Top Links
- Join us for AI Dev Days – December 10-11 (James Montemagno)
- AI Agents Are Morphing Into the ‘Enterprise Operating System’ (Angie Jones)
- Open AI’s GPT-5.1-codex-max in Microsoft Foundry: Igniting a New Era for Enterprise Developers (Naomi Moneypenny)
- The VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #16 – Models, Evals, and Raptor Mini with Julia Kasper (James Montemagno)
- Foundry IQ in Microsoft Agent Framework (Farzad Sunavala & Eduard van Valkenburg)
- Bring your own AI agent to JetBrains IDEs (Sergey Ignatov)
- Microsoft is bringing some massive visual changes to PowerToys v0.97 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
Web and Cloud Development
- WebStorm 2025.3: Enhanced Monorepo Support, Framework Improvements, Vitest 4 Support, Multiple Agents in AI Assistant, Remote Debugging, and More (Vladislav Minaev)
- What’s wrong with this HTML, and is it valid? (Patrick Brosset)
- Contributor is Not the Magic Wand You May Think it is! (Shannon Kuehn)
- New options for AI-powered innovation, resiliency, and control with Microsoft Azure (Douglas Phillips)
- Create Your Own SMTP Server Using Aspire 13 (Michael Washington)
- A New Auth0 ASP.NET SDK to Secure Your API (Kailash B.)
- HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998 (Geoff Graham)
- How to Build UML Sequence Diagrams in Blazor with Diagram Library (Balavignesh RaviChandran)
Windows Development
- How can my process read its own standard output? (Raymond Chen)
.NET and Visual Studio
- .NET 10 and Memory: Less Heap, Smarter GC, Faster Apps (hazem)
- Why your EF Core queries are slow and how to fix them (David Grace)
- Parsing Santa’s workshop with strongly typed data (without the coal) (Dave Brock)
- DbContext is Not Thread-Safe: Parallelizing EF Core Queries the Right Way (Milan Jovanović)
- C# Advent 2025 – St. Nicholas Goodies (Sarah Dutkeiwicz))
- AI-Ready Documents in .NET C#: How Structured Content Unlocks Better Extraction, Search and Automation (Bjoern Meyer)
- 2025 C# Advent – A Christmas Trivia Game (Michael Eaton)
- Make Copilot Work Your Way: Building MCP Servers in C# (Al Nyveldt)
- Immutable Collection Add() Trap: Don’t Get Burned — Use a Builder Instead (David McCarter)
AI
- College Students Flock To A New Major: AI (EditorDavid)
- Introducing Mistral Large 3 in Microsoft Foundry: Open, capable, and ready for production workloads (Steve Sweetman)
- Why the Model Context Protocol Won (Michael Yaroshefsky)
- Google Workspace Studio – AI-powered automation, made simple (Google Workspace)
- Ignore Prior Instructions: AI Still Befuddled by Basic Reasoning (Joab Jackson)
- I Accidentally Made Claude 45% Smarter. Here’s How. (ichigo)
- Deploy a RAG chatbot app using Radius (Will Tsai)
- What Is an AI Agent: A Complete Guide for Developers and Architects and Which AI Agent Framework Should I Use (Mahesh Chand)
- Why AI coding agents aren’t production-ready: Brittle context windows, broken refactors, missing operational awareness (Advitya Gemawat)
- AWS Tackles AI’s ‘Too Much Information’ Problem (Darryl K. Taft)
- The Resonant Computing Manifesto (Maggie Appleton, Samuel Arbesman, Daniel Barcay, Rob Hardy, Aishwarya Khanduja, Alex Komoroske, Geoffrey Litt, Michael Masnick, Brendan McCord, Bernhard Seefeld, Ivan Vendrov, Amelia Wattenberger, Zoe Weinberg & Simon Willison)
- Build a Small Language Model (SLM) From Scratch (Shravan Kumar)
- Microsoft Agent Framework: Implementing Human-in-the-Loop AI Agents (Jamie Maguire)
- What is an MCP? (Rocky Lhotka)
- 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google (Kaggle)
- 15 examples of what Gemini 3 can do (Zahra Thompson)
- STARFlow: Scalable Transformer Auto-Regressive Flow (Apple)
- Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI (Rohan Doshi)
- How AI is transforming work at Anthropic and Introducing Anthropic Interviewer: What 1,250 professionals told us about working with AI (Anthropic Team)
- Baseline Your Data Protection Platform for Copilot (Liam Cleary)
- VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model (Microsoft)
- AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone (Kat Tenbarge)
- Building with Cursor (Cursor Team)
- Introducing swift-huggingface: The Complete Swift Client for Hugging Face (Mattt)
- AI denial is becoming an enterprise risk: Why dismissing “slop” obscures real capability gains (Louis Rosenberg)
- Announcing vLLM v0.12.0, Ministral 3 and DeepSeek-V3.2 for Docker Model Runner (Yiwen Xu)
Python
- Trae IDE Auto-Installs Python Libraries as You Code (Jack Wallen)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Why Meetings Can Harm Employee Well-Being (EditorDavid)
- Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners (Victor Yocco)
- Stop Naming Your Variables “Flag”: The Art of Boolean Prefixes (Christopher Johnson)
- How to Manage Configuration Drift in Your Jenkins Environment (Olga Bedrina)
- Pantone’s ‘Cloud Dancer’ color party is a recession indicator (Mia Sato)
- Program: You Keep Using that Word, I Don’t Think You Know What it Means (Charlie Kindel)
- How to Handle Duplicate GitHub Issues Without Annoying Your Users (Adam Cogan)
- Docker, JetBrains, and Zed: Building a Common Language for Agents and IDEs (Srini Sekaran)
- Want to Build a Strong Team? Give Them Ownership – and Step Back (Paulina Nowinska)
- JetBrains CEO on How Developers Become Leaders (Loraine Lawson)
Mobile and Game Development
- Unity 6.3 LTS is now, and Games to help you learn! (Code Monkey)
- Getting components by their base class name in Lens Studio and Finding all script components of a type in a Lens Studio scene (Joost van Schaik)
- A Pico For the Holidays (Harry Fairhead)
- Todd Howard says AI can’t replace human ‘creative intention,’ but it’s part of Bethesda’s ‘toolset for how we build our worlds or check things’ (Lincoln Carpenter)
- Alibaba Just Changed the Wearable Game With Its Qwen-Powered AI Glasses (Abdul Wasay)
- Raspberry Pi: The 6th edition of our Beginner’s Guide is available now! (Brian Jepson)
Screencasts and Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 290 – “Probabilistic Determinism” (Get your neuro-symbolic AI on!) and Where is the non-smoking section of a cigar bar, please? (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Deploying Windows Servers in an Azure Availability Set | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
- Recording: Build AI that understands your business (Oren Eini)
- What 1250 Professionals Said About Working With AI and Microsoft Changing AI Targets? and Can Today’s AI Replace 12% of Work? (AIDailyBrief)
- C# Tools for Developers | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter and Start of a new project: CodeMedic | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- The Secret Trick To Keep Copilot On Track With Your C# Code (Nick Cosentino)
- The Download: Zork goes open source, Blender 5.0, unlocking AirPods & more (Andrea Griffiths)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Merge Conflict Episode #492 – SwiftData & CloudKit Sync “Just Work” Right? (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Lenny’s Podcast – The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google’s secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- PPP 486 | How to Solve Some of the Toughest Leadership Problems, with business coach Dr. Katie Best (Andy Kaufman)
- Changelog & Friends Episode #120 – Very important agents (Nick Nisi, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- freeCodeCamp Podcast Episode #200 – How to build your own learning path using Open Source with Kunal Kushwaha (Beau Carnes)
- The Vergecast – IT’s code red for ChatGPT (David Pierce)
- React Native Radio Episode #348 – From Ionic Evangelist to React Native Content Creator: Simon Grimm (Jamon Holmgren & Mazen Chami)
- InfoQ Podcast: Transforming Life Sciences: AI, Vibe Coding, and Drug Development Acceleration (Satish Kothapalli)
