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
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)
