Top Links

• LangChain.js for Beginners: A Free Course to Build Agentic AI Apps with JavaScript (Yohan Lasorsa & Dan Wahlin)
• GPT-5.5 System Card and Introducing GPT-5.5 (OpenAI Team)
• The Fantastic Four: Embracing your work style with Microsoft 365 Copilot (Eva Etchells)
• GitHub Copilot in SSMS: Interacting with the Results Pane | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Erin Stellato)
• CodeAct in Agent Framework: Faster Agents with Fewer Model Turns (Eduard van Valkenburg)
• What’s new for .NET in Ubuntu 26.04 (Richard Lander)

Web and Cloud Development

• 3 ways to store variables in React, and why you shouldn’t sleep on useRef (Rachel Kaufman)
• Create minimal reproductions for AWS SDK JavaScript v3 with create-aws-sdk-repro (John Lwin)
• Recreating Apple’s Vision Pro Animation in CSS (John Rhea)
• General Availability: Single Sign-On (SSO) from Native Apps to Embedded Web Views in Microsoft Entra External ID Native Authentication (Sasha Mars)
• React Navigation 8.0 Alpha with Native Bottom Tabs, Reworked TypeScript Inference and History (Daniel Curtis)

Windows Development

• Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer (Raymond Chen)
• What is MSXML? How to Install, Distribute and Deploy it? (Alex Marin)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Code 1.117 Expands Copilot Controls for Business and Enterprise User (David Ramel)
• Document Classification Without AI: Deterministic, Explainable, and Built for Production in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
• Introducing the Progress Agentic RAG .NET SDK (Ed Charbeneau)
• Putting the Westwind.Scripting Templating Library to work, Part 2 (Rick Strahl)
• When to Use State Pattern in C#: Decision Guide with Examples (Nick Cosentino)

AI

• When RAG Isn’t Enough: Moving from Retrieval to Relationship-Aware Systems in Enterprise AI: (Ankita Sarkar)
• Azure MCP Server now available as an MCP Bundle (.mcpb) (Victor Colin Amador)
• How to Use Transformers.js in a Chrome Extension (Nico Martin)
• When Anthropic’s Managed Agents Meet Microsoft Hosted Agents (Kinfey Lo)
• An update on recent Claude Code quality reports and DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price (Simon Willison)
• Speed, Context, and Savings: Mastering Caching in the Capella AI Model Service (Jagadesh Munta)
• My Claude Code Workflow (Rocky Lhotka)
• Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 (xAI Team)
• Keep Agentic AI Simple: A Practical Workflow for Software Development (Tim Deschryver)
• Why AI-Assisted Development Is Raising the Value of E2E Testing (Satyam Nikhra)
• GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty and Top 10 uses for Codex at work and Codex settings (OpenAI Team)
• New connectors in Claude for everyday life and Built-in memory for Claude Managed Agents (Claude Team)
• AI That Actually Understands Your Xcode Project (Not Just Reads It) (Francisco Molina)
• OpenClaw v2026.4.22 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Thumbs Up & Down for LLM Responses (Lino Tadros)
• Big Update: GPT-Image Models + AI Agent Skills (Bruno Capuano)
• Microsoft Discovery: Advancing agentic R&D at scale (Aseem Datar)
• Behavioral Credentials: Why Static Authorization Fails Autonomous Agents (Wendi Soto)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.1.1 Release (moonbox3)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• AI in DevOps: Why Adoption Lags in CI/CD (and What Comes Next) (Olga Bedrina)
• Tips for developers on improving collaboration with domain experts (Jimmy Nilsson)
• Design Principles Unpacked, No. 3: Affordance (Teon Beijl)

Mobile and Game Development

• Microsoft’s new Xbox chief is ‘reevaluating’ exclusive games and ‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s gaming future and Microsoft brings Xbox back, scraps Microsoft Gaming (Tom Warren)

Screencasts and Videos

• 300 AI Skills: How Intercom Went All In on Claude Code | Hangar DX Podcast (Hangar DX Team)
• Fixing merge conflicts and PRs with Copilot cloud agent | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths)
• Warp x Codex: Turning the terminal into an agentic development environment (Derek & Ben)
• Launching a new site with Azure and Copilot | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Warp for Data & Analytics Teams: building self-serve data workflows (Olivia & Ian)

Dometrain Course

Deep Dive: C#: Dive deeper into C# with this advanced course, covering topics like OOP, multithreading, async programming, LINQ, and more. Perfect for those with C# basics looking to expand their expertise. (Nick Cosentino) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #569 – Agent Assimilation (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #022 – Omar Shahine, Microsoft CVP of OpenClaw + Microsoft 365 (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Big Technology Podcast – OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Microsoft 365 E7: Ready Or Not, Here It Comes (Mary Jo Foley)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode #205 – 95% Faster: How CyberArk Used Iceberg & AI Agents to Crush Support Bottlenecks (Moshiko Ben Abu)
• Lenny’s Podcast – How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Build Mode Podcast – Don’t stop hiring humans. Stop hiring the wrong humans with Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, Artisan (Maggie Nye & Isabelle Johannessen)
• MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #426 – Claude Cowork vs Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork (Ben Stegink & Scott Hoag)
• Why Context Is King for Scrum Master Success — Building Capabilities That Drive Business Goals | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Viktor Glinka)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #354 – The mythos of Mythos and Allbirds takes flight to the neocloud (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Boagworld Podcast – Why UX Teams Need a Maturity Audit Right Now (Paul Boag)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Lights, camera, open source! (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Host a Microsoft Build //local host Event in Your City (Galimah B.)
• Meta is laying off 10 percent of its staff (Jay Peters)
• Join our free livestream series on hosting agents in Microsoft Foundry (Pamela Fox)
• Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures and Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to long-serving employees (Tom Warren)

Database

• SQL and AI – I Am Staying Relevant. Are You? (Pinal Dave)
• Performance Studio 1.2 Release: Query Store Improvements and T-SQL That Doesn’t Suck: I’m Running a Pre-Con at PASS Summit East (Erik Darling)
• Introducing Azure Accelerate for Databases: Modernize your data for AI with experts and investments (Jesse Sullivan)
• Expose your stored procedures as AI agent tools with DAB 2.0 (Bart Wullems)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft 365 multi-agent workflow with Microsoft Agent Framework (vgiraud)
• SharePoint Automatic Version History Cleanup (Intelligent Versioning) (jeresmith)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.35 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Firely Terminal: The natural CLI for AI FHIR Workflows (Ardon Toonstra)

General

• Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 LTS Download (Ubuntu)
• Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career (Sean Goedecke)
• Introducing Vanishing Culture: A New Book on the Loss of Our Digital Memory (Chris Freeland)
• Ancient Organic Matter Found on Mars Could Share Traits With “Building Blocks” of Life (RJ Mackenzie)

More Link Collections

• Copilot News Roundup (Vesa Nopanen)

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

• From Local to Production: The Complete Developer Journey for Building, Composing, and Deploying AI Agents and Introducing the new hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service: secure, scalable compute built for agents (Takuto Higuchi & Jeff Hollan)
• .NET Rocks! – How We Beat the Y2K Bug (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Introducing Toolboxes in Foundry (Linda Li, Maria Naggaga & Ronak Chokshi)
• Ship production AI features faster with Firebase AI Logic (Miguel Ramos)
• Scott & Mark Learn To…Sculpt, not Spec (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• Windows App Development CLI v0.3: new run and ui commands, plus dotnet run support for packaged apps (Chiara Mooney)

Web and Cloud Development

• Engineering secure passkey sync in Microsoft Password Manager (Patrick Brosset)
• Like Vertical Slice Architecture? Meet Wolverine.Http! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• What would a 2026 CSS Anthology look like? (Rachel Andrew)
• Write azd hooks in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or .NET (Kristen Womack)
• Enhancing Astro With a Markdown Component (Zell Liew)
• Gateway API v1.5: Moving features to Stable (Kubernetes Team)
• Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement (Zach Leatherman)
• Private subnets by default in Azure Virtual Networks: What changed and how to use NAT Gateway (Aimee Littleton)
• Managing PDF Files Online: Splitting, Extracting, and Merging Made Simple (Eshwari Balraj)
• The 2025 OWASP Top 10 and IdentityServer (Christian Wenz)
• First Public Working Drafts for the Linked Web Storage (LWS) 1.0 Authentication Suite (W3C)
• Now generally available: License usage insights in Microsoft Entra (Joseph Dadzie)
• Security considerations when using Passkeys on your website (Scott Helme)

Windows Development

• Mapping the page tables into memory via the page tables (Raymond Chen)
• Take the 2026 ISO C++ Developer Survey! (Augustin Popa)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v2.8.0 release (Alvin Ashcraft) – Get it on the VS Code Marketplace; now updated for winapp CLI v0.3.0
• C++ Code Intelligence for GitHub Copilot CLI (Preview) (Erika Sweet)

.NET and Visual Studio

• From Demo to Production: Building Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents with .NET (Lee Stott)
• Trends from the Pragmatic AI in .NET Show (Sam Basu)

AI

• All your agents are going async (Zak Knill)
• Building agents that reach production systems with MCP (Claude Team)
• Introducing Kimi K2.6 in Microsoft Foundry (Rashaud Savage)
• AI-powered defense for an AI-accelerated threat landscape (Ales Holecek)
• Securing Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Runtime with Auth0 for AI Agents (Kapil Patil)
• Use skills with Microsoft Foundry agents (preview) | Microsoft Foundry and Curate intent-based toolbox in Foundry (preview) | Microsoft Foundry (Microsoft Learn)
• Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT and Speeding up agentic workflows with WebSockets in the Responses API and Introducing OpenAI Privacy Filter (OpenAI Team)
• Three tiers of Agentic AI – and when to use none of them (sgangaramani)
• Agent Context Needs Timing (Rocky Lhotka)
• Big Update: GPT-Image Models + AI Agent Skills Meet t2i — The ElBruno.Text2Image CLI (Bruno Capuano)
• Creating a Custom AI Agent with Telerik Tools 3: Summarizing and Querying (Peter Vogel)
• Gemini Embedding 2 is now generally available | The Keyword (Google)
• Securing MCP: A Control Plane for Agent Tool Execution (Jack Batzner)
• Introducing Replit Auto-Protect (Replit Team)
• Gemma 4 VLA Demo on Jetson Orin Nano Super (Asier Arranz)
• The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?” (Arun Sirpal)
• Don’t Blame the Model (Sruly Rosenblat)
• Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform lets you build, govern, and optimize your agents. (Amy Eisinger)
• Roo Code pivots to cloud-based agent, says IDEs aren’t the future of coding (Paul Sawers)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Public Preview: Actual Result for Manual Tests in Azure Test Plans (Panagiotis Liaros)
• The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable (Carrie Webster)
• How We Scaled Security Reviews Without Slowing Down Engineering (Anurag Mewar)
• Optimizing Git policy management at scale (Azat Galiev)
• Microsoft’s Software Engineering Career Ladder (Anastasija Uspenski)

Mobile and Game Development

• Streamline User Journeys with Verified Email via Credential Manager (Niharika Arora & Jean-Pierre Pralle)
• What’s new in the Jetpack Compose April ’26 release (Meghan Mehta)
• Microsoft says the ‘idea’ of an Xbox mobile store ‘is not dead’ (Tom Warren)

