Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - May 17

Published on Wednesday, May 20, 2026

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Open-source

Raising the bar: Quality, shared responsibility, and the future of GitHub's bug bounty program by Jarom Brown

GitHub availability report: April 2026 by Jakub Oleksy

Software Architecture

On mashing up modelling techniques for fun and profit by Oskar Dudycz

From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance by Alexander Lelidis

Why Sagas Feel Broken by Derek Comartin

.NET

NuGet Package Pruning: Cleaner Dependencies and Actionable Vulnerability Reports by Nikolche Kolev

Blazor - How to set a base component for all Razor components by Gérald Barré

ASP .NET Core Bootstrap toast by Karen Payne

When Your Use Case Half-Succeeds: Designing for Partial Failure in .NET by Milan Jovanović

Running background tasks in Blazor with Web Workers by Andrew Lock

Conferences and Speaking

Stir Trek 2026 - When Logs Tell the Whole Story by Barret Blake

VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026: Send Your Team Home With Working Code by Jim Harrer

Process API Improvements in .NET 11 by Adam Sitnik

Critter Stack 2026 Releases are Underway by Jeremy D. Miller

.NET MAUI Moves to CoreCLR in .NET 11 by David Ortinau

Agent Skills in Visual Studio: Teach Copilot How Your Team Works by Simona Liao

.NET 11 Preview 4 is now available! by .NET Team

.NET and .NET Framework May 2026 servicing releases updates by Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

REST/APIs

Which of Fastify's many OpenAPI plugins are the best? by Phil Sturgeon

Azure

Exponential backoff and circuit breaker for Service Bus-triggered Azure Functions by Swapnil Nagar

May Patches for Azure DevOps Server by Gloridel Morales

From beta to stable: Announcing the Azure SDK for Rust 🎉🦀 by Ronnie Geraghty

Software Development

Take your local GitHub sessions anywhere by Candy Ho, Ellie Bennett

AI

GitHub Copilot individual plans: Introducing flex allotments in Pro and Pro+, and a new Max plan by Joe Binder

Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI by Lee Reilly

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