• Aspire Multi-repo Rollout at Scale with Agentic AI (Jeff Liu & Chuanbo Zhang)
• Behind the Keynote: How Windows Made OpenClaw Work in the Keynote Demo | LIVE144 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Scott Hanselman)
• Accelerate Edge AI Development with Foundry Local (Dom Robinson, samkemp & Inbal Sagiv)
• winappCli Release v0.3.2 | GitHub (Windows Dev Team)
• Visual Studio Code 1.124 (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Build and ship faster with a developer-optimized Windows experience | LIVE172 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Aditya Ramnathkar, Beth Pan & Nikola Metulev)

Web and Cloud Development

• Angular in 2026: Mid-Year Reality Check, Signals, and AI Code Quality! (Angular Team)
• Building a Custom MCP Server with Node.js (Dean Hume)
• Cloudflare supports Vite's mission (The Vite Team)
• From Read-Only Grids to Real Spreadsheets in React (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
• Generating Client SDKs and AI-Ready CLIs with Postman (Gbadebo Bello)

Windows Development

• Rotation revisited: Cycle decomposition in clang’s libcxx (Raymond Chen)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v3.2.0 Release (Alvin Ashcraft) - Adds support for winapp CLI v0.3.2. Get it on the VS Code Marketplace or Open VSX Registry
• From Classic WinForms to Telerik in Minutes: Meet the AI-Powered Converter (Hristo Merdjanov)
• What’s New in vcpkg (May 2026) (Augustin Popa)
• Windows is back on the Microsoft menu (Tom Warren)
• Windows Package Manager v1.29.250 Release (florelis)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Getting Started with Claude in .NET (Yohan Malshika)
• Visual Studio 2026, 6 Months Later (Dave Brock)
• Visual Studio 2026–From plan mode to plan agent (Bart Wullems)
• REDB inside, part 1 — the 13 tables the whole engine runs on (with the actual SQL, and why it's not EAV) (Rinat Kozin)

AI

• Updating the taxonomy of failure modes in agentic AI systems: What a year of red teaming taught us (Microsoft AI Red Team)
• GitHub Copilot and tokens: how to keep using AI without burning your budget in three prompts (some personal lessons learned!) (Bruno Capuano)
• Research: "What's the Default Language of an LLM?" (Ted Neward)
• The Codebase Is the Prompt: Wolverine, Vertical Slices, and AI-Assisted Development (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Google Gemma 4 12B nearly matches 26B benchmarks — and runs on your laptop (Meredith Shubel)
• Giving Developers Claude Code with Azure API Management and Claude Models in Microsoft Foundry (Murali Kumanduri)
• VS Code 1.123 Adds Agent Session Sync, 1M Context Windows and Copilot Billing Shock Hits Developers (David Ramel)
• AI Security Best Practices for Application Protection (Ben Nettleton)
• Build a custom Shopify storefront on Replit (Replit Team)
• We Need to Talk About How AI Actually Makes You Feel (Pinal Dave)
• Dreaming: Better memory for a more helpful ChatGPT (OpenAI Team)
• Microsoft's new models give it a better moat (Mary Branscombe)
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (Ollama Team)
• Predict, Don’t Enumerate (Michael Roytman)
• Building a Multi-Tool Gemma 4 Agent with Error Recovery (Matthew Mayo)
• X posts as clean Markdown for LLMs (Tweet.md Team)
• Let us filter AI slop, you cowards (Jess Weatherbed)
• How to Fine-Tune Nemotron 3.5 ASR for Your Language, Domain, or Accent (Maryam Motamedi, Adi- margolin, Francesco, Myungjong Kim, Enas Albasiri & Jinhan Wang)
• Cursor cuts prices and adds enterprise spend controls amid “tokenomics” reckoning (Paul Sawers)
• The Tidy House (Tim O’Reilly)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.8.0 Release (giles17)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Mocking server-side HTTP in Playwright with mockttp (Simon Knott)
• Announcing the Octopus Intelligence integration with Github Agent HQ (Madalina Iosif)
• What is Software Supply Chain Security? and Hardened Images Explained: Fewer CVEs, Smaller Attack Surface (Aditya Tripathi)
• Engineering Leaders, You Should Be Worried If Your Team Isn’t Pushing Back (Mia Biberovic)

Mobile and Game Development

• Swift.org: Announcing the Networking Workgroup (Franz Busch & The Ecosystem Steering Group)
• App Store ecosystem reaches $1.4 trillion as developers thrive globally (Apple)

Screencasts and Videos

• GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio: Agents That Debug, Profile, and Test | BRK207 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Nik Karpinsky & Mads Kristensen)
• Aspire for agents: Transform how you build and deploy distributed apps | BRK205 | Microsoft Build 2026 (David Fowler & Maddy Montaquila)
• Profile and optimize agentic AI on Windows | DEMSP384 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Freddie Chiu & Vasanth Tovinkere)
• Why you need to be at GitHub Universe 2026 (GitHub Team)
• From CLI to PR: Automating the path to merged code | BRK203 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Evan Boyle & Cassidy Williams)
• Scott and Mark learn to Vibe Check | LIVE101 | Microsoft Build 2026 and Scott and Mark learn...how agents reshape software engineering | BRK247 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• Introducing MAI-Voice-2 | Microsoft AI Models (Microsoft)
• Build context-aware agents: From data to decisions | BRK240 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Amanda Silver & Marco Casalaina)
• Build 2026 podcast with Satya Nadella, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil from No Priors, and Swyx | LIVE100 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Satya Nadella, Swyx, Sarah Guo & Elad Gil)
• .NET 11 in depth: Runtime, libraries, and SDK for the AI era | OD806 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Richard Lander & Chet Husk)
• Claw and agent harness in Microsoft Foundry | BRK243 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Glenn Condron, Amanda Foster & Shawn Henry)
• Build the thing that builds the thing | BRK245 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Peter Steinberger)
• Inside Azure innovations with Mark Russinovich | BRK226 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Mark Russinovich)
• Foundry IQ: Fuel agents with enterprise knowledge and agentic retrieval | BRK246 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Pablo Castro)
• Turn your agents into action: Connect tools, APIs, and documents | BRK242 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Ronak Chokshi, Joe Filcik & Maria Naggaga)
• Hugging Face open‑source models to production on Microsoft Foundry | DEM320 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Vaidyaraman Sambasivam, Osi Otugo & Jean Boudier)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #575 - UI blizzard (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• The Amp Hour #725 – The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• If Your People Feel Safe, You Succeed — Measuring What Matters as a Scrum Master | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Maria Skvortsova)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #359 - Breaking down the 2026 Stanford AI Index Report (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• AI Agent & Copilot Podcast - Nandita Puri on How AI Is Revolutionizing Drug Discovery at Georgia Tech (Giuseppe Ianni)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Making the OWASP top ten in the vibe code era​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍​‌‍​‌​​​‌‍​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‍​‌​​‍‌​‍​​​‌‌‍‌‍​​​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‌​​​‌‍​‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​​‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‍​‌​‍​​​‌​‌‌‍‌​​‍​​‍​​​​​‌​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍​‌‍​‌​​​‌‍​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‍​‌​​‍‌​‍​​​‌‌‍‌‍​​​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‌​​​‌‍​‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​​‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‍​‌​‍​​​‌​‌‌‍‌​​‍​​‍​​​​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍ (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Microsoft Build 2026: The Story Behind the Announcements (Shannon Kuehn)
• CfPs Closing Soon (as of 2026-06-04) (Dave Aronson)
• Watch Satya Nadella on a No Priors x Latent Space crossover special (Command Line Team)
• GitHub Universe is back: All together now, in the agentic era (Natalie Guevara)
• U.S. Tech Sector Announces Most Job Cuts in Nearly Two Years (Julia Fanzeres)

Database

• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Indexed View Maintenance (Erik Darling)
• DuckDB Adds Quack Protocol (Kay Ewbank)

Writing

• The Ultimate Checklist For Writing A Memoir (Writers Write)

Tools

• DuckDuckGo Makes AI-Free Search Easier To Set as Default (TechRepublic Staff)

General

• Valve says it's ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer (Jay Peters)
• The Dark Years of Microsoft: How Low-Code Ate the Developer Platform (Paul J. Swider)
• Astro Mart: Summer 2026 Collection (Chris Swithinbank & Yan Thomas)
• How I made a 45-video course without wanting to die (Salma Alam-Naylor)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 4, 2026 (#798) (Richard Seroter)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #753 (Next App's swiftCon Team)

The Geek Shelf

Tools and Skills for .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions.

• Discovery to Execution: Scaling Agents with Toolboxes and Routines in Microsoft Foundry (Linda Li & Maria Naggaga)
• Union types in C# | DEM304 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Dustin Campbell & Mads Torgersen)
• How Microsoft is migrating repositories to GitHub (Poonam Gupta)
• Announcing Angular v22 (Angular Team)
• Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026: Agent Harness, Hosted Agents, CodeAct, and more (Shawn Henry)
• Foundry Toolkit for VS Code at //build: Hosted Agents End-to-End, a Smarter Toolbox, and More (leoyao)
• From prompt to app, build AI powered apps on Windows | DEM345 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Nikola Metulev & Lei Xu)

Web and Cloud Development

• Announcing Blazorise 2.2 - Cetina (Mladen Macanović)
• Aspire v13.4.2 Release (aspire-repo-bot[bot])
• CSS Tricks: @custom-media (Declan Chidlow)
• CSS Tricks: offset-path (Geoff Graham)
• Advanced Form Validation in Blazor 10 (Héctor Pérez)
• Azure Event Grid: Powering IoT and Event-Driven Applications at Scale (Connected-Seth)
• Go 1.26.4-1 and 1.25.11-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)

Windows Development

• Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc’s unidirectional rotation algorithm (Raymond Chen)
• A first look at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface Dev Box (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft is killing Windows 11’s web app slop, encourages devs to build native apps using WinUI (Mayank Parmar)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.9.0 (Dmytro Struk)
• .NET nanoFramework: How we went from 21 firmware packages to 11, and why you’ll love it (José Simões)
• Metalama 2026.1 Generally Available: First LTS Release, Complete C# 14 Support, and a Redesigned Redis Backend (Gael Fraiteur)
• Automatically Mapping TX Text Control Form Fields to JSON Data in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• redb.Route 3.0.1 — flat DSL navigation, CRTP refactor, and a silent null fix (Rinat Kozin)

AI

• From Building Agents to Working with Them: Enterprise Agent Distribution in Microsoft Foundry (Amanda Foster)
• MAI-Image-2.5 support in ElBruno.Text2Image and the t2i CLI (Bruno Capuano)
• Gemma 4 12B: The Developer Guide (André Susano Pinto, Andreas Steiner, Karolis Misiunas, Karsten Roth, Michael Tschannen & Omar Sanseviero)
• GitHub Copilot Multi-Repo Instructions: Sharing Skills, Agents, and Conventions Across Repos (Chris Bradshaw)
• Why I Think On-Device AI Changes Mobile Architecture (Akansha Jain)
• Build 2026: From observability to ROI for AI agents on any framework (Sebastian Kohlmeier)
• Meet Replit SEO Agent (Replit Team)
• Announcing Foundry Managed Compute: Run open models in Microsoft Foundry (Manoj Bableshwar)
• Introducing Agent Optimizer in Foundry Agent Service (Luis Quintanilla & Victor Dibia)
• Hands On with GitHub Copilot App Technical Preview: Turning a Blazor Issue into a PR (David Ramel)
• Introducing organizations for Cursor Enterprise (Cursor Team)
• Best practices for getting started with Claude Cowork and Lessons from building Claude Code: How we use skills (Claude Team)
• Bringing Gemma 4 12B to your Laptop: Unlocking Local, Agentic Workflows with Google AI Edge (Google AI Edge Team)
• OpenClaw v2026.6.1 Release (vincentkoc)
• Adding MCP Tools to Reachy Mini (Alina Lozovskaya)
• Context as Code (Artur Huk)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready (Vitaly Friedman)
• Kubernetes: Final Update for v3.4, plus 3.5.31, 3.6.12 Released (SIG-Etcd Leads)
• The SOLID Principles (Leon Bambrick)

Mobile and Game Development

• What's new in Swift: May 2026 Edition (Dave Lester)
• Why Nested ListView Breaks Down Faster Than You Expect in .NET MAUI (Anandh Ganesan)
• Google is testing Lightbuild, a new declarative build experience for Android (ProMobile.Dev)
• What “Production-Ready” Actually Means in Flutter (Gidudu Nicholas)
• Kotlin 2.4.0 Released (Sarah Haggarty)
• Introducing Official Capacitor Skills (Eric Horodyski)
• Update for Apps Distributed in Texas (Apple Developer Team)

Screencasts and Videos

• The Next Wave of Enterprise AI (AIDailyBrief)
• Microsoft Foundry + Agent 365 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Amanda Foster)
• The Terminal Live - Day 2 at Microsoft Build (Windows Developer Team)
• Taking your AI to the edge with .NET MAUI | OD803 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Gerald Versluis)
• Build modern .NET apps with Uno Platform, AI, and visual tools | ODSP929 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Sam Basu)
• Building WinUI Apps with C# First Patterns and AI Assisted Workflows | OD854 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Chris Anderson)
• Scale enterprise .NET apps with AI‑assisted cross‑platform workflows | DEMSP394 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Sam Basu & Colin Whitlatch)
• Build AI‑driven UIs in .NET MAUI with design systems | ODSP902 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Shriram Sankaran & Vishnu Menon)
• Build smarter AI systems in Foundry as models and costs evolve | BRK230 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Yina Arenas, Sharmila Chockalingam & Naomi Moneypenny)
• Expand local AI reach with Windows ML | OD851 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Andrew Leader & Maha Bayana)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Windows Weekly Episode #986 - Liminal AI - RTX Spark, Project Solara, Scout, & Much More! (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1191 - The case for language clarity, with Iva Cheung (Mignon Fogarty)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #723 - Dave Airlie on Linux Kernel Maintenance (Gregory M. Kapfhammer)
• AI & I Podcast - Figma Exec on Why the SaaSpocalypse Is a Goldmine (Dan Shipper)

Community and Events

• GitLab cuts 14% of staff as it scales its platform to serve AI workloads (Ram Iyer)
• This Week’s Health IT Jobs – June 3, 2026 (Neil Versel)

Database

• UNION vs UNIONALL: #SQLNewBlogger (Steve Jones)
• Data Modeling and Partitioning in Azure Cosmos DB (Lino Tadros)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Computed Columns (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• 15 productivity features in the new Outlook for Windows (Vicki Milton)

Tools

• Paint.NET 5.2 Alpha (build 9650) (Rick Brewster)

General

• Microsoft’s new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is like the cheese grater Mac Pro, and that’s why I love it (Abhijith M B)
• Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 3, 2026 (#797) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Is Designing (Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle) - Referral Link Words and the User Experience.

• Introducing Uno Platform Studio 3.0: AI-Native Productivity Platform for Enterprise .NET Applications (Uno Platform Team)
• What’s Coming Next in Visual Studio: Our Microsoft Build 2026 Announcements (Mads Kristensen)
• AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will. (Jay Parikh)
• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | Build Edition (Nick Brady)
• Build agents you can trust across any framework with open evals and a control standard (Sarah Bird)
• Microsoft Scout: From personal project to enterprise-ready personal agent (Command Line Team)
• Announcing Intelligent Terminal 0.1 (Hamza Usmani)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Building the next generation of devices for developers: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box (Andrew Hill)
• Build 2026: Furthering Windows as the trusted platform for development (Pavan Davuluri)

Web and Cloud Development

• Introducing Open-Source Skills for AWS SDK Best Practices (David Yaffe)
• Expanding on‑device AI in Microsoft Edge: New models and APIs for the web (Patrick Brosset)
• Introducing the Azure Functions serverless agents runtime (preview) (Anthony Chu)
• What’s new in Observability at Build 2026 (Priyanka Nanda)
• Azure Functions at Build 2026 Update (nzthiago)

Windows Development

• WPF Hot Reload Is Here: Edit Your XAML and Watch It Update Live in Rider (Sasha Ivanova)
• Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm (Raymond Chen)
• New Windows Features to Secure Today’s Data in a Post-Quantum World (Aabha Thipsay)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v3.1.0 (Alvin Ashcraft)* - Added support for Microsoft.UI.Reactor projects and a community contribution from Joan Magnet*
• Windows platform security for AI agents (Dana Huang & Logan Iyer)
• Made for developers and agents, Windows 365 at Build 2026 (Bhavya Chopra)
• XAML.io Compiles To Native Apps In Browser (Kay Ewbank)
• Keeping the Computer Awake (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Staging Part 1 – Sharing is Caring (Howard Kapustein)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Pointers in C# and Memory Safety: Span vs. C# 16 unsafe (NDepend Team)
• Write Logic Apps in C#: introducing the Logic Apps Standard SDK (W. Silveira)
• Pagination in EF Core, Continued: Sortable Grids, htmx, and the Indexing Cost (Chris Woodruff)

AI

• The agent always cost this much (Mark Downie)
• Introducing Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent (Omar Shahine)
• Announcing Microsoft Web IQ (Bing Team)
• How to Deploy a Vibe Coded Project (Amanda Lange)
• Build, deploy, and govern sovereign AI with Foundry Local on Azure Local (insagiv)
• Breaking Change: The .On() Method in the Latest Copilot SDK (Bart Wullems)
• Deploying Foundry Hosted Agents via REST API (J. Folberth)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot on mobile: What staged rollout plans can miss (Julie Hersum)
• The AI Model Starter Kit - Code Samples and The LangChain Azure OpenAI Starter Kit - Code Samples and The Azure OpenAI Starter Kit - Code Samples (Microsoft Learn)
• Introducing azure-functions-skills: An AI-Era Workspace for Azure Functions (Preview) (Tsuyoshi Ushio)
• Build smarter document workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding at Build 2026 (Peyton Fraser, Joe Filcik & Ronak Chokshi)
• Running an AI-native engineering org and A harness for every task: dynamic workflows in Claude Code (Claude Team)
• Microsoft image model trails OpenAI and Google in RuntimeWire UI tests (Ryan Merket)
• Official Aspire skills and plugins for AI coding agents to initialize, wire, orchestrate, monitor, and deploy distributed apps. (Aspire Team)
• An OpenClaw agent hosted in the cloud for development, testing and single tenant use cases | GitHub (Microsoft)
• Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released (Lauren Feiner)
• GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience (Natalie Guevara)
• The agent optimization loop and how we built it in Foundry (Vivek Bhaduria, Luis Quintanilla & Saket Sathe)
• A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry and New MAI models in Microsoft Foundry across text, image, voice, and speech (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Frontier Tuning: Teaching AI to work the way you do (Ranveer Chandra)
• Five ways we’re confusing AI capability and AI reality—and how to bridge the gap (Command Line Team)
• Microsoft's new MAI models (Simon Willison)
• Grounding at scale: Engineering the retrieval system for the agentic web (Knut Risvik)
• Turn specs into evals for any agent with ASSERT (Mehrnoosh Sameki, Sandeep Atluri, Minsoo Thigpen & Abby Palia)
• Introducing Agent Control Specification: Portable runtime governance for AI Agents (Mohamed Elmergawi, Mohammad Abouomar, Liam Crumm & Mehrnoosh Sameki)
• AI models are having their iPhone moment. What’s Next? (Om Malik)
• Build and run agents at scale with Microsoft Foundry at Build 2026 (Tina Schuchman)
• Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval (Pablo Castro)
• Unlocking a New Way to Build Enterprise Data Apps with Microsoft Fabric (Replit Team)
• Slammed by Copilot Usage-Based Billing on Day 1, Facing $180 Bill for June (David Ramel)
• AI versus a Grue (Raymond Camden)
• Learning Agent now generally available — personalized AI upskilling for every employee (Dan Zarzar)
• What’s New in Hosted Agents in Foundry Agent Service (Tina Manghnani & Pranav Pandit)
• Holo3.1: Fast & Local Computer Use Agents (Hugging Face)
• Codex for every role, tool, and workflow (OpenAI Team)
• Composing a new platform for agent-first devices (Steven Bathiche)
• Top Agentic Frameworks for Building Applications 2026 (Evgenia Verbina)

Python

• Python Projects for Raspberry Pi: the book you’ve been waiting for to level up your skills (Brian Jepson)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• The Abstraction Budget: Why Every Interface, Generic, and Pattern in Your Codebase Has a Price You Have Not Paid Yet (Chris Woodruff)
• Getting Started with SignFabric: From Clone to Your First Signature Envelope (Bjoern Meyer)
• Azure DevOps and GitHub: Journeying into the AI Era (Rajesh Ramamurthy)
• GitHub Action for Deploying Hosted Agents (J. Folberth)
• Modular Monolith Boundaries Done Wrong (Derek Comartin)
• New ways to learn and demonstrate skills (Cameron Percy)

