Top Links

• 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.

Top Links

• 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.

Top Links

• 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).

Top Links

• 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#.

Top Links

• What’s New in Aspire 13.3 (Maddy Montaquila)
• Improve your AI coding agent with runtime context from Aspire MCP (Tim Deschryver)
• A New Chapter for Realtime AI: Reasoning, Translation, and Real-Time Transcription (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here’s how to review them. (Andrea Griffiths)
• .NET Upgrades Done Right: Beyond the “It Builds” Target (Mitchel Sellers)
• Copilot Studio gets faster with .NET 10 on WebAssembly (Daniel Roth)

Web and Cloud Development

• SimpleChat: A Provider-Agnostic AI Chat Starter for Blazor (Michael Washington)
• Electron 42 Release (Keeley Hammond)
• New in the Postman API v1.39: API Catalog and Spec Hub endpoints (Quinton Wall)
• What’s new in Aspire 13.3 – Stop alt-tabbing to DevTools: WithBrowserLogs makes Chromium an Aspire resource (Erik Lieben)
• Introducing the Azure Resource Manager MCP Server! (Steven Bucher)
• Aspire v13.3.0 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Node.js 26.1.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
• How to build your first MCP server with Node.js (Elijah Asaolu)
• 4 PDF Hyperlink Best Practices Every JavaScript Developer Must Follow (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
• Integrating Resend with Auth0 for Email Delivery (Ankur P. Chauhan & Brittany Roth)

Windows Development

• Publish to Microsoft Store as a company—now with free registration and faster onboarding (Giorgio Sardo)
• Announcing Windows Driver Kit (WDK) with Visual Studio 2026 (Prashant Chahar)
• When you upgrade your resource strings to Unicode, don’t forget to specify the L prefix (Raymond Chen)
• What’s New in vcpkg (Apr 2026) (Augustin Popa)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.5.0 Release (lokitoth)
• Visual Studio Code 1.120 (VS Code Team)
• LINQ in C#: Complete Guide to Language Integrated Query (.NET 6-9) (Nick Cosentino)
• MCP Magic: Building Tool-Enabled AI Agents with C# (David Ramel)
• Make Your JetBrains Plugin Remote Development-Ready (Nikita Katkov)
• C#: Should This Be a Class, Record, Struct, or Interface? (Chris Pietschmann)

AI

• When prompts become shells: RCE vulnerabilities in AI agent frameworks (Uri Oren, Amit Eliahu & Dor Edry)
• Security Dashboard for AI: 3 Ways CISOs Drive Impact Today (Danica Barhumi)
• Least privilege AI agents: A new azd template from Curity and Microsoft (Kristen Womack)
• Scaling Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber (OpenAI Team)
• Why Your RAG Pipeline Will Fail Without an MCP Server (Jaswinder Kumar)
• Perplexity’s Personal Computer is now available everyone on Mac (Sarah Perez)
• How to Get the Most Out of Your Claude Pro Account (Mahesh Chand)
• Seeing MCP (Kin Lane)
• Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows (Landon Cox)
• Warp: The Open-Source Agentic Development Environment Goes Open Source (Nikos Vaggalis)
• OpenClaw v2026.5.7 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Collaborate with Claude across Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook (Claude Team)
• Security Center 2.0: Act on vulnerabilities in bulk across all your apps (Replit Team)
• The state of global AI diffusion in 2026 (Juan Lavista Ferres)
• GitHub builds an immune system for AI coding agents running on MCP (Paul Sawers)
• From Doer to Director: The AI Mindset Shift (Paul Boag)
• Project-Specific Build Optimizations with GitHub Copilot (David Li)
• LLMs as hardware (Johnny)
• Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal (Simon Willison)
• GitHub Copilot and me: The evolution of my partnership with a coding assistant (Bruno Belarte)
• The introverts’ edge: How AI is leveling the developer floor (Darryl K. Taft)
• Why hasn’t longer-horizon training slowed AI progress? (Sean Goedecke)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.3.0 Release (giles17)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Kubernetes v1.36: More Drivers, New Features, and the Next Era of DRA (DRA Team)
• Friction is a design tool, not a UX problem (Bart Krawczyk)
• Comparing Different Approaches to Sandboxing (Jennifer Kohl)
• Debugging Event-Driven Systems: 5 Problems Teams Create (Derek Comartin)
• How Application Shielding Software Protects Apps (Ben Nettleton)
• World Passkey Day: Advancing passwordless authentication (Vasu Jakkal & Nadim Abdo)
• A Tour of Handoff Orchestration Pattern (Jacob Alber)
• Design Principles Unpacked, No. 4: Balance (Teon Beijl)
• How to Make Code Highlighting-Friendly (Pavel Fatin)

Mobile and Game Development

• Did Microsoft just tease a new Xbox UI? and Inside the return of Xbox (Tom Warren)
• A look ahead: Making it easier and faster to publish safer apps (Vijaya Kaza)
• Android 17: Everything We Know About Google’s Biggest Year Yet (Aminu Abdullahi)

Screencasts and Videos

• Azure MCP and Azure Skills | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Sandeep Sen)
• Aspire 13.3 – Maddy’s Top 5 Features (Maddy Montaquila)
• Surprise Elon-Anthropic Team Up Reshapes AI Race (AIDailyBrief)
• The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code: Cognitive Debt and Intent Debt | Hangar DX Podcast (Hangar DX Team)
• Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 Highlights (Microsoft Developer Team)
• Playwright for .NET apps – Meet Uno Platform’s MCP Tools! (Sam Basu)
• Build a Unity Game with GitHub Copilot + MCP | .NET Game Development (Andy de George & Stacey Haffner)
• Make SSMS 22 Work For You: How to Customize Your Environment | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Makena Barickman)
• Random.Code() – Adding Replacement Capabilities to Rocks, Part 1 (Jason Bock)

Dometrain Course

Let’s Build It: URL Shortener in .NET: Learn how to build a production-ready URL Shortener in its entirety, including conception, development and deployment. (Gui Ferreira) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #571 – The Enterprise Dunbar number (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Women in Technology Podcast Episode #63 – Cutting Through the Noise: How Jobs to Be Done Reveals Real Customer Demand (WiT Team)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #145 – BMW iX3 US Pricing & Range Impresses + Rivian R2 Truck Rumors Resurfacing! (Batteries Included Team)
• Big Technology Podcast – AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko (Alex Kantrowitz)
• MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #427 – Copilot Cowork Hands-On Experiences (Ben Stegink & Scott Hoag)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google – GKE Turns 10 Hackathon, with Amie Wei (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – AI giveth and AI taketh CPU (Phoebe Sajor)
• Leadership as a Service — Why Scrum Masters Should Work Themselves Out of a Job and How Quality Circles Make Learning Flow | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Peter Merel)

Community and Events

• Do We Still Need Dev Conferences? (Johnny)
• AgentCon Around the World: How MVPs Brought AI Agents to Life (Alice Piras)
• AI meets accessibility in this year’s Swift Student Challenge (Apple)
• Calling All Prototypes To Maker Faire Rome 2026 (Ursula Pala)
• I’ve Been Busy Updating My Pluralsight Courses (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Microsoft employees learn details of voluntary retirement package: Here’s what the company is offering (Todd Bishop)
• Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ (Chris Freeland)

Database

• Scalable AI with Azure Cosmos DB: Bringing Generative AI to Enterprise Scale with Super Insight by AVASOFT (Manish Sharma)
• Why COALESCE might be the most useful SQL function you’re not using right (Lukas Vileikis)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Clustered Tables, Page Splits, and Readaheads (Erik Darling)
• The Best Risk Mitigation Strategy in Data? A Single Source of Truth (Jeremy Arendt)
• Vector Database Use Cases: Search, RAG, and AI Apps (Hannah Laurel)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Announcing general availability of the mailbox import and export Microsoft Graph APIs (Microsoft Graph Team)
• Available today: GPT-5.5 Instant in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Nitin Agrawal)

Tools

• Autoruns, ProcDump, ZoomIt, DebugView, NotMyFault, ProcExp, Procmon, and Linux tools | Sysinternals (Alex Mihaiuc)
• Oh My Posh Configurator – A visual tool that helps you create and customize your terminal prompt configuration (James Montemagno)
• Announcing Files v4.1 (Files Team)

General

• The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle (BeauHD)
• Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production (Jay Peters)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 7, 2026 (#779) (Richard Seroter)

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.

