Top Links
- Making Windows Terminal awesome with GitHub Copilot CLI (Kayla Cinnamon)
- .NET 10: Quick UI Changes Worth Noticing in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
- Aspire Integrations, Batteries Included (Sebastien Ros)
- New E-Book: OpenAI Succinctly (Michael Washington)
- Introducing GPT-5.2 (OpenAI Team)
- How I shipped more code and products than ever before with GitHub Copilot | AI Dev Days (James Montemagno)
- Getting Started with the Aspire CLI – A Complete Guide (Chris Ayers)
Web and Cloud Development
- React / Next.js Denial-of-Service Vulnerability: Deno Deploy users protected (Luca Casonato)
- Denial of Service and Source Code Exposure in React Server Components (React Team)
- Building Secure Enterprise APIs with .NET, Azure API Management, and Entra ID (Azure AD) (Sudhir Mangla)
- New Front-End Framework Ripple Blends React and Svelte Together (Bruno Couriol)
- Swift Configuration 1.0 released (Honza Dvorsky)
- How to Deploy a Spreadsheet Server on Azure App Service Using Visual Studio and Docker (Parthasarathy Ranjan)
- Microsoft’s commitment to supporting cloud infrastructure demand in the United States (Omar Khan)
- How to Prevent XSS Attacks in React Rich Text Editor (Thangavel E.)
- JavaScript Security Risks and Best Practices (Michelle Pruitt)
- Sending sweet treats with Google Pub/Sub (Poornima Nayar)
- Deno 2.6: dx is the new npx (Andy Jiang)
Windows Development
- Studying the various locale mismatch scenarios in Windows clipboard text format synthesis (Raymond Chen)
.NET and Visual Studio
- F# in Production: What I Know After Four Years (Ben Copeland)
- Rider and ReSharper 2025.3.0.4: Important Updates Released (Sasha Ivanova)
- Language Server Protocol in F# (Sam Smucny)
AI
- Advanced authentication and authorization for MCP Gateway (Guilherme Cassolato)
- Why You Should Care About Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) (Aishwarya Balaji, Prateik Sinha, Brian Bradfo, Roey Ben Chaim & Jose Manuel Nápoles)
- Build with Gemini Deep Research (Shrestha Basu Mallick)
- Vibe Check: GPT-5.2 Is an Incremental Upgrade (Katie Parrott)
- Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers (Maxwell Zeff)
- Cursor Debug Mode Review: What You Need to Know Before You Dive In (Daxin Wang)
- Interactions API: A unified foundation for models and agents (Philipp Schmid)
- Introducing Cohere Rerank 4.0 in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
- Docker Model Runner now supports vLLM on Windows (Yiwen Xu)
- Multi-Site Distributed GPU Fabric: Exploring Distributed On-Prem GPU Resources (Exxact Team)
- Breaking Free From AI Vendor Lock-in: Integrating GitHub Models with Docker cagent (Jennifer Kohl)
- AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job. (Matheus Lima)
- Responding to “The highest quality codebase” (Spencer Schneidenbach)
- OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 is here: what enterprises need to know and GPT-5.2 first impressions: a powerful update, especially for business tasks and workflows (Carl Franzen)
- Trump Signs Executive Order That Threatens to Punish States for Passing AI Laws (Makena Kelly & Maxwell Zeff)
- How Connectors Delivers Speed, Security, and Governance (Replit Team)
- New in llama.cpp: Model Management (Xuan-Son Nguyen & Victor Mustar)
- Advancing science and math with GPT-5.2 and Update to GPT-5 System Card: GPT-5.2 (OpenAI Team)
- Learnings from Cultivating Machine Learning Engineers as a Team Manager (Ben Linders)
- Codex is Open Sourcing AI models (Ben Burtenshaw & Shaun Smith)
- Taming Opus 4.5’s Efficiency: Using TodoWrite to Keep Claude Code on Track (Shinsuke Kagawa)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0b251211 Release (Dmytro Struk)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Octopus Deploy GitHub app improvements (Harriet Alexander)
- What Every Developer Should Learn as Soon as Possible in Their Personal Life (Jefferson S. Motta)
- Imposter for hire: How fake people can gain very real access (Microsoft Incident Response)
- Let’s talk about GitHub Actions (Ben De St Paer-Gotch)
- Observability Pipeline: What It Is & How to Build One (James Walker)
Mobile and Game Development
- Building a safer Android and Google Play, together (Matthew Forsythe & Ron Aquino Sr.)
