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Tech leadership | Building solutions cloud and multi-platform technologies | Interested in AI, security and B2C apps | Outdoor enthusiast Denver CO I don’t always blog, but when I do it’s at davemccollough.com
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They say never ship on Fridays... we highly disagree 😈 🎟️ TOMORROW we ship Early Bird tickets for Deep Dish Swift 2026! Get your ticket to reserve your spot at another year of great fun, knowledge, friendship, and pizza 🍕

My blog on how we are securing the agentic era on Windows 11 with MCP support announced at \\BUILD blogs.windows.com/windowsexper...

Couple of security talks for you to check out online if you weren't able to make it to #MSBuild last week: Deploying an end-to-end secure AI application with @pamelafox.bsky.social - www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Pu... Reflections on 25 years of writing secure code - www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd9S...

Sharing my notes repo for the Pentest+ certification if they're helpful for anyone studying for this cert.. will be updating with additional notes over the next few weeks leading up to my exam. github.com/dave-mccollo...

Great tutorial to get started building your first Compose Multiplatform app www.jetbrains.com/help/kotlin-...

TIL @microsoft.com is the largest cloud contributor to #oss @cncf.io projects #MSBuild

Just published my second YouTube video! It’s about #SwiftUI view value and view identity, what they mean, why understanding them matters, and how they relate to state, view updates, and hierarchy. ➜ youtu.be/Hnxqc5b2pok

Here we go!

Andor time!

Want to add a custom font in react-native-macos—and skip 4 hours of research? @jamon.dev's quick guide shows you exactly how to do it the right way. Check it out 👇 shift.infinite.red/the-best-way...

Who at Microsoft though this was, in any possible way, a good thing to do? www.techzine.eu/news/securit...

How Office Is Modernizing Their App Suite’s UI using Windows App SDK and React Native devblogs.microsoft.com/react-native...

A couple photos from yesterday’s hike.

After all these years it’s still exciting to see my code running in an app on my phone… even better if the same code is running on both iOS and Android devices!

Beginner's guide to the ways you can quickly start mobile development, test in the web and using the Expo Go simulator. #reactnative

With Compose Multiplatform for iOS going stable, it’s time to build a PoC in Compose Multiplatform and shake out those rusty Kotlin skills.

Build a macOS app in 6 minutes? ⏰ Challenge accepted. 💪 @jamon.dev spins up a React Native macOS app—start to finish—in six minutes. Don't miss Jamon's latest Code Quest! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-o...

If you’re studying for the Azure AI-102 (Azure AI Engineer Associate exam), looks like there are some recent changes to the exam learn.microsoft.com/en-us/creden...

Even the smallest snippet can change the course of your app. These 7 React Native and @expo.dev snippets will set your apps on fire 🔥

Andor night!

The first five videos in the @expo.dev Router Tutorial series are out now! 💜 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Introducing AI Red Teaming Agent: Accelerate your AI safety and security journey with Azure AI Foundry devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/ai-r...

I have some capacity available for security assessments coming up. Reach out if you would like to talk about having a framework assessment performed for your organization.

Use Expo, ship faster! With EAS Workflows + Maestro, @infinite.red is testing every PR without waiting on full native builds. 🔁 Reuse builds with Fingerprints ⚡ Push JS changes with EAS Update 🧪 Run Maestro tests in CI Their CI time is 230% faster. ✍️ @coolsoftware.dev 🔗 expo.dev/blog/use-exp...

Check out Brendan's announcements on open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon +CloudNativeCon EU: opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/04...

This is a great place to start if you're interested in learning more about the #WebAssembly component model component-model.bytecodealliance.org/introduction...

one advantage Wasm has over Docker containers is that they're cross-architecture. You don't have to publish multiple Wasm binaries for x86, ARM, RISC-V etc.

Call for proposals is open for #KubeCon North America, Nov 10-13 in Atlanta! events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-clou...

Great talk by @kraenhansen.dk and @rpasinski.pl on running WASM in React Native apps! #wasmio2025

Just heard today, Microsoft has sunset their earlier Wasm AKS runtime in favor of the #CNCF SpinKube project. Fermyon, Microsoft, SUSE, LiquidReply -> SpinKube. That mean you need to invest & learn more, listen to @technosophos.bsky.social about its origin and adaptation, youtu.be/qUq8IburFEE

Great presentation by @ospencer.dev on the WebAssembly GC #wasmio25

"Threading the needle with concurrency and parallelism in the Component Model" from @lukewagner.name here at #wasmio25 #wasm #wasi

The session list for Wasm I/O is phenomenal this year. From Doom-in-the-browser to compiler implementations to edge key/value storage... the agenda is a testament to Wasm's broad reach. wasm.io/sessions/ #wasm #webassembly

Hyperlight Wasm: Fast, secure, and OS-free opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/03...

🫰React Native has the best download-to-paid conversion rate of all mobile frameworks. The @revenuecat.com report finds that RN apps have a higher median Day 35 download-to-paid conversion rate (2.2%) compared to Native (0.6%), Flutter (0.6%), and others (0.4%). www.revenuecat.com/state-of-sub...

Happy Birthday React Native!

10 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents - AI Agents for Beginners t.co/sggoJhqKP9

Barcelona bound for a few days of vacation and Wasm I/O

Good day, folks! The #CNCF TAG-Runtime Wasm Working Group is meeting today in about 30 mins. We'll be covering updates on WASI cloud interfaces (blob, key/value, config, etc) and an update on WASI preview 3! Come join or just listen in! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

There's an RFC for the new `react-native-worklets` library in case you missed it 🚀 github.com/software-man...