Screencasts and Videos

• Build a Personal Assistant with GitHub Copilot SDK + Copilot CLI (Burke Holland)
• Foundry Agent Service + Microsoft Agent Framework Explained | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeff Hollan)
• How Apple’s AI Strategy Changes with a New CEO and The Biggest Unlocks of GPT Images 2 (AIDailyBrief)
• Taming the Data Estate with Copilot and Azure Service Monitor | MVP Unplugged (Justin Garrett & Magnus Mårtensson)
• VS Code and Visual Studio – Better Together with Copilot | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Brian Randell)
• Build Your First AI Search in .NET with Progress Agentic RAG Part 2 | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• From Clicks to Commands: A Terminal Beginner’s Guide (Kayla Cinnamon & James Montemagno)
• Random.Code – Adding Features to IronBefunge, Part 1 (ish) (Jason Bock)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: C#: Get started with C# programming in this comprehensive course, perfect for beginners or those transitioning from other languages. Learn key concepts like variables, loops, OOP, and debugging in C#. (Nick Cosentino) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Amp Hour #722 – AI Tooling with Matt Liberty and Luke Beno (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #717 – Eric Tschetter on Decoupling Observability (Amey Ambade)
• Windows Weekly Episode #980 – Running Outta Tolkiens – Hands-On With 2 Snapdragon X2 Laptops! (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Big Technology Podcast – Are We Too Obsessed With AI Predictions? — With Carissa Véliz (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #998 – How to Fix Vibe Coding (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1179 – ‘Why We Talk Funny.’ The reasons behind our accents, with Valerie Fridland (Mignon Fogarty)
• From Component Teams to Cross-Functional Teams — How to Navigate the Hardest Agile Transformation | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Viktor Glinka)

Community and Events

• Stop Experimenting, Start Building: AI Apps & Agents Dev Days Has You Covered (Lee Stott)
• What’s new from Firebase at Cloud Next 2026 (Seba Gnagnarella, Arthur Thompson & Kristen Richards)
• Gates Foundation To Cut 20% of Staff, Review Epstein Ties (BeauHD)

Database

• 7 tips to optimize Azure Cosmos DB costs for AI and agentic workloads (Michal Toiba)
• Performance Monitor 2.3 Release: ErikAI, More FinOps, and MCP Madness (Erik Darling)
• How to handle large datasets and parallel processing in esProc SPL (Chisom Kanu)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft 365 Copilot readiness and resiliency with SharePoint and M365 Backup/Archive (Sesha Mani)
• Windows 365 Link: One year of the simple, secure, purpose-built Cloud PC device (Stefan Kinnestrand)
• Bringing transparency to AI-generated content with watermarks in Microsoft 365 (MSArmelle)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Agents CLI in Agent Platform: create to production in one CLI (Ivan Cheung, Pier Paolo Ippolito & Elia Secchi)
• Your RDP (Remote Desktop) files are now untrusted after the April 2026 Windows Patch – Sign them with PowerShell (Michael Morten Sonne)

Tools

• RepoRoute – Browse and manage git repos | iOS App Store (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.7.2: Add admin protection error message for shadow admin scenarios (#40170) (Ben Hillis)

General

• Tested: Windows 11 setup screen now finally lets you skip forced updates, and go directly to the desktop and Microsoft says it’s rebuilding Windows 11 around what users actually want: performance, reliability, quality and craft (Mayank Parmar)
• DIY To Power Our Planet: An (Mini) Earth Day Field Guide (Jennifer Blakeslee)
• Diablo IV: Now with more way to customize builds and playstyles (Athima Chansanchai)
• Microsoft teases mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership (Tom Warren)
• Software Eats Its Own (Om Malik)
• Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs (Simon Sharwood)

More Link Collections

• Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – April 19 (Peter Ritchie)
• Daily Reading List – April 22, 2026 (#769) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Blazor Web Development Cookbook (Pawel Bazyluk) – Referral Link

Tested recipes for advanced single-page application scenarios in .NET 9.

Top Links

• Removing byte[] allocations in .NET Framework using ReadOnlySpan (Andrew Lock)
• Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Windows App SDK Version 1.8.7 (1.8.260416003) Stable Channel Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Level up your development with Planning Mode and Next Edit Prediction in Android Studio Panda 4 (Matt Dyor)
• Stop Explaining Your Code Over and Over. Let Code Studio Do It Once (Yuvaraj Mohan)
• Introducing OpenAI’s GPT-image-2 in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Aspire 13.2: Bun Support and Container Enhancements (David Pine)

Web and Cloud Development

• Azure SDK Release (April 2026) (Ronnie Geraghty)
• Aspire 13.2.3 Release Notes (github-actions[bot])
• Angular Grid at Scale: How Kendo UI Handles Millions of Rows (Dany Paredes)
• Eliminate context switching with Postman Native Git and MCP (Quinton Wall)
• Getting The Most for Your Money Using Automated SMS (Amanda Lange)
• Blazor Basics: Getting Started with Blazor Development in VS Code (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Connecting AWS and Azure with a Site-to-Site VPN Using Terraform (Piotr Kolodziej)
• Now generally available: License usage insights in Microsoft Entra (Joseph Dadzie)

Windows Development

• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK v1.8.260416003 Release (NuGet Gallery)
• Sure, xor’ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.2.0 Release (Dmytro Struk)
• Visual Studio Insiders Version 11716.218 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.5.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• .NET 10.0.7 / 10.0.107 Release Notes and .NET 10.0.7 / 10.0.203 Release Notes (dotnet-sb-bot)
• .NET 10.0.7 Out-of-Band Security Update (Rahul Bhandari)
• EF Core is Better with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Using QR Codes in PDF Documents in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
• I Built the Missing Claude AI SDK for .NET 8 — And It’s Now on NuGet (Shatrughna Ambhore)

AI

• Orchestration Is All You Need (Chris Sells)
• Is AI Safe Enough for Safety-critical (Code Curmudgeon)
• Setting Up Claude Code Agent Teams With Wsl2 and Tmux on Windows (Steve Smith)
• OpenClaw v2026.4.21 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• The Challenge of AI in Business Today (Kellyn Gorman)
• Anthropic is thinking about removing Claude Code from its cheapest plan (Frederic Lardinois)
• RAG In Detail (Jesse Liberty)
• I Don’t Have Any Ideas (Kin Lane)
• Be Careful With Your AI Enablers (Erik Darling)
• 16 Ways to make a Small Language Model think bigger (Nacho Martinez)
• ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text (Amanda Silberling)
• AI backlash is coming for elections (Lauren Feiner)
• Creating a GitHub Copilot CLI Release Tracker (Gregor Suttie)
• Keeping the Cursor app stable (Cursor Team)
• Building agent-first governance and security (MIT Technology Review Insights)
• Meet Replit Security Agent and Defense in Depth: How Replit Secures Every Layer of the Vibe Coding Stack (Replit Team)
• How do developers define their worth when code is written by AI? (Chris Heilmann)
• Dark Factories: Rise of the Trycycle (Dan Shapiro)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Azure DevOps MCP Server April Update (Dan Hellem)
• Agent Sprawl Is Here. Your IaC Platform Is the Answer. (Engin Diri)
• The Business and Politics of Platform Status Page Details (Kin Lane)

Screencasts and Videos

• The Forgotten Features of Visual Studio You NEED In Your Life! | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Mads Kristensen)
• Install apps using Copilot CLI (Kayla Cinnamon)
• What AI Agent Skills Are and How They Work (IBM Technology Team)
• Exploring the Future of UI Design with Claude Design and Opus 4.7 (Frank La Vigne)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Pierce Boggan (Isaac Levin)
• Connect to Copilot CLI with a QR code on web & mobile – this is crazy! (Gerald Versluis)
• DALEC Developer Experience: Declarative Builds and IDE Integration | Open at Microsoft (Tatsat Mishra & Brian Goff)
• How to use MCPUI and Goose to manage GitHub issues (GitHub Team)
• Real-World Modernization Showcase: WPF to cross-platform .NET with Uno Platform & AI! (Sam Basu)
• Deep Dive: Microsoft Blazor Zero to Success | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Rockford Lhotka)
• AI Coding, Streamer Maps, Glitches, and more | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Automating Your AI Context and Agent Building Trends (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Asynchronous Programming in C#: Learn how to master asynchronous programming in C# (Brandon Minnick) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #27 – Data Cartels (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• Developer Tea Podcast – Building Real Skills During the AI Boom – No, Not That Kind of Skill (Jonathan Cutrell)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #351 – IAM the One Spending All Your AI Money (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• RunAs Radio Show #1033 – The Life and Death of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with Michael Niehaus (Richard Campbell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1021 – Too Long in the Monkey House – John Ternus to Become Next Apple CEO (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• The Shift Podcast by Microsoft Azure S2E7 | Should my IT team hire agents? (Microsoft Azure Team)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 004: Your Technical Skills Got You Here. Your Inner Work Gets You Further. | Engineering Career Coach Nader Mowlaee (Max Ahumada)
• Boagworld Podcast Episode #33 – AI Is Showing UI Designers the Door (Paul Boag)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – How to get multiple agents to play nice at scale (Chase Roossin & Steven Kulesza)
• When Internal and External Team Members Have Divergent Goals — The Silent Killer of Agile Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Viktor Glinka)
• Made by Google Podcast – How AI Helps You Express Your Vibe (Rachid Finge)

Community and Events

• Job Cuts Driven By AI Are Rising On Wall Street (BeauHD)
• Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their mouse movements and keystrokes (Charles Rollet)
• The Network That Outlived Him: How MVP Min-gyu Ju’s Community Keeps His Legacy Alive (Soyoung Lee)
• Starbucks cuts tech jobs as new CTO reshapes organization (Todd Bishop)
• Accelerating Frontier Transformation with Microsoft partners (Nicole Dezen)

Database

• SQL Server Monitoring Across Cloud, Hybrid, and On-Prem (Pinal Dave)
• The Polyglot tax – Part 4 (Aditya Badramraju)
• General Availability: Dynamic Data Masking for Azure Cosmos DB (Sudhanshu Khera)
• End-to-End Database OpenTelemetry, Priority Transactions, and More (Alex Keh)
• Getting Started with dbWatch (Jim Evans)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Introducing Markdown support in SharePoint and OneDrive and Innovations in OneDrive for collaboration, intelligence, and control (arwazt)
• Focus on the Teams Phone calls that matter most with Copilot call delegation (Johnny McCormick)
• Under the Hood of Microsoft Cowork (Paul J. Swider)
• AI Skills Are Now in Public Preview: Teaching AI in SharePoint What to Know and How to Act (Zach Rosenfield)
• How Microsoft Planner helped build the Maia 200 AI Accelerator (Wendy Haddad)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.6.1 Release of PowerShell and v7.5.6 Release of PowerShell and v7.4.15 Release of PowerShell (J. Shigetomi)

Tools

• Eclsipse Foundation offers enterprise-grade open source alternative to Microsoft’s VS Code Marketplace (Adrian Bridgwater)

General

• Xbox Game Pass Ultimate gets a price cut but loses new Call of Duty games (Tom Warren)
• Upcycle a 3D Printer (Dom Dominici)
• Tim Cook’s Legacy Is Turning Apple Into a Subscription (Lauren Goode)
• The next evolution of The Verge’s homepage is here (William Joel)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – April 21, 2026 (#768) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: April 21 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps (Rezwanur Rahman) – Referral Link

Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot).

