Top Links
- OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 in Microsoft Foundry: Frontier intelligence on an enterprise ready platform (Naomi Moneypenny)
- We’re moving to Experimental and Beta! Announcing new builds for 24 April 2026 (Stephen Lines & Windows Insider Program Team)
- Visual Studio Code 1.118 (Visual Studio Code Team)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.3.0 Release (westey-m)
- ReSharper Made VS Code a Real Option for My .NET Work (Chris Woodruff)
- Your Windows update experience just got updated (Aria Hanson)
Web and Cloud Development
- Data API Builder – Get a visual config UI (Bart Wullems)
- Wasm is not quite a stack machine (Alisa Sireneva)
- Formula‑Heavy Sheets Freezing the Browser? Fix It with Manual Calculation Mode (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
- ASP.NET: How to Structure a Growing Application So It Stays Maintainable (Chris Pietschmann)
- Search-Driven Applications in .NET with Azure AI Search, Cosmos DB, and Vector Embeddings (Sudhir Mangla)
- Fresh 2.3: Zero JS by default, View Transitions, and Temporal support (Bartek Iwańczuk)
- Aspire 13.2.4 Release (github-actions[bot])
- Blazorise 2.1.1 – Stability Update and Package Maintenance (Mladen Macanović)
- WordPress.com Changelog: Try the WordPress 7.0 Beta and a One-Click Solution for Plugin Errors (WordPress.com Staff)
- With API Knowledge Comes Great Power (Kin Lane)
- Susurrus: Crafting a Cozy Watercolor World with Three.js and Shaders (Xianyao Wei)
- Why PDF Text Search Fails in JavaScript Viewers and How to Fix It (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
- Cloud migrations: how to decide what to move first (Pat Wright)
Windows Development
- Defending against exceptions in a scope_exit RAII type (Raymond Chen)
.NET and Visual Studio
- The best way to create email templates in .NET (David Grace)
- ConfigurationIgnoreAttribute in .NET 11 (Steven Giesel)
- Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Avoid Out Parameters in Methods and Collection Performance: Finding Items at Blazing Speed (David McCarter)
- C# Regex: Complete Guide to Regular Expressions in .NET (Nick Cosentino)
AI
- Beyond the next token: Why diffusion LLMs are changing the game (Alon Kellner & Tomer Garber)
- The disappearing AI middle class (Janakiram MSV)
- GitHub Copilot SDK v0.3.0 Release (GitHub Copilot SDK Team)
- DeepSeek-V4: a million-token context that agents can actually use (Ben Burtenshaw)
- Query and Edit Your Story: Introducing the New Chat Feature in AIStoryBuilders (Michael Washington)
- An AI hater’s guide to keeping LLMs as far from your workflow as possible in 2026 (Thomas Wilde)
- Microsoft’s New In‑House AI Models (MAI‑Transcribe, MAI‑Voice, MAI‑Image) (Kumar Rahul)
- The debugging wars: Cursor 3 takes aim at Claude Code’s agentic edge (Jessica Wachtel)
- Deeper into RAG and The R in RAG (Jesse Liberty)
- Microsoft Agent Framework- Workflow lifetime (Bart Wullems)
- Is AI Cannibalizing Human Intelligence? A Neuroscientist’s Way to Stop It and Google Studies Prompt Injection Attacks Against AI Agents Browsing the Web (EditorDavid)
- How can you stay competitive and relevant in an AI-Driven World? (Surya Narayana)
- OpenClaw v2026.4.24 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- GPT-5.5 prompting guide and The people do not yearn for automation (Simon Willison)
- Microsoft Foundry vs Traditional ML Pipelines: What’s Different and Why It Matters (Parvathy R. Pillai)
- How to Build a Self-Learning RAG System with Knowledge Reflection (Daniel Nwaneri)
- How to Build Your Own Language-Specific LLM [Full Handbook] (Wisamul Haque)
- AI Is Not Just a Utility. It Is Becoming Personal Computing All Over Again. (Chris Pietschmann)
- When AI becomes an accelerant, not an experiment and AI as a platform shift, not another experiment (Microsoft in Business Team)
- Chat History Storage Patterns in Microsoft Agent Framework (Wes Steyn)
- The Many Use Cases of AI Coding Agents (Dan Clarke)
- Qwen3.6-27B Brings Open-Weight Vision and Coding Power (aimodels44)
- What 4 engineers with 10+ years of experience say about staying relevant in the AI era (Marko Crnjanski)
- Vibing, Harness and OODA loop (Oskar Dudycz)
- Why Claude needs a real environment to validate cloud-native code (Arjun Iyer)
- Take Control of AI Code Quality in CI: Live Demo (Kerry Beetge)
- Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose? (Arun Sirpal)
- Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters (Caiwei Chen)
- Emergency Pedagogical Design: How Programming Instructors Are Scrambling to Adapt to GenAI (Sam Lau)
Python
- mssql-python 1.6: Unblocking Your Threads (David Levy)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.2.0 Release (moonbox3)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Kubernetes v1.36: User Namespaces in Kubernetes are finally GA (Rodrigo Campos Catelin & Giuseppe Scrivano)
- Axios npm Supply Chain Compromise – Guidance for Azure Pipelines Customers (Josef Sin)
- Rethinking Data Modeling: How GitHub Copilot Is Changing the Way We Design Systems (B. Manasa)
