Author: Alvin A.

Top Links

• Build an AI-Powered Rich Text Editor in .NET MAUI with AI AssistView (Tamilarasan Gunasekaran)
• Getting started with the GitHub Copilot SDK in .NET (Bart Wullems)
• Claude Code inside Obsidian — academic research skills, inline diff editing, MCP support (hkcanan)
• Merge Conflict Episode #514 – Running Local LLMs in VS Code (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Syncing Claude Memory Across Workstations (Rocky Lhotka)
• Streamline Aspire SDK Updates with GitHub Actions (Christian Nagel)

Web and Cloud Development

• Using AWS Locally with MiniStack and .NET (Ricardo Peres)
• Refactoring an ASP.NET Core API with clean architecture (David Grace)
• Using CSS corner-shape For Folded Corners (Daniel Schwarz)
• Building a REST API With Express Framework and MongoDB (Nic Raboy)
• Using configurable token lifetimes in Microsoft Entra ID, .NET and Microsoft Graph (Damien Bowden)
• How to Build Semantic Search for Documentation with NestJS, Qdrant and Xenova (Christian Nwamba)
• Implementing the Sidecar Pattern in Microservices-based ASP.NET Core Applications (Joydip Kanjilal)
• Go 1.26.3-1 and 1.25.10-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
• What’s New in Microsoft Entra: May 2026 (Martin Coetzer)

Windows Development

• Developing more confidence when tracking renames via Read­Directory­ChangesW (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing new Windows Insider builds for 8 May 2026 (Stephen Lines)

.NET and Visual Studio

• How AI Is Changing the Role of .NET Developers (Giang Mai Hoang)
• BackgroundService exceptions now propagate in .NET 11 (Steven Giesel)
• StyloBot Release Series: Finding and Fixing Unbounded Growth in Long-Running .NET Services (Scott Galloway)
• LINQ Filtering in C#: Where, Any, All, Contains, and OfType and LINQ Projection in C#: Select, SelectMany, and Flattening Collections (Nick Cosentino)
• C#: Inheritance vs Composition — When to Use Each and Why AI Can’t Decide for You (Chris PIetschmann)
• Collection Performance: AddRange() vs. InsertRange() When Populating Lists (David McCarter)

AI

• You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs (James Shore)
• The Codex Handbook: A Practical Guide to OpenAI’s Coding Platform (Tatev Aslanyan)
• From Pet Projects to +20 Open Source NuGet Packages, Thanks to GitHub Copilot (Bruno Capuano)
• Building AI Agents with Local Small Language Models (Shittu Olumide)
• The left-wing case for AI and AI makes weak engineers less harmful (Sean Goedecke)
• Updates to Bugbot for Teams and Individuals (Cursor Team)
• GitHub Copilot SDK v1.0.0-beta.3 Release (github-actions[bot])
• OpenAI Codex arrives in the browser with new Chrome extension (Paul Sawers)
• 6 Multi-Agent Orchestration Design Patterns Every Developer Should Know (Chris Pietschmann)
• CyberSecQwen-4B: Why Defensive Cyber Needs Small, Specialized, Locally-Runnable Models (Samuel)
• Running Codex safely at OpenAI (OpenAI Team)
• Hugging Face Launches Agentic Toolkit For Reachy Mini (Lucy Black)
• MVVM Toolkit Skills | awesome-copilot (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML (Simon Willison)
• Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (Brian Grinstead, Christian Holler & Frederik Braun)
• Talkie 1930 – a Hugging Face space trained exclusively upon pre-1931 English-language text (multimodalart)
• Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data On the Open Web (BeauHD)
• OpenAI Moves Closer to “Super App” Vision as Codex Expands Into Agentic, Cross-Platform AI System (Kieron Allen)
• AI Agents Have Two Souls. You Only Control One. (Andrea Chiarelli)
• OpenSpec – a lightweight AI-driven spec framework (Dan Clarke)
• Shooting yourself in the foot with AI (Rob Bos)
• go/v1.0.0-beta.3: Fix SDK documentation typos (#1235) | GitHub Copilot SDK Releases (Stephen Toub)
• No Dumb Questions: What is an MCP server and why do I care? (Phoebe Sajor)
• Amazon Relents, Lets its Programmers Use OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude (EditorDavid)
• Fighting Tool Sprawl: The Case for AI Tool Registries (Peter Richards)
• Why AI is Killing the Hourly Rate (Arnold Gamboa)
• LLM pricing has never made sense (Gavin Anderegg)
• The Dual-Spec Skill Stack (Paul J. Swider)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• How researchers are using GitHub Innovation Graph data to reveal the “digital complexity” of nations (Kevin Xu)
• Does Fidelity’s Reorganization Signal the Beginning of the End for ‘Small-Team Agile’? (BeauHD)
• Signed CycloneDX SBOMs for CRA Compliance Available for Text Control Products (Bjoern Meyer)
• Why age assurance laws matter for developers (Margaret Tucker)
• Scaling ArchUnit with Nebula ArchRules (John Burns & Emily Yuan)
• Cleaning up master → main without creating a mess you have to clean up later (Shannon Kuehn)