Top Links

• Writing Node.js addons with .NET Native AOT (Drew Noakes)
• Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans (Joe Binder)
• VS Code Agents Insiders: The AI-First Editor Built for Developers and Students (Lee Stott)
• GitHub Copilot meets Azure Developer CLI: AI-assisted project setup and error troubleshooting (Kristen Womack)
• 7 XAML Resource Keys AI Got Wrong in My Uno Platform Migration (Matt Mattei)
• Highlights from Git 2.54 (Taylor Blau)
• TechBash 2026 Early Bird registration is now open (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• What’s Next for React in 2026 (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Markdown + Astro = (Zell Liew)
• AI Training, Local Gemini, and Styling Signal Forms (Angular Team)
• Building a Simple Markdown PWA App (Raymond Camden)
• Secure PDF Digital Signatures in JavaScript: Best Practices for Developers (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
• Protecting Your SSR Apps with JSDefender (Michelle Pruitt)
• Why a Standard JWT Access Token Matters (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Building Production-Ready tRPC APIs: The TypeScript Alternative to Apollo Federation (Dinesh Kumar Elumalai)

Windows Development

• How did code handle 24-bit-per-pixel formats when using video cards with bank-switched memory? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Revisiting C# Scripting with the Westwind.Scripting Templating Library, Part 1 (Rick Strahl)
• Visual Schema Compare for SDK Style SQL Database Projects in Visual Studio and SSMS (Erik EJ)
• AOT-Friendlyst Dropped — And .NE Meet t2i — The ElBruno.Text2Image CLI MAI-Image-2 Just Dropped — And .NET Support Is Already Here (Bruno Capuano)
• .NET 11 Previews Focus on Nuts-and-Bolts Coding — AI Not So Much (David Ramel)
• Customizing the Wolverine Code Generation Model (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Sanitizing Data in Document Pipelines: A Practical Approach with TX Text Control in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
• From Static PDFs to Interactive Documents: Create QR Codes in C# (Chinnu Muniyappan)

AI

• Putting AI to work with the building trades (Justin Spelhaug)
• Are we the parents in the AI Agent relationship? The drama continues (Joseph Guadagno)
• Planner Agent brings work management directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot (MarsGu)
• GPT-5 vs GPT-4.1 – choosing the right model for your use case – Microsoft Foundry (Microsoft Learn)
• AI-powered documentation updates: From code diff to docs PR in one comment (Carmel Soceanu)
• Agents as Code: Treating AI Agents as Versioned Artifacts (AJ Bajada)
• How do you decide what your AI eval should measure? (Pooja Dhaka)
• Running multimedia AI models on Container Apps with Serverless GPU (A100 & T4) (Houssem Dellai)
• What’s new in AI Skills Navigator: April 2026 (Priya V.)
• When Your Coding Assistant Finally Got X-Ray Vision (Nikolay Iliev)
• Meet the winners of our Built with Opus 4.6 Claude Code hackathon (Claude Team)
• Local vs remote MCP servers – which should you choose? (Greg Low)
• Python Decorators for Production Machine Learning Engineering (Nahla Davies)
• Scenario Planning for AI and the “Jobless Future” (Tim O’Reilly)
• Troubleshooting Microsoft Foundry Accessing On‑Premises APIs Over Private Networking (pankajag)
• From Playwright Automation to Agent Driven Testing (GHCP in Action) (syedarshad)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.1.0 Release (moonbox3)
• Azure AI Projects client library for Python v2.1.0 Release (Microsoft Foundry SDK Team)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How We Benchmarked Quarkus: Patterns and anti-patterns (Holly Cummins)
• 256 Lines or Less: Test Case Minimization (Alex Kladov)
• The importance of people who care (Rachel Andrew)
• 7 Best Static Code Analysis Tools (Elizaveta Myšáková)
• Event Sourcing: A simple trick to get around read models (Urs Enzler)
• Yoda Principle for better integrations (Oskar Dudycz)
• Making opportunistic cyberattacks harder by design (Ilya Grebnov)
• Why Many Beginner Self-Taught Developers Struggle (And What to Do About It) (Great John)

Mobile and Game Development

• Helping Decision-Makers Say Yes to Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) (Ekaterina Volodko)

Screencasts and Videos

• Building an Intelligent Vendor Onboarding Agent with Copilot Studio | The Low Code Revolution (Elaiza Benitez & Dharanidharan Balasubramaniam)
• Building an AI Agent to Work with Your Own Data | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Jerry Nixon)
• Technology & Friends – Eldert Grootenboer on Reliability in Azure Messaging and Technology & Friends – Jeffrey Snover on Unifying AI at Harvard (David Giard)
• The Best Claude Design Use Cases and How the Best Companies Use AI (AIDailyBrief)
• What is Netlify? (Netlify Team)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Working with Null in C#: Learn how to properly use null in C# in a modern way and write better, robust code (Ed Charbeneau) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Guidance Counselor 2.0 with David McCarter (David McCarter)
• The Presentation Podcast Episode #244 – When Bullet Points Go So Bad They Are Not Needed (Troy Chollar)
• Big Technology Podcast – Tim Cook Steps Down — With Joanna Stern (Alex Kantrowitz)
• React Native Radio Episode #360 – TanStack Native Router with Tanner Linsley (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #477 – Lazy, Frozen, and 31% Lighter (Michael Kennedy)
• CIO Podcast Episode #112 – A CEO’s View on Healthcare Technology with Dr. Fatih Mehmet Gul (Neil Versel)
• Microsoft Research Podcast – Can we AI our way to a more sustainable world? (Doug Burger, Amy Luers & Ishai Menache)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #273 – From CISA to Cloud: AI Assurance, Concentration Risk, and the New Regulatory Frontier (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• CppCast – Compiler Warnings as Errors with Keith Stockdale (Jason Turner & Mathieu Ropert)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #997 – Rating and Roasting Your Projects (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Should you start a sentence with ‘hopefully’? Why we might not recognize alien language. (Mignon Fogarty)
• When Passion Becomes the Problem — How Pushing for Agile Change Too Fast Creates Resistance | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Viktor Glinka)
• Meta Cast – How Great Leaders Handle the Pressure of AI Hype (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• BetaTalks, the Podcast Episode #128 – Applying AI in Agricultural Robotics: From Kaggle to Production – with Julian de Wit (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
• InfoQ Podcast: Engineering Stable, Secure and Scalable Platforms (Matthew Liste)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – We still need developer communities (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Announcing DevRel(ish) – A Free Site for Running IRL Tech Communities (Brian Rinaldi)
• Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack (Zack Whittaker & Sarah Perez)
• Make: Live – Maker Faire Turns 20! (jamie)
• Meta Plans Up to 8,000 Job Cuts in New Round of Layoffs (Liz Ticong)

Database

• 12 practices for optimizing PostgreSQL queries for large datasets (Ali Hamza Ansari)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft Teams is trying to fix accidental hand-raising (Jess Weatherbed)
• Bring your everyday business apps into the flow of work with agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Srini Raghavan)
• Rethinking Conditional Access (Liam Cleary)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.34 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Introducing the CLI Generator (Arie Litovsky)
• Subagents in Gemini CLI Enable Task Delegation and Parallel Agent Workflows (Robert Krzaczyński)

General

• We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification (Gregg Gonsalves)
• At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours (Bryce P. Tetraeder)
• Tim Cook will still be Apple’s Trump whisperer (Lauren Feiner)
• Johny Srouji named Apple’s Chief Hardware Officer and Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman John Ternus to become Apple CEO (Apple)
• Former advisor to Steve Jobs says new Apple CEO is exactly what’s needed: an engineer from the inside (Todd Bishop)
• Trump Administration Begins Refunding $166 Billion In Tariffs (BeauHD)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – April 20, 2026 (#767) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Interconnect GA, and more (April 20, 2026) (Sébastien Stormacq)
• Reading Notes #694 (Frank Boucher)

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

• Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs (Anthropic Team)
• AI File Search in Blazor File Manager: Semantic and Tag-Based (Jollen Moyani)
• The VS Code Insiders Podcast – Inside The Agent Loop with Pierce Boggan (James Montemagno)
• Building an emoji list generator with the GitHub Copilot CLI (Cassidy Williams)
• CLI vs IDE vs Agent – It’s a Race! Who can get started quicker with NET apps with Uno Platform! (Sam Basu)
• Pierce Boggan: AI Workflows – The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #398 (Jeffrey Palermo)

Web and Cloud Development

• The simplest way to secure a Minimal API (With Swagger) (David Grace)
• Building AppInsights Analyser: A Blazor Dashboard for Azure Application Insights (Gregor Suttie)
• ESLint v10.2.1 released (Francesco Trotta)
• The Identity Governance Checklist You Wish You Had Six Months Ago (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Remove sign-up from Entra External ID user flows (Damien Bowden)
• Pulumi Cloud REST API Docs, Now Generated from OpenAPI (Devon Grove)
• Cloud Cost Optimization: Principles that still matter (Fernando Vasconcellos)
• Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked (Terrence O’Brien)
• Angular Spreadsheet Freezing on Large Excel Imports? Here’s the Fix (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
• BoldSign Formula Fields: Automate Calculations in eSignature Documents (BoldSign Team)

Windows Development

• Theseus, a static Windows emulator (Evan Martin)
• Forgotten message from the past: LB_INIT­STORAGE (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft Increases the FAT32 Limit From 32GB To 2TB (BeauHD)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1863 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for Canary Channel 29570.1000 and Releasing Windows 11 Builds 26100.8313 and 26200.8313 to the Release Preview Channel and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.8271 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8276 (Dev Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)

.NET and Visual Studio

• RAG in .NET: What the Tutorials Don’t Tell You. Chunking, Embedding, and Production Gotchas (Jamie Maguire)
• At VSLive!, Mads Kristensen Lets ‘the Cat out of the Bag’ on Visual Studio 2027 (David Ramel)
• String Performance: Why Some String Searches Are Slower Than You Think (David McCarter)
• The Architecture of Obsession: Why ByteAether.Ulid is the Last Identifier Library You Will Ever Need (Joonatan Uusväli)
• Why I Switched to Primary Constructors for DI in C# (Milan Jovanović)

AI

• Prompt Engineering for Spec-Driven Development with SpecKit (charykn)
• RAG – A Quick Example and Creating Our Python AI Project (Jesse Liberty)
• Claude Design Brings AI to Visual Work (Paul Thurrott)
• Azure AI Projects client library for JavaScript – Release v2.1.0 (Microsoft Foundry SDK Team)
• Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft agree that the harness is the product. They disagree on the price. (Janakiram MSV)
• Headless everything for personal AI (Matt Webb)
• On being a fellow Dainosaur (Roy Cornelissen)
• Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 and Claude system prompts as a git timeline and Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons (Simon Willison)
• Context Engineering: The Real Skill Behind High-Quality AI Output and Top 10 Mistakes Developers Make When Adopting AI (Mahesh Chand)
• MCP Demystified: Tools vs Resources vs Prompts Explained Simply (Ravindra Kumar Vishwakarma)
• Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments (Sean Goedecke)
• Copilot agents are scaling faster than most organizations expected (Julie Hersum)
• Optimizing AI Agents with Progressive Disclosure (Steve Smith)
• The AI Design Formula Does Not Exist — Yet (Micheal Lopez)
• NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7: Open Reasoning VLA Model for Humanoid Robots (Edith Llontop & Kalyan Vadrevu)
• What I learned this week – Pretraining parallelisms, Can distillation be stopped, Mythos and the cybersecurity equilibrium, Pipeline RL, On why pretraining runs fails (Dwarkesh Patel)
• Building a Fast Multilingual OCR Model with Synthetic Data (Ryan Chesler)
• Microsoft Introduces Hybrid AI Automation in Copilot Studio (Kieron Allen)
• Agents, Code Reviews, and the Bottleneck Shift, Oh My! (Oren Eini)
• PolyClaw – Your personal AI copilot that lives where you do (Aymen Furter)
• Rethinking AI TCO: Why Cost per Token Is the Only Metric That Matters (Shruti Koparkar)

Python

• Building ONNX Embedding Workflows in Oracle AI Database with Python (Daniela Pavlenco)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Don’t Fund Projects. Fund the Teams That Create Value. (James Maxwell)
• In defence of bureaucracy (Mark Seemann)
• How Software Engineering Principles Help You Get More Out of Your AI Tools (Jon Hilton)
• Trial by Fire: Crisis Engineering (Jennifer Pahlka)
• Bringing more transparency to GitHub’s status page (Jakub Oleksy)
• The Human Infrastructure: How Netflix Built the Operations Layer Behind Live at Scale (Brett Axler, Casper Choffat & Alo Lowry)

Mobile and Game Development

• How to spend $38k on a Visual Novel, and Ludum Dare dying in 2028? (Code Monkey)
• Experimental hybrid inference and new Gemini models for Android (Thomas Ezan)
• Android CLI (ProMobile.Dev)