Mobile and Game Development

• Prioritizing Memory Efficiency: Essential Steps for Android 17 (Alice Yuan, Ajesh Pai & Fung Lam)
• Building Premium Android Experiences at Google I/O ‘26 (Ataul Munim)
• 5 Heart Animations Using .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Available for XBOX Insiders: Personalize Your Experience with New Color Options, Controller on Screen Settings and More (Jon)

Screencasts and Videos

• What's new in Windows Subsystem for Linux | DEM346 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Craig Loewen & Pooja Trivedi)
• Introducing 7 new Microsoft AI models (Microsoft)
• Developer Experience on Windows: Microsoft Build 2026 (Kayla Cinnamon)
• So you want to become an MVP? | DEM375 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Betsy Weber, Fernanda Herger, Jeremy Sinclair, Stephen Simon & Christine Flora)
• Building Agents You Can Trust on Windows | BRK262 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Kirupa Chinnathambi, Stuart Schaefer & Patrick Nikoletich)
• The Terminal Live - Day 1 at Microsoft Build (Visual Studio Team)
• .NET 11 in depth: Runtime, libraries, and SDK for the AI era (Richard Lander & Chet Husk)
• Scott & Mark Learn To...Double-Check References (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• AI Building Blocks for .NET: Add intelligence to your C# Apps | Microsoft Build 2026 (Bruno Capuano)
• Project Lobster: Building an AI Assistant with Agency and Memory (Omar Shahine & Jacob Werner)
• Building for the agentic web with .NET 11 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Daniel Roth)
• Taking your AI to the edge with .NET MAUI | Microsoft Build 2026 (Gerald Versluis)
• Work IQ: The Intelligence Layer Behind Copilot & Agents (Rob Howard, Tolga Kilicli, Paolo Pialorsi & Tomomi Imura)
• Your Fine-Tuned Model Is Your IP: Open Model Strategy for Developers (Yina Arenas & Lin Qiao)
• How to ship from issue to merge with the GitHub Copilot app | demo (GitHub Team)
• Microsoft Foundry Labs - the home for AI experiments from Microsoft (Microsoft Azure Team)
• Partner Momentum with Microsoft Foundry on Windows and Aion 1.0 Instruct and Windows Developer Configurations and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box and Intelligent Terminal and WSL containers and Coreutils for Windows (Windows Developer Team)
• OpenClaw + Windows: Microsoft Build 2026 (Samantha Song, Scott Hanselman & Peter Steinberger)
• 5 Ways We're Confusing AI Capability and AI Reality with Microsoft CTO (Kevin Scott)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• RunAs Radio Show #1039 - Data API Builder and SQL MCP with Jerry Nixon (Richard Campbell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1027 - The Paris of the South Bay - Will WWDC 2026 Be Apple's AI Do-Over? (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko & Jason Snell)
• DAWbench Radio Show Episode #43 - Music Tech Pioneers VIII : Manfred Rürup : Steinberg : The Early Years ! (Vin Curigliano & Pete Brown)
• The Azure Security Podcast Episode #128 - Post Quantum Cryptography (Mark Simos, Jack Richins & Michael Howard)

Community and Events

• Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work (Kyle Daigle)
• Introducing Command Line, and the new rules for builders (Jay Parikh)
• Microsoft Build 2026: Securing code, agents, and models across the development lifecycle (Aleš Holeček)
• Mary Jo Foley: No Copilot ‘Super App’ at Microsoft Build, but plenty of agentic fodder (Todd Bishop)
• Code.org rebrands as CodeAI, solidifying its shift to AI education (Kurt Schlosser)
• Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: Day 1 as a New Mom and Remote Tech Worker (Stephanie Stimac)
• Announcing the 2026 Imagine Cup World Champion (Microsoft Student Developer Team)
• Launching the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (Funding Team)

Database

• Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit Is Now Generally Available — Bringing Your Database to AI Agents at Scale (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
• MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Azure SQL Database Provisioning and More (Yo-Lei Chen, Carlos Robles & Tauseef Siddique)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• What's new in Microsoft Teams | May 2026 - Build Edition (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
• Announcing the new Work IQ APIs (Charles Lamanna)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.59 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• Toolbox App 3.5: Better Remote Development Observability, More Reliable Enterprise Configuration, and Smoother Everyday Interactions (Lana Novikova)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.11 Release (Ben Hillis)

General

• Grep, now in Rust (uutils)
• Trump goes after green cards (Gaby Del Valle)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 2, 2026 (#796) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

.NET MAUI Cookbook (Alexander Russkov) - Referral Link Build a full-featured app swiftly with MVVM, CRUD, AI, authentication, real-time updates, and more.

• Aspire 13.4 is here (Maddy Montaquila)
• Robert Says Farewell | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Leslie Richardson)
• The Evolution of Syncfusion Agentic UI Builder with Agent Skills (Balaji Elumalai)
• Building a GitHub Copilot Agent Usage Dashboard (jometzg)
• Microsoft to unveil new AI models and Windows improvements at Build (Tom Warren)
• GitHub Copilot Credit Based Usage Is Live - Now What? (Mitchel Sellers)

Web and Cloud Development

• Configure resource lifetimes in Aspire (Aspire Team)
• Prepare for SOAP API deprecation by moving to REST (garittar)
• Azure Developer Associate Renewal – Study Guide – 2026 (Pete Gallagher)
• Aspire 13.4.0 Release (aspire-repo-bot[bot])
• gRPC-Rust Client API Evolution (pt. 2/2) (Doug Fawley)
• Bringing Goodnotes to the web with Swift and WebAssembly (Yuta Saito)
• From Flutter to Backend: How to Build and Ship Production REST APIs with Dart and Shelf (Oluwaseyi Fatunmole)
• Your Identity, Your Terms: Duende's Modular Identity Infrastructure and v8.x Release (Tyler Parramore)
• Node.js 26.3.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
• A Structure-Aware Fuzzing Experiment (Nick Fitzgerald)
• Astro Markdown Component Utility for Any Framework (Zell Liew)
• State of CSS - The annual developer survey about the latest trends in CSS (Devographics Team)
• What's New in Microsoft Entra: June 2026 (Martin Coetzer)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.8.0 Release (moonbox3)
• AdaBoost.R2 Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Wolverine and Marten Just Got Better for F# Folks (Jeremy D. Miller)
• PagedResults in EF Core: One class, endless reuse (David Grace)
• Introducing ReflectionIT.PropertyThrowGenerator - Add compile‑time validated properties to your C# classes with zero boilerplate (Fons Sonnemans)
• Enterprise Integration Patterns in .NET, the deep-dive series — Part 1: the four in-memory channels (and the Exchange they carry) and Why our Free was so far behind Pro — and what we just shipped in RedBase 3.0.0 (with the actual SQL) (Kozin Rinat)
• Shiny.DocumentDb v6 — Vectors, Filters, Composite Indexes & Real Pooling (Allan Ritchie)
• AWS SDK for .NET V3 end-of-support announcement (Muhammad Othman)

AI

• Building and Operating a Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agent with GitOps and GitHub Tasks (Lee Stott)
• Claude Code on Microsoft Foundry in VS Code — A Practical Setup Guide (with the gotchas) (L. Zhang)
• AI observability vs monitoring: What's the difference? (Jesse Sumrak)
• How to host an AI text embeddings model for SQL Server using Ollama (Greg Low)
• AI-Assisted Workload Balancing: Resource Planning for On-Time Project Delivery [Webinar Show Notes] (Anantha Lakshmi Kannan)
• How small businesses can leverage AI (Peter Hall)
• Get started with OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 models, and Codex on Amazon Bedrock (Channy Yun)
• Codex is becoming a productivity tool for everyone and Our views on AI policy and political advocacy (OpenAI Team)
• One prompt, four (sub)agents, and ninety seconds to get a working app (Richard Seroter)
• Enhancing AI Productivity: The Importance of Curation (Mirco Hering)
• Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo (Jay Peters)
• How to Build an AI Support Agent That Knows When NOT to Answer Tickets (Tech With RJ)
• AI Sovereignty and the Architecture of Participation (Tim O’Reilly)
• How we used Gemini to build Google I/O 2026 (Marvin Chow)
• Claude Code vs. Cursor vs. Codex vs. Antigravity — six months in (Janakiram MSV)
• Why AI Agents Need Their Own Permission Model (Cameron Pavey)
• Coding Agent Horror Stories: The rm -rf ~/ Incident (Jennifer Kohl)
• Introducing Mellum2: A 12B Mixture-of-Experts Model by JetBrains (Nikita Pavlichenko)
• Event Moment: Dona Sarkar on Why Coding Agents Are Leading the AI Era (Kieron Allen)
• Mellum2 Goes Open Source: A Fast Model for AI Workflows (Anton Semenkin)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.12 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Telerik and Kendo Meet WebMCP: Turning Your Telerik & Kendo UI Apps into Agent-Ready Workspaces (Nencho Nenchev)
• Beyond LLMs: Why Scalable Enterprise AI Adoption Depends on Agent Logic (Nicholas Fuller)
• The oral tradition that built software may not survive AI (Zeb Larson)
• Building for Voice In, Visuals Out (Allen Pike)
• Beyond AI Adoption (Julie Yack)
• Anthropic files to go public (Kirsten Korosec)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Better Deployment Errors in az webapp deploy (Tulika C.)
• Why Choose Pulumi Over Terraform? (Pablo Seibelt)
• Rock Your Career: Surviving The Technical Interview – 6th Edition (David McCarter)
• SaaS Is Not Dead Yet (Mike Loukides)
• Event Sourcing: the not-so-simple bi-temporal basics (Urs Enzler)
• Build a profiling harness before you benchmark (Daniel Marbach)
• What is Sandbox Security? (Srini Sekaran)
• Jenkins: Nested layout for pipeline graph view (Jakob Ackermann)

Mobile and Game Development

• Announcing the General Availability of the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift (Vera Xia)
• StreamCrate: portable media server (David Crookes)

Screencasts and Videos

• Generating Episode Transcripts with Azure Functions, Azurite, and Aspire | The Dev Talk Show (Chris Gomez & Rich Ross)
• The AI Token Shortage Begins (AIDailyBrief)
• Microsoft AI Update May 2026 | John Savill's Technical Training (John Savill)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1190 - Does Yoda speak ‘real’ English? Is it ‘a real trouper’ or ‘a real trooper’? (Mignon Fogarty)
• Only Malware in the Building Episode #24 - Trusting the wrong package (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #482 - Mr. Beast's episode (Michael Kennedy)
• Tools and Weapons Podcast - AI's Mythos Moment: Rishi Sunak on preparing governments for AI (Brad Smith)
• Cloud Security Podcast by Google Episode #280 - Hyperscaling Cloud Security (Timothy Peacock)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1009 - 54% AI-Generated and Climbing — State of AI (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Meta Cast - Why Great Leaders Get Comfortable Being Wrong (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Inside Trader Joe's Podcast Episode #106 - Trader Joe's Finds the Goat - in Wisconsin (Trader Joe's Team)
• Merge Conflict Episode #517 - Plan First, Think Less: Save Tokens, Improve Code (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• InfoQ Podcast: Requirements Analysis for Architects (Sonya Natanzon)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - What it takes to be a player in the international AI game​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​​‍​​​​​‌‍​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌​‌​‌‌​‍‌‌‍‌‍​​‍‌‍​​​‌​‍‌​‌​​‌‍‌‍‌​​‍‌​‍‌​‍​​‌‌​​​‌​​‍‌​‌​​​​‍​​​​‍‌​​​‌‍‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‍​‍​​‍‌​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​​‍​​​​​‌‍​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌​‌​‌‌​‍‌‌‍‌‍​​‍‌‍​​​‌​‍‌​‌​​‌‍‌‍‌​​‍‌​‍‌​‍​​‌‌​​​‌​​‍‌​‌​​​​‍​​​​‍‌​​​‌‍‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‍​‍​​‍‌​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌ (Phoebe Sajor)
• Big Technology Podcast - Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, iPhone Fold Cometh, Anthropic Files To Go Public (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Presentation Podcast Episode #247 – PowerPoint is Amanda Dalton’s Swiss Army Design Tool – and CreativePro Week 2026! (Troy Chollar, Sandy Johnson & Nolan Haims)
• When Agile Labels Hide Waterfall Reality — A Scrum Master's Wake-Up Call in SAP Migration | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Maria Skvortsova)

Community and Events

• Tune into XBOX Games Showcase June 7 (Athima Chansanchai)
• Don’t miss out: Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards nominations are now open! (Jill Armour)
• Upcoming: W3C/GS1 Workshop on E-commerce for Humans and AI Agents (W3C)
• We Asked 20 Developers Why They Really Got Into Tech. It Wasn’t the Money. (Anastasija Uspenski)
• Maker Faire Long Island #9: Saturday, June 6th (Jennifer Blakeslee)
• Keep the News in the Wayback Machine (Chris Freeland)
• All systems glow (Apple Developer Team)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Challenge accepted: controlling Teams from my Stream Deck again (Magnus Mårtensson)
• Agents 365 & Microsoft 365 Copilot Hub Redesign: April 2026 M365 Champions Community call (Tiffany Lee)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.57 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• AWS Tools for PowerShell V4 end-of- support announcement (Muhammad Othman)
• Introducing multipart download support for AWS Tools for PowerShell v5 (Sanket Tangade)

Tools

• Stop Pasting Tokens: OAuth2 Login for JetBrains IDE Plugins (Jakub Chrzanowski)
• DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms (Sarah Perez)
• How Logo Images on QR Codes Work (Joseph Finney)

General

• Want to be a Linux pro like me? Master these 8 skills first (Jack Wallen)
• The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was “modern” (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 1, 2026 (#795) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.8 on AWS, Aurora MySQL with Kiro Powers, and more (June 1, 2026) (Micah Walter)
• Reading Notes #700 (Frank Boucher)
• Windows news you can use: May 2026 (Chris Morrissey)
• Fragments: June 2 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

Blazor Web Development Cookbook (Pawel Bazyluk) - Referral Link Tested recipes for advanced single-page application scenarios in .NET 9.

• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | May 2026 (Nick Brady)
• Introducing a powerful new chapter for Windows PCs, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX Spark (Pavan Davuluri)
• Announcing the TechBash CLI: The AI-Powered Companion for Your Terminal (TechBash Team)
• AI Observability Starter Kit for Microsoft Foundry agents (varghesejoji)
• Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for world makers (Brett Ostrum)
• The Claude on Foundry Starter Kit (Arun Sekhar & Pamela Fox)
• Inside the Microsoft Agent Framework: How we designed a layered SDK (Shawn Henry)
• Microsoft.UI.Reactor (Reactor) - A declarative UI framework for building native Windows desktop apps in pure C#. No XAML. No data binding. No view models. (Windows Dev Team)* - Repo here and Rust library here.*

Web and Cloud Development

• How To Fix Common TypeScript Issues With Qodana (Efim Samoylov)
• What’s new in Svelte: June 2026 (Dani Sandoval)
• Lost ASP.NET Cookies on IIS Application Pool Restarts (Rick Strahl)
• What's new in Astro - May 2026 (Sarah Rainsberger)
• ASP.NET Core Web API in .NET: The Complete Guide (Nick Cosentino)
• Azure AI Projects client library for JavaScript v2.2.0 release (npm)
• Malicious npm packages abuse dependency confusion to profile developer environments (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
• ESLint v10.4.1 released (Francesco Trotta)
• gRPC-Rust Preview Release and gRPC-Rust Client API Evolution (pt. 1/2) (Doug Fawley)
• What is and How to Create an Application Pool in IIS (Advanced Installer Team)
• Integration Testing ASP.NET Core APIs: WebApplicationFactory Patterns and Best Practices (Sudhir Mangla)
• Markdown Should be Supported Everywhere Natively (Sean Boult)
• Vue Spreadsheet Issues After Deployment: Causes, Fixes, and a Production Checklist (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
• Ember 7.0 Released (Jared Galanis, Chris Manson & Katie Gengler)

Windows Development

• Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 3 (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 29 May 2026 (Stephen Lines)
• Windows Package Manager (WinGet) v1.29.240 Release (florelis)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Type-safe tool definitions come to the Copilot .NET SDK (Bart Wullems)
• Pagination in Entity Framework Core: Why Skip/Take Falls Apart on Hot Tables (Chris Woodruff)
• Building a RAG Administration Tool with .NET, Elasticsearch and OpenAI (Jamie Maguire)
• Union Types Are Finally Coming to C# (Milan Jovanović)
• When to Use Chain of Responsibility Pattern in C#: Decision Guide with Examples (Nick Cosentino)
• Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI_2.1.0-beta.3 and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents_2.1.0-beta.3 and Azure.AI.Projects_2.1.0-beta.3 (Azure .NET SDK Team)

AI

• Welcome NVIDIA Cosmos 3: The First Open Omni-model for Physical AI Reasoning and Action (Asawaree & Atharva Joshi)
• Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI (Camille Fournier)
• Disposable agents, durable memory: The architecture behind Squad (Brady Gaster & Tamir Dresher)
• Building a hands-free voice concierge with Microsoft Foundry Voice Live and a Hosted Agent (Lee Stott)
• GitHub Copilot Agent for Unit Tests: My Real-World Spargine Experiment (David McCarter)
• Are AI Agents Conscious? (Rocky Lhotka)
• Agents That Build Agents: A SKILL-first Blueprint with MS Agent Framework & Foundry (Kinfey Lo)
• How to Use Build5Nines.SharpVector with Microsoft Agent Framework for Local RAG in C# (Chris Pietschmann)
• Prevent GitHub Copilot from going to sleep (Joseph Guadagno)
• How we contain Claude across products (Simon Willison)
• OpenClaw v2026.5.28 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• VS Code 1.122 Makes BYOK Easier (Bruno Capuano)
• Build agents, not pipelines (Sean Goedecke)
• ‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs (Lucas Ropek)
• Why GPT-5.4, Claude, and Gemini can’t agree on basic, real-world facts (Adrian Bridgwater)
• Apple Working To Cram Massive Gemini Model Into iPhone To Power New Siri (BeauHD)
• What’s new in Azure Language in Foundry Tools (renaliu)
• Opus 4.8 Made Claude Smarter. Token Discipline Got Urgent. (Matthew Burns)
• Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry (Amar Badal)
• Teaching a Computer to Play 4X: How the Annhexation AI Works (James D. Randall)
• How to Get the Most Out of Claude Opus 4.8 (Mahesh Chand)
• Anthropic, AI and The “Numbers” Problem (Om Malik)
• We've been building up a catalog of skills that @aspiredotdev team uses to drive up the quality on changes made by agents (we're all using them). (David Fowler)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.10 Release (github-actions[bot])
• A shared playbook for trustworthy third party evaluations (OpenAI Team)
• What Is the Best Local LLM for Coding in 2026? (Anubhav)
• The oral tradition that built software may not survive AI (Zeb Larson)
• Access the Vonage Tooling MCP Server on Google Antigravity (Amanda Cavallaro)
• Building a cooking assistant with Firebase AI Logic (Marina Coelho)
• OpenJarvis: a local-first personal AI is now available to run with Ollama (Ollama Team)
• Agentics Beyond Code (Chris Butler)
• SkillSpector - Security scanner for AI agent skills. Detect vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, and security risks before installing agent skills. (NVIDIA)
• AI Might Finally Have A Real Use By Extending Your EV's Battery Life (Alan Bradley)
• How global logistics got me over my fear of personal agents (Matt Webb)
• The AI SDLC — Why Everything Has to Change, and Yet Stay the Same (Alon Fliess)
• The Future AI Moat isn’t the AI Model you use (Marlon Grech)

Python

• Running Python ASGI apps in the browser via Pyodide + a service worker (Simon Willison)
• Azure.AI.Projects 2.2.0 Release (PyPI)
• How data scientists work with PostgreSQL from Python (and how to write queries that don’t break at scale) (Uzma Younas)
• Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler (Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Sayak Paul, Sergio Paniego, Rémi Ouazan Reboul & Pedro Cuenca)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Applying Agile Principles to Home Renovation Projects - Anyone Done This? (Randy Siciliano)
• Introducing Microsoft’s EngThrive framework: Understanding developer productivity in the agentic AI era (Tim Bozarth & David Liu)
• TeamCity 2026.1.1 Is Now Available (Dmitrii Korovin)
• From Developer to Architect, the Career Path Nobody Explained (John Kilmister)
• From Silos to Service Topology: Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Service Map (Parth Jain, Rakesh Sukumar, Yingwu Zhao, Renzo Sanchez & Nathan Fisher)
• High-Throughput Graph Abstraction at Netflix: Part I (Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik Sathyanarayanan & Rajiv Shringi)

