Top Links
- Mastering Popups in .NET MAUI: Alerts, Action Sheets, Overlays & More (Jayaleshwari N.)
- Progress on TypeScript 7 – December 2025 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
- Introducing Stack Overflow AI Assist—a tool for the modern developer (Phoebe Sajor)
- Profiler Agent – Delegate the analysis, not the performance (Nik Karpinsky)
- Warp: Introducing One-Click MCP Install (Alanna Eybel & Pei Li)
- Explore AI on Android with Our Sample Catalog App (Thomas Ezan & Ivy Knight)
- Upcoming Virtual Event – AI Dev Days, Level-Up Your AI Skills with Microsoft Reactor (Jenn Cockrell)
- Building Real .NET UI with Uno Studio AI – Final Week of the Challenge (Uno Platform Team)
Web and Cloud Development
- Learn NestJS for Beginners (Beau Carnes)
- How to Embed a YouTube Video in WordPress (Jen Swisher)
- Aspire PostgreSQL integration (Aspire Team)
- Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore (Patrick Brosset)
- Overview of Azure Service Groups (public preview) (Olivier Miossec)
- Go 1.25.5-1 and 1.24.11-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
- WordPress 6.9: What’s New for Bloggers, Creators, and Site Owners (Maddy Osman)
- Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries (Lee Meyer)
- Aspire Adds Support For More Languages (Kay Ewbank)
- How to Choose the Best Blazor Dropdown Component for Your Web App (Prince Oliver)
- Angular Signals: The Essentials You Need to Know (Dhananjay Kumar)
- My no-fuss code linting and formatting setup (Chris Ferdinandi)
- Amazon S3 Vectors now generally available with increased scale and performance (Sébastien Stormacq)
- Enterprise Patterns for ASP.NET Core Minimal API: Service Layer Pattern – Making HTTP a Client, Not the Boss (Chris Woodruff)
- Cloud-Native Identity with Azure Files: A Game Changer for AVD & FSLogix (Warwick Leahy)
- freeCodeCamp’s New Responsive Web Design Certification is Now Live (Jessica Wilkins)
Windows Development
- How to Convert Any Executable or Batch file to Windows Background Service (Asma)
- Windows Package Manager v1.12.420 Release (florelis)
.NET and Visual Studio
- C# 14 New Feature: Field-Backed Properties (Ian Griffiths)
- Reducing Bugs by Using the Model View Update Pattern (Cameron Presley)
- Enhanced security in NuGet for .NET 10 (Bart Wullems)
- Data Hierarchies: Managing Hierarchical Data with EF Core and PostgreSQL (Overview) (Scott Galloway)
- Create Types on Demand and Cecilifier (Roman Stoffel)
- Single File Test Suites in Dotnet Csharp (Steve Smith)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0-preview.251125.1 Release (dmytrostruk)
- .NET Job Scheduling — Quartz.NET for Enterprise Scale (Martin Stühmer)
- Google Launches Colab Extension For Visual Studio (Kay Ewbank)
- Creating a custom MSBuild SDK to reduce boilerplate in .NET projects (Gérald Barré)
AI
- Announcing Computer Use tool (Preview) in Microsoft Foundry Agent Service (Linda Li)
- Agent vs Agentic (Rocky Lhotka)
- Santa’s Workshop with AI Elf Agents (Lee Englestone)
- Custom Policy Enforcement with Reasoning: Faster, Safer AI Applications (Traian Rebedea, Chris Parisien, Shyamala Prayaga, Makesh Sreedhar & Isabel Hulseman)
- How to Manage AI Projects Effectively (Paulina Nowinska)
- Reviving My Blog With AI (Aaron Powell)
- Run cost-effective AI workloads on OpenShift with AWS Neuron Operator (Erwan Gallen, Yevgeny Shnaidman & Nenad Peric)
- No we’re likely not reaching AGI anytime soon: The Behaviourist Fallacy in AI Subsystem Development (Scott Galloway)
- AI Agents Will Be Bigger Than the Internet (Mahesh Chand)
- What’s New This Month in Microsoft AI Security (November 2025) (Liam Cleary)
- Amazon previews 3 AI agents, including ‘Kiro’ that can code on its own for days (Julie Bort)
- Securing AI agents and tool calls (Alexander Nohe)
- Introducing Amazon Nova 2 Lite, a fast, cost-effective reasoning model and Introducing Amazon Nova Forge: Build your own frontier models using Nova (Danilo Poccia)
- Run Mistral Large 3 & Ministral 3 on vLLM with Red Hat AI on Day 0: A step-by-step guide (Saša Zelenović, Doug Smith, Tyler Michael Smith, Dipika Sikka, Kyle Sayers, Eldar Kurtić & Tarun Kumar)