- How Static Code Analysis Helps Reduce Software Bugs, and Money Spent! (Kerry Beetge)
- Scaling Camera File Processing at Netflix (Eric Reinecke & Bhanu Srikanth)
Mobile and Game Development
- .NET MAUI & GitHub Actions Missing Targets Default Projects (Mitchel Sellers)
- The PROPER way to use AI in game dev is NOT like this, and the most anticipated game is finally announced! (Code Monkey)
- Protecting your Entra token on Snap Spectacles with a PIN code (Joost van Schaik)
- Review: Linogy Li-ion Rechargeable Batteries (Sam Freeman)
Screencasts and Videos
- Random.Code() – Changing Null Checks in C# With Analyzers and Code Fixes, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
- XAML Visual Designer for building .NET MAUI apps (Héctor Pérez)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 310 – “AI is One Hell of a Drug!” (I’m Rick James!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Pick up where you left off in Copilot CLI (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Sculpt, not Spec (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- Copilot CLI Remote Access in Cross-platform .NET apps with Uno Platform! (Sam Basu)
- Before You Upgrade: Use GitHub Copilot to Assess Your .NET Project | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- What I Learned Testing GPT 5 5 and Where the Economy Thrives After AI and How To Build a Personal Agentic Operating System (AIDailyBrief)
- SXSW Tip #2 – Use a Tuned Harness | One Dev Question (John Maeda)
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Podcasts
- Merge Conflict Episode #512 – Does Matter Really Matter? (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #142 – Mercedes C Class Electric Debuts with 400 Miles of Range (Batteries Included Team)
- Big Technology Podcast – Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade (Alex Kantrowitz)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #680 – Exploring with agents (Amelia Wattenberger & Adam Stacoviak)
- How to build a monolith the right way | Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #270 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #292 – Becoming a Better Python Developer Through Learning Rust (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
- Hard Fork Podcast – Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- The Curious Product Owner and the Disempowered One — How Scrum Masters Can Help POs Find Their Voice | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Viktor Glinka)
- A Geek Leader Episode #466 – Jim Vines (John Rouda)
- Women in Technology Podcast Episode #62 – Encore Careers: How Returnships Bring Experienced Talent Back (WiT Team)
Community and Events
- Tips for Attending a Conference (Mark Oliver)
- Pragmatic AI in .NET Show: AI-Powered Enterprise Software with Colin Whitlatch (Sam Basu) – Coming up on Thursday
- Call For Papers Listings for 4/24 and Job listings for week ending 4/24 (Leon Adato)
- The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things (Steve Jones)
- Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
Database
- Microsoft Just Made SSIS-to-Fabric Easier (Andy Leonard)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Copilot’s agentic capabilities in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are generally available (Sumit Chauhan)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.36 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- GitHub Copilot CLI For Beginners – The Course (Nikos Vaggalis)
Writing
- 12 Setting Secrets Every Storyteller Needs To Know (Writers Write)
Tools
- Announcing Files v4.0.41 (Files Team)
- NanaZip v6.0.1698.0 Release (Mouri Naruto)
- Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.8.4 Release (Ben Hillis)
General
- Open Source Developer Brings Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME (EditorDavid)
- Trump turns the WHCD shooting into a pitch for the White House ballroom (Tina Nguyen)
- Trump fires the entire National Science Board and Researchers say we’re talking less than ever (Terrence O’Brien)
- Maine Governor Vetoes Data Center Moratorium Bill (BeauHD)
- Microsoft will let you pause Windows Updates indefinitely, 35 days at a time (Stevie Bonifield)
- Pay what you want for a bundle of books and support the Raspberry Pi Foundation (Brian Jepson)
More Link Collections
- C# Digest #605 – How I accidentally made the fastest C# CSV parser (Jakub Chodounsky)
- Links For You (4/26/26) (Raymond Camden)
- Daily Reading List – April 24, 2026 (#770) (Richard Seroter)
- Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 19, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
- Azure Weekly #560 – 26th April 2026 (The Editor)
- Android Weekly Issue #724 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
- F# Weekly #17, 2026 – Fable 5.0 (Sergey Tihon)
- 500 Blog Posts To Learn About Ai (Learn Repo)
- The Batch: GLM 5.1 Thinks Strategically, Data-Center Revolt Intensifies, When Helpful LLMs Turn Unhelpful, Humanoid Robots Get to Work (DeepLearning.AI)
