Top Links
- PowerToys Release v0.99.0 (LegendaryBlair)
- Integrating Native Device Features in .NET MAUI with Built‑In APIs (Shalini Suresh)
- Hooking Up All the Things, Making Your Developer’s Life Easier | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Jeff Fritz)
- GitHub Quick Review: Evaluate your enterprise and organizations with GitHub best practices (GHQR Team)
- Announcing Shader Model 6.10 Preview and AgilitySDK 720 Preview (Amar Patel)
- Making the Most of Visual Studio’s XAML Tools | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Pedro Jesus)
- Combining API versioning with OpenAPI in .NET 10 applications (Sander ten Brinke)
Web and Cloud Development
- Your WordPress Expert in the Terminal: Try the Studio Code Beta (Alexa Peduzzi)
- Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud scales to thousands of nodes with Azure Local (Douglas Phillips)
- How to Split PDF Files in the Browser Using JavaScript (Step-by-Step) (Bhavin Sheth)
- They said AI Would Kill SaaS Boilerplates. It’s Doing the Opposite. (Vince Canger)
- AspireMonitor: Stop bouncing between your Aspire dashboard and your code. (Bruno Capuano)
- Since when did so many websites begin thinking that a giant Google Sign-in popover was a good thing? (Geoff Graham)
- How to build scalable web apps with OpenAI’s Privacy Filter (Yuvraj Sharma, Freddy Boulton & Abubakar Abid)
- Getting Identities to Talk Across Tenants with Microsoft Entra Cross-Tenant Synchronization (Liam Cleary)
- This Wasm interpreter fits in a QR code (Alisa Sireneva)
Windows Development
- Looking at consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function on various architectures (Raymond Chen)
- Integrate an AI Assistant into WPF PDF Viewer Using Azure OpenAI (Vikas S.)
.NET and Visual Studio
- The Emergency Stop Button – Implementing Immediate Token Revocation in .NET 10 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Build .NET container images with Tekton (Tom Deseyn)
- How to fix NuGet vulnerabilities with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio (Bart Wullems)
- MCP in .NET: The Practical Guide Nobody Wrote. OAuth Bugs, Transport Gotchas, and What Visual Studio Can’t Do (Jamie Maguire)
- Context Compression in .NET (Lukas)
AI
- Introducing the Skill Manager and Skill Repository (Dominique Rolink)
- The Future of Agentic AI: Inside Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 (Rajesh Yadav)
- Legare Kerrison and Cedric Clyburn on LLM Performance and Evaluations (Srini Penchikala)
- Architecting Autonomous Agents: A Deep Dive into Azure AI Foundry Agent Service (Jubin Abhishek Soni)
- OpenClaw 2026.4.26 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Azure Skills: Official agent plugin providing skills and MCP server configurations for Azure scenarios (Azure Skills Team)
- GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing (Mario Rodriguez)
- What Is an AI-Powered Recommendation Engine? (Hannah Laurel)
- Bring Your Own Model to Foundry Agent Service Is Now Generally Available (budzynski)
- Do Component Libraries Still Matter in the Age of AI? (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
- The Prompt Engineering Cheat Sheet: How to Write Better AI Prompts (Aminu Abdullahi)
- Copilot in Outlook: New agentic experiences for email and calendar (Gaurav Sareen)
- Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause and Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices (Simon Willison)
- An open-source spec for orchestration: Symphony and The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership (OpenAI Team)
- Welcome to the “find out” stage of AI (Ryan Donovan)
- The next phase of the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership (Microsoft)
- Join the new AI Agents Vibe Coding Course from Google and Kaggle (Frank Guan)
- Show Your Work: The Case for Radical AI Transparency (Kord Davis & Claude)
- Biggest Opportunity for Developers in AI (Mahesh Chand)
- Vibe coding and databases: the hidden risks of AI-generated database code (Chisom Kanu)
- Neo’s Integration Catalog: Give Your Agent Access to the Tools It Needs (Pulumi Neo Team)
Python
- What’s new in pip 26.1 – lockfiles and dependency cooldowns! (Simon Willison)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- The Limit of Software Brain (Mark Downie)
- Kubernetes v1.36: Mutable Pod Resources for Suspended Jobs (beta) (Kevin Hannon)
- Docker Support for Isolator (Ricardo Peres)
- Communication is hard, but sometimes I can fix it. (Jessica Kerr)
- The Flaky Test Files: The Case of the State Pollution (Gil Zilberfeld)
Mobile and Game Development
- D3D12 LinAlg Matrix Preview (Ashley Coleman)
- That’s a wrap: Everything Flutter at Google Cloud Next (Emma Twersky)
- Building Chat Applications with the .NET MAUI Chat (Conversational UI) Control (Héctor Pérez)
- Now Available: Monthly Subscriptions with a 12-Month Commitment (Apple Developer Team)
- Raspberry Pi and Retro Gaming eBook Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral link
- Raspberry Pi badgeware (Phil King)
Screencasts and Videos
- Coding, AI, and GitHub Copilot | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Windows App Management in Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Mechanics (Nicole Zhao)
- Random.Code() – Changing Null Checks in C# With Analyzers and Code Fixes, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
- Setting Up NVIDIA NemoClaw with MiniMax M2.7: A Step-by-Step Guide (Frank La Vigne)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Talk Python to Me Episode #546 – Self hosting apps for Python people (Michael Kennedy)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #274 – AI, Zero Trust and Secure by Design Walk into a Bar… (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Made by Google Podcast – Search What you See: The Tech Behind the Magic (Rachid Finge)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #999 – Writing Maintainable CSS (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- BONUS AI in Organizations Track Preview | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte, Michał Parkoła & Michael Dougherty)
- Meta Cast – The Hidden Glue That Creates Resilient Organizations (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast – Trader Joe’s Wine Club: Sublime Springtime Sipping (Trader Joe’s Team)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Your LLM issues are really data issues (Phoebe Sajor)
- InfoQ Podcast: A Java Performance Quest: Taming Unsafe Code, Embracing Idiomatic Style & Debugging the Linux Kernel (Jaromir Hamala)
Community and Events
- Microsoft Build 2026 is coming! (Julian Bucknall)
- A Minute from the Moderators (Hachyderm Team)
- JetBrains Annual Highlights 2026 Are Here! (Gregorio Sanchez Duarte)
- Fourth of July 2026 in Philly: 7 Top Ways to Celebrate America’s 250th (Visit Philly)
Database
- Announcing Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.0.1 (David Levy)
- Azure Data Studio is retired: Move your Azure SQL workflow to VS Code in 10 minutes (Iqra Shaikh)
- Firestore levels up: Bringing the power of search and JOINs to NoSQL (Morgan Chen & Minh Nguyen)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.37 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Give your AI agent direct, structured GitLab access with glab CLI (Kai Armstrong)
Tools
General
- So, You’ve disabled Windows Hello for Business, but the User can still Sign-in using a PIN (Brent Crummey)
- Trump demands ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel (Jay Peters)
- Consumers lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, FTC reports (Aisha Malik)
- Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI (Hayden Field)
- What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch U.S. software in favor of sovereign tech (Anna Heim)
- Microsoft earnings preview: After a $357B wipeout, tech giant gets another chance (Todd Bishop)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – April 27, 2026 (#771) (Richard Seroter)
- Reading Notes #695 (Frank Boucher)
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – April 26 (Peter Ritchie)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic & Meta partnership, AWS Lambda S3 Files, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI, and more (April 27, 2026) (Daniel Abib)
