Top Links
- ZoomIt, Evolved (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- How to Fix Slow EF Core Queries: Practical Performance Tuning (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)
- Apps That See: Bringing Vision AI to Your Projects (Frank Boucher)
- Node.js 26.0.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
- Introducing OpenAI’s newest chat model in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
- Real-world WPF Modernization Showcase (Sam Basu)
Web and Cloud Development
- How to Build a Loan Document Workflow Using an Embedded React PDF Viewer (Deepa Thiruppathy)
- Trustworthy JavaScript for the Open Web (Firefox Security Team)
- OAuth 2.1 Made Simple: The Only Flows You Need and Beyond localhost: Multi-Instance ASP.NET Core Deployment with .NET 10 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Routing Management and Creating NotFound Pages in Blazor (Héctor Pérez)
- Mapping Strings to Float Arrays in Go: How Fast Can We Go? (Daniel Lemire)
- Wolverine Middleware and Some Random Observations (Jeremy D. Miller)
- A Developer’s Guide to Flexible Token Exchange on Auth0 (David Lozano, Charles Rea & Justin Hinerman)
Windows Development
- WinDev Helper VS Code extension v2.10.0 release (Alvin Ashcraft) – Removed hard dependency on C# Dev Kit, added features for WinApp extension parity, and WinUI official template support. Available on VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX Registry.
- A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures (Raymond Chen)
- MSIX vs MSI: How to convert your MSI to MSIX in 2026 (Alex Marin)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Building and Using MCP Servers in Visual Studio (David Ramel)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.4.0 Release (westey-m)
AI
- Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models (Emma Roth)
- GPT-5.5 Instant System Card and GPT-5.5 Instant: smarter, clearer, and more personalized (OpenAI Team)
- Turning GitHub Copilot into a “Best Practices Coach” with Copilot Spaces + a Markdown Knowledge Base (mohashaikh)
- What OpenAI models support thinking, custom temperature, or both? (Spencer Schneidenbach)
- Why AI is raising the stakes of the software engineering craft (Cecilia Geraldo)
- OpenClaw v2026.5.5 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI (Jay Peters)
- It’s the Smell (Robin Moffatt)
- VS Code Update Added Copilot As Default Co-Author To Git Commits (BeauHD)
- OpenAI is reportedly launching a phone for ChatGPT (Stevie Bonifield)
- Microsoft’s new research finds an AI ‘paradox’ holding companies back (Todd Bishop)
- How Frontier Firms are rebuilding the operating model for the age of AI (Jared Spataro)
- Advancing AI evaluation with the Center for AI Standards (US) and Innovation and the AI Security Institute (UK) (Natasha Crampton)
- 8 Agentic AI patterns reshaping team collaboration (Erika Feldman)
- Foundry IQ and the partner opportunity: Turning domain knowledge into AI advantage (Reenu)
- Read-only analytics access and custom metrics now available in Microsoft Copilot Studio (Eran Manor)
- Accelerating Delivery: How AI Agents Can Own the Initial Code Draft (Stephen Walker)
- Modernize your workflows: Amazon WorkSpaces now gives AI agents their own desktop (preview) (Micah Walter)
- Mistral Adds Remote Agents and Work Mode to Le Chat (Daniel Dominguez)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Time to retire? (Eric Brechner)
- Kubernetes v1.36: Declarative Validation Graduates to GA (Yongrui Lin)
- Learning to code, 1990s vs 2026 (Oren Eini)
- What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap (Mark Downie)
- What is dogfooding? How JetBrains builds better developer tools (Grete Kivi)
- Generate Images Locally with Docker Model Runner and Open WebUI (Yiwen Xu)
- GitHub Enhances CodeQL with Declarative Security Modeling for Faster, More Flexible Analysis (Craig Risi)
- Technical Skills Every Technical Program Manager Should Learn in 2026 (Dean Hume)
- Cybersecurity Metaphors (Eric Lawrence)
- Bliki: Mythical Man Month (Martin Fowler)
Mobile and Game Development
- Raspberry Pi Connect: Device tags, required 2FA, and a mobile keyboard (Paul)
- Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes (Tom Warren)
Screencasts and Videos
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Brittany Ellich (Isaac Levin)
- Containerization Assist Integration with AKS VSCode Extension (Tatasat Mishra & Suneha Bose)
- Day in the life of AI Engineer: With a Demo (Priyanka Vergadia & Anthony Sofio)
- Introducing Quest to Compile: A Show for Game Devs Building in .NET (Andy De George & Stacey Haffner)
- SharpSite and StreamerMaps | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Developer Tea Podcast – You’re Wrong All the Time, But All You Need Are Better Explanations (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #29 – Preserving the Web in the Age of AI (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
- MacBreak Weekly Episode #1023 – Don’t Be Contemptible – Apple Sets a New Record for Its Second Quarter Results (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
- RunAs Radio Show #1035 – Securing Active Directory with Spencer Alessi (Richard Campbell)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #352 – Google Next: Rebrandapalooza (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – No Mail, Low Moral: The 6888’s Courage to Deliver (United States Postal Service)
- SQL Down Under Show #95 with guest Jess Pomfret (Greg Low)
- When a Hub-and-Spoke Executive Hijacks Your Agile Transformation — And What to Do About It | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Peter Merel)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #207 – Is AI Making Your Developer Experience Worse? (Tomasz Ptak)
Community and Events
- Google DeepMind workers are unionizing over AI military contracts (Jess Weatherbed)
- My MVP Story: Four Years In, Two Years with Security Copilot, and a Lot of Learning (Kim Sanchez)
- Welcome to Maintainer Month: Celebrating the people behind the code (Abigail Cabunoc Mayes)
- Philly’s Newest Museums, Galleries & Attractions for 2026 (Visit Philly)
- CfPs Closing Soon (as of 2026-05-05) (Dave Aronson)
Database
- What are managed identities in SQL Server 2025? A complete guide (Greg Low)
- Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 Recap: Lessons from Production (Mark Brown)
- Test SQL Server Backup Performance For Free (Erik Darling)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.41 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Tools
General
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – May 5, 2026 (#777) (Richard Seroter)
- Radar Trends to Watch: May 2026 (Mike Loukides & Claude)
- Windows news you can use: April 2026 (Chris Morrissey)
- Fragments: May 5 (Martin Fowler)