Mobile and Game Development

• Asus just announced the OLED Xbox Ally X of my dreams (Sean Hollister)
• Unreal Engine 6 revealed! and Why games cost so much to make (Code Monkey)
• Cordova iOS 8.1.0 is now available! (Niklas Merz)
• Canonical takes over Flutter desktop maintenance (Joey Sneddon)
• PIX 2605.28-preview: previewing new PIX and D3D12 features (Austin Kinross)
• JetBrains Simplifies Kotlin Multiplatform Project Structure (ProMobile.Dev)

Screencasts and Videos

• How to use Visual Studio Profiler and GitHub Copilot (Daniel Hindrikes)
• The Next Steps to Becoming a Space-Faring Civilization - NDC Sydney 2026 (Richard Campbell)
• Getting Started with the Microsoft Agent Pre-Purchase Plan | The Azure Essentials Show (Thomas Mauer & Kyle Ikeda)
• Technology & Friends - Sailaja Mantripragada on AI Governance (David Giard)
• Random.Code() - Cleaning Up Type Usage In Rocks (Jason Bock)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 315 - “The IoT Sommelier” (100 wasy to save humanity with IoT) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Microsoft Zero to Hero - Use AI to build AI (without losing your mind) (Maddy Montaquila)
• The Download: Microsoft Build 2026, Copilot remote control, Deno 2.8, Bun & more (GitHub)
• The Annual AI Slowdown Panic Is Here and First Impressions of the New Opus 4.8 (AIDailyBrief)
• Spec-Driven Development: The Fast Track to 10x? - NDC Sydney 2026 (Jerry Nixon)
• Introducing Work IQ in the IQ Series (Rob Howard)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast - Judging beautiful docs, AI fatigue, and tool slop (Tom Johnson)
• Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #131 - Fluent UI Blazor in the Microsoft Ecosystem: Open Source, Aspire and Beyond - with Vincent Baaij (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
• J. Tower: A.I. Workflows - AI DevOps Podcast Episode #404 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• I Think You're Overthinking It Podcast - Nathan Fillion (Chris Hardwick)
• Lenny's Podcast - A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #550 - AI Contributions and Maintainer Load in Open Source (Michael Kennedy)
• BONUS How AI Is Reshaping Software Teams From the Inside | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Dwarak Rajagopal)
• Big Technology Podcast - Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #149 - Ferrari Luce Launches To Everyone’s Disgust (Batteries Included Team)
• Hard Fork Podcast - Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving? (Ross Douthat & Sophia Alvarez Boyd)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #297 - Improving Python Through PEPs and Protocols (Christopher Bailey & Brett Cannon)
• The “Painting by Numbers” Scrum Master vs. The Quiet Leader Who Made the Team Self-Sufficient | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Njegos Ilic)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #517 - Navigating AI and Your Career - All Things AI 2026 (Taylor Desseyn)
• A Geek Leader Podcast Episode #471 - Mike Krupit (John Rouda)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #274 - Eat your security vegetables (Will Button & Warren Parad)

Community and Events

• Four open source projects to explore at Microsoft Build (Lee Reilly)
• Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026 (Shawn Henry)
• Wix Is the Latest To Cut 20% of Jobs While Citing AI (BeauHD)
• Call For Papers Listings for 5/29 and Job listings for week ending 5/29 (Leon Adato)
• Detroit’s rising developers are supported by the Apple Developer Academy (Apple Developers Team)
• MySQL Community Creates OurSQL Foundation (Kay Ewbank)
• Microsoft Build is this week. Here's what I'm watching and why. (Dee Dee Walsh)
• Joining the atmosphere (Rachel Andrew)
• Open Source Ecosystems (Ilan Strauss)

Database

• Instantly deploy T-SQL programmability changes on save in SQL Projects with SQL Project Power Tools (Erik EJ)
• 5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop (epivaral)
• Running MongoDB in Docker - A Complete Guide with Examples (Nic Raboy)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Introducing a new design for Microsoft 365 Copilot (Jon Friedman)
• What’s new and coming next to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams (Vesa Nopanen)
• How Excel got agentic: An interview with Microsoft Director of Science Mukul Singh (Command Line Team)
• Introducing Microsoft 365 Business with Copilot: The new standard for small business (Nicole Herskowitz)
• What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | May 2026 (Seth Patton)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.56 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• What Is A Story Goal? The Secret To A Strong Plot and 30 Writing Prompts For June 2026 and 45 Ways To Avoid Using The Word ‘Very’ and What Is Tone? 155 Words To Describe An Author’s Tone (Writers Write)

Tools

• The paint.net domain has been secured (Rick Brewster)
• Elevating the Developer Experience: My Top 10 VS Code Extensions (Dave Johnson)
• What Does It Actually Take for an IDE to Understand Rust? (Irina Mihajlovic)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.10 Release (dkbennett)
• MacClean: About The open-source Mac cleaner, optimizer, and malware scanner. (Iliya Mirzaei)

General

• New Desalination System Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water and Useful Salts - Including Lithium and Ozempic May Be Reshaping the Brain, Scientists Say (EditorDavid)
• Microsoft confirms it’s not launching Windows 12, as it teases a big announcement (Abhijith M B)
• Things I Think I Think… The New Internet Era (Ted Neward)
• awesome-gpui: A hybrid immediate and retained mode, GPU accelerated, UI framework for Rust, designed to support a wide variety of applications. (Zed Team)
• Microsoft is killing every ancient Windows 11 dialog box with a modern rewrite, and file copy is already done (Mayank Parmar)
• Microsoft’s incident response is getting a failing grade from researchers (Dissent)
• ReMarkable Paper Pure vs. Boox Go 10.3: I used both tablets at work, and it comes down to this (Kyle Kucharski)
• Microsoft is killing the one-app-at-a-time camera limit in Windows 11 with new Multi-App mode (Mayank Parmar)
• Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia’s new N1X laptop processors (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft teases new Surface hardware and ‘a new era of PC’ (Tom Warren)
• Windows quality update: May (Marcus Ash)
• The Kennedy Center Was Part of DC Life. Trump Destroyed It. (Stephanie Mencimer)
• The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It (Tyler McBrien, Michael Feinberg & Benjamin Wittes)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest: Improving C# memory safety (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Android Weekly Issue #729 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #565 - 31st May 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #22, 2026 – Fable 5.1 & Mibo.Raylib 1.0 (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – May 29, 2026 (#794) (Richard Seroter)
• Interesting links - May 2026 (Robin Moffatt)
• Reading List 359 (Bruce Lawson)
• The Batch: Gemini Flash Gets Pricey, AI Act Delays, Agents Drive Online Traffic (DeepLearning.AI)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #752 (Next App's swiftCon Team)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps (Rezwanur Rahman) - Referral Link Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot).

• Claude Opus 4.8 available via Microsoft Foundry (Vesa Nopanen)
• Automate evaluations | Microsoft Foundry (Zachary Cavanell)
• That’s a wrap: Everything Flutter at Google I/O 2026 (Emma Twersky)
• Create Multi-platform Apps with .NET MAUI and the MAUI Community Toolkit (David Ramel & Alvin Ashcraft)
• Improve your agentic developer tools by grounding in Microsoft Learn (Pieter de Bruin)
• Partial Graphics Programs (Nada Ouf)

Web and Cloud Development

• Astro 6.4 (Erika)
• Typosquatted npm packages used to steal cloud and CI/CD secrets (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
• Live text search with Firestore pipelines and React (Jeff Huleatt)
• The Agent Toolkit For AWS (Nikos Vaggalis)
• What’s new in Postman: AsyncAPI 3.0, performance streaming, and service accounts (Quinton Wall)
• Introducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applications (Channy Yun)
• How Azure Chaos Studio ships with hermetic Aspire end-to-end tests (Brent Rusinow)
• Azure Inventory in a Hurry: How to Pull Your Full Estate Across Subscriptions Fast (Shannon Kuehn)
• Who's Calling Your Service? Designing for Humans and Agents at the Same Time (dbandaru)
• How to add icons to external links with CSS (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Time to move to Entra Cloud Sync (Michael Niehaus)
• Generating a Pulumi Provider from an OpenAPI Spec (Luke Ward)

Windows Development

• Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
• Uno Platform Pitches WPF Modernization for the AI Agent Era (David Ramel)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Deprecating dotMemory Unit (Alexander Kurakin)
• EF Core 10–Smarter parameterized collections (Bart Wullems)
• C# Nullable Types Explained (2026) (NDepend Team)
• How to Convert XML to JSON in C# With Json.NET and Couchbase (Matthew Groves)
• Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.6.2 release notes and Visual Studio Insiders Version 11822.327 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
• CLI Improvements in the Critter Stack and AI Stuff (Jeremy D. Miller)

AI

• Squad on CommandLine and v.0.9.6 insiders (Brady Gaster)
• Model Router (with Claude Opus 4.7) and MAI-Image-2e in Microsoft Foundry (Vesa Nopanen)
• Claude as your performance analysis partner (Archana Ravindar)
• United States AI adoption shows steady growth, but distribution remains uneven (Brad Smith)
• New and improved: Computer-using agents, a new workflows experience, and real-time voice experiences (Nitasha Chopra)
• GitHub Copilot AI Credits switch: Here's what to do before June 1 (Bart Wullems)
• Your AI Agent Already Forgot Half of What You Told It (Andrew Stellman)
• Embodied cognition and agentic AI (Daniel Lemire)
• A Developer's Guide to WebMCP: Shipping a 0% Adoption Standard (Chudi Nnorukam)
• What Is a Token in AI? An Explainer (Hannah Laurel)
• Claude Opus 4.8: “a modest but tangible improvement” (Simon Willison)
• Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry (Amar Badal)
• Introducing dynamic workflows in Claude Code (Claude Team)
• Introducing Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic Team)
• Enterprise AI’s Hidden Problem Is Organizational Amnesia (Pinal Dave)
• In an AI world, the most valuable developers will be both artisans and builders (Phoebe Sajor)
• Claude Opus 4.8 on GitLab: Complex agentic work, less disruption (Talia Armato-Helle)
• Slack AI: The Path to Multi-Cloud (Shaurya Kethireddy)
• Claw-style AI agents are coming to the enterprise. The governance infrastructure is still catching up. (Darryl K. Taft)
• OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework (OpenAI Team)
• Can AI support creativity? What educators can learn from creative machine learning (Manni Cheung)
• Debugging the undebuggable: building observability into probabilistic AI systems (Oladimeji Sowole)
• The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season (Caiwei Chen)
• The bubble is getting a lot bubblier, folks (Ryan Broderick)
• Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool (Russell Brandom)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.7.0 Release (moonbox3)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Learn Figma for UI/UX Design (Beau Carnes)
• The Gentlemen ransomware: Dissecting a self-propagating Go encryptor (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team)
• Continuous Threat Monitoring for Application Security (Michelle Pruitt)
• Design Principles Unpacked, No. 5: Contrast (Teon Beijl)
• How to use Jest mocks (Dan Lew)

Mobile and Game Development

• Announcing AgilitySDK 721 Preview and an addition to LinAlg in Shader Model 6.10 (Amar Patel)
• Vonage: React Native SDK 2.33.0 Release: Publisher Degradation Preference (Julia Biro)
• These new iOS 27 renders hint at Siri’s big redesign (Stevie Bonifield)

Screencasts and Videos

• Technology & Friends - Cory House on Generative AI Coding Tools and Processes (David Giard)
• Random.Code() - Fixing ref struct Bugs in Rocks, Part 3 and Part 4 (Jason Bock)
• Why was open-sourcing TypeScript so important? | One Dev Question (Amanda Silver)
• Give your Agent memory with SQL Server and Microsoft Agent Framework | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Chris Noring)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: LINQ in .NET: Learn everything about LINQ in .NET, from the basics to advanced techniques. This course covers efficient data querying, filtering, ordering and optimizing operations for high-performance applications (Hannes Lowette) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Modern .NET Show - Aspirifying the Enterprise: Building Modern Apps with Aspire with Joydip Kanjilal (Jamie Taylor)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #574 - Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• AI Agent and Copilot Podcast: OpenClaw-Powered Healthcare Assistant Builds Patient Agency (Tom Smith)
• Best of Build Mode: Cofounders, Conflict and Compatibility (Maggie Nye)
• Why Measuring Your Product Bets Is the Key to Product Owner Success | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Njegos Ilic)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - The find out stage of AI is just supply chain and password protection​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌​‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍​‌​‍​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍​​​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌​‌​‌‍​‌​‍‌‌‍​‌‌‍​​​​​‌​‍‌​‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌​​‍​​​‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌​‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍​‌​‍​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍​​​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌​‌​‌‍​‌​‍‌‌‍​‌‌‍​​​​​‌​‍‌​‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌​​‍​​​‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍‌‍‌‌ (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• W3C initiates leadership transition (W3C)
• F# Foundation 2026 Board of Trustees Election (Reed Copsey)
• Xbox CEO Asha Sharma warns tough decisions are ahead, raising questions about Helix, Xbox Game Studios, and exclusives (Jez Corden)
• SQL + AI, hands-on: Join a free workshop near you (Anna Hoffman)

Database

• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Filtered Indexes (Erik Darling)
• Data Formulator 0.7: AI-powered data analytics for enterprise data (Chenglong Wang, Scott Tsukamaki, Michel Galley & Jianfeng Gao)
• The Upcoming Sunset of DataSpell (Stanislav Garkusha)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – May 2026 (Vesa Juvonen)
• Available today: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Bas Brekelmans)
• Introducing federated Copilot connectors for LSEG and Moody's in Excel (TamarTz)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.55 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• ‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription (Joseph Cox)

General

• Blue Origin explosion is a major setback for NASA’s Moon plans and Amazon’s Starlink competitor (Thomas Ricker)
• Microsoft admits modern Windows 11 apps actually resize worse than the old ones, fix coming this summer (Abhijith M B)
• Still a developer. Just outside. Our latest GitHub Shop collection is here. (Natalie Guevara)
• Announcing Rust 1.96.0 (The Rust Release Team)
• What’s next for Microsoft’s Surface PCs? (Tom Warren)
• Acer Announces New Snapdragon Laptops, Intel-Powered Gaming Handheld (Paul Thurrott)
• Thou Shalt Not Build Bunkers While Americans Go Broke (God)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 28, 2026 (#793) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) - Referral Link A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.

• How AI coding agents actually use your technology (Waldek Mastykarz)
• AI-Powered Content Summarization and File Organization in Blazor File Manager (Keerthana Rajendran)
• GitHub Copilot: Your AI Companion for Every Workflow | GitHub Copilot Dev Days (Matt Soucoup)
• .NET Rocks! - Ten Things Scott Sauber Does On Every .NET App (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows 365 for Agents: run AI agents in Cloud PCs across real applications (Julie Hersum)
• Master VS Code's New Agents Window (James Montemagno)

Web and Cloud Development

• Telerik and Kendo UI 2026 Q2 Release Is Here: Context‑Aware AI Where You Build (Iva Borisova)
• SAML and OpenID Connect (OIDC): Coexistence, Not Competition (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Building a Custom MCP Server with Node.js (Dean Hume)
• Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing (Preethi)

Windows Development

• Deployment Operations, Requests and Queue (Howard Kapustein)
• Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 1 (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2026 (18.1 – 18.6) (Augustin Popa)
• Microsoft Extends Rust-Influenced Memory-Safety Push to C# (David Ramel)

AI

• Extending Human Intelligence Through AI (Ken Archer & Harald Wiltsche)
• Building Agentic Systems on Azure: Microsoft Foundry Agents SDK vs Microsoft Agent Framework (Chaitanya Thalloory)
• Control what your agentic workflows see with integrity filtering (Landon Cox, Peli de Halleux, Rodrigo Fonseca, Vic Li, Pedro Henrique Penna & Don Syme)
• Who Produced This AI Slop? (Michael Washington)
• Querying Reliable AI Resources with Telerik Agent Tools API (Peter Vogel)
• OpenClaw v2026.5.27 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Get a Good Return on Your AI Investments (Louise Corrigan)
• A Practical Guide to Evaluating Multi-Turn Agent Trajectories (Karl Weinmeister)
• How to Build AI Apps in the Browser with TensorFlow.js and WebGPU (Ayantunji Timilehin)
• The Blind Spot in AI Safety (Jennifer Kinne)
• Why your AI agent has amnesia and why forgetting is the fix (Yitzhak Kesselman)
• Agents on a leash: Agentic AI remains mostly single-agent and monitored at work (Erin Yepis)
• Trisha Gee: AI Won’t Fix Your Broken Pipeline – It Will Break It Faster (Ivan Pelivanovic)
• The LLM layer you’re probably missing (LLM gateway pattern explained) (Animesh Goyal)
• I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit (Simon Willison)
• Building self-improving tax agents with Codex (OpenAI Team)
• Strengthening our approach to tackling non-consensual intimate imagery (Jenny Lay-Flurrie)
• Reachy Mini goes fully local (Amir Mahla & Andres Marafioti)
• Agent Skills (Addy Osmani)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.9 Release (github-actions[bot])
• The VibeSec Reckoning (Martin Fowler)

Python

• How to Use Bash & Python for Real DevOps Automation – Full Handbook with 5 Production Use Cases (Osomudeya Zudonu)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Agile, YAGNI, Smaller Steps, Bikes and Automobiles… (Tim Ottinger)
• Stop guessing: the performance loop for production code (Daniel Marbach)
• Stop Joining Tables In Your “Modular” Monolith (Derek Comartin)
• Accessibility question: is nesting interactive elements bad? (Chris Heilmann)

Mobile and Game Development

• Raspberry Pi Official Magazine presents: Flapulator, the 3D printed calculator (Andrew Gregory)

Screencasts and Videos

• Less // TODO: more done with GitHub Copilot CLI | GitHub Copilot Dev Days (Julia Muiruri)
• Build with the Copilot CLI - Mona Mayhem | GitHub Copilot Dev Days (Ayan Gupta & Matt Soucoup)
• Boost Productivity with Copilot in Visual Studio | GitHub Copilot Dev Days (Wendy Breidling)
• What's New in VS Code: Remote, Permissions & BYOK | GitHub Copilot Dev Days (Justin Chen & Vritant Bhardwaj)
• Budget Bytes is about building apps for under $25, what’s the biggest myth about doing that? | One Dev Question (Shireesh Thota)
• Agent 365 | Security Operations in Defender | Microsoft Mechanics (Spencer Berg)
• Get More Done: Manage AI Agents Across Workspaces in One Place (Stacey Haffner)
• Step away from your desk with Copilot remote sessions | GitHub (Burke Holland)
• What the Pope Actually Said About AI (AIDailyBrief)
• Debugger Agent - Issue to Resolution | Visual Studio (Mark Downie)
• Random.Code() - Fixing ref struct Bugs in Rocks, Part 2 (Jason Bock)

Dometrain Course

Deep Dive: Domain-Driven Design: Explore advanced Domain-Driven Design concepts like event storming, context mapping, and aggregate design. This course helps you master complex systems architecture for scalable applications. (Amichai Mantinband) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Tools and Weapons Podcast - Special Edition: Tracking AI diffusion in Q1 2026 (Brad Smith & Juan Lavista Ferres)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #358 - Rebooting Enterprise AI with MCP and Kubernetes (Craig McLuckie, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1189 - Everyone has a story to tell, and why your memoir matters, with Grant Faulkner (Mignon Fogarty)
• Windows Weekly Episode #985 - Putting the Mental in Experimental - Some Linux Learnings for the Windows User (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #722 - Dwayne McDaniel on the Engineering Challenges of Secrets Management (Priyanka Raghavan)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #355 - The Cloud Pod's AI Pleads Not Guilty, Blames Philip K. Dick (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• How a Miro Board Experiment Changed the Way His Team Understood the Big Picture | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Njegos Ilic)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #210 - 5 Quality Gates That Let You Ship 250% Faster with AI Coding Agents (Ryan Cormack)
• Big Technology Podcast - Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google - Kubernetes 1.36, with Ryota Sawada (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1008 - Diffs, Trees, and VS Code 2.0 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)

Community and Events

• Meet Our Newest AWS Heroes – May 2026 (Taylor Jacobsen)
• A Coder Interview With Howard Dierking — A Decade Later (Howard Dierking)
• Dive deeper into I/O 2026 with NotebookLM | The Keyword (Google)

Database

• I’m Starting a New Cosmos DB App. What Security Do I Actually Need? (Sudhanshu Khera & Iria Osara)
• SSMS Copilot is Messing With Your AI Prompts. (Brent Ozar)
• The Quiet Death of Foreign Keys (Erik Darling)
• Introducing PostgreSQL Hub for Azure Developers (Shreya Aithal)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.7.0-preview.2 Release of PowerShell (jshigetomi)

Tools

• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.9 Release (Ben Hillis)

General

• What actually happens to your CPU when Windows 11’s Low Latency Profile is working (Abhijith M B)
• Websites Have a New Way To Spy On Visitors: Analyzing Their SSD Activity (BeauHD)
• Ballots Have Been Seized Across the US. No One Knows What Will Happen Next (Kim Zetter)
• 4 Start menu changes are coming to Windows 11, and they will shape how you use your PC (Mauro Huculak)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 27, 2026 (#792) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: May 27 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

C# 14 and .NET 10 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Build modern websites and services with ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and EF Core using Visual Studio 2026.