Top Links

• From Local to Production: Deploy Your Microsoft Agent Framework Agent with Foundry Hosted Agents (Tao Chen & Shawn Henry)
• From Prompts to Specs: AI Development with OpenSpec in Code Studio (Abilash Raja)
• There is no Install – it’s ‘Stage’ and ‘Register’ (Howard Kapustein)
• Copilot Cowork: From conversation to action across skills, integrations, and devices (Charles Lamanna)
• Durable Workflows in the Microsoft Agent Framework (Shyju Krishnankutty)
• .NET Rocks! – .NET Nanoframework with José Simões (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Introducing Skills for Dart and Flutter (Mariam Hasnany)

Web and Cloud Development

• Proper Not Found (404) Responses in Blazor Interactive Server (Mitchel Sellers)
• Build a Real-Time Voice Interview Coach with TypeScript and LiveKit (Nic Raboy)
• Scaling cloud and AI: Microsoft Azure’s commitment to Europe’s digital future (Jessica Hawk)
• Creating More Realistic Tests with In-Memory Databases in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
• Introducing SignFabric: An Open Source, Enterprise-Ready E-Sign Platform Built with TX Text Control (Bjoern Meyer)
• Creating a Custom AI Agent with Telerik Tools 5: Creating an Interactive UI in JavaScript (Peter Vogel)
• Making Zigzag CSS Layouts With a Grid + Transform Trick (Durgesh Rajubhai Pawar)
• Blazorise 2.1.2 – Accessibility and Scheduler Improvements (Mladen Macanović)
• Starlight 0.39 (Chris Swithinbank)
• The Real Cost of Build vs. Buy for Identity (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Announcing Dart support in Cloud Functions for Firebase (Kevin Moore & Rody Davis)
• The Architecture of Local-First Web Development (Durgesh Pawar)
• How we replaced NGINX-Ingress at Stack Overflow (Michael Frank)
• Evolving role of the index: From ranking pages to supporting answers (Bing Team)

Windows Development

• Why not have changes in API behavior depend on the SDK you link against? (Raymond Chen)
• Why Local-First Apps Matter; And How Simple QR Code Maker Lives the Philosophy (Joseph Finney)
• Windows Package Manager 1.29.170-preview Release (hackean-msft)

.NET and Visual Studio

• C# Records (Ricardo Peres)
• Rider Plugin Development (JetBrains Rider Docs)
• Avalonia app in one file. No XAML, no .csproj, just one code file – now it’s possible with .NET 10 File-based apps (gameplayer55055)

AI

• GitHub Copilot SDK for Rust v0.1.0 Release (github-actions[bot])
• AI Slop is Killing Online Communities (Robin Moffatt)
• The AWS MCP Server is now generally available (Sébastien Stormacq)
• Now in Foundry: IBM Granite 4.1, NVIDIA Nemotron Nano Omni, and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (Osi)
• Run Gemma 4 Locally with GitHub Copilot and VS Code (Chris Pietschmann)
• Google’s AI Search Results Will Now Turn To Reddit For ‘Expert Advice’ (BeauHD)
• AI Subagents ‘Coming Soon’ to Visual Studio Copilot (David Ramel)
• 3 strikes and you’re an AI skill (Jim Bennett)
• User just tricked Grok and Bankrbot to send tokens with Morse code (Hristina Vasileva)
• Adobe Announces an AI Productivity Agent (Paul Thurrott)
• How a Cursor AI agent wiped PocketOS’s production database in under 10 seconds (Janakiram MSV)
• vLLM V0 to V1: Correctness Before Corrections in RL (Rafael Pardinas & Ehsan Kamalloo)
• Secure more apps with External Access Tokens and Private Publishing (Replit Team)
• Bootstrapping Composer with autoinstall (Cursor Team)
• I Tried to Get OpenClaw to Betray Me. The Model Caught Me on the First Try (Ivan Mihić)
• Three words sparked an AI breakthrough in restaurant operations: “Hair. On. Fire.” (Ed Essey)
• Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (Anthropic Team)
• New in Claude Managed Agents: dreaming, outcomes, and multiagent orchestration (Claude Team)
• How to force your custom agent to stop and seek human approval (Richard Seroter)
• Introducing ChatGPT Futures: Class of 2026 and How frontier enterprises are building an AI advantage (OpenAI Team)
• Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like (Simon Willison)
• OpenClaw v2026.5.6 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Fast and Comprehensive Code Review, Now in Windsurf (Windsurf Team)
• “AI systems do not understand”: New report flags systemic failures in AI coding (Darryl K. Taft)
• Auth for MCP Is Now Generally Available (Tara Venkatesan & Karim Tantawy)
• Introducing Learning Activities: AI-powered practice for educators and students (Samantha Fisher)
• The most important part of the Microsoft + Anthropic Cowork deal is not the model. (Paul J. Swider)
• Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says. (Sarah Perez)
• Connectors now on Grok Web (xAI Team)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Things I Think I Think… about Junior Developers (Ted Neward)
• Kubernetes v1.36: Server-Side Sharded List and Watch (Jeffrey Ying)
• Eating My Own Dog Food: How I Used the Framework to Write the Post About the Framework (Marc Millstone)
• How to ensure successful deployment of a cloud migration (Pat Wright)
• The Organization Is the Bottleneck (Sarah Wells)

Mobile and Game Development

• Introducing Shiny.AiConversation — Text, Voice & Wake Word in One Service (Allan Ritchie)
• Flutter Type-Safe Navigation: GoRouter vs AutoRoute (Mobile@Exxeta)

