Top Links
- .NET AI Essentials – The Core Building Blocks Explained (Jeremy Likness)
- Build a Student Analytics Dashboard in WPF with Interactive Charts (Surya Elayaperumal)
- From pixels to characters: The engineering behind GitHub Copilot CLI’s animated ASCII banner (Aaron Winston)
- .NET MAUI Embedding with Uno Platform (Sam Basu)
- Getting Started with SQL Database Project Power Tools (Erik EJ)
- .NET Rocks! – Aspire in 2026 with Maddy Montaquila (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Web and Cloud Development
- GraphLens Release v0.2.0 – New Visualization Update (Dmitry Kostyuk)
- How to Style the New ::search-text and Other Highlight-y Pseudo-Elements (Daniel Schwarz)
- ReliCSS (Geoff Graham)
- Building AI Agents with TypeScript AI SDK (Peter Mbanugo)
- Document Editor with TX Spell .NET on Linux using ASP.NET Core (Bjoern Meyer)
- Enabling multi-tenant authentication for MCP servers with Microsoft Entra and APIM (Marco Siccardi)
- Use the unified tenant configuration management APIs in Microsoft Graph (preview) (Microsoft Learn)
Windows Development
- Get to understand the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Applications (Alex Marin)
- Why did I lose the data even though I called SafeArrayAddRef? (Raymond Chen)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1495 (Canary Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Visual Studio Enterprise Partner Benefits – a Heads-Up! (Michael Morten Sonne)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0-preview.260128.1 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- The Grand Mystery of the Missing 18 Bytes (Steve Gordon)
- Building an MCP App with C# – A Color Picker Sample (Bruno Capuano)
AI
- Beyond the Chatbot: A Blueprint for Trustable AI (Matt Thompson & Ajeet Mirwani)
- 31 Days of Vibe Coding – Day 29: Measuring What Matters: Is AI Actually Helping? (Jeff Blankenburg)
- DebugMCP – Empowering AI Agents with Multi-Language Debugging Capabilities (Microsoft Open Source)
- Securing Moltbot: A Developer’s Checklist for AI Agent Security (Chris Sevilleja & Juan Cruz Martinez)
- The new era of browsing: Putting Gemini to work in Chrome (Parisa Tabriz)
- News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns (Andrew Deck)
- Claude Code Tutorial for Beginners 2026: From Installation to Building Your First Project (Ayyaz Zafar)
- Hands On Comparison: Building a Dynamic Web App in VS Code and Google Antigravity with Prompts Only (David Ramel)
- TypeScript inventor Anders Hejlsberg: AI is ‘a big regurgitator of stuff someone has done’ (Tim Anderson)
- LiteRT: The Universal Framework for On-Device AI (Lu Wang, Chintan Parikh, Jingjang Li & Terry Heo)
- MCP Server for Microcks Mocking and Testing (Kin Lane)
- Are bugs and incidents inevitable with AI coding agents? (David Loker)
- Paying off AI Technical Debt (Rob Miles)
- The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory (Simon Willison)
- ‘Clawdbot’ Has AI Techies Buying Mac Minis (BeauHD)
- Evals Are NOT All You Need (Aishwarya Naresh Reganti & Kiriti Badam)
- LLM-Powered Product Development: A Python-Centric Approach (Manish Adawadkar)
- Cosplaying as a webdev with Claude Code in January 2026 (Robin Moffatt)
- Building Interactive Agent UIs with AG-UI and Microsoft Agent Framework (pratikpanda)
Python
- How to Use the Builder Pattern in Python – A Practical Guide for Developers (Bala Priya C.)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0b260128 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- Google Colab Support Is Now Available in PyCharm 2025.3.2 (Ilia Afanasiev)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Checkout a Git repository using a tag in VSCode (Bart Wullems)
- What’s New in Advanced Installer 23.4 (Advanced Installer Team)
- Year recap and future goals for the GitHub Innovation Graph (Kevin Xu)
- Octopus Easy Mode – Manual Interventions (Matthew Casperson)
- Vendor Lock-In vs. Strategic Partnership for Your CI/CD (Dmitrii Korovin)
- Automated Test Framework – Missing Tests in Test Explorer (W. Silveira)
- Navigating Career Choices in Software Engineering (David Ramel)
Mobile and Game Development
- Apple tells Patreon to move creators to in-app purchase for subscriptions by November (Sarah Perez)
- SmartCoop: Controlling chickens with Java (Frank Delporte)
Screencasts and Videos
- Docs on Demand – GitHub Copilot CLI Code Investigations | Gordon Beeming | SSW Rules (SSW TV)
- Inside the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund | Episode 10 | The GitHub Podcast (GitHub Team)
