Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Top Links

• Package Identity (Howard Kapustein)
• Build a Real-Time Weather Dashboard with .NET MAUI Tab View (Sneha Kumar)
• How to run evals for the model router (Sanjeev Jagtap, Lee Stott & Marie-Louise Onga Nana)
• S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, 1966-2026: Microsoft and Madrona leader was a champion of developers and startups (Todd Bishop)
• Android Studio I/O Edition: What’s new in Android Developer tools (Matthew Warner)
• Agentic-Agile: Why Agent Development Needs Agile (Not Just Prompts) (Daniel Epstein)
• TechBash 2026 Dev Conference – First sessions announced (TechBash Team)

Web and Cloud Development

• How to upload files in an ASP.NET Core Web API (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• How to Migrate from ASP.NET Framework to ASP.NET Core (Gopinath Karunanithi)
• Aspire v13.3.4 Release (aspire-repo-bot[bot])
• Who In The API Evangelist Network Has an MCP Server (Kin Lane)
• Build an Edit and Sign DOCX Workflow Using a JavaScript DOCX Editor (Rangarajan Ashokan)
• What’s new from Firebase at Google I/O 2026 (Seba Gnagnarella, Arthur Thompson & Kristen Richards)
• Rust Tooling Made My JavaScript Site 53x Faster (Agnel)
• XSS Is Deadly for Passkeys: The Hidden Risk of Attestation None (Scott Helme)
• Introducing WordPress Workspace for Mac (Artur Piszek)
• Token Issuer Isolation: Why It Matters for Security and Compliance (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• A Guide to Auth0 Authorization with Scopes, Roles, and Client Grants Explained (Andre Hochstein & Jan Singer)
• How to Build a REST API with Node.js and Express from Scratch (Abdullah Sheikh)

Windows Development

• What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? (Raymond Chen)
• Introducing Sample Profile Guided Optimization in MSVC (David Gillies)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Devs Weigh In on Visual Studio Database Tools (David Ramel)
• .NET finally gets union types🎉: Exploring the .NET 11 preview – Part 2 (Andrew Lock)

AI

• Get more out of your GitHub Copilot session history with /chronicle (Bart Wullems)
• Backlog Zero: How AI Can Clear You Development Backlog (J. Tower)
• Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything (Simon Willison)
• Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (Claude Team)
• Use Grok in OpenClaw (xAI Team)
• The Agentic Infrastructure Era (Joe Duffy)
• Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action (Noam Shazeer)
• Introducing Gemini Omni (Koray Kavukcuoglu)
• Context rot is slowing down your AI agent: How to fix it (David Omotayo)
• The Gemini app becomes more agentic, delivering proactive, 24/7 help (Josh Woodward)
• Introducing STATE-Bench: A benchmark for AI agent memory (Lewis Liu & Nishant Yadav)
• Signing in to Microsoft Foundry from OpenClaw using Azure AD: a smoother way to bring your models in (Suzaril Shah)
• Meet Gordon: Docker’s AI Agent For Your Entire Container Workflow (Deanna Sparks)
• How to Visualize Your Azure AI Workloads Usage for Observability (Junee Singh)
• Bringing the real world to your AI application using Firebase AI Logic (Ankita Saxena & Ken Nevarez)
• Build a Voice and SMS AI Agent with Twilio Agent Connect and Microsoft Azure (Paul Kamp)
• Maintainability sensors for coding agents (Martin Fowler)
• Introducing Managed Agents in the Gemini API (Philipp Schmid)
• Study and Learn Agent: your study coach, built for learning (anpadt)
• OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of models (Kyle Wiggers)
• Ten More Things You Can Do With Pulumi Neo (Adam Gordon Bell)
• Advancing content provenance for a safer, more transparent AI ecosystem (OpenAI Team)
• Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, or Azure AI Foundry: How We Decide for Every Client (Elliot Margot)
• Eliminate LLM Cold starts: Load models up to 6x Faster with Azure Blob Storage and Run:AI Model Streamer (Vishnu Charan TJ)
• What AI Tools, MCP Servers, and Skills Actually Do (Andrea Chiarelli)
• AI Artifact Catalogs: Durable Standards Worth Institutional Investment (Tadas Antanavicius)
• LLM Evaluation and AI Observability for Agent Monitoring (Evgenia Verbina)
• Pulumi bets infrastructure’s next decade belongs to AI agents (Frederic Lardinois)
• When an Agent Deletes the Production Database (Sam Newman)
• Google Tensor SDK Beta with LiteRT (Priya Patel & Himangshu Roy)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.5.0 Release (moonbox3)
• Debugging Python apps on App Service with the new SSH helper aliases (Jordan Selig)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• In 2026, engineering teams are quietly accepting more risk. Here’s why (Simple Talk Team)
• Protect Your Entities with Domain Validation (Assis Zang)

