Top Links
- Improving Windows quality: Making Taskbar and Start more personal (Diego Baca)
- Advanced Shader Delivery expands Public Preview with AMD (Wendy Ho)
- fate 1.0 – A modern data client for React (fate team)
- Introducing Agent Skills for AI‑Assisted Syncfusion PDF Viewer Integration (Deepa Thiruppathy)
- Compose Multiplatform 1.11.0 Is Now Available (Elvira Mustafina)
- The Coding Harness Behind GitHub Copilot in VS Code (VS Code Team)
Web and Cloud Development
- Aspire v13.3.3 Release (github-actions[bot])
- Aspire Azure SQL deployment bug (Damien Bowden)
- ESLint v10.4.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
- Build a Full‑Featured JavaScript PDF Editor: Annotations, Signatures, and Forms (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
- Multi-Brand Identity: When Your Company Needs More Than One Face and The Composable Identity Pattern: Build What You Need, Skip What You Don’t (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (Julia Evans)
Windows Development
- The case of the CreateFileMapping that always reported ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS (Raymond Chen)
- Announcing new builds for 15 May 2026 (Stephen Lines & Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Zstandard compression in .NET 11 (Steven Giesel)
- We built an AI tool for .NET/C# developers in 2 days (David Grace)
- On .NET Live: How Coding Standards Supercharge .NET Quality & Performance and Make Your .NET Assemblies Trimmable: Smaller Apps, Faster Starts, and AOT-Ready Code (David McCarter)
- I spent a year building Apache Camel for .NET. Here’s the honest state of it. (Rinat Kozin)
- When Your Use Case Half-Succeeds: Designing for Partial Failure in .NET (Milan Jovanović)
- Building a Custom Copilot Skill: A Hands-On Guide to Agent Mode in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders (David Ramel)
- Creating a Simple MCP Server in .NET (Paul Michaels)
AI
- More Powerful than AI RAG: Building Lightweight Knowledge Graphs (Michael Washington)
- AI Engineering Fluency: tracking your AI coding habits (Rob Bos)
- If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI (Anthony Ha)
- GitHub Copilot SDK–Breaking change in permission handling and Sessions in the GitHub Copilot SDK: What they are and how to manage them and Deploying and scaling the GitHub Copilot SDK and GitHub Copilot Is changing how it bills you – Here’s how to check the impact (Bart Wullems)
- Elon Musk’s xAI Launches ‘Grok Build’, Its First AI Coding Agent (EditorDavid)
- Vibe Coding Cheat Sheet: Tools, Prompts, Security Tips, and More (Aminu Abdullahi)
- GitHub takes aim at Claude Code and Codex with its new Copilot app (Paul Sawers)
- How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again (Sean Goedecke)
- Your RAG Pipeline Is Slow Because You’re Sending Entire Pages to the LLM (Jamie Maguire)
- How Developers Should Build AI Tools – So The EU Doesn’t Lose IT (Marin Pavelić)
- Custom MCP Catalogs and Profiles: Advancing Enterprise MCP Adoption (Jin Kim)
- Making the API Evangelist Network Agent-Readable (Kin Lane)
- Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process (Natalie Guevara)
- Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11 (Abhijith M B)
- Gemma 4 and the Rise of Practical Local AI (Yash Khandelwal)
- Connect Grok to Hermes Agent (xAI Team)
Python
- Python Stays #1, R Rises in Popularity, Says TIOBE (EditorDavid)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- GauntletCI is a pre-commit CLI tool that analyzes staged Git diffs locally in under a second to catch silent behavioral risks before you commit. (Eric Cogen)
- StyloBot Release Series: Testing the Thing That Won’t Sit Still (Scott Galloway)
- Raising the bar: Quality, shared responsibility, and the future of GitHub’s bug bounty program (Natalie Guevara)
- Passkeys 101: An Introduction to Passkeys and How They Work (Scott Helme)
Mobile and Game Development
- Lessons from a hit* Incremental game, and John Carmack’s advice (Code Monkey)
- Help Shape the Future of Kotlin in the Age of AI (Ekaterina Volodko)
- A New Default Project Structure for Kotlin Multiplatform (Márton Braun)
- Network Information Plugin 3.1.0 Released! (Manuel Beck)