- Enhancing Android security: Stop malware from snooping on your app data (Bennet Manuel & Rob Clifford)
Screencasts and Videos
- OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.2 and WOAH (Frank La Vigne)
- Tackling tech debt with the GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent | AI Dev Days (Brittany Ellich)
- Scripting the GitHub Copilot CLI – Deep Dive | AI Dev Days (John Lindquist)
- Plan, Specify, and Implement with Spec Kit | AI Dev Days (Den Delimarsky & James Montemagno)
- Visual Studio 2026 – The Intelligent Development Environment | AI Dev Days (Mads Kristensen)
- GPT-5.2 is Here and The State of Enterprise AI The State of Enterprise AI (AIDailyBrief)
- Scott Guthrie Interstitial- Contributions (Scott Guthrie)
- .NET Conf 2025 Keynote opener (Scott Guthrie & Scott Hunter)
- Hangar DX Podcast – How Block Deployed AI Agents Company-Wide in 2 Months (Hangar DX Team)
- Insert Wisdom Episode #18 – How I Learned to Let Go (Kate Hill)
- SQL database in Fabric – What’s new and generally available | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Idris Motiwala)
- Building Confident Application Systems with Aspire | Live! 360 Orlando 2025 and Chaos Meets CodeMedic | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
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Podcasts
- Software Defined Talk Episode #550 – Typeface Philosophy (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- The Modern .NET Show – Unpacking Visual Studio 2026: New Features, Bug Fixes, and What’s Coming Next with Mads Kristensen (Jamie Taylor)
- InfoQ Podcast: Leading from Any Position: Richard Bown on Humane Engineering Organizations (Richard Bown)
- TechCrunch Build Mode Podcast – Capital is a commodity (but your investor relationships aren’t) (Isabelle Johannessen, Ross Fubini & Leslie Feinzaig)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Human Agency in a Digital World with Marcus Fontoura (Scott Hanselman)
- Generative AI in the Real World: The Year in AI with Ksenia Se (Ben Lorica & Ksenia Se)
- Quality 5.0—Quantifying the “Unmeasurable” | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte, Tom Gilb & Simon Holzapfel)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Interface is everything, and everything is an interface (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- CodeMash: Tickets for Hardware Kits will be available soon. Here’s a list of the sessions that have kits. (Amanda Stamper)
- Microsoft Ignite 2025 AI announcements: What software developers need to know (J. Machado)
- Uno Platform + Kahua: A $2M Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Cross-Platform App Development with AI (Sasha Krsmanovic)
- Simulating lousy conversations: Q&A with Silvio Savarese, Chief Scientist & Head of AI Research at Salesforce (Ryan Donovan)
- The Game Awards 2025 – Every Winner and Xbox Reveal, Plus New Details on Control Resonant, Diablo IV, Tomb Raider, and More (Mike Nelson)
- Actioning agentic AI: 5 ways to build with news from Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Natalie Wossene)
- Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually (Todd Bishop)
- Ten years (OpenAI Team)
- Raised analog. Living digital. (Julie Yack)
Database
- Why you shouldn’t use INs in SQL and what to use instead (Domenic Helfenstein)
- Extension Management in PostgreSQL for New DBAs (Kellyn Gorman)
- A Follow Up On Fixing Parallel Plan Row Skew In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Azure Cosmos DB vNext Emulator: Query and Observability Enhancements (Abhishek Gupta)
- Choosing “naked” vms or Kubernetes for hosting databases in the cloud (Oren Eini)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Optimizing Exchange Online PowerShell (erscofie)
- When Santa brings you a work request: Searching GitHub Repos and Gists for Text Patterns with PowerShell (skatterbrainzz)
Writing
- Why Start a Blog in 2026? 9 Solid Reasons From a Blogger (Nick Schäferhoff)
Tools
- Stardock releases Fences 6.20 with new Rollup options and desktop fixes (Wayne Williams)
- Open Source in Focus: 4 Tools That Keep Systems Running (Lena Morozova)
General
- Your PC, your personality: New themes in Store for you (Giorgio Sardo)
- Announcing Rust 1.92.0 (Rust Release Team)
- Personal Expense Dashboard: Top 10 Metrics and KPIs to Track (Bold BI Team)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – December 11, 2025 (#683) (Richard Seroter)
- The Game Awards 2025: all the news and announcements (Ash Parrish)
