Top Links
- NuGet Package Pruning: Cleaner Dependencies and Actionable Vulnerability Reports (Nikolche Kolev)
- Flutter’s multiplatform value for agentic development (Michael Thomsen)
- On .NET Live: How Coding Standards Supercharge .NET Quality & Performance (David McCarter)
- NuGet PackageReference for C++ Projects in Visual Studio (Augustin Popa)
- Material 3 in .NET MAUI — One Line to Transform Your App (Gerald Versluis)
- Take your local GitHub sessions anywhere (Candy Ho)
Web and Cloud Development
- Blazor – How to set a base component for all Razor components (Gérald Barré)
- TypeScript utility types you’re probably underusing (Muhammed Ali)
- TypeScript v6 is here: A full migration guide (Amazing Enyichi Agu)
- CSS Anchor Positioning: The End of Manual Tooltip Calculations? (Manikanda Akash Munisamy)
- Advanced Excel‑Style Data Analysis with React Spreadsheet Formulas (Sastha Prathap)
- Angular Is Exciting Again, and v21 Proves It (TheJS PythonGuy)
- Introducing Code Interpreters for Logic Apps (W. Silveira)
- Vite Version 8: Unified Rust-Based Bundler and Up to 30x Faster Builds (Daniel Curtis)
Windows Development
.NET and Visual Studio
- Part 1 — Building an AI-Powered Code Review System in C# Using Git Diff and LLMs and Part 2 — Building an AI Agent with Skills for Code Review and Auto-Fix in C# (Vinoth Xavier)
- redb.Route — Apache Camel for .NET: 22 transports, 30+ EIP patterns, compiled DSL (Rinat Kozin)
AI
- AI Reasoning and Planning (Jesse Liberty)
- Anthropic acquires Stainless (Anthropic Team)
- Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare (Kirsten Korosec)
- Measuring the impact of AI on teaching and learning (Lila Ibrahim)
- Deploying and scaling the GitHub Copilot SDK (continued) (Bart Wullems)
- New in Claude Managed Agents: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels (Claude Team)
- Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people (Hayden Field)
- OpenClaw v2026.5.18 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Introducing Composer 2.5 (Cursor Team)
- Skills in web, iOS, and Android (xAI Team)
- Agent Skills Work but the Research Shows Most Teams Are Building Them Wrong (Aishwarya Naresh Reganti, Prahitha Movva & Kiriti Badam)
- “You can’t vibe code scale”: What the AI hype gets wrong about software engineering (Eira May)
- Three Tiers, One Platform: Building Agents Together with the Build-Along Series (Brianoshea)
- Now in Foundry: Tongyi-MAI Z-Image-Turbo, with FLUX.1-schnell and SDXL base 1.0 (Osi)
- Coding Agent Horror Stories: The Security Crisis Threatening Developer Infrastructure (Jennifer Kohl)
- PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend (Alex Zhang, Cui Cheng, Jun Zhang, Manui Lin & Yue Zhang)
- Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Cosmos Predict 2.5 with LoRA/DoRA for Robot Video Generation (Ting-Yun Chang, Miguel Martin, Jonathan Allen, Ke Ding & Pooya Jannaty)
- You Can Scale MCP Servers Behind a Load Balancer on App Service — Here’s How and Turn Your App Service Web App Into a Self-Healing Agent: LLMOps Best Practices for Production (Jordan Selig)
- Forget electrons, this breakthrough uses light-matter particles to power AI (University of Pennsylvania)
Python
- How to Clean Time Series Data in Python (Bala Priya C.)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- How to better protect your growing business in an AI-powered world (Alym Rayani)
- Interviews Aren’t About You (Sorry) (Greg Hatchuk)
- What’s Easy Now? What’s Hard Now? (Marc Brooker)
- Event Sourcing: trade-offs of Event versioning and migrating approaches (Urs Enzler)
- Finding Your Voice: A Guide to Technical Communication (Colin Eberhardt)
Mobile and Game Development
- Installing and Basics of Telerik UI for .NET MAUI AI Coding Assistant (Héctor Pérez)
- Introducing XBOX Player Voice: A Simpler Way to Share Feedback (Mike Nelson)
- Introducing Hatcha — A GenUI Vignette Built in Flutter (Cameron Brodie)
- OVCS: Raspberry Pi–powered electric car (Rob Zwetsloot)
Screencasts and Videos
- What Google Needs to Do at I/O This Week (AIDailyBrief)
- Microsoft Excel Beginners Tutorial (2026) | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