- Introducing Kickstart: the app that helps indie developers ship (Paul Hudson)
Screencasts and Videos
- Random.Code() – Adding Replacement Capabilities to Rocks, Part 5 (Jason Bock)
- IoT Coffee Talk Webcast Episode 313: “AI Adoption” (Whose problem is it?) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Full Course: Modernize Java apps with AI (Microsoft Developer Team)
- Stop Burning RUs: Live AI App Code Review with the Cosmos DB Agent Kit | Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 (Andrew Liu)
- What’s the story on the long long integer? | One Dev Question (Amanda Silver)
- The Download: Microsoft Build, GitHub mobile, open source keyboards & more (Cassidy Williams)
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Podcasts
- CppCast – GPU Programming and HLSL with Chris Bieneman (Mathieu Ropert & Jason Turner)
- Merge Conflict Episode #515 – Mini-LED, IPS, and the Great Monitor Rabbit Hole (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #273 – Automatic Data Pipelining: One More Turtle Ahead (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #024 – Exploring AI’s Cutting Edge: From Cognitive Debt to Conversational Agents (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Big Technology Podcast – Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank (Alex Kantrowitz)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #295 – Agentic Architecture: Why Files Aren’t Always Enough (Christopher Bailey & Mikiko Bazeley)
- Hard Fork Podcast – A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express (Casey Newton & Kevin Roose)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #147 – Lexus TZ Brings Extra Level Of Cushiness To Highlander (Batteries Included Team)
- BONUS Your Developers Got 20x Faster — Now Watch Your Product Managers’ Heads Explode | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Clarke Ching)
- The Three Qualities That Separate Great Product Owners From Those Who Just Drop Tickets | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mukhtar Kadiri)
- A Geek Leader Episode #469 – Fred Marshall (John Rouda)
Community and Events
- Call For Papers Listings for 5/15 and Job listings for week ending 5/15 (Leon Adato)
- Starbucks announces new round of corporate layoffs following cuts in Seattle tech roles (Lisa Stiffler)
- No Dumb Questions: What is cloud computing and why is everyone doing it? (Phoebe Sajor)
Database
- From commit to cloud: Powering what’s next for PostgreSQL (Shireesh Thota)
- PostgreSQL is removing MD5 authentication for passwords. Here’s what it means for your databases (Lukas Vileikis)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Partitioned Views (Erik Darling)
Writing
- How Writers Use The Protagonist As A Literary Device and What Is a Character Trait? 350 Essential Character Traits for Writers (Writers Write)
Tools
- 30 Days of coreutils: sort (Rachel Kaufman)
General
- Atari CEO Wants the Company to Become the Best Retro Brand (Robert DeFelice)
- NPR’s Manoush Zomorodi talks about living with too much tech (Terrence O’Brien)
- These are the laptops I recommend for pretty much anyone (Antonio G. Di Benedetto)
- Wood Burning Is Reintroducing Lead Pollution Into the Air, Scientists Find (BeauHD)
- Xbox is now XBOX (Tom Warren)
- Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag? (Dominic Preston)
- Iran Now Threatens Fees for Subsea Internet Cables in the Strait of Hormuz and US Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media (EditorDavid)
More Link Collections
- Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 10, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
- Android Weekly Issue #727 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
- Links For You (5/17/26) (Raymond Camden)
- C# Digest #608 – Real-time driver location tracking in .NET (Jakub Chodounsky)
- F# Weekly #20, 2026 – .NET 11 Preview 4 and SwaggerProvider 4.0 (Sergey Tihon)
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – May 10 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – May 15, 2026 (#785) (Richard Seroter)
- The Batch Issue #353 – China Thwarts Meta’s Agentic Ambition, U.S. Evaluates Upcoming Models, AI Diagnoses Mammograms (DeepLearning.AI)
