Top Links
- 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
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)
