Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog

Experienced software developer & IC. Dual MS MVP. FOSS creator, maintainer, & contributor. Loves C#, .NET, PowerShell, AutoHotkey, DevOps. Automate Everything!

[Isra @israfill]

Microsoft launched their own coding AI and it's FREE inside GitHub Copilot starting today 😳

not rented from OpenAI. built by Microsoft.

it's called MAI-Code-1-Flash and it's rolling out to ALL copilot tiers right now

part of microsoft's new MAI model family:

- MAI-Code-1-Flash (coding)
- MAI-Thinking-1 (reasoning, 35B params)
- MAI-Image-2.5 (image gen)
- MAI-Transcribe-1.5 (speech, 43 languages)

who gets it:

- free plan ✅
- pro plan ✅
- pro+ plan ✅
- max plan ✅

what makes it different:

- trained inside copilot's production environment, not externally tested then shipped
- 60% fewer tokens on complex tasks vs comparable models
- 85.8% on microsoft adversarial coding benchmark
- 256K context window

full setup guide (github copilot + MAI-Code-1-Flash - free):

step 1: create a free github account
> go to https://t.co/mkeXAMP9Eb
> sign up for free

step 2: enable github copilot
> go to https://t.co/MnxnSLslnO
> select the free plan - no credit card needed

step 3: install the VS Code extension
> open VS Code
> press ctrl+shift+x (windows) or cmd+shift+x (mac)
> search "GitHub Copilot"
> install the extension by GitHub

step 4: sign in
> VS Code will show a "Sign in to GitHub" prompt
> click it, approve in the browser, return to VS Code

step 5: open copilot chat
> press ctrl+shift+i (windows) or cmd+shift+i (mac)
> the chat panel opens on the right side

step 6: select MAI-Code-1-Flash
> click the model dropdown at the bottom of the chat panel
> choose MAI-Code-1-Flash from the list
> done

already have copilot? skip straight to step 5

microsoft built this without openai data, free coding model wars are getting serious.

bookmark this and start using this free model 🔖

[Vaishnavi @_vmlops]

MICROSOFT OPEN-SOURCED A GOVERNANCE LAYER FOR YOUR AI AGENTS

and it's exactly what agentic ai has been missing

here's what agent governance toolkit does:

▫️ intercepts every tool call in deterministic code before it hits the wire denied actions aren't unlikely, they're structurally impossible
▫️ yaml policy engine lets you allow, deny, or require human approval per action
▫️ zero-trust identity via spiffe/did/mtls no more 5 agents sharing one api key
▫️ 4-level execution sandbox with privilege rings so agents can't escape their scope
▫️ tamper-evident merkle audit logs for compliance and incident response
▫️ covers all 10/10 owasp agentic top 10 risks
▫️ works with langchain, crewai, autogen, openai agents sdk, semantic kernel, and more

one pip install...any framework...python, typescript, go, rust, .net all supported

because "please follow the rules" in a system prompt is not a guardrail...it's a suggestion

https://t.co/bwW7iVMNdE

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Amazon Ring died on May 22, 2026.

It just doesn't know yet.

One dad in Nashville, Tennessee built a free MIT-licensed app that watches your driveway, your porch, your baby monitor, your garage.

No cloud. No subscription. No cop ever gets the footage.

32,057 stars. 3,103 forks. Pushed today.

Here is the wildest part:

You: "How much is Ring Protect Pro?"
Ring: "$19.99 a month. $199.99 a year. Per house."

You: "How much is Google Home Premium Advanced?"
Google: "$20 a month. $200 a year. Per house."

You: "What do I get?"
Both: "We store your footage in our cloud. Ring already paid the FTC $5.8 million in 2023 for letting employees and contractors watch your videos without your consent. Google just raised Nest prices again in 2025."

You: "What does Frigate cost?"
Blake Blackshear: "Nothing. It runs on the Raspberry Pi already on your shelf. The footage never leaves your house. I have a day job."

Ring sells the camera. Then sells your fear back to you, monthly, forever.

Frigate sells nothing. Because Blake isn't selling.

He's a dad with 1,267 followers who got tired of Amazon owning his front door.

100% Opensource.
100% Local.
100% Yours.

The smart camera industry made one bad assumption.

That you'd keep paying rent on a camera you already bought.

That assumption just died in Nashville.

[Pierce Boggan @pierceboggan]

VS Code was already used by millions of developers for agentic coding. However, the editor layout has traditionally been optimized for single-task and single-workspace workflows.

