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

Web and Cloud Development

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

Windows Development

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

.NET and Visual Studio

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

AI

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

Design, DevOps and Methodology

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

Mobile and Game Development

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

Screencasts and Videos

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

Dometrain Course

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

Podcasts

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

Community and Events

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

Database

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

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

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

PowerShell and Terminal

• PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script (gbargsley)

Writing

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

Tools

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

General

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

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

Web and Cloud Development

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

Windows Development

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

.NET and Visual Studio

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

AI

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

Design, DevOps and Methodology

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

Mobile and Game Development

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

Screencasts and Videos

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

Dometrain Course

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

Podcasts

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

Community and Events

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

Database

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

PowerShell and Terminal

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

Writing

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

General

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

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

Web and Cloud Development

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

Windows Development

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

.NET and Visual Studio

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

AI

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

Python

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

Design, DevOps and Methodology

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

Mobile and Game Development

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

Screencasts and Videos

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

Dometrain Course

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

Podcasts

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

Community and Events

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

Database

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

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

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

PowerShell and Terminal

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

Writing

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

Tools

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

General

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

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

Web and Cloud Development

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

Windows Development

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

.NET and Visual Studio

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

AI

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

Design, DevOps and Methodology

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

Mobile and Game Development

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

Screencasts and Videos

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

Dometrain Course

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

Podcasts

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

Community and Events

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

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

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

PowerShell and Terminal

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

Writing

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

Tools

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

General

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

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

Web and Cloud Development

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

Windows Development

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

.NET and Visual Studio

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

AI

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

Python

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

Design, DevOps and Methodology

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

Mobile and Game Development

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

Screencasts and Videos

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

Dometrain Course

Deep Dive: Blazor: Deep dive into Blazor, a modern web framework using HTML, CSS, and C#. This course teaches you how to build full-featured web apps with minimal JavaScript, leveraging your C# skills. (Jimmy Engström) - Referral Link

Podcasts

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

Community and Events

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

Database

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

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

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

PowerShell and Terminal

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

Writing

• Making The First Move (Writers Write)

Tools

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

General

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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