- New GitHub Desktop APP!? .NET 11 Preview 4 and more… – Developer News 20/2025 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- The Presentation Podcast Episode #246 – Are PowerPoint Templates In Our Future? (Troy Chollar)
- Code. Deploy. Go Live. Episode #30 – M365 Copilot Declarative Agents Level Up: MCP Apps, Embedded Knowledge & Coding Skills (Andrew Connell & Julie Turner)
- Smooth Scaling Podcast Episode #25 – The Rise of Cloud Prem: Data Ownership in the Age of AI with Galileo’s Sam Dhar (José Quaresma)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast – The Conversation You’re Avoiding | Lasting Happiness with Dr. Elia Gourgouris (Max Ahumada)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #480 – Proud Parents (Michael Kennedy)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #681 – MCP on Code Mode (Matt Carey & Adam Stacoviak)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #515 – Community Always Wins w/ Chris DeMars, Sr. Dev Advocate @ TuxCare (Taylor Desseyn)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #278 – The Agentic SOC: Are We Measuring Time Saved or Risk Reduced? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #1005 – Programatic and Skill based Video Creation with Remotion (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Meta Cast – The Courage Gap in Tech Leadership (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #130 – AI, Cybersecurity & Creativity in Modern Cloud Engineering – with Hannah King (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
- When Applying Scrum By The Book Fails, Understanding Context Before Changing The System | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Christian Thordal)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode #105 – The Future of Trader Joe’s Depends on These Grads (Trader Joe’s Team)
- InfoQ Podcast: Context is the Key to the Agentic Architecture Revolution: A Conversation (Baruch Sadogursky)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Your fridge could be a threat to national security (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Scott and Mark Learn to Vibe Check | Live at Microsoft Build (June 2nd) (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- Bravo! Philly’s Must-See Arts & Culture Events for 2026 (Visit Philly)
- Apple kicks off Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8 (Apple)
- Coming bright up (Apple Developer Team)
- If You Didn’t Capture It, Did It Really Happen? (Golnaz Alibeigi)
- How to Watch Google I/O (Boone Ashworth)
- Meta Layoffs Stress Harsh AI Reality Inside Zuckerberg’s Company (BeauHD)
- From open source to agentic systems: Microsoft at Open Source Summit North America 2026 (Brendan Burns)
- Starbucks layoffs impact 252 jobs at Seattle support center, including VPs and other senior roles (Kurt Schlosser)
Database
- Can Text-to-SQL Benchmarks Work on Document Databases? A Couchbase Architecture Case Study (Soham Sarkar)
- How tampered indexed-view metadata can break cross-database isolation in SQL Server (Fabiano Amorim)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Launched: Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption Hub Redesign (Karuana Gatimu)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.49 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Tools
General
- Elon Musk Loses Frivolous Lawsuit Against OpenAI (Paul Thurrott)
- O’Reilly Head First Programming eBook Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral link
- Jury finds Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and Microsoft, clearing defendants in landmark AI case (Todd Bishop)
- Gates Foundation ends an era, selling off all remaining Microsoft stock (Lisa Stiffler)
- WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency (BeauHD)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – May 18, 2026 (#786) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Transform at 1 year, Claude Platform on AWS, EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances, and more (May 18, 2026) (Channy Yun)
- Reading Notes #698 (Frank Boucher)
- Azure Weekly #563 – 17th May 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