Screencasts and Videos

• Random.Code() – Updating Esoteric Programming Language Implementations, Part 4 (Jason Bock)
• How to Use Opus 4.7 and the New Codex (AIDailyBrief)
• Modernizing .NET Applications Faster with Visual Studio and Copilot | VS Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Jon Galloway)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 309 – “GenAI’s NFT Moment” (Have we reached peak AI silliness?) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Official Xbox Podcast: Matt Booty Talks Showcase, Games, Studios, and More (Joe Skrebels)
• The Download: Copilot SDK, Claude Mythos, AI models are protecting each other & more (Kedasha Kerr)
• Fast Focus on API Versioning | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Phil Japikse)
• Type checking Swift, in reasonable time (Slava Pestov)
• Visual Studio 2026 | April Release Party | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & The Visual Studio Team)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: TypeScript: Get started with learning TypeScript. (Cory House) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Yet Another Podcast – Mads Torgersen (Jesse Liberty)
• Merge Conflict Episode #511 – Terminals, Remote Sessions, No More Watches! (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Lenny’s Podcast – Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Big Technology Podcast – Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Vergecast – The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap (David Pierce)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #291 – Reassessing the LLM Landscape & Summoning Ghosts (Christopher Bailey & Jodie Burchell)
• Hard Fork Podcast – A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• The People-Pleasing Product Owner and the PO Who Understood User Value — Two Sides of Product Ownership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Efe Gümüs)
• BONUS From 3,000 Scripts to 3 Tools – Building AI-Last Software With Peter Swimm | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
• A Geek Leader Episode #465 – Erin Coupe (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• Job listings for week ending 4/17 and Call For Papers Listings for 4/17 (Leon Adato)
• The Evolution of My Coding Journey: From Pascal to AI (Christian Nagel)
• How to Make Your GitHub Profile Stand Out (Chinaza Chukwunweike)
• Duolingo CEO Says They’ve Stopped Tracking Employees’ AI Use for Performance Reviews (EditorDavid)
• OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company (Maxwell Zeff)
• Tech industry sees over 39,000 layoffs due to AI (Ian Barker)

Database

• Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Availability Groups on Kubernetes and Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER (aen)
• SSIS Extension Updates – Apr 2026 (Andy Leonard)
• Optimize object storage costs automatically with smart tier—now generally available (Aung Oo)
• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring Troubleshooting Live Problems (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Copilot Cowork — A New Way of Getting Work Done in Microsoft 365 (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.32 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Running GitHub Copilot CLI on local AI inference (Rob Bos)

Writing

• Things That Upset Writers (Writers Write)

Tools

• IDE War 2026: VS Code vs JetBrains vs Cursor — What Real Usage Data Shows (Артур Пан)
• Microsoft retires Clipchamp’s iOS app, says Windows 11’s built-in video editor is here to stay (Mayank Parmar)
• NanaZip v6.0.1691.0 Release (Mouri Naruto)

General

• Pancreatic Cancer MRNA Vaccine Shows Lasting Results In Early Trial and Voyager 1 is Running Out of Power. NASA Just Switched Part of It Off and Fructose Isn’t Just Sugar. It Acts More Like a Hormone (EditorDavid)
• The fastest way to match characters on ARM processors? (Daniel Lemire)
• Opinion: Whither Microsoft? A view from the neighborhood (Feroze Motafram)
• Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
• SaySo is a new short-form video app that aims to restore users’ trust in news (Lauren Forristal)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest #604 – Architectural tests in .NET (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Daily Reading List – April 17, 2026 (#766) (Richard Seroter)
• Android Weekly Issue #723 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #559 – 19th April 2026 (The Editor)
• F# Weekly #16, 2026 – .NET 11 Preview 3 & SwaggerProvider 4.0 beta (Sergey Tihon)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #748 (Dave Verwer)
• The Batch: Meta Pivots From Open Weights, Big Pharma Bets On AI, Regulatory Patchwork, Simulating Human Cohorts (DeepLearning.AI)

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.

Top Links

• Free Your Terminal with Detached Mode in Aspire 13.2 (James Newton-King)
• Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic Team)
• Claude Opus 4.7 is available on Microsoft Foundry (Amar Badal)
• Visual Studio Code 1.117 (Visual Studio Code Team)
• The Fourth Beta of Android 17 (Dan Galpin)
• From AI to .NET: 20 VS Live! Las Vegas Sessions You Can Watch Now (Jim Harrer)
• Foundry Toolkit for VS Code: A Deep Dive on GA and Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for VS Code is Now Generally Available (Junjie Li)

Web and Cloud Development

• Introducing the plugin marketplace for Azure API Center (Sreekanth Thirthala)
• The Next Wave of API Investments Will Be All About Experience (Kin Lane)
• A Well-Designed JavaScript Module System is Your First Architecture Decision (Amejimaobari Victor)
• Build Your Own MCP-Powered Document Processing Backend with TX Text Control (Bjoern Meyer)
• The 10 Best Angular UI Libraries (Dany Paredes)

Windows Development

• What’s up with window message 0x0091? We’re getting it with unexpected parameters (Raymond Chen)
• Windows Package Manager v1.28.240 Release and Windows Package Manager v1.29.140-preview Release (hackean-msft)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Microsoft Agent Framework–Building a multi-agent workflow with DevUI in .NET (Bart Wullems)
• LINQ Max and nullable value types (Ian Griffiths)
• AOT-Friendly DTO Mapping in .NET (Bruno Capuano)
• It’s Time for a Visual Studio Upgrade (Mark Downie)
• How to Implement Command Pattern in C#: Step-by-Step Guide (Nick Cosentino)

AI

• What’s New in Microsoft Foundry Fine-Tuning | April 2026 (Blanca Li)
• Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 in Warp (Suraj Gupta)
• MCP Co-Creator Explains Why MCP Needs More Than the Protocol to Scale (Ivan Pelivanovic)
• Claude Opus 4.7 is now available in GitLab Duo Agent Platform (Rebecca Carter)
• Explaining what GitHub Copilot Modernization can (and cannot do) (Pablo Lopes)
• Here’s What Agentic AI Can Do With Have I Been Pwned’s APIs (Troy Hunt)
• As agentic AI explodes, Amazon doubles down on MCP (Alex Wilhelm)
• AI and Ambition (Mathias Biilmann)
• Traditional Scraping vs AI Scraping: A Practical Guide for Developers and Data Teams (Joel Olawanle)
• Bringing AI to the Factory Floor with Foundry Local – Now in Public Preview on Azure Local (liranlyabock_microsoft)
• Hands On with Microsoft’s New VS Code Agents Preview — Now in Insiders (David Ramel)
• OpenAI Codex Essentials – AI Assisted Agentic Development Course (Beau Carnes)
• Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 (Simon Willison)
• Introducing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 model in Amazon Bedrock (Channy Yun)
• Introducing GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research and Codex for (almost) everything (OpenAI Team)
• Best practices for using Claude Opus 4.7 with Claude Code (Claude Team)
• Better AI models enable more ambitious work (Cursor Team)
• OpenClaw v2026.4.15 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Seven best practices for writing high quality prompts (Quinton Wall)
• MiniMax M2.7 Advances Scalable Agentic Workflows on NVIDIA Platforms for Complex AI Applications (Anu Srivastava & Shruti Koparkar)
• Training and Finetuning Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers (Tom Aarsen)
• Visualizing Claude Code MCP Requests with Coding Agent Explorer (Tore Nestenius)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety (Lawrence Gripper)
• Meet the Scope Creep Kraken (Tim O’Brien)
• Design Principles Unpacked, No. 2 Hierarchy (Teon Beijl)
• How to Debug Team Problems Before They Derail Delivery (David Ramel)
• Platform as a Product: Delivering Value While Balancing Competing Priorities (Ben Linders)

Mobile and Game Development

• .NET MAUI State Management: From ViewModels to App Stores (Sri Radhesh Nag Subash Sankar)
• .NET MAUI ListView vs CollectionView: How Syncfusion ListView Performs Better (Anandh Ganesan)
• Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent (Adarsh Fernando & Esteban de la Canal)
• Android official agent skills (ProMobile.Dev)

Screencasts and Videos

• Migrate Oracle Workloads to Oracle Azure Databases | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Kalyan Kaki)
• Microsoft Agent Framework releasing version 1.0 | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro, Shawn Henry & Rong Lu)
• Get Started with Foundry Toolkit for VS Code (Microsoft Developer Team)
• Introducing SQL projects in SSMS | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
• Using Microsoft Agent Framework with Foundry managed memory | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro, Amy Boyd & Lewis Liu)
• How to use agents, skills, and instructions in Copilot CLI | Tutorial for beginners | GitHub (Christopher Harrison)
• Building RESTful Services with ASP.NET Core | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Phil Japikse)
• AI’s Not Magic: A Developer’s Guide to Using AI Tools Without the Hype | VS Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Brian Randell)
• Aspireify and the Map Project | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Random.Code() – Updating Esoteric Programming Language Implementations, Part 3 (Jason Bock)
• Vibe Coding Gets an Upgrade (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Authentication & Authorization in Blazor: Learn how to implement authentication and authorization in Blazor. (Jimmy Engström) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Modern .NET Show – Context Is Everything: Getting the Most from GitHub Copilot with Joydip Kanjilal (Jamie Taylor)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #568 – Claude Code, OpenAI Drama, and Is Anyone Still Using Backstage? (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Generative AI in the Real World: Aishwarya Naresh Reganti on Making AI Work in Production (Ben Lorica & Aishwarya Naresh Reganti)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #545 – OWASP Top 10 (2025 List) for Python Devs (Michael Kennedy)
• Success as a Scrum Master Means People Feel Safe Enough to Speak Up Before It’s Too Late | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Efe Gümüs)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – No country left behind with sovereign AI (Ryan Donovan & Stephen Watt)

Community and Events

• Celebrating MVP Authors: The Books (and People) Helping the Community Level Up (Kim Sanchez)
• Agents League Winner Spotlight – Reasoning Agents Track (Carlotta Caste)
• Maker Faire Philadelphia: An Historic Pier Becomes a Launchpad (Jennifer Blakeslee)

Database

• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Lite Dashboard (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• What’s New and Coming Next for Copilot and Teams (Vesa Nopanen)
• Available today: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Bas Brekelmans)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot v1.0.29 Release and GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.30 Release and GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.31 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Guide: Install Copilot CLI on Windows 11 (Mahima N.)

