Top Links
- Plan Before You Build: Introducing the Plan agent in Visual Studio (Rachel Kang)
- Windows App SDK Version 2.1.3 Stable Release Notes and Windows App SDK Version 2.1 Experimental 8 (2.1.4-Experimental8) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Announcing Agent Governance Toolkit MCP Extensions for .NET (Jack Batzner)
- PowerShell is now notarized and hardened for macOS (Jason Helmick)
- Visual Studio Code 1.122 Release (Visual Studio Code Team)
- Improving C# Memory Safety (Richard Lander)
- The AX stack: what’s fixed, where you can win (Waldek Mastykarz)
Web and Cloud Development
- Choosing CSS Selectors for Production: Specificity, Modern Pseudo-Classes, and Maintainable Styles (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)
- DevExpress Blazor AI Chat — Multi-Model Support, MCP Server Integration, and a Look at What’s Coming Next (Dmitry Tokmachev)
- Node.js 24.16.0 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
- Passkeys, Permissions Policy and Bug Hunting in 1Password’s WebAuthn Wrapper (Scott Helme)
- Deploying Containerized NestJS Applications on GCP Using Cloud Run (Christian Nwamba)
- Why iframe PDF Embedding Fails and How to Fix It with JavaScript PDF Viewer (Deepa Thiruppathy)
- Running a production-like local environment with Aspire (Tim Deschryver)
- Introducing AI Answers in Jetpack Search (Robert Felty)
- Your Podcast Belongs With Your Blog and Newsletter (Rob Pugh)
- Introducing the pkg.go.dev API (Ethan Lee, Hana Kim & Jonathan Amsterdam)
- Blueprints Gallery Is Now Available in WordPress Studio (Kateryna Kodonenko)
- Postman as a Local Development Environment (Aanchal Mishra)
Windows Development
- How do I use Win32 structures from the Windows Runtime? (Raymond Chen)
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK v2.1.3 Package and Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 2.1.4-experimental8 Package (NuGet Gallery)
- Windows App SDK 2.1.3 (2.1.3) Release and Windows App SDK 2.1 Experimental 8 (2.1.4-experimental8) 🧪 Release (agniuks)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Reflection Performance in .NET 10: Benchmarks, Caching, and Delegates (Nick Cosentino)
- An EF Core alternative for .NET apps with complex object graphs — full LINQ, no migrations, no DbContext (Rinat Kozin)
- .NET 11 Preview 4 Roundup: MAUI, Blazor, EF Core, SDK and Runtime Updates and The Rise of OpenTelemetry in Microsoft Dev Tooling (David Ramel)
- Official Kotlin Support for Visual Studio Code Is Now Available in Alpha (Alyona Chernyaeva)
- Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 11819.209 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.6.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Sneak Peek at Critter Stack 2026 (Jeremy D. Miller)
AI
- CI/CD for AI Agents on Microsoft Foundry (Lee Stott)
- GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.6 Release (github-actions[bot])
- Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue (Ryan Donovan)
- AI Cost Visibility Before the Invoice: How to Trace, Measure and Optimize Token Spend (Nikolay Iliev)
- Seven Rules for Building an AI-Native Software Factory (Adam Gordon Bell)
- Open Claw v2026.5.20 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Replit Enterprise, Now Self-Serve (Replit Team)
- The Agentic P&L: Beyond the Empire of Headcount (Shreshta Shyamsundar & Anmol Jain)
- What we’ve learned building cloud agents (Cursor Team)
- Introduction to LM Studio (Paul Michaels)
- Claude now works with more security and compliance tools (Claude Team)
- MagenticLite, MagenticBrain, Fara1.5: An agentic experience optimized for small models (Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Team)
- Bringing Neo to GitHub and Slack and Neo Automations: Scheduled Tasks Shipped as Pull Requests (Pulumi Neo Team)
- Prompt Engineering for Agentic AI (Shittu Olumide)
- Claw Patrol: an open-source security firewall for agents (Yusuke Tanaka)
- Bliki: Vibe Coding (Martin Fowler)
- Use Grok in OpenCode (xAI Team)
Python
- Agent Skills for Python: File, Code, and Class – Composed in One Provider (Sergey Menshykh)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.6.0 Release (giles17)
- mssql-python 1.7.1 and the case of the missing megabytes (David Levy)
- How to Build a Multi-Agent Research Assistant in Python (Abid Ali Awan)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now? (Dan Lew)
- GitLab 19.0 released (GitLab Team)
- The Cost of NOT Implementing Financial-Grade Security (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- How to Implement RBAC with Terraform & Best Practices (Mattias Fjellström)