- Google Introduces Nano Banana Pro with Grounded, Multimodal Image Synthesis (Robert Krzaczyński)
- Gen AI 2.0 Is Here. Now What? (Synergy Shock)
- Disrupting yourself in the age of AI (Prashanth Chandrasekar)
- Grok Models Come to the AI Chat in JetBrains IDEs (Anna Maltseva)
- One Year of MCP: Looking Back, and Forward (Cody De Arkland)
- Give Claude AI Full Access to Your Local Filesystem With MCP (David Eastman)
- How AI Agents Are Changing the Way Developers Build Software (Anastasija Uspenski)
- Ignite Spotlight: Copilot Pages Agent Mode & Notebooks (Vesa Nopanen)
- The Secure Gateway to AI: Duende IdentityServer and Dynamic Client Registration for MCP (Brett Hazen & Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Amazon’s new AI can code for days without human help. What does that mean for software engineers? and Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of open models designed to run on laptops, drones, and edge devices (Michael Nuñez)
- Accelerate AI development using Amazon SageMaker AI with serverless MLflow and Build multi-step applications and AI workflows with AWS Lambda durable functions (Donnie Prakoso)
- What MCP and Claude Skills Teach Us About Open Source for AI (Tim O’Reilly)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0b251120 Release (dmytrostruk)
- UV – An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust (UV Docs)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- How to build forward-thinking cybersecurity teams for tomorrow (Ann Johnson)
- Microspeak: Big rocks (Raymond Chen)
- Playwright v1.57.0 Release (Skn0tt)
- The Limits of Spec-Driven Development (Chris Yaowen Zhang)
- Introducing ESC Connect: Integrate Any Secret Source with Pulumi ESC (Claire Gaestel)
- Octopus Deploy: Policies are now Generally Available (Venkatesh Vasudevan)
- Thinking in Systems: A Retrospective on a Life Spent Trying to Understand How Things Fit Together (Scott Galloway)
- One Key for Every Door: How Security Assertion Markup Language Simplifies Enterprise Access (Abhinay Labade)
- Longevity without lock-in: the open-source upgrade alternative (Nick Hume)
- Why Use Microsoft’s Zero Trust Assessment? (Liam Cleary)
Mobile and Game Development
- Securing Sensitive Mobile Operations with Device-Bound Request Signing (Fernando de Oliveira, Daiane Galvão & Wesley Rodrigues)
- DirectX Graphics Samples Updated to Agility SDK + Enhanced Barriers examples (Alexandre Cardoso)
- Android 16 QPR2 is Released (Matthew McCullough)
- New Android features keep you focused on what matters most (Angana Ghosh)
- “The local-first rebellion”: How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house (Andrea Griffiths)
- 7 ways we’re making Android more accessible (Julie Cattiau)
- Stay organized and express yourself with Android 16’s new updates (Mindy Brooks)
- Android 16’s latest update ushers in a more frequent release schedule and DRAM it! Raspberry Pi raises prices (Jess Weatherbed)
- Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow (Sean Hollister)
Screencasts and Videos
- EPISODE 29 – Scott & Mark Learn To… Where to get news? (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- How Agent Mode Fixes 500s, Patches Code, and Returns 200s (Postman Team)
- Recording: From CRUD TO AI – building an intelligent Telegram bot in < 200 lines of code with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- How to Create Your Own Chatbot with NVIDIA DGX SPARK and How to Get Nvidia GPU Working on Raspberry Pi (Frank La Vigne)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Jeff Williams (Isaac Levin)
- Is This The Future of Flutter? 🤯 Trying Google’s Antigravity IDE! Part – 1 (Codepur)
- Visual Studio Toolbox Live – Understanding and Fixing App Performance (Robert Green, Leslie Richardson & Nik Karpinsky)
- A Practical Guide to Scaling AI (AIDailyBrief)
- Get Instant Help from Copilot with Just One Click From Your Editor | Visual Studio (Simona Liao)
- How to close pull requests faster with Copilot code review | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths)
- Advent of Code 2025 Day 2: Gift Shop in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: GenAI Security: Defending Against Deepfakes and Automated Social Engineering (Shuman Ghosemajumder)