Screencasts and Videos

• Successfully Migrate Workloads from AWS to Azure | Azure Essentials Show (Thomas Maurer & Raffaele Garofalo)
• Did anyone in the ’90s expect Win32 to still be a first‑class API surface in 2026? | One Dev Question (Mark Russinovich)
• .NET MAUI Community Standup: Rust, SkiaSharp Everywhere, AI/ML Live Processing (David Ortinau, Gerald Versluis & Nick Kovalsky)
• Java Application Modernization – Series Introduction (Ayan Gupta)
• We hid these in Windows Terminal (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Azure Blob Storage for AI (Microsoft Azure Team)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: Event Sourcing in .NET: Get started with Event Sourcing in .NET (Hannes Lowette) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Practical AI Podcast Episode #355 – The Myth of Model Wars: Open vs Closed AI in 2026 (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• The Amp Hour #723 – BeagleBoard’s Back with Jason Kridner (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Windows Weekly Episode #982 – Don’t Lick the Manta Rays – Breaking Down Microsoft’s Earnings (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1183 – Meeting the new editor, with AP Stylebook’s Anna Jo Bratton (Mignon Fogarty)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #719 – Birol Yildiz on Building an Agentic AI SRE (Kanchan Shringi)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #547 – Parallel Python at Any Scale with Ray (Michael Kennedy)
• SyncUp, A OneDrive Podcast – What’s new in OneDrive photos (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #144 – Beijing Auto Show Reactions w/ Lei Xing – Feels Like The Future Of EVs (Batteries Included Team)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1002 – The Real Pricing of LLMs (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• AI Alignment Is the Agile Coach’s Next Frontier – Using Throughput Accounting and Pull-Based Transformation to Prove Value | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Peter Merel)

Community and Events

• The Invisible Work – What it takes to run a developer conference (Michael Eaton)
• Web Development in 2026 with Jeff Fritz – Learn the latest in ASP.NET, Blazor, and Aspire in a hands-on livestream workshop (GAP Velocity.AI)
• Microsoft’s Office and LinkedIn chief now runs Teams in latest reshuffle and Here’s what Microsoft is offering long-serving employees to voluntarily retire (Tom Warren)
• Meet the Judges of the 2026 Imagine Cup World Championship (Microsoft Student Developer Team)
• Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026 – Take Part in One of the Largest Developer Studies (Nadia Lokot)
• My Open Source Projects (Rob Bos)

Database

• Free SQL Server Spring Training on Performance Tuning (Brent Ozar)
• Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Cosmos DB Shell: Open-Source Power Meets AI-Driven Database Automation (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Heap Table Problems with Updates and Deletes (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft 365 Copilot, human agency, and the opportunity for every organization (Matt Firestone)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.43 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Running GitHub Copilot CLI Offline with Local Models: GPU Edition (Bruno Capuano)
• Marp CLI v4.4.0 Release (Marp Team)

Writing

• How Writers Use The 4 Main Characters As Literary Devices (Writers Write)

General

• ReactOS Unifies Installation Media, Introduces GUI Installer and New ATA Driver (BeauHD)
• 30 Days of coreutils: mkdir (Rachel Kaufman)
• Microsoft finally begins testing Windows 10-like smaller taskbar for Windows 11 after removing it in 2021 (Mayank Parmar)
• ClickFix campaign uses fake macOS utilities lures to deliver infostealers (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team & Microsoft Defender Experts)
• New Worms Game Has Possibly Leaked In A Bizarre Way (Andrew Highton)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 6, 2026 (#778) (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.

Top Links

• ZoomIt, Evolved (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• How to Fix Slow EF Core Queries: Practical Performance Tuning (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)
• Apps That See: Bringing Vision AI to Your Projects (Frank Boucher)
• Node.js 26.0.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
• Introducing OpenAI’s newest chat model in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Real-world WPF Modernization Showcase (Sam Basu)

Web and Cloud Development

• How to Build a Loan Document Workflow Using an Embedded React PDF Viewer (Deepa Thiruppathy)
• Trustworthy JavaScript for the Open Web (Firefox Security Team)
• OAuth 2.1 Made Simple: The Only Flows You Need and Beyond localhost: Multi-Instance ASP.NET Core Deployment with .NET 10 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Routing Management and Creating NotFound Pages in Blazor (Héctor Pérez)
• Mapping Strings to Float Arrays in Go: How Fast Can We Go? (Daniel Lemire)
• Wolverine Middleware and Some Random Observations (Jeremy D. Miller)
• A Developer’s Guide to Flexible Token Exchange on Auth0 (David Lozano, Charles Rea & Justin Hinerman)

Windows Development

• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v2.10.0 release (Alvin Ashcraft) – Removed hard dependency on C# Dev Kit, added features for WinApp extension parity, and WinUI official template support. Available on VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX Registry.
• A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures (Raymond Chen)
• MSIX vs MSI: How to convert your MSI to MSIX in 2026 (Alex Marin)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Building and Using MCP Servers in Visual Studio (David Ramel)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.4.0 Release (westey-m)

AI

• Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models (Emma Roth)
• GPT-5.5 Instant System Card and GPT-5.5 Instant: smarter, clearer, and more personalized (OpenAI Team)
• Turning GitHub Copilot into a “Best Practices Coach” with Copilot Spaces + a Markdown Knowledge Base (mohashaikh)
• What OpenAI models support thinking, custom temperature, or both? (Spencer Schneidenbach)
• Why AI is raising the stakes of the software engineering craft (Cecilia Geraldo)
• OpenClaw v2026.5.5 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI (Jay Peters)
• It’s the Smell (Robin Moffatt)
• VS Code Update Added Copilot As Default Co-Author To Git Commits (BeauHD)
• OpenAI is reportedly launching a phone for ChatGPT (Stevie Bonifield)
• Microsoft’s new research finds an AI ‘paradox’ holding companies back (Todd Bishop)
• How Frontier Firms are rebuilding the operating model for the age of AI (Jared Spataro)
• Advancing AI evaluation with the Center for AI Standards (US) and Innovation and the AI Security Institute (UK) (Natasha Crampton)
• 8 Agentic AI patterns reshaping team collaboration (Erika Feldman)
• Foundry IQ and the partner opportunity: Turning domain knowledge into AI advantage (Reenu)
• Read-only analytics access and custom metrics now available in Microsoft Copilot Studio (Eran Manor)
• Accelerating Delivery: How AI Agents Can Own the Initial Code Draft (Stephen Walker)
• Modernize your workflows: Amazon WorkSpaces now gives AI agents their own desktop (preview) (Micah Walter)
• Mistral Adds Remote Agents and Work Mode to Le Chat (Daniel Dominguez)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Time to retire? (Eric Brechner)
• Kubernetes v1.36: Declarative Validation Graduates to GA (Yongrui Lin)
• Learning to code, 1990s vs 2026 (Oren Eini)
• What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap (Mark Downie)
• What is dogfooding? How JetBrains builds better developer tools (Grete Kivi)
• Generate Images Locally with Docker Model Runner and Open WebUI (Yiwen Xu)
• GitHub Enhances CodeQL with Declarative Security Modeling for Faster, More Flexible Analysis (Craig Risi)
• Technical Skills Every Technical Program Manager Should Learn in 2026 (Dean Hume)
• Cybersecurity Metaphors (Eric Lawrence)
• Bliki: Mythical Man Month (Martin Fowler)

Mobile and Game Development

• Raspberry Pi Connect: Device tags, required 2FA, and a mobile keyboard (Paul)
• Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes (Tom Warren)

