Top Links
- Give Your .NET MAUI Android Apps a Material 3 Makeover (Gerald Versluis)
- WinUI agents and skills for Windows app development (Windows Dev Team)
- Visual Studio May Update – Plan, Review, Refine (Mark Downie)
- Write Cleaner WinForms Code with Copilot and the WinForms Expert Agent | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Klaus Loeffelmann)
- From DevUI to Observability: Evolving the Agent Dev Loop in Microsoft Agent Framework (Ed Charbeneau)
- The Impact of Automated Repository Maintenance Assistance (Don Syme)
- Doing More with GitHub Copilot as a .NET Developer (Wendy Breiding)
Web and Cloud Development
- Measuring Performance in FrontEnd using FPS (Latish Sehgal)
- Running ASP.NET Core Applications in an IIS Subfolder Application (Rick Strahl)
- WordPress 7.0 Has Arrived: Here’s Everything You Need to Know (WordPress Team)
- Webwright – A simple SWE style browser agent framework that achieves SOTA results on long horizon web tasks (Microsoft)
- Proposed Advancement of Pointer Events Level 3 to W3C Recommendation and Updated Candidate Recommendation: Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 3 (W3C)
- Postman Playwright Integration: Testing UI and API Together (Talia Kohan)
Windows Development
- Compile C#+XAML to a Native Windows, macOS, or Linux App, From Your Browser (XAML.io Team)
- If C# and JavaScript lets me await a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation more than once, why not C++/WinRT? (Raymond Chen)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Anatomy of an Open-Source AI Coding Agent Built in .NET: CodeAlta (NDepend Team)
- From poisoned search results to GPU mining: A cryptojacking campaign abusing ScreenConnect and Microsoft .NET utilities (Microsoft Defender Experts & Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
- Visual Studio May Update Adds Plan Agent Diff Review Tools and Improving Performance in .NET Applications (David Ramel)
AI
- Hybrid AI Agents in Python: Routing Between Foundry Local and Microsoft Foundry (Lee Stott)
- Creating a VS Code agent hook to respond to file changes (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Microsoft confirms Ask Copilot is coming to the Windows 11 taskbar in mid-2026 (Abhijith M B)
- I’m a Professional Fact-Checker. AI Is Wrong More Often Than You Think (Meghan Herbst)
- Set clear AI expectations for every assignment with Student AI Guidelines (Leif Brenne)
- Build AI RAG Apps with Azure DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and OpenAI: Step-by-Step Guide (John Aziz)
- GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.8 Release (github-actions[bot])
- AI Agent Governance Toolkit — Policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution sandboxing, and reliability engineering for autonomous AI agents. Covers 10/10 OWASP Agentic Top 10 (Microsoft)
- How to Connect Your AI Coding Agent to a Browser on macOS (אחיה כהן)
- Managed MCP in Autonomous AI Database: remote, governed tools per database (Mark Nelson)
- How we contain Claude across products (Anthropic Team)
- The Gap Is Widening and It’s Not Slowing Down (Adron Hall)
- Rethinking organizational design in the age of agentic AI (MIT Technology Review Insights)
- Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files (Simon Willison)
- How AI Agents Can Work with TeamCity (Sergei Ugdyzhekov)
- Who Authorized That? The Delegation Problem in Multi-Agent AI (Sunil Prakash)
- Koog 1.0 Is Out: Stable Core, Better Interop, and Multiplatform Observability (Alyona Chernyaeva)
- The Copy and the Guru (Om Malik)
- Bringing LLMs to the edge (Lucy Hattersley)
- Stop Tuning Prompts. Build a Harness. (Engin Diri)
- Building For The Robots (Charlie Kindel)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- How we built integration testing for fast-moving AI backend (Avik Kundu)
- Find shadow tenants and reduce risk fast with Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance (Cindy Crane)
- The Quiet Licensing Drift Nobody Notices Until it Matters (Shannon Kuehn)
Mobile and Game Development
- Share Functionality in Your .NET MAUI Apps (Leomaris Reyes)
- Top AI on Android updates for building intelligent experiences from Google I/O ‘26 (Jingyu Shi)
- Theme System and View-ViewModel-Mixin: Building a Scalable Flutter UI Layer (Veli Bacık)
- Enhancing Android Checkout with Dynamic Callbacks in Google Pay (Dominik Mengelt & Nik Heath)
- Get ready with the latest beta releases (Apple Developer Team)
Screencasts and Videos
- Extending AI Agents with WebAssembly | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro & Yosh Wuyts)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Paige Bailey (Isaac Levin)
- Building a DevTalkShow CLI because everyone has a CLI now, right? | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
- Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance | Find Configuration Drift | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeff Staiman)
- .NET MAUI 11 Preview 4: CoreCLR, Badges, and C# in XAML (Gerald Versluis)
- Building fun and creative messaging experiences on WhatsApp | NDC Sydney 2026 (Michelle “MishManners” Duke)
- Beating the AI Doom Cycle (AIDailyBrief)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio Show #1038 – Team Productivity using Loop with Karinne Bessette (Richard Campbell)
- Developer Tea Podcast – Rebuilding Your Mental Models In the Midst Of an AI Tech Revolution (Jonathan Cutrell)
- MacBreak Weekly Episode #1026 – Double-Wide Mode – How Apple May Lean Into AI Features for Its OS’s (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
- Why the Product Trio Breaks the Hand-Off Mentality That Kills Team Engagement | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Njegos Ilic)
- Meta Cast – Lean Into the Ambiguity Before the Ambiguity Leans Into You (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Community and Events
- Meta cuts nearly 1,400 jobs in Seattle area, 20% of local workforce, in sweeping AI revamp (Lisa Stiffler)
- From Showing Up to Lifting Others: Diego Domingos da Silva’s MVP Journey (Betsy Weber)
- AI Skills Fest is just days away—here’s what to expect (RegularITguy)
- The morale of tech workers is plunging as layoffs mount (Noam Scheiber)
Database
- Your Database Just Hit One Terabyte: Now What? (Brent Ozar)
- SELECT * FROM build2026_sessions WHERE postgres = true; (Pooja Y.)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- What’s New in Excel (May 2026) (Ms. Excel)
PowerShell and Terminal
- PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script (gbargsley)
Writing
- Technical Writing in the AI Age (Geoff Graham)
- Worldbuilding: The Ultimate Setting Checklist For Writers and About To Start (Writers Write)
- WordPress: Introducing Write: a new way to post, built for writers (Allison Levine)
- Confront Weasel Words (Emily Munro)
Tools
- DuckDuckGo Usage Surges Since Google I/O 26 (Paul Thurrott)
- Nvidia has retired its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years (Tom Warren)
- MarkItDown Version 0.1.6 Release (afourney)
General
- Windows’ Classic 3D Space Cadet Pinball Is Getting a Physical Re-Creation (BeauHD)
- Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country (Neel Dhanesha)
- 7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people’s personal data (Zack Whittaker)
- Ticket to Ride – All Aboard Collection Game Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – May 26, 2026 (#791) (Richard Seroter)