Writing

• How To Use AI Without Compromising Your Integrity As A Writer (Writers Write)

Tools

• GitButler: A Modern Git Client That Redesigns How You Work with Branches (Recca Tsai)
• Announcing Files v4.0.39 (Files Team)

General

• Sperm Whales’ Communication Closely Parallels Human Language, Study Finds and Intel’s New Core Series 3 Is Its Answer To the MacBook Neo (BeauHD)
• Eat Your Words (Om Malik)
• Meta raises Quest 3 and Quest 3S prices due to RAM shortage (Aisha Malik)
• Announcing Rust 1.95.0 (Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – April 16, 2026 (#765) (Richard Seroter)
• The Weekly Five by Santosh: 5 OSS Repos You Should Know (Santosh Yadav)

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

• Stop Hunting Bugs: Meet the New Visual Studio Debugger Agent (Harshada Hole)
• Build a personal organization command center with GitHub Copilot CLI (Cassidy Williams)
• Understanding AI’s Impact on Developer Workflows (Katie Fraser)
• How to Digitally Sign PDFs in Android Apps with .NET MAUI (Rangarajan Ashokan)
• Architecting Secure and Trustworthy AI Agents with Microsoft Foundry (Prabh Kaur)
• Azure MCP tools now ship built into Visual Studio 2022 — no extension required (Yun Jung Choi)

Web and Cloud Development

• Node.js 24.15.0 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
• What’s new in Microsoft Entra – March 2026 (Shobhit Sahay)
• Using an AI Agent to Troubleshoot and Fix Azure Function App Issues (theringe)
• Build with React, Run on Salesforce: Introducing Salesforce Multi-Framework (Charles Watkins)
• New enhancements for merchant initiated transactions with the Google Pay API (Dominik Mengelt, Kenneth Tu & Kushagra Patel)
• The History and Future of SAML: Why a 20-Year-Old Protocol Still Matters (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

Windows Development

• Why is there a long delay between a thread exiting and the Wait­For­Single­Object returning? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• The Road to Visual Studio 2027 (Patrick Smacchia)
• Microsoft Agent Framework – Getting started with DevUI in .NET (Bart Wullems)
• Azure.Identity for .NET v1.17.2 Release (Azure SDK Team)
• Critter Stack Sample Projects and Our Curated AI Skills (Jeremy D. Miller)

AI

• AI is programmed to hijack human empathy — we must resist that (Mustafa Suleyman)
• Is Your Internal Platform Ready to Keep Up With AI-Accelerated Development? (TNS Staff)
• Use AI to help YOU refactor your code (Jon Hilton)
• Hurting or Helping Devs? (Adron Hall)
• Microsoft faces fresh Windows Recall security concerns (Tom Warren)
• Making scroll-stopping videos with Replit Animation (Replit Team)
• Using Claude Code: session management and 1M context (Claude Team)
• Interact with agent-created visualizations in canvases (Cursor Team)
• New in Salesforce Developer Edition: Agentforce Vibes IDE, Claude 4.5, MCP (René Winkelmeyer)
• Cursor 3 Introduces Agent-First Interface, Moving Beyond the IDE Model (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• Incident response for AI: Same fire, different fuel (Phillip Misner & Stephen Finnigan)
• Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS (Simon Willison)
• The next evolution of the Agents SDK (OpenAI Team)
• Gemma 4 on Azure Container Apps Serverless GPU (simonjj)
• The Gemini app is now on Mac (Michael Friedman)
• The Product Architecture Behind Trusted AI Experiences (Saad Rahman)
• I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation (Dave Rupert)
• AI Is Writing Our Code Faster Than We Can Verify It (Andrew Stellman)
• Creating a Custom AI Agent with Telerik Tools 2: Loading and Accessing Your Agent’s Content (Peter Vogel)
• LLMs Are Proving That It Is Impossible to Automate Away the Human Experience (Celeste Aronow)
• Agents are rewriting the rules of security. Here’s what engineering needs to know. (Michelle Gill)
• When AI writes 100K lines of code, QA becomes the whole job (John Biggs)
• Michigan’s New Bill Takes Aim at AI Employee Surveillance (Bryan Driscoll)
• Windsurf 2.0: Introducing the Agent Command Center and Devin in Windsurf (Windsurf Team)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework: Python DevUI v1.0.0b260414 Release (giles17)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• TeamCity 2025.11.4 Is Out (Dmitrii Korovin)
• One-click security scanning and org-wide alert triage come to Advanced Security (Laura Jiang)
• Testing Needs a Seam, Not an Interface (Derek Comartin)
• Running individual Bun tests with Zed tasks (Mike Hadlow)
• Platforms before portals, build the roads before you buy the GPS (Matthew Allford)
• A guide to the breaking changes in GitLab 19.0 (Martin Brümmer)
• Playing Well With Others: An Example (JB Rainsberger)
• GitHub developer policy update: Intermediary liability, copyright, and transparency (Margaret Tucker)

Mobile and Game Development

• We rebuilt Flutter’s websites with Dart and Jaspr (Parker Lougheed)
• Import and Export Word Documents in .NET MAUI Rich Text Editor with DocIO (Yuvaraj Gajaraj)
• Boosting user privacy and business protection with updated Play policies (Bennet Manuel)

Screencasts and Videos

• Access your dev environment from any device (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Building Websites with ASP.NET Core Razor Pages | Visual Studio Live Las Vegas 2026 (Phil Japikse)
• Modernizing Applications with GAP | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• How a GitHub engineer built an AI Productivity hub with Copilot CLI (Brittany Ellich)
• GitHub Actions in Action | Visual Studio Live Las Vegas 2026 (Marcel de Vries)
• GitHub’s New Remote CLI: Real‑Time Control on Web & Mobile (James Montemagno)
• .NET MAUI Finally Gets Maps Clustering and Long Press – .NET 11 Preview 3 (Gerald Versluis)
• Random.Code() – Updating Esoteric Programming Language Implementations, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
• Code From the bed?! Squad + GitHub Copilot Remote is Wild! | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Writing Testable Code in C#: Learn how to write testable C# code using modern coding practices. (Gui Ferreira) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Infrastructure as code: why you can never avoid thinking | Adventures in DevOps Episode #269 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #353 – Open Source Self-Driving with Comma AI (Harald Schäfer, Chris Benson & Daniel Whiteack)
• PPP 506 | Stop Optimizing Meetings. Start Reducing Them, with Rebecca Hinds (Andy Kaufman)
• Windows Weekly Episode #979 – The Nespresso of the PC World – Simplifying the Windows Insider Program (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• .NET Rocks! – How AI Changes Development with Rob Conery (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #716 – Martin Kleppmann Local-First Software (Adi Narayan)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Can AI Save Collaboration Software? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Big Technology Podcast – The Pentagon’s AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1177 – Inside the life of a curator (and the myth of white gloves) (Mignon Fogarty & John Overholt)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #996 – 10 New CSS and HTML APIs (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Made by Google Podcast – How We Use AI on Your Wrist (Rachid Finge)
• Why Enforcing a Framework on Your Organization Will Never Be a Real Agile Transformation | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Efe Gümüs)

Community and Events

• Snap is laying off 16 percent of its staff as it leans into AI (Jess Weatherbed)
• Returning to Work After a Career Break: How Remote Work Made It Possible (Carmel Eve)

Database

• Azure SQL Migration Starts in SSMS—All in One Flow (neelball)
• SQL FAQs (Hristo Hristov)
• Can SQL Server 2025’s REGEXP_SPLIT_TO_TABLE fix STRING_SPLIT in T-SQL? (Greg Low)
• Introducing Performance Studio Free SQL Server Query Plan Analysis Tool (Erik Darling)
• Tutorial: Building AI Agents That Talk to Your Azure Database for MySQL (Farah Abdou)
• MCP Server Gives AI Agents Simplified Access To Data Stored in SQL Databases (Tom Smith)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.28 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Subagents have arrived in Gemini CLI (Jack Wotherspoon & Abhi Patel)

Writing

• How To Write What You Love (Writers Write)

General

• Introducing the ultimate college bundle: built for student life (Yusuf Mehdi)
• All Information (Except Text) for H.R.8250 – To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes. (119th Congress)
• Microsoft prepares display upgrades and two stage launch for new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with Intel and Snapdragon chips this year (Zac Bowden)
• Emails Reveal Space Force’s Hardest Mission Is Writing a Song (Joseph Cox)
• The EU’s age verification app is now ready (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
• Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury finds (Lauren Feiner)
• Microsoft counters the MacBook Neo with freebies for students (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – April 15, 2026 (#764) (Richard Seroter)
• #558 – 12th April 2026 (The Editor)

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

• The New Economics of WPF Migration: Why AI Agents Changed the Math (Matt Mattei)
• New Aspire database integrations (Alistair Matthews)
• Hack the AI agent: Build agentic AI security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game (Joseph Katsioloudes)
• Keynote: The Road to Visual Studio 2027: Building a Faster, Smarter IDE | VS Live Las Vegas 2026 (Mads Kristensen)
• Announcing SQL Server Management Studio 22.5 (Erin Stellato)
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 11 Preview 3 (Dan Roth)
• .NET 11 Preview 3 is now available! (.NET Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• htmxRazor v2.0.0: Platform and DX (Chris Woodruff)
• Migrating Material and AntDesign Provider Assets in Blazorise 2.1 and Announcing Blazorise 2.1 – Mosor (Mladen Macanović)
• A Developer’s Guide to Lazy Loading in React and Next.js (David Aniebo)
• Clean Code to Clean Architecture: Refactoring a Fat Controller into Vertical Slices in ASP.NET Core (Sudhir Mangla)
• How to send Slack messages using Azure Logic Apps: built-in connector vs Slack APIs (Davide Bellone)
• Export Once, Share Everywhere: Convert DOCX to PDF, HTML, and More in React (Mohanaselvam Jothi)
• How to Enable Self-Service Identity Management for B2B SaaS in Auth0 (Eric Wu)
• Angular Material or PrimeNG? Choosing the Right UI Library in 2026 (Ankit Sharma)
• Reusable Requests: Enhancing Modularity and Efficiency | Postman (Danny Dainton)
• JSON5 – JSON for Humans (JSON5 Team)

Windows Development

• Why was there a red telephone at every receptionist desk? (Raymond Chen)
• MSVC Build Tools Version 14.51 Release Candidate Now Available (Eric Brumer)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Insiders Release Notes | April 14, 2026 and Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.5.0 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• C# String Comparison: Equals, OrdinalIgnoreCase, StringComparer, and Culture Pitfalls (Nick Cosentino)
• .NET and .NET Framework April 2026 servicing releases updates (Rahul Bhandari & Tara Overfield)
• TXTextControl.Markdown.Core 34.1.0-beta: Work with Full Documents, Selection, and SubTextParts (Bjoern Meyer)
• .NET 11 Preview 3 Release Notes (Jon Galloway)
• Early April Releases for the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
• .NET 8.0.26 / 8.0.126 Release (dotnet-bot)

AI

• Introducing Universal Agent Support: level up any coding agent with Warp (Zach Lloyd)
• Introducing MAI-Image-2-Efficient: Faster, More Efficient Image Generation (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Code desktop app lets you burn through tokens even faster (Frederic Lardinois)
• Why AI is an operating model shift—Not a technology upgrade (Microsoft in Business Team)
• Introducing routines in Claude Code and Redesigning Claude Code on desktop for parallel agents (Claude Team)
• From Idea to Production in 4 Hours with AI: A Case Study (J. Tower)
• Build Better AI Agents: 5 Developer Tips from the Agent Bake-Off (Frank Guan & Abraham Gomez)
• Speeding up GPU kernels by 38% with a multi-agent system (Cursor Team)
• Your Oracle Data Is Sitting Next to Microsoft AI. Are You Using It? (Manish Chopra)
• Gemma 4 now available in Microsoft Foundry (vaidyas)
• OpenClaw v2026.4.14 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Demystifying Agent Framework Workflows (Lino Tadros)
• Arguing With Agents (Mike Moore)
• Three ways to connect an AI agent to your business data (Claire Amaouche)
• Building Real-Time Speech Translation with AI Avatars with Azure Speech Services (sudarsan)
• AI Crash Course: Jailbreaking, Prompt Extraction and Bad Actors (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• These fifth graders vibe coded a real-world Braille tool — and wowed their Microsoft teacher (Kurt Schlosser)
• Building Red Hat MCP-ready images with image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Louis Imershein)
• Running AI agents with customized templates using docker sandbox (Andrew Lock)
• Superpowers, GSD, and GSTACK: Picking the Right Framework for Your Coding Agent (Engin Diri)
• From AI Slop to AI Empowerment: Raising the Bar for Open-Source Contribution by Tom Stavert (Tom Stavert)
• Human Error is OK! Machine Madness is a No-No! Why? (Om Malik)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Why We Chose the Harder Path: Docker Hardened Images, One Year Later (Aditya Tripathi)
• April Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
• A Collaborative Tech Innovation Day: Where Big Ideas Begin (Henry Lyles & Kris Heller)
• Redefining the future of software engineering (MIT Technology Review Insights)
• How exposed is your code? Find out in minutes—for free (Dorothy Pearce)
• Grief and the Nonprofessional Programmer (Mike Loukides)

Mobile and Game Development

• A security update for Raspberry Pi OS (Simon Long)
• W3C Web of Things (WoT) support in Azure IoT Operations (Erich B.)

