Top Links
- What’s New in Aspire 13.3 (Maddy Montaquila)
- Improve your AI coding agent with runtime context from Aspire MCP (Tim Deschryver)
- A New Chapter for Realtime AI: Reasoning, Translation, and Real-Time Transcription (Naomi Moneypenny)
- Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here’s how to review them. (Andrea Griffiths)
- .NET Upgrades Done Right: Beyond the “It Builds” Target (Mitchel Sellers)
- Copilot Studio gets faster with .NET 10 on WebAssembly (Daniel Roth)
Web and Cloud Development
- SimpleChat: A Provider-Agnostic AI Chat Starter for Blazor (Michael Washington)
- Electron 42 Release (Keeley Hammond)
- New in the Postman API v1.39: API Catalog and Spec Hub endpoints (Quinton Wall)
- What’s new in Aspire 13.3 – Stop alt-tabbing to DevTools: WithBrowserLogs makes Chromium an Aspire resource (Erik Lieben)
- Introducing the Azure Resource Manager MCP Server! (Steven Bucher)
- Aspire v13.3.0 Release (github-actions[bot])
- Node.js 26.1.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
- How to build your first MCP server with Node.js (Elijah Asaolu)
- 4 PDF Hyperlink Best Practices Every JavaScript Developer Must Follow (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
- Integrating Resend with Auth0 for Email Delivery (Ankur P. Chauhan & Brittany Roth)
Windows Development
- Publish to Microsoft Store as a company—now with free registration and faster onboarding (Giorgio Sardo)
- Announcing Windows Driver Kit (WDK) with Visual Studio 2026 (Prashant Chahar)
- When you upgrade your resource strings to Unicode, don’t forget to specify the L prefix (Raymond Chen)
- What’s New in vcpkg (Apr 2026) (Augustin Popa)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.5.0 Release (lokitoth)
- Visual Studio Code 1.120 (VS Code Team)
- LINQ in C#: Complete Guide to Language Integrated Query (.NET 6-9) (Nick Cosentino)
- MCP Magic: Building Tool-Enabled AI Agents with C# (David Ramel)
- Make Your JetBrains Plugin Remote Development-Ready (Nikita Katkov)
- C#: Should This Be a Class, Record, Struct, or Interface? (Chris Pietschmann)
AI
- When prompts become shells: RCE vulnerabilities in AI agent frameworks (Uri Oren, Amit Eliahu & Dor Edry)
- Security Dashboard for AI: 3 Ways CISOs Drive Impact Today (Danica Barhumi)
- Least privilege AI agents: A new azd template from Curity and Microsoft (Kristen Womack)
- Scaling Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber (OpenAI Team)
- Why Your RAG Pipeline Will Fail Without an MCP Server (Jaswinder Kumar)
- Perplexity’s Personal Computer is now available everyone on Mac (Sarah Perez)
- How to Get the Most Out of Your Claude Pro Account (Mahesh Chand)
- Seeing MCP (Kin Lane)
- Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows (Landon Cox)
- Warp: The Open-Source Agentic Development Environment Goes Open Source (Nikos Vaggalis)
- OpenClaw v2026.5.7 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Collaborate with Claude across Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook (Claude Team)
- Security Center 2.0: Act on vulnerabilities in bulk across all your apps (Replit Team)
- The state of global AI diffusion in 2026 (Juan Lavista Ferres)
- GitHub builds an immune system for AI coding agents running on MCP (Paul Sawers)
- From Doer to Director: The AI Mindset Shift (Paul Boag)
- Project-Specific Build Optimizations with GitHub Copilot (David Li)
- LLMs as hardware (Johnny)
- Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal (Simon Willison)
- GitHub Copilot and me: The evolution of my partnership with a coding assistant (Bruno Belarte)
- The introverts’ edge: How AI is leveling the developer floor (Darryl K. Taft)
- Why hasn’t longer-horizon training slowed AI progress? (Sean Goedecke)
Python
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Kubernetes v1.36: More Drivers, New Features, and the Next Era of DRA (DRA Team)
- Friction is a design tool, not a UX problem (Bart Krawczyk)
- Comparing Different Approaches to Sandboxing (Jennifer Kohl)
- Debugging Event-Driven Systems: 5 Problems Teams Create (Derek Comartin)
- How Application Shielding Software Protects Apps (Ben Nettleton)
- World Passkey Day: Advancing passwordless authentication (Vasu Jakkal & Nadim Abdo)
