Top Links
- RunAs Radio Show #1016 – What Windows Wants for Christmas with Paul Thurrott (Richard Campbell)
- Hello, <T>here: generics are here for nanoFramework (José Simões)
- Change.org petition seeks to revive Windows Phone, and dozens are signing up! (including me … ) — “Third time’s a charm.” (Jez Corden)
- Visual Studio 2026: How AI Is Transforming the Way Developers Code (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)
- #GitHubUnwrapped – Your coding year in review (Remotion)
- Modern C# Development: Custom Exceptions Made Simple (Lou Creemers)
Web and Cloud Development
- How to Allowlist IP Addresses in WordPress (Step-by-Step Guide) (Jen Swisher)
- Is WordPress Free? Yes and No — Here’s Why (Priscilla Tan)
- Host ChatGPT apps on Azure Functions (Lily Ma)
- What’s New in Blazor 2025 Volume 4: Performance Enhancements and Key Updates (Rajendran R.)
- Exploring the Blazor Chat Component (Héctor Pérez)
- Web Components Are the Comeback Nobody Saw Coming (Alexander T. Williams)
Windows Development
- Microsoft confirms “eliminate C and C++” plan, translate code to Rust using AI, as Windows 11 adopts Rust and WebView2 (Mayank Parmar)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Evolving Intelligence: Evolutionary Algorithms and Neural Networks in C# (Piotr Kolodziej)
- Procurement Comparison: TX Text Control .NET Server vs Aspose (Words + PDF) (Bjoern Meyer)
- Mastering Deployment: An Easy Guide About Modern Docker Workflow for Deploying .NET 10 application (Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri)
- New Release: Oracle Spatial Data in Entity Framework Core (Alex Keh)
- Complying with the Law with F# and Event Sourcing (Pedro León)
AI
- Build Composable Storefronts Smarter and Faster with the PWA Kit MCP Server (Wei Liu)
- The Model Context Protocol’s impact on 2025 (Richard Gall)
- The Ten Commandments of LLM Use (Scott Galloway)
- 5 Agentic Coding Tips & Tricks (Nahla Davies)
- What Are RAG Embeddings? (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Pretraining a Llama Model on Your Local GPU (Adrian Tam)
- AprielGuard: A Guardrail for Safety and Adversarial Robustness in Modern LLM Systems (Jaykumar Kasundra)
- How to Fine-Tune a Local Mistral or Llama 3 Model on Your Own Dataset (Shittu Olumide)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0b251223 Release (Dmytro Struk)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Kubernetes v1.35: Fine-grained Supplemental Groups Control Graduates to GA (Shingo Omura)
- The State of Electronic and Digital Signatures (E-Signatures) in Business Applications (2025) (Bjoern Meyer)
- Strengthening supply chain security: Preparing for the next malware campaign (Madison Oliver)
- How to deploy and benchmark vLLM with GuideLLM on Kubernetes (Harshith Umesh)
- Jenkins 2.543 and 2.541.1: New Linux Repository Signing Keys (Mark Waite & Damien Duportal)
- On Friday Deploys: Sometimes that Puppy Needs Murdering (xpost) (Charity Majors)
Mobile and Game Development
- Best Flutter Features in 2025 (Majid Hajian)
- How to Use GenUI in Flutter to Build Dynamic, AI-Driven Interfaces (Atuoha Anthony)
Screencasts and Videos
- How AI Starts Doing the Work in 2026 with Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger (AIDailyBrief)
- Larry Osterman’s Badge Story – 100 Years of Microsoft Stories (Larry Osterman)
- Christmas C# with LEDs and Pi! | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Can You Really Trust AI-Generated Code? – JavaScript Jabber Episode #699 (Charles Max Wood)
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #17 – What Does 1 Trillion Web Pages Sound Like? (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
- Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Episode #609 – Stephen King Movies Part 1 Review (with Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, Tom Gerencer) (David Barr Kirtley)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #700 – Mojtaba Sarooghi on Waiting Rooms for High-Traffic Events (Jeremy Jung)
- The AI Fix Episode #82 – Santa Claus doesn’t exist (according to AI) (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- AI Unprompted Episode #011 – The Future of Education and AI (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Xmas Special: Why project management tools fail software development – and what works instead! | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
- Boagworld Podcast Episode #29 – Surviving Crisis: Lessons from Higher Ed’s Financial Storm (Paul Boag)
Community and Events
- When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates (Raymond Chen)
- The Year We Shipped AI, Secured Funding, and Partnered with Microsoft (Matt Mattei)
- Maker Community Responds to Prusa’s New Open Community License (Sam Freeman)
- Refactoring a Career Through Consistency: TodayCode’s Joeun Park’s MVP Story (Soyoung Lee)
Database
- How Filters and Sorting can Derail SQL Pagination Performance (Aaron Bertrand)
- Using REGEXP_COUNT to Count Strings in SQL Server 2025 (Jared Westover)
- T-SQL Scalar UDF Plan Caching and Reuse in SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – December 2025 (Vesa Juvonen)
- Generative AI Video Comes to Microsoft 365 Copilot Create (Michael Gannotti)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Start with the FabricTools PowerShell module (Kamil Nowinski)
Tools
- Dev Feed Curator v3.2.1 Release for VS Code (Alvin Ashcraft)
General
- Meta Is Using The Linux Scheduler Designed For Valve’s Steam Deck On Its Servers (BeauHD)
- Christmas gifts for you from the freeCodeCamp community: Learn Python, SQL, Spanish, and more (Quincy Larson)
- Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 using AI after an employee’s “one engineer, one month, one million code” post on LinkedIn causes outrage (Mayank Parmar)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – December 22 (Peter Ritchie)