• Give Your .NET MAUI Android Apps a Material 3 Makeover (Gerald Versluis)
• WinUI agents and skills for Windows app development (Windows Dev Team)
• Visual Studio May Update – Plan, Review, Refine (Mark Downie)
• Write Cleaner WinForms Code with Copilot and the WinForms Expert Agent | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Klaus Loeffelmann)
• From DevUI to Observability: Evolving the Agent Dev Loop in Microsoft Agent Framework (Ed Charbeneau)
• The Impact of Automated Repository Maintenance Assistance (Don Syme)
• Doing More with GitHub Copilot as a .NET Developer (Wendy Breiding)

Web and Cloud Development

• Measuring Performance in FrontEnd using FPS (Latish Sehgal)
• Running ASP.NET Core Applications in an IIS Subfolder Application (Rick Strahl)
• WordPress 7.0 Has Arrived: Here’s Everything You Need to Know (WordPress Team)
• Webwright - A simple SWE style browser agent framework that achieves SOTA results on long horizon web tasks (Microsoft)
• Proposed Advancement of Pointer Events Level 3 to W3C Recommendation and Updated Candidate Recommendation: Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 3 (W3C)
• Postman Playwright Integration: Testing UI and API Together (Talia Kohan)

Windows Development

• Compile C#+XAML to a Native Windows, macOS, or Linux App, From Your Browser (XAML.io Team)
• If C# and JavaScript lets me await a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation more than once, why not C++/WinRT? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Anatomy of an Open-Source AI Coding Agent Built in .NET: CodeAlta (NDepend Team)
• From poisoned search results to GPU mining: A cryptojacking campaign abusing ScreenConnect and Microsoft .NET utilities (Microsoft Defender Experts & Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
• Visual Studio May Update Adds Plan Agent Diff Review Tools and Improving Performance in .NET Applications (David Ramel)

AI

• Hybrid AI Agents in Python: Routing Between Foundry Local and Microsoft Foundry (Lee Stott)
• Creating a VS Code agent hook to respond to file changes (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Microsoft confirms Ask Copilot is coming to the Windows 11 taskbar in mid-2026 (Abhijith M B)
• I’m a Professional Fact-Checker. AI Is Wrong More Often Than You Think (Meghan Herbst)
• Set clear AI expectations for every assignment with Student AI Guidelines (Leif Brenne)
• Build AI RAG Apps with Azure DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and OpenAI: Step-by-Step Guide (John Aziz)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.8 Release (github-actions[bot])
• AI Agent Governance Toolkit — Policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution sandboxing, and reliability engineering for autonomous AI agents. Covers 10/10 OWASP Agentic Top 10 (Microsoft)
• How to Connect Your AI Coding Agent to a Browser on macOS (אחיה כהן)
• Managed MCP in Autonomous AI Database: remote, governed tools per database (Mark Nelson)
• How we contain Claude across products (Anthropic Team)
• The Gap Is Widening and It’s Not Slowing Down (Adron Hall)
• Rethinking organizational design in the age of agentic AI (MIT Technology Review Insights)
• Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files (Simon Willison)
• How AI Agents Can Work with TeamCity (Sergei Ugdyzhekov)
• Who Authorized That? The Delegation Problem in Multi-Agent AI (Sunil Prakash)
• Koog 1.0 Is Out: Stable Core, Better Interop, and Multiplatform Observability (Alyona Chernyaeva)
• The Copy and the Guru (Om Malik)
• Bringing LLMs to the edge (Lucy Hattersley)
• Stop Tuning Prompts. Build a Harness. (Engin Diri)
• Building For The Robots (Charlie Kindel)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How we built integration testing for fast-moving AI backend (Avik Kundu)
• Find shadow tenants and reduce risk fast with Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance (Cindy Crane)
• The Quiet Licensing Drift Nobody Notices Until it Matters (Shannon Kuehn)

Mobile and Game Development

• Share Functionality in Your .NET MAUI Apps (Leomaris Reyes)
• Top AI on Android updates for building intelligent experiences from Google I/O ‘26 (Jingyu Shi)
• Theme System and View-ViewModel-Mixin: Building a Scalable Flutter UI Layer (Veli Bacık)
• Enhancing Android Checkout with Dynamic Callbacks in Google Pay (Dominik Mengelt & Nik Heath)
• Get ready with the latest beta releases (Apple Developer Team)

Screencasts and Videos

• Extending AI Agents with WebAssembly | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro & Yosh Wuyts)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Paige Bailey (Isaac Levin)
• Building a DevTalkShow CLI because everyone has a CLI now, right? | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
• Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance | Find Configuration Drift | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeff Staiman)
• .NET MAUI 11 Preview 4: CoreCLR, Badges, and C# in XAML (Gerald Versluis)
• Building fun and creative messaging experiences on WhatsApp | NDC Sydney 2026 (Michelle “MishManners” Duke)
• Beating the AI Doom Cycle (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

Deep Dive: Microservices Architecture: Gain an in-depth understanding of microservices architecture, covering service discovery, communication patterns, event-driven design, and scaling. (James Eastham) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• RunAs Radio Show #1038 - Team Productivity using Loop with Karinne Bessette (Richard Campbell)
• Developer Tea Podcast - Rebuilding Your Mental Models In the Midst Of an AI Tech Revolution (Jonathan Cutrell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1026 - Double-Wide Mode - How Apple May Lean Into AI Features for Its OS's (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• Why the Product Trio Breaks the Hand-Off Mentality That Kills Team Engagement | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Njegos Ilic)
• Meta Cast - Lean Into the Ambiguity Before the Ambiguity Leans Into You (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)

Community and Events

• Meta cuts nearly 1,400 jobs in Seattle area, 20% of local workforce, in sweeping AI revamp (Lisa Stiffler)
• From Showing Up to Lifting Others: Diego Domingos da Silva's MVP Journey (Betsy Weber)
• AI Skills Fest is just days away—here's what to expect (RegularITguy)
• The morale of tech workers is plunging as layoffs mount (Noam Scheiber)

Database

• Your Database Just Hit One Terabyte: Now What? (Brent Ozar)
• SELECT * FROM build2026_sessions WHERE postgres = true; (Pooja Y.)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• What's New in Excel (May 2026) (Ms. Excel)

PowerShell and Terminal

• PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script (gbargsley)

Writing

• Technical Writing in the AI Age (Geoff Graham)
• Worldbuilding: The Ultimate Setting Checklist For Writers and About To Start (Writers Write)
• WordPress: Introducing Write: a new way to post, built for writers (Allison Levine)
• Confront Weasel Words (Emily Munro)

Tools

• DuckDuckGo Usage Surges Since Google I/O 26 (Paul Thurrott)
• Nvidia has retired its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years (Tom Warren)
• MarkItDown Version 0.1.6 Release (afourney)

General

• Windows' Classic 3D Space Cadet Pinball Is Getting a Physical Re-Creation (BeauHD)
• Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country (Neel Dhanesha)
• 7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people’s personal data (Zack Whittaker)
• Ticket to Ride - All Aboard Collection Game Bundle (Humble Bundle)* - Referral Link*

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 26, 2026 (#791) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Programming APIs with C# and .NET (Jesse Liberty & Joseph Dluzen) - Referral Link Develop high-performance APIs that ensure seamless application communication and enhanced security.

• VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #22 - Agent-First Development Workflows in VS Code with Brigit Murtaugh (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)
• Building an On-Device Voice Assistant with Microsoft Foundry Local (Lee Stott)
• Building Fluent Icon Finder with the WinUI Copilot Skill (Joseph Finney)
• Cortex Episode #179 - The Philosophy of Obsidian, with CEO Steph Ango (Myke Hurley)
• EF Core Bulk Insert: The Complete Guide to Inserting Thousands of Rows Without the Wait (Chris Woodruff)
• Compile C#+XAML to a Native Windows, macOS, or Linux App, From Your Browser (XAML.io team)

Web and Cloud Development

• What's new in Aspire 13.3 - aspire init is no longer one-size-fits-all. The aspireify skill and your coding agent tailor the AppHost to your repo. (Erik Lieben)
• Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements (Durgesh Rajubhai Pawar)
• PDF Conversion Library for .NET: Easily Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, Images & XPS (Rangarajan Ashokan)
• The 9 Components of SAML You Need to Know, Ranked by Importance (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Wasp 0.23: Static prerendering for crawlers and better performance (Carlos Precioso)

Windows Development

• A hypothetical redesign of System.Diagnostics.Process to avoid confusion over properties that are valid only when you are the one who called Start (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Cake v6.2.0 released (Mattias Karlsson)
• Designing high-throughput APIs for 1M requests/minute .NET (Ali Hamza Ansari)

AI

• Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI (Mia Sato)
• Claude AI for .NET Developers Just Changed the Game (Sumith Madhushan)
• Harness, Scaffold, and the AI Agent Terms Worth Getting Right (Sergio Paniego & Aritra Roy Gosthipaty)
• Americans’ AI hate wave might just be gathering steam: Data centers could hike power costs in some states over 50% by 2030 (Tristan Bove)
• Building a .NET 10 Benchmark Harness and Single-Shot Lies and The Config That Changed Everything and 23 Models, One Weekend, Final Picks and Which Local Models Can Actually Code? (Eric Hexter)
• Computer-using agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio are now generally available (Mustapha Lazrek)

Python

• Python for .NET devs: data types, classes, objects, records and interfaces (Davide Bellone)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code (Natalie Guevara)
• Automatic superseded task cleanup (Frank Lin)
• Event Sourcing: Why we built our own “library” (Urs Enzler)

Mobile and Game Development

• Qwen3.5 in .NET MAUI Hangs Forever And How OllamaSharp Fixes It in One Line (Pieter Nijs)
• Your first look at Unreal Engine 6 comes courtesy of a much shinier looking Rocket League teaser (Oisin Kuhnke)

Screencasts and Videos

• Why Agents Still Need Humans (AIDailyBrief)
• Get To Know MCP Tunnels (Den Delimarsky)
• How to use Git and GitHub in VS Code | Tutorial for beginners (GitHub Team)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: GraphQL in .NET: Learn GraphQL in .NET with this comprehensive course. Covering key concepts like query patterns, mutations and subscriptions, this course equips you to build efficient APIs with C#. (Michael Staib) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• SQL Down Under Show #96 with guest Jerry Nixon (Greg Low)
• The Amp Hour #724 – All Heat, No Useful Work (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #549 - Great Docs and Python Bytes Podcast Episode #481 - Ways to die (Michael Kennedy)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #279 - Native Cloud Security: Is ‘Good Enough’ Actually Winning? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• Syntax Podcast #1007 - 8 Tech Choices to Lock In Before Agentmaxxing (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1188 - How ‘bee’s knees’ became high praise, and why do recipes sound so bossy? (Mignon Fogarty)
• Why Saying Yes to Every Stakeholder Request Is the Fastest Way to Fail as a Product Owner | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Njegos Ilic)
• Ryan Riley: Development Process using AI - AI DevOps Podcast Episode #403 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #516 - Evolving Agent Session Management (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• InfoQ Podcast: Chasing Efficient Java Development: From 1BRC to Developing Hardwood AI Natively (Gunnar Morling)

Community and Events

• New tune for Code.org’s Hadi Partovi: CEO of piano education venture with unique method and big ambitions (Todd Bishop)
• Will Big Tech Layoffs Bring a Culture Shift to Anxiety and Job Insecurity? (EditorDavid)
• It’s time to address the looming crisis in entry-level work. (Georgios Petropoulos)
• Let’s Take A Look Inside Adobe’s Complete Career Ladder (Marko Crnjanski)

Database

• Using ExecutionLog views in SQL Server Reporting Services to monitor performance (Bart Wullems)
• How soon is now in PostgreSQL? (Oskar Dudycz)
• How to automate vector embeddings with pgai Vectorizer in PostgreSQL (Mercy Bassey)
• Higher Performance Dynamic Consistency Boundary Development with Marten 9.0 (Jeremy D. Miller)

Tools

• Paint.NET 5.2 Alpha (build 9641) (Rick Brewster)
• Wireshark 4.6.6 Release Notes (Wireshark Team)

General

• Ferrari reveals its first EV, with design help from Jony Ive (Adi Robertson)
• PowerSchool’s $17.25 Million Settlement Exposes Years of Student Data Tracking (Dissent)
• Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)

More Link Collections

• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Local Zones in Istanbul, open-source ExtendDB, Kiro Web, and more (May 25, 2026) (Daniel Abib)
• Reading Notes #699 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Tools and Skills for .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions.

• Automatically getting API difference diagrams in your .NET PRs (Morten Nielsen)
• Automating Intakes to the Awesome Copilot Marketplace (Aaron Powell)
• Introducing Syncfusion Toolkit for Blazor: Free Open-Source Blazor Components (Saravanan G.)
• Learn how to host your agents on Microsoft Foundry (Pamela Fox)
• TechBash CLI - A GitHub Copilot CLI skill that connects your local project to the TechBash 2026 session catalog (TechBash Team)
• How to Use Dart Cloud Functions and the Firebase Admin SDK: A Handbook for Developers (Atuoha Anthony)
• The 2026-07-28 MCP Specification Release Candidate (David Soria Parra & Den Delimarsky)

Web and Cloud Development

• Powering multi-cluster workloads with seamless cross‑cluster networking for Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager (Deepak Bansal & Brendan Burns)
• Annotations in JavaScript PDF Viewer: Common Issues and How to Fix Them (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
• What's new in Aspire 13.3 - Aspire's dashboard keeps a record: notification center and markdown messages (Erik Lieben)
• Mastering Dynamic Components, HTTP Resources, and AI Writing Assistants ️ (Angular Team)
• Theseus: translating win32 to wasm (Evan Martin)
• A Slight Nuance With WordPress Alt Text (Geoff Graham)
• The State of CSS Centering in 2026 (Temani Afif)
• How to Scale Long-Running API Requests (Milan Jovanović)
• Azure Service Bus: Earn the redesign (Daniel Marbach)
• Turn Your Blog Posts Into Podcast Episodes (Miguel Torres)
• Introducing pulumi do: Direct Resource Operations for Any Cloud (Christian Nunciato)
• Blazorise 2.1.3 - DatePicker Range Improvements (Mladen Macanović)
• Introducing auto-complete suggestions in Jetpack Search (Robert Felty)
• Deno 2.8 (Bartek Iwańczuk)

Windows Development

• Announcing new Insider builds for 22 May 2026 (Stephen Lines & Windows Insider Program Team)

.NET and Visual Studio

• EF Core without migrations - it's only a matter of time (David Grace)
• The Support Length for .NET LTS and STS versions (Thomas Claudius Huber)
• Marten 9.0, Polecat 4.0, and Wolverine 6.0 are Live! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• C#: Should This Service Be Singleton, Scoped, or Transient? and In C#, When Should You Use Exceptions, Result Objects, or Validation Errors? (Chris Pietschmann)
• From Closed Internal Stack to Open-Source Ecosystem: I Finally Shipped Three Years of .NET Infrastructure (Rinat Kozin)
• Rider 2026.2 EAP 3: Cost-effective Agentic Test Coverage, Code Change Previews, GameDev Templates, and NuGet Improvements (Sasha Ivanova)
• Announcing NAudio 3 Preview (Mark Heath)

AI

• ReAct and Agents in AI (Jesse Liberty)
• Build a Local Coding Agent Loop with GitHub (dngoins)
• MCP servers vs. skills: Choosing the right context for your AI (Cedric Clyburn)
• What Happens When You Give AI Agents the Map of Your Code’s Coverage? (Sasha Ivanova)
• Apple Preparing New ‘Gen AI’ Website Ahead of WWDC - and New AI Features? (EditorDavid)
• Locking Down AI Tooling: Securing Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini Before Someone Pastes in Something They Shouldn’t (Shannon Kuehn)
• Agentic AI for Software Development: Build a Coding Assistant That Plans, Writes, Reviews, and Tests Code (Sudhir Mangla)
• Dispatches from O'Reilly: The accidental orchestrator (Andrew Stellman)
• OpenClaw v2026.5.22 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Facing The Rising Costs of AI (JF Martin)
• The RAG Workbench I Actually Needed (Jamie Maguire)
• This Week in AI: Rethinking the Agent Harness (Michelle Smith)
• AI, Disposable Apps, and the Sunday Evenings We Are Losing (Pinal Dave)
• When systems go down, devs still juggle 10 tabs. PagerDuty says MCP fixes that (Ivan Pelivanovic)
• Monitoring & Observability in Microsoft Foundry (Kalaivanan)
• Foundry IQ as a Shared Knowledge Brain for Multiple AI Agents (vmanasa)
• Towards Speed-of-Light Text Generation with Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models (Mehran Maghoumi, Yonggan Fu, Pavlo Molchanov & Khadkevich)
• Why AI-driven workflows are important (and how to implement them) (Joydip Kanjilal)
• On AI (Karl Seguin)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.7 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Steve Wozniak Tells Graduates They All Have ‘AI’: Actual Intelligence (BeauHD)
• Has the Anthropic Settlement Changed Everything? (Michael Capobianco)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Unit Tests: Keep Your CRAP Score from Wrecking the Show (David McCarter)

Mobile and Game Development

• New Steam Tags show what's hot and what do Xbox players want? (Code Monkey)
• .NET MAUI changes its engine: what it means for your mobile app (Sebastián Cabrera)

Screencasts and Videos

• From Pair to Peer Programmer - NDC Security 2026 (Aaron Powell)
• AI’s New Acceleration Phase (AIDailyBrief)
• Pwned with Purpose: Where Motives Meet Mayhem - NDC Sydney 2026 (Troy Hunt)
• Technology & Friends - Harald Fianbakken on Microsoft Sovereign Cloud (David Giard)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 314 - “Forward Deployed Nonsense” (The New AI Consultant) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Random.Code() - Optimizing No-Parameter Member Handling in Rocks and Random.Code() - Fixing ref struct Bugs in Rocks, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
• What inspired you to be part of Budget Bytes? | One Dev Question (Amar Digamber Patil)
• One Team’s Journey to Using AI Without the Hype - NDC Sydney 2026 (John Bristowe)
• Inside SRE Agent — What's New, Live Demos & Q&A (Shamir Abdul Aziz, Sanchit Mehta, Vishesh Agarwal & Dalibor Kovacevic)
• Dynamically Render a 3D Character in UI Toolkit | Inventory & Equipment Pt5 (Stacey Haffner)
• Get Started with Web Development Workshop 2026 | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• How to Automatically Generate SDKs and CLIs with Postman (Postman Team)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: From Microservices to Modular Monoliths: Learn how to move from microservices to modular monoliths, simplifying deployment and reducing complexity. This course teaches strategies for planning and migrating modular monolith architectures (Steve Smith) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Lenny's Podcast - The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Developer Tea Podcast - Practice Isn't Enough for Senior Engineers - Adaptation Is a Key Skill in an AI-First Industry (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Big Technology Podcast - Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI (Alex Kantrowitz)
• AI Unprompted Episode #025 - Google I/O 2026 (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Hard Fork Podcast - Sundar Pichai Understands Why People Are Anxious About A.I. (Kevin Roose, Casey Newton & Whitney Jones)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #296 - Managing Polars Schema Issues & Profiling GitHub Users (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• The Jazz Duo Effect and The Absent PO — Two Sides of Agile Product Ownership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Christian Thordal)
• A Geek Leader Episode #470 - Karina Mangu-Ward (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• Call For Papers Listings for 5/22 and Job listings for week ending 5/22 (Leon Adato)
• US Layoffs Haven't Increased, and New Tech Industry Hiring Balances Firings (EditorDavid)
• Back from the dead (Eric Hexter)
• Experience Microsoft Build, directly from your terminal, with GitHub Copilot CLI and the Microsoft Build CLI. (Microsoft)

Database

• The Book of Redgate: Profits (Steve Jones)
• Regex support for LOB types in T-SQL—available in Azure SQL & SQL Server 2025 (Abhiman Tiwari)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.54 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Always know where you stand: Setting up a live status line in GitHub Copilot CLI (Bart Wullems)

Writing

• Why Keeping A Diary Matters and 5 Secret Tricks To Strengthen Your Writing and 20 Fun Ways To Find Plot Ideas For Your Story (Writers Write)

Tools

• Microsoft’s PowerToys is getting a low memory mode that kills idle utilities hogging Windows 11 RAM (Abhijith M B)
• Finally, a Great Free Radio App for Windows (Justin Pot)

General

• The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics (Simon Willison)
• Is America Closer to Ending Daylight Saving Time? (EditorDavid)
• Meta quietly launches a new Reddit-like app called Forum (Aisha Malik)
• Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, unclear whether it will notify those affected (Dissent)
• Microsoft’s new Copilot turns into a Windows 11 sidebar that pushes your apps aside to make room (Mayank Parmar)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest #609 - Streaming data without loading everything into memory (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Android Weekly Issue #728 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #564 - 24th May 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• The Batch: Hermes vs. OpenClaw, Cybersecurity Alarms Ring, More-Interactive Conversations, Can Agents Do Human Work? (DeepLearning.AI)
• F# Weekly #21, 2026 – Scriptorium, Elmish Land 2.0 Preview & RProvider 3.0 (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – May 22, 2026 (#790) (Richard Seroter)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #751 (Dave Verwer, Greg Fawson, Sriyank Siddhartha & Zachary Powell)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Is Designing (Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle) - Referral Link Words and the User Experience.

