Top Links
- Introducing dotnet new WinUI templates (Niels Laute, Dinah Gao & Nikola Metulev)
- Introducing WinUI agent plugin for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code (Nikola Metulev)
- Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API (Sam Kemp)
- Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI (Lee Reilly)
- winget-tui: A terminal UI for Windows Package Manager (winget) (Scott Hanselman)
- .NET 11 Preview 4 is now available! (.NET Team)
Web and Cloud Development
- Install web apps with the new HTML install element (Patrick Brosset)
- Building a Blazor app with OpenCode and DeepSeek (Jon Hilton)
- Aspire v13.3.1 Release (github-actions[bot])
- Streaming Server Events with SSE and Blazor (Héctor Pérez)
- Why Zoom Feels Broken in JavaScript PDF Viewers and How to Fix It (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
- Running background tasks in Blazor with Web Workers: Exploring the .NET 11 preview – Part 1 (Andrew Lock)
- Tailwind CSS v4.3: Scrollbars, new colors, and more (Robin Malfait)
- Meet Your Users Where They Are with Obs.js (Harry Roberts)
- Soon We Can Finally Banish JavaScript to the ShadowRealm (Mat Marquis)
- First Public Working Draft: Recognized Entities v1.0 (W3C)
Windows Development
- Windows App SDK 1.8.8 (1.8.260508005) (agniuks)
- Is This a Packaged Process? (Howard Kapustein)
- MSVC Build Tools version 14.51 (GA) now available (Michael Price)
.NET and Visual Studio
- The complete guide to mastering Dapper micro-ORM in .NET (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- .NET 11 Preview 4 Release Notes (Jon Galloway)
- LINQ Aggregation in C#: Count, Sum, Min, Max, Average, and Aggregate (Nick Cosentino)
- .NET 9.0.16 / 9.0.117 and .NET 8.0.27 / 8.0.127 (dotnet-bot)
- .NET v10.0.8 Release (vseanreesermsft)
- .NET and .NET Framework May 2026 servicing releases updates (Rahul Bhandari & Tara Overfield)
- The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio (David Ramel)
AI
- Adding GitHub Copilot to the Windows Explorer Context Menu (Aaron Powell)
- GitHub Copilot individual plans: Introducing flex allotments in Pro and Pro+, and a new Max plan (Natalie Guevara)
- Be Ready: GitHub Copilot Pricing & Usage Changes Will Hit Hard (Mitchel Sellers)
- Amazon Employees Are ‘Tokenmaxxing’ Due To Pressure To Use AI Tools (BeauHD)
- Introducing Syncfusion Document SDK AI Agent Tools for Autonomous Document Workflows (Meena Alagiah)
- Accelerating detection engineering using AI-assisted synthetic attack logs generation (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
- Defense at AI speed: Microsoft’s new multi-model agentic security system tops leading industry benchmark (Taesoo Kim)
- GitHub Spec Kit Takes Off as Antidote to Piecemeal ‘Vibe Coding’ (David Ramel)
- Docker AI Governance: Unlock Agent Autonomy, Safely (PeiFang Sung)
- From Prompt to Production: Open in VS Code for Terraform in Azure Copilot (Jingwei Wang)
- Driving Efficiency in Modern System Engineering with AI Agents (Pushpendra Kumar)
- Build a Reports Dashboard in Claude Desktop with MCP Apps and Vonage (Benjamin Aronov)
- Opus 4.7 (fast mode) is now available in Windsurf (Windsurf Team)
- Build Long-running AI agents that pause, resume, and never lose context with ADK (Shubham Saboo & Eric Dong)
- AI Agent Identity for SaaS: What’s Different and What to Do About It (Carla Urrea Stabile)
- Red Hat Summit 2026: Platform modernization and AI on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift (Sean McKenna)
- Gyms for Them, Mirrors for Us (Shreshta Shyamsundar)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- How Bad Could It Be (Michael Earon)
- Burnout and Cognitive Debt (Mike Loukides)
- Your API Tests Belong in the Pipeline – Here’s How to Get Them There (Danny Dainton)
- What is Code (Martin Fowler)
- TeamCity 2026.1: CLI, MCP for AI Agents, Pipelines Enhancements, and More (Olga Bedrina)
- Undermining the trust boundary: Investigating a stealthy intrusion through third-party compromise (Microsoft Incident Response Team)
- Event Sourcing: compensation – the simple way out when things go wrong (Urs Enzler)
- You Shipped It Fast. But Did You Ship It Right? (Priya Gopalsamy)
- Why Sagas Feel Broken (Derek Comartin)
- Inside the Geofence: Faster Pickups Start Here (Chandrani Gupta Chowdhury)
Mobile and Game Development
- The 9 biggest new features in Android 17 (Dominic Preston)
- Get the most out of your Apple Developer account and Hello Developer: May 2026 (Apple Developer Team)
- Gemini’s biggest new features are all about controlling your phone (Allison Johnson)
- More ways to create and share with Android (Patrick Shehane)
- Building for the Intelligence System on Android (Matthew McCullough)
- A smarter, more proactive Android with Gemini Intelligence (Mindy Brooks)
- Amazon’s Panos Panay addresses new Fire phone rumors (Dominic Preston)
- iOS 27 might add a lot more customization to the Camera app (Stevie Bonifield)
Screencasts and Videos
- Agent Hackathon Challenge Kickoff | Agent Academy Live (Christian Talavera & David Abu)
- Customize Copilot Modernization Tasks | Modernize Java Apps with AI (Sandra Ahlgrimm)
- Intro to Warp – terminal basics, Claude Code setup, and cloud handoff with Oz (Warp Team)
- The Best Way to Talk to Your Agents (AIDailyBrief)
- Improving StreamerMaps | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Random.Code() – Adding Replacement Capabilities to Rocks, Part 4 (Jason Bock)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio Show #1036 – Production LLMs with Vaishnavi Gudur (Richard Campbell)
- PPP 509 | Stop Letting Great Ideas Slip Away: A System for Leadership Recall, with author Steve Kahle (Andy Kaufman)
- MacBreak Weekly Episode #1024 – Good Talk – Apple Reaches $250 Million Settlement Over Promised AI Capabilities on iPhones (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
- When the Smartest Person on the Team Becomes the Biggest Bottleneck — And Explodes in a Meeting | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mukhtar Kadiri)
- Leaders of Code: How Braze’s CTO is rethinking engineering for the agentic area (Eira May)
Community and Events
- WWDC 2026 Preview: Apple Readies Siri Overhaul, AI Updates, and More (Aminu Abdullahi)
- How Sharon Weaver and Christian Buckley Help Future MVPs Find Their Path (Betsy Weber)
- ‘Strong, strong no’: New filing reveals who Microsoft favored — and opposed — for OpenAI’s board (Todd Bishop)
- Get ready for the 2026 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards: Nominations open June 1 (Jill Armour)
Database
- Announcing SQL Server Management Studio 22.6.0 (M. Barickman)
- Why database ownership is so fragmented in 2026 – and what you can do about it (Grant Fritchey)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Columnstore Modifications (Erik Darling)
- Build AI apps with Azure Cosmos DB: Key trends from Cosmos Conf 2026 (Shireesh Thota)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Bringing Transparency to Copilot Edits in Excel (gaugustin)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.46 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Microsoft Terminal v1.25.1322.0 Release and Microsoft Terminal v1.24.11321.0 Release (DHowett)
Writing
Tools
- Announcing Files v4.1.1 (Files Team)
General
- Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook (Antonio G. Di Benedetto)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – May 12, 2026 (#782) (Richard Seroter)
- dotInsights | May 2026 (Rachel Appel)