Screencasts and Videos

• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Brittany Ellich (Isaac Levin)
• Containerization Assist Integration with AKS VSCode Extension (Tatasat Mishra & Suneha Bose)
• Day in the life of AI Engineer: With a Demo (Priyanka Vergadia & Anthony Sofio)
• Introducing Quest to Compile: A Show for Game Devs Building in .NET (Andy De George & Stacey Haffner)
• SharpSite and StreamerMaps | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: ASP.NET Core: Learn how to get started with building web product with ASP.NET Core (Steve Smith) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Developer Tea Podcast – You’re Wrong All the Time, But All You Need Are Better Explanations (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #29 – Preserving the Web in the Age of AI (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1023 – Don’t Be Contemptible – Apple Sets a New Record for Its Second Quarter Results (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• RunAs Radio Show #1035 – Securing Active Directory with Spencer Alessi (Richard Campbell)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #352 – Google Next: Rebrandapalooza (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – No Mail, Low Moral: The 6888’s Courage to Deliver (United States Postal Service)
• SQL Down Under Show #95 with guest Jess Pomfret (Greg Low)
• When a Hub-and-Spoke Executive Hijacks Your Agile Transformation — And What to Do About It | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Peter Merel)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #207 – Is AI Making Your Developer Experience Worse? (Tomasz Ptak)

Community and Events

• Google DeepMind workers are unionizing over AI military contracts (Jess Weatherbed)
• My MVP Story: Four Years In, Two Years with Security Copilot, and a Lot of Learning (Kim Sanchez)
• Welcome to Maintainer Month: Celebrating the people behind the code (Abigail Cabunoc Mayes)
• Philly’s Newest Museums, Galleries & Attractions for 2026 (Visit Philly)
• CfPs Closing Soon (as of 2026-05-05) (Dave Aronson)

Database

• What are managed identities in SQL Server 2025? A complete guide (Greg Low)
• Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 Recap: Lessons from Production (Mark Brown)
• Test SQL Server Backup Performance For Free (Erik Darling)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.41 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• ‘Notepad++ For Mac’ Release Is Disavowed By the Creator of the Original (BeauHD)

General

• CO2 Levels In the Atmosphere Hit ‘Depressing’ New Record (BeauHD)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 5, 2026 (#777) (Richard Seroter)
• Radar Trends to Watch: May 2026 (Mike Loukides & Claude)
• Windows news you can use: April 2026 (Chris Morrissey)
• Fragments: May 5 (Martin Fowler)

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.

Top Links

• Announcing the WinApp VS Code Extension — Run, Debug, and Package Windows Apps in VS Code (Chiara Mooney)
• Giving Copilot more C++ context using custom instructions in VS Code (Sinem Akinci)
• SQL MCP Server as an App Service (Jerry Nixon & Helen Zeng)
• Developing internal skills for recurring documentation processes like release notes (Tom Johnson)
• Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #129 – Why Developers Still Matter in the Age of AI – with Tim Corey (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
• Microsoft Agent Framework – Building Blocks for AI Part 3 (Jeremy Likness)

Web and Cloud Development

• Azure IaaS: Defense in depth built on secure-by-design principles (Narayan Annamalai)
• Publishing Plans, Rate Limits, and FinOps for 3,837 API Providers (Kin Lane)
• Fixed-Height Cards: More Fragile Than They Look (Kevine Nzapdi)
• Disable HTTP caching by default in ASP.NET Core APIs (Gérald Barré)
• Build a Web-Based Production Planning Spreadsheet in React (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
• Links to CSS colour palettes (Julia Evans)
• Building Conversational Pivot Tables in React with AI (Manikandan Murugesan)

Windows Development

• How do I inform Windows that I’m writing a binary file? (Raymond Chen)
• WinDev Helper Release v2.9.0 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Handling the updates from winapp CLI v0.3.1. Get it on the VS Code extension marketplace here.

.NET and Visual Studio

• Pattern matching in C#: Advanced scenarios you didn’t know (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• How to use GitHub Copilot Agent Skills in Visual Studio (Bart Wullems)

AI

• AI Unit Testing Validation: AI Can Generate Tests – But Who Validates Them? (Eli Lopian)
• We Gave Agents IDE-Native Search Tools. They Got Faster and Cheaper. (Denis Shiryaev)
• Moving Beyond Prompts: A Practical Introduction to Spec-Driven Development (sutandan)
• Putting Claude up against our test suite (Oren Eini)
• OpenClaw v2026.5.4 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• White House Considers Vetting AI Models Before They Are Released and OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill To Fund ‘AI Literacy’ In Schools (BeauHD)
• AI won’t speed up software delivery — nothing has (Matthew Burns)
• Building an AI Agent for Azure Infrastructure Validation (ranjsharma)
• Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft’s OpenClaw team takes on the personal assistant challenge (Mary Jo Foley)
• Your AI agents are now employees. It’s time to treat them that way. Meet Loop. (Brooke Lynn Weenig)
• Special Embrace? VS Code Adapts to Claude Code’s Ecosystem (David Ramel)
• Say Hello to the Internet of AI (Om Malik)
• How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (OpenAI Team)
• How AI Swarms Are Disrupting Democracy (Marco Camisani Calzolari)

Python

• PyTorch vs. TensorFlow: Choosing the Right Framework in 2026 (Evgenia Verbina)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How to utilize testing to ensure a successful cloud migration (Pat Wright)
• Connect Any Git or Mercurial Repo to Pulumi with Custom VCS (Michael Fallihee)
• The Tension Between Velocity and Comprehension (Travis Lowdermilk)
• From Azure DevOps to GitHub Enterprise: Why Now Is the Right Time to Make the Move (Gregor Suttie)
• The Dark Factory Pattern for Infrastructure: Running Pulumi Lights-Out (Engin Diri)
• Build and Deploy Logic App Workflows Using Visual Studio Code and CI/CD Pipeline (Devi Priya)
• Architecture to Resilience: A Decision Guide (varghesejoji)
• Democratizing Machine Learning at Netflix: Building the Model Lifecycle Graph (Saish Sali, Nipun Kumar & Sura Elamurugu)
• Breaking the code: Multi-stage ‘code of conduct’ phishing campaign leads to AiTM token compromise (Microsoft Defender Security Research & Threat Intelligence Teams)

Mobile and Game Development

• Integrating Haptic Feedback in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Get started with Avalonia in Rider (JetBrains Rider Docs)
• Firebase Phone Number Verification is generally available! (Micah Baker)
• Building a GenUI Sales Analytics App in Flutter with Bring Your Own (BYO) AI Model Provider (Flutter Gems)

Screencasts and Videos

• Why Agents Make Every Job a Startup (AIDailyBrief)
• SQL Server Database Migration using Azure Arc Explained | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & John Morehouse)
• Random.Code() – Catching MIssed Return Values From Immutable Collections, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
• CLI vs MCP: What Tools AI Agents Use to Get the Job Done (Frank La Vigne)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Event-Driven Architecture: Learn everything you need to start using Event-Driven Architecture (James Eastham) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Presentation Podcast Episode #245 – Inside the Creative Process: Designing a Partnership Pitch Deck (Troy Chollar)
• Merge Conflict Episode #513 – Agents Over Chat: The Future of Developer Workflows (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Big Technology Podcast – Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate? (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Only Malware in the Building – Mythbehavior under investigation. (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast – The One Question That Changes an Engineering Career | Marc Champagne on Mental Fitness (Max Ahumada)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #478 – Iodine tablets and potable water (Michael Kennedy)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #275 – Google Cloud Next 2026: The AI Earthquake, “SOC-home” Syndrome, and the Ragged Edge of Reality (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1001 – Managing Deadlines + Stress (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• When Telling a Manager “You Don’t Have a Role” Backfires — A Lesson in Agile Coaching Humility | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Peter Merel)
• Grammar Girl Podcast – Decoding the colon: AP vs. MLA style. Plus, words with no known origin. (Mignon Fogarty)
• Meta Cast – When Your Words Sound Smooth But Mean Nothing (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• InfoQ Podcast: Roq: Leveraging Quarkus to Build Static Sites at the Speed of Go (Andy Damevin)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – What (un)exactly do you mean by semantic search? (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Only-in-2026: A Guide to Can’t-Miss Live Sporting Events in Philly and We the People: 20 Ways Philly Is Highlighting Underrepresented Voices for America’s 250th (Visit Philly)
• Meet the Finalists: JetBrains x Codex Hackathon (Dominique Rolink)
• Register now for OpenClaw: After Hours @ GitHub (Lee Reilly)

