Top Links
- Performance improvements to MEF-based editor productivity extensions in Visual Studio (Tina Schrepfer & Amadeus Wieczorek)
- Part 2: Building a Python CRUD API with Azure Functions and Azure Cosmos DB (Richa Gaur)
- Announcing our new Dart and Flutter Getting Started experience (Eric Windmill)
- Introducing Deno Sandbox (Ryan Dahl)
- Inside CodeMash 2026: A Geek Family Reunion (Powered by Microsoft MVPs) (Betsy Weber)
- Tech executive warns of AI agents becoming dangerous if users give too much access (w/ Scott Hanselman) (CBS News)
Web and Cloud Development
- Blazorise 1.8.10 – Table Scrolling & Globalization Improvements (Mladen Macanović)
- Top 5 Components for Building AI-Powered Blazor Applications (Héctor Pérez)
- Node.js 25.6.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
- Introducing Deno Sandbox (Simon Willison)
- Security Lingo Explained: JWT (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- How to build agentic frontend applications with CopilotKit (Emmanuel John)
- Deno Deploy is Generally Available (Andy Jiang)
Windows Development
- Mixing Rendering Technologies on Windows | DirectX (Joel Ivory Johnson)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7752 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7733 (Dev Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- A Rule-Based PHI and PII Risk Scanner for Documents Using C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
- How to Add Stamps to PDFs Using C# for Faster Reviews (Chinnu Muniyappan)
- Exploring the (underwhelming) System.Diagnostics.Metrics source generators: System.Diagnostics.Metrics APIs – Part 2 (Andrew Lock)
- Automatic Dependency Injection in C#: The Complete Guide to Needlr (Nick Cosentino)
- Creating recursion in TPL Dataflow with LinkTo predicates (Bart Wullems)
AI
- How to connect OpenShift Lightspeed MCP to your IDE (Diego Alvarez Ponce)
- Making LLMs boring: From chatbots to semantic processors (Ivo Bek)
- I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed (Reece Rogers)
- Building with Azure OpenAI Sora: A Complete Guide to AI Video Generation (suzarilshah)
- The 3Cs: A Framework for AI Agent Security (Srini Sekaran)
- Never Lose Your AI Agent’s Train of Thought (Bruno Capuano)
- Moltbook: Hype or the Singularity? (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
- Code quality feedback loops in AI dev workflows (Nick Tune)
- OpenAI scaled to a billion users on a single Postgres (Spencer Schneidenbach)
- Embedding Agentic RAG Widgets (Hassan Djirdeh)
- H Company’s new Holo2 model takes the lead in UI Localization (Ramzi De Coster, Hamza Benchekroun & Aurélien Lac)
- The importance of artifacts in AI-assisted programming (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- AI Is Now Your Attacker’s Best Friend (Luka Oniani)
- The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+ (Adina Yakefu & Irene Solaiman)
- Easy FunctionGemma finetuning with Tunix on Google TPUs (Wei Wei)
- Training Design for Text-to-Image Models: Lessons from Ablations (David Bertoin, Roman Frigg & Jon Almazán)
Python
- Python Typing Book Kickstarter (Mike Driscoll)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Glide: A Modern Kanban Board System (Greg Bair)
- Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One (Vitaly Friedman)
- My View of Software Engineering Has Changed For Good (Frantisek Lucivjansky)
- Am I doing a good job? (Eric Brechner)
- The Bigger Infinty: Exploring the Exploration Gap (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Working in Groups: Compromises or Contributions? (Tim Ottinger)
- Resource Allocation – A Clarification (Jeffrey Snover)
- Introducing Node Readiness Controller (Ajay Sundar Karuppasamy)
- The smallest build system (Evan Martin)
Mobile and Game Development
- Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding and Upcoming SDK minimum requirements (Apple)
- .NET MAUI v10.0.31 SR3.1 Release (Shane Neuville)
Screencasts and Videos
- Welcome to the Dart and Flutter tutorial! (Flutter Team)
- Recording Now Available from “Protect Our Future Memory” Webinar (Michael Menna)
- From Ancient Greeks to Modern Geeks – Basic Machine Learning Algorithms – NDC Manchester (Simon Painter)
- Configuring model context protocol in the GitHub Copilot CLI | demo (Scott Hanselman)
- Why Moltbook Matters (Even Though the Agents Aren’t Actually Trying to Take Over) (AIDailyBrief)
- Advanced Autonomous AI Agents: Memory, Collaboration and Evolution in Action – NDC Manchester (Andreas Wänqvist)
- Random.Code() – Fixing Attribute Targeting in CslaGeneratorSerializer (Among Other Things) (Jason Bock)
- Copilot Pages: Overview + live demo- January 2026 M365 Champions Community call (Tiffany Lee)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio Show #1022 – Getting Started using Purview with Erica Toelle (Richard Campbell)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #468 – A bolt of Django (Michael Kennedy)
- AI Agent and Copilot Podcast: Healthcare Leader Embraces Vibe Coding, Production AI Focus at Microsoft AI Tour (Tom Smith)
- The AI Fix Episode #86 – Anthropic discovers the axis of evil, and AI’s loneliness economy (Mark Stockley)
- The Slippery Slope — How Small Compromises Lead Teams to Abandon Scrum Entirely | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Juliana Stepanova)
- Lawyerist Podcast Episode #598 – From Hype to Practice: Using Microsoft Copilot in Your Law Firm, with Ben Schorr (Zack Glaser & Chad Fox)
Community and Events
- Some small stories about the giant satellite dish antenna that was behind Microsoft Building 11 (Raymond Chen)
- Igalia’s Response to the European Commission on the Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy (Igalia)
- Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative (Jeff Atwood)
Database
- Query Store Hint and Plan Guide Annoyances in SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- PostgreSQL on Azure supercharged for AI (Shireesh Thota)
- OPTICS Clustering Algorithm in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Deprecation notice: Teams Live Events meeting creation via Microsoft Graph (Microsoft Graph Team)
- Agents in OneDrive Now Generally Available: Your AI Assistant Built with Your Own Content (Rob Nunez)
- Navigating Microsoft Teams Docs: A Developer Survival Guide and Six Things All SharePoint Framework Developers Must Know (Andrew Connell)
- Microsoft Retires Standalone SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Plans (Rabia Noureen)
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | January 2026 – ISE Edition (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
- PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI (Steve Jones)
- Microsoft Teams events: A new unified experience makes it easier to discover, create, and manage events and Retiring Teams live events: The next chapter for events at scale in Microsoft Teams (Drew Blundell)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.402 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Azure CLI Windows MSI Upgrade Issue: Root Cause, Mitigation, and Performance Improvements (Alex-wdy)
Writing
- What Is The Best Free Online Grammar Checker? (Writers Write)
- Safety Tools for Writers Groups (Emily Munro)
Tools
- VS Code Team Member Blames User Trust Decisions in Repo-Based Attacks (David Ramel)
- What the fastest-growing tools reveal about how software is being built (Dylan Birtolo)
General
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