Top Links
- Introducing the Codex app (OpenAI Team)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Owning Your Career and Your Time with Don Jones (James Petty)
- How to maximize GitHub Copilot’s agentic capabilities (Ari LiVigni)
- AI-Powered Smart TextArea for ASP.NET Core: Smarter Typing with Intelligent Autocompletion (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
- AI Unprompted Podcast #014 – OpenClaw: The Viral Personal AI Assistant (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Comment Studio for Visual Studio – Enhance XML documentation comments with rich rendering, automatic reflow, collapsing, color-coded tags, and clickable issue links (Mads Kristensen)
Web and Cloud Development
- Announcing the Duende IdentityServer4 Migration Analysis Tool (Khalid Abuhakmeh & Maarten Balliauw)
- How to Debug React State Updates Like a Pro (Without Polluting Production) (Kelechi Apugo)
- Linear Regression with Pseudo-Inverse Training Using JavaScript (James McCaffrey)
- Serverless Workspaces are generally available in Azure Databricks (Anavi Nahar)
- 21 Types of WordPress Sites You Can Build with AI (Rochi Zalani)
- React Basics: Memoization in React (David Adeneye Abiodun)
- Building a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
- Building an RSS Aggregator with Astro (Raymond Camden)
- Build a Full-Featured PDF Editor in Angular for Modern Web Apps (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
Windows Development
- Studying compiler error messages closely: Input file paths (Raymond Chen)
- Converting data to hexadecimal outputs quickly (Daniel Lemire)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Are exceptions exposing vulnerabilities in your .NET App? (David Grace)
- DPoP Security for .NET APIs with JwtBearer Extensions v1.0.0 (Joe DeCock)
- Building a Greenfield System with the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
AI
- Copilot Compass: Navigate Your GitHub Copilot Adoption with Actionable Insights (Samuel Tauil)
- How Senior Developers Turn Cursor Into a Production-Grade AI Agent (Komeyl)
- Introducing the Codex app (Simon Willison)
- Claude Code for Fullstack Development: The 3 Things You Actually Need (Vinny)
- OpenAI and the New Announcement Economy (Om Malik)
- Unlocking AI’s full potential: Why context is everything (Rahul Auradkar)
- OpenAI’s Codex desktop app is all about managing agents (Frederic Lardinois)
- Microsoft Copilot Search Adds Source-Specific Filters for More Targeted Results (Redmond Magazine Staff)
- How We Built an AI Operations Agent Using MCP Servers and Dynamic Tool Routing (Konstantinos Passadis)
- What Are My AI Agents Doing? How to Gain Insight and Control. (Tim Rottach)
- The future of consumer AI is ad supported (Alan Mendelevich)
- What is trending in Hugging Face on Microsoft Foundry? Feb, 2, 2026 (Marie Louise Onganana)
- AI controls is coming to Firefox (Ajit Varma)
- AI-Assisted Coding: Where It Helps and Where It Doesn’t (AJ Cloutier)
- OpenClaw: all the news about the trending AI agent (Emma Roth)
- I used GitHub Copilot CLI to create a working macOS menu bar app on the first prompt. (Jordan Cleigh)
- Measuring What Matters in the Age of AI Agents (Mike Amundsen)
- Working with Code Assistants: The Skeleton Architecture (Patrick Farry)
- Dispatches From The Frontlines at Moltbook (Kin Lane)
- Code that fits in a context window (Mark Seemann)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Scaling Identity: Implementing CI/CD with the Terraform and GitHub Actions (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
- What’s new in Git 2.53.0? (Justin Tobler)
- Why Do I Need Agents When I Have Requests, CRON Jobs, and Events? (Kin Lane)
- An ode to “Slowly” handcrafted code (Urs Enzler)
- Why Am I Doing the Thinking for You? (Matheus Lima)
- Things You Thought You Didn’t Need To Care About That Have a Big Impact On Your Job (Holly Cummins)
- Detective Adventures – on debugging UI issues (Oded Sharon)
- Infostealers without borders: macOS, Python stealers, and platform abuse (MS Defender Security Research Team)
Mobile and Game Development
- ConfPass – Conference Badge App – A cross-platform neumorphic conference attendee badge built with Uno Platform (Matt Mattei)
Screencasts and Videos
- New Agents Tab in GitHub and search issues with natural language – Developer News 05/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- Converting an Extension to Use VisualStudio.Extensibility | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Matteo Prosperi)
- How to use the /share command in GitHub Copilot CLI | Demo (Scott Hanselman)