Database

• A Redgate Data Modeler Gotcha with Relationships (Steve Jones)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Hands-on webinar: Study and Learn agent in M365 Copilot (Mike Tholfsen)

PowerShell and Terminal

• PowerShell Strikes Back: Know Your Quotes, Young Padawan (gbargsley)

Writing

• Mastering Point Of View In Writing (Writers Write)

Tools

• Heart-It – A Windows app for quick reactions in Microsoft Teams | TinyToolTown (Alvin Ashcraft)

General

• Astronomers May Have Detected an Atmosphere Around a Tiny, Icy World Past Pluto (BeauHD)
• Copyright vs. Trademark vs. Patent – If You Create, Build, or Brand Anything, This Matters (Lino Tadros)
• Apple introduces a new Pride Collection (Apple)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 4, 2026 (#776) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: What’s Next with AWS 2026, Amazon Quick, OpenAI partnership, and more (May 4, 2026) (Esra Kayabali)
• Reading Notes #696 (Frank Boucher)
• The latest AI news we announced in April 2026 (Google Keyword Team)
• Hit Subscribe Digest (Lyndsey Silker)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Is Designing (Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle) – Referral Link

Words and the User Experience.

Top Links

• Technology & Friends Episode #900 – A Celebration of Friends! (David Giard)
• The new Run dialog: faster, cleaner, and more capable (Clint Rutkas)
• Things I Think I Think… Data Privacy (Ted Neward)
• AspNetCoreCertificates – Certificate Manager in .NET Core for creating and using X509 certificates (Damien Bowden)
• Windows quality update: Progress we’ve made since March (Marcus Ash)
• winapp CLI Release v0.3.1 (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)

Web and Cloud Development

• StyloBot Release Series: Behaviour-Aware ASP.NET UI (Scott Galloway)
• Testing Vue components in the browser (Julia Evans)
• We Standardized the API. We Didn’t Standardize the Application. (Kin Lane)
• State of Routing in Model Serving (Nipun Kumar, Rajat Shah & Peter Chng)
• ESLint v10.3.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• What’s new in Svelte: May 2026 (Dani Sandoval)
• How to migrate from controllers to Minimal APIs (David Grace)
• Ember 6.12 Released (Jared Galanis & Chris Manson)
• devtools: how to query through the shadow DOM (Remy Sharp)

Windows Development

• WinUI 3 Gallery 2.9 Highlights Windows App SDK 2.0 for App Developers (David Ramel)
• Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 4: Abandonment (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Rock Your Code: I Let AI Build a Visual Studio Extension—Here’s What REALLY Happened (David McCarter)
• Quadratic Regression with Pseudo-Inverse Training Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Bridge Design Pattern in C#: Complete Guide with Examples (Nick Cosentino)
• The Feedback Service — One Hook to Rule Them All (Allan Ritchie)
• C# / .NET: The Cleanest Way to Introduce a New Cross-Cutting Concern (Chris Pietschmann)
• NAudio Modernization with Claude Code (Mark Heath)
• CQRS Without MediatR: Hand-Rolled Command and Query Handlers in .NET (Adrian Bailador)

AI

• Teaching an AI Agent to Debug Flaky Tests (Igor Kulakov)
• OpenClaw 2026.5.3 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• WebSocket Mode for Azure OpenAI Responses API – Microsoft Foundry (Microsoft Learn)
• LLM Leaderboard – Comparison of over 100 AI models from OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek & others (Artificial Analysis)
• Sponsor group type requirements for agent identities (Microsoft Entra Agent ID team)
• I used Claude to debug a UI bug: What actually happened (Marie Starck)
• Agentic AI Tools Are Orchestrators, Not Magic and 8 AI Productivity Tips That Took Me Years to Learn (So You Don’t Have To) (Chris Pietschmann)
• Where the GitHub Copilot extension points break governance (Rob Bos)
• Run Gemma 4 with Ollama locally, and keep the Aspire LLM Insights (sparkles and all) (Erik Lieben)
• Local AI (Mike Loukides & Claude)
• A Bridge Between Human and AI on Your Documentation (Kin Lane)
• OpenAI and Yubico launch custom YubiKeys to lock down ChatGPT accounts (Wayne Williams)
• Windows 365 for Agents now in public preview: Run AI agents securely, at scale (Swarnim Srivastava)
• From capability to responsibility: Securing our global digital ecosystem with next‑generation AI (Amy Hogan-Burney)
• Introducing langchain-azure-cosmosdb: Build Agentic Apps and RAG with One Database (James Codella & Aayush Kataria)
• GitHub Copilot and Real Scrutiny (James D. Randall)
• Cursor’s $60 billion bet is on the harness, not the model (Matthew Burns)

Python

• Python support for the Microsoft Teams SDK is now generally available (Lily Du, Ricky Castaneda & Aamir Jawaid)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Faster Rust Testing at Scale: cargo-nextest in Practice (Irina Mihajlovic)
• A Virtual Agent team at Docker: How the Coding Agent Sandboxes team uses a fleet of agents to ship faster (Jennifer Kohl)
• What Invariants Are (and Why a Domain Model Is the Best Place to Enforce Them) (Milan Jovanović)
• On pace and value — why is moving slow boring? (Tom Johnson)
• Advice I Like: Celebrate Success (Steve Jones)
• Motivated reasoning (Mark Seemann)
• Learning to love other people’s code. (Ben Miller)
• Dispatches from O’Reilly: Fast Paths and Slow Paths (Varun Raj)

Mobile and Game Development

• Is Gamescom for Indie Devs? And Tomb Raider in 2D! (Code Monkey)
• What’s new in Swift: April 2026 Edition (Adam Fowler & Dave Lester)

Screencasts and Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode #901 – Brady Gaster on Squad and a Multi Agent AI (David Giard)
• Random.Code() – Catching MIssed Return Values From Immutable Collections, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 311 – “The Next Generation Turing Test” (When will we reach Physical AI?) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• The Download: Linux 486 retirement, DeepSeek v4, TanStack AI & more (Andrea Griffiths)
• Fast Focus: GitHub Models—An AI-infused Developer Experience | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Brian Randall)
• Taming the Data Estate with Copilot and Azure Service Monitor – MVP Unplugged (Magnus Mårtensson)
• Busy .NET Developer’s Guide to Python | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Ted Neward)
• How to contribute to Warp (Warp Team)
• SXSW Tip #4 – Guide to a Standing Beacon | One Dev Question (John Maeda)
• How Harness-as-a-Service Will Change Agents (AIDailyBrief)
• Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 Keynote (Microsoft Developer Team)
• .NET MAUI Engineering Team Live Stream: AI-Powered .NET MAUI Development with MauiDevFlow (Jakub Florkowski, Shane Neuville & Gerald Versluis)

