Top Links
- Process API Improvements in .NET 11 (Adam Sitnik)
- .NET MAUI Moves to CoreCLR in .NET 11 (David Ortinau)
- Trick out your GitHub Copilot CLI with Oh My Posh (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Is debugging an AI system fundamentally different than debugging a traditional software system? | One Dev Question (Mark Russinovich)
- Agent Skills in Visual Studio: Teach Copilot How Your Team Works (Simona Liao)
- Introducing WinUI agent plugin: Build WinUI apps with AI agents (Windows Developer Team)
Web and Cloud Development
- Aspire 13.3.2 Release (github-actions[bot])
- Deploy with Aspire (Aspire Team)
- Critter Stack 2026 Releases are Underway (Jeremy D. Miller)
- New updates to Edge across desktop and mobile (Sean Lyndersay)
- Getting the Client IP Address in ASP.NET Core (Rick Strahl)
- Node.js 22.22.3 (LTS) (Marco Ippolito)
- Azure Migrate vs. Dr. Migrate: Understanding the Difference and When to Use Each (Lino Tadros)
- 5 Years and $5M Later: Inventing a New Programming Language for Web Development Was a Mistake (Matija Sosic)
- Vite+ guide: One CLI for JavaScript tooling (Emmanuel John)
- How to Integrate Google Drive with React Spreadsheet (Sastha Prathap)
- Introducing Azure Container Apps Express! (simonjj)
Windows Development
- MSVC Build Tools Preview updates – May 2026 (Eric Brumer)
- The case of the hang when the user changed keyboard layouts (Raymond Chen)
- WinDev Helper VS Code extension v3.0.0 release (Alvin Ashcraft) – Adds enhancements for new WinUI dotnet new templates. Get it for VS Code or on the Open VSX Registry.
.NET and Visual Studio
- Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11.56 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 v18.6.0 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders May 2026 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Post-Quantum Cryptography in .NET 10: A Practical Guide (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- redb.Route – Enterprise integration framework for .NET. Wire any system to any system in a few lines of C# (Rinat Kozin)
- Database-Enforced Authorization for Agentic AI .NET Applications (Alex Keh)
AI
- How I Documented an Entire Product in 4 Days with an AI Agent (Debbie O’Brien)
- Introducing Grok 4.3 on Microsoft Foundry: Latest Generation Agentic Capabilities (Naomi Moneypenny)
- Building a safe, effective sandbox to enable Codex on Windows (OpenAI Team)
- Microsoft’s multi-agent AI system tops Anthropic’s Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark (Todd Bishop)
- Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs (Emma Roth)
- Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents (Sarah Perez)
- Teaching an AI to Remember (Keith W. Boone)
- The GenAI Reality Check: New Instrument, Same Orchestra (Barry Smart)
- Hands On with the New Agents Window in VS Code 1.120 (David Ramel)
- Development environments for your agents (Cursor Team)
- AI Tools Avoided and Mistrusted By C++ Developers (Sue Gee)
- Opinion: Vibe coding needs an on-ramp — and seat belts (Kurt Schlosser)
- Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find (Will Knight)
- How Agentic AI Foundation and MCP Are Redefining the Infrastructure for AI Agents (Anastasija Uspenski)
- Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2) (Victor Yocco)
- Best practices for computer and browser use with Claude (Claude Team)
- New GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer (giulianogemero)
- GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.4 release and GitHub Copilot SDK for Rust v1.0.0-beta.4 release (github-actions[bot])
- Creating a Custom AI Agent with Telerik Tools 6: Embedding Conversational and Invisible Agents (Peter Vogel)
- Gemma 4 Model Sizes and Hardware Requirements: A Practical Deployment Guide for Developers (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)
- GridSFM: A new, small foundation model for the electric grid (Weiwei Yang, Andrea Britto Mattos Lima, Thiago Vallin Spina, Spencer Fowers & Baosen Zhang)
- Keeping Trusted Content Visible in an AI-Powered Search World (Bing Team)
- GitHub Copilot SDK for Go v1.0.0-beta.4 release (Steve Sanderson)
- AI is the New Netflix (Om Malik)
- Claude.ai vs Claude API (Arun Sirpal)
- Alternative Coding Agents: Pi (Junde Zhou)
- Your AI Problem Is a Data Problem (Aaron Black)
Python
- Platform Improvements for Python AI Apps on Azure App Service (Surender Singh Malik)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Kubernetes v1.36: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling (Maciej Skoczeń, Antoni Zawodny, Matt Matejczyk, Bartosz Rejman, Jon Huhn, Maciej Wyrzuc & Heba Elayoty)