Screencasts and Videos

• Kayla Makes James’ Windows Terminal Awesome (Kayla Cinnamon & James Montemagno)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Gerald Versluis (Isaac Levin)
• Pragmatic AI in .NET Show: Spec-Driven Development with Eric D. Boyd (Sam Basu)
• AI Populism Turns Violent and The New AI Org Chart (AIDailyBrief)
• Aspire, Websites, and more | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Fast Focus: Caching Options in .NET | Visual Studio Live Las Vegas 2026 (Jason Bock)
• GitHub Copilot CLI Remote Sessions – Code From Your Couch, The Beach or anywhere! (Gerald Versluis)
• Using Warp with coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc) and Universal agent support: level up Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI in Warp (Warp Team)

Dometrain Course

Deep Dive: Boosting Developer Productivity with AI: Deep dive into Artificial Intelligence to improve developer productivity (Kevin Dockx) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Developer Tea Podcast – Chaos Doesn’t Have to Win – Maintaining Order in the Midst of AI Change (Jonathan Cutrell)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #204 – Spec-Driven Development and the AI Unified Process (Simon Martinelli)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1020 – AirPods for Your Face – Is the MacBook Neo a Hit? (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• RunAs Radio Show #1032 – Internal Corporate Communications in 2026 with Emily Mancini (Richard Campbell)
• The Shift Podcast S02 E06 – Is Postgres the wave of the future? (Eric, Marko, Claire & Abinav)
• AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #021 – Anthropic’s Mythos: The AI Model That Changes Everything (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Under the Hood of USPS: Automation, Innovation and AI (United States Postal Service)
• Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – Breaking Financial Dependency and Rewriting Your Money Story (with Estelle Gibson) (‘Tine Zekis)
• When Daily Stand-ups Become Status Updates — The Warning Signs of a Team Falling Apart | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Efe Gümüs)

Community and Events

• AI is a Team Sport – Announcing our first wave of Guest Speakers at M365 Community Conference 2026 (Jon Jones)
• Get ready for Google I/O: Livestream schedule revealed (Google I/O Team)
• A new chapter for the Microsoft Student Ambassadors program, built for you (R. Wortman Morris)
• World Quantum Day serves as a cause for computer celebration (Alan Boyle)

Database

• Install SQL Server 2022 Standard Edition (Jan Potgieter)
• Making SQL Server More Affordable in the Cloud: Smarter Approaches for 2026 (MSSQL Tips)
• Real-Time Performance Views That Make Troubleshooting Easier (Pinal Dave)
• Release Notes for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.5.0 (Microsoft Learn)
• Take your PostgreSQL-backed apps to the next level (Ismael Mejía Useche & Pooja Yarabothu)
• Trying Something New With sp_QuickieStore: 80/20 Query Scoring Across Multiple Metrics and Free SQL Server Query Plan Analysis, Right In Your Browser (Erik Darling)
• SQL Server 2016 Support Ends in 90 Days. (Brent Ozar)
• Data manipulation techniques in esProc SPL: a complete guide (Chisom Kanu)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Apply sensitivity labels with custom permissions in Office for the web (Camille Birch)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.27 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Stop juggling package managers—just run `azd update` (Kristen Womack)

Tools

• Speeding up interactive rebase in JetBrains IDEs (Aleksandr Krasilnikov)
• Scott Hanselman Brings a macOS Feature to Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• Live Blog Writer extension | Open VSX Registry (Alvin Ashcraft) – Get my VS Code extensions on Cursor, VSCodium, and other editors that support Open VSX

General

• Microsoft Reveals Major Price Increase For All Surface PCs (BeauHD)
• You can try Linux 7.0 now on these distros – here’s what’s new (Steven Vaughan-Nichols)
• Opinion: Make Democracy capitalist again (Chris DeVore)
• How to Install Linux Kernel 7.0 on Ubuntu 25.10 (Marcus Nestor)

More Link Collections

• Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – April 12 (Peter Ritchie)
• Daily Reading List – April 14, 2026 (#763) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: April 14 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

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

Words and the User Experience.

Top Links

• GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Pages (Kedasha Kerr)
• Agent Skills in .NET: Three Ways to Author, One Provider to Run Them (Sergey Menshykh)
• LLM Chat in .NET with IChatClient: The Complete Guide | NDepend (Patrick Smacchia)
• Mastering Dynamic Components, HTTP Resources, and AI Writing Assistants ️ (Angular Team)
• Test Multi-Device Interactions with the Android Emulator (Steven Jenkins)
• MAI-Image-2 Just Dropped — And .NET Support Is Already Here (Bruno Capuano)

Web and Cloud Development

• Build a Movie Watchlist with Node.js, TypeScript, and MongoDB (Nic Raboy)
• AI Productivity for React Developers in 2026 (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Solving Problems with HTMX – Theme Switcher (Robodobdob)
• Build an AI Content Creation App in Blazor with AI AssistView (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)
• The Cookie Apocalypse Already Happened (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Embed a Secure Inline PDF Viewer in React: No Downloads, Full Control (Deepa Thiruppathy)
• Name-only @container queries: A solution to the naming wars (Saron Yitbarek)

Windows Development

• Finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1 (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• EF Core query translation: Why does some LINQ never become SQL? (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• Managing Long-Running Tasks Inside Akka.NET Actors (Aaron Stannard)
• Refactoring to SOLID in C# (Mark Heath)
• Suppressing Roslyn Analyzer Warnings Programmatically using DiagnosticSuppressor (Gérald Barré)
• Validate .NET configuration on startup (David Grace)

AI

• Reactive Writers: How Co-Writing with AI Changes How We Engage with Ideas (Advait Bhat, Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Mor Naaman & Maurice Jakesch)
• Comprehension Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code (Addy Osmani)
• Stanford Report Highlights Growing Disconnect Between AI Insiders and Everyone Else (BeauHD)
• How to Implement Tool Calling with Gemma 4 and Python (Matthew Mayo)
• Now in Foundry: Microsoft Harrier and NVIDIA EGM-8B (Osi)
• Postman’s MCP Server Now Works With Google Antigravity IDE (Quinton Wall)
• You can now easily call LLMs from your messaging engine. Should you? (Richard Seroter)
• Expanding Text Control Agent Skills: New ServerTextControl Skills for AI Assisted Document Processing (Bjoern Meyer)
• Keep your context short – Manual compaction is now available in VS Code (Bart Wullems)
• Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts. (Michelle Kim)
• Managing context in long-run agentic applications (Dominic Marks)
• How to Analyze Hugging Face for Arm64 Readiness (Jennifer Kohl)

Python

• Efficient Data Processing in Python: Batch vs Streaming Pipelines Explained (Bala Priya C)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Anti-patterns in event modelling – Passive Aggressive Events (Oskar Dudycz)
• Use Process Templates in Platform Hub to verify and deploy dependencies (Bob Walker)
• Event Sourcing: Simple is often enough (Urs Enzler)
• When You Can Safely Leave Sprints Behind (JB Rainsberger)

Mobile and Game Development

• Building an Instagram-Style Like Animation in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Swift Concurrency, Part 3: Bridging Legacy APIs With Continuations (Nikita Vasilev)
• Skia vs Impeller: A Performance Comparison (Raiden Lpf)
• Maker Monday: 10 non-traditional clock projects (Rob Zwetsloot)

Screencasts and Videos

• Stop Guessing, start fixing. Meet the Visual Studio Debugger Agent (Sireesha Pisipati)
• Building Intelligent .NET Applications: From AI Features to Agentic Systems | VS Live Las Vegas 2026 (Jon Galloway)
• Oh My Posh Customizations – Creating a Segment | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
• What’s New in C# | Visual Studio Live Las Vegas 2026 (Jason Bock)
• Websites and tools for developers | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Sending Email with .NET: Learn everything you need to know to send production-grade emails in .NET (Dylan Beattie) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1176 – Why ‘stressed’ spelled backwards reveals a delicious truth. ‘Me’ versus ‘myself’ (Mignon Fogarty)
• Fragmented: AI Developer Podcast Episode #310 – Mitchell Hashimoto on Ghostty & His Agentic Coding Workflow (Kaushik Gopal, Iury Souza & Mitchell Hashimoto)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #272 – More Than Just Packets: Is NDR a “First-Class” Cloud Security Control? (Anton Chuvakin)
• SQL Server Radio Episode #186 – Automatic Index Compaction and New DB DevOps Tooling (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #995 – Next.js Vendor Lock-in No More (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• The Hidden Cost of Splitting the Scrum Master Role — And Why Stance Changes Make or Break Your Impact | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Efe Gümüs)
• Meta Cast – When AI Makes Your Pipeline Faster But Your Product Worse (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• InfoQ Podcast: How SBOMs and Engineering Discipline Can Help You Avoid Trivy’s Compromise (Viktor Peterson)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Who needs VCs when you have friends like these? (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Come meet the Flutter core team on tour in 2026 (Emma Twersky)
• Microsoft Global Agent-a-thon (Tiffiany)

Database

• SOFTMAX Function in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
• Cross-database ownership chaining in SQL Server: security risks, behavior, and privilege escalation explained (Fabiano Amorim)
• Normalization vs. Reality: When to Denormalize for Throughput on SQL Server & Azure SQL (Sudhir Mangla)
• How to Load Embedding Models into Oracle AI Database in 2026 (Daniela Pavlenco)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft is testing OpenClaw-like AI bots for 365 Copilot (Emma Roth)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.25 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• 17 Ways To Think Like A Writer Every Day (Writers Write)
• Markdown Region Buddy for VS Code (Alvin Ashcraft) – Source on GitHub

Tools

• HVTools – first Community response is insane! (Michael Morten Sonne)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.2 Release (OneBlue)

General

• The new Trump Phone design is here (Dominic Preston)
• Linux 7.0 Released (BeauHD)
• Booking.com confirms hackers accessed customers’ data (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
• Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators (Dell Cameron)
• “Giant superatoms” could finally solve quantum computing’s biggest problem (Chalmers University of Technology)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – April 13, 2026 (#762) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Mythos Preview in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Agent Registry, and more (April 13, 2026) (Micah Walter)
• Reading Notes #693 (Frank Boucher)

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

• Why we made Windows Terminal (Kayla Cinnamon)
• PowerShell MSI package deprecation and preview updates (Jason Helmick)
• MAUI Sherpa — Your Guide to .NET MAUI Development (Jonathan Dick)
• GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Copilot CLI (Christopher Harrison)
• Announcing Azure MCP Server 2.0 Stable Release for Self-Hosted Agentic Cloud Automation (Sandeep Sen)
• Improving your Windows Insider experience (Stephen Lines)

Web and Cloud Development

• Automate Astro Upgrades with GitHub Agentic Workflows (Laurent Kempe)
• Who Created That Service Principal? Tracing It Back with Microsoft Graph (Shannon Kuehn)
• Integration Testing Azure Functions with Reqnroll and C#, Part 1 – Introduction (Jonathan George)
• Automatic efficient API Client Generation with Kiota (Stephan van Rooij)
• font-family Doesn’t Fall Back the Way You Think (Harry Roberts)

Windows Development

• How do you add or remove a handle from an active Wait­For­Multiple­Objects?, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1812 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for Canary Channel 29565.1000 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8170 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.8165 (Beta Channel) (Donna Little)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Building a VS Code-Style Extension System in C# (Nick Cosentino)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.1.0 Release (Dmytro Struk)
• Convert Markdown to PDF in C# Using .NET Word Library (Mathan Kumar Varadharaja)
• Collection Performance: High-Performance Emptiness Checks for Concurrent & Immutable Collections (David McCarter)
• Implementing the Saga Pattern With Wolverine (Milan Jovanović)