- RunAs Radio Show #1013 – The M365 Copilot Data Readiness Checklist with Nikki Chapple (Richard Campbell)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #339 – Technical advances in document understanding (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Direct Effect: Training the Next Generation of Marketers (United States Postal Service)
- The AI Fix Show #79 – Gemini 3, poetry jailbreaks, and do we even need safe robots? (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Why Great Scrum Masters Create Space for Breaks | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Scott Smith)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – Trauma-Informed Innovation: Building Products That Truly Heal (with Tess Padmore) (‘Tine Zekis)
Community and Events
- It’s time to name and shame: Let us know 2025’s worst transparency offenders with a Foilies nomination! (Michael Morisy)
- Highlights from Ignite 2025: How Agentic AI and Microsoft Copilot are Empowering Healthcare (Dolica Gopisetty)
- Getting Started with AI Agents – On-demand video (Microsoft for Non-Profits)
- Anthropic Acquires Bun In First Acquisition (BeauHD)
- Advent of Code 2025 – December 2nd (Rob van der Leek)
- Bill Gates-backed Modern Hydrogen lays off most of its employees after decade-long pursuit of clean energy (Lisa Stiffler)
- Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft’s AI obsession has ruined the service (Thomas Claburn)
- Bending Spoons agrees to buy Eventbrite for $500M to revive stalled brand (Marina Temkin)
- 9 Launches from re:Invent Season (so far!) I’m Excited About (Ali Spittel)
- Travel + Leisure Names Philly as One of the Best 50 Places to Travel in 2026 (Visit Philly)
Database
- Overview of Real-Time Data Synchronization from MySQL to VeloDB (Apache Doris)
- A Little About Default Constraint UDFs in SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Get ChatGPT’s Advice On Your Queries with sp_BlitzCache. (Brent Ozar)
- Whats new in the Backup/Restore area in SQL Server 2025 (Dinakar Nethi)
- Introducing Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases (Betty Zheng)
- Learn R Programming from Harvard University (Beau Carnes)
- MySQL vs PostgreSQL JSON Data Types: Key Differences & Which is Best? (Aisha Bukar)
- SQL Injection vs. Other Injection Flaws: How to Mitigate Vulnerabilities (Michelle Pruitt)
- DataGrip 2025.3: Migration From Consoles to Query Files, Connection to Cloud Providers, Introspection Levels for Amazon Redshift, and More! (Richie Mitish)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Understand and fix errors with descriptive error cards in Excel for Windows (Natalie J.)
- Building an Agentic, AI-Powered Helpdesk with Agents Framework, Azure, and Microsoft 365 (Konstantinos Passadis)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Use cd – in Powershell 7 to Return to Previous Directory (Steve Smith)
- How to Run EXE Files using PowerShell (Alex Marin)
- Announcing the Data Commons Gemini CLI extension (Kara Moscoe, Keyur Shah & Christine Betts)
Writing
- What Is Deus Ex Machina in Storytelling? (Writers Write)
- Reading Report: November 2025 (Emily Munro)
Tools
- PowerToys Release v0.96.1 (vanzue)
- Dev Feed Curator | Visual Studio Marketplace (Alvin Ashcraft)
- MarkItDown v0.1.4 Release (afourney)
General
- I accepted all of Microsoft’s suggested Windows 11 setup settings with a fresh ISO, forced online accounts and extra telemetry included — can any of it be bypassed? (Ben Wilson)
- Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam (Simon Sharwood)
- This holiday, Microsoft wants you to talk to Copilot on Windows 11 and get ready for Christmas (Mayank Parmar)
- Anker’s new desktop docking station has a removable USB-C hub you can take with you (Andrew Liszewski)
- Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode (Tom Warren)
- Study Finds Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells (BeauHD)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – December 2, 2025 (#676) (Richard Seroter)
- dotInsights | December 2025 (Rachel Appel)
- Radar Trends to Watch: December 2025 (Mike Loukides)
- Windows news you can use: November 2025 (EricMoe)
