Top Links
- Visual Studio Code 1.121 (Visual Studio Code Team)
- Securing Azure apps with Aspire enterprise networking (Eric Erhardt)
- How Claude Code works in large codebases: Best practices and where to start (Claude Team)
- VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026: Send Your Team Home With Working Code (Jim Harrer)
- Playwright+ for .NET Apps (Sam Basu)
- The Modern .NET Show – Simplicity First: Why Complexity Is Not Sophistication with Chris Woodruff (Jamie Taylor)
- GitHub – github/app: This is the home for releases and issues for the GitHub Copilot app (GitHub)
Web and Cloud Development
- Exponential backoff and circuit breaker for Service Bus-triggered Azure Functions (Swapnil Nagar)
- Getting the Client IP Address in ASP.NET Core (Rick Strahl)
- Computing and Displaying Discounted Prices in CSS (Preethi)
- From beta to stable: Announcing the Azure SDK for Rust (Ronnie Geraghty)
- Accelerate Document Writing, Editing, and Review with AI-Powered React DOCX Editor [Webinar Show Notes] (Shriram Sankaran)
- Modern Bot Defense for Media Wiki Installs (Amanda Lange)
- Saved passwords in Edge memory: what we’re changing and why (kryc)
- Why Freeze Panes, Filtering, and Virtual Scrolling Conflict in Angular Spreadsheets (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
Windows Development
- Segment Heap support for C++ projects in Visual Studio (MacGyver Codilla)
- Microsoft commits to native UI for Windows 11 as users push back against web app slop (Abhijith M B)
- A constant-space linear-time algorithm for deleting all but the 10 most recent files in a directory and Why do Windows client editions on 32-bit x86 systems artificially limit RAM to 4 GB? (Raymond Chen)
- Announcing new Windows Insider Release Preview builds for 14 May 2026 (Stephen Lines)
.NET and Visual Studio
- .NET Agent Skills (Nikos Vaggalis)
- 10 .NET Open Source Libraries Every Developer Should Know in 2026 (Vikrant Bagal)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.6.1 Release (westey-m)
AI
- AI Context Kit: Cross-session persistence, context compression, easier distribution (Marco Siccardi)
- GitHub Copilot App is now in Technical Preview (Rob Bos)
- Why Doesn’t Anyone Teach Developers About Context Management? (Andrew Stellman)
- Defense in depth for autonomous AI agents (Alyssa Ofstein & Elliot H. Omiya)
- Conductor: Deterministic orchestration for multi-agent AI workflows (Jason Robert)
- Azure.AI.Projects_2.1.0-beta.2 and Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI_2.1.0-beta.2 and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents_2.1.0-beta.2 (Azure SDK Team)
- When configuration becomes a vulnerability: Exploitable misconfigurations in AI apps (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team & Yossi Weizman)
- Open Model Inference at Scale on Foundry: What’s New with Fireworks AI (Alicia Frame)
- Capacitor Showcase – LocalLLM (Joseph Pender)
- OpenAI brings Codex to the ChatGPT mobile app (Frederic Lardinois)
- How Building AI Agents Has Changed in 2026 (Engin Diri)
- Governance at the Speed of Agents: Microsoft Agent Framework and Agent Governance Toolkit, Better Together (Imran Siddique & Shawn Henry)
- New and improved: Agent governance, intelligent workflows, and connected app experiences (Nitasha Chopra)
- Accelerating on-device AI: A look at Arm and Google AI Edge optimization (Chintan Parikh, Dillon Sharlet, Na Li & Gian Marco Iodice)
- Unlocking asynchronicity in continuous batching (Rémi Ouazan Reboul, Pedro Cuenca & Aritra Roy Gosthipaty)
- Considering NL2SQL? Should your database really be the prompt? How can SQL MCP Server help? (Jerry Nixon)
- Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality (Radu Florian, Parul Awasthy, Aashka Trivedi & Madison Lee)
- Work with Codex from anywhere and Helping ChatGPT better recognize context in sensitive conversations (OpenAI Team)
- The founder’s playbook: Building an AI-native startup (Claude Team)
- OpenClaw v2026.5.12 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Introducing Grok BuildEarly Beta (xAI Team)
- Announcing Genkit Middleware: Intercept, extend, and harden your agentic apps (Chris Gill)
