCP security best practices
If you're building AI tools in #VisualStudio, adopting MCP can help you scale fast—but it also introduces a new class of threats you might not expect.
Get actionable strategies and tooling tips to keep AI systems secure, resilient, & enterprise-ready.
🎥 msft.it/63327s3QfX
⌛ We're live in 10 minutes! It's another VS Code Release Party. Today the team will demo new features and updates from the v1.103 release including coding agent integration, MCP updates, beast mode, evaluating GPT-5! Join us ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYMi...
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Scene of the Day: “Thimbleweed Park” (PC): Part Three — The Arrest
We've made some "beastly" upgrades to our GPT agent prompt and we're seeing big improvements in completion rates across scenarios.
You can use it today in Insiders with any GPT model...
"github.copilot.chat.alternateGptPrompt.enabled": true,
"chat.todoListTool.enabled": true
GPT-5 in Visual Studio is now available. #visualstudio devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
A #csharp 14.0 feature to expect in the next #ILSpy preview for #dotnet 10 is extension members (not final, see github.com/icsharpcode/...)
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Early Bird pricing ends this week!
The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure - Chris Lattner - 2004/07 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9I2...
Troubleshooting walkthrough: Cascade Into Darkness
This is a real issue I solved in Windows, the hurdles I faced, and what I'd do differently.
🐥🐥YOU CAN MUTE JUST THIS CONVERSATION THREAD🐥🐥
It starts with the user editing "HKLM\HARDWARE" and misunderstanding an instruction and breaking Windows.
Hey folks! Know anyone looking for a product manager with deep experience working on C#, JavaScript, mobile, web and AI developer tools? I'm on the market and looking for new opportunities! You can read up on my history here: linkedin.com/in/jordanmat...
Feel free to DM me as well.
Blogged: Unexpected inconsistency in records - codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2025/07/19/u... - if you use C# records and the "with" operator, I'd suggest reading this to avoid a footgun you may be unaware of
Looks like eslint-plugin-prettier and eslint-config-prettier might have been compromised 😬 github.com/prettier/esl...
I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg
