• Announcing TypeScript 7.0 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Intelligent Terminal 0.1.1 is here: bash support, new slash commands, and more customization (Hamza Usmani)
• Visual Studio Code 1.126 Release Notes (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Stop overloading your skills (Waldek Mastykarz)
• From MCP server to Copilot data source: building a federated connector (Matteo Pagani)
• How pull request limits are cutting down the noise (Natalie Guevara)
• Use your own language model key in VS Code (Kayla Cinnamon)

Web and Cloud Development

• Distributed Test Runs in the Aspire Community Toolkit (Aaron Powell)
• Community Comebacks, Angular 21.1 Features, and Smarter Signal Forms (Angular Team)
• DS Server Use Cases: Adding Document Services to Any Application (Deepika Kathiravan)
• ArrowJS 1.0 Open Sourced (Kay Ewbank)
• Nuxt 4 Server Routes vs. Fetch Composables (Jonathan Gamble)
• How to Filter a Blazor Table Control using .NET (Ashwin Saxena)
• Apache Camel for .NET, dissected: the HTTP connector with no ASP.NET MVC + the Content-Based Router pattern (Kozin Rinat)
• Coding Agent Horror Stories: The 13-Hour AWS Outage (Jennifer Kohl)
• Visualize Your Akka.Streams Graphs with OpenTelemetry (Aaron Stannard)
• A workaround for hiding empty slots in Chromium (Dave Rupert)

Windows Development

• Why doesn’t Get­Last­Input­Info() return info for the user I’m impersonating? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Behind the Longevity of Visual Studio Live!: The People, the Craft, and the Community (Tina Stenderup)
• BulkMerge (Upsert) in EF Core: How to Insert-or-Update Without the Headache (Chris Woodruff)
• .NET 11 Preview 5: Brings File-Based App Improvements, New C# Features, and a Blazor Validation Wave (Almir Vuk)
• C#: What Is the Repository Pattern for Data Access with Entity Framework? (Chris Pietschmann)
• Introducing Corvus.Text.Json V5: YAML 1.2 - Zero-Allocation Conversion (Matthew Adams)

AI

• OpenAI Codex Advanced Workflow: The Architect’s Blueprint for Agentic SDLC and Beyond Vibe Coding: A Senior Architect's Playbook for Agentic Engineering and Multi-Agent Orchestration (Sudhir Mangla)
• Windows Platform Security and the Race to Secure AI Agents (Matt Saunders)
• GitHub Copilot SDK Deep Dive: Controlling built-in tools with toolset (Bart Wullems)
• Guaranteed Copilot Context with Hooks (Ken Muse)
• This Week in AI: Fable 5, the Clone Wave, and Uber’s AI Reality Check (Michelle Smith)
• The Part of Software Engineering AI Cannot Replace (Carla Urrea Stabile)
• When Status OK Is Still a Failure: A Taxonomy of Silent AI Agent Breakage and How to Detect It (Nikolay Iliev)
• How to Accelerate Remediation With AI Code Security Fixes (Michelle Pruitt)
• Working Effectively with Claude Code (Amy Laws)
• Outcome-driven learning systems: Enterprise RL with OpenEnv and Foundry (Govind Kamtamneni)
• Enterprise-Managed Authorization: Zero-touch OAuth for MCP (Paul Carleton)
• New usage analytics and updated spend controls for enterprises (OpenAI Team)
• Steering Claude Code: CLAUDE.md files, skills, hooks, rules, subagents and more and Claude Code now supports artifacts and Centrally manage authorization for MCP connectors (Claude Team)
• Photoshop and Premiere now have AI assistants and Adobe’s redesigned AI studio remembers what your creations look like (Jess Weatherbed)
• Kubernetes in the Age of AI (Andy Kwan)
• How A2A is Building a World of Collaborative Agents (Alan Blount, Frank Guan & Nick Losier)
• Beyond Vibe Coding: Best Practices in 2026 and Your AI Agent Is Lying to You: How Workflows Create Reliable Results (Benjamin Aronov)
• Is it agentic enough? Benchmarking open models on your own tooling (Lysandre, Nathan Habib & Pedro Cuenca)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• GitHub Connections now available for self-hosted Octopus Server customers (Michael Richardson)
• GitLab 19.1 released (GitLab Team)
• The new bottleneck​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌​‌‍‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍​‍​‌​‌‍​‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌​​‍‌​​‍​‍‌​‍​​‌‌​‍‌​‌​​‌​‍​‌‍​‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​‌‌​‌​​​​‍‌​​‍​‌‍‌‍​​‌‍​‍‌​‌‌​​‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌​‌‍‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍​‍​‌​‌‍​‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌​​‍‌​​‍​‍‌​‍​​‌‌​‍‌​‌​​‌​‍​‌‍​‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​‌‌​‌​​​​‍‌​​‍​‌‍‌‍​​‌‍​‍‌​‌‌​​‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‌​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍ (Eira May)

Mobile and Game Development

• Android 17 Drops For Pixel Phones and Watch (BeauHD)
• Android developer verification: Building a safer ecosystem together (Matthew Forsythe)
• PIX 2606.18-preview: DirectX Dump Files and more (Austin Kinross)
• DirectX Dump Files Preview Now Available! (Jacques van Rhyn)

Screencasts and Videos

• Hangar DX Podcast - Dark Factories, Cargo Cult AI, and Drunk Agents with Geoffrey Huntley (Hangar DX Team)
• Cross-Platform .NET Apps built with AI in Browser - with Uno Platform Studio 3.0! (Sam Basu)
• Why Only AI Training Can Save the Economy (AIDailyBrief)
• What were some of the most surprising things for devs at Build 2026? | One Dev Question (Dona Sarkar)
• Introducing Agent mode in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Erin Stellato)
• Introducing Copilot CLI and agentic features in JetBrains IDEs (GitHub Team)
• How Audiobooks Impact Brain Function and Learning (Frank La Vigne)
• AI: It AI-n't What You Think! - NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Venkat Subramaniam)
• Modern C# - A New Website | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #577 - Let’s go to Buc-ee’s (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #358 - AI Spend Limits Because Frontier Models Aren't Free Therapy (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #725 - Danny Yang and Sam Goldman on the Pyrefly Type Checker (Gregory M. Kapfhammer)
• AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #027 - Apple WWDC 2026, Anthropic Fable 5, and Microsoft Scout (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• MS Cloud IT Podcast Episode #430 - Scouting out Microsoft Scout (Scott Hoag & Ben Stegink)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #213 - KiroGraph: How a Local Code Graph Saves 80% of Your AI Tokens (Davide de Sio)
• Decoder Podcast - Who decides when AI is too dangerous? | The Verge (Nilay Patel)
• When The Team Tells You You're Doing Too Much — That's The Success Signal | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Aimé Flemm)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - You don’t understand DNS like you think you do​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍​‌‍‌‌‌‍​​‌‌‌‍​‌​​‍​‍‌​‍​​‍‌​​‍​​‍​​​​​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍​​​​‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‌‍‌​‌‍​​‍‌​‍‌​‌‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌‍​‌‌‍‌​‌‍​​‌‌​‌​​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍​‌‍‌‌‌‍​​‌‌‌‍​‌​​‍​‍‌​‍​​‍‌​​‍​​‍​​​​​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍​​​​‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‌‍‌​‌‍​​‍‌​‍‌​‌‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌‍​‌‌‍‌​‌‍​​‌‌​‌​​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍ (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Microsoft Highlights Visual Studio Live! Event Lineup and Longtime Developer Community Role (David Ramel)
• Microsoft Build 2026 announcements (James Serra)
• Upcoming June 2026 Microsoft 365 Champion community call (Jessie Hwang)
• Amazon employees say they’re facing termination for backing data center limits (Hayden Field)
• Meta lays off thousands, monitors workers, increases the snack budget (Jason Weisberger)

Database

• Why you should still become SQL-certified in 2026 (and how to achieve it) (Lukas Vileikis)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Indexing and Sorting And Searching (Erik Darling)
• Modernize your data with Azure Storage: Plan and migrate with confidence (Maria Bledsoe)
• Generally Available: Microsoft Entra Server Principals and Server Roles for Azure SQL Database (P. Dasgupta)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Manage tasks in Planner with the Planner Agent (Robyn Gua)

Writing

• How Writers Use The Confidant As A Literary Device (Writers Write)

General

• Tim Cook Says Apple Price Increases Are ‘Unavoidable’ Due To Memory Costs (BeauHD)
• The Onion’s rebooted InfoWars is coming July 2nd (Mia Sato)
• Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement now available (Apple Developer)
• Spotify’s reserved ticket sales to music superfans are now going live (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 18, 2026 (#808) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) - Referral Link Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML.

• Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing (Natalie Guevara)
• Keynote: After the AI Hype – What’s Real, and What’s Next - NDC Copenhagen 2026 (Richard Campbell)
• Introducing the Agentic Resource Discovery specification (Ramanathan Guha)
• Blazor Full Stack in .NET 10: When Should C# Developers Use It? (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)
• .NET Rocks! - Data Centers in Space Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• AI-Powered MSBuild Investigation with the Microsoft Binlog MCP Server (.NET Team & Jan Krivanek)

Web and Cloud Development

• Node.js 22.23.0 (LTS) and Node.js 24.17.0 (LTS) and Node.js 26.3.1 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
• KendoReact vs. OSS: What You Can Actually Get for Free (and What You Can’t) (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• Made with Wasp, Vol. 2 - from video editing to daycare lesson planning (Matija Sosic)
• The Siren Song of ariaNotify() (Mat Marquis)
• Core vs Extended Protocols in Duende IdentityServer v8: What You Get and When You Need More (Maarten Balliauw)

Windows Development

• Windows stack limit checking retrospective, follow-up (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Improving C# Safety Without Turning It Into Rust (I Programmer)
• Introducing Corvus.Text.Json V5: JsonLogic - Safe Business Rules (Matthew Adams)

AI

• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.2 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Announcing the Agentic Resource Discovery specification (Junjie Bu & Srinivas Krishnan)
• GitHub Copilot SDK Deep Dive: Surgical system prompt customization (Bart Wullems)
• Introducing GitHub Pre-Purchase Plans: A Simpler Way to Plan Your GitHub Spend (kyleikeda)
• When your agent extensions fight each other (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Microsoft Scout, New Enterprise Autopilot Built on OpenClaw, Announced at Build 2026 (Bruno Couriol)
• Azure OpenAI Architecture: The Decisions That Actually Matter (Part 3) (Lucia Casucci)
• GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM (Simon Willison)
• Beyond the benchmark: Advancing security at AI speed (Taesoo Kim)
• Claude Design now stays on brand for daily work and Secure access to the Claude Platform with Workload Identity Federation (Claude Team)
• AI is accelerating cyberattacks—here’s how to stay ahead (Sandeep Deo)
• AI Is Compressing the Distance Between Ideas and Feedback (Adhithi Ravichandran)
• Replit is now available in Claude (Replit Team)
• How to build an eval you can actually trust (Jim Bennett)
• Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows (Lucas Ropek)
• AI generates larger pull requests. Larger pull requests bring more bugs. (Mia Biberovic)
• Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI join forces to help create AI’s missing trust layer (Paul Sawers)
• Your AI isn’t broken. Your data is. (Darryl K. Taft)
• You Got Faster. Your Company Didn’t. (Matheus Lima)
• AI Agents Are Not Users: Building an Identity Model That Reflects That (Cameron Pavey)
• What's new in Assignments: interactive lessons, localized content, and smarter AI tools (Leif Brenne)
• Agentic Resource Discovery: Let agents search (Ben Burtenshaw & Shaun Smith)
• The Case Against Building Your Own Agent Platform (Pete Johnson)
• How to turn off AI in your Google Docs (Amanda Silberling)
• Vibe-decoding the White House-Anthropic fight over Fable (Tina Nguyen)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.9.0 Release (moonbox3)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Announcing Strictland - new contract testing library for message compatibility (Oskar Dudycz)
• From package to postinstall payload: Inside the Mastra npm supply chain compromise (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
• Preserve OpenShift Pipelines logs with OpenTelemetry (Michaela Lang)
• Stop Blaming Event-Driven Architecture (Derek Comartin)
• Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System (BeauHD)

Mobile and Game Development

• Creating Localized .NET MAUI Applications (Héctor Pérez)
• Building a Mixed-Reality Tour Guide with Android XR, the Geospatial API, and Gemini (Coco Fatus, Alon Hetzroni & Azin Mehrnoosh)
• Can anyone look cool wearing Snap’s $2,000 glasses? (Victoria Song)
• How to Use DartExceptor: A Lighter Way to Handle Errors in Dart 3 (Oluwaseyi Fatunmole)
• Learn SketchUp by Modeling DIY Lego Bricks (Doug Stowe)

Screencasts and Videos

• A Big Shift in the AI Race (AIDailyBrief)
• Can you explain what viewers will learn from Budget Bytes? | One Dev Question (Amar Digamber Patil)
• How ASOS ships code faster with GitHub Copilot (GitHub Team)
• Product Management in the Age of AI with GitHub & M365 Copilot | Sip and Sync with Azure (Priyanka Vergadia & Suzanne Daniels)
• Symmathesy and Ai with Kent Beck (Jessica Kerr)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Developer Tea Podcast - Software Engineering Principles That Still Hold Up in an Agentic World - Old Lessons Made New (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1195 - The bouba-kiki effect in baby chicks, with Dr. Maria Loconsole (Mignon Fogarty)
• Windows Weekly Episode #988 - Bubbleable - XBOX Could Be Facing a Moment of Reckoning (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• The Amp Hour Episode #726 – Arduino’s Invisible Touch with Massimo Banzi (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Big Technology Podcast - AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #552 - Astral joins OpenAI (Michael Kennedy)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #153 - Audi e-Tron Bargains And The Motor Problem You Can’t Ignore (Batteries Included Team)
• Hard Fork Podcast - ‘Hard Fork’ Live Part 2: Dylan Field on Standing Out in the A.I. Era (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1013 - Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)

Community and Events

• What’s new with Microsoft in open source and Kubernetes at Open Source Summit and KubeCon India (Sean McKenna)
• Top announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2026 (AWS News Blog Team)
• Reminder: Become a sponsor of the Microsoft AI Tour (Jill Armour)
• Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web (Sarah Perez)
• Meet the winners of our Claude Opus 4.8 Build Day hackathon (Claude Team)
• Your JetBrains IDE Expertise, Now on LinkedIn (Ekaterina Ryabukha)

Database

• Cumulative Update #6 for SQL Server 2025 RTM (SrinivasSQL)
• Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB Public Preview Adds Immutable Backups and Long-Term Retention (Hans Wieser & Jay Gordon)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Indexed View Serializable Locking (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft still can’t make Windows 11’s New Outlook work offline because it refuses to go native (Mayank Parmar)
• New in Cowork – the UI refresh and the cost question everyone’s asking (Vesa Nopanen)
• Engage customers with Teams Phone Agent and custom voice agents built in Copilot Studio (Johnny McCormick)
• Copilot Cowork is GA - Here's how to track your credit usage as an end user (Michael Goad)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot app learning series: From research to polished outputs (obyomu)

Writing

• 10 Powerful Recurring Themes In Children’s Stories & Why They Matter (Amanda)

Tools

• VS Code 1.123 Adds Two-Hour Extension Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

General

• ReMarkable Paper Pure vs. Amazon Kindle Scribe (2026): I tested the budget models - here's my pick (Kyle Kucharski)
• Meet the new Google Home Speaker, built for Gemini (Mark Alexander)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 17, 2026 (#807) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) - Referral Link A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.

• Aspire in VS Code: the 13.4 developer loop (Adam Ratzman)
• Achieving success with AI (Judson Althoff)
• Improving token efficiency in GitHub Copilot (Ryan Caldwell & Bhavya U)
• Boosting Adobe Photoshop’s Performance with MSVC and SPGO (Eric Brumer)
• Microsoft Recommitted to WinUI: What Build 2026 Means for Windows Developers (Greg Lutz)
• Android 17 is here (Matthew McCullough)
• TechBash 2026 Early Bird Registration Closes Friday EOD and Sponsor TechBash 2026 (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Aspire v13.4.5 Release (aspire-repo-bot[bot])
• Announcing General Availability of the Azure Cosmos DB Built-in Connector for Logic Apps Standard (Theo van Kraay)
• Why Tooling Performance is No Longer a “JavaScript” Problem. Let’s Go? (Rob Larsen)
• Blazorise 2.2.1 - Accessibility and DataGrid Improvements (Mladen Macanović)

Windows Development

• Third Rule of MSIX (Howard Kapustein)
• Retrofitting the WM_COPY­DATA message onto Windows 3.1 (Raymond Chen)
• Fixing MSIX Packages at Scale: Why Advanced Installer’s New Analysis Engine Changes Everything (Alex Marin)

.NET and Visual Studio

• dotnet cleanup v2: Quickly Clean Up bin, obj & node_modules Folders (Sebastian Nilsson)
• How to Convert DOCX to HTML in C# Without Breaking Formatting (Eshwari Balraj)
• Introducing Corvus.Text.Json V5: JMESPath - On Average 28× Faster JSON Queries (Matthew Adams)

AI

• Junie: The JetBrains AI Coding Agent Leaves Beta. (Dmitry Savelev)
• GitHub Copilot Desktop App Targets Parallel Agentic Workflows (Matt Saunders)
• AgentsView: A practical look at your AI agent sessions (Bart Wullems)
• GitHub Copilot's pricing gamble (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Competing against yourself (Waldek Mastykarz)
• How Do You Integrate Agentic AI with Legacy Enterprise Systems? (Chris Pietschmann)
• What AI agents actually need: A unified data and semantic layer (Arvind)
• GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks (Z.AI)
• New ways to customize how Copilot edits your workbooks (Sam Radakovitz)
• Designing for GenUI: What Changes When AI Builds the UI? (Cameron Brodie)
• New AI Visibility Insights in Bing Webmaster Tools: Intents, Topics, Citation Share, Compare (Bing Team)
• Anthropic pauses Claude Agent SDK subscription change on day it was due to take effect (Paul Sawers)
• Step Rejection Fine-Tuning: Squeezing More Signal from Noisy Agent Trajectories (Igor Slinko)
• OpenClaw v2026.6.8 Release (vincentkoc)
• Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems (Martin Fowler)
• Build a Decision-Scoring Skill for Any Agent (Dave Norris)

Python

• TBD

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Major SignFabric Updates: Stronger Audit Trails, Validation, and Recipient Workflows (Bjoern Meyer)
• What are git worktrees, and why should I use them? (Natalie Guevara)
• Decision Friction is a System Design Problem (James Maxwell)
• Linear Thinking, Nonlinear Costs (Nicole Koenigstein)
• Two labs started dreaming, and they built two different architectures (Jim Bennett)

Mobile and Game Development

• Android 17 released (ProMobile.Dev)
• Check out what's new in Android 17 (Seang Chau)
• Hatcha: A Flutter-based Generative Application (Erik Kodnar)

Screencasts and Videos

• Meet the People Behind Microsoft AI‌ (Microsoft)
• Cloud-Native Data Without Starting Over | .NET Day Agentic Modernization 2026 (Jerry Nixon)
• Cold Case or Active Asset? A 2005 WinForms LoB Application | .NET Day Agentic Modernization 2026 (Merrie McGaw)
• Modernize .NET Apps and Add Agentic Functionality in Minutes | .NET Day Agentic Modernization 2026 (Gaurav Seth, Andrew Westgarth & Jordan Selig)
• Stop Rewriting. Start with Aspire. | .NET Day Agentic Modernization 2026 (David Pine)
• What's new in Angular AI (Mark Thompson)
• Modernize Fast, Migrate Faster: .NET Apps to Azure with Modernize CLI | .NET Day Agentic Modernization 2026 (Kaushaya Ganguly)
• Modernize .NET Apps with GitHub Copilot | .NET Day Agent Modernization 2026 (Mika Dumont)
• App Modernization Done. Now Let's Make It Smarter. | .NET Day Agent Modernization 2026 (Bruno Capuano)
• Pragmatic AI in .NET Show: AI-Powered Client Work, with Spencer Schneidenbach (Sam Basu)
• Scott & Mark Learn To...Build from Vibes to Craft (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Martin Finkel (Isaac Levin)
• Robots with AI Agents + Copilot | Mr. Maeda's Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
• How to take work from issue to merge with the GitHub Copilot app | GitHub (Pierce Boggan)
• Validate Equipment Slots with UxmlAttribute in UI Toolkit | Inventory & Equipment Pt. 6 (Stacey Haffner)
• Mastering Claude: Slash Commands to Elevate Your AI Game (Frank La Vigne)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Culture Follows Structure — Why Some Teams Self-Destruct By Design | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and Renting The Change vs Owning It — Why LeSS Transformations Get Reversed | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Aimé Flemm)
• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #32 - Transaction Denied (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• RunAs Radio Show #1041 - 47 Day Certificates with Todd Gardner (Richard Campbell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1029 - Intimate Functionalities - Is the New Siri AI Good? (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko & Christina Warren)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #484 - All our tools (Michael Kennedy)
• Boagworld Podcast Episode #35 - From Doer to Director, Getting Value From AI (Paul Boag)

Community and Events

• SpaceX to Acquire Cursor in $60B Stock Deal, Deepening Elon Musk’s AI Empire (Aminu Abdullahi)
• Startup led by Microsoft veterans debuts the first real-time carbon tracker for AI workloads (Lisa Stiffler)

Database

• Vector search in SQL Server: VECTOR_DISTANCE, VECTOR_SEARCH, and index trade-offs (Greg Low)
• Distributed Databases: An Overview (Matthew Groves)
• The SQL Server Transaction Log, Part 4: Log Records (Paul S. Randal)
• Where Is My SQL Agent? Running Scheduled Jobs Against Azure SQL Database (G. Bargsley)
• The insert benchmark on a small server, IO-bound workload : Postgres 19 beta1 (Mark Callaghan)
• AgentDBA vs Critical SQL Server (Arun Sirpal)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Copilot Cowork is now generally available (Charles Lamanna)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.6.3 Release of PowerShell and v7.5.8 Release of PowerShell and v7.4.17 Release of PowerShell (J. Shigetomi)

Writing

• A Quick Start Guide To Writing For Children (Writers Write)

Tools

• What’s new in Firefox this June, and what’s next on the Firefox roadmap (Mozilla)
• Spreadsheet, Markdown, and Raw Text modes come to Text Grab 4.14 (Joseph Finney)

General

• Introducing the next Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, built for performance and flexibility (Brett Ostrum)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 16, 2026 (#806) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

C# 14 and .NET 10 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Build modern websites and services with ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and EF Core using Visual Studio 2026.

• Make Visual Studio look the way you want (Mads Kristensen)
• A Guided Tour of the New Microsoft Foundry Labs (Vaidya S.)
• GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Overview of common slash commands (Natalie Guevara)
• State Management in Blazor: Complete Guide to Building Scalable Apps (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)
• The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation (Raymond Chen)
• Blazor Animated Video Creator (Michael Washington)
• JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026 (10th Annual) (JetBrains)

Web and Cloud Development

• Azure Function App — Queue-Based Architecture for Long-Running Sync Jobs (Jamesdld23)
• Simplifying file logging in ASP.NET Core with Serilog (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• Wasp now lets you write your full-stack logic as a spec in TypeScript (Martin Sosic)
• Why PDF Search Fails in JavaScript Viewers and How to Fix It (Rangarajan Ashokan)
• How Duende IdentityServer Filters Claims (And Why It Matters) (Khalid Abuhakmeh & Maarten Balliauw)
• Building Component-Aware Production UIs with Angular and Kendo UI MCP (Dany Paredes)
• The golden rule of Customizable Select (Saron Yitbarek & Tim Nguyen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Strongly typed generic object in C# (Jiří Činčura)
• Discriminated unions in C# and .NET 11 (for real this time) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Ship your C# MCP Server as a one-click bundle with MCPB (Bart Wullems)
• Adding .NET features takes ages, so we tried Claude Code (David Grace)
• Introducing Corvus.Text.Json V5: JSONata - Query and Transform JSON (Matthew Adams)

AI

• Using Local AI to Cut Copilot Usage-Based Billing Shock (David Ramel)
• Benchmarks in Microsoft Foundry (preview): Standardized model and agent quality checks (imatiach)
• Creating a multi-agent application – Part 5 (final) (Jesse Liberty)
• Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5 (Hayden Field)
• Accelerating researchers and developers building multilingual AI with a new open dataset (Natalie Guevara)
• AI agents expose the security checks you never actually wrote​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌‍​​‍‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‌‍​‍​​‌​‌‌‌‍​‌​‍‌​​​​​‌​‌‌‌‍​‌​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍​​‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍​​‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌‍​​​​‌‌​‌‍​‍‌​‌​‌​​​​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌‍​​‍‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‌‍​‍​​‌​‌‌‌‍​‌​‍‌​​​​​‌​‌‌‌‍​‌​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍​​‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍​​‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‍​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌‍​​​​‌‌​‌‍​‍‌​‌​‌​​​​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​ (Fabio Salvadori)
• Implementing a custom GitHub token broker (Martin Costello)
• Intelligent sampling in Microsoft Foundry: the science behind selecting better production traces (imatiach)
• Meet the winners of the Built with Opus 4.7 Claude Code hackathon (Claude Team)
• Who Owns the Code Claude Wrote? (Sena Evren)
• Introducing Tokenless Access to Meta oEmbed APIs (Zoë Lieberman)
• What GitHub Copilot Taught Me About the AI Agent Harness (Gopa Ravi)
• The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense (Simon Willison)
• Inside the Observability Agent: How Deep Investigations and Reasoning Work (yalavi)

Python

• Detecting Python Vulnerabilities with GraphCodeBERT (a_elhaag)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Selenium vs Cypress vs Playwright: Choosing Your Test Automation Framework​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌​‌​​‌‌‍​‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‌‍​‌​‍‌​‌​​​‌​‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‌​‌​​​‌​​‌​​​‍‌​‍‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‍‌​‌‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‍​​‌‌‍​‍​‌​​‌‌‍​‍​‌​​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌​‌​​‌‌‍​‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‌‍​‌​‍‌​‌​​​‌​‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‌​‌​​​‌​​‌​​​‍‌​‍‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‍‌​‌‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‍​​‌‌‍​‍​‌​​‌‌‍​‍​‌​​‍ (Praveen Kumar Gunasekaran & Syed Ahamed)
• Do agents think you're doing agile wrong? (Tim Ottinger)
• Six Live Kubernetes Recommendations: AKS, Cilium, Rate Limiting, and More (Adam Gordon Bell)
• Event Sourcing: temporally misplaced or duplicated events (Urs Enzler)
• Playwright v1.61.0 Release (dgozman)
• The Small Lies Developers Tell to Keep Work Moving (Anastasija Uspenski)
• Test the Feature, Not the Endpoint (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Turn messy production code into a useful benchmark (Daniel Marbach)

Mobile and Game Development

• What’s New in Android XR: Tooling, Engine Support, and Ecosystem Updates (Stevan Silva & Vinny DaSilva)
• New domain for Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email (Apple Developer Team)
• Flutter Q2 survey (Shams Zakhour)
• Shiny Health 2.0 — The Ultimate Cross-Platform Health Library and A NEW CameraView to Rule Them All (Allan Ritchie)

Screencasts and Videos

• Azure Logic Apps Live: June 2026 Community Call (Divya Swarnkar, Harold Campos & Wagner Silveira)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1194 - The secret code of weather forecasts (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Presentation Podcast Episode #248 – Nashville, Vectors, and Paper Puzzles: Nolan Haims Prepares for CreativePro Week (Troy Chollar)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #282 - Debating Coupled or Decoupled SIEM with Alex Hurtado and Christopher Witter (Google)
• InfoQ Podcast: Increasing Users' Data Agency: From BlueSky's AT Protocol to the Local-First Software Movement (Martin Kleppmann)
• Why Solo Scrum Masters Get Fired — The Coalition Of The Willing | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Aimé Flemm)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1012 - Who Decides What Ships on the Web? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Meta Cast - Can AI Make You a Great Leader? (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Inside Trader Joe's Podcast Episode #107 - Trader Joe's Swings Into Summer (Trader Joe's Team)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - If context is king, architecture is the castle​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍​​​‍​​‌‍​​​​​‍‌‌‍​‍​​‍​‍‌​‌​​​‌​​‌‍‌​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌​‌​​​​‍‌​‍‌‌‍​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​​‍‌‌‍‌‌​‌​​​‌‍‌​​​‌‌‍​‍​‌​​​​‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍​‌​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍​​​‍​​‌‍​​​​​‍‌‌‍​‍​​‍​‍‌​‌​​​‌​​‌‍‌​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌​‌​​​​‍‌​‍‌‌‍​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​​‍‌‌‍‌‌​‌​​​‌‍‌​​​‌‌‍​‍​‌​​​​‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍ (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• What to Expect When You're Expecting Direct CSP with Microsoft (Shannon Kuehn)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Planner Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot is now generally available (MarsGu)
• How to write blog posts with Copilot Cowork (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.63 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• NanaZip v6.5.1750.0 Release (Mouri Naruto)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.12 Release (yao-msft)

General

• After resurrecting an iconic PC brand, Commodore is getting into flip phones (David Pierce)
• Microsoft’s New Surface Laptop and Surface Pro Get Faster—and Way More Expensive (Luke Larsen)
• Happy birthday to the Trump phone (Dominic Preston)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 15, 2026 (#805) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS FinOps Agent in preview, Gemma 4 on Bedrock, Kiro Pro Max, and more (June 15, 2026) (Esra Kayabali)
• Reading Notes #702 (Frank Boucher)
• Fragments: June 16 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

Programming APIs with C# and .NET (Jesse Liberty & Joseph Dluzen) - Referral Link Develop high-performance APIs that ensure seamless application communication and enhanced security.

• Your first Microsoft.UI.Reactor app (Morten Nielsen)
• Merge Conflict Episode #519 - WWDC Deep Dive: Apple’s New AI for Developers (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• How we made GitHub Copilot CLI more selective about delegation (Dylan Birtolo)
• TechBash 2026 Early Bird Ends Friday! (TechBash Team)
• Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #132 - The Next Era of AI: From Tool to Teammate (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
• Level Up Your Copilot CLI Statusline with Oh My Posh (Bart Wullems)
• GitHub Copilot modernization for C++ is out of preview (Michael Price)

Web and Cloud Development

• Aspire v13.4.4 Release Notes (joperezr)
• Building Dapr Workflows in .NET With Aspire (Milan Jovanović)
• New Release!! htmxRazor v2.1.0: Advanced Inputs (Chris Woodruff)
• Multimodal Browser AI with Transformers.js for Images and Speech (Shittu Olumide)
• ESLint v10.5.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• Meet Desktop Mode: A New Workspace for WordPress Admin (WordPress Team)
• Your API Is Already a Hidden MCP Server, You Just Need to Discover It (Marin Pavelić)
• There’s no need to include ‘navigation’ in your navigation labels (Geoff Graham)
• Why Isn’t My 3D View Transition Working? (Sunkanmi Fafowora)
• Your Diverse API Toolbox (Kin Lane)
• Orleans on DocumentDb — Query Your Grains Without Waking Them Up (Allan Ritchie)
• Agent 365 | Identity & Access Controls in Entra (Zachary Cavanell)
• Free Online PDF Converters for Word, Excel, HTML & Images You Should Try (Eshwari Balraj)

Windows Development

• How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency? (Raymond Chen)
• Parsing JSON at compile time with C++26 static reflection (Daniel Lemire)
• Game2048 Solution - WPF to XAML.io migration (XAML.io Team)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 12 June 2026 (Stephen Lines)
• Creating a Packaged Single File Web Site Viewer Executable (Rick Strahl)
• WhatsApp is eating 1.2GB RAM on Windows 11, even as Microsoft kills web app slop (Abhijith M B)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Boost Your .NET Projects: Copilot, Benchmarks, and the Truth About Faster Code (David McCarter)
• .NET 11 Preview 5 Focuses on Performance, Productivity and Safer Code (David Ramel)
• Introducing Corvus.Text.Json V5: Standalone Evaluator and Annotations (Matthew Adams)

AI

• Dynamic Instructions for Copilot (Ken Muse)
• Software development and AI (Damien Bowden)
• On-Device AI: Benefits, Use Cases, and Challenges (Hannah Laurel)
• How to Measure Token Impact of MCP Tool Invocation in Microsoft Foundry (vrajakishore)
• Creating a multi-agent application - Part 3 and Creating a multi-agent application - Part 4 (Jesse Liberty)
• llama.cpp vs. vLLM: Choosing the right local LLM inference engine (Cedric Clyburn)
• AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (xpost) (Charity Majors)
• Agents That Test Agents: A Cloud-Native Skill-Eval Harness on Foundry Hosted Agents (Kinfey Lo)
• Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t (Simon Willison)
• Memory is still a missing primitive: Cataloguing what the field is actually shipping (Jim Bennett)
• Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban (Terrence O’Brien)
• The LLM transformation of tech culture (James Ashley)
• DLP for Copilot Prompts: How to Stop Sensitive Data From Leaving Your Tenant (Michael Goad)
• Claude Fable cost $9 in one coding test. GPT-5.5 cost $1.50. Model triage is the new AI skill. (Matthew Burns)
• OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context (Simon Willison)
• This Week in AI: The Next-Gen Recommendation Experience (Michelle Smith)
• Fable 5 vs Opus 4.8: The real stakes, not the spec sheet (Jessica Wachtel)

Python

• Designing CherryScript: Optimizing Data-Driven Workflows via Custom Python-Based Interpreters‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​ (Ahmad Ishanzai)
• Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide (Simon Willison)
• Python Concepts Every AI Engineer Must Master (Matthew Mayo)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• LogTide (An open-source, high-performance observability platform and SIEM) v1.0.0-rc1 Release (Polliog)
• What's the facts, Charity? How do I get my leaders to stop running teams Into the ground?‌ (Charity Majors)
• The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks (Steve Jones)
• A message queue bought us time (Daniel Marbach)
• Jenkins Plugin of the Month – June 2026: Build Discarder Plugin (Mark Schulz)

Mobile and Game Development

• Shiny.Data.Sync — Offline-First Record Sync, Built on Jobs & HTTP Transfers (Allan Ritchie)
• Older Gamers are the new niche, and Femboy baiting marketing strategy? (Code Monkey)
• Kotlin 2.4.0 Released (ProMobile.Dev)
• Building ShadowQuest: A Multi-Agent RPG (Sharda Kaur)
• Saving family football footage with a Raspberry Pi and a 1928 projector (Ashley Whittaker)
• Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter (Scott Perry)

Screencasts and Videos

• Intro to Warp - essentials, Claude Code setup, and cloud orchestration (Warp Team)
• Azure HorizonDB + VS Code: Your AI App Development Workspace (Microsoft Azure Team)
• What's one mistake developers make when building cost-efficient AI apps? | One Dev Question (Priya Sathy)
• The Download: Claude Fable 5, new Copilot features, Microsoft Build recap & more (Christina Warren)
• The AI Chart Everyone Is Getting Wrong and Fable 5 Shut Down by US Government and 10 Sites Knowledge Workers Should Build with AI (AIDailyBrief)
• Lokka 2.0 - AI powered Microsoft Graph Explorer (Merill Fernando)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Erik Darling: T-SQL Architecture - AI DevOps Podcast Episode #406 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #276 - What If Tools Are Not Expensive To Build (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• Lenny's Podcast - The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #898 - Randall Munroe of xkcd: Language Chat and Weird Bee Laws (Mignon Fogarty)
• Big Technology Podcast - SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google - Agent Sandbox with Lovable, with Jonathan Grahl (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• React Native Radio Episode #365 - Chain React 2026 (Robin Heinze, Mazen Chami & Gant Labrode)
• The Azure Security Podcast Episode #129 - John Savill's Top of Mind (Michael Howard & Sarah Young)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #152 - Rivian R2 Road Tested: The New Face Of EVs In America (Batteries Included Team)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #299 - EuroPython 2026: Celebrating 25 Years (Christopher Bailey, Mia Bajić & Daria Linhart Grudzien)
• Hard Fork Podcast - ‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
• BONUS Why Your Organization Is Still a Factory — And What an Octopus Can Teach You About Transformation | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte, Phil Le-Brun & Dr. Jana Werner)
• A Geek Leader Episode #473 - Dustin Domerese (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg (Connie Loizos)
• 3 things leaders need to know from Microsoft Build 2026 (Jessica Hawk)
• Job listings for week ending 6/12 and Call For Papers Listings for 6/12 (Leon Adato)
• IT Workers Are Now Struggling to Find Work, as ‘Picky’ Companies Demand AI Skills (EditorDavid)
• Microsoft hasn’t ruled out spinning off Xbox (Terrence O’Brien)
• Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network (OpenAI Team)
• From anthropology to analytics: how to build a data career with no prior experience (10 tips from a Microsoft MVP) (Simple Talk Team)
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Xbox: ‘We have to turn this into a sustainable business’ (Todd Bishop)
• History of API Evangelist (Kin Lane)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft’s new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows (Abhijith M B)
• Bringing Enterprise File Data to Users with Azure NetApp Files, Microsoft Foundry, and M365 Copilot (Geert Van Teylingen)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.62 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• .NET CLI tools in the AI fury or how to guide agents during production investigations (Christophe Nasarre)
• Implementing the Device Authorization Flow in a C# Console App (Andrea Chiarelli)

Writing

• The Essential Guide To Writing Horror Stories and What Is A Plot? – A Writer’s Resource (Writers Write)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.1.4 (Files Team)
• Can JetBrains close the IDE skills gap before AI widens it further? (Darryl K. Taft)

General

• Under-16 social media ban announced by UK government (Dominic Preston)
• GM Updates 250,000 EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid Firmware, Announces Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Batteries (EditorDavid)
• Touchscreen Macbook ‘100% Confirmed,’ Says Reputable Leaker (BeauHD)
• The world’s first trillionaire is a killer (TC. Sottek)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest - Process API improvements in .NET 11 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Android Weekly Issue #731 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #567 - 14th June 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #24, 2026 — Fable 5.2, Expecto 11 & .NET 11 Preview 5 (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – June 12, 2026 (#804) (Richard Seroter)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #754 (Greg Fawson)
• dotInsights | June 2026 (Matt Ellis)

The Geek Shelf

Tools and Skills for .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions.

• Review pull requests without leaving Visual Studio (Leah Tran)
• AI-Powered Natural Language Filtering in .NET MAUI DataGrid (Shalini Suresh)
• Claude Fable 5 available today in Microsoft Foundry: Powering the next era of autonomous agents (Microsoft Foundry Team)
• Copilot Autofix for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (Laura Jiang)
• Converting HTML to Markdown in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
• Windows App Development CLI v0.3.2 — bundling support, smarter initialization, and more (Zachary Teutsch)

Web and Cloud Development

• Dapr v1.18 is now available (Dapr Team)
• What is IdentityServer and When Do You Need it? (Maarten Balliauw)
• From Flutter to Backend: How to Build Production-Grade REST APIs with Dart and Dart Frog (Oluwaseyi Fatunmole)
• Faster updates, enterprise-friendly schedule: the new Microsoft Edge release cycle (Microsoft Edge Team)
• Safely injecting a JSON configuration object into a Razor Page (Bart Wullems)
• Managed Identity Permission Manager v1.1.0.5 is here! (Michael Morten Sonne)
• Why You’ve Outgrown Free & OpenSource React UI Libraries (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Debug App Startup Faster on Azure App Service for Linux with Startup Logs (Tulika C.)
• Develop Locally on Linux with WordPress Studio (Rahul Gavande)

Windows Development

• MSVC Build Tools Preview updates – June 2026 (Eric Brumer)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Exploring the SLNX Solution File Format (Dave Brock)
• Developing Agentic Systems in .NET: From Concept to Code (David Ramel)
• dotnet-outdated-tool v4.8.1 Release (NuGet Gallery)
• Introducing Corvus.Text.Json V5: Mutable Documents (Matthew Adams)
• StoryCADAPI Documentation and Samples (The core library that powers StoryCAD, a free outlining tool for fiction writers) (StoryCAD Team)* - StoryCAD v4.1.1 NuGet available here*

AI

• Creating a multi-agent application – Part 1 and Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• OpenClaw v2026.6.6 Release (vincentkoc)
• Agentic AI: The need for a data foundation (Arvind)
• redb.Route.Llm 3.1.1 — per-message audit fields for LLM compliance / replay (Rinat Kozin)
• AI Splits the Market (Mark Downie)
• Your agent just scaffolded a project from 2020 (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Governing agent autonomy with Auto-review (Cursor Team)
• Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (Simon Willison)
• Ollama's highest performance on Apple Silicon yet with MLX (Ollama Team)
• When Context Collapses: Teaching Agents to Detect and Recover from Lost Memory (Andrew Stellman)
• Customize Replit Agent with Skills & Custom Instructions (Replit Team)
• Where’s the holistic AI productivity data? (Rachel Andrew)
• Copilot Notebooks and Study guide now available to Copilot Chat users (Anno Padte)
• AI Doesn't Make Great Developers. It Amplifies The Skills You Already Have. (Chris Pietschmann)
• Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule (Arun Sirpal)
• I Almost Did Not Publish This Book (Pinal Dave)
• One Copilot to Rule Them All? Microsoft’s Unified AI Platform for Work and Life (Russell Smith)
• Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails (Robert Hart)
• Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact (Will Douglas Heaven)

Python

• Best Python AI Frameworks in 2026 (Evgenia Verbina)
• Profiling in PyTorch (Part 2): From nn.Linear to a Fused MLP (Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Rémi Ouazan Reboul, Sergio Paniego, Pedro Cuenca & Sayak Paul)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Browser testing in Postman Agent Mode (Talia Kohan)
• Making secret scanning more trustworthy: Reducing false positives at scale (Natalie Guevara)
• June Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
• The Runtime Is Free Now. The Harness Is the Business. (Paul J. Swider)
• Agentic Testing: Where Agents Fit in the E2E Testing Stack (Sergii Gorbachov)
• Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it (Raymond Chen)
• Building and Scaling a Platform with Project-as-a-Service (Ben Linders)

Mobile and Game Development

• Deprecation of the ImageCreator class (Apple Developer Team)

Screencasts and Videos

• Why Fable 5 is the Most Controversial AI Release Ever (AIDailyBrief)
• Agentic AI Journeys: Planning, Coding, and Deployment | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Dan Wahlin)
• Review, Comment, and Approve PRs in Visual Studio (Leah Tran)
• Open Source C# and AI | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• We Work at Microsoft. Here's Our Real Take on Build 2026 (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Team)
• Microsoft Build NEWS and more… - Developer News 22&23/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Modern .NET Show - Beyond the Chatbot: AI-Enabled .NET MAUI Apps with Codrina Merigo (Jamie Taylor)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #576 - Observability's Next Phase (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• InfoQ Podcast: Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Team's Operating System in the AI Era (Craig McLuckie)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #551 - Stroll Down Startup Lane - 2026 (Michael Kennedy)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast - Microsoft's Evolving AI Strategy: New Clues from Build and Directions on Microsoft Podcast - Three Smart Guys: Too Big to Flail? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Generative AI in the Real World: Agentic Systems Fundamentals with Maarten Grootendorst (Ben Lorica & Maarten Grootendorst)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1193 - What it really takes to translate Shakespeare, with Daniel Hahn (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Developers are emotionally attached to their tools​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​​​‍‌‍​‍​‌​​‌‍‌‍‌‍​‍‌​​​‌​‌‍​‍​‍​​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​‍​‌‌​‌‌​​‍​‍‌​​‍‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍​​​‍​‌‌‌‍​​​‌‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​​​‍‌‍​‍​‌​​‌‍‌‍‌‍​‍‌​​​‌​‌‍​‍​‍​​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​‍​‌‌​‌‌​​‍​‍‌​​‍‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍​​​‍​‌‌‌‍​​​‌‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍ (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Introducing Claude Corps (Anthropic Team)
• Tech, Community, and a Movie: MVPs Help Bring Stir Trek to Life (Betsy Weber)
• WeAreDevelopers is coming to the US to give unsung developers a bigger voice (Nick Lucchesi)
• Big Thinkers: Werner Vogels – The Operational Philosophy Behind AWS and Hyperscale Cloud Architecture (Chris Pietschmann)
• Salesforce is cutting jobs across its AI agent and cloud software teams (Colleen Cabili)
• Inside JetPride: How JetBrains Employees Built an LGBTQIA+ Community (Grete Kivi)
• Contribute to the State of PHP Survey (Dominika Stankiewicz)
• Some Reflections on JasperFx’s 3rd Anniversary (Jeremy D. Miller)
• WWDC26 survey (Apple Developer Team)

Database

• Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2 (Kristyna Ferris)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Indexed View Matching (Erik Darling)
• It’s 2026. Why are databases still failing GDPR compliance audits? (Chisom Kanu)
• The insert benchmark on a small server, cached workload : Postgres 19 beta1 (Mark Callaghan)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Migrating EWS notifications to Microsoft Graph (Microsoft Graph Team)

Tools

• VS Code 1.124 Focuses on Agent Autonomy and Parallel Sessions (David Ramel)
• PowerToys 0.100 Arrives With Improvements to Several Utilities (Paul Thurrott)

General

• iFixit Trump phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC dupe (Dominic Preston)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 11, 2026 (#803) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Blazor Web Development Cookbook (Pawel Bazyluk) - Referral Link Tested recipes for advanced single-page application scenarios in .NET 9.

• Join us for .NET Day on Agentic Modernization Livestream (Jeffrey Fritz)
• Stop skillmaxxing, save your tokens (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.7.0 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Visual Studio Code 1.125 (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Introducing Execution Context for GitHub Copilot in SSMS (Erin Stellato)
• AI, jobs, and the next generation - Microsoft On the Issues (Brad Smith)
• Give GitHub Copilot CLI real code intelligence with language servers (Natalie Guevara)

Web and Cloud Development

• AWS CLI v1 maintenance mode: announcing changes to dependency updates (Kenneth Daily)
• Beyond WebSockets: A Glimpse into the Future of Document Editing with WebAssembly (Bjoern Meyer)
• 10 Brand-New WordPress.com Features From Radical Speed Month (Philip Adams)
• Creating Memorable Web Experiences: A Modern CSS Toolkit (Mariana Beldi)
• Why even the best teams struggle with cloud migrations (Grant Fritchey)
• Web Scraping for Beginners 2026 (Beau Carnes)

Windows Development

• What’s the opposite of Clip­Cursor that lets me exclude the cursor from a region? (Raymond Chen)
• Modern C++ Support in CLion: What’s New (Oleg Zinovyev)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Building Your First Agentic AI Workflow in C# with Microsoft AutoGen (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Why We Removed FluentAssertions from Akka.NET (Aaron Stannard)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.10.0 Release (Dmytro Struk)
• Visual Studio Insiders Release Notes - June 9, 2026 (Microsoft Learn)
• Introducing Corvus.Text.Json V5: Pooled-Memory Parsing (Matthew Adams)

AI

• Is your agent extension actually working? (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Introducing the LogRocket MCP: Take the blindfold off your AI agents (Matt Arbesfeld)
• Multi-agent patterns with the GitHub Copilot SDK (continued) (Bart Wullems)
• Deploying Foundry Hosted Agents from Source Code (J. Folberth)
• Turn specs into evals for any agent with ASSERT (Mehrnoosh Sameki, Sandeep Atluri, Minsoo Thigpen & Abby Palia)
• Announcing Stack Overflow for Agents​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌​​‍​​‌​​‍‌‍​‌‍​​‌​‌‍‌‍​‍‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌​​‌‍​​‍​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​‌‌‍​‌​‌‍‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‌‍‌​​‌‍​‍‌​‍​​‍​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍​‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌​​‍​​‌​​‍‌‍​‌‍​​‌​‌‍‌‍​‍‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌​​‌‍​​‍​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​‌‌‍​‌​‌‍‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‌‍‌​​‌‍​‍‌​‍​​‍​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍​‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌ (David Gibson & Janice Manningham)
• Enterprise-grade AI integration: embedding LLMs into the business processes of large companies — redb.Route.Llm 3.1.1 (Rinat Kozin)
• Bugbot is now over 3x faster, 22% cheaper, and finds 10% more bugs (Cursor Team)
• Apple just copied one of Microsoft Edge’s best features and called it Apple Intelligence (Abhijith M B)
• The evolution of agentic surfaces: building with Claude Managed Agents (Claude Team)
• Decoding Copilot Token Costs Using VS Code and Creating Agent Plugins for VS Code and Copilot CLI (Ken Muse)
• The PM’s Playbook for Shipping AI Features That Actually Work in Production (Gaurav Savla)
• The “Vibe Coding” Crisis: Is Web Design Becoming a Commodity? (Alex Harper)
• DiffusionGemma: The Developer Guide (Ian Ballantyne & Omar Sanseviero)
• How to Connect Any OAuth2 Service to AI Agents with Auth0 Token Vault (Deepu K Sasidharan)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.1 Release and GitHub Copilot SDK for Rust v1.0.1 Release and GitHub Copilot SDK for Java v1.0.1 Release (github-actions[bot])
• GitHub Copilot SDK for Go v1.0.1 Release (Ed Burns)
• AI makes it easier to mistake answers for understanding (Julie Yack)
• Introducing the State of AI Coding 2026 (Jim Young)
• AI in project management: Why project managers must become leaders (Joanna Kennedy)
• What If The Real Key To AI Coding Is Old-Fashioned & Boring? (codemanship)
• Spec-Driven Development: A Spec-First Approach to AI-Native Engineering (Apoorv Gupta)
• A classic brain test exposed AI's biggest weakness (PNAS Nexus)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research (Kate Kalcevich)
• What Your Meeting Invite Says About You (Michael Eaton)
• Solving the ‘God Object’ Problem with Shared Identity (Derek Comartin)
• Return of the Revenge of the Son of Software Process Engineering (Jason Gorman)
• Participatory Extensible Security (Eric Lawrence)
• Static Code Analysis and the Rules of Zero, Three, and Five (Kerry Beetge)
• Observability overload is drowning engineers (Alex Wilhelm)
• You can fork a package, but can you own it? (Oskar Dudycz)

Mobile and Game Development

• .NET MAUI v10.0.71 Release and .NET MAUI v11.0.0-preview.5.26304.4 Release (Shane Neuville)
• Xbox exploring ‘radically different’ console business models (Tom Warren)
• Small device, big business: can a Raspberry Pi replace your desktop PC? (Ashley Whittaker)

Screencasts and Videos

• From CLI to PR: Automating the path to merged code | BRK203 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Evan Boyle & Cassidy Williams)
• Fable 5 Raises the Bar for AI Ambition and OpenAI Declares the Next Phase of AI (AIDailyBrief)
• Use GitHub Copilot CLI Agent in Xcode 27 via Agent Client Protocol (ACP) (James Montemagno)
• Foundry IQ: unlocking knowledge for agents (Microsoft Azure Team)
• Leaders of Code: When the cost of code approaches zero, what does engineering leadership look like?​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‌​​​​‍‌​‌‌‍‌‍​‍​​‍‌​‍‌​‌​​​‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌​‍‌​‍​​‌‌​‌​‍​​‍‌​‍‌‌‍​​‌​‌‍​‍​‍​​​‌​‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍​‍​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‌​​​​‍‌​‌‌‍‌‍​‍​​‍‌​‍‌​‌​​​‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌​‍‌​‍​​‌‌​‌​‍​​‍‌​‍‌‌‍​​‌​‌‍​‍​‍​​​‌​‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​ (Eira May)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Practical AI Podcast Episode #360 - Zero Trust for AI Agents (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• .NET Rocks! - Event Sourcing using Cratis with Einar Ingebrigsten (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #724 - Jure Leskovec on Relational Graph and Foundational Models (Sriram Panyam)
• Windows Weekly Episode #987 - SelfLoathing.md - Will AI-Driven Vibe Coding Replace Traditional Developers? (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #212 - Cutting Through the AI Developer Hype (Warren Parad)
• CloudChat Episode #33 - Route of All Evil (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
• Big Technology Podcast - What Should An AI Device Look Like? — With Alex Himel (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The CloudPod Episode #357 - Cache Me If You Can - Now With Durability (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• BONUS Why More Code Doesn't Mean Better Software — And Where AI Actually Helps Your SDLC | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mooly Beeri)
• Effectively Wild Episode #2489 - Baseball: Better Late Than Never (Ben Lindbergh)

Community and Events

• Microsoft Reportedly Cuts Hundreds of Azure Jobs in China (Kezia Jungco)
• Computex 2026: Empowering a billion users with Windows across the ecosystem (Mark Linton)
• ‘This cannot continue’: Microsoft Xbox CEO calls for reset amid reports of looming job cuts (Todd Bishop)
• Xbox warns of a ‘reset’ as it prepares for layoffs (Jay Peters)
• Bluesky is getting ‘communities’ (Jay Peters)
• 20 Year Old Unicorn Goes AI-First Without Mass AI Layoffs (Anastasija Uspenski)
• An Interview with the Executive Director of The PHP Foundation (James Seconde)
• Nominate the Next EFF Award Honoree (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Database

• Microsoft Open-Sources PostgreSQL Extension for In-Database Durable Execution (Sergio De Simone)
• Dynamic SQL vs OR Clauses in SQL Server (Erik Darling)
• Deterministic SQL Bad Practice Detection in SSMS 22.7 with T-SQL Analyzer MCP Server and Copilot (Erik EJ)
• Power-up in SSMS 22.7: Schema compare and SQL formatting (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Making Microsoft Teams more responsive, reliable, and ready for work (Ihor Lukyanenko)
• Available today: Anthropic Claude Fable 5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Bas Brekelmans)
• Why Excel Charts and Images Break in Web Spreadsheets and How to Fix Them (Sumathi Uthayakumar)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.1.3 (Files Team)
• Process Monitor v4.03 (Alex Mihaiuc)

General

• Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet (Sean Hollister)
• Microsoft is killing the Copilot+ PC advantage, brings Windows 11’s local AI to RTX 30+ PCs with 6GB vRAM (Mayank Parmar)
• Microsoft just killed the slow Microsoft Store downloads in Windows 11, after years of throttling (Abhijith M B)
• Halo: Campaign Evolved Hands-On Demo – It’s The Halo You Love, But Even Better (Danielle Partis)
• Fable: How We Built the Living Population (Joe Skrebels)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 10, 2026 (#802) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps (Rezwanur Rahman) - Referral Link Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot).

• .NET 11 Preview 5 is now available! (.NET Team)
• Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos (Dan Hellem & Andrew Brenner)
• Distributed multi-agent systems with Aspire and Microsoft Agent Framework (Tommaso Stocchi)
• PowerToys 0.100 is here: new Shortcut Guide, Command Palette improvements and much more! (Niels Laute)
• Windows App SDK 2.2.0 Release and Windows App SDK 1.8.9 (1.8.260529003) Release and Windows App SDK 2.2 Experimental 9 (2.2.2-experimental9) 🧪 Release (agniuks)
• Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 (Anthropic Team)
• Check out these TechBash 2026 sessions! (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• The Updated Edition of Blazor Succinctly Is Now Available (Michael Washington)
• Productize, observe, version, and automate MCP servers in Azure API Management (anishta)
• Azure.Core for .NET v1.59.0 Release (Azure .NET SDK Team)
• Discover MapKit JS 6: Rebuilt for Today’s Web Developer (Tim Chien)
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 11 Preview 5 (Dan Roth)
• Practicing Vertical Slice Architecture in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
• Data Fetching with TanStack Query for Vue (Marina Mosti)
• Still Downloading and Reuploading DOCX Files? Use a React DOCX Editor Instead (Rangarajan Ashokan)
• Azure Bicep at Scale: Architecture, Repos, and Landing Zones Done Right (Chris Pietschmann)
• CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts (Alex Kladov)
• Your IdentityServer v8 Upgrade Checklist: A Quick Pre-Flight Guide (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Cloud Migration Security Guide: Risks & Checklist (Ioannis Moustakis)
• Introducing the Field Guide to Grid Lanes (Jen Simmons)

Windows Development

• Staging Part 2 – Disk Space Optimization (Howard Kapustein)
• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 2.2.0 Stable Channel Release and Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 2.2.2-experimental9 Release and Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.8.260529003 Release (NuGet Gallery)

.NET and Visual Studio

• .NET 11 Preview 5 (Jon Galloway)
• .NET and .NET Framework June 2026 servicing releases updates (Rahul Bhandari & Tara Overfield)
• .NET v11.0.0-preview.5.26302.115 Release (dotnet-maestro[bot])
• .NET v10.0.9 Release (ilonatommy)
• redb.Route 3.1.0 — LLM(AI) as just another connector: .To("llm://claude") and tools-as-routes and REDB inside, part 1.1 — why the same 13 tables stay fast no matter how many classes you throw at them (Kozin Rinat)
• Introducing Corvus.Text.Json V5: Schema Validation - 10× Faster (Matthew Adams)

AI

• Gemini in Apple's Foundation Models framework (Miguel Ramos & Ryan Wilson)
• AI Agentic Harness Demystified (Sam Basu)
• AI Is Making English a Must-Have Skill for Developers (Lou Creemers)
• ICYMI: Inside the Microsoft Agent Framework: How we designed a layered SDK (Shawn Henry)
• Meet the new Copilot Studio: rebuilt for more complex, multi-step work (Ben Appleby)
• Agentic AI Governance: Designing for Accountability and Control (Conrad Schwellnus)
• Multi-agent patterns with the GitHub Copilot SDK (Bart Wullems)
• Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars (Lucas Ropek & Connie Loizos)
• I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works (Allison Johnson)
• Is it Safe? Creating Reliable AI Agents with Progress Agentic RAG (Peter Vogel)
• Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView and If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know and Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5 (Simon Willison)
• Introducing North Mini Code: Cohere’s First Model For Developers (Cohere Code Agents Team)
• New in Claude Managed Agents: run agents on a schedule and store environment variables in vaults (Claude Team)
• Anthropic Claude Fable 5 on AWS: Mythos-class capabilities with built-in safeguards now available (Channy Yun)
• Microsoft AI chief walks back comments about AI taking over white-collar work (Emma Roth)
• Reconstructing AI activity in investigations (Phillip Misner & Microsoft AI Red Team)
• OpenClaw v2026.6.5 Release (vincentkoc)
• Mastering AI Development and Building AI Apps with GitHub Copilot (David Ramel)
• Why Database AI Agents need Layers? (Arun Sirpal)
• The Subsidy Ended: What Tool-Using Agents Actually Cost (Bennie Haelen)
• LAB532: Build Agentic Knowledge Bases: Next-Level RAG with Azure AI Search | Microsoft Build 2026 (Microsoft Build Team)
• Can Voice Agents Handle Bilingual Customers? Benchmarking Frontier ASR on Code-Switched Speech (Shama Gupta, Lindsay Brin & Fanny Riols)
• Learning to lead in a hybrid human-AI enterprise (MIT Technology Review Insights)
• Apple’s best AI idea looks a lot like vibe coding (David Pierce)
• Multimedia Building Blocks (Mishig Davaadorj)
• Stop Prompting. Design the Loop. (Engin Diri)
• How long before we stop reading the code? (Ankit Jain)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.8.1 Release (Tao Chen)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Data Protection by Design: GDPR Principles and Implementation (Lavender Anyango Otieno)
• When Feature Flags Weren’t Enough (Mikhail Baranov & Erick Lopez)

Mobile and Game Development

• Top 3 updates for Android developer productivity (Simona Milanovic)
• Apple unveils innovative features and intelligence experiences across services (Apple)

Screencasts and Videos

• What was the process of open-sourcing TypeScript, Chakra, .NET, VS Code, and the Copilot extension? | One Dev Question (Amanda Silver)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Rizel Scarlett (Isaac Levin)
• Simplifying Quantum Development with GitHub Copilot in VS Code (Microsoft Developer Team)
• Build, Components and Bourbon | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Technology & Friends - Peter Laudati on The Eat Jersey Challenge (David Giard)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Developer Tea Podcast - Principles Oriented Thinking as a Durable Skill in an AI First World (Jonathan Cutrell)
• RunAs Radio Show #1040 - How Machine Learning Fails with Megan Robertson (Richard Campbell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1028 - The Finder Guy of Your Choosing - Meet the New Siri AI (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko & Christina Warren)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #151 - GM Empowers EV Drivers: Energy Pass Unveiled & Free V2G Upgrades! (Batteries Included Team)
• Mailin’ It! - The Official USPS Podcast - From Waste to Worth: How USPS Powers the Circular Economy (United States Postal Service)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #483 - Thanks Brian (Michael Kennedy)
• Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.5: Delivering database changes (Steve Fenton)
• BONUS Why a Former Chess Champion Thinks Your Leadership Is Stuck in the Opening Game | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & John Whitt)
• SyncUp, A OneDrive Podcast - What's new with OneDrive on Mac (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)

Community and Events

• The Microsoft Company Party where everybody played name tag swap (Raymond Chen)
• JetBrains Plugin Developer Conf 2026 – Call for Speakers (Elena Kerpeleva)
• WWDC26 Highlights (ProMobile.Dev)
• The One Where I Found My Way to DevRel (Zahwah Jameel)
• WWDC 2026: weird but better than I feared (Gavin Anderegg)

Database

• Announcing the Release of SSMS 22.7.0 - and many previews! (M. Barickman)
• Postgres 19 beta1 vs sysbench on a small server (Mark Callaghan)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft is disabling Office 2019 for Mac next month (Tom Warren)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.61 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Proton Brings a CLI to Proton Drive (Paul Thurrott)
• From one-off prompts to workflows: How to use custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI (Natalie Guevara)

Writing

• How To Create Tension In Storytelling (Writers Write)
• Manipulating sentence structure (Emily Munro)

Tools

• PowerToys Release v0.100.0 (LegendaryBlair)
• Fewer False Alarms, Better Coding Flow in RustRover 2026.2 (Manuel Ceron)

General

• Congress just gave DHS another $70 billion (Gaby Del Valle)
• Introducing Windows Ready Print and Modernized Driver Selection (elliesekine)
• NCSC Warns Of Rising Software Supply Chain Attacks Targeting Open-Source Packages (Rabia Noureen)
• GM joins race to build batteries for AI data centers and the grid (Tim De Chant)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 9, 2026 (#801) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) - Referral Link A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C#.

• React Native Windows v0.83 is here! (Vineeth K, Vivek Khare & Sourav Chakraborty)
• .NET at Microsoft Build 2026: Must watch sessions (Daniel Roth)
• Enterprise Live Migrations: Moving from Azure DevOps Repo to GitHub with minimal disruption (Soo Stahl & Bhuvan Shah)
• Microsoft Build 2026 recap: vision, launches, and top sessions (Jon Galloway)
• Aspire Roadmap - Q2 2026 Update (June 2026) (David Fowler)
• PowerToys 0.100 Is Here | New Features You Need to See (Windows Developer Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• Setting Up SAML Single Sign-On in ASP.NET with Duende IdentityServer (Maarten Balliauw)
• What's new in Azure App Service at #MSBuild 2026 (Mayunk Jain)
• How to detect when an element's visibility changes with JavaScript (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Aspire v13.4.3 Release (aspire-repo-bot[bot])
• Scroll-Driven, Scroll-Triggered, Scroll States, and View Transitions (Geoff Graham)
• Troubleshooting Azure Container Apps and Jobs for .NET and Django Workloads (Bhakti Rath)
• Convert HTML to Markdown in C# Without Losing Structure or Images (Mathan Kumar Varadharaja)
• Azure OpenAI Architecture: The Decisions That Actually Matter (Part 1) and (Part 2) (luciacasucci)
• News from WWDC26: WebKit in Safari 27 beta (Saron Yitbarek, Tim Nguyen, Antoine Quint, Anuj Panta, Ahmad Saleem, Anne van Kesteren, Alex Christensen, Dominic Mazzoni, Aditya Keerthi, Jean Haberer, Karl Dubost, Keith Miller, Youenn Fablet, Lily Spiniolas, Yoel Hawa, Rupin Mittal, Elika Etemad, Jer Noble, Yija Huang, Etienne Segonzac, Kai Tamkun, Shu-yu Guo, Kiet Ho, Nathan Solomon, Chris Dumez, Charlie Wolfe, Joanna Pan, Simon Fraser, Jean-Yves Avenard, Aleksei Marchenko & Mike Wyrzykowski)

Windows Development

• Rotation revisited: Shuffling more than three blocks, and other small notes (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds 8 June 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• EF Core at scale: 5 ways to retrieve large datasets efficiently (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• New features and Roslyn analyzers for Meziantou.Framework.FullPath (Gérald Barré)
• Read profiles without chasing every red bar (Daniel Marbach)
• Introducing Corvus.Text.Json V5: Source-Generated Types (Matthew Adams)
• Creating .NET apps takes forever - then we tried AI (David Grace)
• Microsoft unlocks Visual Studio for developers left behind by its own AI (Darryl K. Taft)
• Rider 2026.2 EAP 5: Code Quality Checks for Your AI Agents, and More. (Sasha Ivanova)
• PDF Security Explained: Passwords, Permissions, Encryption and Digital Signatures in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
• REDB inside, part 1.1 — why the same 13 tables stay fast no matter how many classes you throw at them (Rinat Kozin)

AI

• Make Your Copilot Credits Count: A Student's Guide to Smarter AI Usage (Lee Stott)
• Agent Skills in the GitHub Copilot SDK (Bart Wullems)
• Using Agentic AI to create your own component library (Tim Deschryver)
• Five things you need to know about AI (Will Douglas Heaven)
• Bringing the latest Gemini models to Apple developers (Thevi Sundaralingam)
• Why Anthropic just doubled Claude Cowork limits at no charge (Adrian Bridgwater)
• Siri AI at WWDC 2026 (Simon Willison)
• Long-Running Agents (Addy Osmani)
• Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC and Built to benefit everyone: our plan (OpenAI Team)
• Building intelligent apps for Apple platforms with Claude in the Foundation Models framework and Observability for developers building connectors (Claude Team)
• AI brands as bait: How threat actors are using the AI hype in social engineering (Microsoft Threat Intelligence & Microsoft Defender Security Research Teams)
• Driving Stop-and-Go Business Processes to Closure with Foundry Hosted Agents (srikantan)
• AI is not a person (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Customize Your Claude Code Status Line to Manage Token Burn (Andrew Connell)
• The AI Agents Stack (2026 Edition) (Paolo Perrone)
• How Postman Agent Mode hacks for me (Anurag Mewar)
• With Foundry, Microsoft bets the enterprise AI battle is about reliability, not capability (Darryl K. Taft)
• Gemma 4 12B Enables On-Device, Multimodal Agentic Workflows with an Encoder-free Architecture (Sergio De Simone)
• Bring your own evaluation framework to EvalHub (William Caban Babilonia, Rui Vieira & Matteo Mortari)
• Microsoft Foundry Adds Runtime, Tooling, and Governance for Production Agents (Matt Saunders)
• Top 10 Apple intelligence features to look forward to: (Vijay Swamy)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Introducing jenkinsfilelint: Catch Jenkinsfile Errors Before You Commit (Xianpeng Shen)
• Event sourcing: non-bi-temporal events in a bi-temporal stream (Urs Enzler)
• GitHub for Beginners: Answers to some common questions (Natalie Guevara)
• Working with product managers (Sean Goedecke)
• The Cratis Philosophy: Simplicity Through Layers (Einar Ingebrigtsen)
• Result pattern or throwing exceptions? Wolverine says “neither” (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Test Coverage Won't Save You (Allen Pike)
• Crane: verified code migration (Russell Horton)
• Open Source Observability: Tools, Setup, and Trade-offs (Spence Taylor)
• Strong opinions, strongly held - and why I don't care about your tooling debate (Jim Bennett)

Mobile and Game Development

• Getting Contact Information with .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Investigating SPIR-V for the shader system - Part 4 (Youness Kafia)
• Cordova Plugin InAppBrowser 6.0.1 With Fix For CVE-2026-47430 Released! (Niklas Merz)
• Apple introduces Siri AI, a profoundly more capable and personal assistant and Apple expands App Store capabilities to help developers grow and reach new users and Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement and App Review Guidelines now available and WWDC26 macOS guide and Find out what's new for Apple developers (Apple Developer Team)
• AI Arcade (David Crookes)

Screencasts and Videos

• The Way We Use AI is Changing (AIDailyBrief)
• Scale enterprise .NET apps with AI‑assisted cross‑platform workflows | Microsoft Build 2026 (Uno Platform Team)
• On .NET Live - Fluent UI Blazor: The next step (Vincent Baaij & Denis Voituron)
• Agent 365 | Identity & Access Controls in Entra | Microsoft Mechanics (Vince Smith)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Merge Conflict Episode #518 - Windows is Back! New Microsoft AI Coding Models (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1192 - How to get started as a freelance writer (Mignon Fogarty)
• Smooth Scaling Podcast Episode #26 - Sovereign Cloud and Sovereign AI in Europe with Klaus Koefoed, CEO of T-Systems (José Quaresma)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #151 - GM Empowers EV Drivers: Energy Pass Unveiled & Free V2G Upgrades! (Batteries Included Team)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #281 - Deceiving Adversaries at Scale with Kevin Conley (Google)
• I Think You're Overthinking It Podcast - Alison Brie (Chris Hardwick)
• SQL Server Radio Episode #188 - Virtualization pitfalls and best practices with SQL Server (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
• The Vergecast - Microsoft’s AI chief says superintelligence is near, but won’t take your job (Nilay Patel)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1011 - tmux + Terminal Maxxing with Ben Vinegar (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• BONUS The Communication Tax — Why Your Team Collaborates Too Much and What to Cut First | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Roman Nikolaev)
• InfoQ Podcast: From MCP and Vibe Coding to Harness Engineering: How Did AI Native Engineering Evolve in One Year (Birgitta Böckeler)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Creating checkpoints by gaslighting a Postgres database​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍‌‌‍​‌‍​‍​​​‌‍​‌‍​‍​​​‍‌​‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍​​‍‌​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍​​​​‍‌​‍‌​‍‌​​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌​‍​‌‍​‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‌‍‌​‌‍​​​​​​‍​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍‌‌‍​‌‍​‍​​​‌‍​‌‍​‍​​​‍‌​‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍​​‍‌​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍​​​​‍‌​‍‌​‍‌​​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌​‍​‌‍​‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‌‍‌​‌‍​​​​​​‍​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​ (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Celebrating 20 Years of InfoQ (InfoQ)
• Meet ArchAstro: Ex-Stripe, Microsoft and Meta vets assemble powerhouse team for cross-company AI agents (John Cook)
• Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack (The Hacker News)
• WWDC 2026: All the news from Apple’s developers conference (Stevie Bonifield)
• Expeditors cuts 230 tech jobs in Seattle region, ending decades-long policy against layoffs (Todd Bishop)
• WWDC 2026: Everything announced on Siri, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence and more (Morgan Little)
• XBOX Games Showcase 2026 recap (Athima Chansanchai)
• Where was tvOS 27 at WWDC? (John Higgins)

Database

• Microsoft Options to Migrate SQL Server Databases (Mitch van Huuksloot)
• How to call an Ollama-based AI text embeddings model from SQL Server 2025 (Greg Low)
• Moving Indexes To A New Filegroup: Microsoft Still Hates You (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Two Résumés, Not One: Designed Word Templates for the Humans You Actually Meet (copy) (Rod Trent)

Writing

• What Is A Timeline? How Using A Timeline Can Help You Plot Your Novel (Writers Write)

General

• Donut Lab's ‘Solid-State’ Battery Exposed As Regular Li-Ion (BeauHD)
• 44 things coming to your Apple devices that you might have missed (Jay Peters)
• Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report (Dhruv Mehrotra & Dell Cameron)
• Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube (Lumpy_Carpet9877)
• The Salesforce Developer’s Guide to the Summer ’26 Release (Mohith Shrivastava)
• Xbox exclusives are back and more complicated than ever (Tom Warren)
• Mexico cuts workweek, bans after-hours contact, and guarantees no worker will take a pay cut in the most sweeping labor reform in a generation (Benjamin Larweh)

More Link Collections

• Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - June 7 (Peter Ritchie)
• Azure Weekly Issue #566 (Howard van Rooijen)
• Daily Reading List – June 8, 2026 (#800) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: BYOM for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, and more (June 8, 2026) (Sébastien Stormacq)
• Reading Notes #701 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) - Referral Link Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML.

• A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Chris “Woody” Woodruff: AI-Assisted Software Architecture - AI DevOps Podcast Episode #405 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• VibeOS - Fully Hallucinated Operating System (Scott Hanselman, Mark Russinovich & Steve Sanderson)
• Local-first AI Agents in C#: Foundry Local, MEAI, and Microsoft Agent Framework (Bruno Capuano)
• GeekWire Podcast - Microsoft Build decoded: Solara, Scout, AI models, GitHub’s woes and more with Mary Jo Foley (Todd Bishop)
• .NET MAUI, Matter and Swift (Peter Foot)

Web and Cloud Development

• Shipping NitroClaw’s visual CSS Grid generator (Emad Ibrahim)
• ASP.NET Core background tasks with NCronJob and SignalR (Damien Bowden)
• Model Validation in ASP.NET Core: Data Annotations and FluentValidation (Nick Cosentino)
• Angular 22: The Evolution of Modern Angular (Dany Paredes)
• Why WebMCP Matters for AI-Powered Angular Apps? (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)
• Identifying Good Search Visibility (SEO/GEO) Clients (Erik Dietrich)
• How to Add PDF Annotations in Angular Using a Built-In Toolbar (Deepa Thiruppathy)
• How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go? (Daniel Lemire)
• Faster az login: introducing –skip-subscription-discovery and targeted –subscription (Alex-wdy)
• Introducing Reader Chat, Powered by Jetpack Search (Katrina Tantay)

Windows Development

• The back cover of C++: The Programming Language also raises questions not answered by the front cover and Rotation revisited: Avoiding having to calculate the gcd when doing cycle decomposition (Raymond Chen)
• How to Add Self-Service Analytics to Your WinForms Application (Greg Lutz)

.NET and Visual Studio

• EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster (Steven Giesel)
• Boost Your .NET Projects: Future-Proofing Performance with Spargine’s Fast Methods (David McCarter)
• Introducing Corvus.Text.Json V5: Why V5 Exists (Matthew Adams)
• The 8192-Token Cliff: Why Your .NET RAG Pipeline Throws Random 500s (Jamie Maguire)
• The new Visual Studio Solution File Format: Goodbye .SLN, Welcome .SLNX! (Thomas Claudius Huber)

AI

• Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval (Pablo Castro)
• A Multi-Region Microsoft Foundry Pattern for Enterprise Private Networking (pratyushmishra)
• Aurelia Skills for AI Coding Agents (Dwayne Charrington)
• What is AI Governance? Frameworks, Principles, and Best Practices (Srini Sekaran)
• MCP integration in the GitHub Copilot SDK (Bart Wullems)
• Job Searcher | Hugging Face (Emre)
• Persona Atlas: Mapping How Famous Minds Think (insuperabile)
• Direct agents with visual prompts in Design Mode (Cursor Team)
• Your Comprehensive Guide to AI Inference Types (Akshit Pratiush & Anish Singh Walia)
• Improved performance and model support with GGUF (Ollama Team)
• Skill Mining: Extracting What Your Codebase Already Knows (Chris Williams)
• The Claude Cowork product guide (Claude Team)
• How to stop AI hallucinations in enterprise RAG systems (a complete guide) (Abhishek Goyal)
• MAI-Thinking-1: Microsoft's New Reasoning Model and What It Means for Developers (ArshTechPro)
• Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing model compression for mobile and laptop efficiency (Omar Sanseviero)
• How To Build A SaaS with AI. Without Getting Stuck. (Vince Canger)
• This Week in AI: Production Viability (Michelle Smith)
• I Let an AI Agent Run 40 Experiments While I Slept (Vanchhit Khare)

Python

• micropython-wasm 0.1a2 and Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM (Simon Willison)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• A new era for software testing (antirez)
• Trigger Deployments on Git Tags (Michael Fallihee)
• Doing nothing at work (Sean Goedecke)
• The API testing gap: How AI-accelerated development challenges software quality (SmartBear Team)
• Securing CI/CD in an agentic world: Claude Code Github action case (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team, Dor Edry & Amit Eliahu)
• DRY Is the Most Misunderstood Rule in Programming (Milan Jovanović)
• Burning Out (Kin Lane)

Mobile and Game Development

• Steam update destroyed indie devs? and Summer Games Fest! (Code Monkey)

Screencasts and Videos

• Expansible (Widget of the Week) (Flutter Team)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 316 - “FOFU” (The Fear of F'ing Up in the Era of Distrust) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Random.Code() - Adding a New Stereotype to CslaGeneratorSerialization (Jason Bock)
• Scott and Mark learn to Vibe Check with Steve Sanderson | LIVE116 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• Agent Skills | LIVE150 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Addy Osmani & Burke Holland)
• Extend GitHub Copilot with the Copilot SDK | LIVE151 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Burke Holland & Patrick Nikoletich)
• What's new in GitHub Copilot CLI? | LIVE152 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Burke Holland & Evan Boyle)
• So you want to become an MVP? | LIVE176 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Betsy Weber, Fernanda Herger, Jeremy Sinclair & Priyanka Shah)
• Hosted Agents Live: From Code to Production AI at Scale | LIVE170 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Jeff Hollan & Lee Stott)
• Toolboxes in Foundry: Build, Search and Govern Your Tools | LIVE163 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Atul Aggarwal, Seth Juarez & Linda (Zhuoqun) Li)
• From issue to merge in one loop: the GitHub Copilot app | LIVE162 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Burke Holland & Seth Juarez)
• TypeScript updates: Latest Features and What's next | LIVE155 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Daniel Rosenwasser & Seth Juarez)
• AI Skills Navigator: Accelerate tech skills with personalized learning | DEM351 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Shreenidhi Bindinganavile Ramanuja & Matt Erni)
• Stop Noisy AI Code Reviews | Human-Driven PR Analysis with Astro (Postman Team)
• Your Data, Your Rules: Governing Data Across Borders and Regulations | MongoDB.local London 2026 (MongoDB Team)
• The Rising Role of Engineers in a World Where AI Writes Code and The Art and Science of Conversational Understanding in Voice AI (Frank La Vigne)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #026 - Microsoft BUILD 2026 (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Meta Cast - The 60 Second Habit That Builds Better Leadership Instincts (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Lenny's Podcast - Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Big Technology Podcast - Will Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI (Alex Kantrowitz)
• React Native Radio Episode #364 - AI Triforce with Gant Laborde (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
• The Changelog Podcast Episode #682 - From open source hits to OpenAI (Max Stoiber & Adam Stacoviak)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #275 - DR: Staying resilient in the cloud (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #150 - Electrify America Drops the Wallet: Your Trapped Cash Is Finally Free (Batteries Included Team)
• Hard Fork Podcast - Hot I.P.O. Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT (Casey Newton & Kevin Roose)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #298 - Reducing the Size of Python Docker Containers (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• The Yes-Man Product Owner and the Scrum Master Who Became a Proxy for the Proxy | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Maria Skvortsova)
• Mac Power Users 852: Designed in California and WWDC Wishlist with Myke Hurley (David Sparks & Stephen Robles)
• A Geek Leader Episode #472 - Ryan Vet (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• ‘You can't handle the truth!’ Microsoft staff push back on survey results. (Ashley Stewart)
• Amazon engineers in Seattle slam employer for AI data amid layoffs (Annie Palmer)
• Call For Papers Listings for 6/5 and Job listings for week ending 6/5 (Leon Adato)
• Build AI skills at Microsoft AI Skills Fest (Jill Armour)
• WWDC returns June 8: What we know and how to watch the Apple event (Radhika Rajkumar)
• Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with startup Manus (Julie Bort)
• Xbox Games Showcase 2026: All the news and trailers (Andrew Webster)

Database

• Base64 Encoding and Decoding in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL Database (Leonard Lobel)
• Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases (Arun Ulag)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Stay productive in new Outlook for Windows with these 5 features (Vicki Milton)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Introducing the Google Colab CLI (Spencer Shumway, Tyler Pirtle & Seth Troisi)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.60 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Rubber Duck in GitHub Copilot CLI (Bart Wullems)

Writing

• Things That Make Me Want To Write and 7 Really Good Reasons To Write A Memoir and 15 Inspiring Reasons To Start Writing Poetry (Writers Write)
• Take the guesswork out of revision with a revision checklist (Emily Munro)

Tools

• Announcing Files v4.1.2 (Files Team)
• NanaZip v6.5.1742.0 Release (Mouri Naruto)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.7.8 Release (chessturo)

General

• 30 Days of Coreutils: Wrapup (Rachel Kaufman)
• Cheaper EV Sales are Increasing (EditorDavid)
• Microsoft’s Xbox 25th anniversary console comes in translucent green (Tom Warren)
• The Trump administration might take an equity stake in OpenAI (Anthony Ha)
• Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 (Yet) (James Hilton)
• C++ Documentary is Now Available (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest: The many deaths and rebirths of .NET (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Android Weekly Issue #730 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• F# Weekly #23, 2026 – Wolverine/Marten F# Improvements (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – June 5, 2026 (#799) (Richard Seroter)
• The latest AI news we announced in May 2026 (The Google Keyword Team)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) - Referral Link A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.

• Aspire Multi-repo Rollout at Scale with Agentic AI (Jeff Liu & Chuanbo Zhang)
• Behind the Keynote: How Windows Made OpenClaw Work in the Keynote Demo | LIVE144 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Scott Hanselman)
• Accelerate Edge AI Development with Foundry Local (Dom Robinson, samkemp & Inbal Sagiv)
• winappCli Release v0.3.2 | GitHub (Windows Dev Team)
• Visual Studio Code 1.124 (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Build and ship faster with a developer-optimized Windows experience | LIVE172 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Aditya Ramnathkar, Beth Pan & Nikola Metulev)

Web and Cloud Development

• Angular in 2026: Mid-Year Reality Check, Signals, and AI Code Quality! (Angular Team)
• Building a Custom MCP Server with Node.js (Dean Hume)
• Cloudflare supports Vite's mission (The Vite Team)
• From Read-Only Grids to Real Spreadsheets in React (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
• Generating Client SDKs and AI-Ready CLIs with Postman (Gbadebo Bello)

Windows Development

• Rotation revisited: Cycle decomposition in clang’s libcxx (Raymond Chen)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v3.2.0 Release (Alvin Ashcraft) - Adds support for winapp CLI v0.3.2. Get it on the VS Code Marketplace or Open VSX Registry
• From Classic WinForms to Telerik in Minutes: Meet the AI-Powered Converter (Hristo Merdjanov)
• What’s New in vcpkg (May 2026) (Augustin Popa)
• Windows is back on the Microsoft menu (Tom Warren)
• Windows Package Manager v1.29.250 Release (florelis)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Getting Started with Claude in .NET (Yohan Malshika)
• Visual Studio 2026, 6 Months Later (Dave Brock)
• Visual Studio 2026–From plan mode to plan agent (Bart Wullems)
• REDB inside, part 1 — the 13 tables the whole engine runs on (with the actual SQL, and why it's not EAV) (Rinat Kozin)

AI

• Updating the taxonomy of failure modes in agentic AI systems: What a year of red teaming taught us (Microsoft AI Red Team)
• GitHub Copilot and tokens: how to keep using AI without burning your budget in three prompts (some personal lessons learned!) (Bruno Capuano)
• Research: "What's the Default Language of an LLM?" (Ted Neward)
• The Codebase Is the Prompt: Wolverine, Vertical Slices, and AI-Assisted Development (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Google Gemma 4 12B nearly matches 26B benchmarks — and runs on your laptop (Meredith Shubel)
• Giving Developers Claude Code with Azure API Management and Claude Models in Microsoft Foundry (Murali Kumanduri)
• VS Code 1.123 Adds Agent Session Sync, 1M Context Windows and Copilot Billing Shock Hits Developers (David Ramel)
• AI Security Best Practices for Application Protection (Ben Nettleton)
• Build a custom Shopify storefront on Replit (Replit Team)
• We Need to Talk About How AI Actually Makes You Feel (Pinal Dave)
• Dreaming: Better memory for a more helpful ChatGPT (OpenAI Team)
• Microsoft's new models give it a better moat (Mary Branscombe)
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (Ollama Team)
• Predict, Don’t Enumerate (Michael Roytman)
• Building a Multi-Tool Gemma 4 Agent with Error Recovery (Matthew Mayo)
• X posts as clean Markdown for LLMs (Tweet.md Team)
• Let us filter AI slop, you cowards (Jess Weatherbed)
• How to Fine-Tune Nemotron 3.5 ASR for Your Language, Domain, or Accent (Maryam Motamedi, Adi- margolin, Francesco, Myungjong Kim, Enas Albasiri & Jinhan Wang)
• Cursor cuts prices and adds enterprise spend controls amid “tokenomics” reckoning (Paul Sawers)
• The Tidy House (Tim O’Reilly)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.8.0 Release (giles17)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Mocking server-side HTTP in Playwright with mockttp (Simon Knott)
• Announcing the Octopus Intelligence integration with Github Agent HQ (Madalina Iosif)
• What is Software Supply Chain Security? and Hardened Images Explained: Fewer CVEs, Smaller Attack Surface (Aditya Tripathi)
• Engineering Leaders, You Should Be Worried If Your Team Isn’t Pushing Back (Mia Biberovic)

Mobile and Game Development

• Swift.org: Announcing the Networking Workgroup (Franz Busch & The Ecosystem Steering Group)
• App Store ecosystem reaches $1.4 trillion as developers thrive globally (Apple)

Screencasts and Videos

• GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio: Agents That Debug, Profile, and Test | BRK207 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Nik Karpinsky & Mads Kristensen)
• Aspire for agents: Transform how you build and deploy distributed apps | BRK205 | Microsoft Build 2026 (David Fowler & Maddy Montaquila)
• Profile and optimize agentic AI on Windows | DEMSP384 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Freddie Chiu & Vasanth Tovinkere)
• Why you need to be at GitHub Universe 2026 (GitHub Team)
• From CLI to PR: Automating the path to merged code | BRK203 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Evan Boyle & Cassidy Williams)
• Scott and Mark learn to Vibe Check | LIVE101 | Microsoft Build 2026 and Scott and Mark learn...how agents reshape software engineering | BRK247 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• Introducing MAI-Voice-2 | Microsoft AI Models (Microsoft)
• Build context-aware agents: From data to decisions | BRK240 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Amanda Silver & Marco Casalaina)
• Build 2026 podcast with Satya Nadella, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil from No Priors, and Swyx | LIVE100 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Satya Nadella, Swyx, Sarah Guo & Elad Gil)
• .NET 11 in depth: Runtime, libraries, and SDK for the AI era | OD806 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Richard Lander & Chet Husk)
• Claw and agent harness in Microsoft Foundry | BRK243 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Glenn Condron, Amanda Foster & Shawn Henry)
• Build the thing that builds the thing | BRK245 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Peter Steinberger)
• Inside Azure innovations with Mark Russinovich | BRK226 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Mark Russinovich)
• Foundry IQ: Fuel agents with enterprise knowledge and agentic retrieval | BRK246 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Pablo Castro)
• Turn your agents into action: Connect tools, APIs, and documents | BRK242 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Ronak Chokshi, Joe Filcik & Maria Naggaga)
• Hugging Face open‑source models to production on Microsoft Foundry | DEM320 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Vaidyaraman Sambasivam, Osi Otugo & Jean Boudier)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Software Defined Talk Episode #575 - UI blizzard (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• The Amp Hour #725 – The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• If Your People Feel Safe, You Succeed — Measuring What Matters as a Scrum Master | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Maria Skvortsova)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #359 - Breaking down the 2026 Stanford AI Index Report (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• AI Agent & Copilot Podcast - Nandita Puri on How AI Is Revolutionizing Drug Discovery at Georgia Tech (Giuseppe Ianni)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - Making the OWASP top ten in the vibe code era​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍​‌‍​‌​​​‌‍​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‍​‌​​‍‌​‍​​​‌‌‍‌‍​​​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‌​​​‌‍​‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​​‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‍​‌​‍​​​‌​‌‌‍‌​​‍​​‍​​​​​‌​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‍​‌‍​‌​​​‌‍​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‍​‌​​‍‌​‍​​​‌‌‍‌‍​​​‍‌​‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‌‍‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‌​​​‌‍​‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​​‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‍​‌​‍​​​‌​‌‌‍‌​​‍​​‍​​​​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍ (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• Microsoft Build 2026: The Story Behind the Announcements (Shannon Kuehn)
• CfPs Closing Soon (as of 2026-06-04) (Dave Aronson)
• Watch Satya Nadella on a No Priors x Latent Space crossover special (Command Line Team)
• GitHub Universe is back: All together now, in the agentic era (Natalie Guevara)
• U.S. Tech Sector Announces Most Job Cuts in Nearly Two Years (Julia Fanzeres)

Database

• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Indexed View Maintenance (Erik Darling)
• DuckDB Adds Quack Protocol (Kay Ewbank)

Writing

• The Ultimate Checklist For Writing A Memoir (Writers Write)

Tools

• DuckDuckGo Makes AI-Free Search Easier To Set as Default (TechRepublic Staff)

General

• Valve says it's ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer (Jay Peters)
• The Dark Years of Microsoft: How Low-Code Ate the Developer Platform (Paul J. Swider)
• Astro Mart: Summer 2026 Collection (Chris Swithinbank & Yan Thomas)
• How I made a 45-video course without wanting to die (Salma Alam-Naylor)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 4, 2026 (#798) (Richard Seroter)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #753 (Next App's swiftCon Team)

The Geek Shelf

Tools and Skills for .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions.

• Discovery to Execution: Scaling Agents with Toolboxes and Routines in Microsoft Foundry (Linda Li & Maria Naggaga)
• Union types in C# | DEM304 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Dustin Campbell & Mads Torgersen)
• How Microsoft is migrating repositories to GitHub (Poonam Gupta)
• Announcing Angular v22 (Angular Team)
• Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026: Agent Harness, Hosted Agents, CodeAct, and more (Shawn Henry)
• Foundry Toolkit for VS Code at //build: Hosted Agents End-to-End, a Smarter Toolbox, and More (leoyao)
• From prompt to app, build AI powered apps on Windows | DEM345 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Nikola Metulev & Lei Xu)

Web and Cloud Development

• Announcing Blazorise 2.2 - Cetina (Mladen Macanović)
• Aspire v13.4.2 Release (aspire-repo-bot[bot])
• CSS Tricks: @custom-media (Declan Chidlow)
• CSS Tricks: offset-path (Geoff Graham)
• Advanced Form Validation in Blazor 10 (Héctor Pérez)
• Azure Event Grid: Powering IoT and Event-Driven Applications at Scale (Connected-Seth)
• Go 1.26.4-1 and 1.25.11-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)

Windows Development

• Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc’s unidirectional rotation algorithm (Raymond Chen)
• A first look at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface Dev Box (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft is killing Windows 11’s web app slop, encourages devs to build native apps using WinUI (Mayank Parmar)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.9.0 (Dmytro Struk)
• .NET nanoFramework: How we went from 21 firmware packages to 11, and why you’ll love it (José Simões)
• Metalama 2026.1 Generally Available: First LTS Release, Complete C# 14 Support, and a Redesigned Redis Backend (Gael Fraiteur)
• Automatically Mapping TX Text Control Form Fields to JSON Data in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• redb.Route 3.0.1 — flat DSL navigation, CRTP refactor, and a silent null fix (Rinat Kozin)

AI

• From Building Agents to Working with Them: Enterprise Agent Distribution in Microsoft Foundry (Amanda Foster)
• MAI-Image-2.5 support in ElBruno.Text2Image and the t2i CLI (Bruno Capuano)
• Gemma 4 12B: The Developer Guide (André Susano Pinto, Andreas Steiner, Karolis Misiunas, Karsten Roth, Michael Tschannen & Omar Sanseviero)
• GitHub Copilot Multi-Repo Instructions: Sharing Skills, Agents, and Conventions Across Repos (Chris Bradshaw)
• Why I Think On-Device AI Changes Mobile Architecture (Akansha Jain)
• Build 2026: From observability to ROI for AI agents on any framework (Sebastian Kohlmeier)
• Meet Replit SEO Agent (Replit Team)
• Announcing Foundry Managed Compute: Run open models in Microsoft Foundry (Manoj Bableshwar)
• Introducing Agent Optimizer in Foundry Agent Service (Luis Quintanilla & Victor Dibia)
• Hands On with GitHub Copilot App Technical Preview: Turning a Blazor Issue into a PR (David Ramel)
• Introducing organizations for Cursor Enterprise (Cursor Team)
• Best practices for getting started with Claude Cowork and Lessons from building Claude Code: How we use skills (Claude Team)
• Bringing Gemma 4 12B to your Laptop: Unlocking Local, Agentic Workflows with Google AI Edge (Google AI Edge Team)
• OpenClaw v2026.6.1 Release (vincentkoc)
• Adding MCP Tools to Reachy Mini (Alina Lozovskaya)
• Context as Code (Artur Huk)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready (Vitaly Friedman)
• Kubernetes: Final Update for v3.4, plus 3.5.31, 3.6.12 Released (SIG-Etcd Leads)
• The SOLID Principles (Leon Bambrick)

Mobile and Game Development

• What's new in Swift: May 2026 Edition (Dave Lester)
• Why Nested ListView Breaks Down Faster Than You Expect in .NET MAUI (Anandh Ganesan)
• Google is testing Lightbuild, a new declarative build experience for Android (ProMobile.Dev)
• What “Production-Ready” Actually Means in Flutter (Gidudu Nicholas)
• Kotlin 2.4.0 Released (Sarah Haggarty)
• Introducing Official Capacitor Skills (Eric Horodyski)
• Update for Apps Distributed in Texas (Apple Developer Team)

Screencasts and Videos

• The Next Wave of Enterprise AI (AIDailyBrief)
• Microsoft Foundry + Agent 365 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Amanda Foster)
• The Terminal Live - Day 2 at Microsoft Build (Windows Developer Team)
• Taking your AI to the edge with .NET MAUI | OD803 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Gerald Versluis)
• Build modern .NET apps with Uno Platform, AI, and visual tools | ODSP929 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Sam Basu)
• Building WinUI Apps with C# First Patterns and AI Assisted Workflows | OD854 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Chris Anderson)
• Scale enterprise .NET apps with AI‑assisted cross‑platform workflows | DEMSP394 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Sam Basu & Colin Whitlatch)
• Build AI‑driven UIs in .NET MAUI with design systems | ODSP902 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Shriram Sankaran & Vishnu Menon)
• Build smarter AI systems in Foundry as models and costs evolve | BRK230 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Yina Arenas, Sharmila Chockalingam & Naomi Moneypenny)
• Expand local AI reach with Windows ML | OD851 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Andrew Leader & Maha Bayana)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Windows Weekly Episode #986 - Liminal AI - RTX Spark, Project Solara, Scout, & Much More! (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1191 - The case for language clarity, with Iva Cheung (Mignon Fogarty)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #723 - Dave Airlie on Linux Kernel Maintenance (Gregory M. Kapfhammer)
• AI & I Podcast - Figma Exec on Why the SaaSpocalypse Is a Goldmine (Dan Shipper)

Community and Events

• GitLab cuts 14% of staff as it scales its platform to serve AI workloads (Ram Iyer)
• This Week’s Health IT Jobs – June 3, 2026 (Neil Versel)

Database

• UNION vs UNIONALL: #SQLNewBlogger (Steve Jones)
• Data Modeling and Partitioning in Azure Cosmos DB (Lino Tadros)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Computed Columns (Erik Darling)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• 15 productivity features in the new Outlook for Windows (Vicki Milton)

Tools

• Paint.NET 5.2 Alpha (build 9650) (Rick Brewster)

General

• Microsoft’s new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is like the cheese grater Mac Pro, and that’s why I love it (Abhijith M B)
• Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 3, 2026 (#797) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Is Designing (Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle) - Referral Link Words and the User Experience.

• Introducing Uno Platform Studio 3.0: AI-Native Productivity Platform for Enterprise .NET Applications (Uno Platform Team)
• What’s Coming Next in Visual Studio: Our Microsoft Build 2026 Announcements (Mads Kristensen)
• AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will. (Jay Parikh)
• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | Build Edition (Nick Brady)
• Build agents you can trust across any framework with open evals and a control standard (Sarah Bird)
• Microsoft Scout: From personal project to enterprise-ready personal agent (Command Line Team)
• Announcing Intelligent Terminal 0.1 (Hamza Usmani)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Building the next generation of devices for developers: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box (Andrew Hill)
• Build 2026: Furthering Windows as the trusted platform for development (Pavan Davuluri)

Web and Cloud Development

• Introducing Open-Source Skills for AWS SDK Best Practices (David Yaffe)
• Expanding on‑device AI in Microsoft Edge: New models and APIs for the web (Patrick Brosset)
• Introducing the Azure Functions serverless agents runtime (preview) (Anthony Chu)
• What’s new in Observability at Build 2026 (Priyanka Nanda)
• Azure Functions at Build 2026 Update (nzthiago)

Windows Development

• WPF Hot Reload Is Here: Edit Your XAML and Watch It Update Live in Rider (Sasha Ivanova)
• Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm (Raymond Chen)
• New Windows Features to Secure Today’s Data in a Post-Quantum World (Aabha Thipsay)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v3.1.0 (Alvin Ashcraft)* - Added support for Microsoft.UI.Reactor projects and a community contribution from Joan Magnet*
• Windows platform security for AI agents (Dana Huang & Logan Iyer)
• Made for developers and agents, Windows 365 at Build 2026 (Bhavya Chopra)
• XAML.io Compiles To Native Apps In Browser (Kay Ewbank)
• Keeping the Computer Awake (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Staging Part 1 – Sharing is Caring (Howard Kapustein)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Pointers in C# and Memory Safety: Span vs. C# 16 unsafe (NDepend Team)
• Write Logic Apps in C#: introducing the Logic Apps Standard SDK (W. Silveira)
• Pagination in EF Core, Continued: Sortable Grids, htmx, and the Indexing Cost (Chris Woodruff)

AI

• The agent always cost this much (Mark Downie)
• Introducing Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent (Omar Shahine)
• Announcing Microsoft Web IQ (Bing Team)
• How to Deploy a Vibe Coded Project (Amanda Lange)
• Build, deploy, and govern sovereign AI with Foundry Local on Azure Local (insagiv)
• Breaking Change: The .On() Method in the Latest Copilot SDK (Bart Wullems)
• Deploying Foundry Hosted Agents via REST API (J. Folberth)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot on mobile: What staged rollout plans can miss (Julie Hersum)
• The AI Model Starter Kit - Code Samples and The LangChain Azure OpenAI Starter Kit - Code Samples and The Azure OpenAI Starter Kit - Code Samples (Microsoft Learn)
• Introducing azure-functions-skills: An AI-Era Workspace for Azure Functions (Preview) (Tsuyoshi Ushio)
• Build smarter document workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding at Build 2026 (Peyton Fraser, Joe Filcik & Ronak Chokshi)
• Running an AI-native engineering org and A harness for every task: dynamic workflows in Claude Code (Claude Team)
• Microsoft image model trails OpenAI and Google in RuntimeWire UI tests (Ryan Merket)
• Official Aspire skills and plugins for AI coding agents to initialize, wire, orchestrate, monitor, and deploy distributed apps. (Aspire Team)
• An OpenClaw agent hosted in the cloud for development, testing and single tenant use cases | GitHub (Microsoft)
• Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released (Lauren Feiner)
• GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience (Natalie Guevara)
• The agent optimization loop and how we built it in Foundry (Vivek Bhaduria, Luis Quintanilla & Saket Sathe)
• A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry and New MAI models in Microsoft Foundry across text, image, voice, and speech (Naomi Moneypenny)
• Frontier Tuning: Teaching AI to work the way you do (Ranveer Chandra)
• Five ways we’re confusing AI capability and AI reality—and how to bridge the gap (Command Line Team)
• Microsoft's new MAI models (Simon Willison)
• Grounding at scale: Engineering the retrieval system for the agentic web (Knut Risvik)
• Turn specs into evals for any agent with ASSERT (Mehrnoosh Sameki, Sandeep Atluri, Minsoo Thigpen & Abby Palia)
• Introducing Agent Control Specification: Portable runtime governance for AI Agents (Mohamed Elmergawi, Mohammad Abouomar, Liam Crumm & Mehrnoosh Sameki)
• AI models are having their iPhone moment. What’s Next? (Om Malik)
• Build and run agents at scale with Microsoft Foundry at Build 2026 (Tina Schuchman)
• Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval (Pablo Castro)
• Unlocking a New Way to Build Enterprise Data Apps with Microsoft Fabric (Replit Team)
• Slammed by Copilot Usage-Based Billing on Day 1, Facing $180 Bill for June (David Ramel)
• AI versus a Grue (Raymond Camden)
• Learning Agent now generally available — personalized AI upskilling for every employee (Dan Zarzar)
• What’s New in Hosted Agents in Foundry Agent Service (Tina Manghnani & Pranav Pandit)
• Holo3.1: Fast & Local Computer Use Agents (Hugging Face)
• Codex for every role, tool, and workflow (OpenAI Team)
• Composing a new platform for agent-first devices (Steven Bathiche)
• Top Agentic Frameworks for Building Applications 2026 (Evgenia Verbina)

Python

• Python Projects for Raspberry Pi: the book you’ve been waiting for to level up your skills (Brian Jepson)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• The Abstraction Budget: Why Every Interface, Generic, and Pattern in Your Codebase Has a Price You Have Not Paid Yet (Chris Woodruff)
• Getting Started with SignFabric: From Clone to Your First Signature Envelope (Bjoern Meyer)
• Azure DevOps and GitHub: Journeying into the AI Era (Rajesh Ramamurthy)
• GitHub Action for Deploying Hosted Agents (J. Folberth)
• Modular Monolith Boundaries Done Wrong (Derek Comartin)
• New ways to learn and demonstrate skills (Cameron Percy)

Mobile and Game Development

• Prioritizing Memory Efficiency: Essential Steps for Android 17 (Alice Yuan, Ajesh Pai & Fung Lam)
• Building Premium Android Experiences at Google I/O ‘26 (Ataul Munim)
• 5 Heart Animations Using .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Available for XBOX Insiders: Personalize Your Experience with New Color Options, Controller on Screen Settings and More (Jon)

Screencasts and Videos

• What's new in Windows Subsystem for Linux | DEM346 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Craig Loewen & Pooja Trivedi)
• Introducing 7 new Microsoft AI models (Microsoft)
• Developer Experience on Windows: Microsoft Build 2026 (Kayla Cinnamon)
• So you want to become an MVP? | DEM375 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Betsy Weber, Fernanda Herger, Jeremy Sinclair, Stephen Simon & Christine Flora)
• Building Agents You Can Trust on Windows | BRK262 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Kirupa Chinnathambi, Stuart Schaefer & Patrick Nikoletich)
• The Terminal Live - Day 1 at Microsoft Build (Visual Studio Team)
• .NET 11 in depth: Runtime, libraries, and SDK for the AI era (Richard Lander & Chet Husk)
• Scott & Mark Learn To...Double-Check References (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• AI Building Blocks for .NET: Add intelligence to your C# Apps | Microsoft Build 2026 (Bruno Capuano)
• Project Lobster: Building an AI Assistant with Agency and Memory (Omar Shahine & Jacob Werner)
• Building for the agentic web with .NET 11 | Microsoft Build 2026 (Daniel Roth)
• Taking your AI to the edge with .NET MAUI | Microsoft Build 2026 (Gerald Versluis)
• Work IQ: The Intelligence Layer Behind Copilot & Agents (Rob Howard, Tolga Kilicli, Paolo Pialorsi & Tomomi Imura)
• Your Fine-Tuned Model Is Your IP: Open Model Strategy for Developers (Yina Arenas & Lin Qiao)
• How to ship from issue to merge with the GitHub Copilot app | demo (GitHub Team)
• Microsoft Foundry Labs - the home for AI experiments from Microsoft (Microsoft Azure Team)
• Partner Momentum with Microsoft Foundry on Windows and Aion 1.0 Instruct and Windows Developer Configurations and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box and Intelligent Terminal and WSL containers and Coreutils for Windows (Windows Developer Team)
• OpenClaw + Windows: Microsoft Build 2026 (Samantha Song, Scott Hanselman & Peter Steinberger)
• 5 Ways We're Confusing AI Capability and AI Reality with Microsoft CTO (Kevin Scott)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• RunAs Radio Show #1039 - Data API Builder and SQL MCP with Jerry Nixon (Richard Campbell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1027 - The Paris of the South Bay - Will WWDC 2026 Be Apple's AI Do-Over? (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko & Jason Snell)
• DAWbench Radio Show Episode #43 - Music Tech Pioneers VIII : Manfred Rürup : Steinberg : The Early Years ! (Vin Curigliano & Pete Brown)
• The Azure Security Podcast Episode #128 - Post Quantum Cryptography (Mark Simos, Jack Richins & Michael Howard)

Community and Events

• Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work (Kyle Daigle)
• Introducing Command Line, and the new rules for builders (Jay Parikh)
• Microsoft Build 2026: Securing code, agents, and models across the development lifecycle (Aleš Holeček)
• Mary Jo Foley: No Copilot ‘Super App’ at Microsoft Build, but plenty of agentic fodder (Todd Bishop)
• Code.org rebrands as CodeAI, solidifying its shift to AI education (Kurt Schlosser)
• Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: Day 1 as a New Mom and Remote Tech Worker (Stephanie Stimac)
• Announcing the 2026 Imagine Cup World Champion (Microsoft Student Developer Team)
• Launching the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (Funding Team)

Database

• Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit Is Now Generally Available — Bringing Your Database to AI Agents at Scale (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
• MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Azure SQL Database Provisioning and More (Yo-Lei Chen, Carlos Robles & Tauseef Siddique)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• What's new in Microsoft Teams | May 2026 - Build Edition (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
• Announcing the new Work IQ APIs (Charles Lamanna)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.59 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• Toolbox App 3.5: Better Remote Development Observability, More Reliable Enterprise Configuration, and Smoother Everyday Interactions (Lana Novikova)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.11 Release (Ben Hillis)

General

• Grep, now in Rust (uutils)
• Trump goes after green cards (Gaby Del Valle)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 2, 2026 (#796) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

.NET MAUI Cookbook (Alexander Russkov) - Referral Link Build a full-featured app swiftly with MVVM, CRUD, AI, authentication, real-time updates, and more.

• Aspire 13.4 is here (Maddy Montaquila)
• Robert Says Farewell | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Leslie Richardson)
• The Evolution of Syncfusion Agentic UI Builder with Agent Skills (Balaji Elumalai)
• Building a GitHub Copilot Agent Usage Dashboard (jometzg)
• Microsoft to unveil new AI models and Windows improvements at Build (Tom Warren)
• GitHub Copilot Credit Based Usage Is Live - Now What? (Mitchel Sellers)

Web and Cloud Development

• Configure resource lifetimes in Aspire (Aspire Team)
• Prepare for SOAP API deprecation by moving to REST (garittar)
• Azure Developer Associate Renewal – Study Guide – 2026 (Pete Gallagher)
• Aspire 13.4.0 Release (aspire-repo-bot[bot])
• gRPC-Rust Client API Evolution (pt. 2/2) (Doug Fawley)
• Bringing Goodnotes to the web with Swift and WebAssembly (Yuta Saito)
• From Flutter to Backend: How to Build and Ship Production REST APIs with Dart and Shelf (Oluwaseyi Fatunmole)
• Your Identity, Your Terms: Duende's Modular Identity Infrastructure and v8.x Release (Tyler Parramore)
• Node.js 26.3.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
• A Structure-Aware Fuzzing Experiment (Nick Fitzgerald)
• Astro Markdown Component Utility for Any Framework (Zell Liew)
• State of CSS - The annual developer survey about the latest trends in CSS (Devographics Team)
• What's New in Microsoft Entra: June 2026 (Martin Coetzer)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.8.0 Release (moonbox3)
• AdaBoost.R2 Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Wolverine and Marten Just Got Better for F# Folks (Jeremy D. Miller)
• PagedResults in EF Core: One class, endless reuse (David Grace)
• Introducing ReflectionIT.PropertyThrowGenerator - Add compile‑time validated properties to your C# classes with zero boilerplate (Fons Sonnemans)
• Enterprise Integration Patterns in .NET, the deep-dive series — Part 1: the four in-memory channels (and the Exchange they carry) and Why our Free was so far behind Pro — and what we just shipped in RedBase 3.0.0 (with the actual SQL) (Kozin Rinat)
• Shiny.DocumentDb v6 — Vectors, Filters, Composite Indexes & Real Pooling (Allan Ritchie)
• AWS SDK for .NET V3 end-of-support announcement (Muhammad Othman)

AI

• Building and Operating a Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agent with GitOps and GitHub Tasks (Lee Stott)
• Claude Code on Microsoft Foundry in VS Code — A Practical Setup Guide (with the gotchas) (L. Zhang)
• AI observability vs monitoring: What's the difference? (Jesse Sumrak)
• How to host an AI text embeddings model for SQL Server using Ollama (Greg Low)
• AI-Assisted Workload Balancing: Resource Planning for On-Time Project Delivery [Webinar Show Notes] (Anantha Lakshmi Kannan)
• How small businesses can leverage AI (Peter Hall)
• Get started with OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 models, and Codex on Amazon Bedrock (Channy Yun)
• Codex is becoming a productivity tool for everyone and Our views on AI policy and political advocacy (OpenAI Team)
• One prompt, four (sub)agents, and ninety seconds to get a working app (Richard Seroter)
• Enhancing AI Productivity: The Importance of Curation (Mirco Hering)
• Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo (Jay Peters)
• How to Build an AI Support Agent That Knows When NOT to Answer Tickets (Tech With RJ)
• AI Sovereignty and the Architecture of Participation (Tim O’Reilly)
• How we used Gemini to build Google I/O 2026 (Marvin Chow)
• Claude Code vs. Cursor vs. Codex vs. Antigravity — six months in (Janakiram MSV)
• Why AI Agents Need Their Own Permission Model (Cameron Pavey)
• Coding Agent Horror Stories: The rm -rf ~/ Incident (Jennifer Kohl)
• Introducing Mellum2: A 12B Mixture-of-Experts Model by JetBrains (Nikita Pavlichenko)
• Event Moment: Dona Sarkar on Why Coding Agents Are Leading the AI Era (Kieron Allen)
• Mellum2 Goes Open Source: A Fast Model for AI Workflows (Anton Semenkin)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.12 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Telerik and Kendo Meet WebMCP: Turning Your Telerik & Kendo UI Apps into Agent-Ready Workspaces (Nencho Nenchev)
• Beyond LLMs: Why Scalable Enterprise AI Adoption Depends on Agent Logic (Nicholas Fuller)
• The oral tradition that built software may not survive AI (Zeb Larson)
• Building for Voice In, Visuals Out (Allen Pike)
• Beyond AI Adoption (Julie Yack)
• Anthropic files to go public (Kirsten Korosec)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Better Deployment Errors in az webapp deploy (Tulika C.)
• Why Choose Pulumi Over Terraform? (Pablo Seibelt)
• Rock Your Career: Surviving The Technical Interview – 6th Edition (David McCarter)
• SaaS Is Not Dead Yet (Mike Loukides)
• Event Sourcing: the not-so-simple bi-temporal basics (Urs Enzler)
• Build a profiling harness before you benchmark (Daniel Marbach)
• What is Sandbox Security? (Srini Sekaran)
• Jenkins: Nested layout for pipeline graph view (Jakob Ackermann)

Mobile and Game Development

• Announcing the General Availability of the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift (Vera Xia)
• StreamCrate: portable media server (David Crookes)

Screencasts and Videos

• Generating Episode Transcripts with Azure Functions, Azurite, and Aspire | The Dev Talk Show (Chris Gomez & Rich Ross)
• The AI Token Shortage Begins (AIDailyBrief)
• Microsoft AI Update May 2026 | John Savill's Technical Training (John Savill)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1190 - Does Yoda speak ‘real’ English? Is it ‘a real trouper’ or ‘a real trooper’? (Mignon Fogarty)
• Only Malware in the Building Episode #24 - Trusting the wrong package (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #482 - Mr. Beast's episode (Michael Kennedy)
• Tools and Weapons Podcast - AI's Mythos Moment: Rishi Sunak on preparing governments for AI (Brad Smith)
• Cloud Security Podcast by Google Episode #280 - Hyperscaling Cloud Security (Timothy Peacock)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1009 - 54% AI-Generated and Climbing — State of AI (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Meta Cast - Why Great Leaders Get Comfortable Being Wrong (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Inside Trader Joe's Podcast Episode #106 - Trader Joe's Finds the Goat - in Wisconsin (Trader Joe's Team)
• Merge Conflict Episode #517 - Plan First, Think Less: Save Tokens, Improve Code (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• InfoQ Podcast: Requirements Analysis for Architects (Sonya Natanzon)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - What it takes to be a player in the international AI game​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​​‍​​​​​‌‍​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌​‌​‌‌​‍‌‌‍‌‍​​‍‌‍​​​‌​‍‌​‌​​‌‍‌‍‌​​‍‌​‍‌​‍​​‌‌​​​‌​​‍‌​‌​​​​‍​​​​‍‌​​​‌‍‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‍​‍​​‍‌​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​​‍​​​​​‌‍​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌​‌​‌‌​‍‌‌‍‌‍​​‍‌‍​​​‌​‍‌​‌​​‌‍‌‍‌​​‍‌​‍‌​‍​​‌‌​​​‌​​‍‌​‌​​​​‍​​​​‍‌​​​‌‍‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‍​‍​​‍‌​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌ (Phoebe Sajor)
• Big Technology Podcast - Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, iPhone Fold Cometh, Anthropic Files To Go Public (Alex Kantrowitz)
• The Presentation Podcast Episode #247 – PowerPoint is Amanda Dalton’s Swiss Army Design Tool – and CreativePro Week 2026! (Troy Chollar, Sandy Johnson & Nolan Haims)
• When Agile Labels Hide Waterfall Reality — A Scrum Master's Wake-Up Call in SAP Migration | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Maria Skvortsova)

Community and Events

• Tune into XBOX Games Showcase June 7 (Athima Chansanchai)
• Don’t miss out: Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards nominations are now open! (Jill Armour)
• Upcoming: W3C/GS1 Workshop on E-commerce for Humans and AI Agents (W3C)
• We Asked 20 Developers Why They Really Got Into Tech. It Wasn’t the Money. (Anastasija Uspenski)
• Maker Faire Long Island #9: Saturday, June 6th (Jennifer Blakeslee)
• Keep the News in the Wayback Machine (Chris Freeland)
• All systems glow (Apple Developer Team)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Challenge accepted: controlling Teams from my Stream Deck again (Magnus Mårtensson)
• Agents 365 & Microsoft 365 Copilot Hub Redesign: April 2026 M365 Champions Community call (Tiffany Lee)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.57 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• AWS Tools for PowerShell V4 end-of- support announcement (Muhammad Othman)
• Introducing multipart download support for AWS Tools for PowerShell v5 (Sanket Tangade)

Tools

• Stop Pasting Tokens: OAuth2 Login for JetBrains IDE Plugins (Jakub Chrzanowski)
• DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms (Sarah Perez)
• How Logo Images on QR Codes Work (Joseph Finney)

General

• Want to be a Linux pro like me? Master these 8 skills first (Jack Wallen)
• The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was “modern” (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – June 1, 2026 (#795) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.8 on AWS, Aurora MySQL with Kiro Powers, and more (June 1, 2026) (Micah Walter)
• Reading Notes #700 (Frank Boucher)
• Windows news you can use: May 2026 (Chris Morrissey)
• Fragments: June 2 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

Blazor Web Development Cookbook (Pawel Bazyluk) - Referral Link Tested recipes for advanced single-page application scenarios in .NET 9.

• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | May 2026 (Nick Brady)
• Introducing a powerful new chapter for Windows PCs, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX Spark (Pavan Davuluri)
• Announcing the TechBash CLI: The AI-Powered Companion for Your Terminal (TechBash Team)
• AI Observability Starter Kit for Microsoft Foundry agents (varghesejoji)
• Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for world makers (Brett Ostrum)
• The Claude on Foundry Starter Kit (Arun Sekhar & Pamela Fox)
• Inside the Microsoft Agent Framework: How we designed a layered SDK (Shawn Henry)
• Microsoft.UI.Reactor (Reactor) - A declarative UI framework for building native Windows desktop apps in pure C#. No XAML. No data binding. No view models. (Windows Dev Team)* - Repo here and Rust library here.*

Web and Cloud Development

• How To Fix Common TypeScript Issues With Qodana (Efim Samoylov)
• What’s new in Svelte: June 2026 (Dani Sandoval)
• Lost ASP.NET Cookies on IIS Application Pool Restarts (Rick Strahl)
• What's new in Astro - May 2026 (Sarah Rainsberger)
• ASP.NET Core Web API in .NET: The Complete Guide (Nick Cosentino)
• Azure AI Projects client library for JavaScript v2.2.0 release (npm)
• Malicious npm packages abuse dependency confusion to profile developer environments (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
• ESLint v10.4.1 released (Francesco Trotta)
• gRPC-Rust Preview Release and gRPC-Rust Client API Evolution (pt. 1/2) (Doug Fawley)
• What is and How to Create an Application Pool in IIS (Advanced Installer Team)
• Integration Testing ASP.NET Core APIs: WebApplicationFactory Patterns and Best Practices (Sudhir Mangla)
• Markdown Should be Supported Everywhere Natively (Sean Boult)
• Vue Spreadsheet Issues After Deployment: Causes, Fixes, and a Production Checklist (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
• Ember 7.0 Released (Jared Galanis, Chris Manson & Katie Gengler)

Windows Development

• Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 3 (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 29 May 2026 (Stephen Lines)
• Windows Package Manager (WinGet) v1.29.240 Release (florelis)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Type-safe tool definitions come to the Copilot .NET SDK (Bart Wullems)
• Pagination in Entity Framework Core: Why Skip/Take Falls Apart on Hot Tables (Chris Woodruff)
• Building a RAG Administration Tool with .NET, Elasticsearch and OpenAI (Jamie Maguire)
• Union Types Are Finally Coming to C# (Milan Jovanović)
• When to Use Chain of Responsibility Pattern in C#: Decision Guide with Examples (Nick Cosentino)
• Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI_2.1.0-beta.3 and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents_2.1.0-beta.3 and Azure.AI.Projects_2.1.0-beta.3 (Azure .NET SDK Team)

AI

• Welcome NVIDIA Cosmos 3: The First Open Omni-model for Physical AI Reasoning and Action (Asawaree & Atharva Joshi)
• Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI (Camille Fournier)
• Disposable agents, durable memory: The architecture behind Squad (Brady Gaster & Tamir Dresher)
• Building a hands-free voice concierge with Microsoft Foundry Voice Live and a Hosted Agent (Lee Stott)
• GitHub Copilot Agent for Unit Tests: My Real-World Spargine Experiment (David McCarter)
• Are AI Agents Conscious? (Rocky Lhotka)
• Agents That Build Agents: A SKILL-first Blueprint with MS Agent Framework & Foundry (Kinfey Lo)
• How to Use Build5Nines.SharpVector with Microsoft Agent Framework for Local RAG in C# (Chris Pietschmann)
• Prevent GitHub Copilot from going to sleep (Joseph Guadagno)
• How we contain Claude across products (Simon Willison)
• OpenClaw v2026.5.28 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• VS Code 1.122 Makes BYOK Easier (Bruno Capuano)
• Build agents, not pipelines (Sean Goedecke)
• ‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs (Lucas Ropek)
• Why GPT-5.4, Claude, and Gemini can’t agree on basic, real-world facts (Adrian Bridgwater)
• Apple Working To Cram Massive Gemini Model Into iPhone To Power New Siri (BeauHD)
• What’s new in Azure Language in Foundry Tools (renaliu)
• Opus 4.8 Made Claude Smarter. Token Discipline Got Urgent. (Matthew Burns)
• Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry (Amar Badal)
• Teaching a Computer to Play 4X: How the Annhexation AI Works (James D. Randall)
• How to Get the Most Out of Claude Opus 4.8 (Mahesh Chand)
• Anthropic, AI and The “Numbers” Problem (Om Malik)
• We've been building up a catalog of skills that @aspiredotdev team uses to drive up the quality on changes made by agents (we're all using them). (David Fowler)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.10 Release (github-actions[bot])
• A shared playbook for trustworthy third party evaluations (OpenAI Team)
• What Is the Best Local LLM for Coding in 2026? (Anubhav)
• The oral tradition that built software may not survive AI (Zeb Larson)
• Access the Vonage Tooling MCP Server on Google Antigravity (Amanda Cavallaro)
• Building a cooking assistant with Firebase AI Logic (Marina Coelho)
• OpenJarvis: a local-first personal AI is now available to run with Ollama (Ollama Team)
• Agentics Beyond Code (Chris Butler)
• SkillSpector - Security scanner for AI agent skills. Detect vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, and security risks before installing agent skills. (NVIDIA)
• AI Might Finally Have A Real Use By Extending Your EV's Battery Life (Alan Bradley)
• How global logistics got me over my fear of personal agents (Matt Webb)
• The AI SDLC — Why Everything Has to Change, and Yet Stay the Same (Alon Fliess)
• The Future AI Moat isn’t the AI Model you use (Marlon Grech)

Python

• Running Python ASGI apps in the browser via Pyodide + a service worker (Simon Willison)
• Azure.AI.Projects 2.2.0 Release (PyPI)
• How data scientists work with PostgreSQL from Python (and how to write queries that don’t break at scale) (Uzma Younas)
• Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler (Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Sayak Paul, Sergio Paniego, Rémi Ouazan Reboul & Pedro Cuenca)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Applying Agile Principles to Home Renovation Projects - Anyone Done This? (Randy Siciliano)
• Introducing Microsoft’s EngThrive framework: Understanding developer productivity in the agentic AI era (Tim Bozarth & David Liu)
• TeamCity 2026.1.1 Is Now Available (Dmitrii Korovin)
• From Developer to Architect, the Career Path Nobody Explained (John Kilmister)
• From Silos to Service Topology: Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Service Map (Parth Jain, Rakesh Sukumar, Yingwu Zhao, Renzo Sanchez & Nathan Fisher)
• High-Throughput Graph Abstraction at Netflix: Part I (Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik Sathyanarayanan & Rajiv Shringi)

Mobile and Game Development

• Asus just announced the OLED Xbox Ally X of my dreams (Sean Hollister)
• Unreal Engine 6 revealed! and Why games cost so much to make (Code Monkey)
• Cordova iOS 8.1.0 is now available! (Niklas Merz)
• Canonical takes over Flutter desktop maintenance (Joey Sneddon)
• PIX 2605.28-preview: previewing new PIX and D3D12 features (Austin Kinross)
• JetBrains Simplifies Kotlin Multiplatform Project Structure (ProMobile.Dev)

Screencasts and Videos

• How to use Visual Studio Profiler and GitHub Copilot (Daniel Hindrikes)
• The Next Steps to Becoming a Space-Faring Civilization - NDC Sydney 2026 (Richard Campbell)
• Getting Started with the Microsoft Agent Pre-Purchase Plan | The Azure Essentials Show (Thomas Mauer & Kyle Ikeda)
• Technology & Friends - Sailaja Mantripragada on AI Governance (David Giard)
• Random.Code() - Cleaning Up Type Usage In Rocks (Jason Bock)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 315 - “The IoT Sommelier” (100 wasy to save humanity with IoT) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Microsoft Zero to Hero - Use AI to build AI (without losing your mind) (Maddy Montaquila)
• The Download: Microsoft Build 2026, Copilot remote control, Deno 2.8, Bun & more (GitHub)
• The Annual AI Slowdown Panic Is Here and First Impressions of the New Opus 4.8 (AIDailyBrief)
• Spec-Driven Development: The Fast Track to 10x? - NDC Sydney 2026 (Jerry Nixon)
• Introducing Work IQ in the IQ Series (Rob Howard)

Dometrain Course

Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview: Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews. (Nick Cosentino, Ryan Murphy) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast - Judging beautiful docs, AI fatigue, and tool slop (Tom Johnson)
• Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #131 - Fluent UI Blazor in the Microsoft Ecosystem: Open Source, Aspire and Beyond - with Vincent Baaij (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
• J. Tower: A.I. Workflows - AI DevOps Podcast Episode #404 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• I Think You're Overthinking It Podcast - Nathan Fillion (Chris Hardwick)
• Lenny's Podcast - A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #550 - AI Contributions and Maintainer Load in Open Source (Michael Kennedy)
• BONUS How AI Is Reshaping Software Teams From the Inside | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Dwarak Rajagopal)
• Big Technology Podcast - Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #149 - Ferrari Luce Launches To Everyone’s Disgust (Batteries Included Team)
• Hard Fork Podcast - Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving? (Ross Douthat & Sophia Alvarez Boyd)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #297 - Improving Python Through PEPs and Protocols (Christopher Bailey & Brett Cannon)
• The “Painting by Numbers” Scrum Master vs. The Quiet Leader Who Made the Team Self-Sufficient | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Njegos Ilic)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #517 - Navigating AI and Your Career - All Things AI 2026 (Taylor Desseyn)
• A Geek Leader Podcast Episode #471 - Mike Krupit (John Rouda)
• Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #274 - Eat your security vegetables (Will Button & Warren Parad)

Community and Events

• Four open source projects to explore at Microsoft Build (Lee Reilly)
• Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026 (Shawn Henry)
• Wix Is the Latest To Cut 20% of Jobs While Citing AI (BeauHD)
• Call For Papers Listings for 5/29 and Job listings for week ending 5/29 (Leon Adato)
• Detroit’s rising developers are supported by the Apple Developer Academy (Apple Developers Team)
• MySQL Community Creates OurSQL Foundation (Kay Ewbank)
• Microsoft Build is this week. Here's what I'm watching and why. (Dee Dee Walsh)
• Joining the atmosphere (Rachel Andrew)
• Open Source Ecosystems (Ilan Strauss)

Database

• Instantly deploy T-SQL programmability changes on save in SQL Projects with SQL Project Power Tools (Erik EJ)
• 5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop (epivaral)
• Running MongoDB in Docker - A Complete Guide with Examples (Nic Raboy)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Introducing a new design for Microsoft 365 Copilot (Jon Friedman)
• What’s new and coming next to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams (Vesa Nopanen)
• How Excel got agentic: An interview with Microsoft Director of Science Mukul Singh (Command Line Team)
• Introducing Microsoft 365 Business with Copilot: The new standard for small business (Nicole Herskowitz)
• What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | May 2026 (Seth Patton)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.56 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• What Is A Story Goal? The Secret To A Strong Plot and 30 Writing Prompts For June 2026 and 45 Ways To Avoid Using The Word ‘Very’ and What Is Tone? 155 Words To Describe An Author’s Tone (Writers Write)

Tools

• The paint.net domain has been secured (Rick Brewster)
• Elevating the Developer Experience: My Top 10 VS Code Extensions (Dave Johnson)
• What Does It Actually Take for an IDE to Understand Rust? (Irina Mihajlovic)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.10 Release (dkbennett)
• MacClean: About The open-source Mac cleaner, optimizer, and malware scanner. (Iliya Mirzaei)

General

• New Desalination System Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water and Useful Salts - Including Lithium and Ozempic May Be Reshaping the Brain, Scientists Say (EditorDavid)
• Microsoft confirms it’s not launching Windows 12, as it teases a big announcement (Abhijith M B)
• Things I Think I Think… The New Internet Era (Ted Neward)
• awesome-gpui: A hybrid immediate and retained mode, GPU accelerated, UI framework for Rust, designed to support a wide variety of applications. (Zed Team)
• Microsoft is killing every ancient Windows 11 dialog box with a modern rewrite, and file copy is already done (Mayank Parmar)
• Microsoft’s incident response is getting a failing grade from researchers (Dissent)
• ReMarkable Paper Pure vs. Boox Go 10.3: I used both tablets at work, and it comes down to this (Kyle Kucharski)
• Microsoft is killing the one-app-at-a-time camera limit in Windows 11 with new Multi-App mode (Mayank Parmar)
• Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia’s new N1X laptop processors (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft teases new Surface hardware and ‘a new era of PC’ (Tom Warren)
• Windows quality update: May (Marcus Ash)
• The Kennedy Center Was Part of DC Life. Trump Destroyed It. (Stephanie Mencimer)
• The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It (Tyler McBrien, Michael Feinberg & Benjamin Wittes)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest: Improving C# memory safety (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Android Weekly Issue #729 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #565 - 31st May 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #22, 2026 – Fable 5.1 & Mibo.Raylib 1.0 (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – May 29, 2026 (#794) (Richard Seroter)
• Interesting links - May 2026 (Robin Moffatt)
• Reading List 359 (Bruce Lawson)
• The Batch: Gemini Flash Gets Pricey, AI Act Delays, Agents Drive Online Traffic (DeepLearning.AI)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #752 (Next App's swiftCon Team)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps (Rezwanur Rahman) - Referral Link Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot).

• Claude Opus 4.8 available via Microsoft Foundry (Vesa Nopanen)
• Automate evaluations | Microsoft Foundry (Zachary Cavanell)
• That’s a wrap: Everything Flutter at Google I/O 2026 (Emma Twersky)
• Create Multi-platform Apps with .NET MAUI and the MAUI Community Toolkit (David Ramel & Alvin Ashcraft)
• Improve your agentic developer tools by grounding in Microsoft Learn (Pieter de Bruin)
• Partial Graphics Programs (Nada Ouf)

Web and Cloud Development

• Astro 6.4 (Erika)
• Typosquatted npm packages used to steal cloud and CI/CD secrets (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
• Live text search with Firestore pipelines and React (Jeff Huleatt)
• The Agent Toolkit For AWS (Nikos Vaggalis)
• What’s new in Postman: AsyncAPI 3.0, performance streaming, and service accounts (Quinton Wall)
• Introducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applications (Channy Yun)
• How Azure Chaos Studio ships with hermetic Aspire end-to-end tests (Brent Rusinow)
• Azure Inventory in a Hurry: How to Pull Your Full Estate Across Subscriptions Fast (Shannon Kuehn)
• Who's Calling Your Service? Designing for Humans and Agents at the Same Time (dbandaru)
• How to add icons to external links with CSS (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Time to move to Entra Cloud Sync (Michael Niehaus)
• Generating a Pulumi Provider from an OpenAPI Spec (Luke Ward)

Windows Development

• Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
• Uno Platform Pitches WPF Modernization for the AI Agent Era (David Ramel)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Deprecating dotMemory Unit (Alexander Kurakin)
• EF Core 10–Smarter parameterized collections (Bart Wullems)
• C# Nullable Types Explained (2026) (NDepend Team)
• How to Convert XML to JSON in C# With Json.NET and Couchbase (Matthew Groves)
• Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.6.2 release notes and Visual Studio Insiders Version 11822.327 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
• CLI Improvements in the Critter Stack and AI Stuff (Jeremy D. Miller)

AI

• Squad on CommandLine and v.0.9.6 insiders (Brady Gaster)
• Model Router (with Claude Opus 4.7) and MAI-Image-2e in Microsoft Foundry (Vesa Nopanen)
• Claude as your performance analysis partner (Archana Ravindar)
• United States AI adoption shows steady growth, but distribution remains uneven (Brad Smith)
• New and improved: Computer-using agents, a new workflows experience, and real-time voice experiences (Nitasha Chopra)
• GitHub Copilot AI Credits switch: Here's what to do before June 1 (Bart Wullems)
• Your AI Agent Already Forgot Half of What You Told It (Andrew Stellman)
• Embodied cognition and agentic AI (Daniel Lemire)
• A Developer's Guide to WebMCP: Shipping a 0% Adoption Standard (Chudi Nnorukam)
• What Is a Token in AI? An Explainer (Hannah Laurel)
• Claude Opus 4.8: “a modest but tangible improvement” (Simon Willison)
• Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry (Amar Badal)
• Introducing dynamic workflows in Claude Code (Claude Team)
• Introducing Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic Team)
• Enterprise AI’s Hidden Problem Is Organizational Amnesia (Pinal Dave)
• In an AI world, the most valuable developers will be both artisans and builders (Phoebe Sajor)
• Claude Opus 4.8 on GitLab: Complex agentic work, less disruption (Talia Armato-Helle)
• Slack AI: The Path to Multi-Cloud (Shaurya Kethireddy)
• Claw-style AI agents are coming to the enterprise. The governance infrastructure is still catching up. (Darryl K. Taft)
• OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework (OpenAI Team)
• Can AI support creativity? What educators can learn from creative machine learning (Manni Cheung)
• Debugging the undebuggable: building observability into probabilistic AI systems (Oladimeji Sowole)
• The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season (Caiwei Chen)
• The bubble is getting a lot bubblier, folks (Ryan Broderick)
• Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool (Russell Brandom)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.7.0 Release (moonbox3)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Learn Figma for UI/UX Design (Beau Carnes)
• The Gentlemen ransomware: Dissecting a self-propagating Go encryptor (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team)
• Continuous Threat Monitoring for Application Security (Michelle Pruitt)
• Design Principles Unpacked, No. 5: Contrast (Teon Beijl)
• How to use Jest mocks (Dan Lew)

Mobile and Game Development

• Announcing AgilitySDK 721 Preview and an addition to LinAlg in Shader Model 6.10 (Amar Patel)
• Vonage: React Native SDK 2.33.0 Release: Publisher Degradation Preference (Julia Biro)
• These new iOS 27 renders hint at Siri’s big redesign (Stevie Bonifield)

Screencasts and Videos

• Technology & Friends - Cory House on Generative AI Coding Tools and Processes (David Giard)
• Random.Code() - Fixing ref struct Bugs in Rocks, Part 3 and Part 4 (Jason Bock)
• Why was open-sourcing TypeScript so important? | One Dev Question (Amanda Silver)
• Give your Agent memory with SQL Server and Microsoft Agent Framework | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Chris Noring)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: LINQ in .NET: Learn everything about LINQ in .NET, from the basics to advanced techniques. This course covers efficient data querying, filtering, ordering and optimizing operations for high-performance applications (Hannes Lowette) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• The Modern .NET Show - Aspirifying the Enterprise: Building Modern Apps with Aspire with Joydip Kanjilal (Jamie Taylor)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #574 - Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• AI Agent and Copilot Podcast: OpenClaw-Powered Healthcare Assistant Builds Patient Agency (Tom Smith)
• Best of Build Mode: Cofounders, Conflict and Compatibility (Maggie Nye)
• Why Measuring Your Product Bets Is the Key to Product Owner Success | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Njegos Ilic)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast - The find out stage of AI is just supply chain and password protection​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌​‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍​‌​‍​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍​​​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌​‌​‌‍​‌​‍‌‌‍​‌‌‍​​​​​‌​‍‌​‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌​​‍​​​‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌​‍‌​​‌‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍​‌​‍​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍​​​​‍‌​‌​‌‍​‌​‌​‌‍​‌​‍‌‌‍​‌‌‍​​​​​‌​‍‌​‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌​​‍​​​‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍‌‍‌‌ (Phoebe Sajor)

Community and Events

• W3C initiates leadership transition (W3C)
• F# Foundation 2026 Board of Trustees Election (Reed Copsey)
• Xbox CEO Asha Sharma warns tough decisions are ahead, raising questions about Helix, Xbox Game Studios, and exclusives (Jez Corden)
• SQL + AI, hands-on: Join a free workshop near you (Anna Hoffman)

Database

• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Filtered Indexes (Erik Darling)
• Data Formulator 0.7: AI-powered data analytics for enterprise data (Chenglong Wang, Scott Tsukamaki, Michel Galley & Jianfeng Gao)
• The Upcoming Sunset of DataSpell (Stanislav Garkusha)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – May 2026 (Vesa Juvonen)
• Available today: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Bas Brekelmans)
• Introducing federated Copilot connectors for LSEG and Moody's in Excel (TamarTz)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.55 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Tools

• ‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription (Joseph Cox)

General

• Blue Origin explosion is a major setback for NASA’s Moon plans and Amazon’s Starlink competitor (Thomas Ricker)
• Microsoft admits modern Windows 11 apps actually resize worse than the old ones, fix coming this summer (Abhijith M B)
• Still a developer. Just outside. Our latest GitHub Shop collection is here. (Natalie Guevara)
• Announcing Rust 1.96.0 (The Rust Release Team)
• What’s next for Microsoft’s Surface PCs? (Tom Warren)
• Acer Announces New Snapdragon Laptops, Intel-Powered Gaming Handheld (Paul Thurrott)
• Thou Shalt Not Build Bunkers While Americans Go Broke (God)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 28, 2026 (#793) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) - Referral Link A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.

• How AI coding agents actually use your technology (Waldek Mastykarz)
• AI-Powered Content Summarization and File Organization in Blazor File Manager (Keerthana Rajendran)
• GitHub Copilot: Your AI Companion for Every Workflow | GitHub Copilot Dev Days (Matt Soucoup)
• .NET Rocks! - Ten Things Scott Sauber Does On Every .NET App (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows 365 for Agents: run AI agents in Cloud PCs across real applications (Julie Hersum)
• Master VS Code's New Agents Window (James Montemagno)

Web and Cloud Development

• Telerik and Kendo UI 2026 Q2 Release Is Here: Context‑Aware AI Where You Build (Iva Borisova)
• SAML and OpenID Connect (OIDC): Coexistence, Not Competition (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Building a Custom MCP Server with Node.js (Dean Hume)
• Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing (Preethi)

Windows Development

• Deployment Operations, Requests and Queue (Howard Kapustein)
• Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 1 (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2026 (18.1 – 18.6) (Augustin Popa)
• Microsoft Extends Rust-Influenced Memory-Safety Push to C# (David Ramel)

AI

• Extending Human Intelligence Through AI (Ken Archer & Harald Wiltsche)
• Building Agentic Systems on Azure: Microsoft Foundry Agents SDK vs Microsoft Agent Framework (Chaitanya Thalloory)
• Control what your agentic workflows see with integrity filtering (Landon Cox, Peli de Halleux, Rodrigo Fonseca, Vic Li, Pedro Henrique Penna & Don Syme)
• Who Produced This AI Slop? (Michael Washington)
• Querying Reliable AI Resources with Telerik Agent Tools API (Peter Vogel)
• OpenClaw v2026.5.27 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Get a Good Return on Your AI Investments (Louise Corrigan)
• A Practical Guide to Evaluating Multi-Turn Agent Trajectories (Karl Weinmeister)
• How to Build AI Apps in the Browser with TensorFlow.js and WebGPU (Ayantunji Timilehin)
• The Blind Spot in AI Safety (Jennifer Kinne)
• Why your AI agent has amnesia and why forgetting is the fix (Yitzhak Kesselman)
• Agents on a leash: Agentic AI remains mostly single-agent and monitored at work (Erin Yepis)
• Trisha Gee: AI Won’t Fix Your Broken Pipeline – It Will Break It Faster (Ivan Pelivanovic)
• The LLM layer you’re probably missing (LLM gateway pattern explained) (Animesh Goyal)
• I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit (Simon Willison)
• Building self-improving tax agents with Codex (OpenAI Team)
• Strengthening our approach to tackling non-consensual intimate imagery (Jenny Lay-Flurrie)
• Reachy Mini goes fully local (Amir Mahla & Andres Marafioti)
• Agent Skills (Addy Osmani)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.9 Release (github-actions[bot])
• The VibeSec Reckoning (Martin Fowler)

Python

• How to Use Bash & Python for Real DevOps Automation – Full Handbook with 5 Production Use Cases (Osomudeya Zudonu)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Agile, YAGNI, Smaller Steps, Bikes and Automobiles… (Tim Ottinger)
• Stop guessing: the performance loop for production code (Daniel Marbach)
• Stop Joining Tables In Your “Modular” Monolith (Derek Comartin)
• Accessibility question: is nesting interactive elements bad? (Chris Heilmann)

Mobile and Game Development

• Raspberry Pi Official Magazine presents: Flapulator, the 3D printed calculator (Andrew Gregory)

Screencasts and Videos

• Less // TODO: more done with GitHub Copilot CLI | GitHub Copilot Dev Days (Julia Muiruri)
• Build with the Copilot CLI - Mona Mayhem | GitHub Copilot Dev Days (Ayan Gupta & Matt Soucoup)
• Boost Productivity with Copilot in Visual Studio | GitHub Copilot Dev Days (Wendy Breidling)
• What's New in VS Code: Remote, Permissions & BYOK | GitHub Copilot Dev Days (Justin Chen & Vritant Bhardwaj)
• Budget Bytes is about building apps for under $25, what’s the biggest myth about doing that? | One Dev Question (Shireesh Thota)
• Agent 365 | Security Operations in Defender | Microsoft Mechanics (Spencer Berg)
• Get More Done: Manage AI Agents Across Workspaces in One Place (Stacey Haffner)
• Step away from your desk with Copilot remote sessions | GitHub (Burke Holland)
• What the Pope Actually Said About AI (AIDailyBrief)
• Debugger Agent - Issue to Resolution | Visual Studio (Mark Downie)
• Random.Code() - Fixing ref struct Bugs in Rocks, Part 2 (Jason Bock)

Dometrain Course

Deep Dive: Domain-Driven Design: Explore advanced Domain-Driven Design concepts like event storming, context mapping, and aggregate design. This course helps you master complex systems architecture for scalable applications. (Amichai Mantinband) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Tools and Weapons Podcast - Special Edition: Tracking AI diffusion in Q1 2026 (Brad Smith & Juan Lavista Ferres)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #358 - Rebooting Enterprise AI with MCP and Kubernetes (Craig McLuckie, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1189 - Everyone has a story to tell, and why your memoir matters, with Grant Faulkner (Mignon Fogarty)
• Windows Weekly Episode #985 - Putting the Mental in Experimental - Some Linux Learnings for the Windows User (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #722 - Dwayne McDaniel on the Engineering Challenges of Secrets Management (Priyanka Raghavan)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #355 - The Cloud Pod's AI Pleads Not Guilty, Blames Philip K. Dick (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
• How a Miro Board Experiment Changed the Way His Team Understood the Big Picture | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Njegos Ilic)
• The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #210 - 5 Quality Gates That Let You Ship 250% Faster with AI Coding Agents (Ryan Cormack)
• Big Technology Podcast - Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo (Alex Kantrowitz)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google - Kubernetes 1.36, with Ryota Sawada (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #1008 - Diffs, Trees, and VS Code 2.0 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)

Community and Events

• Meet Our Newest AWS Heroes – May 2026 (Taylor Jacobsen)
• A Coder Interview With Howard Dierking — A Decade Later (Howard Dierking)
• Dive deeper into I/O 2026 with NotebookLM | The Keyword (Google)

Database

• I’m Starting a New Cosmos DB App. What Security Do I Actually Need? (Sudhanshu Khera & Iria Osara)
• SSMS Copilot is Messing With Your AI Prompts. (Brent Ozar)
• The Quiet Death of Foreign Keys (Erik Darling)
• Introducing PostgreSQL Hub for Azure Developers (Shreya Aithal)

PowerShell and Terminal

• v7.7.0-preview.2 Release of PowerShell (jshigetomi)

Tools

• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.9 Release (Ben Hillis)

General

• What actually happens to your CPU when Windows 11’s Low Latency Profile is working (Abhijith M B)
• Websites Have a New Way To Spy On Visitors: Analyzing Their SSD Activity (BeauHD)
• Ballots Have Been Seized Across the US. No One Knows What Will Happen Next (Kim Zetter)
• 4 Start menu changes are coming to Windows 11, and they will shape how you use your PC (Mauro Huculak)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 27, 2026 (#792) (Richard Seroter)
• Fragments: May 27 (Martin Fowler)

The Geek Shelf

C# 14 and .NET 10 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Build modern websites and services with ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and EF Core using Visual Studio 2026.

