Top Links
- Generative AI with Large Language Models in C# in 2026 (Jeremy Likness)
- Microsoft Copilot Studio vs. Microsoft Foundry: Building AI Agents and Apps (Safeena Begum Lepakshi)
- MCPs for Developers Who Think They Don’t Need MCPs (Angie Jones)
- Analyzing the Quality of Your Code | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Johan Smarius)
- AI Context Kit: A Portable Instruction System for Context-Aware AI Collaboration (Marco Siccardi)
- Welcome to 2026, A Growth Year for All of Us (Jim Harrer)
Web and Cloud Development
- Fun with the web (Patrick Brosset)
- Azure Cost Estimation: Your Strategic Guide to Cloud Pricing (Thomas Maurer)
- WASI 1.0: You Won’t Know When WebAssembly Is Everywhere in 2026 (B. Cameron Gain)
- Turning Recipe Data into an Astro Content Collection (Raymond Camden)
- How Do WebSockets Work? and JSON Schema Data Types: A Complete Guide to Validation and What is a Bearer Token? Understanding API Authentication (Postman Team)
- I Created Custom Procedurally Generated Truchet-Tiled Open Graph Images for This Blog (Rachel Kaufman)
- Introducing the Pure React Scheduler: Built for Modern React Apps (Mahesh Palanisamy)
- React Basics: Thinking in React (David Adeneye Abiodun)
- Anti-frameworkism: Choosing native web APIs over frameworks (Anna Monus)
Windows Development
.NET and Visual Studio
- New in .NET 10 and C# 14: EF Core 10’s Faster Production Queries (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Devs Discuss Updating Backend Code from .NET 8 to .NET 10: ‘Like a Breeze’ (David Ramel)
- C# – F# Interop (2026 edition) (Urs Enzler)
- Coding Faster with dotNetTips.com Spargine 10: January 2026 Release (David McCarter)
- Installing .NET AI Templates in Visual Studio 2022 (Asma)
- Introducing the Developer Tools Virtual Environment Manager! (Calvin Allen)
- Recent updates to NetEscapades.EnumGenerators: new APIs and System.Memory support (Andrew Lock)
AI
- 31 Days of Vibe Coding – Day 6: Breaking Features Into Phases (Jeff Blankenburg)
- A world without people – AI is a promise to wire the boss’s toy steering wheel directly into the company’s drive-train (Cory Doctorow)
- Context Engineering – Part 1: The Architecture of Recall and Part 2: The Temporal Index and Part 3: The Frugal Architect (Imran Siddique)
- State of AI 2025 (Sacha Greif)
- A research-led framework for teaching about models in AI and data science (Manni Cheung)
- .NET vs Python for AI Agents: Measuring Performance of Microsoft Agent Framework (kind of đ) (Bruno Capuano)
- Background agents in GitHub Copilot (Bart Wullems)
- Stop Logging “Hallucinations”: A Better Taxonomy for AI Failures (Gil Zilberfeld)
- The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow, and developers are losing their minds (Michael Nuñez)
- NVIDIA Cosmos Reason 2 Brings Advanced Reasoning To Physical AI (Tsung-Yi Lin & Debraj Sinha)
- How to Build an Embeddable AI Chatbot Widget with Cloudflare Workers (Mayur Vekariya)
- The Future of Software Jobs in the Era of AI (Mahesh Chand)
- Intel DeepMath Introduces a Smart Architecture to Make LLMs Better at Math (Sergio De Simone)
- The Next Era of AI: From Single User to Team Collaboration (Kurtis Kemple)
- Evaluating AI Agents: Can LLMâasâaâJudge Evaluators Be Trusted? (kaiqi)
- HuggingFace Skills Fine Tune LLMs (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Complete Ollama Tutorial (2026) – LLMs via CLI, Cloud & Python (Vladislav Guzey)
- Agent Skills Changed How I Work with AI (Eleanor Berger)
- Image Summarizer : A Constrained Fuzzy Image RAG Engine (Scott Galloway)
- What’s next for AI in 2026 (Caiwei Chen, Will Douglas Heaven, Michelle Kim, James O’Donnell & Rhiannon Williams)
- From Hours to Minutes: AI That Finds Tech Events for You (Frank Boucher)
- Building trust in agentic tools: What we learned from our users (Will Leidheiser)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Learn… the right way! (Akash Dubey)
- Kubernetes v1.35: Extended Toleration Operators to Support Numeric Comparisons (Alpha) (Heba Elayoty)
- Do It Yourself: code coverage and testing (Stoyan Stefanov)
- Fake Employees, Real Threat: Decentralized Identity to combat Deepfake Hiring? (Samuel Gaston-Raoul)
- Security Lingo Explained: OP (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Context Is the Bottleneck in Software Development (Derek Comartin)
- Rebuilding Event-Driven Read Models in a safe and resilient way (Oskar Dudycz)
- Tech Hiring in 2026: The Rise of the Specialist (Heather Joslyn)
- Coupling from a big-O perspective (Mark Seemann)
Mobile and Game Development