- Speed up Oracle to SQL Server Migrations with AI and Copilot | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Subhojit Basak)
- Intro to Warp – Onboarding 101: Start coding with agents (Warp Team)
- .NET AI Community Standup – Using the GitHub Copilot CLI and SDK for .NET dev (Jon Galloway & Steve Sanderson)
Dometrain Course
Getting Started: Microservices Architecture: Learn the basics of microservices architecture in this course. Understand the key concepts, design patterns, and techniques for building scalable, modular systems. (James Eastham) – Referral Link
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast – How can there be hundreds of words for snow? with Dr. Charles Kemp (Mignon Fogarty)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode #193 – Native Speed, Modern Safety: Swift for Backend Development (Sebastien Stormacq)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #339 – Just-in-Time Secrets: Because Your AI Agent Can’t Keep Its Mouth Shut (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Episode #611 – Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny Review (with Tom Gerencer, Rajan Khanna) (David Barr Kirtley)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #974 – Clawdbot (Moltbot), Agents and the Age of Personal Software (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Shawn Dorward on Leading Through the Agentic AI Shift (John Siefert)
- Talking Context on the iBuildWithAI Podcast (Eleanor Berger)
- The DOWNTIME Strategy—Eliminating Waste Before Adding Process | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Felipe Engineer-Manriquez)
- Developer Tea Podcast – Career Growth Accelerator – Promotion Roadblocks and Knocking it Out of the Park During Performance Review Season (Jonathan Cutrell)
Community and Events
- Bluesky in 2026: Predictions (Bluesky Team)
- Kernel Community Drafts a Plan For Replacing Linus Torvalds (BeauHD)
- Bluesky is testing ‘live’ features to take on X (Jess Weatherbed)
- 2025 World Wide Web Consortium Membership Survey (W3C Team)
- Filing: Expedia Group layoffs will impact 162 workers in Washington state (Kurt Schlosser)
- 30,000 More UPS Jobs On the Chopping Block as Amazon Era Ends (msmash)
Database
- SQL Server 2025 Enterprise Developer Edition Download, Install and Configure (Jim Evans)
- Accelerate Your Cosmos DB Infrastructure with GitHub Copilot CLI and Azure Cosmos DB Agent Kit (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
- Deploying an Updated Model with SQL Compare 16 (Steve Jones)
- Love Your Data Types: Dates (Erik Darling)
- Automatic Stats Updates Don’t Always Invalidate Cached Plans (Brent Ozar)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Purview Auto-apply Retention Labels and SharePoint Autofill (Joanne Klein)
- SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – January 2026 (Vesa Juvonen)
- Introducing the Microsoft Graph User Configuration API (preview) (Cameron Parker)
PowerShell and Terminal
- How to Manage Printers with PowerShell (Horatiu Vladasel)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.398 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- Markdown Inline Editor for VS Code (Seardna Schmid)
- Anton Chekhov’s 6 Rules For Writing Fiction (Writers Write)
Tools
- Microsoft fixes several PowerToys issues following the big update (Sayan Sen)
- Dev Feed Curator for VS Code Release v3.6.0 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Mainly bug fixes and improving the code under the covers
General
- Brandon Sanderson’s Literary Fantasy Universe ‘Cosmere’ Picked Up by Apple TV (Borys Kit)
- The Art of the Oner (Golnaz Alibeigi)
- Fully Electric Vehicle Sales In EU Overtake Petrol For First Time In December (BeauHD)
- Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings in Q2 as gaming declines and Windows 11 has reached 1 billion users faster than Windows 10 (Tom Warren)
- Why Olympic Curling Stones All Come From the Same Tiny Scottish Island (Jenny Cohen)
- Minneapolis Reveals Where Trump’s Deportation Agenda Is Going (Ezra Klein)
- Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots (Lora Kolodny & Ari Levy)
- Trump’s Acting Cyber Chief Allegedly Leaked Data to ChatGPT (TechRepublic Staff)
- From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: Why I Made the Switch (Bogdan)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – January 28, 2026 (#709) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Unity 2022 by Example (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link
A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences.
