Top Links
- Scott Hanselman: The Future of Software Engineering – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #382 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Introducing Liquid Glass UI in .NET MAUI: Elevate Your App Design (Karthick Mani)
- Development Process with AI (Nick Randolph)
- AI IDEs – What Do You Choose? | Live! 360 Orlando 2025 (Brian A. Randall)
- How can I detect that the system is running low on memory? Or that my job is running low on memory? (Raymond Chen)
- Introducing Oh My Posh Visual Configurator: Finally, a Drag-and-Drop Terminal Theme Builder! ✨ (James Montemagno)
Web and Cloud Development
- Deno 2.6 Adds NPM And JSR Tool (Kay Ewbank)
- Now Generally Available: Azure Database for MySQL Triggers for Azure Functions (Saurabh Kirtani)
- Enterprise Patterns for ASP.NET Core Minimal API: Repository Pattern (Chris Woodruff)
- AWS Expands Well‑Architected Guidance with Data Residency and Hybrid Cloud Lens (Leela Kumili)
- Backstage Wrapped 2025: Celebrating a mature framework with modern foundations (Vincenzo Scamporlino)
- Data Fetching in Modern Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Aurelia 2 Beta 27: 13 Features and a Glimpse of What’s Next (Dwayne Charrington)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Building Chromium & V8 with Visual Studio 2026: December 2025 (j2inet)
- C# 14 Extension Members: Complete Guide to Properties, Operators, and Static Extensions (Laurent Kempe)
- TinyFFR – A Tiny Fixed Function Rendering library for C#/.NET 9+ (Ben Bowen)
- Preflighting PDF/UA Documents with TX Text Control in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- NordSharp – A .NET library & CLI tool to control NordVPN (Matěj Štágl)
- Weaving design, part 2 (Scott Wlaschin)
AI
- Microsoft AI in 2025: My Top 60 Announcements (Chronological) (Bruno Capuano)
- Microsoft Foundry Agent Service Simplifies State Management with Long-Term Memory Preview (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
- The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act Is Every Bit As Bad As You Would Expect. Maybe Worse. (Elizabeth Nolan Brown)
- 2025 was the year AI got a vibe check (Rebecca Bellan)
- Your AI workflow Is Missing a Composable Architecture (Temitope Oyedele)
- I Built a Claude Code Plugin That Unifies 10 AI Image Providers (Merlin Rabens)
- The latest AI news we announced in December (Google Keyword Team)
- Job Apocalypse? Not Yet. AI is Creating Brand New Occupations (msmash)
- Generative AI Apps Need an Ecosystem, Not Just a Prompt (Shanea Leven)
- AI-first debugging: Tools and techniques for faster root cause analysis (Alexander Godwin)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Kubernetes v1.35: Introducing Workload Aware Scheduling (Maciej Skoczeń & Dominik Marciński)
- Reduce GitHub Actions runner CPU usage (Gérald Barré)
- DZone Refcard #397 – Secrets Management Core Practices (Apostolos Giannakidis)
- Sharing the Journey: Why I Started Mentoring (Neel Bhatt)
- Bugs that survive the heat of continuous fuzzing (Antonio Morales)
- What Jeff Bezos Still Looks for in Hires, Even as AI Reshapes Work (TechRepublic Staff)
- DZone Refcard #375 – Cloud-Native Application Security Patterns and Anti-Patterns (Samir Behara)
Screencasts and Videos
- Insert Wisdom Episode #19 – Why I’m Weirdly Optimistic About 2026 + What I Read in 2025 (Kate Hill)
- PDF Diff – Compare PDFs privately and securely in your browser (James Montemagno)
- Real Time Monitoring with Real-life Use Cases using Database Watcher | Live! 360 Orlando 2025 (Daniel Taylor)
- Why 2026 is the Year of the AI Builder with Lovable CEO Anton Osika (AIDailyBrief)
- YAML Got You Down? Try TAML! | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2025 Playthrough – Part 8 (Jason Bock)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- When a Distributed Team’s Energy Vanishes into the Virtual Void | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and When the Gospel of Agile Becomes a Barrier to Change | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Steve Martin)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – War of the dots. Why we say ‘pitch black.’ Pitch hot. (Mignon Fogarty, Karen Lunde & Samantha Enslen)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – How AI is helping us build better communities (Phoebe Sajor)
- Tiny Wins, Big Impact: Accessibility, MCP, and the Future of Open Source at GitHub (Cassidy Williams, Abigail Cabunoc Mayes & Helen Hou-Sandí)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #532 – 2025 Python Year in Review (Michael Kennedy)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Building PowerShell Tools You Wish Existed with Jorge Suarez (James Petty)
Community and Events
- Looking Ahead to 2026 (Satya Nadella)
- 20 Years of Make: Triumph of the Makers (Tim O’Reilly)
- 2025 Year in Review: Advocacy at Redgate, Part I (Kellyn Gorman)
- Looking Back at 2025: Learning, Architecture, and the Year AI Became Practical (Marco Siccardi)
- Duende Year-End Review 2025: A Year of Standards, Success, and Community (Damian Hickey)
- Meta just bought Manus, an AI startup everyone has been talking about (Connie Loizos)
Database
- How to View SQL Server Object Code Easily with sp_showcode (Rodrigo Ribeiro Gomes)
- Azure SQL Database Sharding: How It Works, Why It Matters, and How to Distribute Data Across Shards (Mohamed Baioumy)
PowerShell and Terminal
- 3 Easy PowerShell Scripting Tips for Coding Masochists (skatterbrainzz)
Writing
- A Year of Writing for Myself (That 230,000+ People Read) (Matheus Lima)
- 15 Phrases True Grammar Nerds Would Never Confuse (Ellen Gutoskey)
- Writing Secret 21: Publish Even If You Think It’s Not Perfect (Johanna Rothman)
Tools
- Build Your First Autonomous Coding Workflow with Syncfusion Code Studio Agent Mode (Ganesan Rengasamy)
General
- Commodore 64 Ultimate Review: An Astonishing Remake (Matt Kamen)
- Goldman Sachs Says Some Clients’ Data May Have Been Exposed in Law Firm Data Breach (Dissent)
- Exclusive: Lenovo has Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2-E88-100) and X2 Plus PCs up its sleeve for CES 2026 (Abhijith M B)
- Udacity Offers 40% Off (Alex Denham)
- Solid-state EV battery maker to go public after successful 745-mile test in $1,100,000,000 deal (Molly Davidson)
- Windows on Arm had another good year (Antonio G. Di Benedetto)