• Plan Before You Build: Introducing the Plan agent in Visual Studio (Rachel Kang)
• Windows App SDK Version 2.1.3 Stable Release Notes and Windows App SDK Version 2.1 Experimental 8 (2.1.4-Experimental8) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Announcing Agent Governance Toolkit MCP Extensions for .NET (Jack Batzner)
• PowerShell is now notarized and hardened for macOS (Jason Helmick)
• Visual Studio Code 1.122 Release (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Improving C# Memory Safety (Richard Lander)
• The AX stack: what’s fixed, where you can win (Waldek Mastykarz)

Web and Cloud Development

• Choosing CSS Selectors for Production: Specificity, Modern Pseudo-Classes, and Maintainable Styles (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)
• DevExpress Blazor AI Chat — Multi-Model Support, MCP Server Integration, and a Look at What's Coming Next (Dmitry Tokmachev)
• Node.js 24.16.0 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
• Passkeys, Permissions Policy and Bug Hunting in 1Password's WebAuthn Wrapper (Scott Helme)
• Deploying Containerized NestJS Applications on GCP Using Cloud Run (Christian Nwamba)
• Why iframe PDF Embedding Fails and How to Fix It with JavaScript PDF Viewer (Deepa Thiruppathy)
• Running a production-like local environment with Aspire (Tim Deschryver)
• Introducing AI Answers in Jetpack Search (Robert Felty)
• Your Podcast Belongs With Your Blog and Newsletter (Rob Pugh)
• Introducing the pkg.go.dev API (Ethan Lee, Hana Kim & Jonathan Amsterdam)
• Blueprints Gallery Is Now Available in WordPress Studio (Kateryna Kodonenko)
• Postman as a Local Development Environment (Aanchal Mishra)

Windows Development

• How do I use Win32 structures from the Windows Runtime? (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK v2.1.3 Package and Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 2.1.4-experimental8 Package (NuGet Gallery)
• Windows App SDK 2.1.3 (2.1.3) Release and Windows App SDK 2.1 Experimental 8 (2.1.4-experimental8) 🧪 Release (agniuks)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Reflection Performance in .NET 10: Benchmarks, Caching, and Delegates (Nick Cosentino)
• An EF Core alternative for .NET apps with complex object graphs — full LINQ, no migrations, no DbContext (Rinat Kozin)
• .NET 11 Preview 4 Roundup: MAUI, Blazor, EF Core, SDK and Runtime Updates and The Rise of OpenTelemetry in Microsoft Dev Tooling (David Ramel)
• Official Kotlin Support for Visual Studio Code Is Now Available in Alpha (Alyona Chernyaeva)
• Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 11819.209 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.6.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Sneak Peek at Critter Stack 2026 (Jeremy D. Miller)

AI

• CI/CD for AI Agents on Microsoft Foundry (Lee Stott)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.6 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue (Ryan Donovan)
• AI Cost Visibility Before the Invoice: How to Trace, Measure and Optimize Token Spend (Nikolay Iliev)
• Seven Rules for Building an AI-Native Software Factory (Adam Gordon Bell)
• Open Claw v2026.5.20 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Replit Enterprise, Now Self-Serve (Replit Team)
• The Agentic P&L: Beyond the Empire of Headcount (Shreshta Shyamsundar & Anmol Jain)
• What we’ve learned building cloud agents (Cursor Team)
• Introduction to LM Studio (Paul Michaels)
• Claude now works with more security and compliance tools (Claude Team)
• MagenticLite, MagenticBrain, Fara1.5: An agentic experience optimized for small models (Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Team)
• Bringing Neo to GitHub and Slack and Neo Automations: Scheduled Tasks Shipped as Pull Requests (Pulumi Neo Team)
• Prompt Engineering for Agentic AI (Shittu Olumide)
• Claw Patrol: an open-source security firewall for agents (Yusuke Tanaka)
• Bliki: Vibe Coding (Martin Fowler)
• Use Grok in OpenCode (xAI Team)

Python

• Agent Skills for Python: File, Code, and Class – Composed in One Provider (Sergey Menshykh)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.6.0 Release (giles17)
• mssql-python 1.7.1 and the case of the missing megabytes (David Levy)
• How to Build a Multi-Agent Research Assistant in Python (Abid Ali Awan)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now? (Dan Lew)
• GitLab 19.0 released (GitLab Team)
• The Cost of NOT Implementing Financial-Grade Security (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• How to Implement RBAC with Terraform & Best Practices (Mattias Fjellström)
• How to Use GitHub Search Like a Pro (Rajdeep Singh)
• Anti-Debugging Techniques: How to Detect and Block Runtime Analysis (Michelle Pruitt)
• How Application Shielding Software Protects Apps (Ben Nettleton)
• From AI pilots to enterprise impact: Why execution is the new differentiator (Deb Cupp)
• TeamCity 2025.11.5 Is Out (Dmitrii Korovin)
• The Ultimate Functional Programming eBook Humble Bundle (The Pragmatic Programmers) - Referral Link
• What’s new in Microsoft Security: May 2026 (Alym Rayani)
• Building GitHub’s next chapter in accessibility (Natalie Guevara)
• Track CI component usage across your organization (Corinne Dent)
• What Risk Assessment Means in Application Security (Ben Nettleton)

Mobile and Game Development

• .NET MAUI v10.0.70 Release (Shane Neuville)
• Announcing ADK for Kotlin and ADK for Android 0.1.0: Building AI Agents on Android and Beyond (Guillaume Laforge & Jolanda Verhoef)
• Beyond the engine: 10 open source projects shaping how games actually get made (Natalie Guevara)

Screencasts and Videos

• Distributed Databases: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - NDC Sydney 2026 (Heather Downing)
• Use VS Code Agents, GitHub Copilot, and the MSSQL extension to build AI apps | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Carlos Robles)
• Modernizing a Legacy .NET App with GitHub Copilot | Sip and Sync with Azure (Priyanka Vergadia & Krystal Folkes)
• What's new in Flutter (Flutter Team)
• What were the limitations of early tools like Script#? | One Dev Question (Amanda Silver)
• Hangar DX Podcast - Ship to Production Without Human Verification | Jade Rubick @DecodingLeadership (Hangar DX Team)
• Debug Your Game in Real-Time with Dear ImGui | .NET Game Development (Stacey Haffner & Andy DeGeorge)
• Microsoft Build CLI: Conference Sessions, Speakers & Code from the command line (Microsoft Developer Team)
• Anthropic Just Reset AI Expectations (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: Blazor: Learn the fundamentals of Blazor, a modern web framework using HTML, CSS, and C#. This course teaches you how to build full-featured web apps with minimal JavaScript, leveraging your C# skills. (Jimmy Engström) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Women in Technology Podcast Episode #64 - From Reaction to Creation: Understanding How We Can Create Our Desired Reality (WiT Team)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #573 - How many quadrillions in a Googol? (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #148 - We Drive Volvo EX60: How Swede It is! (Batteries Included Team)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast - Tips for Dealing with Azure Consumption Constraints and Hidden M365 Costs (Mary Jo Foley)
• MS Cloud IT Podcast Episode #428 - Migrating Group Policy to Microsoft Intune (Ben Stegink & Scott Hoag)
• Structure Creates Freedom, How an Agile Coach Measures Success by Becoming Less Needed | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Christian Thordal)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #357 - Hermes Agent: Agents that grow with you (Jeffrey Quesnelle, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1187 - Why your topic isn't a point (and how to fix it), with Joel Schwartzberg (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Breaking your AI storage bottlenecks (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Meta lays off thousands of employees to offset AI investments (Jess Weatherbed)
• A ‘final season’ at Microsoft for Yusuf Mehdi: Longtime exec plans to leave after one last year (Todd Bishop)
• MVP Mentoring Rings: Where Community Becomes a Catalyst (Betsy Weber)
• Rust Update: gRPC Welcomes Tonic! (Doug Fawley)
• GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft (Tom Warren)

Database

• Stop Using Pandas for Aggregations — Try DuckDB Instead (epivaral)
• Free SQL Server Query Plan Analysis In Your Browser (Erik Darling)
• SqlServer.Rules 5.0.0 is out 🎉 (Erik EJ)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.6.2 Release of PowerShell and v7.5.7 Release of PowerShell (jshigetomi)
• PowerShell v7.4.16 Release (daxian-dbw)

Writing

• All About Pacing: 4 Key Questions Every Writer Should Ask (Writers Write)

Tools

• Vivaldi 8.0 Arrives With ‘Most Significant Design Overhaul’ In Browser's History (BeauHD)
• Announcing Web Serial Support in Firefox (Haik Aftandilian)
• 30 Days of Coreutils: du (Rachel Kaufman)
• Designing Firefox for the future (Firefox UX Team)

General

• Introducing the XBOX Game Studios Shop (Danielle Partis)
• NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series (Jess Weatherbed)
• Humble Tech Book Bundle: The Rust Systems Programming Bundle (pay what you want and help charity) (Packt Publishing)* - Referral Link*
• A Smarter Way to Explore Images Has Come to Bing (Bing Team)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 21, 2026 (#789) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps (Rezwanur Rahman) - Referral Link Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot).

• Building AI Agents with Microsoft Foundry: A Progressive Lab from Hello World to Self-Hosted (Lee Stott)
• New in Edge for Business: AI for work, safe from day one (Lindsay Kubasik)
• Stop prompt injection from hijacking your agent, new security capabilities now released within Agent Framework (Eduard van Valkenburg & Shruti Tople)
• .NET Rocks! - Using AI to Measure Quality of AI with Vishwas Lele (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• PowerShell PSResource Roadmap and Best Practices (Sydney Smith)
• Your dev loop is full of tribal knowledge (David Fowler)
• What’s new in Flutter 3.44 (Khanh Nguyen)

Web and Cloud Development

• Aspire v13.3.5 Release (aspire-repo-bot[bot])
• Announcing updated retry behavior for AWS SDKs and Tools (Matthew Miller)
• Node.js 26.2.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
• What's missing in CSS layout (Patrick Brosset)
• A Practical Guide to Profiling in Go (Dominika Stankiewicz)
• WordPress Easy Site Editor – Coming Soon (Glen Davies)
• Swapping External Dependencies with Local Mocks Servers (Danny Dainton)
• Azure Files Entra-Only identities: Advancing cloud-native identity and security (Aung Oo)

Windows Development

• The classic TreeView control lets me sort by name or by lParam, but why not both? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• TX Text Control 34.0 SP4 is Now Available: What's New in the Latest Version (Bjoern Meyer)
• VS Code 1.121 Adds Remote Agents, Boosts Claude Code Functionality Again (David Ramel)
• Improving Accessibility in JetBrains IDEs: What’s New and What’s Next in 2026 (Ekaterina Valeeva)

AI

• Introducing the Critter Stack AI Skills (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Prompts are technical debt too (Sean Goedecke)
• Creating Reliable AI Resources with Telerik Agent Tools API (Peter Vogel)
• Building Cross-Framework Agents with MAF, A2A, NVIDIA NeMo, and Aspire (Bruno Capuano)
• Always know where you stand: Setting up a live status line in GitHub Copilot CLI (Bart Wullems)
• From Coding Agents to Cloud Automation: AI-Assisted Customer Related Incidents in Azure Functions (Tsuyoshi Ushio)
• Introducing RAMPART and Clarity: Open source tools to bring safety into Agent development workflow (Ram Shankar Siva Kumar)
• Resident: vibe coding firmware (our new sandbox library for ESP32 devices) (Matt Webb)
• Neo Integrations: MCP Servers and Cloud CLIs (Pulumi Neo Team)
• Agentic software development hypothesis (Marc Brooker)
• I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body (Will Knight)
• Vibe coding is coming to your phone (Allison Johnson)
• The Agent Stack Bet (Addy Osmani)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Disposable Software Is the Future: Why Composable Architecture Beats Monoliths and Overbuilt Microservices (Chris Pietschmann)
• Scaling Software Architecture Without Overengineering (Derek Comartin)
• Securing the gaming culture of cultures (Aaron Zollman)
• Three more static code analysis sensors (Martin Fowler)

Mobile and Game Development

• Built for Productivity: What the Data Finally Shows About Kotlin (Alina Dolgikh)

Screencasts and Videos

• If Windows were designed today, would the Registry exist? | One Dev Question (Mark Russinovich)
• Keynote: Your Agents Are Smart. Your Data Model Isn’t - NDC Sydney 2026 (Chris Auld)
• The Most Important AI News from Google I/O (AIDailyBrief)
• How to orchestrate a team of agents in the cloud with Warp (Warp Team)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: OpenTelemetry in .NET: Learn how to implement OpenTelemetry in .NET to capture and export metrics, traces, and logs. This course covers observability concepts, like instrumentation, logging, tracing, and monitoring. (Gui Ferreira) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Windows Weekly Episode #984 - For Entertainment Purposes Only - Price Shock With Surface Laptops?! (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #721 - Rob Moffat on Risk-First Software Development (Brijesh Ammanath)
• Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #86 - AI Panel Discussion at DDD South West 2026 (Dan Clarke)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast Episode #1046 - Cloud Commitments Without the Lock-In with Archera's Aran Khanna (Scott Hanselman)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #354 - US-Tirefire-1 lives up to its Stellar Reputation (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• AI & I Podcast - Inside Stainless, The Developer Tools Startup Anthropic Just Bought for $300 Million (Dan Shipper)
• Managing Cross-Team Dependencies in Scaled Agile, From Planning to Real-Time Coordination | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Christian Thordal)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1006 - Can AI Make Good Design? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #516 - LATAM Community Recap (Taylor Desseyn)
• Big Technology Podcast - Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #30 - Law and Technology (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #209 - Dark Factories: Why Your AI Coding Setup Is Already Outdated (Christian Weichel)
• Welcome to the Raspberry Pi Podcast (Ashley Whittaker)

Community and Events

• Student Devs: Build AI Agents, Compete for $55K in Prizes (Lee Stott)
• Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI (Ram Iyer)
• 100 things we announced at I/O 2026 (Keyword Team)
• Maker Faire Brussels: A Fabrication Engine In The EU Capital (Jennifer Blakeslee)
• Data center resistance comes home to Seattle as council considers a one-year freeze (Lisa Stiffler)
• ‘One of a kind’: Tributes pour in for S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, beloved tech mentor and friend (Kurt Schlosser)
• My experience at PyCon US 2026 (Pamela Fox)
• Relocating With JetBrains: What to Expect (Grete Kivi)
• Board Elections - Nomination Process and Expectations (.NET Foundation)

Database

• Demystifying PIVOT and UNPIVOT in T-SQL (Edward Pollack)
• Introducing sp_QuickieCache: 80/20 Plan Cache Analysis to Find Your Worst SQL Server Queries (Erik Darling)
• Launching the SSMS Extension Gallery (Erik EJ)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.51 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Neo, Now in the Terminal (Pulumi Neo Team)

Writing

• Past Tense Or Present Tense: Which Works Best For Your Story? (Writers Write)

General

• GitHub's Internal Repos Breached Via Employee's Use of Malicious VS Code Extension (BeauHD)
• Investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories (Natalie Guevara)
• Trump Mobile may be leaking customer addresses (Dominic Preston)
• Nvidia Revenues Surged 85 Percent to $81.6 Billion (Paul Thurrott)
• No Starch Press: Build It with LEGO eBook Bundle (Humble Bundle)* - Referral Link*

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 20, 2026 (#788) (Richard Seroter)
• Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - May 17 (Peter Ritchie)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) - Referral Link A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C#.

• Package Identity (Howard Kapustein)
• Build a Real-Time Weather Dashboard with .NET MAUI Tab View (Sneha Kumar)
• How to run evals for the model router (Sanjeev Jagtap, Lee Stott & Marie-Louise Onga Nana)
• S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, 1966-2026: Microsoft and Madrona leader was a champion of developers and startups (Todd Bishop)
• Android Studio I/O Edition: What’s new in Android Developer tools (Matthew Warner)
• Agentic-Agile: Why Agent Development Needs Agile (Not Just Prompts) (Daniel Epstein)
• TechBash 2026 Dev Conference - First sessions announced (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• How to upload files in an ASP.NET Core Web API (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• How to Migrate from ASP.NET Framework to ASP.NET Core (Gopinath Karunanithi)
• Aspire v13.3.4 Release (aspire-repo-bot[bot])
• Who In The API Evangelist Network Has an MCP Server (Kin Lane)
• Build an Edit and Sign DOCX Workflow Using a JavaScript DOCX Editor (Rangarajan Ashokan)
• What’s new from Firebase at Google I/O 2026 (Seba Gnagnarella, Arthur Thompson & Kristen Richards)
• Rust Tooling Made My JavaScript Site 53x Faster (Agnel)
• XSS Is Deadly for Passkeys: The Hidden Risk of Attestation None (Scott Helme)
• Introducing WordPress Workspace for Mac (Artur Piszek)
• Token Issuer Isolation: Why It Matters for Security and Compliance (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• A Guide to Auth0 Authorization with Scopes, Roles, and Client Grants Explained (Andre Hochstein & Jan Singer)
• How to Build a REST API with Node.js and Express from Scratch (Abdullah Sheikh)

Windows Development

• What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? (Raymond Chen)
• Introducing Sample Profile Guided Optimization in MSVC (David Gillies)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Devs Weigh In on Visual Studio Database Tools (David Ramel)
• .NET finally gets union types🎉: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 2 (Andrew Lock)

AI

• Get more out of your GitHub Copilot session history with /chronicle (Bart Wullems)
• Backlog Zero: How AI Can Clear You Development Backlog (J. Tower)
• Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything (Simon Willison)
• Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (Claude Team)
• Use Grok in OpenClaw (xAI Team)
• The Agentic Infrastructure Era (Joe Duffy)
• Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action (Noam Shazeer)
• Introducing Gemini Omni (Koray Kavukcuoglu)
• Context rot is slowing down your AI agent: How to fix it (David Omotayo)
• The Gemini app becomes more agentic, delivering proactive, 24/7 help (Josh Woodward)
• Introducing STATE-Bench: A benchmark for AI agent memory (Lewis Liu & Nishant Yadav)
• Signing in to Microsoft Foundry from OpenClaw using Azure AD: a smoother way to bring your models in (Suzaril Shah)
• Meet Gordon: Docker’s AI Agent For Your Entire Container Workflow (Deanna Sparks)
• How to Visualize Your Azure AI Workloads Usage for Observability (Junee Singh)
• Bringing the real world to your AI application using Firebase AI Logic (Ankita Saxena & Ken Nevarez)
• Build a Voice and SMS AI Agent with Twilio Agent Connect and Microsoft Azure (Paul Kamp)
• Maintainability sensors for coding agents (Martin Fowler)
• Introducing Managed Agents in the Gemini API (Philipp Schmid)
• Study and Learn Agent: your study coach, built for learning (anpadt)
• OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of models (Kyle Wiggers)
• Ten More Things You Can Do With Pulumi Neo (Adam Gordon Bell)
• Advancing content provenance for a safer, more transparent AI ecosystem (OpenAI Team)
• Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, or Azure AI Foundry: How We Decide for Every Client (Elliot Margot)
• Eliminate LLM Cold starts: Load models up to 6x Faster with Azure Blob Storage and Run:AI Model Streamer (Vishnu Charan TJ)
• What AI Tools, MCP Servers, and Skills Actually Do (Andrea Chiarelli)
• AI Artifact Catalogs: Durable Standards Worth Institutional Investment (Tadas Antanavicius)
• LLM Evaluation and AI Observability for Agent Monitoring (Evgenia Verbina)
• Pulumi bets infrastructure’s next decade belongs to AI agents (Frederic Lardinois)
• When an Agent Deletes the Production Database (Sam Newman)
• Google Tensor SDK Beta with LiteRT (Priya Patel & Himangshu Roy)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.5.0 Release (moonbox3)
• Debugging Python apps on App Service with the new SSH helper aliases (Jordan Selig)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• In 2026, engineering teams are quietly accepting more risk. Here’s why (Simple Talk Team)
• Protect Your Entities with Domain Validation (Assis Zang)

