Top Links
- LangChain.js for Beginners: A Free Course to Build Agentic AI Apps with JavaScript (Yohan Lasorsa & Dan Wahlin)
- GPT-5.5 System Card and Introducing GPT-5.5 (OpenAI Team)
- The Fantastic Four: Embracing your work style with Microsoft 365 Copilot (Eva Etchells)
- GitHub Copilot in SSMS: Interacting with the Results Pane | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Erin Stellato)
- CodeAct in Agent Framework: Faster Agents with Fewer Model Turns (Eduard van Valkenburg)
- What’s new for .NET in Ubuntu 26.04 (Richard Lander)
Web and Cloud Development
- 3 ways to store variables in React, and why you shouldn’t sleep on useRef (Rachel Kaufman)
- Create minimal reproductions for AWS SDK JavaScript v3 with create-aws-sdk-repro (John Lwin)
- Recreating Apple’s Vision Pro Animation in CSS (John Rhea)
- General Availability: Single Sign-On (SSO) from Native Apps to Embedded Web Views in Microsoft Entra External ID Native Authentication (Sasha Mars)
- React Navigation 8.0 Alpha with Native Bottom Tabs, Reworked TypeScript Inference and History (Daniel Curtis)
Windows Development
- Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer (Raymond Chen)
- What is MSXML? How to Install, Distribute and Deploy it? (Alex Marin)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Visual Studio Code 1.117 Expands Copilot Controls for Business and Enterprise User (David Ramel)
- Document Classification Without AI: Deterministic, Explainable, and Built for Production in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
- Introducing the Progress Agentic RAG .NET SDK (Ed Charbeneau)
- Putting the Westwind.Scripting Templating Library to work, Part 2 (Rick Strahl)
- When to Use State Pattern in C#: Decision Guide with Examples (Nick Cosentino)
AI
- When RAG Isn’t Enough: Moving from Retrieval to Relationship-Aware Systems in Enterprise AI: (Ankita Sarkar)
- Azure MCP Server now available as an MCP Bundle (.mcpb) (Victor Colin Amador)
- How to Use Transformers.js in a Chrome Extension (Nico Martin)
- When Anthropic’s Managed Agents Meet Microsoft Hosted Agents (Kinfey Lo)
- An update on recent Claude Code quality reports and DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price (Simon Willison)
- Speed, Context, and Savings: Mastering Caching in the Capella AI Model Service (Jagadesh Munta)
- My Claude Code Workflow (Rocky Lhotka)
- Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 (xAI Team)
- Keep Agentic AI Simple: A Practical Workflow for Software Development (Tim Deschryver)
- Why AI-Assisted Development Is Raising the Value of E2E Testing (Satyam Nikhra)
- GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty and Top 10 uses for Codex at work and Codex settings (OpenAI Team)
- New connectors in Claude for everyday life and Built-in memory for Claude Managed Agents (Claude Team)
- AI That Actually Understands Your Xcode Project (Not Just Reads It) (Francisco Molina)
- OpenClaw v2026.4.22 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Thumbs Up & Down for LLM Responses (Lino Tadros)
- Big Update: GPT-Image Models + AI Agent Skills (Bruno Capuano)
- Microsoft Discovery: Advancing agentic R&D at scale (Aseem Datar)
- Behavioral Credentials: Why Static Authorization Fails Autonomous Agents (Wendi Soto)
Python
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- AI in DevOps: Why Adoption Lags in CI/CD (and What Comes Next) (Olga Bedrina)
- Tips for developers on improving collaboration with domain experts (Jimmy Nilsson)
- Design Principles Unpacked, No. 3: Affordance (Teon Beijl)
Mobile and Game Development
- Microsoft’s new Xbox chief is ‘reevaluating’ exclusive games and ‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s gaming future and Microsoft brings Xbox back, scraps Microsoft Gaming (Tom Warren)
Screencasts and Videos
- 300 AI Skills: How Intercom Went All In on Claude Code | Hangar DX Podcast (Hangar DX Team)
- Fixing merge conflicts and PRs with Copilot cloud agent | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths)
- Warp x Codex: Turning the terminal into an agentic development environment (Derek & Ben)
- Launching a new site with Azure and Copilot | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Warp for Data & Analytics Teams: building self-serve data workflows (Olivia & Ian)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Software Defined Talk Episode #569 – Agent Assimilation (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #022 – Omar Shahine, Microsoft CVP of OpenClaw + Microsoft 365 (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Big Technology Podcast – OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Microsoft 365 E7: Ready Or Not, Here It Comes (Mary Jo Foley)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode #205 – 95% Faster: How CyberArk Used Iceberg & AI Agents to Crush Support Bottlenecks (Moshiko Ben Abu)
- Lenny’s Podcast – How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Build Mode Podcast – Don’t stop hiring humans. Stop hiring the wrong humans with Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, Artisan (Maggie Nye & Isabelle Johannessen)
- MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #426 – Claude Cowork vs Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork (Ben Stegink & Scott Hoag)
- Why Context Is King for Scrum Master Success — Building Capabilities That Drive Business Goals | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Viktor Glinka)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #354 – The mythos of Mythos and Allbirds takes flight to the neocloud (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Boagworld Podcast – Why UX Teams Need a Maturity Audit Right Now (Paul Boag)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Lights, camera, open source! (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Host a Microsoft Build //local host Event in Your City (Galimah B.)
- Meta is laying off 10 percent of its staff (Jay Peters)
- Join our free livestream series on hosting agents in Microsoft Foundry (Pamela Fox)
- Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures and Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to long-serving employees (Tom Warren)
Database
- SQL and AI – I Am Staying Relevant. Are You? (Pinal Dave)
- Performance Studio 1.2 Release: Query Store Improvements and T-SQL That Doesn’t Suck: I’m Running a Pre-Con at PASS Summit East (Erik Darling)
- Introducing Azure Accelerate for Databases: Modernize your data for AI with experts and investments (Jesse Sullivan)
- Expose your stored procedures as AI agent tools with DAB 2.0 (Bart Wullems)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (Tom Warren)
- Microsoft 365 multi-agent workflow with Microsoft Agent Framework (vgiraud)
- SharePoint Automatic Version History Cleanup (Intelligent Versioning) (jeresmith)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.35 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Firely Terminal: The natural CLI for AI FHIR Workflows (Ardon Toonstra)
General
- Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 LTS Download (Ubuntu)
- Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career (Sean Goedecke)
- Introducing Vanishing Culture: A New Book on the Loss of Our Digital Memory (Chris Freeland)
- Ancient Organic Matter Found on Mars Could Share Traits With “Building Blocks” of Life (RJ Mackenzie)
More Link Collections
- Copilot News Roundup (Vesa Nopanen)
