Top Links
- Automatically getting API difference diagrams in your .NET PRs (Morten Nielsen)
- Automating Intakes to the Awesome Copilot Marketplace (Aaron Powell)
- Introducing Syncfusion Toolkit for Blazor: Free Open-Source Blazor Components (Saravanan G.)
- Learn how to host your agents on Microsoft Foundry (Pamela Fox)
- TechBash CLI – A GitHub Copilot CLI skill that connects your local project to the TechBash 2026 session catalog (TechBash Team)
- How to Use Dart Cloud Functions and the Firebase Admin SDK: A Handbook for Developers (Atuoha Anthony)
- The 2026-07-28 MCP Specification Release Candidate (David Soria Parra & Den Delimarsky)
Web and Cloud Development
- Powering multi-cluster workloads with seamless cross‑cluster networking for Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager (Deepak Bansal & Brendan Burns)
- Annotations in JavaScript PDF Viewer: Common Issues and How to Fix Them (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
- What’s new in Aspire 13.3 – Aspire’s dashboard keeps a record: notification center and markdown messages (Erik Lieben)
- Mastering Dynamic Components, HTTP Resources, and AI Writing Assistants ️ (Angular Team)
- Theseus: translating win32 to wasm (Evan Martin)
- A Slight Nuance With WordPress Alt Text (Geoff Graham)
- The State of CSS Centering in 2026 (Temani Afif)
- How to Scale Long-Running API Requests (Milan Jovanović)
- Azure Service Bus: Earn the redesign (Daniel Marbach)
- Turn Your Blog Posts Into Podcast Episodes (Miguel Torres)
- Introducing pulumi do: Direct Resource Operations for Any Cloud (Christian Nunciato)
- Blazorise 2.1.3 – DatePicker Range Improvements (Mladen Macanović)
- Introducing auto-complete suggestions in Jetpack Search (Robert Felty)
- Deno 2.8 (Bartek Iwańczuk)
Windows Development
- Announcing new Insider builds for 22 May 2026 (Stephen Lines & Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- EF Core without migrations – it’s only a matter of time (David Grace)
- The Support Length for .NET LTS and STS versions (Thomas Claudius Huber)
- Marten 9.0, Polecat 4.0, and Wolverine 6.0 are Live! (Jeremy D. Miller)
- C#: Should This Service Be Singleton, Scoped, or Transient? and In C#, When Should You Use Exceptions, Result Objects, or Validation Errors? (Chris Pietschmann)
- From Closed Internal Stack to Open-Source Ecosystem: I Finally Shipped Three Years of .NET Infrastructure (Rinat Kozin)
- Rider 2026.2 EAP 3: Cost-effective Agentic Test Coverage, Code Change Previews, GameDev Templates, and NuGet Improvements (Sasha Ivanova)
- Announcing NAudio 3 Preview (Mark Heath)
AI
- ReAct and Agents in AI (Jesse Liberty)
- Build a Local Coding Agent Loop with GitHub (dngoins)
- MCP servers vs. skills: Choosing the right context for your AI (Cedric Clyburn)
- What Happens When You Give AI Agents the Map of Your Code’s Coverage? (Sasha Ivanova)
- Apple Preparing New ‘Gen AI’ Website Ahead of WWDC – and New AI Features? (EditorDavid)
- Locking Down AI Tooling: Securing Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini Before Someone Pastes in Something They Shouldn’t (Shannon Kuehn)
- Agentic AI for Software Development: Build a Coding Assistant That Plans, Writes, Reviews, and Tests Code (Sudhir Mangla)
- Dispatches from O’Reilly: The accidental orchestrator (Andrew Stellman)
- OpenClaw v2026.5.22 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Facing The Rising Costs of AI (JF Martin)
- The RAG Workbench I Actually Needed (Jamie Maguire)
- This Week in AI: Rethinking the Agent Harness (Michelle Smith)
- AI, Disposable Apps, and the Sunday Evenings We Are Losing (Pinal Dave)
- When systems go down, devs still juggle 10 tabs. PagerDuty says MCP fixes that (Ivan Pelivanovic)
- Monitoring & Observability in Microsoft Foundry (Kalaivanan)
- Foundry IQ as a Shared Knowledge Brain for Multiple AI Agents (vmanasa)
- Towards Speed-of-Light Text Generation with Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models (Mehran Maghoumi, Yonggan Fu, Pavlo Molchanov & Khadkevich)
- Why AI-driven workflows are important (and how to implement them) (Joydip Kanjilal)
- On AI (Karl Seguin)
- GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.7 Release (github-actions[bot])
- Steve Wozniak Tells Graduates They All Have ‘AI’: Actual Intelligence (BeauHD)
- Has the Anthropic Settlement Changed Everything? (Michael Capobianco)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Unit Tests: Keep Your CRAP Score from Wrecking the Show (David McCarter)
Mobile and Game Development