Mobile and Game Development

• What's New in Wear OS 7 (John Zoeller)
• Packt App Development Mega eBook Bundle (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Android XR Updates for Unity, Unreal, and Godot (Luke Hopkins & Ryan Bartley)
• Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates with Apple Intelligence (Apple)
• Updates to the Android XR SDK: Introducing Developer Preview 4 (Stevan Silva & Amy Zeppenfeld)
• Introducing Android Performance Analyzer : The Next Evolution in Profiling for Android (Simon Cooke & Mayank Jain)
• Android UI Development is Compose First (Nick Butcher)

Screencasts and Videos

• 9 Codex Tips from the Codex Team (AIDailyBrief)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Debbie O'Brien (Isaac Levin)
• Scott & Mark Learn To...Have Taste (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• STATE-Bench - Memory-agnostic Benchmark | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro, Lewis Liu, Pablo Castro & Nishant Yadav)
• Orchestrate a team of agents in Warp and Introducing multi-agent orchestration (Warp Team)
• How Copilot auto mode selects the best AI model | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths & Nhu Do)
• Adding subscribers to our Map project | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Forget IDEs: GitHub Copilot App is all you need! (Gerald Versluis)
• Random.Code() - Adding Throws Capability to Rocks (Jason Bock)
• Developer Keynote (Google I/O '26) (Google Developers Team)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Vertical Slice Architecture: Learn how to structure your applications using Vertical Slice Architecture. This course covers core principles, implementing slices, CQRS, domain events, and securing APIs. (Kevin Dockx) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1025 - Below the Plimsoll Line - WWDC In a Few Weeks! (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• PPP 510 | The Word Great Leaders Keep Using (And Most Leaders Avoid), with Marcus Buckingham (Andy Kaufman)
• RunAs Radio Show #1037 - UEFI Secure Boot with Richard Hicks (Richard Campbell)
• React Native Radio Episode #353 - Building React Native Apps in the AI Era (Mazen Chami & Robin Heinze)
• Mailin’ It! - The Official USPS Podcast - Your Questions Answered (United States Postal Service)
• Boagworld Podcast Episode #34 - AI Can Fix Your Broken Research Repository (Paul Boag)
• How “Fake Kanban” Fooled the Metrics, And What This Agile Coach Did to Fix It | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Christian Thordal)
• Grammar Girl Podcast - How many people is a ‘troop’? Why spelling bees are called 'bees.' (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Pack your agentic stack in Slack (Ryan Donovan)

Community and Events

• I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era (Sundar Pichai)
• Before Mass Layoffs, Meta Reassigns 7,000 Workers To Focus On AI (BeauHD)
• OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team (Rebecca Bellan & Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
• Turn up the volume for AI Skills Fest— no wristband required (jeanaj)
• Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs (Paresh Dave, Lauren Goode & Zoë Schiffer)
• Expedia at 30, the inside story: Online travel giant navigates its third tech disruption (Todd Bishop)
• Introducing the JetBrains Course Creators Program (Regina Muradova)
• WWDC26 Schedule (ProMobile.Dev)

Database

• Announcing the SSMS StatisticsParser Extension (Brent Ozar)
• What Is a JSON Database and Why Are They Useful? (Matthew Groves)
• Can you teach us how to draw a hotdog using SQL Server’s geometry? (Erik Darling)

PowerShell and Terminal

• An important update: Transitioning Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI (Dmitry Lyalin & Taylor Mullin)
• Using AGY CLI | Antigravity CLI Docs (Google)
• Better CLI Interactions for Agents and Humans (Christian Nunciato)

Writing

• What Is Genre? A Guide To The 17 Most Popular Fiction Genres (Writers Write)

Tools

• New in Firefox 151: VPN location selection, AI controls on mobile, and expanded Shake to Summarize support and AI controls are here for Firefox mobile (Mozilla)
• SVG and PNG in Simple QR Code Maker: The Interesting Format Combinations (Joseph Finney)
• 30 Days of coreutils: head and tail (Rachel Kaufman)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.7.7: Update Microsoft.WSL to version 1.0.73.2 (#40585) (Ben Hillis)

General

• Introducing new Surface devices built for business and AI acceleration (Nancie Gaskill)
• Xbox fans want exclusives, more backward compatibility, and free online multiplayer (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 for 2026 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips, display upgrades, and new haptics: Launching first for business customers today (Zac Bowden)
• The Mandalorian and Grogu should have been a season of TV (Charles Pulliam-Moore)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 19, 2026 (#787) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) - Referral Link Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML.

• NuGet Package Pruning: Cleaner Dependencies and Actionable Vulnerability Reports (Nikolche Kolev)
• Flutter’s multiplatform value for agentic development (Michael Thomsen)
• On .NET Live: How Coding Standards Supercharge .NET Quality & Performance (David McCarter)
• NuGet PackageReference for C++ Projects in Visual Studio (Augustin Popa)
• Material 3 in .NET MAUI — One Line to Transform Your App (Gerald Versluis)
• Take your local GitHub sessions anywhere (Candy Ho)

Web and Cloud Development

• Blazor - How to set a base component for all Razor components (Gérald Barré)
• TypeScript utility types you’re probably underusing (Muhammed Ali)
• TypeScript v6 is here: A full migration guide (Amazing Enyichi Agu)
• CSS Anchor Positioning: The End of Manual Tooltip Calculations? (Manikanda Akash Munisamy)
• Advanced Excel‑Style Data Analysis with React Spreadsheet Formulas (Sastha Prathap)
• Angular Is Exciting Again, and v21 Proves It (TheJS PythonGuy)
• Introducing Code Interpreters for Logic Apps (W. Silveira)
• Vite Version 8: Unified Rust-Based Bundler and Up to 30x Faster Builds (Daniel Curtis)

Windows Development

• Just shows that nobody cares about debugging the parity flag any more (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Part 1 — Building an AI-Powered Code Review System in C# Using Git Diff and LLMs and Part 2 — Building an AI Agent with Skills for Code Review and Auto-Fix in C# (Vinoth Xavier)
• redb.Route — Apache Camel for .NET: 22 transports, 30+ EIP patterns, compiled DSL (Rinat Kozin)

AI

• AI Reasoning and Planning (Jesse Liberty)
• Anthropic acquires Stainless (Anthropic Team)
• Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare (Kirsten Korosec)
• Measuring the impact of AI on teaching and learning (Lila Ibrahim)
• Deploying and scaling the GitHub Copilot SDK (continued) (Bart Wullems)
• New in Claude Managed Agents: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels (Claude Team)
• Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people (Hayden Field)
• OpenClaw v2026.5.18 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Introducing Composer 2.5 (Cursor Team)
• Skills in web, iOS, and Android (xAI Team)
• Agent Skills Work but the Research Shows Most Teams Are Building Them Wrong (Aishwarya Naresh Reganti, Prahitha Movva & Kiriti Badam)
• “You can't vibe code scale”: What the AI hype gets wrong about software engineering (Eira May)
• Three Tiers, One Platform: Building Agents Together with the Build-Along Series (Brianoshea)
• Now in Foundry: Tongyi-MAI Z-Image-Turbo, with FLUX.1-schnell and SDXL base 1.0 (Osi)
• Coding Agent Horror Stories: The Security Crisis Threatening Developer Infrastructure (Jennifer Kohl)
• PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend (Alex Zhang, Cui Cheng, Jun Zhang, Manui Lin & Yue Zhang)
• Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Cosmos Predict 2.5 with LoRA/DoRA for Robot Video Generation (Ting-Yun Chang, Miguel Martin, Jonathan Allen, Ke Ding & Pooya Jannaty)
• You Can Scale MCP Servers Behind a Load Balancer on App Service — Here's How and Turn Your App Service Web App Into a Self-Healing Agent: LLMOps Best Practices for Production (Jordan Selig)
• Forget electrons, this breakthrough uses light-matter particles to power AI (University of Pennsylvania)

Python

• How to Clean Time Series Data in Python (Bala Priya C.)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How to better protect your growing business in an AI-powered world (Alym Rayani)
• Interviews Aren’t About You (Sorry) (Greg Hatchuk)
• What's Easy Now? What's Hard Now? (Marc Brooker)
• Event Sourcing: trade-offs of Event versioning and migrating approaches (Urs Enzler)
• Finding Your Voice: A Guide to Technical Communication (Colin Eberhardt)

Mobile and Game Development

• Installing and Basics of Telerik UI for .NET MAUI AI Coding Assistant (Héctor Pérez)
• Introducing XBOX Player Voice: A Simpler Way to Share Feedback (Mike Nelson)
• Introducing Hatcha — A GenUI Vignette Built in Flutter (Cameron Brodie)
• OVCS: Raspberry Pi–powered electric car (Rob Zwetsloot)

Screencasts and Videos

• What Google Needs to Do at I/O This Week (AIDailyBrief)
• Microsoft Excel Beginners Tutorial (2026) | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
• New GitHub Desktop APP!? .NET 11 Preview 4 and more… - Developer News 20/2025 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: GitHub Actions: Learn GitHub Actions from scratch in this course, which covers everything from the basics to advanced CI/CD workflows. Automate your builds, tests, and deployments with GitHub Actions. (Scott Sauber) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Presentation Podcast Episode #246 – Are PowerPoint Templates In Our Future? (Troy Chollar)
• Code. Deploy. Go Live. Episode #30 - M365 Copilot Declarative Agents Level Up: MCP Apps, Embedded Knowledge & Coding Skills (Andrew Connell & Julie Turner)
• Smooth Scaling Podcast Episode #25 - The Rise of Cloud Prem: Data Ownership in the Age of AI with Galileo's Sam Dhar (José Quaresma)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast - The Conversation You’re Avoiding | Lasting Happiness with Dr. Elia Gourgouris (Max Ahumada)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #480 - Proud Parents (Michael Kennedy)
• The Changelog Podcast Episode #681 - MCP on Code Mode (Matt Carey & Adam Stacoviak)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #515 - Community Always Wins w/ Chris DeMars, Sr. Dev Advocate @ TuxCare (Taylor Desseyn)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #278 - The Agentic SOC: Are We Measuring Time Saved or Risk Reduced? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1005 - Programatic and Skill based Video Creation with Remotion (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Meta Cast - The Courage Gap in Tech Leadership (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #130 - AI, Cybersecurity & Creativity in Modern Cloud Engineering - with Hannah King (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
• When Applying Scrum By The Book Fails, Understanding Context Before Changing The System | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Christian Thordal)
• Inside Trader Joe's Podcast Episode #105 - The Future of Trader Joe's Depends on These Grads (Trader Joe's Team)
• InfoQ Podcast: Context is the Key to the Agentic Architecture Revolution: A Conversation (Baruch Sadogursky)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Your fridge could be a threat to national security (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Scott and Mark Learn to Vibe Check | Live at Microsoft Build (June 2nd) (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• Bravo! Philly’s Must-See Arts & Culture Events for 2026 (Visit Philly)
• Apple kicks off Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8 (Apple)
• Coming bright up (Apple Developer Team)
• If You Didn't Capture It, Did It Really Happen? (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• How to Watch Google I/O (Boone Ashworth)
• Meta Layoffs Stress Harsh AI Reality Inside Zuckerberg's Company (BeauHD)
• From open source to agentic systems: Microsoft at Open Source Summit North America 2026 (Brendan Burns)
• Starbucks layoffs impact 252 jobs at Seattle support center, including VPs and other senior roles (Kurt Schlosser)

Database

• Can Text-to-SQL Benchmarks Work on Document Databases? A Couchbase Architecture Case Study (Soham Sarkar)
• How tampered indexed-view metadata can break cross-database isolation in SQL Server (Fabiano Amorim)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Launched: Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption Hub Redesign (Karuana Gatimu)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.49 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.7.6: Update Microsoft.WSLg to 1.0.74.1 (#40570) (Ben Hillis)

General

• Elon Musk Loses Frivolous Lawsuit Against OpenAI (Paul Thurrott)
• O'Reilly Head First Programming eBook Bundle (Humble Bundle) - Referral link
• Jury finds Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and Microsoft, clearing defendants in landmark AI case (Todd Bishop)
• Gates Foundation ends an era, selling off all remaining Microsoft stock (Lisa Stiffler)
• WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency (BeauHD)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 18, 2026 (#786) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Transform at 1 year, Claude Platform on AWS, EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances, and more (May 18, 2026) (Channy Yun)
• Reading Notes #698 (Frank Boucher)
• Azure Weekly #563 - 17th May 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) - Referral Link A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.

• Improving Windows quality: Making Taskbar and Start more personal (Diego Baca)
• Advanced Shader Delivery expands Public Preview with AMD (Wendy Ho)
• fate 1.0 - A modern data client for React (fate team)
• Introducing Agent Skills for AI‑Assisted Syncfusion PDF Viewer Integration (Deepa Thiruppathy)
• Compose Multiplatform 1.11.0 Is Now Available (Elvira Mustafina)
• The Coding Harness Behind GitHub Copilot in VS Code (VS Code Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Aspire v13.3.3 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Aspire Azure SQL deployment bug (Damien Bowden)
• ESLint v10.4.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• Build a Full‑Featured JavaScript PDF Editor: Annotations, Signatures, and Forms (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
• Multi-Brand Identity: When Your Company Needs More Than One Face and The Composable Identity Pattern: Build What You Need, Skip What You Don't (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (Julia Evans)

Windows Development

• The case of the Create­File­Mapping that always reported ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing new builds for 15 May 2026 (Stephen Lines & Windows Insider Program Team)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Zstandard compression in .NET 11 (Steven Giesel)
• We built an AI tool for .NET/C# developers in 2 days (David Grace)
• On .NET Live: How Coding Standards Supercharge .NET Quality & Performance and Make Your .NET Assemblies Trimmable: Smaller Apps, Faster Starts, and AOT-Ready Code (David McCarter)
• I spent a year building Apache Camel for .NET. Here's the honest state of it. (Rinat Kozin)
• When Your Use Case Half-Succeeds: Designing for Partial Failure in .NET (Milan Jovanović)
• Building a Custom Copilot Skill: A Hands-On Guide to Agent Mode in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders (David Ramel)
• Creating a Simple MCP Server in .NET (Paul Michaels)

AI

• More Powerful than AI RAG: Building Lightweight Knowledge Graphs (Michael Washington)
• AI Engineering Fluency: tracking your AI coding habits (Rob Bos)
• If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI (Anthony Ha)
• GitHub Copilot SDK–Breaking change in permission handling and Sessions in the GitHub Copilot SDK: What they are and how to manage them and Deploying and scaling the GitHub Copilot SDK and GitHub Copilot Is changing how it bills you - Here's how to check the impact (Bart Wullems)
• Elon Musk's xAI Launches ‘Grok Build’, Its First AI Coding Agent (EditorDavid)
• Vibe Coding Cheat Sheet: Tools, Prompts, Security Tips, and More (Aminu Abdullahi)
• GitHub takes aim at Claude Code and Codex with its new Copilot app (Paul Sawers)
• How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again (Sean Goedecke)
• Your RAG Pipeline Is Slow Because You’re Sending Entire Pages to the LLM (Jamie Maguire)
• How Developers Should Build AI Tools – So The EU Doesn’t Lose IT (Marin Pavelić)
• Custom MCP Catalogs and Profiles: Advancing Enterprise MCP Adoption (Jin Kim)
• Making the API Evangelist Network Agent-Readable (Kin Lane)
• Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process (Natalie Guevara)
• Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11 (Abhijith M B)
• Gemma 4 and the Rise of Practical Local AI (Yash Khandelwal)
• Connect Grok to Hermes Agent (xAI Team)

Python

• Python Stays #1, R Rises in Popularity, Says TIOBE (EditorDavid)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• GauntletCI is a pre-commit CLI tool that analyzes staged Git diffs locally in under a second to catch silent behavioral risks before you commit. (Eric Cogen)
• StyloBot Release Series: Testing the Thing That Won't Sit Still (Scott Galloway)
• Raising the bar: Quality, shared responsibility, and the future of GitHub’s bug bounty program (Natalie Guevara)
• Passkeys 101: An Introduction to Passkeys and How They Work (Scott Helme)

Mobile and Game Development

• Lessons from a hit* Incremental game, and John Carmack's advice (Code Monkey)
• Help Shape the Future of Kotlin in the Age of AI (Ekaterina Volodko)
• A New Default Project Structure for Kotlin Multiplatform (Márton Braun)
• Network Information Plugin 3.1.0 Released! (Manuel Beck)
• Introducing Kickstart: the app that helps indie developers ship (Paul Hudson)

Screencasts and Videos

• Random.Code() - Adding Replacement Capabilities to Rocks, Part 5 (Jason Bock)
• IoT Coffee Talk Webcast Episode 313: “AI Adoption” (Whose problem is it?) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Full Course: Modernize Java apps with AI (Microsoft Developer Team)
• Stop Burning RUs: Live AI App Code Review with the Cosmos DB Agent Kit | Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 (Andrew Liu)
• What’s the story on the long long integer? | One Dev Question (Amanda Silver)
• The Download: Microsoft Build, GitHub mobile, open source keyboards & more (Cassidy Williams)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Git: Learn Git from scratch with this comprehensive course, covering everything from basic version control concepts to advanced Git techniques. (Scott Sauber) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• CppCast - GPU Programming and HLSL with Chris Bieneman (Mathieu Ropert & Jason Turner)
• Merge Conflict Episode #515 - Mini-LED, IPS, and the Great Monitor Rabbit Hole (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Lenny's Podcast - Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #273 - Automatic Data Pipelining: One More Turtle Ahead (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #024 - Exploring AI's Cutting Edge: From Cognitive Debt to Conversational Agents (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Big Technology Podcast - Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #295 - Agentic Architecture: Why Files Aren't Always Enough (Christopher Bailey & Mikiko Bazeley)
• Hard Fork Podcast - A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express (Casey Newton & Kevin Roose)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #147 - Lexus TZ Brings Extra Level Of Cushiness To Highlander (Batteries Included Team)
• BONUS Your Developers Got 20x Faster — Now Watch Your Product Managers' Heads Explode | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Clarke Ching)
• The Three Qualities That Separate Great Product Owners From Those Who Just Drop Tickets | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mukhtar Kadiri)
• A Geek Leader Episode #469 - Fred Marshall (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• Call For Papers Listings for 5/15 and Job listings for week ending 5/15 (Leon Adato)
• Starbucks announces new round of corporate layoffs following cuts in Seattle tech roles (Lisa Stiffler)
• No Dumb Questions: What is cloud computing and why is everyone doing it? (Phoebe Sajor)

Database

• From commit to cloud: Powering what’s next for PostgreSQL (Shireesh Thota)
• PostgreSQL is removing MD5 authentication for passwords. Here’s what it means for your databases (Lukas Vileikis)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Partitioned Views (Erik Darling)

Writing

• How Writers Use The Protagonist As A Literary Device and What Is a Character Trait? 350 Essential Character Traits for Writers (Writers Write)

Tools

• 30 Days of coreutils: sort (Rachel Kaufman)

General

• Atari CEO Wants the Company to Become the Best Retro Brand (Robert DeFelice)
• NPR’s Manoush Zomorodi talks about living with too much tech (Terrence O’Brien)
• These are the laptops I recommend for pretty much anyone (Antonio G. Di Benedetto)
• Wood Burning Is Reintroducing Lead Pollution Into the Air, Scientists Find (BeauHD)
• Xbox is now XBOX (Tom Warren)
• Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag? (Dominic Preston)
• Iran Now Threatens Fees for Subsea Internet Cables in the Strait of Hormuz and US Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media (EditorDavid)

More Link Collections

• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 10, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Android Weekly Issue #727 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Links For You (5/17/26) (Raymond Camden)
• C# Digest #608 - Real-time driver location tracking in .NET (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #20, 2026 – .NET 11 Preview 4 and SwaggerProvider 4.0 (Sergey Tihon)
• Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - May 10 (Peter Ritchie)
• Daily Reading List – May 15, 2026 (#785) (Richard Seroter)
• The Batch Issue #353 - China Thwarts Meta’s Agentic Ambition, U.S. Evaluates Upcoming Models, AI Diagnoses Mammograms (DeepLearning.AI)

The Geek Shelf

C# 14 and .NET 10 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Build modern websites and services with ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and EF Core using Visual Studio 2026.