Dometrain Course

Deep Dive: Blazor: Deep dive into 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

• Lenny’s Podcast – Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Who needs a server? | Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #271 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• Guidance Counselor Podcast Episode #514 – Literally Writing The Book on Technical Interviews w/ David McCarter (Taylor Desseyn)
• BONUS Why Your Agile Transformation Keeps Snapping Back — And What Systems Thinking Says About It | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Natalia Curusi)
• freeCodeCamp Podcast Episode #217 – Stanford’s youngest instructor talks InfoSec, AI, and catching cheaters – Rachel Fernandez interview (Beau Carnes)
• Big Technology Podcast – OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman, Prediction Market Ban (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Episode #618 – The Story of Fallout (with Chris Avellone) (David Barr Kirtley)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #143 – 5-Minute Charging For The Masses: China’s New EV Reality (Batteries Included Team)
• A Geek Leader Episode #467 – Sabrina Parsons (John Rouda)
• AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Inside Microsoft’s Vision for AI Agents and the Future of Work (Bob Evans)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #293 – Agentic Data Science Pair Programming With marimo pair (Christopher Bailey & Trevor Manz)
• Hard Fork Podcast – OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• Mac Power Users 847: Actually Useful AI Tools (David Sparks & Stephen Robles)

Community and Events

• Call For Papers Listings for 5/1 and Job listings for week ending 5/1 (Leon Adato)
• Gear Up for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 with Jenkins (Kris Stern)
• Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Plan (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

• Microsoft ODBC Driver 17.11.1 for SQL Server Released and Announcing Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 6.1.5 (David Levy)
• What is chunking, and how does it apply to vectors in SQL Server 2025? (Greg Low)
• Better Domain Knowledge Makes For Better Queries (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft Agent 365, now generally available, expands capabilities and integrations (Nirav Shah, Rob Lefferts & Jason Roszak)
• Microsoft wants lawyers to trust its new AI agent in Word documents (Tom Warren)
• What’s New in Agent 365: May 2026 (Alex Pozin)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.40 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Running GitHub Copilot CLI Offline with Local Models: A CPU-Only Reality Check (Bruno Capuano)

Writing

• Making The First Move (Writers Write)

Tools

• Introducing CFP Manager to Manage Speaking Engagements for the Team (Nic Raboy)
• Teaching My Teleprompter to Listen (David Neal)
• Heart-It v1.1.0 Release (Alvin Ashcraft)

General

• Announcing new builds for 1 May 2026 and extending ISO support (Stephen Lines & Windows Insider Program Team)
• “Xbox mode is easily the headline feature”: In May’s Windows 11 update, I walk through the 11 upgrades that change how we use the OS, and why some of them surprised me (Mauro Huculak)
• Microsoft says it’ll simpilify Windows 11’s Edge browser by removing features like Sidebar, pledges to win back users (Mayank Parmar)
• Microsoft is giving Windows 11 a faster Run dialog inspired by PowerToys (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
• Windows 11’s Windows 95-era File Explorer Properties dialog is getting replaced with modern version and dark mode and Microsoft is finally turning off the MSN feed and ads in Windows 11 Widgets by default (Abhijith M B)
• Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (Velvet Shark)
• On World Press Freedom Day, a Call to Keep the News Preserved (Chris Freeland)
• Wordium – A fast, polished word-guessing game for Windows (Alvin Ashcraft)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest #606 – High-performance distributed caching with .NET (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Android Weekly Issue #725 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #561 – 3rd May 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #18, 2026 – Game Boy Emulator in F# (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – May 1, 2026 (#775) (Richard Seroter)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #749 (Dave Verwer)
• Rust for Windows – April 2026 Newsletter (Kenny Kerr)
• The Batch Issue #351 – GPT-5.5 Outperforms (and Hallucinates), Kimi K2.6 Leads Open LLMs, AI Strains Climate Pledges, Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans (DeepLearning.AI)

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.

Top Links

• TypeScript 7 Beta Now Enabled by Default in Visual Studio 2026 18.6 Insiders 3 (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
• Building an AI-Powered Conference App with .NET’s Composable AI Stack (Luis Quintanilla)
• Zed is 1.0 (Nathan Sobo)
• Visual Studio Code 1.119 (VS Code Team)
• Saying goodbye to CocoaPods: Swift Package Manager is soon the default in Flutter! (Jenn Magder)
• GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Interactive v. non-interactive mode (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Announcing WinUI 3 Gallery 2.9 (Niels Laute & Marcel Wagner)

Web and Cloud Development

• Azure Developer CLI (azd) – April 2026 (Kristen Womack)
• What’s new in Astro – April 2026 (Sarah Rainsberger)
• Astro 6.2 (Emanuele Stoppa & Matthew Phillips)
• The Importance of Native Randomness in CSS (Alvaro Montoro)
• Build a Role-Based LMS with In-Document Learning Using a React PDF Viewer (Deepa Thiruppathy)
• Why over-communication is critical to the success of a cloud migration (Pat Wright)

Windows Development

• Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 2: Taking turns when being grabby (Raymond Chen)
• Windows Package Manager 1.29.160-preview (hackean-msft)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: High-Performance Character Processing with CharacterExtensions (David McCarter)
• Multi-layer Caching with the Decorator Pattern (Jonathan George)
• C# and .NET Mega eBook Bundle 2026 | Packt Publishing (Humble Bundle) – Referral link
• C# / .NET Performance: Why Is It Slow ‘Here’ and What Should You Optimize First? (Chris Pietschmann)

AI

• DocumentDb AI Tools — Give Your LLM a Database and One Contract, Three Transports — Mediator AI Tooling and Turn Any Interface Into an AI Tool — Shiny DI 3.0 (Allan Ritchie)
• VS Code Curbs Token Use Ahead of Copilot’s Controversial Usage-Based Billing Switch (David Ramel)
• Building with Gemini Embedding 2: Agentic multimodal RAG and beyond (Patrick Löber, Lucia Loher & Roberto Santana)
• Work IQ API Public Preview: Build Copilot Powered Agents with A2A (tolgaki)
• Introducing DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro in Microsoft Foundry (Rashaud Savage)
• AI Crash Course: MCP Servers, Agents, AI Assistants and Skills (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• Continually improving our agent harness (Cursor Team)
• Building AI agents for the enterprise and Claude Security is now in public beta and Lessons from building Claude Code: Prompt caching is everything (Claude Team)
• OpenClaw v2026.4.29 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Red-teaming a network of agents: Understanding what breaks when AI agents interact at scale (Microsoft Research)
• 13 CTOs walk into a bar and realize: There is no best AI adoption strategy (Petar Dučić)
• Stop Burning Your AI Tokens: Top 25 Ways To Reduce LLM Token Costs (Mahesh Chand)
• AI Is Changing the Infrastructure Economics of Software Engineering (Chris Pietschmann)
• With AI, Headline isn’t the story and What’s wrong in my thinking about Errors? (Om Malik)
• Spotify introduces verified artist badges to help distinguish humans from AI (Aisha Malik)
• The IDE Is Already an AI Quality Variable. Is It on Your AI Agenda? (Colette Des Georges)
• How to get 80% of GPT-4’s value for 20% of the cost (5 tips for reducing AI spend) (Abhishek Goyal)
• Introducing Open Vibe: Learn Web Dev While You Build Apps With an AI Tutor (Vinny)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• CI/CD for .NET on AWS: CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and Blue-Green Deployments on ECS (Sudhir Mangla)
• What’s new, updated, or recently released in Microsoft Security (Alym Rayani)
• The End of NGINX Ingress on AKS: What You Need to Know (Piotr Kolodziej)
• Tolerating Inaccessibility (Christopher Phillips)
• Jenkins: Introducing the Secret Guard Plugin (Donghui Wang)