AI

• Secret agentic AI (Mark Seemann)
• OpenClaw v2026.4.12 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Gemma 4 audio with MLX (Simon Willison)
• How Intelligent is AI? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Agents don’t know what good looks like. And that’s exactly the problem. (Luca Mezzalira)
• Synchronizing Copilot Setup Across Repositories and Devices (Einar Ingebrigtsen)
• Hermes Agent – An Agent That Grows with You (Nous Research)
• Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex are merging into one AI coding stack nobody planned (Janakiram MSV)
• The AI RAM Shortage is Also Driving Up SSD Prices (EditorDavid)
• Llama.cpp on Windows 11 with Qwen 3.5: A Practical Local AI Setup for .NET Architects (Sudhir Mangla)
• NeuronFS: Folders ARE the Context – AI Governance System | GitHub (Rhino Acoustic Team)
• autoskills: One command. Your entire AI skill stack. Installed. (Miguel Ángel Durán)
• Preparing your security program for AI-accelerated offense and Seeing like an agent: how we design tools in Claude Code and Multi-agent coordination patterns: Five approaches and when to use them (Claude Team)
• Evaluating Netflix Show Synopses with LLM-as-a-Judge (Gabriela Alessio, Cameron Taylor & Cameron R. Wolfe)
• Where are the guardrails everyone promised for AI? (Darryl K. Taft)
• OpenClaw’s Credential Problem Is Not a Secrets Problem (Juan Cruz Martinez)
• Microsoft Doubles Down on In-House AI With MAI Voice, Transcription, and Image Models (Kieron Allen)
• How I Use AI on Side Projects: ChatGPT, Cursor, and Copilot (Simon Foster)
• How the Datadog MCP server can help improve IT operational insight and observability (Anirban Brahmochari, Swapnil Panchal, Ashwin Mattur & Rishikesh Borkotoky)
• Anthropic Copyright Settlement: April Update (Victoria Strauss)

Python

• mssql-python 1.5: Apache Arrow, sql_variant, and Native UUIDs (David Levy)
• How (Not) to Learn Python (Cheuk Ting Ho)
• How to Send SMS Messages With Python, Flask and Vonage (Liz Acosta)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems (Vitaly Friedman)
• Developers are System Thinkers, not Code Monkeys (Dan Clarke)
• How to Build a Secure AI PR Reviewer with Claude, GitHub Actions, and JavaScript (Sumit Saha)

Mobile and Game Development

• Game Dev advice is contradictory! and this AI is too Dangerous to release! (Code Monkey)

Screencasts and Videos

• Using Foundry Agents with Structured Output to improve your results | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
• Random.Code() – Updating Esoteric Programming Language Implementations, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
• IoTCT Webcast Episode 308 – “The FAFO Pandemic” (When Agentic AI Goes Wrong!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Turning a codebase into an 80s dungeon crawler with Copilot CLI (Lee Reilly)
• Why Every AI Product Seems the Same and Anthropic Now Leads OpenAI in Annualized Revenue (AIDailyBrief)
• GCast 214: Using M365 Copilot to Edit a PowerPoint Image and Technology & Friends – Ken Versaw on How to Manage AI-First Software Development Teams (David Giard)

Dometrain Course

Let’s Build It: Multi-Tenant SaaS App in TypeScript: Learn how to build a full-stack production-ready multi-tenant Saas Application in TypeScript and React (James Charlesworth) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Michael Perry: AI-assisted Development – AI DevOps Podcast Episode #397 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #510 – AI Agents: Claws, Copilot, GUI vs CLI Debate (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Lenny’s Podcast – Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• PPP 505 | You’ve Got This: A Practical Way to Lead When You’re Not Sure, with Ashley Herd (Andy Kaufman)
• GeekWire Podcast – Riding the rails — over a floating bridge: GeekWire Podcast takes the train across the lake to Microsoft (Todd Bishop)
• freeCodeCamp Podcast Episode #215 – How to learn programming and CS in the AI hype era – interview with dev and prof Mark Mahoney (Beau Carnes)
• BONUS Why a Distinguished Engineer Stopped Reading Code — Lights-Out Codebases and the End of the IC | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Philip Su)
• The Leadership Void — What Happens When Product Owners Forget They’re Part of the Scrum Team | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nate Amidon)
• Hard Fork Podcast – Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their Sam Altman Investigation + One Good Thing (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #290 – Advice on Managing Projects & Making Python Classes Friendly (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• Big Technology Podcast – Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta (Alex Kantrowitz)
• React Native Radio Episode #359 – The AI Apocalypse? The past, present, and future of software (Todd Werth & Robin Heinze)
• Talk Python to Me #544 – Wheel Next + Packaging PEPs (Michael Kennedy)
• Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #85 – Simplicity First – with Chris Woody Woodruff (Dan Clarke)
• A Geek Leader Episode #464 – Allison Shapira on AI for the Authentic Leader (John Rouda)
• I’d Rather Be Writing Podcast – How valuable are agent skills? Conversation with Larah Vasquez and Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti (Tom Johnson)

Community and Events

• Help Shape the Future of Microsoft 365: Join Research Sessions at Microsoft 365 Community Conference and The Microsoft 365 Community Conference Experience Starts with Community (Jon Jones)
• Introducing the 2026 Imagine Cup Top Launch Startup (Microsoft Student Developer Team)
• Call For Papers Listings for 4/10 and Job listings for week ending 4/10 (Leon Adato)
• Supporting Open Source Maintainers: A German Petition for Better Legal Frameworks (Stefan Spieker)

Database

• MySQL 9.7.0 vs sysbench on a small server (Mark Callaghan)
• The Fastest Possible HTTP Queries with Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring System Health Extended Event (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Power Platform Monitor Alerts Are Now Generally Available (Arjun Mayur)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.24 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• A Quick Start Guide To Writing First & Last Lines (Writers Write)

Tools

• OpenScreen: Create stunning demos for free | GitHub (Siddharth Vaddem)
• lucidVIEW v2.1.0 – The cross-platform markdown viewer that doesn’t wrap a browser (Scott Galloway)
• Understanding Defender AV Scans (Eric Lawrence)
• mist is now open source and looking for interop (Matt Webb)
• Markdown Region Buddy for Visual Studio – An extension that helps Microsoft Learn contributors manage markdown regions (Alvin Ashcraft) – Source here.
• GitNexus – A client-side knowledge graph creator that runs entirely in your browser (Abhigyan Patwari)

General

• Tested: Windows 11 just fixed slow storage management and removed a 30-year FAT32 limit (Abhijith M B)
• Has the Rust Programming Language’s Popularity Reached Its Plateau? (EditorDavid)
• DNA-Level Encryption Developed by Researchers to Protect the Secrets of Bioengineered Cells (EditorDavid)
• How to fix Windows 11 problems without the Recovery Assistant (Mauro Huculak)
• Why Copilot+ PC branding needs a rethink (Sean Endicott)
• Microsoft Windows’ new lease on life — why now? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft’s Windows Insider Program is no longer a confusing mess (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest #603 – Microsoft hasn’t had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold and C# Digest #602 – Getting started with PgVector in .NET for simple vector search (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Daily Reading List – April 10, 2026 (#761) (Richard Seroter)
• Android Weekly Issue #722 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 5, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• F# Weekly #15, 2026 – Akkling, FSharp.Data and RANSAC auto-tune (Sergey Tihon)
• The Batch: Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Problem, Dark DNA Unveiled, Pitfalls for Assistive Models, Simulating Fluid Dynamics (DeepLearning.AI)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #747 (Dave Verwer)
• Reading List 357 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

Blazor Web Development Cookbook (Pawel Bazyluk) – Referral Link

Tested recipes for advanced single-page application scenarios in .NET 9.

Top Links

• Running Multiple Instances of an Aspire AppHost Without Port Conflicts (James Newton-King)
• Why .NET MAUI Popups Lag and How to Fix Performance Issues (Kompelli Sravan Kumar Kompelli Lakshman)
• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | March 2026 (Nick Brady)
• Expanding the MCP Maintainer Team (David Soria Parra)
• Visual Studio Code 1.116 Release (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Build a rail menu in WinUI (Stephan van Rooij)
• Foundry Local is now Generally Available (Sam Kemp)

Web and Cloud Development

• Selecting a Date Range in CSS (Preethi)
• 5 Layout Patterns for Integrating the TX Text Control Document Editor in ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• How I refactored a legacy Node.js test suite with Claude (and saved 3 days of work) (Tomas Juhasz)
• How to Protect Sheets and Workbooks in a React Spreadsheet (Parthasarathy Ranjan)
• Safari Adds scrollend Event Support, Completing Baseline Browser Coverage (Daniel Curtis)
• Simplified Authentication with Better Auth (Christian Nwamba)
• Escaping the Fork: How Meta Modernized WebRTC Across 50+ Use Cases (Boris Tsirkin & Joachim Reiersen)
• New library to read and create excel files from typescript (supports charts, sparklines, vba, images, forms, computation, etc.) and A designer for ZPL labels, wich can be included in your application (Jochen Kühner) See demo too

Windows Development

• C++23 Support in MSVC Build Tools 14.51 (Daniel Griffing)
• How do you add or remove a handle from an active Wait­For­Multiple­Objects? (Raymond Chen)
• A brief history of C/C++ programming languages (Daniel Lemire)
• Effortless Digital Signatures for Everyone: Sign PDFs with a User-Friendly Tool in a WPF PDF Viewer (Vikas S.)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Programmatically Fill, Flatten, and Export DOCX Form Templates to PDF in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)

AI

• My Journey to Agent-First Development With Air (Valerii Tepliakov)
• Agent Governance Toolkit: Architecture Deep Dive, Policy Engines, Trust, and SRE for AI Agents (mosiddi)
• How Drasi used GitHub Copilot to find documentation bugs (Aman Singh)
• The “IQ Layer”: Microsoft’s Blueprint for the Agentic Enterprise (harshul05)
• Cloud Cost Optimization: How to maximize ROI from AI, manage costs, and unlock real business value (Fernando Vasconcellos)
• Build Multi-Agent AI Apps on Azure App Service with Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 (Jordan Selig)
• Getting Started with GitHub Copilot SDK (Anishek Kamal)
• What are AI gateways in 2026, and do you actually need one now? (Sam Richard)
• What to do when AI is removing the lower rungs of the career ladder (Mirco Hering)
• The advisor strategy: Give agents an intelligence boost and Making Claude Cowork ready for enterprise (Claude Team)
• Debugging your VS Code agent interactions (Bart Wullems)
• Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers (Tom Aarsen)
• The Gemini app can now generate interactive simulations and models | The Keyword (Google)
• Advancing to Agentic AI with Azure NetApp Files VS Code Extension v1.2.0 (Geert Van Teylingen)
• Claude + GPT | Multi-model intelligence in Copilot (Zachary Cavanell)
• Strengthen your research workflow with generative AI (Darcy Ogden)
• Opinion: How to read with AI (Oren Etzioni)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.1 Release (moonbox3)
• Data analysis in Python and esProc SPL compared – what are the differences, and which is best? (Chisom Kanu)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Architecture as Code to Teach Humans and Agents About Architecture (Neal Ford & Mark Richards)
• Embedding Security from Code to Cloud (Yash Mehta)
• Spec Driven Development isn’t Waterfall (Marc Brooker)
• The agentic SOC—Rethinking SecOps for the next decade (Rob Lefferts & David Weston)

Mobile and Game Development

• Intent redirection vulnerability in third-party SDK exposed millions of Android wallets to potential risk (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)