• Visual Studio Code 1.121 (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Securing Azure apps with Aspire enterprise networking (Eric Erhardt)
• How Claude Code works in large codebases: Best practices and where to start (Claude Team)
• VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026: Send Your Team Home With Working Code (Jim Harrer)
• Playwright+ for .NET Apps (Sam Basu)
• The Modern .NET Show - Simplicity First: Why Complexity Is Not Sophistication with Chris Woodruff (Jamie Taylor)
• GitHub - github/app: This is the home for releases and issues for the GitHub Copilot app (GitHub)

Web and Cloud Development

• Exponential backoff and circuit breaker for Service Bus-triggered Azure Functions (Swapnil Nagar)
• Getting the Client IP Address in ASP.NET Core (Rick Strahl)
• Computing and Displaying Discounted Prices in CSS (Preethi)
• From beta to stable: Announcing the Azure SDK for Rust (Ronnie Geraghty)
• Accelerate Document Writing, Editing, and Review with AI-Powered React DOCX Editor [Webinar Show Notes] (Shriram Sankaran)
• Modern Bot Defense for Media Wiki Installs (Amanda Lange)
• Saved passwords in Edge memory: what we're changing and why (kryc)
• Why Freeze Panes, Filtering, and Virtual Scrolling Conflict in Angular Spreadsheets (Sumathi Uthayakumar)

Windows Development

• Segment Heap support for C++ projects in Visual Studio (MacGyver Codilla)
• Microsoft commits to native UI for Windows 11 as users push back against web app slop (Abhijith M B)
• A constant-space linear-time algorithm for deleting all but the 10 most recent files in a directory and Why do Windows client editions on 32-bit x86 systems artificially limit RAM to 4 GB? (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing new Windows Insider Release Preview builds for 14 May 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• .NET Agent Skills (Nikos Vaggalis)
• 10 .NET Open Source Libraries Every Developer Should Know in 2026 (Vikrant Bagal)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.6.1 Release (westey-m)

AI

• AI Context Kit: Cross-session persistence, context compression, easier distribution (Marco Siccardi)
• GitHub Copilot App is now in Technical Preview (Rob Bos)
• Why Doesn’t Anyone Teach Developers About Context Management? (Andrew Stellman)
• Defense in depth for autonomous AI agents (Alyssa Ofstein & Elliot H. Omiya)
• Conductor: Deterministic orchestration for multi-agent AI workflows (Jason Robert)
• Azure.AI.Projects_2.1.0-beta.2 and Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI_2.1.0-beta.2 and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents_2.1.0-beta.2 (Azure SDK Team)
• When configuration becomes a vulnerability: Exploitable misconfigurations in AI apps (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team & Yossi Weizman)
• Open Model Inference at Scale on Foundry: What’s New with Fireworks AI (Alicia Frame)
• Capacitor Showcase – LocalLLM (Joseph Pender)
• OpenAI brings Codex to the ChatGPT mobile app (Frederic Lardinois)
• How Building AI Agents Has Changed in 2026 (Engin Diri)
• Governance at the Speed of Agents: Microsoft Agent Framework and Agent Governance Toolkit, Better Together (Imran Siddique & Shawn Henry)
• New and improved: Agent governance, intelligent workflows, and connected app experiences (Nitasha Chopra)
• Accelerating on-device AI: A look at Arm and Google AI Edge optimization (Chintan Parikh, Dillon Sharlet, Na Li & Gian Marco Iodice)
• Unlocking asynchronicity in continuous batching (Rémi Ouazan Reboul, Pedro Cuenca & Aritra Roy Gosthipaty)
• Considering NL2SQL? Should your database really be the prompt? How can SQL MCP Server help? (Jerry Nixon)
• Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality (Radu Florian, Parul Awasthy, Aashka Trivedi & Madison Lee)
• Work with Codex from anywhere and Helping ChatGPT better recognize context in sensitive conversations (OpenAI Team)
• The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup (Claude Team)
• OpenClaw v2026.5.12 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Introducing Grok BuildEarly Beta (xAI Team)
• Announcing Genkit Middleware: Intercept, extend, and harden your agentic apps (Chris Gill)
• Beyond content: helping teachers feel ready to teach AI (Catarina Marques)
• Every layer counts: Defense in depth for AI agents with Red Hat AI (Adel Zaalouk)
• Bliki: Interrogatory LLM (Martin Fowler)
• The Human Bottleneck (Dean Kerr)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.4.0 Release (giles17)
• Python 3.15 Is Feature Frozen (Mike James)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• What’s New in Advanced Installer 23.7 (Advanced Installer Team)
• How to Update an INI File During Software Installation (Renato Ivanescu)
• GitOps with Octopus and Argo CD (Kostis Kapelonis)
• May Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
• Architecture in the AI age (ProMobile.Dev)
• Jenkins Plugin of the Month – May 2026: Coverage Plugin (Stefan Spieker)
• From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance (Natalie Guevara)
• Anti-Debugging Techniques: How to Detect and Block Runtime Analysis (Michelle Pruitt)

Mobile and Game Development

• New updates to A2UI and Flutter’s GenUI package (Andrew Brogdon)

Screencasts and Videos

• In Defense of Tokenmaxxing (AIDailyBrief)
• Visual Studio 2026 May Release Party (Leslie Richardson & the Visual Studio Team)
• How Claude Code Works (Claude Team)
• VS Code Live: April Releases Recap (Reynald Adolphe, Burke Holland, Brigit Murtaugh, Lee Murray, Vijay Upadya & Matt Bierner)
• SQL End of Life migration factory offer | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Bradley Ball)
• Work IQ | Data, Context, Skills & Tools for Copilot and Your Agents (Zachary Cavanell)
• Scaling out Maps for EVERYONE! | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Reflection in .NET: Learn how to use Reflection in .NET with this course, covering everything from accessing type information to advanced techniques like invoking members, handling attributes, and working with generics. (Nick Cosentino) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #572 - The world isn’t curl (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Generative AI in the Real World: Chang She on Data Infrastructure for AI (Ben Lorica)
• Why Success Means Nothing If the Project Doesn't Move the Business Forward — And How Public Commitments Keep You Honest | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mukhtar Kadiri)
• Made by Google Podcast - The Android Show: From OS to Intelligence System (Rachid Finge)
• Changelog and Friends Podcast Episode #130 - Automation at the speed of Swamp (Adam Jacob & Adam Stacoviak)
• Cloud Chat Episode #32 - Rolling, Rolling, Rolling… (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #356 - U.S. Congressman Beyer on AI challenges facing America and the World (Don Beyer & Chris Benson)
• Build Mode Podcast - The 7-Failure Rule: How Forethought AI Found Product-Market Fit with Co-Founder Deon Nicholas (Isabelle Johannessen & Maggie Nye)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Observability and human intuition in an AI world (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Microsoft Adds AI Hackathon to VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ (David Ramel)
• Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses (Tom Warren)
• Anthropic forms $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation (Anthropic Team)
• Raising the bar together. Introducing the Driver Quality Initiative at WinHEC 2026 (Robin Seiler & Ian LeGrow)

Database

• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Partitioning and Column Store (Erik Darling)
• April 2026 Recap: Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Gauri Kasar)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Goodbye Together mode, hello simplified meeting layouts in Microsoft Teams (Katarina Tranker)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.48 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• GitHub Copilot CLI + SQUAD + GPT-5.5 BYOK: Better Engineering, Same Hard Truth (Bruno Capuano)

Writing

• How To Outline A Short Story – For Beginners (Writers Write)
• Writers Are Fleeing the Substack Tax (BeauHD)

Tools

• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.6 Release (kvega005)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.7.5 Release (Ben Hillis)

General

• Leaked images show Microsoft’s new Xbox Cloud Gaming controller (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 14, 2026 (#784) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: May 14 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Is Designing (Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle) - Referral Link Words and the User Experience.

• Process API Improvements in .NET 11 (Adam Sitnik)
• .NET MAUI Moves to CoreCLR in .NET 11 (David Ortinau)
• Trick out your GitHub Copilot CLI with Oh My Posh (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Is debugging an AI system fundamentally different than debugging a traditional software system? | One Dev Question (Mark Russinovich)
• Agent Skills in Visual Studio: Teach Copilot How Your Team Works (Simona Liao)
• Introducing WinUI agent plugin: Build WinUI apps with AI agents (Windows Developer Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Aspire 13.3.2 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Deploy with Aspire (Aspire Team)
• Critter Stack 2026 Releases are Underway (Jeremy D. Miller)
• New updates to Edge across desktop and mobile (Sean Lyndersay)
• Getting the Client IP Address in ASP.NET Core (Rick Strahl)
• Node.js 22.22.3 (LTS) (Marco Ippolito)
• Azure Migrate vs. Dr. Migrate: Understanding the Difference and When to Use Each (Lino Tadros)
• 5 Years and $5M Later: Inventing a New Programming Language for Web Development Was a Mistake (Matija Sosic)
• Vite+ guide: One CLI for JavaScript tooling (Emmanuel John)
• How to Integrate Google Drive with React Spreadsheet (Sastha Prathap)
• Introducing Azure Container Apps Express! (simonjj)

Windows Development

• MSVC Build Tools Preview updates – May 2026 (Eric Brumer)
• The case of the hang when the user changed keyboard layouts (Raymond Chen)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v3.0.0 release (Alvin Ashcraft)* - Adds enhancements for new WinUI dotnet new templates. Get it for VS Code or on the Open VSX Registry.*

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11.56 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 v18.6.0 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders May 2026 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Post-Quantum Cryptography in .NET 10: A Practical Guide (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• redb.Route - Enterprise integration framework for .NET. Wire any system to any system in a few lines of C# (Rinat Kozin)
• Database-Enforced Authorization for Agentic AI .NET Applications (Alex Keh)

AI

• How I Documented an Entire Product in 4 Days with an AI Agent (Debbie O'Brien)
• Introducing Grok 4.3 on Microsoft Foundry: Latest Generation Agentic Capabilities (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Building a safe, effective sandbox to enable Codex on Windows (OpenAI Team)
• Microsoft’s multi-agent AI system tops Anthropic’s Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark (Todd Bishop)
• Microsoft's Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs (Emma Roth)
• Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents (Sarah Perez)
• Teaching an AI to Remember (Keith W. Boone)
• The GenAI Reality Check: New Instrument, Same Orchestra (Barry Smart)
• Hands On with the New Agents Window in VS Code 1.120 (David Ramel)
• Development environments for your agents (Cursor Team)
• AI Tools Avoided and Mistrusted By C++ Developers (Sue Gee)
• Opinion: Vibe coding needs an on-ramp — and seat belts (Kurt Schlosser)
• Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find (Will Knight)
• How Agentic AI Foundation and MCP Are Redefining the Infrastructure for AI Agents (Anastasija Uspenski)
• Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2) (Victor Yocco)
• Best practices for computer and browser use with Claude (Claude Team)
• New GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer (giulianogemero)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.4 release and GitHub Copilot SDK for Rust v1.0.0-beta.4 release (github-actions[bot])
• Creating a Custom AI Agent with Telerik Tools 6: Embedding Conversational and Invisible Agents (Peter Vogel)
• Gemma 4 Model Sizes and Hardware Requirements: A Practical Deployment Guide for Developers (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)
• GridSFM: A new, small foundation model for the electric grid (Weiwei Yang, Andrea Britto Mattos Lima, Thiago Vallin Spina, Spencer Fowers & Baosen Zhang)
• Keeping Trusted Content Visible in an AI-Powered Search World (Bing Team)
• GitHub Copilot SDK for Go v1.0.0-beta.4 release (Steve Sanderson)
• AI is the New Netflix (Om Malik)
• Claude.ai vs Claude API (Arun Sirpal)
• Alternative Coding Agents: Pi (Junde Zhou)
• Your AI Problem Is a Data Problem (Aaron Black)

Python

• Platform Improvements for Python AI Apps on Azure App Service (Surender Singh Malik)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Kubernetes v1.36: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling (Maciej Skoczeń, Antoni Zawodny, Matt Matejczyk, Bartosz Rejman, Jon Huhn, Maciej Wyrzuc & Heba Elayoty)
• The goal isn't to write more code (Jon Hilton)
• “Friction-maxxing”, Failure, and Learning to Code (Clara Maine)
• mimalloc: A new, high-performance, scalable memory allocator for the modern era (Daan Leijen)

Mobile and Game Development

• Dungeons & Desktops: 10 roguelikes that never die (because their communities won’t let them) (Lee Reilly)
• .NET MAUI 11.0.0-preview.4.26230.3 release (Shane Neuville)

Screencasts and Videos

• Supervise Autonomous Agents with the Power Apps MCP and Agent Feed | The Low Code Revolution (Elaiza Benitez & Jacob Wilkinson)
• Pragmatic AI in .NET Show: Clawing at AI Native .NET Apps, with Aaron Stannard and Spec-Kit for Agentic Development with Uno Platform! (Sam Basu)
• Stop Switching Tabs: Build and Test Web UIs Inside VS Code (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Towards AI That Can Actually Interact (AIDailyBrief)
• Creating an AI Workflows with GitHub Copilot CLI | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: Boosting Developer Productivity with AI: Learn how to boost your productivity as a developer using AI tools like GitHub Copilot. This course covers prompt engineering, automating coding tasks, debugging, refactoring, and more! (Kevin Dockx) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Developer Tea Podcast - Senior Skills to Maintain Employment Through the AI Wave (Jonathan Cutrell)
• .NET Rocks! - Use What Works with Dylan Beattie (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #720 - Martin Dilger on Understanding Eventsourcing (Giovanni Asproni)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #353 - Don't Be Evil Unless the Government Asks Nicely (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Windows Weekly Episode #983 - Puts the Buh in Benelux - Can Googlebooks Challenge Existing Laptops? (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: MCP Empowers Agents to Take ERP Actions, Capture Human Knowledge (Tom Smith)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #277 - CISO as CFO, From Citi to Celery, It's All about the Cabbage (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• Big Technology Podcast - Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? + The Allure of AI Love - with Joanna Stern (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #146 - The Best EV Cruiser to Replace a Toyota Avalon for Under $25k (Batteries Included Team)
• SQL Server Radio Episode #187 - Transactional Replication Between Availability Groups (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1004 - TanHacked (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #208 - Vibe Publishing: How AI Agents Are Transforming the UK's Largest Newsroom (Lewis James)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google - Kubernetes at Uber with Lucy Sweet (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1185 - The hidden logic of English spelling, with Colin Gorrie (Mignon Fogarty)
• Merging Three Companies Into One Platform - When Founders Can't Let Go and Leaders Won't Decide | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mukhtar Kadiri)

Community and Events

• Tech Layoff Wave Has Already Hit 100,000 Jobs This Year (Tristan Gaudiaut)
• Ryan Carson Is a One-Person Code Factory (Tim O’Reilly)
• Meta Employees Launch Protest Against Mouse-Tracking Tech At US Offices (BeauHD)

Database

• Release Notes for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.6.0 (Microsoft Learn)
• Track SQL Server Configuration Changes Using the Error Log (SQLPals)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Partitioning != Performance (Erik Darling)
• How to build a privacy-aware analytics layer with SQL (4 top techniques) (Dejan Lukić)
• TLS Certificate Pinning and Best Practices in Azure Open-Source Relational Databases (Tameika L.)
• Microsoft SQL Security Across the MAESTRO Stack: Building Secure Agentic AI with Defense-in-Depth (Arun Vijayraghavan)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• General Availability of SharePoint Framework 1.23 – Advancing the modern developer experience (Vesa Juvonen)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Introducing Ads CLI: A Command-Line Interface for Meta Ads and Commerce (John Holstein, Matt Mayberry, Andrew Kutsy & Sanjay Patel)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.47 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• How To Show & Not Tell In Short Stories (Writers Write)
• Books for Building a Writing Routine (that works for you) (Emily Munro)

General

• Windows Update will soon automatically roll back faulty drivers (Tom Warren)
• TIOBE Index for May 2026: R Ascends as Statistical Tools Consolidate (Liz Ticong)
• Microsoft doesn’t want any of this (Elizabeth Lopatto)
• Microsoft announces extension of Xbox and Discord partnership (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 13, 2026 (#783) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

.NET MAUI Cookbook (Alexander Russkov) - Referral Link Build a full-featured app swiftly with MVVM, CRUD, AI, authentication, real-time updates, and more.

• Introducing dotnet new WinUI templates (Niels Laute, Dinah Gao & Nikola Metulev)
• Introducing WinUI agent plugin for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code (Nikola Metulev)
• Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API (Sam Kemp)
• Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI (Lee Reilly)
• winget-tui: A terminal UI for Windows Package Manager (winget) (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET 11 Preview 4 is now available! (.NET Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Install web apps with the new HTML install element (Patrick Brosset)
• Building a Blazor app with OpenCode and DeepSeek (Jon Hilton)
• Aspire v13.3.1 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Streaming Server Events with SSE and Blazor (Héctor Pérez)
• Why Zoom Feels Broken in JavaScript PDF Viewers and How to Fix It (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
• Running background tasks in Blazor with Web Workers: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 1 (Andrew Lock)
• Tailwind CSS v4.3: Scrollbars, new colors, and more (Robin Malfait)
• Meet Your Users Where They Are with Obs.js (Harry Roberts)
• Soon We Can Finally Banish JavaScript to the ShadowRealm (Mat Marquis)
• First Public Working Draft: Recognized Entities v1.0 (W3C)

Windows Development

• Windows App SDK 1.8.8 (1.8.260508005) (agniuks)
• Is This a Packaged Process? (Howard Kapustein)
• MSVC Build Tools version 14.51 (GA) now available (Michael Price)

.NET and Visual Studio

• The complete guide to mastering Dapper micro-ORM in .NET (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• .NET 11 Preview 4 Release Notes (Jon Galloway)
• LINQ Aggregation in C#: Count, Sum, Min, Max, Average, and Aggregate (Nick Cosentino)
• .NET 9.0.16 / 9.0.117 and .NET 8.0.27 / 8.0.127 (dotnet-bot)
• .NET v10.0.8 Release (vseanreesermsft)
• .NET and .NET Framework May 2026 servicing releases updates (Rahul Bhandari & Tara Overfield)
• The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio (David Ramel)

AI

• Adding GitHub Copilot to the Windows Explorer Context Menu (Aaron Powell)
• GitHub Copilot individual plans: Introducing flex allotments in Pro and Pro+, and a new Max plan (Natalie Guevara)
• Be Ready: GitHub Copilot Pricing & Usage Changes Will Hit Hard (Mitchel Sellers)
• Amazon Employees Are ‘Tokenmaxxing’ Due To Pressure To Use AI Tools (BeauHD)
• Introducing Syncfusion Document SDK AI Agent Tools for Autonomous Document Workflows (Meena Alagiah)
• Accelerating detection engineering using AI-assisted synthetic attack logs generation (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
• Defense at AI speed: Microsoft’s new multi-model agentic security system tops leading industry benchmark (Taesoo Kim)
• GitHub Spec Kit Takes Off as Antidote to Piecemeal ‘Vibe Coding’ (David Ramel)
• Docker AI Governance: Unlock Agent Autonomy, Safely (PeiFang Sung)
• From Prompt to Production: Open in VS Code for Terraform in Azure Copilot (Jingwei Wang)
• Driving Efficiency in Modern System Engineering with AI Agents (Pushpendra Kumar)
• Build a Reports Dashboard in Claude Desktop with MCP Apps and Vonage (Benjamin Aronov)
• Opus 4.7 (fast mode) is now available in Windsurf (Windsurf Team)
• Build Long-running AI agents that pause, resume, and never lose context with ADK (Shubham Saboo & Eric Dong)
• AI Agent Identity for SaaS: What's Different and What to Do About It (Carla Urrea Stabile)
• Red Hat Summit 2026: Platform modernization and AI on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift (Sean McKenna)
• Gyms for Them, Mirrors for Us (Shreshta Shyamsundar)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How Bad Could It Be (Michael Earon)
• Burnout and Cognitive Debt (Mike Loukides)
• Your API Tests Belong in the Pipeline – Here’s How to Get Them There (Danny Dainton)
• What is Code (Martin Fowler)
• TeamCity 2026.1: CLI, MCP for AI Agents, Pipelines Enhancements, and More (Olga Bedrina)
• Undermining the trust boundary: Investigating a stealthy intrusion through third-party compromise (Microsoft Incident Response Team)
• Event Sourcing: compensation – the simple way out when things go wrong (Urs Enzler)
• You Shipped It Fast. But Did You Ship It Right? (Priya Gopalsamy)
• Why Sagas Feel Broken (Derek Comartin)
• Inside the Geofence: Faster Pickups Start Here (Chandrani Gupta Chowdhury)

