Top Links
- Copilot Memories (Jessie Houghton)
- Announcing CodeMash East (Amanda Stamper)
- .NET MAUI 10.0.30 SR3 Release (Shane Neuville)
- Microsoft is closing its employee library and cutting back on subscriptions (Tom Warren)
- Building an agentic memory system for GitHub Copilot (Tiferet Gazit)
- Introducing the Visual Studio Code MCP Server! (Calvin Allen)
Web and Cloud Development
- What’s New with Azure NetApp Files VS Code Extension (Geert Van Teylingen)
- CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem (Elliott Johnson)
- Why Go is Going Nowhere (msmash)
- Unveiling Firestore Pipeline operations (Morgan Chen, Tyler Crowe & Minh Nguyen)
- The API Authorization Hierarchy of Needs: Why You Aren’t Ready for AI Agents Yet (Andrés Aguiar)
- A developer’s guide to designing AI-ready frontend architecture (Nelson Michael)
- Building docfind: Fast Client-Side Search with Rust and WebAssembly (João Moreno)
- Making This Blog Even Faster With Speculation Rules (Rachel Kaufman)
- Building a Scroll-Driven Dual-Wave Text Animation with GSAP (Valentin Descombes)
Windows Development
- When programs assume that the system will never change, episode 4: Stealing strings (Raymond Chen)
- Windows App SDK 1.7.7 (1.7.251220001) (Roy MacLachlan)
AI
- Cursor CEO Built a Browser using AI, but Does It Really Work? (Kaustubh Saini)
- Skills And Agentic AI Multipodal (Eleanor Berger)
- Does AI help us care less? (Tim Ottinger)
- 31 Days of Vibe Coding – Day 16: AI as Security Auditor (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Mobile Apps on Replit: Idea to App Store in Minutes (Replit Team)
- Introducing OptiMind, a research model designed for optimization (Anson Ho, Sirui Li & Ishai Manache)
- Open Responses: What you need to know (Shaun Smith, Ben Burtonshaw, Merve & Pedro Cuenca)
- Announcing GPT-5.2 Availability in Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret Clouds (Douglas Phillips)
- Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others (Sarah Perez)
- Lessons from 2 Years of Integrating AI into Development Workflows (Nishant Ghan)
- OpenCode with Docker Model Runner for Private AI Coding (Yiwen Xu)
- Announcing general availability for GitLab Duo Agent Platform (Bill Staples)
- OptiMind: A small language model with optimization expertise (Xinzhi Zhang, Zeyi Chen, Humishka Hope, Hugo Barbalho, Konstantina Mellou, Marco Molinaro, Janardhan (Jana) Kulkarni, Ishai Menache & Sirui Li)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Azure DevOps (Server) – Check repository health and usage (Bart Wullems)
- When protections outlive their purpose: A lesson on managing defense systems at scale (Thomas Kjær Aabo)
- Adopting Tricky Design Concepts Safely (JB Rainsberger)
- What Is Code Encryption and Why It Matters for Software Security (Michelle Pruitt)
- The Power of the Incomplete: Designing Progress (Teon Beijl)
Mobile and Game Development
- Update your Kotlin projects for Android Gradle Plugin 9.0 (Márton Braun)
- Announcing Mastering SwiftUI 7 for iOS 26 and Xcode 26 (Simon Ng)
- Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too (Sean Hollister)
- LLM flexibility, Agent Mode improvements, and new agentic experiences in Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop (Sandhya Mohan & Trevor Johns)
Screencasts and Videos
- The Biggest Battle in AI is for Your Personal Context (AIDailyBrief)
- AspiriFridays – Seth is back! (Aspire Team)
- GCast 208: Creating UI Tests with Playwright (David Giard)
- Optimize your agent setup – live walkthrough (Warp Team)
- Build Powerful AI Apps for under $25! | Budget Bytes (Microsoft Developer)
- DiskANN: An overview of vector indexing in Azure SQL and Fabric SQL | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Davide Mauri)
- The Gap Between AI Hype and Developer Productivity | Hangar DX Podcast (Ankit Jain & Yegor Denisov-Blanch)
- Uno Platform Live Coding: UnoDoom (Martin Zikmund)
- Fritz is back! Let’s look back at a few projects and write some code | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- A Geek Leader Episode #452 – Crispin Thompson (John Rouda)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #555 – After the Dream (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #337 – AWS Discovers Prices Can Go Both Ways, Raises GPU Costs 15 Percent (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- InfoQ Podcast: Why Engineering Culture Is Everything: Building Teams That Actually Work (Gonzalo (Glo) Maldonado)
- Generative AI in the Real World: Aurimas Griciūnas on AI Teams and Reliable AI Systems (Ben Lorica & Aurimas Griciūnas)
- Lenny’s Podcast – How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook | Sam Lessin (Lenny Rachitsky)
- The Language Test That Reveals True Team Ownership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mohini Kissoon)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – How AWS re:Invented the cloud (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Wikipedia Signs AI Licensing Deals On Its 25th Birthday (msmash)
- Starting a User Group: What You Need to Know (Soyoung Lee)
- TransformConf: a New Conference on AI in Software Development (Aleksandra Krupskaya)
- How Stack Overflow is taking on spam and bad actors (Kate Smith)
Database
- Cumulative Update #1 for SQL Server 2025 RTM (SrinivasSQL)
- Move a SQL Server Table to a New Filegroup (Burt King)
- Stored Procedure IF Branching and Deferred Compilation In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Introducing: RavenDB Kubernetes Operator (Oren Eini)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Bring data into Excel with the new Import Functions (Gal Zivoni)
PowerShell and Terminal
- AWS CLI v1 Maintenance Mode Announcement (Anna-Karin Salander)
Tools
- Announcing Files v4.0.25 (Files Team)
- Pulumi: Introducing the new and improved ESC Editor (Pablo Terradillos)
General
- Dave Filoni takes charge of Star Wars as new president of Lucasfilm (Andrew Webster)
- Account compromise threats up nearly 400 percent in the past year (Ian Barker)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – January 12 (Peter Ritchie)
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