Screencasts and Videos

• Migrate Oracle Workloads to PostgreSQL Using AI-Powered Tools in the VS Code PostgreSQL Extension | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Jonathon Frost)
• Use AI to Achieve Operational Excellence with the Well-Architected Framework practices (Boris Scholl & Niels Buit)
• Copilot CLI update: chronicle, plugins, and fleet mode | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths & Ryan Hecht)
• AI, Budget, and the Future of Databases | Budget Bytes (Shireesh Thota & Priya Sati)
• Observability for the Age of Generative AI (Microsoft Azure Team)
• Next-Level SQL in VS Code: GitHub Copilot Custom Instructions, Plan Mode & Skills | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Carlos Robles)
• All the agents all at once (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Ditch converters in XAML with this! (Gerald Versluis)
• Flutter AI skills | Observable Flutter #88 (Rody Davis & Craig Labenz)
• Hangar DX Podcast – Are You Using AI to Go Faster in the Wrong Direction? | Steve Pereira on Flow and Engineering (Hangar DX Team)
• All of AI’s New Models and Tools (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: Aspire: Get started with Aspire, the future of local development (Dan Clarke) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #567 – Building Voice and Streaming Apps for the Enterprise with Alberto (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Women in Technology Podcast Episode #61 – The Power We Hold: Women Spies, Storytelling, and the Courage to Create (WiT Team)
• InfoQ Podcast: Tiger Teams, Evals and Agents: The New AI Engineering Playbook (Sam Bhagwat)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Thinking Realistically About Digital Sovereignty (Mary Jo Foley)
• GPU versus CPU: What is engineering really doing for us | Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #268 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #271 – Can AI-Native MDR Actually Fix Your Broken SOC Workflows or Just Automate the Mess? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #425 – Exploring Collaboration and Governance at the MVP Summit with Joy Apple (Ben Stegink)
• Microsoft Research Podcast – Ideas: Steering AI toward the work future we want (Jaime Teevan, Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman & Rebecca Janssen)
• Microsoft Research Podcast – New Future of Work: AI is driving rapid change, uneven benefits (Jaime Teevan, Sonia Jaffe, Rebecca Janssen, Nancy Baym, Siân Lindley, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Brent Hecht, Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman & Sean Rintel)
• Build Mode Podcast – How to handle layoffs with compassion with Ayal Yogev, Anjuna (Isabelle Johannessen)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #138 – Rivian R2 vs Tesla Model Y: Official EPA Data Crowns a New King (Batteries Included Team)
• Why Scrum Master Success Means Owning the Entire Idea-to-Deployed Pipeline | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nate Amidon)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #352 – Post-Mortem of Anthropic’s Claude Code Leak (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Gen Z needs a knowledge base (and so do you) (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Open source maintainers are drowning in AI-generated pull requests. Enterprise teams are next. (Arjun Iyer)
• Webinar – OSS Power-Ups: XenoAtom.Terminal.UI (Matthias Koch)
• Mastodon is about to launch its take on Bluesky’s starter packs (Emma Roth)
• Maker Faire Returns to the City of Light (Jennifer Blakeslee)
• EFF Is Leaving X (BeauHD)

Database

• Sysbench vs MySQL on a small server: another way to view the regressions (Mark Callaghan)
• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring Blocking and Deadlocking (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft 365 Copilot and the end of the single-model era in enterprise AI (Ken Yeung)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.22 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• Open VSX Registry – Extensions for VS Code Compatible Editors (Open VSX Working Group)
• Process Explorer v17.11 Release | Sysinternals (Alex Mihaiuc)

General

• Tesla is un-canceling its plan to build a smaller, cheaper EV: report (Andrew J. Hawkins)
• Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps (Tom Warren)
• Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit Programmable Logic Controllers Across US Critical Infrastructure (CISA)
• Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30,000 private Facebook photos and A hacker has allegedly breached one of China’s supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data (Dissent)
• Microsoft begins removing Copilot from Windows 11, starting with Notepad, Snipping Tool (Abhijith M B)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – April 9, 2026 (#760) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: April 9 (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.

Top Links

• Give your Foundry Agent Custom Tools with MCP Servers on Azure Functions (Lily Ma)
• .NET Rocks! – Agentic RAG with Ed Charbeneau (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI (Mark Russinovich & Scott Hanselman)
• Aspire v13.2.2 Servicing Release (github-actions[bot])
• Docs are Dead. Long Live the Docs. (Sam Basu)
• Introducing SQL MCP Server (Jerry Nixon)

Web and Cloud Development

• What’s new for the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor library 5.0 RC2 (Vincent Baaij)
• Adding an MCP Server to the WordPress Core Development Environment (Weston Ruter)
• First Public Working Draft: CSS Image Animation Module Level 1 and First Public Working Draft: Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.1 (W3C)
• Why Identity Is Infrastructure, Not a Feature (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Build and Host MCP Apps on Azure App Service (Jordan Selig)
• BFF and SPAs: Best Friends Forever (David Ramel)
• The WebCodecs Handbook: Native Video Processing in the Browser (Sam Bhattacharyya)
• Mastering ASP.NET Core Rate Limiting: From Basic Throttling to Distributed Token Buckets (Sudhir Mangla)
• From 10 Failed Stacks to Production: How a Data Scientist Built a Job Board with Wasp, a Full-stack Framework for the Agentic Era (Matija Sosic)
• How WordPress 7.0 Is Building the Foundation for AI-Powered Sites (WordPress.com Staff)
• How to Integrate React Gantt Chart in Framer (Lokesh Arjunan)
• Introducing Bun as a Runtime for Pulumi (Julien Poissonnier)
• Go 1.26.2-1 and 1.25.9-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)

Windows Development

• How do you add or remove a handle from an active Msg­Wait­For­Multiple­Objects? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Testing C# Source Generators: A Practical Guide (Nick Cosentino)
• Bing Open-Sources New Embedding Models — Now Available in C# with LocalEmbeddings.Harrier Convert Anything to Markdown in .NET — Meet ElBruno.MarkItDotNet (Bruno Capuano)
• How to Delete and Update Millions of Rows in EF Core Without Loading a Single Entity (Chris Woodruff)

AI

• What’s new in Foundry Labs – April 2026 (Vaidyas)
• AI Tools: MCP Server and Agent Skills (Jonathan Maron)
• OpenClaw v2026.4.9 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Grok 4.2 is now available in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Gemini gets notebooks to help you organize projects (Jay Peters)
• Meta’s new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools (Simon Willison)
• Bugbot now self-improves with learned rules (Cursor Team)
• Build Your AI Agent in 5 Minutes with AI Toolkit for VS Code (Isha Sahni)
• Beyond the App: Using Vibe Coding to Ship Decks, Dashboards, and Launch Assets (Replit Team)
• Progress Telerik Agentic UI Generator vs. Syncfusion Agentic UI Builder (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Best LLM APIs in 2026: Comparing OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Azure, Bedrock, Mistral & DeepSeek (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)
• Claude Managed Agents: get to production 10x faster (Claude Team)
• How to Serve a Vision AI Model Locally with vLLM and Reka Edge (Frank Boucher)
• ngrok free plan users can now purchase AI Gateway credits (Nijiko Yonskai)
• AI-Infused Development Needs More Than Prompts (Markus Eisele)
• As an Engineering Manager, I couldn’t ignore AI if my teams are to survive (Kristina Valjak)
• Stop Wasting Hours Writing Unit Tests: Use GitHub Copilot to Explode Code Coverage Fast (Chris Pietschmann)
• What We’ve Learned Designing Dev Tools in the Age of AI (Alyssa Nicoll)
• GitHub Copilot–Format your code using hooks (Bart Wullems)
• When AI delivers real value, not just potential (Microsoft in Business Team)
• Using ACP + Deep Agents to Demystify Modern Software Engineering (Aleksandra Aganezova)
• ALTK‑Evolve: On‑the‑Job Learning for AI Agents (Vatche Isahagian, Vinod Muthusamy, Jayaram Radhakrishnan, Gaodan Fang, Punleuk Oum & G. Thomas)
• AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon—here’s why (Mustafa Suleyman)
• Posthuman: We All Built Agents. Nobody Built HR. (Tyler Akidau)
• Hello, World – Welcome to the Copilot Studio Blog! (David Abu)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Layoff Thinking (Ted Neward)
• Why “Clean Code” is Killing Your Velocity (Derek Comartin)
• You See a Spec, I See a Common Language, and a Common Understanding (Kin Lane)
• GitHub Actions Custom Runner Images Reach General Availability (Claudio Masolo)
• Reclaim Developer Hours through Smarter Vulnerability Prioritization with Docker and Mend.io (Dan Berezin Stelzer)
• Feedback Flywheel (Martin Fowler)

Mobile and Game Development

• Expanding Swift’s IDE Support (Tracy Miranda)
• Swift 6.3 officially brings Android support (ProMobile.Dev)
• Available for Xbox Insiders: New Improvements to Achievements (Jon)

Screencasts and Videos

• Overview of migrating SQL Workloads to Azure (ITOpsTalk)
• Should We Be Scared of Anthropic’s Mythos? (AIDailyBrief)
• Beyond Copilot: AI Agents That Build, Debug and Govern Power Automate Flows | The Low Code Revolution (John Liu, Catherine Han & Elaiza Benitez)
• Unveiling Claude Mythos: The 244-Page Odyssey That Could Change AI (Frank La Vigne)
• Claude + GPT | Multi-model intelligence in Copilot | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
• Official Xbox Podcast: Forza Horizon 6 Dev Discussion (Joe Skrebels)

Dometrain Course

Career: Mastering Communication & Collaboration for Software Engineers: Everything you need to master Communication and Collaboration as a Software Engineer (Aleksandra Majkic) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Smooth Scaling Podcast Episode #23 – Autoscaling in Production: When It Works and When It Doesn’t with Zaigham Sarfaraz and Šimon Bučko (José Quaresma)
• The Amp Hour #721 – Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #715 – Sahaj Garg on Designing for Ambiguity in Human Input (Amey Ambade)
• Windows Weekly Episode #978 – Pre-Peated – “Copilot Is for Entertainment Purposes Only” (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #349 – Gmail Finally Lets You Ditch xXDragonSlayer2004Xx | Cloud Computing & AI News (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Big Technology Podcast – OpenAI vs. Anthropic’s Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents — With Aaron Levie (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #994 – AI Sucks At CSS (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Grammar Girl Podcast – Losing clients to AI, and how to gain them back, with Suzanne Bowness (Mignon Fogarty)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #203 – Neurosymbolic AI: Combining GenAI with Mathematical Proof (Danilo Poccia)
• The Hidden Cost of Distributed Agile Teams — When Time Zones and Misaligned Incentives Silently Kill Value Delivery | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nate Amidon)

Community and Events

• You’re invited. Windows Insiders meetups are back (Stephen Lines)
• GitHub Universe is back: We want you to take the stage (Rachel Cohen)
• Microsoft’s executive shake-up continues as developer division chief resigns (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft Moves: Longtime exec Julia Liuson to retire; new accessibility chief; and other changes (Lisa Stiffler)
• Introducing the 2026 Imagine Cup World Finalists (Microsoft Student Developer Team)

Database

• Create a SQL Server Baseline (M A A Mehedi Hasan)
• Microsoft ODBC Driver 18.6.2 for SQL (David Levy)
• Publish SQL Database Projects as Container Images with MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj (Erik EJ)
• The Insert Benchmark vs MariaDB 10.2 to 13.0 on a 32-core server (Mark Callaghan)
• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring Memory Graphs (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Unable to use database view option in Access – Microsoft 365 (NsdHill21steph)
• Introducing the new Windows 365 monitoring and reporting platform — now in Public Preview (Doug Coombs)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Junie CLI Now Connects to Your JetBrains IDE (Dmitry Savelev)

Writing

• How To Write An Irresistible Book Blurb In 5 Easy Steps (Writers Write)

General

• Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates (Joseph Cox)
• Dark Matter May Exist in Two States, Explaining Missing Signals in Dwarf Galaxies (Anastasia Scott)
• 18 new features coming to Windows 11 in 2026, confirmed by Microsoft (Abhijith M B)

More Link Collections

• dotInsights | April 2026 (Rachel Appel)
• Daily Reading List – April 8, 2026 (#759) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link

A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.