Mobile and Game Development

• Microsoft is Rolling Out Xbox Mode in Windows 11 (Paul Thurrott)
• AI-Powered Navigation in Shiny MAUI Shell (Allan Ritchie)
• Automatic Super Resolution Preview Comes to the ROG Xbox Ally X for Docked Play (Amanda Skrabut, Sameer Nene & Luke Olsen)
• New Raspberry Pi Magazine Available (Rob Miles)

Screencasts and Videos

• Microsoft SQL Drivers and SDKs: Python, AI, Bulk Copy, Arrow & more! | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & David Levy)
• Zero to Blazor Apps with GitHub Copilot | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Allen Conway)
• Keynote: Knowledge is the Key: The Path for AI Applications | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Jerry Nixon & Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
• SharpSite and StreamerMaps | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• 5 Types of Developers AI is KILLING in 2026 (Codepur)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: Azure for Developers: Get started with Microsoft Azure as a Software Engineer (Kevin Dockx) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Modern .NET Show – Measure Twice, Cut Once: Benchmarking, Hot Paths and the Chainsaw of Unsafe Code with Szymon Kulec (Jamie Taylor)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #570 – The Enterprisification of Agents (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast Episode #1043 – The Joy of Unplugging Cables: Kelly Shortridge on Security Resilience and The Hanselminutes Podcast Episode #1044 – Making opinionated AI tooling decisions with Nimbalyst’s Greg Hinkle (Scott Hanselman)
• The Azure Security Podcast Episode #127 – Threat intel update and AI (Sherrod DeGrippo, Michael Howard, Sarah Young & Mark Simos)
• AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Jorgen Bach on Closing the ERP Value Gap and Operationalizing AI (Tom Smith)
• Build Mode Podcast – Maintaining Momentum and Morale During the Long Road to FDA Approval with Robhy Bustami, BioticsAI (Maggie Nye & Isabelle Johannessen)
• BONUS Agile in Construction Track Preview With Felipe Engineer-Manriquez At The Global Agile Summit | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
• Grammar Girl Podcast – The hidden superpower of verbs, with Sarah L. Kaufman (Mignon Fogarty)
• Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.4: Mono, micro, mesco (Steve Fenton)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Time is a construct but it can still break your software and The Stack Overflow Podcast – The Worst Coder in the World goes agentic: building a leaderboard cracking AI (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Welcoming Abigail Besdin, Mozilla’s new Chief Operating Officer (Mozilla)
• Meta lost 20 million users last quarter (Jess Weatherbed)

Database

• Query Hashes and Parameter Names in SQL Server (Erik Darling)
• PostgreSQL enters its AI era: Run PostgreSQL like a pro in the era of AI and rapid growth (Charles Feddersen)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2026 (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
• What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | April 2026 (Seth Patton)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Announcing Native PowerShell Tooling for ReFS Snapshots (Christina Curlette)
• Codex CLI 0.128.0 adds /goal (Simon Willison)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.40-3 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Fast .NET CLI ISO Downloader with Integrity Validation (Bryan Hogan)
• From Terminal to Autonomous Coding: Mastering GitHub Copilot CLI ACP Server (Ravindra Kumar Vishwakarma)

Tools

• Microsoft brings a Linux-style window trick to Windows 11 via PowerToys, and I can’t go back (Abhijith M B)
• Zed, the Rust-Made Coding Editor, Hits 1.0 (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft PowerToys 0.99 Adds Multi-Monitor Tools for Windows Users (TechRepublic Staff)

General

• Planning your path to Windows Server 2025: What organizations are prioritizing in 2026 (Windows Server Team)
• What Microsoft’s 10-Q Says About OpenAI (Om Malik)
• The Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum have been turned into retrofuturistic handhelds (Andrew Liszewski)

More Link Collections

• Interesting links – April 2026 (Robin Moffatt)
• Daily Reading List – April 30, 2026 (#774) (Richard Seroter)

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#.

Top Links

• Windows App SDK 2.0 (2.0.1) Released (agniuks)
• .NET Rocks! Episode 2000! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• VSTest is Removing its Newtonsoft.Json Dependency (McKenna Barlow)
• What Actually Happens When You Port a WPF App to a Modern .NET UI using Agents (Matt Mattei)
• Kayla + Maddy LIVE – Plants, Trains, and Aspire (Kayla Cinnamon & Maddy Montaquila)
• SDK-Style Support for Extension Projects (Matt Clark)
• Hello Microsoft Foundry Toolbox (Lino Tadros)

Web and Cloud Development

• Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud scales to thousands of nodes with Azure Local (Douglas Phillips)
• Blazing.Mvvm – Production MVVM for Every Blazor Hosting Model (Graeme Grant)
• Angular Material or PrimeNG? Choosing the Right UI Library in 2026 (Ankit Sharma)
• contrast() and contrast-color() (Gabriel Shoyombo)
• Critter Stack 2026 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Creating a Custom AI Agent with Telerik Tools 4: Crafting an Interactive Blazor UI (Peter Vogel)
• Generative colors with CSS (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Back Build Awesome Pro and make it easier to build for the web! (Zach Leatherman)
• General Availability: Refresh Token (RT) Transfer to Apple Watch in Microsoft Entra External ID Native Authentication (Sasha Mars)
• Why Native JavaScript Spreadsheet Editors Are a Safer Fit for Enterprise Applications (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
• Span or Attribute? in OpenTelemetry custom instrumentation (Jessica Kerr)
• jQuery 4 – Basic DOM (Ian Elliot)

Windows Development

• What is Windows Desktop Runtime and what is its role? (Alex Marin)
• Microsoft engineer says native apps are back, and it could finally revive Windows 11’s fight against web apps (Rahul Naskar)
• How to Create a C# .NET Tornado Chart (Greg Lutz)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Introducing ReflectionIT.DisposeGenerator — A Modern Source Generator for the Dispose Pattern (Fons Sonnemans)
• Harden Your .NET JSON Deserialization with System.Text.Json and JsonSerializerOptions.Strict (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Microsoft Releases .NET 11 Preview 3 with Updates Across Runtime, SDK, MAUI, and ASP.NET Core (Almir Vuk)

