Top Links
- From Local to Production: Deploy Your Microsoft Agent Framework Agent with Foundry Hosted Agents (Tao Chen & Shawn Henry)
- From Prompts to Specs: AI Development with OpenSpec in Code Studio (Abilash Raja)
- There is no Install – it’s ‘Stage’ and ‘Register’ (Howard Kapustein)
- Copilot Cowork: From conversation to action across skills, integrations, and devices (Charles Lamanna)
- Durable Workflows in the Microsoft Agent Framework (Shyju Krishnankutty)
- .NET Rocks! – .NET Nanoframework with José Simões (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Introducing Skills for Dart and Flutter (Mariam Hasnany)
Web and Cloud Development
- Proper Not Found (404) Responses in Blazor Interactive Server (Mitchel Sellers)
- Build a Real-Time Voice Interview Coach with TypeScript and LiveKit (Nic Raboy)
- Scaling cloud and AI: Microsoft Azure’s commitment to Europe’s digital future (Jessica Hawk)
- Creating More Realistic Tests with In-Memory Databases in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
- Introducing SignFabric: An Open Source, Enterprise-Ready E-Sign Platform Built with TX Text Control (Bjoern Meyer)
- Creating a Custom AI Agent with Telerik Tools 5: Creating an Interactive UI in JavaScript (Peter Vogel)
- Making Zigzag CSS Layouts With a Grid + Transform Trick (Durgesh Rajubhai Pawar)
- Blazorise 2.1.2 – Accessibility and Scheduler Improvements (Mladen Macanović)
- Starlight 0.39 (Chris Swithinbank)
- The Real Cost of Build vs. Buy for Identity (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Announcing Dart support in Cloud Functions for Firebase (Kevin Moore & Rody Davis)
- The Architecture of Local-First Web Development (Durgesh Pawar)
- How we replaced NGINX-Ingress at Stack Overflow (Michael Frank)
- Evolving role of the index: From ranking pages to supporting answers (Bing Team)
Windows Development
- Why not have changes in API behavior depend on the SDK you link against? (Raymond Chen)
- Why Local-First Apps Matter; And How Simple QR Code Maker Lives the Philosophy (Joseph Finney)
- Windows Package Manager 1.29.170-preview Release (hackean-msft)
.NET and Visual Studio
- C# Records (Ricardo Peres)
- Rider Plugin Development (JetBrains Rider Docs)
- Avalonia app in one file. No XAML, no .csproj, just one code file – now it’s possible with .NET 10 File-based apps (gameplayer55055)
AI
- GitHub Copilot SDK for Rust v0.1.0 Release (github-actions[bot])
- AI Slop is Killing Online Communities (Robin Moffatt)
- The AWS MCP Server is now generally available (Sébastien Stormacq)
- Now in Foundry: IBM Granite 4.1, NVIDIA Nemotron Nano Omni, and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (Osi)
- Run Gemma 4 Locally with GitHub Copilot and VS Code (Chris Pietschmann)
- Google’s AI Search Results Will Now Turn To Reddit For ‘Expert Advice’ (BeauHD)
- AI Subagents ‘Coming Soon’ to Visual Studio Copilot (David Ramel)
- 3 strikes and you’re an AI skill (Jim Bennett)
- User just tricked Grok and Bankrbot to send tokens with Morse code (Hristina Vasileva)
- Adobe Announces an AI Productivity Agent (Paul Thurrott)
- How a Cursor AI agent wiped PocketOS’s production database in under 10 seconds (Janakiram MSV)
- vLLM V0 to V1: Correctness Before Corrections in RL (Rafael Pardinas & Ehsan Kamalloo)
- Secure more apps with External Access Tokens and Private Publishing (Replit Team)
- Bootstrapping Composer with autoinstall (Cursor Team)
- I Tried to Get OpenClaw to Betray Me. The Model Caught Me on the First Try (Ivan Mihić)
- Three words sparked an AI breakthrough in restaurant operations: “Hair. On. Fire.” (Ed Essey)
- Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (Anthropic Team)
- New in Claude Managed Agents: dreaming, outcomes, and multiagent orchestration (Claude Team)
- How to force your custom agent to stop and seek human approval (Richard Seroter)
- Introducing ChatGPT Futures: Class of 2026 and How frontier enterprises are building an AI advantage (OpenAI Team)
- Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like (Simon Willison)
- OpenClaw v2026.5.6 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Fast and Comprehensive Code Review, Now in Windsurf (Windsurf Team)
- “AI systems do not understand”: New report flags systemic failures in AI coding (Darryl K. Taft)
- Auth for MCP Is Now Generally Available (Tara Venkatesan & Karim Tantawy)
- Introducing Learning Activities: AI-powered practice for educators and students (Samantha Fisher)
- The most important part of the Microsoft + Anthropic Cowork deal is not the model. (Paul J. Swider)
- Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says. (Sarah Perez)
- Connectors now on Grok Web (xAI Team)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Things I Think I Think… about Junior Developers (Ted Neward)
- Kubernetes v1.36: Server-Side Sharded List and Watch (Jeffrey Ying)
- Eating My Own Dog Food: How I Used the Framework to Write the Post About the Framework (Marc Millstone)
- How to ensure successful deployment of a cloud migration (Pat Wright)
- The Organization Is the Bottleneck (Sarah Wells)
Mobile and Game Development
- Introducing Shiny.AiConversation — Text, Voice & Wake Word in One Service (Allan Ritchie)
- Flutter Type-Safe Navigation: GoRouter vs AutoRoute (Mobile@Exxeta)
Screencasts and Videos
- Successfully Migrate Workloads from AWS to Azure | Azure Essentials Show (Thomas Maurer & Raffaele Garofalo)
- Did anyone in the ’90s expect Win32 to still be a first‑class API surface in 2026? | One Dev Question (Mark Russinovich)
- .NET MAUI Community Standup: Rust, SkiaSharp Everywhere, AI/ML Live Processing (David Ortinau, Gerald Versluis & Nick Kovalsky)
- Java Application Modernization – Series Introduction (Ayan Gupta)
- We hid these in Windows Terminal (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Azure Blob Storage for AI (Microsoft Azure Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #355 – The Myth of Model Wars: Open vs Closed AI in 2026 (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- The Amp Hour #723 – BeagleBoard’s Back with Jason Kridner (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Windows Weekly Episode #982 – Don’t Lick the Manta Rays – Breaking Down Microsoft’s Earnings (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
- Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1183 – Meeting the new editor, with AP Stylebook’s Anna Jo Bratton (Mignon Fogarty)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #719 – Birol Yildiz on Building an Agentic AI SRE (Kanchan Shringi)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #547 – Parallel Python at Any Scale with Ray (Michael Kennedy)
- SyncUp, A OneDrive Podcast – What’s new in OneDrive photos (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #144 – Beijing Auto Show Reactions w/ Lei Xing – Feels Like The Future Of EVs (Batteries Included Team)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #1002 – The Real Pricing of LLMs (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- AI Alignment Is the Agile Coach’s Next Frontier – Using Throughput Accounting and Pull-Based Transformation to Prove Value | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Peter Merel)
Community and Events
- The Invisible Work – What it takes to run a developer conference (Michael Eaton)
- Web Development in 2026 with Jeff Fritz – Learn the latest in ASP.NET, Blazor, and Aspire in a hands-on livestream workshop (GAP Velocity.AI)
- Microsoft’s Office and LinkedIn chief now runs Teams in latest reshuffle and Here’s what Microsoft is offering long-serving employees to voluntarily retire (Tom Warren)
- Meet the Judges of the 2026 Imagine Cup World Championship (Microsoft Student Developer Team)
- Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026 – Take Part in One of the Largest Developer Studies (Nadia Lokot)
- My Open Source Projects (Rob Bos)
Database
- Free SQL Server Spring Training on Performance Tuning (Brent Ozar)
- Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Cosmos DB Shell: Open-Source Power Meets AI-Driven Database Automation (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Heap Table Problems with Updates and Deletes (Erik Darling)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.43 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Running GitHub Copilot CLI Offline with Local Models: GPU Edition (Bruno Capuano)
- Marp CLI v4.4.0 Release (Marp Team)
Writing
- How Writers Use The 4 Main Characters As Literary Devices (Writers Write)
General
- ReactOS Unifies Installation Media, Introduces GUI Installer and New ATA Driver (BeauHD)
- 30 Days of coreutils: mkdir (Rachel Kaufman)
- Microsoft finally begins testing Windows 10-like smaller taskbar for Windows 11 after removing it in 2021 (Mayank Parmar)
- ClickFix campaign uses fake macOS utilities lures to deliver infostealers (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team & Microsoft Defender Experts)
- New Worms Game Has Possibly Leaked In A Bizarre Way (Andrew Highton)
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- Daily Reading List – May 6, 2026 (#778) (Richard Seroter)
