Top Links
- From Local to Production: The Complete Developer Journey for Building, Composing, and Deploying AI Agents and Introducing the new hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service: secure, scalable compute built for agents (Takuto Higuchi & Jeff Hollan)
- .NET Rocks! – How We Beat the Y2K Bug (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Introducing Toolboxes in Foundry (Linda Li, Maria Naggaga & Ronak Chokshi)
- Ship production AI features faster with Firebase AI Logic (Miguel Ramos)
- Scott & Mark Learn To…Sculpt, not Spec (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- Windows App Development CLI v0.3: new run and ui commands, plus dotnet run support for packaged apps (Chiara Mooney)
Web and Cloud Development
- Engineering secure passkey sync in Microsoft Password Manager (Patrick Brosset)
- Like Vertical Slice Architecture? Meet Wolverine.Http! (Jeremy D. Miller)
- What would a 2026 CSS Anthology look like? (Rachel Andrew)
- Write azd hooks in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or .NET (Kristen Womack)
- Enhancing Astro With a Markdown Component (Zell Liew)
- Gateway API v1.5: Moving features to Stable (Kubernetes Team)
- Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement (Zach Leatherman)
- Private subnets by default in Azure Virtual Networks: What changed and how to use NAT Gateway (Aimee Littleton)
- Managing PDF Files Online: Splitting, Extracting, and Merging Made Simple (Eshwari Balraj)
- The 2025 OWASP Top 10 and IdentityServer (Christian Wenz)
- First Public Working Drafts for the Linked Web Storage (LWS) 1.0 Authentication Suite (W3C)
- Now generally available: License usage insights in Microsoft Entra (Joseph Dadzie)
- Security considerations when using Passkeys on your website (Scott Helme)
Windows Development
- Mapping the page tables into memory via the page tables (Raymond Chen)
- Take the 2026 ISO C++ Developer Survey! (Augustin Popa)
- WinDev Helper VS Code extension v2.8.0 release (Alvin Ashcraft) – Get it on the VS Code Marketplace; now updated for winapp CLI v0.3.0
- C++ Code Intelligence for GitHub Copilot CLI (Preview) (Erika Sweet)
.NET and Visual Studio
- From Demo to Production: Building Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents with .NET (Lee Stott)
- Trends from the Pragmatic AI in .NET Show (Sam Basu)
AI
- All your agents are going async (Zak Knill)
- Building agents that reach production systems with MCP (Claude Team)
- Introducing Kimi K2.6 in Microsoft Foundry (Rashaud Savage)
- AI-powered defense for an AI-accelerated threat landscape (Ales Holecek)
- Securing Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Runtime with Auth0 for AI Agents (Kapil Patil)
- Use skills with Microsoft Foundry agents (preview) | Microsoft Foundry and Curate intent-based toolbox in Foundry (preview) | Microsoft Foundry (Microsoft Learn)
- Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT and Speeding up agentic workflows with WebSockets in the Responses API and Introducing OpenAI Privacy Filter (OpenAI Team)
- Three tiers of Agentic AI – and when to use none of them (sgangaramani)
- Agent Context Needs Timing (Rocky Lhotka)
- Big Update: GPT-Image Models + AI Agent Skills🚀 Meet t2i — The ElBruno.Text2Image CLI (Bruno Capuano)
- Creating a Custom AI Agent with Telerik Tools 3: Summarizing and Querying (Peter Vogel)
- Gemini Embedding 2 is now generally available | The Keyword (Google)
- Securing MCP: A Control Plane for Agent Tool Execution (Jack Batzner)
- Introducing Replit Auto-Protect (Replit Team)
- Gemma 4 VLA Demo on Jetson Orin Nano Super (Asier Arranz)
- The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?” (Arun Sirpal)
- Don’t Blame the Model (Sruly Rosenblat)
- Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform lets you build, govern, and optimize your agents. (Amy Eisinger)
- Roo Code pivots to cloud-based agent, says IDEs aren’t the future of coding (Paul Sawers)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Public Preview: Actual Result for Manual Tests in Azure Test Plans (Panagiotis Liaros)
- The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable (Carrie Webster)
- How We Scaled Security Reviews Without Slowing Down Engineering (Anurag Mewar)
- Optimizing Git policy management at scale (Azat Galiev)