Mobile and Game Development

• The 9 biggest new features in Android 17 (Dominic Preston)
• Get the most out of your Apple Developer account and Hello Developer: May 2026 (Apple Developer Team)
• Gemini's biggest new features are all about controlling your phone (Allison Johnson)
• More ways to create and share with Android (Patrick Shehane)
• Building for the Intelligence System on Android (Matthew McCullough)
• A smarter, more proactive Android with Gemini Intelligence (Mindy Brooks)
• Amazon's Panos Panay addresses new Fire phone rumors (Dominic Preston)
• iOS 27 might add a lot more customization to the Camera app (Stevie Bonifield)

Screencasts and Videos

• Agent Hackathon Challenge Kickoff | Agent Academy Live (Christian Talavera & David Abu)
• Customize Copilot Modernization Tasks | Modernize Java Apps with AI (Sandra Ahlgrimm)
• Intro to Warp - terminal basics, Claude Code setup, and cloud handoff with Oz (Warp Team)
• The Best Way to Talk to Your Agents (AIDailyBrief)
• Improving StreamerMaps | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Random.Code() - Adding Replacement Capabilities to Rocks, Part 4 (Jason Bock)

Dometrain Course

Career: Getting Promoted as a Software Engineer: Learn how to get promotions and scale the career ladder as a Software Engineer. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• RunAs Radio Show #1036 - Production LLMs with Vaishnavi Gudur (Richard Campbell)
• PPP 509 | Stop Letting Great Ideas Slip Away: A System for Leadership Recall, with author Steve Kahle (Andy Kaufman)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1024 - Good Talk - Apple Reaches $250 Million Settlement Over Promised AI Capabilities on iPhones (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• When the Smartest Person on the Team Becomes the Biggest Bottleneck — And Explodes in a Meeting | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mukhtar Kadiri)
• Leaders of Code: How Braze’s CTO is rethinking engineering for the agentic area (Eira May)

Community and Events

• WWDC 2026 Preview: Apple Readies Siri Overhaul, AI Updates, and More (Aminu Abdullahi)
• How Sharon Weaver and Christian Buckley Help Future MVPs Find Their Path (Betsy Weber)
• ‘Strong, strong no’: New filing reveals who Microsoft favored — and opposed — for OpenAI’s board (Todd Bishop)
• Get ready for the 2026 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards: Nominations open June 1 (Jill Armour)

Database

• Announcing SQL Server Management Studio 22.6.0 (M. Barickman)
• Why database ownership is so fragmented in 2026 – and what you can do about it (Grant Fritchey)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Columnstore Modifications (Erik Darling)
• Build AI apps with Azure Cosmos DB: Key trends from Cosmos Conf 2026 (Shireesh Thota)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Bringing Transparency to Copilot Edits in Excel (gaugustin)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.46 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Microsoft Terminal v1.25.1322.0 Release and Microsoft Terminal v1.24.11321.0 Release (DHowett)

Writing

• What Is A Sub-Plot In Fiction? 6 Sub-Plots Every Writer Should Know (Writers Write)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.1.1 (Files Team)

General

• Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook (Antonio G. Di Benedetto)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 12, 2026 (#782) (Richard Seroter)
• dotInsights | May 2026 (Rachel Appel)

The Geek Shelf

Blazor Web Development Cookbook (Pawel Bazyluk) - Referral Link Tested recipes for advanced single-page application scenarios in .NET 9.

• Composition Stack for AI-Assisted .NET Development (Matt Mattei)
• Things I Think I Think… about Coding Agents and IDEs (Ted Neward)
• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | April 2026 (Nick Brady)
• WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward (Beth Pan)
• GitHub Copilot CLI + GPT-5-mini BYOK: The Code Was Cheap, the Quality Gates Were Expensive (Bruno Capuano)
• Rider 2026.2 Early Access Program Begins With Performance Improvements and The ReSharper 2026.2 Early Access Program Begins: Bringing More AI Agents into Visual Studio (Sasha Ivanova)

Web and Cloud Development

• Running Foundry Agent Service on Azure Container Apps (vyomnagrani)
• The Challenges of Printing PDF in JavaScript Viewers and How Syncfusion Makes It Easy (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
• StyloBot Release Series: Behaviour-Aware TypeScript UI (Scott Galloway)
• OAuth 2.0 – Device flow explained for Engineers, especially for Backend Engineers (Srikanth Srinivas)
• Fixing a Blazor App with VS Code's New Agent Browser Sharing (David Ramel)
• Why Keyboard Users Can’t Scroll Your Overflow Containers (Godstime Aburu)
• Optimizing Angular Pivot Table Performance Using Virtualization Techniques (Manikandan Murugesan)
• WebKit Features for Safari 26.5 (Jen Simmons)
• The GoLand 2026.2 Early Access Program Has Started (Artem Pronichev)
• How to ensure success following a cloud migration (Pat Wright)

Windows Development

• Additional notes on controlling which handles are inherited by Create­Process (Raymond Chen)
• Compile-Time Map and Compile-Time Mutable Variable with C++26 Reflection (Alexey Saldyrkine)

.NET and Visual Studio

• The field Keyword in C# 14: Write Less, Validate More (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Our 2026 Direction: AI and Classic Workflows in JetBrains IDEs (Denis Shiryaev)
• C#: How to Refactor Legacy Code Safely (Chris Pietschmann)

AI

• PEAS for Agent AI (Jesse Liberty)
• Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain (Simon Willison)
• OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos (Stevie Bonifield)
• Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration (Thinking Machines)
• Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS (Keita Watanabe, Pavel Belevich & Aman Shanbhag)
• SocialReasoning-Bench: Measuring whether AI agents act in users’ best interests (Microsoft Research Team)
• Anthropic Engineer Debates Use of Markdown vs. HTML in AI Agent Output (Paul Thurrott)
• When the Sensor Starts Thinking: SnortML, Agentic AI, and the Evolving Architecture of Intrusion Detection (Samaresh Kumar Singh)
• Coder Agents Enable Running AI Coding Workflows on Self-Hosted Infrastructure (Sergio De Simone)
• The power behind AI: Your brain (Nency Yera)
• Introducing the Claude Platform on AWS (Claude Team)
• Humans in the Loop - Wrapping up our generative AI working group (MIT Work of the Future)
• Claude Mythos Opens The Cybersecurity Pandora’s box (Senko Rasic)
• AI is not neutral: What recent research says about bias, identity, and power (Bonnie Sheppard)
• Single-Agent vs Multi-Agent AI: Architecting the Future of AI-Native Systems (Mahesh Chand)
• AI and software security: the slop is now signal (Gavin Anderegg)
• From Capabilities to Responsibilities (Artur Huk)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Top 15 CI/CD Metrics: What to Track & Why They Matter (James Walker)
• GitLab Act 2 (Simon Willison)
• GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with OSS contributions (Kedasha Kerr)
• Validate APIs During Your Playwright Tests with Postman (Khuda Dad Nomani)
• Scaling GitHub Advanced Security in Azure DevOps with a single reusable YAML template (Paulams732)
• Learning Software Architecture (Alex Kladov)
• Playwright v1.60.0 Release (yury-s)
• Code Maintainability: What is it and Why It’s Important (Kerry Beetge)
• When benchmarks go bad - what I learned from measuring performance wrong (Holly Cummins)
• Don't overestimate domain expertise (Oskar Dudycz)

Mobile and Game Development

• How to Verify Network Connectivity in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Xbox and Discord partnership bringing more benefits to players (Athima Chansanchai)
• How to Build Production-Ready AI Features with Flutter [Full Handbook for Devs] (Atuoha Anthony)
• End-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling out today in beta (Apple)

Screencasts and Videos

• Modernize Databases for the Cloud | Modernize Java Apps with AI (Sandra Ahlgrimm)
• Work IQ | Data, Context, Skills & Tools for Copilot and Your Agents | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
• The Best MAUI Library You Don't Know: Nalu - VirtualScroll, Custom Tabbar, and More! (Gerald Versluis)
• Using the Debugger Agent in Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Marco Peyrot)
• The New Jobs AI Will Create (AIDailyBrief)
• Random.Code() - Adding Replacement Capabilities to Rocks, Part 3 (Jason Bock)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: Messaging in .NET with MassTransit: Learn how to implement asynchronous messaging in .NET with MassTransit. This covers key concepts like queues, topics, message brokers, and patterns like Saga and Outbox, using real-world examples. (Irina Scurtu) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• React Native Radio Episode #352 - Storybook with Daniel Williams (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
• DAWbench Radio Show Episode #42 - Music Tech Pioneers VII : Steinberg, Studio One and Beyond! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown & Wolfgang Kundrus)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #272 - The Human Value Versus AI Legacy Code (Cassidy Williams, Will Button & Warren Parad)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast - How IBM Z Is Modernizing Mainframes with Skyla Loomis (Scott Hanselman)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #479 - Talking About Types and Talk Python to Me Episode #548 - Event Sourcing Design Pattern (Michael Kennedy)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #276 - AI Governance vs. The Hyper-Velocity Agentic Future: A Lawyer's Take (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1003 - Skills Skills Skills (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• The Invisible Stakeholder Who Almost Derailed His First Big Project | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mukhtar Kadiri)
• Meta Cast Podcast - Agile Isn't Dead. The Free Ride Is. (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• InfoQ Podcast: From Java EE to Quarkus and LLMs: Adam Bien’s Playbook for Boring, Future‑Proof Systems (Adam Bien)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1184 - How the Crusades gave us ‘lingua franca.’ ‘That’ or ‘who’ for animals? Doot doot doot (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Connecting the dots for accurate AI (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills (Kirsten Korosec)
• GitHub Copilot Dev Days Online (Cynthia Zanoni)
• Visual Studio Toolbox Live: Working with Agent Skills | Visual Studio Toolbox Live (Leslie Richardson & Simona Liao)* - Coming up May 21st*
• New for 2026: The Greatest Exhibitions in Greater Philadelphia (Visit Philly)
• Microsoft’s Voluntary Retirement Offer: New Details Reveal Who Qualifies (Joseph Ofonagoro)
• Make your mark on the Microsoft AI Tour—learn more about sponsorship (Jill Armour)
• Starbucks to cut 61 tech jobs at Seattle HQ in department reorganization (Lisa Stiffler)
• AI-Related Layoffs In 2026 (I Programmer)
• Introducing the Heap, the software engineering blog for everyone (Ryan Donovan)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• New investments to accelerate your migration to Microsoft 365 (Troy Starr)
• Ingesting SharePoint Data into Microsoft Fabric: Your Options (Carmel Eve)
• How HEFT Works in SharePoint Framework (SPFx) (Liam Cleary)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.45 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Azure CLI on macOS: Upcoming Installation Changes (Alex-wdy)
• PowerShell Newbie – Variables (gbargsley)

Writing

• A Complete Guide To Writing Prompts & Daily Writing Practice (Writers Write)

Tools

• Microsoft PowerToys now lets you control your monitor from the taskbar - here's how (Lance Whitney)
• Digg Tries Again, This Time As an AI News Aggregator (BeauHD)

General

• Linux Mint vs. Elementary OS: I compared both distros, and here's my advice (Jack Wallen)
• A Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons of Water Unnoticed and Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’ (BeauHD)
• Why are AI companies buying the teams behind your favorite dev tools? (Ikeh Akinyemi)
• Destroy Big Tech With a Salvaged Cyberdeck (Sam Freeman)
• Windows 11 is getting a macOS-like speed boost (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 11, 2026 (#781) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, Agent Toolkit for AWS, and more (May 11, 2026) (Channy Yun)
• Reading Notes #697 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps (Rezwanur Rahman) - Referral Link Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot).

• Build an AI-Powered Rich Text Editor in .NET MAUI with AI AssistView (Tamilarasan Gunasekaran)
• Getting started with the GitHub Copilot SDK in .NET (Bart Wullems)
• Claude Code inside Obsidian — academic research skills, inline diff editing, MCP support (hkcanan)
• Merge Conflict Episode #514 - Running Local LLMs in VS Code (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Syncing Claude Memory Across Workstations (Rocky Lhotka)
• Streamline Aspire SDK Updates with GitHub Actions (Christian Nagel)

Web and Cloud Development

• Using AWS Locally with MiniStack and .NET (Ricardo Peres)
• Refactoring an ASP.NET Core API with clean architecture (David Grace)
• Using CSS corner-shape For Folded Corners (Daniel Schwarz)
• Building a REST API With Express Framework and MongoDB (Nic Raboy)
• Using configurable token lifetimes in Microsoft Entra ID, .NET and Microsoft Graph (Damien Bowden)
• How to Build Semantic Search for Documentation with NestJS, Qdrant and Xenova (Christian Nwamba)
• Implementing the Sidecar Pattern in Microservices-based ASP.NET Core Applications (Joydip Kanjilal)
• Go 1.26.3-1 and 1.25.10-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
• What's New in Microsoft Entra: May 2026 (Martin Coetzer)

Windows Development

• Developing more confidence when tracking renames via Read­Directory­ChangesW (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 8 May 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• How AI Is Changing the Role of .NET Developers (Giang Mai Hoang)
• BackgroundService exceptions now propagate in .NET 11 (Steven Giesel)
• StyloBot Release Series: Finding and Fixing Unbounded Growth in Long-Running .NET Services (Scott Galloway)
• LINQ Filtering in C#: Where, Any, All, Contains, and OfType and LINQ Projection in C#: Select, SelectMany, and Flattening Collections (Nick Cosentino)
• C#: Inheritance vs Composition — When to Use Each and Why AI Can't Decide for You (Chris PIetschmann)
• Collection Performance: AddRange() vs. InsertRange() When Populating Lists (David McCarter)

AI

• You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs (James Shore)
• The Codex Handbook: A Practical Guide to OpenAI's Coding Platform (Tatev Aslanyan)
• From Pet Projects to +20 Open Source NuGet Packages, Thanks to GitHub Copilot (Bruno Capuano)
• Building AI Agents with Local Small Language Models (Shittu Olumide)
• The left-wing case for AI and AI makes weak engineers less harmful (Sean Goedecke)
• Updates to Bugbot for Teams and Individuals (Cursor Team)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.3 Release (github-actions[bot])
• OpenAI Codex arrives in the browser with new Chrome extension (Paul Sawers)
• 6 Multi-Agent Orchestration Design Patterns Every Developer Should Know (Chris Pietschmann)
• CyberSecQwen-4B: Why Defensive Cyber Needs Small, Specialized, Locally-Runnable Models (Samuel)
• Running Codex safely at OpenAI (OpenAI Team)
• Hugging Face Launches Agentic Toolkit For Reachy Mini (Lucy Black)
• MVVM Toolkit Skills | awesome-copilot (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML (Simon Willison)
• Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (Brian Grinstead, Christian Holler & Frederik Braun)
• Talkie 1930 - a Hugging Face space trained exclusively upon pre-1931 English-language text (multimodalart)
• Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data On the Open Web (BeauHD)
• OpenAI Moves Closer to “Super App” Vision as Codex Expands Into Agentic, Cross-Platform AI System (Kieron Allen)
• AI Agents Have Two Souls. You Only Control One. (Andrea Chiarelli)
• OpenSpec - a lightweight AI-driven spec framework (Dan Clarke)
• Shooting yourself in the foot with AI (Rob Bos)
• go/v1.0.0-beta.3: Fix SDK documentation typos (#1235) | GitHub Copilot SDK Releases (Stephen Toub)
• No Dumb Questions: What is an MCP server and why do I care? (Phoebe Sajor)
• Amazon Relents, Lets its Programmers Use OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude (EditorDavid)
• Fighting Tool Sprawl: The Case for AI Tool Registries (Peter Richards)
• Why AI is Killing the Hourly Rate (Arnold Gamboa)
• LLM pricing has never made sense (Gavin Anderegg)
• The Dual-Spec Skill Stack (Paul J. Swider)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How researchers are using GitHub Innovation Graph data to reveal the “digital complexity” of nations (Kevin Xu)
• Does Fidelity's Reorganization Signal the Beginning of the End for ‘Small-Team Agile’? (BeauHD)
• Signed CycloneDX SBOMs for CRA Compliance Available for Text Control Products (Bjoern Meyer)
• Why age assurance laws matter for developers (Margaret Tucker)
• Scaling ArchUnit with Nebula ArchRules (John Burns & Emily Yuan)
• Cleaning up master → main without creating a mess you have to clean up later (Shannon Kuehn)

Mobile and Game Development

• Unity AI is genuinely useful, and make your own Steam Controller! (Code Monkey)
• Capacitor 9 Starts Here (Eric Horodyski)

Screencasts and Videos

• Trust, Design, and the Reality of Security Engineering in an AI-Driven World | NDC Security 2026 (Patricia R.)
• Random.Code() - Adding Replacement Capabilities to Rocks, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
• Insert Wisdom Episode #21 - My Trip to Europe Changed my Life (Kate Hill)
• Technology & Friends - Vlad Avesalon and Alex Nova on world.org and the World App (David Giard)
• Add Inventory Interactions with Runtime Data Binding in UI Toolkit | Inventory & Equipment Pt4 (Stacey Haffner)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 312 - “IoT is a Trade” (It's not an ivory tower gig!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• The Week the AI Story Shifted (AIDailyBrief)
• Why was TypeScript created? | One Dev Question (Amanda Silver)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Deploying .NET Applications to Azure: Learn how to deploy and host .NET applications to Azure. (Mohamad Lawand) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Lenny's Podcast - How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author (Lenny Rachitsky)
• PPP 508 | Why Where You Work May Matter More Than How You Work. The Indoor Epidemic, with Dr. John La Puma (Andy Kaufman)
• Big Technology Podcast - The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope? (Alex Kantrowitz)
• AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #023 - AI in Hollywood, Mining Innovations, Memory Models, and Podcast Automation (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #294 - Declarative Charts in Python & Discerning Iterators vs Iterables (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• A Geek Leader Episode #468 - Dr. Henry Cloud (John Rouda)
• From Desk-Pounding to Harmony — How the Game of Go Transformed a Violent Product Owner, and Why Every Employee Should Think Like an Owner | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Peter Merel)
• InfoQ Podcast: The AI Joy Gap: Why Some Developers Thrive While Others Struggle (Michael Parker)

Community and Events

• NYT: ‘Meta's Embrace of AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable’ (EditorDavid)
• Cloudflare To Cut About 20% Workforce As AI Adoption Reshapes Operations (BeauHD)
• Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no. (Julie Bort)
• Job listings for week ending 5/8 and Call For Papers Listings for 5/8 (Leon Adato)
• Open Source Registries Join Linux Foundation Working Group to Address Machine-Generated Traffic (EditorDavid)

Database

• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Nonclustered Index Interactions (Erik Darling)
• Generate Embeddings Function and External Model Object Support Are Now Generally Available in Azure SQL (Aaron Saidi)
• MySQL 9.7: First Major LTS Since 8.4 Brings Enterprise Features to Community Edition (Renato Losio)
• How DataOps principles help to reduce GenAI risk and improve data quality (John Kerski)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft confirms new features coming to Outlook and Outlook Classic in May 2026 (Rahul Naskar)
• Help Shape the Future of Microsoft Teams for Small and Medium Businesses (Miikka Oksanen)
• Announcing the public preview of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Evaluations tool (Barry Gervin & Sai Deepthi Kovvuru)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.44 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• 7 Gripping Dystopian Plot Ideas For Writers and What Is An Unreliable Narrator? 9 Types Every Writer Should Know (Writers Write)

Tools

• Paint.NET 5.2 Alpha (build 9625) (Rick Brewster)
• Simple QR Code Maker Version 2 is Here and It’s Free Forever (Joseph Finney)
• NanaZip 6.0 Update 7 (6.0.1711.0) (Mouri Naruto)

General

• Discover: A Love Letter To RSS (brine.dev)
• Rising Fuel Prices Are Making Return‑to‑Office Mandates Harder to Defend (Kit Eaton)
• The Trump Phone Either Is Or Isn't Closer To Delivery (EditorDavid)
• 30 Days of coreutils: cat (Rachel Kaufman)
• Apple reportedly has a deal to use Intel-made chips again (Jay Peters)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest: Removing byte array allocations using ReadOnlySpan (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Daily Reading List – May 8, 2026 (#780) (Richard Seroter)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 3, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Android Weekly Issue #726 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #562 - 10th May 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #19, 2026 – Understanding Compilers Through an Algebraic Expression Compiler (Sergey Tihon)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #750 (Dave Verwer)
• The Batch #351: GPT-5.5 Outperforms (and Hallucinates), Kimi K2.6 Leads Open LLMs, AI Strains Climate Pledges, Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans and The Batch #352: Seedance Makes A Splash, Nvidia's AI-Guided Chip Designs, Helping Robots Not Forget (DeepLearning.AI)
• Reading List 358 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) - Referral Link A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C#.