Top Links
- Introducing OpenSilver 3.3: Blazor Components Now Run Directly Inside XAML Applications (OpenSilver Team)
- Introducing Budget Bytes: Build Powerful AI Apps for Under $25 (Jasmine Greenaway & Pablo Lopes)
- MCP Apps And Interactive UIs In MCP Clients (Den Delimarsky)
- Power agentic workflows in your terminal with GitHub Copilot CLI (Dylan Birtolo)
- Maia 200: The AI accelerator built for inference (Scott Guthrie)
- Giving Agents a Visual Voice: MCP Apps Support in VS Code (Harald Kirschner & Connor Peet)
- Welcoming Web Content to Native Apps (Sam Basu)
Web and Cloud Development
- Node.js 25.5.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
- OG Image Generation in AnalogJS (Jonathan Gamble)
- Deploy Clawdbot on AWS or Hetzner Securely with Pulumi and Tailscale (Engin Diri)
- There is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element (Zell Liew)
- 12 Top WordPress Themes People Actually Use in 2026 (Tested & Ranked) (Rochi Zalani)
- Manage Cloud Visibility and Governance with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi Insights Team)
- A security checklist for your React and Next.js apps (Crystal Morin)
- Building a Design System on Top of Blazorise (Mladen Macanović)
- Who will pioneer the next web? (Peter Rojas)
Windows Development
- What’s the difference between SafeArrayAccessData and SafeArrayAddRef? (Raymond Chen)
- Swift: Announcing the Windows Workgroup (Mishal Shah)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Building an authenticated MCP server with Microsoft Entra and .NET (Marco Siccardi)
- Wolverine Idioms for MediatR Users (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Creating and consuming metrics with System.Diagnostics.Metrics APIs (Andrew Lock)
AI
- The Hidden Memory Architecture of LLMs (hazem)
- Learn Claude Code and AI Development in 2026 | Humble Software Bundle (Zenva) – Referral Link
- 31 Days of Vibe Coding – Day 27: Building Your Prompt Library: Capture What Works (Jeff Blankenburg)
- When and why startups add a Gateway in front of Microsoft Foundry (rmmartins)
- Grounding agents with Bing Search tools (Microsoft Learn)
- Run Claude Code Locally with Docker Model Runner (Yiwen Xu)
- Why AI helps you to discover new parts of your favorite SDK–The NullLogger (Bart Wullems)
- Unlocking Agentic RL Training for GPT-OSS: A Practical Retrospective (Jason Zhu, Hejian Sang, Arup De, Rohit Jain & Yanning Chen)
- ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages, and download files (Simon Willison)
- Migrate Your Existing Agents to Couchbase AI Services (Laurent Doguin)
- The AI Evolution of Graph Search at Netflix (Alex Hutter & Bartosz Balukiewicz)
- Building AI apps that remember: Mem0 vs Supermemory (Kapeel Kokane)
- GitHub Copilot SDK Enters Tech Preview (Kay Ewbank)
- Clawdbot with Docker Model Runner, a Private Personal AI Assistant (Yiwen Xu)
- MCP Apps – Bringing UI Capabilities To MCP Clients (MCP Core Maintainers)
- Building AI Agents in Kotlin – Part 5: Teaching Agents to Forget (Fatimazahra El Akkary)
- Anthropic extends MCP with a UI framework (Frederic Lardinois)
- Gemini-Powered Siri Update Coming February – Apple’s Big AI Upgrade Revealed (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Docker Sandboxes: Run Claude Code and Other Coding Agents Unsupervised (but Safely) (Srini Sekaran)
- NVIDIA Earth-2 Open Models Span the Whole Weather Stack (Mike Pritchard, Jaideep Pathak, Jean Kossaifi & Aayush Gupta)
- From MCP-UI to MCP Apps: Evolving Interactive Agent UIs (Ebony Louis)
- Build a Responsive UI through Prompt Driven Development (Cynthia Zanoni)
- Effective Coauthoring: Tips and Techniques (Mark Richards, Neal Ford & Raju Gandhi)
- Introducing the Evals for Agent Interop starter kit (Aadharsh Kannan)
Python
- Tips for getting coding agents to write good Python tests (Simon Willison)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- TeamCity: The Jenkins Migration Planning Kit (Dmitrii Korovin)
- Why Your Software Sucks: Inheritance (Aaron Stannard)
- Advanced Installer 23.4 Release (Advanced Installer Team)
- Octopus Easy Mode – Variables (Matthew Casperson)
- From 5 to 50: A Practical Playbook for Scaling Your Product Team (Jason See)
- 9 reasons to choose Sketch in 2026 (Freddie Harrison)
- Security strategies for safeguarding governmental data (Tim Langan)
Mobile and Game Development
- 6 .NET MAUI Properties You Didn’t Know Work with Buttons (Leomaris Reyes)
- Xbox Cloud Gaming’s new design teases the future of Xbox console UI (Tom Warren)
- Google’s Aluminium OS Finally Merges Android & ChromeOS (TechRepublic Staff)
- How We Made Variable Inspections 87 Times Faster for Unreal Engine in Rider (Sasha Korepanov)
- Build a dinosaur runner game with Deno, pt. 4 (Jo Franchetti)
