Top Links
- Claude Opus 4.8 available via Microsoft Foundry (Vesa Nopanen)
- Automate evaluations | Microsoft Foundry (Zachary Cavanell)
- That’s a wrap: Everything Flutter at Google I/O 2026 (Emma Twersky)
- Create Multi-platform Apps with .NET MAUI and the MAUI Community Toolkit (David Ramel & Alvin Ashcraft)
- Improve your agentic developer tools by grounding in Microsoft Learn (Pieter de Bruin)
- Partial Graphics Programs (Nada Ouf)
Web and Cloud Development
- Astro 6.4 (Erika)
- Typosquatted npm packages used to steal cloud and CI/CD secrets (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
- Live text search with Firestore pipelines and React (Jeff Huleatt)
- The Agent Toolkit For AWS (Nikos Vaggalis)
- What’s new in Postman: AsyncAPI 3.0, performance streaming, and service accounts (Quinton Wall)
- Introducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applications (Channy Yun)
- How Azure Chaos Studio ships with hermetic Aspire end-to-end tests (Brent Rusinow)
- Azure Inventory in a Hurry: How to Pull Your Full Estate Across Subscriptions Fast (Shannon Kuehn)
- Who’s Calling Your Service? Designing for Humans and Agents at the Same Time (dbandaru)
- How to add icons to external links with CSS (Chris Ferdinandi)
- Time to move to Entra Cloud Sync (Michael Niehaus)
- Generating a Pulumi Provider from an OpenAPI Spec (Luke Ward)
Windows Development
- Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
- Uno Platform Pitches WPF Modernization for the AI Agent Era (David Ramel)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Deprecating dotMemory Unit (Alexander Kurakin)
- EF Core 10–Smarter parameterized collections (Bart Wullems)
- C# Nullable Types Explained (2026) (NDepend Team)
- How to Convert XML to JSON in C# With Json.NET and Couchbase (Matthew Groves)
- Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.6.2 release notes and Visual Studio Insiders Version 11822.327 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
- CLI Improvements in the Critter Stack and AI Stuff (Jeremy D. Miller)
AI
- Squad on CommandLine and v.0.9.6 insiders (Brady Gaster)
- Model Router (with Claude Opus 4.7) and MAI-Image-2e in Microsoft Foundry (Vesa Nopanen)
- Claude as your performance analysis partner (Archana Ravindar)
- United States AI adoption shows steady growth, but distribution remains uneven (Brad Smith)
- New and improved: Computer-using agents, a new workflows experience, and real-time voice experiences (Nitasha Chopra)
- GitHub Copilot AI Credits switch: Here’s what to do before June 1 (Bart Wullems)
- Your AI Agent Already Forgot Half of What You Told It (Andrew Stellman)
- Embodied cognition and agentic AI (Daniel Lemire)
- A Developer’s Guide to WebMCP: Shipping a 0% Adoption Standard (Chudi Nnorukam)
- What Is a Token in AI? An Explainer (Hannah Laurel)
- Claude Opus 4.8: “a modest but tangible improvement” (Simon Willison)
- Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry (Amar Badal)
- Introducing dynamic workflows in Claude Code (Claude Team)
- Introducing Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic Team)
- Enterprise AI’s Hidden Problem Is Organizational Amnesia (Pinal Dave)
- In an AI world, the most valuable developers will be both artisans and builders (Phoebe Sajor)
- Claude Opus 4.8 on GitLab: Complex agentic work, less disruption (Talia Armato-Helle)
- Slack AI: The Path to Multi-Cloud (Shaurya Kethireddy)
- Claw-style AI agents are coming to the enterprise. The governance infrastructure is still catching up. (Darryl K. Taft)
- OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework (OpenAI Team)
- Can AI support creativity? What educators can learn from creative machine learning (Manni Cheung)
- Debugging the undebuggable: building observability into probabilistic AI systems (Oladimeji Sowole)
- The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season (Caiwei Chen)
- The bubble is getting a lot bubblier, folks (Ryan Broderick)
- Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool (Russell Brandom)
Python
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Learn Figma for UI/UX Design (Beau Carnes)
- The Gentlemen ransomware: Dissecting a self-propagating Go encryptor (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team)
- Continuous Threat Monitoring for Application Security (Michelle Pruitt)
- Design Principles Unpacked, No. 5: Contrast (Teon Beijl)
- How to use Jest mocks (Dan Lew)
Mobile and Game Development
- Announcing AgilitySDK 721 Preview and an addition to LinAlg in Shader Model 6.10 (Amar Patel)
- Vonage: React Native SDK 2.33.0 Release: Publisher Degradation Preference (Julia Biro)
- These new iOS 27 renders hint at Siri’s big redesign (Stevie Bonifield)
Screencasts and Videos
- Technology & Friends – Cory House on Generative AI Coding Tools and Processes (David Giard)
- Random.Code() – Fixing ref struct Bugs in Rocks, Part 3 and Part 4 (Jason Bock)
- Why was open-sourcing TypeScript so important? | One Dev Question (Amanda Silver)
- Give your Agent memory with SQL Server and Microsoft Agent Framework | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Chris Noring)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show – Aspirifying the Enterprise: Building Modern Apps with Aspire with Joydip Kanjilal (Jamie Taylor)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #574 – Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- AI Agent and Copilot Podcast: OpenClaw-Powered Healthcare Assistant Builds Patient Agency (Tom Smith)
- Best of Build Mode: Cofounders, Conflict and Compatibility (Maggie Nye)
- Why Measuring Your Product Bets Is the Key to Product Owner Success | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Njegos Ilic)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – The find out stage of AI is just supply chain and password protection (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- W3C initiates leadership transition (W3C)
- F# Foundation 2026 Board of Trustees Election (Reed Copsey)
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma warns tough decisions are ahead, raising questions about Helix, Xbox Game Studios, and exclusives (Jez Corden)
- SQL + AI, hands-on: Join a free workshop near you (Anna Hoffman)
Database
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Filtered Indexes (Erik Darling)
- Data Formulator 0.7: AI-powered data analytics for enterprise data (Chenglong Wang, Scott Tsukamaki, Michel Galley & Jianfeng Gao)
- The Upcoming Sunset of DataSpell (Stanislav Garkusha)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – May 2026 (Vesa Juvonen)
- Available today: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Bas Brekelmans)
- Introducing federated Copilot connectors for LSEG and Moody’s in Excel (TamarTz)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.55 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Tools
General
- Blue Origin explosion is a major setback for NASA’s Moon plans and Amazon’s Starlink competitor (Thomas Ricker)
- Microsoft admits modern Windows 11 apps actually resize worse than the old ones, fix coming this summer (Abhijith M B)
- Still a developer. Just outside. Our latest GitHub Shop collection is here. (Natalie Guevara)
- Announcing Rust 1.96.0 (The Rust Release Team)
- What’s next for Microsoft’s Surface PCs? (Tom Warren)
- Acer Announces New Snapdragon Laptops, Intel-Powered Gaming Handheld (Paul Thurrott)
- Thou Shalt Not Build Bunkers While Americans Go Broke (God)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – May 28, 2026 (#793) (Richard Seroter)