Mobile and Game Development

• Unity AI is genuinely useful, and make your own Steam Controller! (Code Monkey)
• Capacitor 9 Starts Here (Eric Horodyski)

Screencasts and Videos

• Trust, Design, and the Reality of Security Engineering in an AI-Driven World | NDC Security 2026 (Patricia R.)
• Random.Code() – Adding Replacement Capabilities to Rocks, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
• Insert Wisdom Episode #21 – My Trip to Europe Changed my Life (Kate Hill)
• Technology & Friends – Vlad Avesalon and Alex Nova on world.org and the World App (David Giard)
• Add Inventory Interactions with Runtime Data Binding in UI Toolkit | Inventory & Equipment Pt4 (Stacey Haffner)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 312 – “IoT is a Trade” (It’s not an ivory tower gig!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• The Week the AI Story Shifted (AIDailyBrief)
• Why was TypeScript created? | One Dev Question (Amanda Silver)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Deploying .NET Applications to Azure: Learn how to deploy and host .NET applications to Azure. (Mohamad Lawand) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Lenny’s Podcast – How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author (Lenny Rachitsky)
• PPP 508 | Why Where You Work May Matter More Than How You Work. The Indoor Epidemic, with Dr. John La Puma (Andy Kaufman)
• Big Technology Podcast – The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope? (Alex Kantrowitz)
• AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #023 – AI in Hollywood, Mining Innovations, Memory Models, and Podcast Automation (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #294 – Declarative Charts in Python & Discerning Iterators vs Iterables (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
• A Geek Leader Episode #468 – Dr. Henry Cloud (John Rouda)
• From Desk-Pounding to Harmony — How the Game of Go Transformed a Violent Product Owner, and Why Every Employee Should Think Like an Owner | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Peter Merel)
• InfoQ Podcast: The AI Joy Gap: Why Some Developers Thrive While Others Struggle (Michael Parker)

Community and Events

• NYT: ‘Meta’s Embrace of AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable’ (EditorDavid)
• Cloudflare To Cut About 20% Workforce As AI Adoption Reshapes Operations (BeauHD)
• Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no. (Julie Bort)
• Job listings for week ending 5/8 and Call For Papers Listings for 5/8 (Leon Adato)
• Open Source Registries Join Linux Foundation Working Group to Address Machine-Generated Traffic (EditorDavid)

Database

• Learn T-SQL With Erik: Nonclustered Index Interactions (Erik Darling)
• Generate Embeddings Function and External Model Object Support Are Now Generally Available in Azure SQL (Aaron Saidi)
• MySQL 9.7: First Major LTS Since 8.4 Brings Enterprise Features to Community Edition (Renato Losio)
• How DataOps principles help to reduce GenAI risk and improve data quality (John Kerski)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Microsoft confirms new features coming to Outlook and Outlook Classic in May 2026 (Rahul Naskar)
• Help Shape the Future of Microsoft Teams for Small and Medium Businesses (Miikka Oksanen)
• Announcing the public preview of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Evaluations tool (Barry Gervin & Sai Deepthi Kovvuru)

PowerShell and Terminal

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.44 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])

Writing

• 7 Gripping Dystopian Plot Ideas For Writers and What Is An Unreliable Narrator? 9 Types Every Writer Should Know (Writers Write)

Tools

• Paint.NET 5.2 Alpha (build 9625) (Rick Brewster)
• Simple QR Code Maker Version 2 is Here and It’s Free Forever (Joseph Finney)
• NanaZip 6.0 Update 7 (6.0.1711.0) (Mouri Naruto)

General

• Discover: A Love Letter To RSS (brine.dev)
• Rising Fuel Prices Are Making Return‑to‑Office Mandates Harder to Defend (Kit Eaton)
• The Trump Phone Either Is Or Isn’t Closer To Delivery (EditorDavid)
• 30 Days of coreutils: cat (Rachel Kaufman)
• Apple reportedly has a deal to use Intel-made chips again (Jay Peters)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest: Removing byte array allocations using ReadOnlySpan (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Daily Reading List – May 8, 2026 (#780) (Richard Seroter)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 3, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
• Android Weekly Issue #726 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
• Azure Weekly #562 – 10th May 2026 (Howard van Rooijen)
• F# Weekly #19, 2026 – Understanding Compilers Through an Algebraic Expression Compiler (Sergey Tihon)
• iOS Dev Weekly Issue #750 (Dave Verwer)
• The Batch #351: GPT-5.5 Outperforms (and Hallucinates), Kimi K2.6 Leads Open LLMs, AI Strains Climate Pledges, Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans and The Batch #352: Seedance Makes A Splash, Nvidia’s AI-Guided Chip Designs, Helping Robots Not Forget (DeepLearning.AI)
• Reading List 358 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C#.