- Microsoft’s Software Engineering Career Ladder (Anastasija Uspenski)
Mobile and Game Development
- Streamline User Journeys with Verified Email via Credential Manager (Niharika Arora & Jean-Pierre Pralle)
- What’s new in the Jetpack Compose April ’26 release (Meghan Mehta)
- Microsoft says the ‘idea’ of an Xbox mobile store ‘is not dead’ (Tom Warren)
Screencasts and Videos
- Build a Personal Assistant with GitHub Copilot SDK + Copilot CLI (Burke Holland)
- Foundry Agent Service + Microsoft Agent Framework Explained | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeff Hollan)
- How Apple’s AI Strategy Changes with a New CEO and The Biggest Unlocks of GPT Images 2 (AIDailyBrief)
- Taming the Data Estate with Copilot and Azure Service Monitor | MVP Unplugged (Justin Garrett & Magnus Mårtensson)
- VS Code and Visual Studio – Better Together with Copilot | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Brian Randell)
- Build Your First AI Search in .NET with Progress Agentic RAG Part 2 | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- From Clicks to Commands: A Terminal Beginner’s Guide (Kayla Cinnamon & James Montemagno)
- Random.Code – Adding Features to IronBefunge, Part 1 (ish) (Jason Bock)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- The Amp Hour #722 – AI Tooling with Matt Liberty and Luke Beno (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #717 – Eric Tschetter on Decoupling Observability (Amey Ambade)
- Windows Weekly Episode #980 – Running Outta Tolkiens – Hands-On With 2 Snapdragon X2 Laptops! (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
- Big Technology Podcast – Are We Too Obsessed With AI Predictions? — With Carissa Véliz (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #998 – How to Fix Vibe Coding (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Grammar Girl Podcast Episode #1179 – ‘Why We Talk Funny.’ The reasons behind our accents, with Valerie Fridland (Mignon Fogarty)
- From Component Teams to Cross-Functional Teams — How to Navigate the Hardest Agile Transformation | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Viktor Glinka)
Community and Events
- Stop Experimenting, Start Building: AI Apps & Agents Dev Days Has You Covered (Lee Stott)
- What’s new from Firebase at Cloud Next 2026 (Seba Gnagnarella, Arthur Thompson & Kristen Richards)
- Gates Foundation To Cut 20% of Staff, Review Epstein Ties (BeauHD)
Database
- 7 tips to optimize Azure Cosmos DB costs for AI and agentic workloads (Michal Toiba)
- Performance Monitor 2.3 Release: ErikAI, More FinOps, and MCP Madness (Erik Darling)
- How to handle large datasets and parallel processing in esProc SPL (Chisom Kanu)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Microsoft 365 Copilot readiness and resiliency with SharePoint and M365 Backup/Archive (Sesha Mani)
- Windows 365 Link: One year of the simple, secure, purpose-built Cloud PC device (Stefan Kinnestrand)
- Bringing transparency to AI-generated content with watermarks in Microsoft 365 (MSArmelle)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Agents CLI in Agent Platform: create to production in one CLI (Ivan Cheung, Pier Paolo Ippolito & Elia Secchi)
- Your RDP (Remote Desktop) files are now untrusted after the April 2026 Windows Patch – Sign them with PowerShell (Michael Morten Sonne)
Tools
- RepoRoute – Browse and manage git repos | iOS App Store (Alvin Ashcraft)
- Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v2.7.2: Add admin protection error message for shadow admin scenarios (#40170) (Ben Hillis)
General
- Tested: Windows 11 setup screen now finally lets you skip forced updates, and go directly to the desktop and Microsoft says it’s rebuilding Windows 11 around what users actually want: performance, reliability, quality and craft (Mayank Parmar)
- DIY To Power Our Planet: An (Mini) Earth Day Field Guide (Jennifer Blakeslee)
- Diablo IV: Now with more way to customize builds and playstyles (Athima Chansanchai)
- Microsoft teases mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership (Tom Warren)
- Software Eats Its Own (Om Malik)
- Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs (Simon Sharwood)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – April 19 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – April 22, 2026 (#769) (Richard Seroter)