- Hard Fork Podcast – OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #276 – Exploring Quantum Computing & Python Frameworks (Christopher Bailey & Negar Vahid)
- Empathy and Availability Define Excellent Product Ownership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Scott Smith)
- The Amp Hour Episode #710 – Tugging on the Nerd Heartstring (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Treating your agents like microservices (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- We are Returning to CodeMash 2026 as a Sponsor and Exhibitor (Bjoern Meyer)
- The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says (Steve Jones)
- Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. in a disruptive deal valued at $82.7B (Lauren Forristal)
- Microsoft Ignite 2025: Top Security Innovations You Need to Know (Alex Zold)
- Call For Papers Listings for 12/05 (Leon Adato)
- Dapr Steering and Technical Committee 2025 Elections Results (Dapr Team)
- Join Our Exclusive Webinar: Build Blazing-Fast Financial Dashboards in Blazor: Unlock Insights from Raw Data (Shriram Sankaran)
- 30 years after Microsoft went ‘all-in’ on the internet, the tech giant’s AI strategy echoes the past (Geof Wheelwright)
- MySQL Repository Analysis Reveals Declining Development and Shrinking Contributor Base (Renato Losio)
- A decade of open innovation: Celebrating 10 years of Microsoft and Red Hat partnership (Brendan Burns)
- QuickTime Turns 34 (BeauHD)
Database
- How the Microsoft SQL team is investing in SQL tools and experiences (Anna Hoffman)
- An Expert’s Take on Advanced Data Visualization and Analytics (David Ramel & Greg Schulz)
- Why DISKANN Indexes Are So Slow To Create In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Windows Authentication for Cloud-Native Identities: Modernizing Azure SQL Managed Instance (Preview) (Sravani Saluru)
PowerShell and Terminal
- PowerShell Switch: A Complete Guide to Mastering Conditional Logic (Bill Kindle)
- Qoder CLI – Build and code directly in your terminal (Qoder Team)
Writing
- The isolation and loneliness of tech writing may get worse as AI accelerates (Tom Johnson)
- How Principal Engineers Shape Documentation as a Product + Punch List Lagniappe (Adron Hall)
- The Moment Of Change In Fiction (Writers Write)
Tools
- Microsoft confirms it’ll let you remove “AI Actions” from File Explorer menu in Windows 11 (Mayank Parmar)
- How to Run an .exe File on a Mac (Radu Popescu)
- WSL v2.6.3 Release (Ben Hillis)
- Too busy chasing AI hype, Microsoft left Windows 11’s design flaws untouched. Developers are the ones delivering the polish users expect (Sean Endicott)
- Live Blog Writer – An extension with WYSIWYG editor for VS Code with support for WordPress, Blogger, Ghost, and Substack blogs (Alvin Ashcraft)
- Windows on Arm runs more apps and games with new Prism update (Marc Sweetgall)
- Homebrew Can Now Help You Install Flatpaks Too (EditorDavid)
General
- Microsoft shareholders invoke Orwell and Copilot as Nadella cites ‘generational moment’ (Todd Bishop)
- The Commodore 64 is back on the production line for the first time in 30 years – and I want it, even if it makes zero sense (Lance Ulanoff)
- Why Gen Z is Using Retro Tech (EditorDavid)
- Rust 1.78.0: What’s In It? (Rust Team)
- Reasons To Love Linux Mint (Jack Wallen)
- Windows 11’s “Agenda” view in the Notification Center is a WebView2 (web app component), not native (Mayank Parmar)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7344 (Dev & Beta Channels) (Donna Little)
- Welcome to the wellness surveillance state (Victoria Song)
- LIDAR vs. Laser RADAR: Understanding the Core Differences (Ommatidia LiDAR Team)
More Link Collections
- Azure Weekly #543 – 7th December 2025 (The Editor)
- Blogs I Follow By Women In Tech (Rachel Kaufman)
- F# Weekly #49, 2025 – Oxpecker 2, fsi-mcp, LSP & AOC in F# (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – December 5, 2025 (#679) (Richard Seroter)
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – December 1 (Peter Ritchie)
