Top Links
- Visual Studio April Update – Cloud Agent Integration (Mark Downie)
- A2A v1 Is Here: Cross-Platform Agent Communication in Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET (Sergey Menshykh)
- PowerToys 0.99 is here: new monitor controls, easier window management, and Dock upgrades (Niels Laute)
- Continuing the story of early DOS development (Stacey Haffner & Scott Hanselman)
- Uno Platform Joins SkiaSharp as Co-Maintainer Ahead of SkiaSharp 4.0 (Sam Basu)
- Welcome to SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview 1 (David Ortinau)
- TechBash 2026 Keynotes and Workshops Announced (TechBash Team)
Web and Cloud Development
- ASP.NET Core Cookie Size Limits in Production: Causes and Fixes (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- The problem: All-or-nothing batch processing in Azure Service Bus (Swapnil Nagar)
- Top announcements of the What’s Next with AWS, 2026 (AWS Team)
- Smooth Scrolling Performance for Image‑Heavy PDFs: Proven Rendering Techniques (Deepa Thiruppathy)
- High-Performance Distributed Caching with .NET and Postgres on Azure (Jared Meade)
- Is Your Auth Ready for AI? Why Identity Is the First Thing Developers Need to Fix (Saad Rahman)
- A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com (lessbloat)
- Building a Modern Track Changes Review Workflow in ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Popular Go Web Frameworks: A Practical Guide for Developers (Dominika Stankiewicz)
Windows Development
- Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 1: A semaphore (Raymond Chen)
- Using .NET Native AOT to build Windows WinAPI Dlls (Rick Strahl)
- Smart App Control (Eric Lawrence)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Best .NET Obfuscators in 2026: An Honest Comparison (Artem Razin)
- Visual Studio 2026 Gives IntelliSense Priority in Longstanding Copilot Completion Clash (David Ramel)
- Visual Studio 2026 v18.5.2 Release Notes and Visual Studio Insiders v11723.189 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
AI
- Voice Is Coming to AI Agents Faster Than Most People Realize (Mahesh Chand)
- Is AI Overwhelming Open Source? (Hassan Djirdeh)
- How Claude Helped Me Apply for My 17th Microsoft MVP Renewal (Kevin Griffin)
- Warp is now open-source and The virtuous loop of Open Agentic Development (Zach Lloyd)
- Build programmatic agents with the Cursor SDK (Cursor Team)
- Back from Baby Bonding: Agents, Building Blocks, and the Future of AI Engineering (Devin Chasanoff)
- Google and Pentagon Reportedly Agree On Deal For ‘Any Lawful’ Use of AI (BeauHD)
- Unlocking human ambition to drive business growth with AI (Judson Althoff)
- Generative AI Protein Design After the Nobel Prize (Kevin Vu)
- Architecting Cost-Aware LLM Workloads with Model Router in Microsoft Foundry (syarlagadda)
- How AI Changed the Economics of Writing Clean Code (Aaron Yong)
- OllamaMonitor — Monitor Your Local Ollama Runtime from the Windows Tray (Bruno Capuano)
- Loading UI/UX Patterns for AI Applications (Ed Charbeneau)
- Things I Think I Think… Agents and (Visual) FoxPro (Ted Neward)
- Building an Enterprise Knowledge Copilot with Foundry IQ and Agentic Retrieval on Azure AI (Shah Viral)
- Plannotator: Annotate and review coding agent plans and code diffs visually, share with your team, send feedback to agents with one click. (Michael Ramos)
- Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Long-Context Multimodal Intelligence for Documents, Audio and Video Agents (Hugging Face Team)
- Onboarding Claude Code like a new developer: Lessons from 17 years of development (Claude Team)
- Foundry Agent Service + Microsoft Agent Framework Explained (Zachary Cavanell)
- OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents come to AWS (OpenAI Team)
- Taylor Swift is stepping up the legal war on AI copycats (Emma Roth)
- Claude for Creative Work (Anthropic Team)
- Announcing Gas City 1.0! (Chris Sells)
- Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD) (Martin Fowler)
- What Happened When We Treated AI Like an Engineering Teammate (Sumedha Shenoy & Kamal Jackson)
- Safely creating projects with the AI Assistant (Jubril Oyetunji)
- When a Single GPU Workstation Is Enough for AI (And When to Scale) (Martin Summer)
- Building or Buying: The Agentic Analytics Dilemma (Claire Amaouche)
Python
- Build a simple quiz game in Python (Sean McManus)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.2.1 Release (moonbox3)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Kubernetes v1.36: Staleness Mitigation and Observability for Controllers (Michael Aspinwall)
- Securing the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability (Alexis Wales)