Screencasts and Videos
- How Does This Google Tool Turns Messy Text Into Clean Data (Frank La Vigne)
- Who Will Adapt Best to AI Disruption? and Ralph Wiggum, Clawdbot and Mac Minis: How Pros are Vibe Coding in 2026 (AIDailyBrief)
- Microsoft’s new CLI Tool for Windows App Devs, PowerToys Release 0.97 & more!-Developer News 04/2026 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- Playwright Workspaces: Debug end-to-end tests faster (Microsoft Azure Developers)
- VS Code Live – MCP Apps are live! (Den Delimarsky, Harald Kirschner & James Montemagno)
- REST APIs, Vectors, and AI in SQL Server 2025 | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Ben Weissman)
- Frontiers of AI Research: Shaping the Future of Intelligence | MongoDB.local San Francisco 2026 (MongoDB Team)
- MCP Will Never Be The Same – Render UI With MCP Apps (Den Delimarsky)
- Creating and Debugging Multi-Project Solutions | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Brian Randell)
- This AI Migration Saved Me Months of Work (Nick Cosentino)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Python Bytes Podcast #467 – Toads in my AI (Michael Kennedy)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #178 – Clawdbot triggers a run on Mac Minis (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #260 – The Agentic IAM Trainwreck: Why Your Bots Need Better Permissions Than Your Admins (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Meta Cast – Are You Too Nice to Be an Effective Leader? (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Foojay Podcast #89: Quarkus and Agentic Commerce (Holly Cummins)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Stop Trying So Hard and Start Automating Smarter with Jake Hildreth (James Petty)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #973 – The Web’s Next Form: MCP UI (with Kent C. Dodds) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Stop Teaching and Start Doing—The Secret to Agile Adoption in Construction | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Felipe Engineer-Manriquez)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Scarecrows and other ‘cutthroat’ compounds. Reading versus listening. Squirrel Hill Tunnel. (Mignon Fogarty & Karen Lunde)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode #100 – The 17th Annual Customer Choice Awards (Trader Joe’s Team)
- InfoQ Podcast: Startup Software Architecture – You Never Really Throw It Away: A Conversation with David Gudeman (David Gudeman)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Spy vs spy at scale (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- What’s Next at Bluesky (Bluesky Team)
- Benefits of Startup Founders Speaking at Conferences (Mahesh Chand)
- Join Microsoft at NDC London 2026 – Let’s Build the Future of .NET Together (.NET Team)
- Social network UpScrolled sees surge in downloads following TikTok’s US takeover (Aisha Malik)
- Looking Back at the Redgate 2026 Company Kickoff (Steve Jones)
- Expedia Group lays off employees in latest cuts at Seattle travel giant (Taylor Soper)
- From Vivaldi to World Premieres: Inside Highmark Mann Center’s 50th Anniversary Season (Visit Philly)
- New Livestream – From Detection to Remediation: Wiz in Your JetBrains IDE (Anna Rovinskaia)
- Stack Gives Back 2025! (Sasha)
Database
- Regex String Split using SQL Server 2025 REGEXP_SPLIT_TO_TABLE (Koen Verbeeck)
- Using AI for Git Hooks (Steve Jones)
- GitHub Copilot + SQL Server: Understanding the Security Analyzer (Ryad B.)
- AI Features in SQL Server 2025: How Intelligent Is It Really? (Mahesh Chand)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.395 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Building a 3.6GB .NET Audio Joiner with GitHub Copilot CLI (Bruno Capuano)
- Toad – A unified interface for AI in your terminal (Batrachian AI)
Tools
General
- Does Evidence Even Matter? (Om Malik)
- ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years (BeauHD)
- All the ways TikTok is broken: here’s what’s real and what’s not (Richard Lawler)
- A new lawsuit against Meta questions whether WhatsApp messages are encrypted (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- 4 Misconceptions About Introverts, Debunked (Nitya Rao)
- World Not Ready For Rise In Extreme Heat, Scientists Say (msmash)
- Apple introduces new AirTag with expanded range and improved findability (Apple)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – January 26, 2026 (#707) (Richard Seroter)
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – January 26 (Peter Ritchie)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G7e instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs (January 26, 2026) (Micah Walter)
- Reading Notes #682 (Frank Boucher)
