Top Links
- XAML Studio is now Open Sourced (Michael Hawker)
- Scott & Mark Learn To… Get Ready for Ignite (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- Enabling Image Paste in Flutter (Emmanuel David Tuksa)
- 31 Days of Vibe Coding – Day 7: Context Management (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Microsoft Copilot MCP: Unlocking the Power of the Model Context Protocol (Brien Posey)
- The Untold Story of Visual Basic (Frank La Vigne)
- Microsoft (MSFT) Plans Thousands of January Job Cuts as AI Spending Accelerates (Ran Melamed)
Web and Cloud Development
- Why Component Libraries Like Blazorise Are Key to Blazor’s Adoption (Mladen Macanović)
- End-to-End Observability for .NET on Azure: OpenTelemetry, Application Insights, and Azure Monitor (Sudhir Mangla)
- Proposed Advancement of Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1 to W3C Recommendation (W3C)
- Azure Maps: Understanding View vs. Routing Coordinates (IoT Girl)
- Serverless Cloud Architecture Is Failing Modern AI Agents (Abigail Wall)
- How GitHub could secure npm (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Click for Coords – Starter Code (Courtney Yatteau)
- Blazor Basics: Should You Migrate to .NET 10? (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Enterprise Patterns for ASP.NET Core Minimal API: Identity Map Pattern (Chris Woodruff)
- OAuth 2.0 Course for Beginners (Beau Carnes)
Windows Development
- Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant memory, refinement (Raymond Chen)
- MewUI – About A lightweight code-first .NET UI toolkit focused on fluent C# markup and NativeAOT-friendly (aprillz)
.NET and Visual Studio
- EntityFramework.OrderBy – Applies default ordering to EntityFramework queries based on fluent configuration (Simon Cropp)
- Background Jobs in .NET: Hangfire, Quartz, Temporal in 2026 (Aliaksandr Marozka)
AI
- You need quality engineers to turn AI into ROI (Ryan Donovan)
- Manage AI-powered inventory using the Red Hat Lightspeed (Samiksha Saxea)
- ‘AI’ will not take all the jobs, Wharton engineer says (Tim Allen)
- The state of open source AI models in 2025 (Cedric Clyburn)
- The Math Behind Artificial Intelligence: A Guide to AI Foundations [Full Book] (Tiago Capelo Monteiro)
- Securing the AI Pipeline – From Data to Deployment (JJ Guirola)
- How to Build Agentic AI Workflows (Beau Carnes)
- A field guide to sandboxes for AI (Simon Willison)
- Small Yet Mighty: Improve Accuracy In Multimodal Search and Visual Document Retrieval with Llama Nemotron RAG Models (Ronay Ak, Gabriel de Souza Pereira Moreira & Bo Liu)
- AI-powered vulnerability triaging with GitLab Duo Security Agent (Fernando Diaz)
- Secure Plugins, Agents, and Graph Connectors in Copilot (Liam Cleary)
- reachy_mini_reactions – On device reaction app for Hugging Face Pollen Robotics (Dominic Pajak)
- DeepSeek-V3.2 Outperforms GPT-5 on Reasoning Tasks (Anthony Alford)
- Beyond the Hype: The Real Impact of AI on Application Security (Luka Oniani)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0b260106 Released (Evan Mattson)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Relocating Rigor – The Discipline That Looks Like Recklessness (Chad Fowler)
- Async Work for Dev Teams: A Practical Playbook for Fewer Meetings (Jennifer Simonazzi)
- Options appraisal: a pragmatic guide for architecture decisions (Remi Van Goethem)
- Some Thoughts on How to Quit Your Job (Bryan Power)
- Book Review: The Pragmatic Programmer (Almir Vuk)
- A Philosophy of Software Design vs Clean Code – A discussion about differences between John’s book “A Philosophy of Software Design” and Bob’s book “Clean Code” (Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin & John Ousterhout)
Mobile and Game Development
- Building scalable, cost-effective real-time multiplayer games with Azure Web PubSub (Kevin Guo)
- Windows 11’s “almost full-screen” Android apps mirroring now available for everyone via Phone Link app with supported phones (Mayank Parmar)
- Google Will Now Only Release Android Source Code Twice a Year (BeauHD)
- Knex Dart – A port of knexjs library for dart backends (Kartikey Mahawar)
- Meta hits pause on Ray-Ban Display expansion plans (Jess Weatherbed)
- Dart Server-Side in 2026: An Introduction to Dart Frog 🐸 (Samuel Adekunle)
Screencasts and Videos
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Keith Townsend (Isaac Levin)
- SKIA Everywhere Demo | Uno Platform Studio + 6.0 Webinar (Uno Platform Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio Show #1018 – What AI can do for SysAdmins in 2026 with Cecilia Wirén (Richard Campbell)
- When Remote Teams Stop Listening—The Silent Killer of Agile Collaboration | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Carmela Then)
Community and Events
- MVP Dominick Raimato Showcases Real-Time Intelligence with Microsoft Fabric & IoT (Betsy Weber)
- Announcing Uno Platform Holiday App Challenge Winner (Sam Basu)
- How Trump Incited an Insurrection: A Jan. 6 Timeline (Team Zeteo)
- What’s on the CodeMash 2026 menu? (Amanda Stamper)
- CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities (Morgan Little)
- I Am 38, I Am a Nurse, and I Have Always Wanted to Learn Coding (Rusty Pea)
- One Year at PostHog (Phil Haack)
- Discord Files Confidentially For IPO (BeauHD)
- Speaking: CfPs Closing Soon (Dave Aronson)
Database
- How Azure Cosmos DB Powers ARM’s Federated Future: Scaling for the Next Billion Requests (Alex Dubinkov)
- Semantic Reranking with Azure SQL, SQL Server 2025 and Cohere Rerank models (Davide Mauri)
- Database Development with AI in 2026 (Brent Ozar)
- SQL Server 2025 REGEXP_MATCHES Function to Extract Multiple Substrings (Koen Verbeeck)
- General Availability of Mirroring Azure Database for PostgreSQL in Microsoft Fabric Is Here! (scoriani)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Get Notified When Long-Running Commands Finish in PowerShell 7 (Jack Scott)
- VSCWhere v0.1.0 Release – A command-line tool to locate Visual Studio Code installations on Windows, inspired by vswhere (Calvin Allen)
Writing
- A Quick Start Guide To Writing Crime Fiction (Writers Write)
- How to Session Zero Your Writer’s Group (Emily Munro)
Tools
- Windows Package Manager 1.28.90-preview (Flor Chacón)
General
- What shaped computing education in 2025 — and what comes next (Liz Eaton)
- VW Brings Back Physical Buttons (BeauHD)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – January 6, 2026 (#694) (Richard Seroter)
- Radar Trends to Watch: January 2026 (Mike Loukides)
- Essential RSS Feeds for Mobile Developers (Mark Kazakov)
- Syncfusion 2025 Recap: A Year of Smarter Tools, Faster Performance, and Growing Community (Meena Alagiah)
- Web Weekly #179 (Stefan Judis)