AI

• Streamline Image Generation Workflow in Foundry Toolkit (Junjie Li)
• Fixing Broken Markdown in AI Translation: Hardening a Production Pipeline (Minseok Song)
• AI Didn’t Kill Video Editing (It Made Some Nice Motion Graphics) (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• Using Agent Skills to develop with Oracle AI Database (Anders Swanson)
• Supercharging GitHub Copilot CLI with Ollama: Local Models, Full Control (Bart Wullems)
• Microsoft says it has over 20M paid Copilot users, and they really are using it (Julie Bort)
• OpenClaw v2026.4.27 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps (Matt Webb)
• Governing MCP tool calls in .NET with the Agent Governance Toolkit (Jack Batzner)
• Cybersecurity in the Intelligence Age and Building the compute infrastructure for the Intelligence Age (OpenAI Team)
• The Block Model Behind Warp’s Agentic Development Environment (David Stern & Oz)
• Product development in the agentic era and Deploying Claude across the enterprise with Claude Cowork (Claude Team)
• Opinion: AI is not a product — it’s an environment (Bill Hilf)
• LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor (Simon Willison)
• Introducing Replit App Monitoring (Replit Team)
• Claude API skill now in CodeRabbit, JetBrains, Resolve AI, and Warp (Claude Team)
• You can now easily generate files in Gemini. (Maryam Sanglaji)
• A Non-Engineer Look at Vibe Coding Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them) (Ivan Simic)
• Salesforce Hosted MCP Servers Are Now Generally Available (Ross Belmont)
• AI evals are becoming the new compute bottleneck and DeepInfra on Hugging Face Inference Providers (Hugging Face)
• Don’t Automate Your Moat: Matching AI Autonomy to Risk and Competitive Stakes (Marc Millstone & Claude)
• RapidClaw Earns a 44.89 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building AI Co-Founder Agents (Tijo Gaucher)
• I Added an MCP Server to My Browser-Based Tool Suite. Agents Found It Immediately. (Mistakili)
• How To Build a Conversational AI Platform Using Open Source Models (Mahesh Chand)
• Warp’s gamble: Going open source to take on closed-source rivals (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
• Mistral AI Introduces Workflows for Orchestrating Enterprise AI Processes (Robert Krzaczyński)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.2.2 Release (moonbox3)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Kubernetes v1.36: Tiered Memory Protection with Memory QoS (Qi Wang & Sohan Kunkerkar)
• Teaching software development the easy way using GitLab (Rod Burns)
• How to Deploy a Full-Stack Next.js App on Cloudflare Workers with GitHub Actions CI/CD (Md Tarikul Islam)
• DNS MX Record Modification and Unauthorised Email Redirection (Bogdan Mitrache)
• 8 best practices for CISOs conducting risk reviews (Rico Mariani)
• Next-Level Observability with OpenTelemetry (Viliam Sedliak)
• INI vs JSON vs XML vs Others for the best config file format (Alex Marin)
• How you ship is everything (Jon Hilton)

Mobile and Game Development

• How to Integrate APIs Seamlessly in Flutter (Gulshan Yadav)
• .NET MAUI 10 SR6 10.0.60 Release (Shane Neuville)
• Android Bench – Evaluating LLMs On The Android Platform (Nikos Vaggalis)
• Which Flutter State Management Should You Use? (Complete Developer Guide) (Codexlancers)

Screencasts and Videos

• Gone .NET YouTube Channel (Jon Dick & Allan Ritchie)
• AI Lab Power Rankings (AIDailyBrief)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Joe Finney (Isaac Levin)
• Giving UI Reviews to Coding Agents – Playwright CLI (Playwright Dev Team)
• SXSW Tip #3 – Keep a Clean Molt | One Dev Question (John Maeda)
• How Warp manages open-source with agents (Warp Team)
• Control your desktop terminal from your phone — GitHub Copilot CLI remote sessions (Gerald Versluis)
• Use ANY AI Model with GitHub Copilot (Kayla Cinnamon)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: JetBrains Rider: Learn how to use the JetBrains Rider IDE from beginning to mastery (Dan Clarke) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Syntax Podcast #1000: Syntax Episode 1,000! (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Windows Weekly Episode #981 – Semi-Sophisticated – Microsoft Releases Source Code For 86-DOS 1.00 (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• PPP 507 | Why Smart Teams Still Fail, with Stephen Shapiro (Andy Kaufman)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast Episode #1042 – Why Tori Westerhoff says we should talk to strangers (Scott Hanselman)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #718 – Will Sentance on JS Modernization (Adi Narayan)
• AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: How HSO Is Embedding AI Agents into Core Business Operations (Giuseppe Ianni)
• AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Dona Sarkar of Microsoft on Why AI Won’t Replace You—But AI Power Users Will (Bob Evans)
• The Changelog News Podcast Episode #185 – Bitwarden CLI compromised (Jerod Santo)
• Big Technology Podcast – Mark Cuban: AI Hype vs. Reality, OpenAI “Shitting Away” $1 Trillion, Lebron vs. Jordan (Alex Kantrowitz)
• BONUS Agile in Gaming Track Preview With Eagan Rackley At The Global Agile Summit | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)

Community and Events

• “GitHub is failing me, every single day, and it is personal”: After Xbox and Windows, now GITHUB is in crisis — Microsoft, what are you doing? (Jez Corden)
• Building the Future of IDEs: Inside the First JetBrains Codex Hackathon (Dominique Rolink)
• Microsoft is giving its Xbox employees an Xbox email address (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft puts a price on its voluntary retirement program (Todd Bishop)
• .NET Foundation Spotlight (Peter Smulovics)
• One year on: Progress on our European digital commitments (Samer Abu-Ltaif & Jeff Bullwinkel)
• The Dreamforce 2026 Call for Participation Is Now Open (Christie Fidura)
• Open Source Is Not One-Size-Fits-All — Find Your Fit (Sonali Mendis)

Database

• Realtime PostgreSQL: From Data Connect to SQL Connect (Cynthia Wang)
• Build Internal Tools on Couchbase Data in Minutes With ToolJet (Kaustav Ghosh)
• Announcing the Private Preview of Cosmos DB Azure RBAC Integration (Sudhanshu Khera)
• What is fillfactor in PostgreSQL – and when should you adjust it? (Lee Asher)
• Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop (Steve Jones)
• Performance Studio 1.2.5: Query Store Time Slicers and Automatic Updates (Erik Darling)
• Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling (Thomas Neumann)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• From prompt to production: Teams agent setup, simplified (Aamir Jawaid, Umang Sehgal & Kavin Singh)
• Microsoft 365 Backup granular restore now generally available! (diksha050)
• Copilot in OneNote now understands more of your notes (Daniel Beade)
• The Microsoft 365 Copilot Frontier Program: What Executives and IT Leaders Actually Need to Know (Michael Goad)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Working with the Postman CLI (Gbadebo Bello)
• Microsoft Edit v2.0.0 Release – Now with lightweight syntax highlighting (Microsoft)
• Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.2.0 (Jason Helmick)
• How to Build an Agentic Terminal Workflow with GitHub Copilot CLI and MCP Servers (Caleb Mintoumba)

Writing

• 7 Essential Elements Every Writer Must Master (Writers Write)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.0.42 (Files Team)
• Announcing Dew Submitter – Now Accepting Link and Feed Suggestions (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Get more out of Microsoft Clipchamp with these little‑known features (MSArmelle)
• PowerToys Release v0.99.1 (LegendaryBlair)

General

• Your PS5 can now transform into a Linux PC (Tom Warren)
• AWS growth climbs to 28% as Amazon’s big AI bets start to pay off and Microsoft tops Wall Street expectations, reports accelerating Azure growth and $37B AI run rate (Todd Bishop)
• Exploiting Vulnerable Drivers (Eric Lawrence)
• Earnings Release FY26 Q3 – Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Fuels Third Quarter Results (Microsoft)
• How Trump Weaponized the DOJ Division That Kept Elections Fair (David Gilbert)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – April 29, 2026 (#773) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: April 29 (Martin Fowler)

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.

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