Top Links
- 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
.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
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- Automatic superseded task cleanup (Frank Lin)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
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)