- How to Use GitHub Search Like a Pro (Rajdeep Singh)
- ​​Anti-Debugging Techniques: How to Detect and Block Runtime Analysis (Michelle Pruitt)
- How Application Shielding Software Protects Apps (Ben Nettleton)
- From AI pilots to enterprise impact: Why execution is the new differentiator (Deb Cupp)
- TeamCity 2025.11.5 Is Out (Dmitrii Korovin)
- The Ultimate Functional Programming eBook Humble Bundle (The Pragmatic Programmers) – Referral Link
- What’s new in Microsoft Security: May 2026 (Alym Rayani)
- Building GitHub’s next chapter in accessibility (Natalie Guevara)
- Track CI component usage across your organization (Corinne Dent)
- What Risk Assessment Means in Application Security (Ben Nettleton)
Mobile and Game Development
- .NET MAUI v10.0.70 Release (Shane Neuville)
- Announcing ADK for Kotlin and ADK for Android 0.1.0: Building AI Agents on Android and Beyond (Guillaume Laforge & Jolanda Verhoef)
- Beyond the engine: 10 open source projects shaping how games actually get made (Natalie Guevara)
Screencasts and Videos
- Distributed Databases: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? – NDC Sydney 2026 (Heather Downing)
- Use VS Code Agents, GitHub Copilot, and the MSSQL extension to build AI apps | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Carlos Robles)
- Modernizing a Legacy .NET App with GitHub Copilot | Sip and Sync with Azure (Priyanka Vergadia & Krystal Folkes)
- What’s new in Flutter (Flutter Team)
- What were the limitations of early tools like Script#? | One Dev Question (Amanda Silver)
- Hangar DX Podcast – Ship to Production Without Human Verification | Jade Rubick @DecodingLeadership​ (Hangar DX Team)
- Debug Your Game in Real-Time with Dear ImGui | .NET Game Development (Stacey Haffner & Andy DeGeorge)
- Microsoft Build CLI: Conference Sessions, Speakers & Code from the command line (Microsoft Developer Team)
- Anthropic Just Reset AI Expectations (AIDailyBrief)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Women in Technology Podcast Episode #64 – From Reaction to Creation: Understanding How We Can Create Our Desired Reality (WiT Team)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #573 – How many quadrillions in a Googol? (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #148 – We Drive Volvo EX60: How Swede It is! (Batteries Included Team)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Tips for Dealing with Azure Consumption Constraints and Hidden M365 Costs (Mary Jo Foley)
- MS Cloud IT Podcast Episode #428 – Migrating Group Policy to Microsoft Intune (Ben Stegink & Scott Hoag)
- Structure Creates Freedom, How an Agile Coach Measures Success by Becoming Less Needed | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Christian Thordal)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #357 – Hermes Agent: Agents that grow with you (Jeffrey Quesnelle, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1187 – Why your topic isn’t a point (and how to fix it), with Joel Schwartzberg (Mignon Fogarty)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Breaking your AI storage bottlenecks (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Meta lays off thousands of employees to offset AI investments (Jess Weatherbed)
- A ‘final season’ at Microsoft for Yusuf Mehdi: Longtime exec plans to leave after one last year (Todd Bishop)
- MVP Mentoring Rings: Where Community Becomes a Catalyst (Betsy Weber)
- Rust Update: gRPC Welcomes Tonic! (Doug Fawley)
- GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft (Tom Warren)
Database
- Stop Using Pandas for Aggregations — Try DuckDB Instead (epivaral)
- Free SQL Server Query Plan Analysis In Your Browser (Erik Darling)
- SqlServer.Rules 5.0.0 is out 🎉 (Erik EJ)
PowerShell and Terminal
- v7.6.2 Release of PowerShell and v7.5.7 Release of PowerShell (jshigetomi)
- PowerShell v7.4.16 Release (daxian-dbw)
Writing
- All About Pacing: 4 Key Questions Every Writer Should Ask (Writers Write)
Tools
- Vivaldi 8.0 Arrives With ‘Most Significant Design Overhaul’ In Browser’s History (BeauHD)
- Announcing Web Serial Support in Firefox (Haik Aftandilian)
- 30 Days of Coreutils: du (Rachel Kaufman)
- Designing Firefox for the future (Firefox UX Team)
General
- Introducing the XBOX Game Studios Shop (Danielle Partis)
- NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series (Jess Weatherbed)
- Humble Tech Book Bundle: The Rust Systems Programming Bundle (pay what you want and help charity) (Packt Publishing) – Referral Link
- A Smarter Way to Explore Images Has Come to Bing (Bing Team)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – May 21, 2026 (#789) (Richard Seroter)