Mobile and Game Development

• What’s New in Wear OS 7 (John Zoeller)
• Packt App Development Mega eBook Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral link
• Android XR Updates for Unity, Unreal, and Godot (Luke Hopkins & Ryan Bartley)
• Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates with Apple Intelligence (Apple)
• Updates to the Android XR SDK: Introducing Developer Preview 4 (Stevan Silva & Amy Zeppenfeld)
• Introducing Android Performance Analyzer : The Next Evolution in Profiling for Android (Simon Cooke & Mayank Jain)
• Android UI Development is Compose First (Nick Butcher)

Screencasts and Videos

• 9 Codex Tips from the Codex Team (AIDailyBrief)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Debbie O’Brien (Isaac Levin)
• Scott & Mark Learn To…Have Taste (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
• STATE-Bench – Memory-agnostic Benchmark | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro, Lewis Liu, Pablo Castro & Nishant Yadav)
• Orchestrate a team of agents in Warp and Introducing multi-agent orchestration (Warp Team)
• How Copilot auto mode selects the best AI model | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths & Nhu Do)
• Adding subscribers to our Map project | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Forget IDEs: GitHub Copilot App is all you need! (Gerald Versluis)
• Random.Code() – Adding Throws Capability to Rocks (Jason Bock)
• Developer Keynote (Google I/O ’26) (Google Developers Team)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Vertical Slice Architecture: Learn how to structure your applications using Vertical Slice Architecture. This course covers core principles, implementing slices, CQRS, domain events, and securing APIs. (Kevin Dockx) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1025 – Below the Plimsoll Line – WWDC In a Few Weeks! (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• PPP 510 | The Word Great Leaders Keep Using (And Most Leaders Avoid), with Marcus Buckingham (Andy Kaufman)
• RunAs Radio Show #1037 – UEFI Secure Boot with Richard Hicks (Richard Campbell)
• React Native Radio Episode #353 – Building React Native Apps in the AI Era (Mazen Chami & Robin Heinze)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Your Questions Answered (United States Postal Service)
• Boagworld Podcast Episode #34 – AI Can Fix Your Broken Research Repository (Paul Boag)
• How “Fake Kanban” Fooled the Metrics, And What This Agile Coach Did to Fix It | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Christian Thordal)
• Grammar Girl Podcast – How many people is a ‘troop’? Why spelling bees are called ‘bees.’ (Mignon Fogarty)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Pack your agentic stack in Slack (Ryan Donovan)

Community and Events

• I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era (Sundar Pichai)
• Before Mass Layoffs, Meta Reassigns 7,000 Workers To Focus On AI (BeauHD)
• OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team (Rebecca Bellan & Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
• Turn up the volume for AI Skills Fest— no wristband required (jeanaj)
• Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs (Paresh Dave, Lauren Goode & Zoë Schiffer)
• Expedia at 30, the inside story: Online travel giant navigates its third tech disruption (Todd Bishop)
• Introducing the JetBrains Course Creators Program (Regina Muradova)
• WWDC26 Schedule (ProMobile.Dev)

Database

• Announcing the SSMS StatisticsParser Extension (Brent Ozar)
• What Is a JSON Database and Why Are They Useful? (Matthew Groves)
• Can you teach us how to draw a hotdog using SQL Server’s geometry? (Erik Darling)

PowerShell and Terminal

• An important update: Transitioning Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI (Dmitry Lyalin & Taylor Mullin)
• Using AGY CLI | Antigravity CLI Docs (Google)
• Better CLI Interactions for Agents and Humans (Christian Nunciato)

Writing

• What Is Genre? A Guide To The 17 Most Popular Fiction Genres (Writers Write)

Tools

• New in Firefox 151: VPN location selection, AI controls on mobile, and expanded Shake to Summarize support and AI controls are here for Firefox mobile (Mozilla)
• SVG and PNG in Simple QR Code Maker: The Interesting Format Combinations (Joseph Finney)
• 30 Days of coreutils: head and tail (Rachel Kaufman)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.7.7: Update Microsoft.WSL to version 1.0.73.2 (#40585) (Ben Hillis)

General

• Introducing new Surface devices built for business and AI acceleration (Nancie Gaskill)
• Xbox fans want exclusives, more backward compatibility, and free online multiplayer (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 for 2026 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips, display upgrades, and new haptics: Launching first for business customers today (Zac Bowden)
• The Mandalorian and Grogu should have been a season of TV (Charles Pulliam-Moore)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – May 19, 2026 (#787) (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.