Today, we're introducing a new window to enable our users (and ourselves!) to work with multiple agents across multiple projects: Agents.

Now available in VS Code stable!

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️🚨 Microsoft calls this "intended behaviour," so here we go.

How to dump the credentials of every user stored in Microsoft Edge:

1. Open Edge. Don't browse anywhere, just open it.
2. Flip to Task Manager, find Edge, expand the task.
3. Highlight the "browser" sub-task, right-click, and choose "Create Memory Dump."
4. Open the dump file and look for credentials.

The logged-in Windows user can dump every stored Edge credential with no additional rights. Which means any malware that user executes has those credentials for the asking.

Thanks to Rob VandenBrink at SANS: https://t.co/ebtVZxne4L

[Mads Kristensen @mkristensen]

Remember the old Visual Studio Macros?

They’re back! Now fully modernized with real C# scripts (full IntelliSense!), record & replay, and the entire VS extensibility model behind them.

Automate anything in VS… and literally anything else C# can do. 🚀
https://t.co/COtw7DIZyb

[Carlos Mendible @cmendibl3]

📢Introducing GitHub Quick Review (ghqr)

A free, open-source CLI that scans your GitHub orgs & repos against best practices.

One command. Full posture report. 📊

👉 https://t.co/olmi8Q66F7

[Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @deadlydog]

I host website PR previews with their own public URL for free on #GitHub Pages (no 3rd party host needed), so I can preview what the PR site would look like before merging it in. Read how I did it at: https://t.co/bCWjQ5D3qj

[Mads Kristensen @mkristensen]

I updated the Document Health extension for Visual Studio to show inline error messages, background coloring, and margin glyphs - making it easier to spot errors.

Try it out: https://t.co/G7eneoviSp

[Thomas Thornton @tamstar1234]

[New blog post] Packaging GitHub Copilot Agents and Skills with Agent Package Manager

If you are building GitHub Copilot agents and skills across multiple repositories, creating them is usually the easy part. Keeping them consistent across teams and repos is where things start to get messy.📦

In this post, I look at how Agent Package Manager gives you a cleaner way to package and share GitHub Copilot agents, skills, and supporting MCP configuration without relying on copy-and-paste across .github folders. ⚡

https://t.co/kJvXeCU9TV

#GitHubCopilot #MCP #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #AIEngineering

[Tomas Meszaros @tmeszar]

Copilot CLI just got a nice QoL improvement: you can export your session timeline with "/share html" as a self-contained HTML file with built-in search and filtering. I’ve found this especially useful for visualizing what happened during a session and debugging agent workflows.

[Andrea @acolombiadev]

https://t.co/aGeoTicMn7

[Florian S @airesearch12]

do this to protect yourself against supply chain attacks

$ cat ~/.npmrc
min-release-age=7

$ cat ~/.config/uv/uv.toml
exclude-newer = "7 days"

[Mads Kristensen @mkristensen]

Experimenting with bookmarks in Visual Studio. Check it out: https://t.co/D4W9vzkjcE

[Mads Kristensen @mkristensen]

You can now work with your notebooks in Visual Studio. You can even debug the C# cells and call into the code in your solution from the notebooks. Check it out https://t.co/0CiRgKcGfq

[Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @deadlydog]

When's the last time you decommissioned an application? Did you miss anything?

https://t.co/zySRQONviM

[anul agarwal @anulagarwal]

You all are overthinking your side projects.

>This guy made digital balls physically bounce off real objects/sticky notes using just a webcam, a projector, and JavaScript.

Go build something fun.

(via ig/bongyunng)

[Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @deadlydog]

If you work in #VisualStudio you'll want to check out these awesome extensions by the one-and-only @mkristensen

https://t.co/LYH8rsP393

[Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @deadlydog]

@awakecoding Same, here’s to hoping I get renewed as an MVP again 😅. Will definitely have to chat again down the road 👍

[Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @deadlydog]

Had a great week of learning at #MVPSummit. Chatted with old friends and made some new ones. Already looking forward to doing it again next year. Now taking a break in the sunshine (finally got sun on the last day!) before playing with the new shiny stuff later.

[Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @deadlydog]

@mkristensen @bradygaster_dev I just used squad yesterday to build a VS Code extension to open a specific file line on the remote git server (GutHub, AzDO, BitBucket, etc). It was so easy! Then I discovered the Git Web Links extension that already does it, so I retired mine. Still a fun experiment tho!