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WinUI Gallery 2.8 Adds Jump Lists, New Samples and Accessibility Improvements

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Microsoft updates its reference WinUI 3 sample app with taskbar integration, clipboard samples, and quality-of-life fixes.
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RNR 355 - React Native Skia for High-Performance UI with William Candillon

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William Candillon sits down with Mazen and Robin to show how React Native Skia enables smooth, high‑end animations, shaders, and UI effects in React Native. The episode also dives into WebGPU and the future of 3D and advanced graphics on mobile.

 

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Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.





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The Download: Copilot CLI goes GA, new repo dashboard, npmx and more

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This week on The Download, Cassidy covers the general availability of the GitHub Copilot CLI, now packed with agentic features and multi-model support. We also check out the new repository dashboard that makes finding your projects easier than ever. Plus, learn how to join GitHub Copilot Dev Days and hear the incredible story behind the open source project npmx.

#GitHubCopilot #CopilotCLI #OpenSource

— EPISODE LINKS —

GitHub Copilot Dev Days: https://gh.io/ghcdevdays
New repo dashboard: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-24-repository-dashboard-is-now-generally-available/
GitHub Copilot CLI is generally available for all Copilot users: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-25-github-copilot-cli-is-now-generally-available/
npmx.dev is live: https://npmx.dev/
Virtuous Circle blog post: https://roe.dev/blog/virtuous-circle

— CHAPTERS —

00:00 Welcome to The Download
00:33 Join GitHub Copilot Dev Days
01:16 The new repository dashboard
02:19 GitHub Copilot CLI goes GA
04:16 How npmx blew up
06:12 Outro

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AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonald's CEO’s Baby Burger Bite

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI hits $25 billion ARR, Anthropic hits $19 billion ARR 2) Are ARR numbers trustworthy? 3) OpenAI's insane revenue expectations 4) Did Apple actually play this perfectly? 5) We need a Tim Cook with claw hands Apple ad 6) AI lab IPOs are brewing, what will the S-1s look like? 7) Anthropic's still talking with the Pentagon 8) Dario's internal memo 9) Wait, was this actually marketing for Anthropic? 10) Or was it a real worry about AI-enabled surveillance? 11) McDonald's CEO's unwitting viral moment

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Introducing the new Microsoft Teams events experience

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The new Microsoft Teams events experience lets you discover, create, and manage online and hybrid events through one connected workflow. A single destination helps you find upcoming events, track the ones you plan to attend, and create your own.

Organizers gain more reach, control, and flexibility with an intuitive scheduling form and prebuilt templates for familiar formats like town halls and interactive webinars. Once configured, events can be saved as reusable templates and promoted by inviting attendees directly or making them discoverable across your organization.

Event management is also centralized, allowing you to update details, monitor registrations, and keep everything organized in one place. Whether you are hosting a small community session, a customer webinar, or a company-wide all-hands, Teams makes it easier to plan and run the events that keep your organization connected.

Learn more about Teams events: https://msft.it/6055Q5rZU

#Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams #TeamsEvents

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#539: Catching up with the Python Typing Council

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You're adding type hints to your Python code, your editor is happy, autocomplete is working great. But then you switch tools and suddenly there are red squiggles everywhere. Who decides what a float annotation actually means? Or whether passing None where an int is expected should be an error? It turns out there's a five-person council dedicated to exactly these questions -- and two brand-new Rust-based type checkers are raising the bar. On this episode, I sit down with three members of the Python Typing Council -- Jelle Zijlstra, Rebecca Chen, and Carl Meyer -- to learn how the type system is governed, where the spec and the type checkers agree and disagree, and get the council's official advice on how much typing is just enough.

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Guests
Carl Meyer: github.com
Jelle Zijlstra: jellezijlstra.github.io
Rebecca Chen: github.com

Typing Council: github.com
typing.python.org: typing.python.org
details here: github.com
ty: docs.astral.sh
pyrefly: pyrefly.org
conformance test suite project: github.com
typeshed: github.com
Stub files: mypy.readthedocs.io
Pydantic: pydantic.dev
Beartype: github.com
TOAD AI: github.com
PEP 747 – Annotating Type Forms: peps.python.org
PEP 724 – Stricter Type Guards: peps.python.org
Python Typing Repo (PRs and Issues): github.com

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Episode #539 deep-dive: talkpython.fm/539
Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm

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