- Planning your next app with the GitHub Copilot CLI | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why ‘forte’ has three pronunciations. What is ‘playing the dozens’? Ornish (Mignon Fogarty)
- Developer Tea Podcast – The Meta-Habit of High Performers: How Outer Loops Unlock Growth (Career Growth Accelerator) (Jonathan Cutrell)
- The Presentation Podcast Episode #269 – Behind the Curtain: A Day in the Life of a Presentation Designer (Troy Chollar)
- Smooth Scaling Podcast Episode #20 – Running High-Traffic Product Launches at Build-A-Bear with Art Huggard (José Quaresma)
- Only Malware in the Building – When legit is the trick: Phishing’s sneaky new moves. (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
- The Amp Hour #714 – The Measurement Blues with Martin Rowe (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #179 – The tech monoculture is finally breaking (Jerod Santo)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #345 – Inside an AI-Run Company (Evan Ratliff & Chris Benson)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Generating text with diffusion (and ROI with LLMs) (Phoebe Sajor)
- Big Technology Podcast – The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #261 – No More Aspiration: Scaling a Modern SOC with Real AI Agents (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Meta Cast – Control vs. Innovation – The Two Forces Behind Every RTO Decision (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #975 – What’s Missing From the Web Platform? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- From Quantum Physics to Quarkus–airhacks.fm podcast with Adam Bien (Holly Cummins)
- BONUS: Jamie’s Appearance on Coder Radio 640 – GitHub’s Spec-Kit (Jamie Taylor)
- The 90-Minute Retrospective Disaster That Taught Me Servant Leadership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Juliana Stepanova)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode #101 – Trader Joe’s Gets Fresh (and Deli) for 2026 (Trader Joe’s Team)
- Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #123 – From DevOps to Platform Engineering: Building Valuable Software – with Geert van der Cruijsen (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
- Merge Conflict #500 – How Frank Builds Apps Has Changed Forever (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- InfoQ Podcast: Developers Can Improve the ESG Aspects of Software By Tackling Early Ethical Debt (Erica Pisani)
- CloudChat Podcast Episode #30 – Local‑First Lifeboats: Architecting for Post‑EOL Usability (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
Community and Events
- What’s new at Stack Overflow: February 2026 (Zach Rutta)
- Amazon layoffs hit nearly 2,200 in Washington state, more than half in core product and engineering roles (Taylor Soper)
- AI Agents Conference 2026 (April 26-30 – Virtual Conference) (C# Corner Team)
- T-Mobile layoffs: Telecom giant cuts 393 jobs across Washington state, including VP roles (Lisa Stiffler)
Database
- SSMS 22 Offline Installation (Nivritti Suste)
- The SQL Server Transaction Log, Part 1: Logging Basics (Paul S. Randal)
- Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer now supports Dark Mode (Meredith Moore)
- SQL Server 2025 CU1 Fixes the Docker Desktop AVX Issue on macOS (aen)
- Alternatives After the Deprecation of the Azure SQL Migration Extension in Azure Data Studio (abku14)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Make math inclusive for everyone with Microsoft 365 (Pete Wu)
- Introducing communities in Teams: Unifying company communication and connection (Sophia Peng)
- Auto-applying a Retention Label to All Files in a SharePoint site (Joanne Klein)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.401-1 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- What Is A Cozy Fantasy? (Writers Write)
Tools
- No-Hassle Visual Studio Code Theming: Building an Extension (Zell Liew)
- Windows Package Manager v1.12.470 Release (florelis)
- Trdo – A tiny simple, elegant, internet radio player for Windows which lives completely in the tray (Joseph Finney)
General
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX officially acquires Elon Musk’s xAI, with plan to build data centers in space (Sean O’Kane)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 2, 2026 (#712) (Richard Seroter)
- Windows news you can use: January 2026 (Eric Moe)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock agent workflows, Amazon SageMaker private connectivity, and more (February 2, 2026) (Betty Zheng)
- Reading Notes #683 (Frank Boucher)
