Top Links
- Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code Is Now Generally Available (Daniel Carrasco & Sarah Critchley)
- Introducing the Visual Studio MCP Server! (Calvin Allen)
- Introducing the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2: Generative AI on Raspberry Pi 5 (Naush Patuck)
- Announcing GPT‑5.2‑Codex in Microsoft Foundry: Enterprise‑Grade AI for Secure Software Engineering (Naomi Moneypenny)
- Choosing the Right .NET MAUI Picker: Date, Time, and Lists Made Simple (Hariram Subramanian)
- Advanced Function Calling and Multi-Agent Systems with Small Language Models in Foundry Local (Abdulhamid Onawole)
- Visual Studio 2026 Release Notes – January Update 18.2.0 (Microsoft Learn)
Web and Cloud Development
- Aurelia 2 Release Candidate: It’s Finally Happening (Dwayne Charrington)
- New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes (Jen Simmons & Brandon Stewart)
- Open Source Whamm: Use WebAssembly To Monitor and Fix Running Apps (B. Cameron Gain)
- The React Framework Face-Off: Which One Owns the Future? (Loraine Lawson)
- Build a Next.js 16 PWA with true offline support (Jude Miracle)
- Pulumi IAM Now Available for Self-Hosted Pulumi Cloud (Arun Loganathan)
- Encrypting Properties with System.Text.Json and a TypeInfoResolver Modifier (Part 1) (Steve Gordon)
- How does Aspire expose resource connection info to the Azure Functions runtime? (Safia Abdalla)
- Stop Building SPAs for Every Screen: htmx + ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Workshop (Open) (Chris Woodruff)
- 5 Document Workflows You Can Automate With JavaScript Rich Text Editor (Deepika Kathiravan)
- EPUB and HTML – Survey results and next steps (W3C)
- Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour (Andy Clarke)
- Building Resilient APIs with the Retry Pattern (Assis Zang)
Windows Development
.NET and Visual Studio
- Simple OCR and NER Feature Extraction in C# with ONNX (Scott Galloway)
- Visual Studio 2026 v18.3.0 Insiders release notes (Microsoft Learn)
AI
- 31 Days of Vibe Coding – Day 15: Context, Tokens, and When to Compact (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Trick to fix DevUI Workflow Errors in Microsoft Agent Framework (Bruno Capuano)
- Bridging the gap between AI and medicine: Claude in Microsoft Foundry advances capabilities for healthcare and life sciences customers (Steve Sweetman)
- How Replit Secures AI-Generated Code [white paper] (Replit Team)
- Symfony AI v0.2.0 Released: Feature Breakdown and Practical Guide (James Miller)
- Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files (Simon Willison)
- Unlocking Hugging Face Gated Models in Microsoft Foundry (vaidyas)
- Securing the Browser Era – From Cloud to AI: A blog series on protecting the modern workspace (lmurthy)
- Gemini is winning (David Pierce)
- Web Development Agent Skills – A curated collection of Agent Skills for web development projects (Schalk Neethling)
- Community-powered security with AI: an open source framework for security research (Kevin Backhouse)
- How AI Will Transform Open Source Business Models (Aaron Stannard)
- Knowledge Boxes in Progress Agentic RAG (Hassan Djirdeh)
- What’s next in AI: 7 trends to watch in 2026 (Susanna Ray)
- Get started with GitLab Duo Agent Platform: The complete guide (Itzik Gan Baruch)
- Hands On with Copilot Vision: VS Code’s Head Start and How the IDE Is Catching Up (David Ramel)
- Satya Nadella Outlines the Next Chapter in AI: Real-World Systems (Kieron Allen)
- AI-powered Slack workflows for PMs who hate dashboards (Zeynep Cansu Yildirim)
- What’s Next in AI? Field notes from Microsoft Research for 2026. (Microsoft Research)
- The Problem with AI “Artists” (Anjali Ramakrishnan)
- Better Context Will Always Beat a Better Model (Saqib Jan)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0b260114 Release (giles17)
- Adding Aspire to a Python RAG Application (Eric Erhardt)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- 8 lessons from tech leadership on scaling teams and AI (Eira May)
- How Ralph Wiggum Built a Serverless SaaS with Pulumi (Engin Diri)
- Solve for One, Extend to Many (Ed Essey)
- The Real Healthcare Automation Problem Isn’t Workflow. It’s Fragmented Document Processing (Bjoern Meyer)
- Caught in the Middle: The New Role of Platform Teams (Yaron Yarimi)
Mobile and Game Development
- Visualizing Geo-Spatial Data in .NET MAUI with Interactive Charts and Maps (Kompelli Sravan Kumar Kompelli Lakshman)
Screencasts and Videos
- ChatGPT 5.5 Rumors Start to Bubble (AIDailyBrief)
- Start using coding agents – live walkthrough (Warp Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Building the Online Etymology Dictionary, with Doug Harper (Mignon Fogarty)
- Adventures in DevOps Podcast Episode #261 – Project Yellow Brick Road: Creative, Practical, and Unconventional Engineering (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- .NET Rocks! – App Distribution on Windows with Shmueli Englard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Changelog and Friends Podcast Episode #123 – The GitHub problem (and other predictions) (Mat Ryer, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #703 – Sahaj Garg on Low Latency AI (Robert Blumen)
- AI & I Podcast – Why Your AI Learning Projects Keep Fizzling Out (Rhea Purohit)
- AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Taylor Dorward Defines Impact of Accessibility in Business, Unlocking Employee Potential (John Siefert)
- Beyond the AI Fear—Discovering What Makes Scrum Masters Truly Irreplaceable | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mohini Kissoon)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #970 – Why Did Anthropic Buy Bun? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Community and Events
- Join our free livestream series on building agents in Python (Pamela Fox)
- Women For Technical Talks: Building Visibility, Confidence, and Impact (Cristina Gonzalez-Herrero)
- GeekWire’s ‘Agents of Transformation’ event will explore what’s next in AI (Todd Bishop)
- Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 — Call for Proposals Is Now Open (Jay Gordon)
- Join us for the SharePoint at 25 Birthday Event (Jeff Teper)
- Gates Foundation will cut up to 500 positions by 2030 to help reach ‘ambitious goals’ (Taylor Soper)
- Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public (Sarah Perez)
Database
- Upgrading to SQL Server 2025: Three Lessons Learned (Aaron Bertrand)
- Runing tSQLt Tests with Claude (Ed Elliott)
- Getting Your Data GenAI-Ready: The Next Stage of Data Maturity (James Serra)
- A Neat Trick with Using SELECT to Assign Variable Values (Erik Darling)
- SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Winter 2026 (Brent Ozar)
- SQL Prompt Product Updates – January 2026 (Adam Atreides)
General
- Britain Awards Wind Farm Contracts That Will Power 12 Million Homes (BeauHD)
- 2025: The Year of the Return of the Ada Programming Language? (Darryl K. Taft)
- Supreme Court Hacked, Proving Its Cybersecurity Is As Robust As Its Ethical Code (Joe Patrice)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1371 (Canary Channel) (Windows Insider Team)
- If you’re a Zoomer, this one’s for you: Everything Gen Z needs to know about the 2025 tech landscape (Phoebe Sajor)
- Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you’ll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud (Jez Corden)
- Lock your Windows 11 PC remotely (Mahima N.)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – January 14, 2026 (#700) (Richard Seroter)