- How to Redact PDFs in Android Apps Using .NET MAUI (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
- ProItemsRepeater for Avalonia v11.3.9-preview.1 Release (WiesĆaw Šoltés)
Screencasts and Videos
- Armchair Architects: Multi-agent Orchestration and Patterns | Azure Essentials Show (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
- Context Graphs: AI’s Next Big Idea (AIDailyBrief)
- AI Video detection in Gemini & GitHub Runner price chances – Developer News 01/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- New enhancements to Agent Mode in Excel (Callie August)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Penny idioms that are still legal tender. The linguistic history of procrastination. Tanner tour. (Mignon Fogarty, Valerie Fridland & Karen Lunde)
- The Presentation Podcast Episode #237 – Presentation Predictions for 2026: AI, Design, and Our Future (Troy Chollar)
- Only Malware in the Building Episode #19 – Poisoned at the source (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
- InfoQ Podcast: 2025 Key Trends: AI Workflows, Architectural Complexity, Sociotechnical Systems & Platform Products (Daniel Bryant, Renato Losio, Srini Penchikala, Thomas Betts & Shane Hastie)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Search engine bots crawled so AI bots could run (Phoebe Sajor)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #464 – Malicious Package? No Build For You! and Talk Python to Me Episode #533 – Web Frameworks in Prod by Their Creators (Michael Kennedy)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #175 – The move faster manifesto (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #257 – Beyond the ‘Kaboom’: What Actually Breaks When OT Meets the Cloud? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- The PowerShell Podcast – PowerShell to Distinguished Engineer with Ryan Spletzer (James Petty)
- The Scrum Master Who Learned That Perfect Boards Don’t Build Perfect Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Carmela Then)
- Meta Cast Podcast – What We Loved in 2025 – Tech, Books, and Everything Between (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Merge Conflict Episode #496 – All The Holiday Hacks (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Cloud Chat Episode #29 – New Year’s âïž Resolutions (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
Community and Events
- Google Summer of Code 2026: Volunteers Needed to Mentor Future Jenkins Contributors (shivaylamba)
- Year 15: Why I’m Finally Hitting Publish (Golnaz Alibeigi)
- What’s next for Sources (Alex Heath)
- Reflections on 2025 (Sarah Drasner)
- Nick Lucchesi Takes Helm at The New Stack (Darryl K. Taft)
- Looking Ahead to 2026 (Satya Nadella)
- What’s new at Stack Overflow: January 2026 (Zach Rutta)
- CES Live Blog, Day 1: The Coolest Tech We’ve Seen So Far (Lauren Goode)
Database
- SQL Server 2025 Developer Edition – One size fits all (John Morehouse)
- Microsoft announces acquisition of Osmos to accelerate autonomous data engineering in Fabric (Bogdan Crivat)
- SQL in 30 – SELECT Basics (MSSQL Tips)
- How to Create a SQL Server Linked Server to Oracle 26ai Free (Greg Low)
- When and How to Update Statistics in Azure SQL Database (Mohamed Baioumy)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Beyond the Basics: How to Get More Value from Transcription in Microsoft Teams (Tiffiany)
- No, Microsoft didn’t rebrand Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot (Tom Warren)
- Windows Becomes an OS for AI Agents: What That Means for Your Microsoft 365 Tenant (Russell Smith)
Tools
General
- Dell Admits It Made a Huge Mistake When It Abandoned XPS (BeauHD)
- Sony and Honda’s Afeela EV will start customer deliveries in late 2026 (Andrew J. Hawkins)
- Snapdragon X2 PCs ship with Windows 11 26H1 by April 2026. Existing PCs will get Windows 11 26H2 (Mayank Parmar)
- Microsoft Edge is getting a Copilot-inspired redesign (Tom Warren)
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shut Down After 58 Years (BeauHD)
- Google previews new Gemini features for TV at CES 2026 (Sarah Perez)
- Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon X2 laptops are here — and they brought a new friend (Sean Hollister)
- Samsung warns of 2026 smartphone price hikes amid “unprecedented” memory shortage (Fiza Ali)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – January 5, 2026 (#693) (Richard Seroter)
- dotInsights | January 2026 (Rachel Appel)
- Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 10,000 AIdeas Competition, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS Managed Instances and more (January 5, 2026) (Prasad Rao)