- A Tour of Handoff Orchestration Pattern (Jacob Alber)
- Design Principles Unpacked, No. 4: Balance (Teon Beijl)
- How to Make Code Highlighting-Friendly (Pavel Fatin)
Mobile and Game Development
- Did Microsoft just tease a new Xbox UI? and Inside the return of Xbox (Tom Warren)
- A look ahead: Making it easier and faster to publish safer apps (Vijaya Kaza)
- Android 17: Everything We Know About Google’s Biggest Year Yet (Aminu Abdullahi)
Screencasts and Videos
- Azure MCP and Azure Skills | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Sandeep Sen)
- Aspire 13.3 – Maddy’s Top 5 Features (Maddy Montaquila)
- Surprise Elon-Anthropic Team Up Reshapes AI Race (AIDailyBrief)
- The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code: Cognitive Debt and Intent Debt | Hangar DX Podcast (Hangar DX Team)
- Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 Highlights (Microsoft Developer Team)
- Playwright for .NET apps – Meet Uno Platform’s MCP Tools! (Sam Basu)
- Build a Unity Game with GitHub Copilot + MCP | .NET Game Development (Andy de George & Stacey Haffner)
- Make SSMS 22 Work For You: How to Customize Your Environment | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Makena Barickman)
- Random.Code() – Adding Replacement Capabilities to Rocks, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Software Defined Talk Episode #571 – The Enterprise Dunbar number (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Women in Technology Podcast Episode #63 – Cutting Through the Noise: How Jobs to Be Done Reveals Real Customer Demand (WiT Team)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #145 – BMW iX3 US Pricing & Range Impresses + Rivian R2 Truck Rumors Resurfacing! (Batteries Included Team)
- Big Technology Podcast – AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko (Alex Kantrowitz)
- MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #427 – Copilot Cowork Hands-On Experiences (Ben Stegink & Scott Hoag)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – GKE Turns 10 Hackathon, with Amie Wei (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – AI giveth and AI taketh CPU (Phoebe Sajor)
- Leadership as a Service — Why Scrum Masters Should Work Themselves Out of a Job and How Quality Circles Make Learning Flow | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Peter Merel)
Community and Events
- Do We Still Need Dev Conferences? (Johnny)
- AgentCon Around the World: How MVPs Brought AI Agents to Life (Alice Piras)
- AI meets accessibility in this year’s Swift Student Challenge (Apple)
- Calling All Prototypes To Maker Faire Rome 2026 (Ursula Pala)
- I’ve Been Busy Updating My Pluralsight Courses (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Microsoft employees learn details of voluntary retirement package: Here’s what the company is offering (Todd Bishop)
- Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ (Chris Freeland)
Database
- Scalable AI with Azure Cosmos DB: Bringing Generative AI to Enterprise Scale with Super Insight by AVASOFT (Manish Sharma)
- Why COALESCE might be the most useful SQL function you’re not using right (Lukas Vileikis)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Clustered Tables, Page Splits, and Readaheads (Erik Darling)
- The Best Risk Mitigation Strategy in Data? A Single Source of Truth (Jeremy Arendt)
- Vector Database Use Cases: Search, RAG, and AI Apps (Hannah Laurel)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Announcing general availability of the mailbox import and export Microsoft Graph APIs (Microsoft Graph Team)
- Available today: GPT-5.5 Instant in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Nitin Agrawal)
Tools
- Autoruns, ProcDump, ZoomIt, DebugView, NotMyFault, ProcExp, Procmon, and Linux tools | Sysinternals (Alex Mihaiuc)
- Oh My Posh Configurator – A visual tool that helps you create and customize your terminal prompt configuration (James Montemagno)
- Announcing Files v4.1 (Files Team)
General
- The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle (BeauHD)
- Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production (Jay Peters)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – May 7, 2026 (#779) (Richard Seroter)