• Give Your .NET MAUI Android Apps a Material 3 Makeover (Gerald Versluis)
• WinUI agents and skills for Windows app development (Windows Dev Team)
• Visual Studio May Update – Plan, Review, Refine (Mark Downie)
• Write Cleaner WinForms Code with Copilot and the WinForms Expert Agent | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Klaus Loeffelmann)
• From DevUI to Observability: Evolving the Agent Dev Loop in Microsoft Agent Framework (Ed Charbeneau)
• The Impact of Automated Repository Maintenance Assistance (Don Syme)
• Doing More with GitHub Copilot as a .NET Developer (Wendy Breiding)

Web and Cloud Development

• Measuring Performance in FrontEnd using FPS (Latish Sehgal)
• Running ASP.NET Core Applications in an IIS Subfolder Application (Rick Strahl)
• WordPress 7.0 Has Arrived: Here’s Everything You Need to Know (WordPress Team)
• Webwright - A simple SWE style browser agent framework that achieves SOTA results on long horizon web tasks (Microsoft)
• Proposed Advancement of Pointer Events Level 3 to W3C Recommendation and Updated Candidate Recommendation: Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 3 (W3C)
• Postman Playwright Integration: Testing UI and API Together (Talia Kohan)

Windows Development

• Compile C#+XAML to a Native Windows, macOS, or Linux App, From Your Browser (XAML.io Team)
• If C# and JavaScript lets me await a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation more than once, why not C++/WinRT? (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Anatomy of an Open-Source AI Coding Agent Built in .NET: CodeAlta (NDepend Team)
• From poisoned search results to GPU mining: A cryptojacking campaign abusing ScreenConnect and Microsoft .NET utilities (Microsoft Defender Experts & Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
• Visual Studio May Update Adds Plan Agent Diff Review Tools and Improving Performance in .NET Applications (David Ramel)

AI

• Hybrid AI Agents in Python: Routing Between Foundry Local and Microsoft Foundry (Lee Stott)
• Creating a VS Code agent hook to respond to file changes (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Microsoft confirms Ask Copilot is coming to the Windows 11 taskbar in mid-2026 (Abhijith M B)
• I’m a Professional Fact-Checker. AI Is Wrong More Often Than You Think (Meghan Herbst)
• Set clear AI expectations for every assignment with Student AI Guidelines (Leif Brenne)
• Build AI RAG Apps with Azure DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and OpenAI: Step-by-Step Guide (John Aziz)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.8 Release (github-actions[bot])
• AI Agent Governance Toolkit — Policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution sandboxing, and reliability engineering for autonomous AI agents. Covers 10/10 OWASP Agentic Top 10 (Microsoft)
• How to Connect Your AI Coding Agent to a Browser on macOS (אחיה כהן)
• Managed MCP in Autonomous AI Database: remote, governed tools per database (Mark Nelson)
• How we contain Claude across products (Anthropic Team)
• The Gap Is Widening and It’s Not Slowing Down (Adron Hall)
• Rethinking organizational design in the age of agentic AI (MIT Technology Review Insights)
• Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files (Simon Willison)
• How AI Agents Can Work with TeamCity (Sergei Ugdyzhekov)
• Who Authorized That? The Delegation Problem in Multi-Agent AI (Sunil Prakash)
• Koog 1.0 Is Out: Stable Core, Better Interop, and Multiplatform Observability (Alyona Chernyaeva)
• The Copy and the Guru (Om Malik)
• Bringing LLMs to the edge (Lucy Hattersley)
• Stop Tuning Prompts. Build a Harness. (Engin Diri)
• Building For The Robots (Charlie Kindel)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How we built integration testing for fast-moving AI backend (Avik Kundu)
• Find shadow tenants and reduce risk fast with Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance (Cindy Crane)
• The Quiet Licensing Drift Nobody Notices Until it Matters (Shannon Kuehn)

Mobile and Game Development

• Share Functionality in Your .NET MAUI Apps (Leomaris Reyes)
• Top AI on Android updates for building intelligent experiences from Google I/O ‘26 (Jingyu Shi)
• Theme System and View-ViewModel-Mixin: Building a Scalable Flutter UI Layer (Veli Bacık)
• Enhancing Android Checkout with Dynamic Callbacks in Google Pay (Dominik Mengelt & Nik Heath)
• Get ready with the latest beta releases (Apple Developer Team)

Screencasts and Videos

• Extending AI Agents with WebAssembly | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro & Yosh Wuyts)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Paige Bailey (Isaac Levin)
• Building a DevTalkShow CLI because everyone has a CLI now, right? | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
• Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance | Find Configuration Drift | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeff Staiman)
• .NET MAUI 11 Preview 4: CoreCLR, Badges, and C# in XAML (Gerald Versluis)
• Building fun and creative messaging experiences on WhatsApp | NDC Sydney 2026 (Michelle “MishManners” Duke)
• Beating the AI Doom Cycle (AIDailyBrief)

Dometrain Course

Deep Dive: Microservices Architecture: Gain an in-depth understanding of microservices architecture, covering service discovery, communication patterns, event-driven design, and scaling. (James Eastham) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• RunAs Radio Show #1038 - Team Productivity using Loop with Karinne Bessette (Richard Campbell)
• Developer Tea Podcast - Rebuilding Your Mental Models In the Midst Of an AI Tech Revolution (Jonathan Cutrell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1026 - Double-Wide Mode - How Apple May Lean Into AI Features for Its OS's (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• Why the Product Trio Breaks the Hand-Off Mentality That Kills Team Engagement | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Njegos Ilic)
• Meta Cast - Lean Into the Ambiguity Before the Ambiguity Leans Into You (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)

Community and Events

• Meta cuts nearly 1,400 jobs in Seattle area, 20% of local workforce, in sweeping AI revamp (Lisa Stiffler)
• From Showing Up to Lifting Others: Diego Domingos da Silva's MVP Journey (Betsy Weber)
• AI Skills Fest is just days away—here's what to expect (RegularITguy)
• The morale of tech workers is plunging as layoffs mount (Noam Scheiber)

Database

• Your Database Just Hit One Terabyte: Now What? (Brent Ozar)
• SELECT * FROM build2026_sessions WHERE postgres = true; (Pooja Y.)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• What's New in Excel (May 2026) (Ms. Excel)

PowerShell and Terminal

• PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script (gbargsley)

Writing

• Technical Writing in the AI Age (Geoff Graham)
• Worldbuilding: The Ultimate Setting Checklist For Writers and About To Start (Writers Write)
• WordPress: Introducing Write: a new way to post, built for writers (Allison Levine)
• Confront Weasel Words (Emily Munro)

Tools

• DuckDuckGo Usage Surges Since Google I/O 26 (Paul Thurrott)
• Nvidia has retired its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years (Tom Warren)
• MarkItDown Version 0.1.6 Release (afourney)

General

• Windows' Classic 3D Space Cadet Pinball Is Getting a Physical Re-Creation (BeauHD)
• Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country (Neel Dhanesha)
• 7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people’s personal data (Zack Whittaker)
• Ticket to Ride - All Aboard Collection Game Bundle (Humble Bundle)* - Referral Link*

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 26, 2026 (#791) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Programming APIs with C# and .NET (Jesse Liberty & Joseph Dluzen) - Referral Link Develop high-performance APIs that ensure seamless application communication and enhanced security.

• VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #22 - Agent-First Development Workflows in VS Code with Brigit Murtaugh (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)
• Building an On-Device Voice Assistant with Microsoft Foundry Local (Lee Stott)
• Building Fluent Icon Finder with the WinUI Copilot Skill (Joseph Finney)
• Cortex Episode #179 - The Philosophy of Obsidian, with CEO Steph Ango (Myke Hurley)
• EF Core Bulk Insert: The Complete Guide to Inserting Thousands of Rows Without the Wait (Chris Woodruff)
• Compile C#+XAML to a Native Windows, macOS, or Linux App, From Your Browser (XAML.io team)

Web and Cloud Development

• What's new in Aspire 13.3 - aspire init is no longer one-size-fits-all. The aspireify skill and your coding agent tailor the AppHost to your repo. (Erik Lieben)
• Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements (Durgesh Rajubhai Pawar)
• PDF Conversion Library for .NET: Easily Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, Images & XPS (Rangarajan Ashokan)
• The 9 Components of SAML You Need to Know, Ranked by Importance (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Wasp 0.23: Static prerendering for crawlers and better performance (Carlos Precioso)

Windows Development

• A hypothetical redesign of System.Diagnostics.Process to avoid confusion over properties that are valid only when you are the one who called Start (Raymond Chen)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Cake v6.2.0 released (Mattias Karlsson)
• Designing high-throughput APIs for 1M requests/minute .NET (Ali Hamza Ansari)

AI

• Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI (Mia Sato)
• Claude AI for .NET Developers Just Changed the Game (Sumith Madhushan)
• Harness, Scaffold, and the AI Agent Terms Worth Getting Right (Sergio Paniego & Aritra Roy Gosthipaty)
• Americans’ AI hate wave might just be gathering steam: Data centers could hike power costs in some states over 50% by 2030 (Tristan Bove)
• Building a .NET 10 Benchmark Harness and Single-Shot Lies and The Config That Changed Everything and 23 Models, One Weekend, Final Picks and Which Local Models Can Actually Code? (Eric Hexter)
• Computer-using agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio are now generally available (Mustapha Lazrek)

Python

• Python for .NET devs: data types, classes, objects, records and interfaces (Davide Bellone)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code (Natalie Guevara)
• Automatic superseded task cleanup (Frank Lin)
• Event Sourcing: Why we built our own “library” (Urs Enzler)

Mobile and Game Development

• Qwen3.5 in .NET MAUI Hangs Forever And How OllamaSharp Fixes It in One Line (Pieter Nijs)
• Your first look at Unreal Engine 6 comes courtesy of a much shinier looking Rocket League teaser (Oisin Kuhnke)

Screencasts and Videos

• Why Agents Still Need Humans (AIDailyBrief)
• Get To Know MCP Tunnels (Den Delimarsky)
• How to use Git and GitHub in VS Code | Tutorial for beginners (GitHub Team)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: GraphQL in .NET: Learn GraphQL in .NET with this comprehensive course. Covering key concepts like query patterns, mutations and subscriptions, this course equips you to build efficient APIs with C#. (Michael Staib) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• SQL Down Under Show #96 with guest Jerry Nixon (Greg Low)
• The Amp Hour #724 – All Heat, No Useful Work (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #549 - Great Docs and Python Bytes Podcast Episode #481 - Ways to die (Michael Kennedy)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #279 - Native Cloud Security: Is ‘Good Enough’ Actually Winning? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• Syntax Podcast #1007 - 8 Tech Choices to Lock In Before Agentmaxxing (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1188 - How ‘bee’s knees’ became high praise, and why do recipes sound so bossy? (Mignon Fogarty)
• Why Saying Yes to Every Stakeholder Request Is the Fastest Way to Fail as a Product Owner | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Njegos Ilic)
• Ryan Riley: Development Process using AI - AI DevOps Podcast Episode #403 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Merge Conflict Episode #516 - Evolving Agent Session Management (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• InfoQ Podcast: Chasing Efficient Java Development: From 1BRC to Developing Hardwood AI Natively (Gunnar Morling)

Community and Events

• New tune for Code.org’s Hadi Partovi: CEO of piano education venture with unique method and big ambitions (Todd Bishop)
• Will Big Tech Layoffs Bring a Culture Shift to Anxiety and Job Insecurity? (EditorDavid)
• It’s time to address the looming crisis in entry-level work. (Georgios Petropoulos)
• Let’s Take A Look Inside Adobe’s Complete Career Ladder (Marko Crnjanski)

Database

• Using ExecutionLog views in SQL Server Reporting Services to monitor performance (Bart Wullems)
• How soon is now in PostgreSQL? (Oskar Dudycz)
• How to automate vector embeddings with pgai Vectorizer in PostgreSQL (Mercy Bassey)
• Higher Performance Dynamic Consistency Boundary Development with Marten 9.0 (Jeremy D. Miller)

Tools

• Paint.NET 5.2 Alpha (build 9641) (Rick Brewster)
• Wireshark 4.6.6 Release Notes (Wireshark Team)

General

• Ferrari reveals its first EV, with design help from Jony Ive (Adi Robertson)
• PowerSchool’s $17.25 Million Settlement Exposes Years of Student Data Tracking (Dissent)
• Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)

More Link Collections

• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Local Zones in Istanbul, open-source ExtendDB, Kiro Web, and more (May 25, 2026) (Daniel Abib)
• Reading Notes #699 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Tools and Skills for .NET 10 (Mark J. Price) - Referral Link Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions.

• Automatically getting API difference diagrams in your .NET PRs (Morten Nielsen)
• Automating Intakes to the Awesome Copilot Marketplace (Aaron Powell)
• Introducing Syncfusion Toolkit for Blazor: Free Open-Source Blazor Components (Saravanan G.)
• Learn how to host your agents on Microsoft Foundry (Pamela Fox)
• TechBash CLI - A GitHub Copilot CLI skill that connects your local project to the TechBash 2026 session catalog (TechBash Team)
• How to Use Dart Cloud Functions and the Firebase Admin SDK: A Handbook for Developers (Atuoha Anthony)
• The 2026-07-28 MCP Specification Release Candidate (David Soria Parra & Den Delimarsky)

Web and Cloud Development

• Powering multi-cluster workloads with seamless cross‑cluster networking for Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager (Deepak Bansal & Brendan Burns)
• Annotations in JavaScript PDF Viewer: Common Issues and How to Fix Them (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
• What's new in Aspire 13.3 - Aspire's dashboard keeps a record: notification center and markdown messages (Erik Lieben)
• Mastering Dynamic Components, HTTP Resources, and AI Writing Assistants ️ (Angular Team)
• Theseus: translating win32 to wasm (Evan Martin)
• A Slight Nuance With WordPress Alt Text (Geoff Graham)
• The State of CSS Centering in 2026 (Temani Afif)
• How to Scale Long-Running API Requests (Milan Jovanović)
• Azure Service Bus: Earn the redesign (Daniel Marbach)
• Turn Your Blog Posts Into Podcast Episodes (Miguel Torres)
• Introducing pulumi do: Direct Resource Operations for Any Cloud (Christian Nunciato)
• Blazorise 2.1.3 - DatePicker Range Improvements (Mladen Macanović)
• Introducing auto-complete suggestions in Jetpack Search (Robert Felty)
• Deno 2.8 (Bartek Iwańczuk)

Windows Development

• Announcing new Insider builds for 22 May 2026 (Stephen Lines & Windows Insider Program Team)

.NET and Visual Studio

• EF Core without migrations - it's only a matter of time (David Grace)
• The Support Length for .NET LTS and STS versions (Thomas Claudius Huber)
• Marten 9.0, Polecat 4.0, and Wolverine 6.0 are Live! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• C#: Should This Service Be Singleton, Scoped, or Transient? and In C#, When Should You Use Exceptions, Result Objects, or Validation Errors? (Chris Pietschmann)
• From Closed Internal Stack to Open-Source Ecosystem: I Finally Shipped Three Years of .NET Infrastructure (Rinat Kozin)
• Rider 2026.2 EAP 3: Cost-effective Agentic Test Coverage, Code Change Previews, GameDev Templates, and NuGet Improvements (Sasha Ivanova)
• Announcing NAudio 3 Preview (Mark Heath)

AI

• ReAct and Agents in AI (Jesse Liberty)
• Build a Local Coding Agent Loop with GitHub (dngoins)
• MCP servers vs. skills: Choosing the right context for your AI (Cedric Clyburn)
• What Happens When You Give AI Agents the Map of Your Code’s Coverage? (Sasha Ivanova)
• Apple Preparing New ‘Gen AI’ Website Ahead of WWDC - and New AI Features? (EditorDavid)
• Locking Down AI Tooling: Securing Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini Before Someone Pastes in Something They Shouldn’t (Shannon Kuehn)
• Agentic AI for Software Development: Build a Coding Assistant That Plans, Writes, Reviews, and Tests Code (Sudhir Mangla)
• Dispatches from O'Reilly: The accidental orchestrator (Andrew Stellman)
• OpenClaw v2026.5.22 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Facing The Rising Costs of AI (JF Martin)
• The RAG Workbench I Actually Needed (Jamie Maguire)
• This Week in AI: Rethinking the Agent Harness (Michelle Smith)
• AI, Disposable Apps, and the Sunday Evenings We Are Losing (Pinal Dave)
• When systems go down, devs still juggle 10 tabs. PagerDuty says MCP fixes that (Ivan Pelivanovic)
• Monitoring & Observability in Microsoft Foundry (Kalaivanan)
• Foundry IQ as a Shared Knowledge Brain for Multiple AI Agents (vmanasa)
• Towards Speed-of-Light Text Generation with Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models (Mehran Maghoumi, Yonggan Fu, Pavlo Molchanov & Khadkevich)
• Why AI-driven workflows are important (and how to implement them) (Joydip Kanjilal)
• On AI (Karl Seguin)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.7 Release (github-actions[bot])
• Steve Wozniak Tells Graduates They All Have ‘AI’: Actual Intelligence (BeauHD)
• Has the Anthropic Settlement Changed Everything? (Michael Capobianco)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Unit Tests: Keep Your CRAP Score from Wrecking the Show (David McCarter)

Mobile and Game Development

• New Steam Tags show what's hot and what do Xbox players want? (Code Monkey)
• .NET MAUI changes its engine: what it means for your mobile app (Sebastián Cabrera)

Screencasts and Videos

• From Pair to Peer Programmer - NDC Security 2026 (Aaron Powell)
• AI’s New Acceleration Phase (AIDailyBrief)
• Pwned with Purpose: Where Motives Meet Mayhem - NDC Sydney 2026 (Troy Hunt)
• Technology & Friends - Harald Fianbakken on Microsoft Sovereign Cloud (David Giard)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 314 - “Forward Deployed Nonsense” (The New AI Consultant) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Random.Code() - Optimizing No-Parameter Member Handling in Rocks and Random.Code() - Fixing ref struct Bugs in Rocks, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
• What inspired you to be part of Budget Bytes? | One Dev Question (Amar Digamber Patil)
• One Team’s Journey to Using AI Without the Hype - NDC Sydney 2026 (John Bristowe)
• Inside SRE Agent — What's New, Live Demos & Q&A (Shamir Abdul Aziz, Sanchit Mehta, Vishesh Agarwal & Dalibor Kovacevic)
• Dynamically Render a 3D Character in UI Toolkit | Inventory & Equipment Pt5 (Stacey Haffner)
• Get Started with Web Development Workshop 2026 | Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• How to Automatically Generate SDKs and CLIs with Postman (Postman Team)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: From Microservices to Modular Monoliths: Learn how to move from microservices to modular monoliths, simplifying deployment and reducing complexity. This course teaches strategies for planning and migrating modular monolith architectures (Steve Smith) - Referral Link

Podcasts

• Lenny's Podcast - The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Developer Tea Podcast - Practice Isn't Enough for Senior Engineers - Adaptation Is a Key Skill in an AI-First Industry (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Big Technology Podcast - Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI (Alex Kantrowitz)
• AI Unprompted Episode #025 - Google I/O 2026 (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Hard Fork Podcast - Sundar Pichai Understands Why People Are Anxious About A.I. (Kevin Roose, Casey Newton & Whitney Jones)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #296 - Managing Polars Schema Issues & Profiling GitHub Users (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• The Jazz Duo Effect and The Absent PO — Two Sides of Agile Product Ownership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Christian Thordal)
• A Geek Leader Episode #470 - Karina Mangu-Ward (John Rouda)

Community and Events

• Call For Papers Listings for 5/22 and Job listings for week ending 5/22 (Leon Adato)
• US Layoffs Haven't Increased, and New Tech Industry Hiring Balances Firings (EditorDavid)
• Back from the dead (Eric Hexter)
• Experience Microsoft Build, directly from your terminal, with GitHub Copilot CLI and the Microsoft Build CLI. (Microsoft)

Database

• The Book of Redgate: Profits (Steve Jones)
• Regex support for LOB types in T-SQL—available in Azure SQL & SQL Server 2025 (Abhiman Tiwari)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.54 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Always know where you stand: Setting up a live status line in GitHub Copilot CLI (Bart Wullems)

Writing

• Why Keeping A Diary Matters and 5 Secret Tricks To Strengthen Your Writing and 20 Fun Ways To Find Plot Ideas For Your Story (Writers Write)

Tools

• Microsoft’s PowerToys is getting a low memory mode that kills idle utilities hogging Windows 11 RAM (Abhijith M B)
• Finally, a Great Free Radio App for Windows (Justin Pot)

General

• The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics (Simon Willison)
• Is America Closer to Ending Daylight Saving Time? (EditorDavid)
• Meta quietly launches a new Reddit-like app called Forum (Aisha Malik)
• Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, unclear whether it will notify those affected (Dissent)
• Microsoft’s new Copilot turns into a Windows 11 sidebar that pushes your apps aside to make room (Mayank Parmar)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest #609 - Streaming data without loading everything into memory (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Android Weekly Issue #728 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #564 - 24th May 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• The Batch: Hermes vs. OpenClaw, Cybersecurity Alarms Ring, More-Interactive Conversations, Can Agents Do Human Work? (DeepLearning.AI)
• F# Weekly #21, 2026 – Scriptorium, Elmish Land 2.0 Preview & RProvider 3.0 (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – May 22, 2026 (#790) (Richard Seroter)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #751 (Dave Verwer, Greg Fawson, Sriyank Siddhartha & Zachary Powell)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Is Designing (Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle) - Referral Link Words and the User Experience.