- Beyond content: helping teachers feel ready to teach AI (Catarina Marques)
- Every layer counts: Defense in depth for AI agents with Red Hat AI (Adel Zaalouk)
- Bliki: Interrogatory LLM (Martin Fowler)
- The Human Bottleneck (Dean Kerr)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.4.0 Release (giles17)
- Python 3.15 Is Feature Frozen (Mike James)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- What’s New in Advanced Installer 23.7 (Advanced Installer Team)
- How to Update an INI File During Software Installation (Renato Ivanescu)
- GitOps with Octopus and Argo CD (Kostis Kapelonis)
- May Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
- Architecture in the AI age (ProMobile.Dev)
- Jenkins Plugin of the Month – May 2026: Coverage Plugin (Stefan Spieker)
- From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance (Natalie Guevara)
- Anti-Debugging Techniques: How to Detect and Block Runtime Analysis (Michelle Pruitt)
Mobile and Game Development
- New updates to A2UI and Flutter’s GenUI package (Andrew Brogdon)
Screencasts and Videos
- In Defense of Tokenmaxxing (AIDailyBrief)
- Visual Studio 2026 May Release Party (Leslie Richardson & the Visual Studio Team)
- How Claude Code Works (Claude Team)
- VS Code Live: April Releases Recap (Reynald Adolphe, Burke Holland, Brigit Murtaugh, Lee Murray, Vijay Upadya & Matt Bierner)
- SQL End of Life migration factory offer | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Bradley Ball)
- Work IQ | Data, Context, Skills & Tools for Copilot and Your Agents (Zachary Cavanell)
- Scaling out Maps for EVERYONE! | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Software Defined Talk Episode #572 – The world isn’t curl (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Generative AI in the Real World: Chang She on Data Infrastructure for AI (Ben Lorica)
- Why Success Means Nothing If the Project Doesn’t Move the Business Forward — And How Public Commitments Keep You Honest | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mukhtar Kadiri)
- Made by Google Podcast – The Android Show: From OS to Intelligence System (Rachid Finge)
- Changelog and Friends Podcast Episode #130 – Automation at the speed of Swamp (Adam Jacob & Adam Stacoviak)
- Cloud Chat Episode #32 – Rolling, Rolling, Rolling… (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #356 – U.S. Congressman Beyer on AI challenges facing America and the World (Don Beyer & Chris Benson)
- Build Mode Podcast – The 7-Failure Rule: How Forethought AI Found Product-Market Fit with Co-Founder Deon Nicholas (Isabelle Johannessen & Maggie Nye)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Observability and human intuition in an AI world (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Microsoft Adds AI Hackathon to VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ (David Ramel)
- Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses (Tom Warren)
- Anthropic forms $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation (Anthropic Team)
- Raising the bar together. Introducing the Driver Quality Initiative at WinHEC 2026 (Robin Seiler & Ian LeGrow)
Database
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Partitioning and Column Store (Erik Darling)
- April 2026 Recap: Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Gauri Kasar)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Goodbye Together mode, hello simplified meeting layouts in Microsoft Teams (Katarina Tranker)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.48 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- GitHub Copilot CLI + SQUAD + GPT-5.5 BYOK: Better Engineering, Same Hard Truth (Bruno Capuano)
Writing
- How To Outline A Short Story – For Beginners (Writers Write)
- Writers Are Fleeing the Substack Tax (BeauHD)
Tools
- Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.6 Release (kvega005)
- Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.7.5 Release (Ben Hillis)
General
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – May 14, 2026 (#784) (Richard Seroter)
- Fragments: May 14 (Martin Fowler)