- New Steam Tags show what’s hot and what do Xbox players want? (Code Monkey)
- .NET MAUI changes its engine: what it means for your mobile app (Sebastián Cabrera)
Screencasts and Videos
- From Pair to Peer Programmer – NDC Security 2026 (Aaron Powell)
- AI’s New Acceleration Phase (AIDailyBrief)
- Pwned with Purpose: Where Motives Meet Mayhem – NDC Sydney 2026 (Troy Hunt)
- Technology & Friends – Harald Fianbakken on Microsoft Sovereign Cloud (David Giard)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 314 – “Forward Deployed Nonsense” (The New AI Consultant) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Random.Code() – Optimizing No-Parameter Member Handling in Rocks and Random.Code() – Fixing ref struct Bugs in Rocks, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
- What inspired you to be part of Budget Bytes? | One Dev Question (Amar Digamber Patil)
- One Team’s Journey to Using AI Without the Hype – NDC Sydney 2026 (John Bristowe)
- Inside SRE Agent — What’s New, Live Demos & Q&A (Shamir Abdul Aziz, Sanchit Mehta, Vishesh Agarwal & Dalibor Kovacevic)
- Dynamically Render a 3D Character in UI Toolkit | Inventory & Equipment Pt5 (Stacey Haffner)
- Get Started with Web Development Workshop 2026 | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- How to Automatically Generate SDKs and CLIs with Postman (Postman Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Lenny’s Podcast – The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Developer Tea Podcast – Practice Isn’t Enough for Senior Engineers – Adaptation Is a Key Skill in an AI-First Industry (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Big Technology Podcast – Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI (Alex Kantrowitz)
- AI Unprompted Episode #025 – Google I/O 2026 (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Hard Fork Podcast – Sundar Pichai Understands Why People Are Anxious About A.I. (Kevin Roose, Casey Newton & Whitney Jones)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #296 – Managing Polars Schema Issues & Profiling GitHub Users (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
- The Jazz Duo Effect and The Absent PO — Two Sides of Agile Product Ownership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Christian Thordal)
- A Geek Leader Episode #470 – Karina Mangu-Ward (John Rouda)
Community and Events
- Call For Papers Listings for 5/22 and Job listings for week ending 5/22 (Leon Adato)
- US Layoffs Haven’t Increased, and New Tech Industry Hiring Balances Firings (EditorDavid)
- Back from the dead (Eric Hexter)
- Experience Microsoft Build, directly from your terminal, with GitHub Copilot CLI and the Microsoft Build CLI. (Microsoft)
Database
- The Book of Redgate: Profits (Steve Jones)
- Regex support for LOB types in T-SQL—available in Azure SQL & SQL Server 2025 (Abhiman Tiwari)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.54 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Always know where you stand: Setting up a live status line in GitHub Copilot CLI (Bart Wullems)
Writing
- Why Keeping A Diary Matters and 5 Secret Tricks To Strengthen Your Writing and 20 Fun Ways To Find Plot Ideas For Your Story (Writers Write)
Tools
- Microsoft’s PowerToys is getting a low memory mode that kills idle utilities hogging Windows 11 RAM (Abhijith M B)
- Finally, a Great Free Radio App for Windows (Justin Pot)
General
- The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics (Simon Willison)
- Is America Closer to Ending Daylight Saving Time? (EditorDavid)
- Meta quietly launches a new Reddit-like app called Forum (Aisha Malik)
- Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, unclear whether it will notify those affected (Dissent)
- Microsoft’s new Copilot turns into a Windows 11 sidebar that pushes your apps aside to make room (Mayank Parmar)
More Link Collections
- C# Digest #609 – Streaming data without loading everything into memory (Jakub Chodounsky)
- Android Weekly Issue #728 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
- Azure Weekly #564 – 24th May 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
- The Batch: Hermes vs. OpenClaw, Cybersecurity Alarms Ring, More-Interactive Conversations, Can Agents Do Human Work? (DeepLearning.AI)
- F# Weekly #21, 2026 – Scriptorium, Elmish Land 2.0 Preview & RProvider 3.0 (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – May 22, 2026 (#790) (Richard Seroter)
- iOS Dev Weekly Issue #751 (Dave Verwer, Greg Fawson, Sriyank Siddhartha & Zachary Powell)