- [Livestream] TeamCity 2026.1: AI, Pipelines, and Enterprise CI/CD Improvements (Olga Bedrina)
- New features in Git 2.54: easier rebasing, hooks, and statistics (Andrew Lock)
- The Strategic Case for “Use What Works”: Why Smart Tech Leaders Stop Reinventing the Wheel (Chris Woodruff)
- TX Text Control vs IronPDF for Enterprise PDF Workflows: Complete Comparison Guide (Deepika Kathiravan)
- Research: “Roles” (Ted Neward)
- GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown (Kedasha Kerr)
- Sensitive data as Venn diagram (John Moehrke)
- When Correct Systems Produce the Wrong Outcomes (Varun Raj)
- Professional development: How to stay ahead in a fast-changing subject (Sean Sayers)
- The limits of merging experiment (Paul Hammant)
- An update on GitHub availability (Vlad Fedorov)
- Manrope | Google Fonts (Mikhail Sharanda)
Mobile and Game Development
- What’s new in DCM 1.37.0 (Dmitry Zhifarsky)
Screencasts and Videos
- PowerToys .99 | Grab, Move, and Command Palette Just Got Better (Michael Jolley)
- Focus on the Teams Phone calls that matter most with Copilot call delegation (Microsoft Teams)
- Azure SQL Migration Strategies | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Danny Kruge)
- Operations Context for AI | Ontology in Fabric IQ | Microsoft Mechanics (Chafia Aouissi)
- GitHub Copilot CLI ‘YOLO’ mode explained — what is it and the risks (Gerald Versluis)
- Bring the Inventory to Life with C# | Inventory & Equipment Pt. 3 and How to Create Custom MCP Tools for Unity | Quiz Included (Stacey Haffner)
- How Deepseek v4 Connects to the US Grid (AIDailyBrief)
- Copilot and Streamer Maps | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #206 – The Evolution of Microservices: Agents, Monoliths, and the Patterns That Never Die (Matheus Guimaraes)
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #28 – Vanishing Culture (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
- Developer Tea Podcast – AI-Proofing Your Skillset – High-Meaning, High-Specifity Vocabulary is the Path to Growth (Jonathan Cutrell)
- MacBreak Weekly Episode #1022 – Ultra Expensive – The Apple Rumor Mill (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
- RunAs Radio Show #1034 – Microsoft 365 Copilot vs Claude Cowork with Sharon Weaver (Richard Campbell)
- React Native Radio Episode #361 – Gamemaking and AI coding with Jamon Holmgren (Robin Heinze)
- The Shift Podcast S2E8 | How do we draw agentic borders? (Microsoft Azure Team)
- Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1180 – Why English creates so many words spelled the same. Why we say ‘ye olde’ instead of ‘the old.’ (Mignon Fogarty)
- Smooth Scaling Podcast Episode #24 – A Decade of Kubernetes Lessons with Chris Nesbitt-Smith (José Quaresma)
- BONUS People Track Preview With Pete Oliver-Krueger and Alina Thapliyal At The Global Agile Summit | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
Community and Events
- Welcome to Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 (Jay Gordon)
- From Late Nights to Global Impact: Ariane Djeupang’s Microsoft MVP Journey (Betsy Weber)
- Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate: Fun facts, tips and new features to try (Rose Yao)
Database
- Announcing SQL Server Management Studio 22.5.2 (Erin Stellato)
- What are the top database platforms in 2026? A look at the latest data (Simple Talk Team)
- DiskANN Vector Index Improvements (Erik Darling)
- SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.5.2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- There Are Days When I Feel Like Giving Up on the Plan Cache and Query Store. (Brent Ozar)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- What’s New in Excel (April 2026) (Ms. Excel)
- SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – April 2026 (Vesa Juvonen)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.39 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- v7.7.0-preview.1 Release of PowerShell (jshigetomi)
- Microsoft Terminal v1.25.1171.0 Release (DHowett)
Writing
- How To Make Your First Chapter Impossible To Put Down (Writers Write)
Tools
- PowerToys 0.99 Arrives With Two New Utilities, Many Improvements (Paul Thurrott)
- Our 2026 Direction: AI and Classic Workflows in JetBrains IDEs (Denis Shiryaev)
- Windows Explorer File Search Query Builder Online (Mark Pahulje)
- NanaZip 6.0 Update 6 (6.0.1701.0) (Mouri Naruto)
General
- Amazon’s color screen Kindles are finally getting a system-wide dark mode (Andrew Liszewski)
- Musk Testifies OpenAI Was Created As Nonprofit To Counter Google (BeauHD)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – April 28, 2026 (#772) (Richard Seroter)