- The goal isn’t to write more code (Jon Hilton)
- “Friction-maxxing”, Failure, and Learning to Code (Clara Maine)
- mimalloc: A new, high-performance, scalable memory allocator for the modern era (Daan Leijen)
Mobile and Game Development
- Dungeons & Desktops: 10 roguelikes that never die (because their communities won’t let them) (Lee Reilly)
- .NET MAUI 11.0.0-preview.4.26230.3 release (Shane Neuville)
Screencasts and Videos
- Supervise Autonomous Agents with the Power Apps MCP and Agent Feed | The Low Code Revolution (Elaiza Benitez & Jacob Wilkinson)
- Pragmatic AI in .NET Show: Clawing at AI Native .NET Apps, with Aaron Stannard and Spec-Kit for Agentic Development with Uno Platform! (Sam Basu)
- Stop Switching Tabs: Build and Test Web UIs Inside VS Code (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Towards AI That Can Actually Interact (AIDailyBrief)
- Creating an AI Workflows with GitHub Copilot CLI | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Developer Tea Podcast – Senior Skills to Maintain Employment Through the AI Wave (Jonathan Cutrell)
- .NET Rocks! – Use What Works with Dylan Beattie (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #720 – Martin Dilger on Understanding Eventsourcing (Giovanni Asproni)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #353 – Don’t Be Evil Unless the Government Asks Nicely (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- Windows Weekly Episode #983 – Puts the Buh in Benelux – Can Googlebooks Challenge Existing Laptops? (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
- AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: MCP Empowers Agents to Take ERP Actions, Capture Human Knowledge (Tom Smith)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #277 – CISO as CFO, From Citi to Celery, It’s All about the Cabbage (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Big Technology Podcast – Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? + The Allure of AI Love – with Joanna Stern (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #146 – The Best EV Cruiser to Replace a Toyota Avalon for Under $25k (Batteries Included Team)
- SQL Server Radio Episode #187 – Transactional Replication Between Availability Groups (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #1004 – TanHacked (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #208 – Vibe Publishing: How AI Agents Are Transforming the UK’s Largest Newsroom (Lewis James)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes at Uber with Lucy Sweet (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1185 – The hidden logic of English spelling, with Colin Gorrie (Mignon Fogarty)
- Merging Three Companies Into One Platform – When Founders Can’t Let Go and Leaders Won’t Decide | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mukhtar Kadiri)
Community and Events
- Tech Layoff Wave Has Already Hit 100,000 Jobs This Year (Tristan Gaudiaut)
- Ryan Carson Is a One-Person Code Factory (Tim O’Reilly)
- Meta Employees Launch Protest Against Mouse-Tracking Tech At US Offices (BeauHD)
Database
- Release Notes for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.6.0 (Microsoft Learn)
- Track SQL Server Configuration Changes Using the Error Log (SQLPals)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Partitioning != Performance (Erik Darling)
- How to build a privacy-aware analytics layer with SQL (4 top techniques) (Dejan Lukić)
- TLS Certificate Pinning and Best Practices in Azure Open-Source Relational Databases (Tameika L.)
- Microsoft SQL Security Across the MAESTRO Stack: Building Secure Agentic AI with Defense-in-Depth (Arun Vijayraghavan)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- General Availability of SharePoint Framework 1.23 – Advancing the modern developer experience (Vesa Juvonen)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Introducing Ads CLI: A Command-Line Interface for Meta Ads and Commerce (John Holstein, Matt Mayberry, Andrew Kutsy & Sanjay Patel)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.47 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- How To Show & Not Tell In Short Stories (Writers Write)
- Books for Building a Writing Routine (that works for you) (Emily Munro)
General
- Windows Update will soon automatically roll back faulty drivers (Tom Warren)
- TIOBE Index for May 2026: R Ascends as Statistical Tools Consolidate (Liz Ticong)
- Microsoft doesn’t want any of this (Elizabeth Lopatto)
- Microsoft announces extension of Xbox and Discord partnership (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
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- Daily Reading List – May 13, 2026 (#783) (Richard Seroter)
