Top Links
- Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (February) (Rhea Patel)
- WinGet Configuration: Set up your dev machine in one command (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Pick your agent: Use Claude and Codex on Agent HQ (Mario Rodriguez)
- Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot includes custom agent support (Dan Hellem)
- .NET Rocks! – .NET Source Generators with Jason Bock (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Sysinternals: ZoomIt v10.0, Sysmon 1.5 for Linux, Sigcheck v2.91, RAMMap v1.62, and RDCMan v3.12 (Alex Mihaiuc)
- Avalonia for Visual Studio Code – Preview Available (Mike James)
Web and Cloud Development
- Auto-install `azd` extensions in dev containers (PuiChee (PC) Chan)
- Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server (Jess Kuras)
- Announcing OpenAPI support for the Pulumi Cloud REST API (Zac Cook)
- Remix vs. Next.js vs. SvelteKit (Alex Merced)
- Vue Basics: A Comprehensive Guide to Vue 3 Directives (David Adeneye Abiodun)
- How to Secure Multi-User PDF Signing in a React PDF Viewer (Eshwari Balraj)
- From strategy to architecture: How Firely supports critical FHIR decisions (Mat Osmanski)
- Setting Up Auth0 Custom Domains: A Complete Guide to DNS and SDK Configuration (Jessica Temoral & Shreya Gupta)
- Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1 is now a W3C Recommendation (W3C Team)
- Icon Previewer | Codepen (Paul Hebert)
- A Guide to Implementing ActivityPub in a Static Site (or Any Website) – Part 9: Quote Posts (Maho Pacheco)
- Measuring SVG rendering time (Stoyan)
Windows Development
- Reliably Refreshing the WebView2 Control (Rick Strahl)
- Windows MIDI Services rollout – known issues and workarounds (Pete Brown)
- Auto-Detect High-Risk Areas Using an AI-Assisted WPF HeatMap Chart (Priyadharshini Periyasamy)
- How can I prevent the user from changing the widths of ListView columns? (Raymond Chen)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1546 (Canary Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Command Line Interface Consumer for Kafka in C# (Bryan Hogan)
- MSVC Build Tools Versions 14.30 – 14.43 Now Available in Visual Studio 2026 (Augustin Popa)
- Leader Election in .NET: Picking One Boss Without Creating Two (Chris Woodruff)
AI
- Agents League: Build, Learn, and Level Up Your AI Skills (Ayca Bas)
- v0 by Vercel – Build agents, apps, and websites with AI (Vercel)
- Claude is a space to think (Anthropic Team)
- Writing Effective Prompts for Testing Scenarios: AI Assisted Quality Engineering (Nidhi Malhotra)
- Conversing with Large Language Models using Dapr (Siri Varma Vegiraju)
- Microsoft Brings Copilot Studio Agents Directly Into Visual Studio Code (Kieron Allen)
- Neo: Share Tasks for Collaborative AI Infrastructure Operations (Pulumi Neo Team)
- Unlocking the Codex harness: how we built the App Server (OpenAI Team)
- OpenClaw’s AI “skill” extensions are a security nightmare (Emma Roth)
- Serverless GPU Tutorial: Build an AI Image Generator with Azure Functions on Container Apps and Build Your Own AI Image Generator with Azure Functions on Container Apps and GPUs 🎨 (Nitesh Jain)
- A New Mistral AI Model’s Ultra-Fast Translation Gives Big AI Labs a Run for Their Money (Joel Khalili)
- Code smells for AI agents: Q&A with Eno Reyes of Factory (Ryan Donovan)
- OpenClaw: An AI Lobster That Gets Work Done (Praveen Kumar Myakala)
- What Is Moltbook and How Does Moltbook Work? (Mahesh Chand)
- Detecting backdoored language models at scale (Blake Bullwinkel & Giorgio Severi)
- Beyond Pilot Purgatory (Shreshta Shyamsundar & Anmol Jain)
Python
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Octopus Easy Mode – Build Information (Matthew Casperson)
- Best Morning Habits for a Productive and Successful Day (Mahesh Chand)
- Your Idempotent Code Is Lying To You (Derek Comartin)
Mobile and Game Development
- Xcode 26.3 – Agentic Coding (ProMobile.Dev)
- No Display? No Problem: Cross-Device Passkey Authentication for XR Devices (Paul Wright, Jimmy Dong & Abhishek Agrawal)
- An Introduction to Liquid Glass for iOS 26 (Kodeco)
- Hello Developer: February 2026 (Apple Developer)
Screencasts and Videos
- GitHub Copilot CLI can have models call each other. So you can have Opus, Codex and Gemini all working together in the same chat. 🤯 (Burke Holland)
- What surprised you most about using AI outside of your job at Microsoft? | One Dev Question (Jeremy Likness)
- .NET Maps SDK: Building Apps | #EsriDevSummit2025 (Esri Developers)
- Azure SQL Managed Instance just got WAY faster – Meet Next gen GP | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Uros Milanovic)
- Master OpenClaw in 30 Minutes (5 Real Use Cases + Setup + Memory) (Peter Yang)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why AI loves em dashes, with Sean Goedecke (Mignon Fogarty)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #194 – Spec-Driven Development in Practice: A AWS Hero Journey (Christian)
- Big Technology Podcast – AI’s Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau (Alex Kantrowitz)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #675 – Setting Docker Hardened Images free (Tushar Jain, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #706 – Yechezkel “Chez” Rabinovich on Observability Tool Migration Techniques (Brijesh Ammanath)
- AI & I Podcast – Every’s Head of Consulting Just Automated Her Job (Tom Matsuda)
- Hard Fork Podcast – Moltbook Mania Explained (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #976 – Pi – The AI Harness That Powers OpenClaw W/ Armin Ronacher & Mario Zechner (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Trust Over Escalation — A Patient Approach to Difficult PO Relationships | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Juliana Stepanova)
- NSScreencast #605 – Part 2 – Profiling and Removing Splits (Ben Scheirman)
Community and Events
- 7 Web Design Conferences and Events to Attend in 2026 (Suzanne Scacca)
- Updates in two of our core priorities (Satya Nadella)
- I’m a senior UX researcher at Microsoft. Here’s how I broke into AI without a tech background — and 3 lessons I learned. (Robin Madell)
- CfPs Closing Soon (as of 2026-02-04) (Dave Aronson)
- The Code of Us : Black and African American Community (Microsoft)
- Join Microsoft as we share more on Maia 200 in the Bay Area (Sean Whalen)
- Workday to Lay Off Roughly 400 Customer Support Staff (TechRepublic Staff)
Database
- SSIS 2025 Download, Install and Configure (Koen Verbeeck)
- I Just Don’t Understand Why You Don’t Update SSMS. (Brent Ozar)
- Your Test Data Environment: Build vs Buy – a conversation we need to have (Steve Jones)
- More LOBs, More Locks (in SQL Server) (Erik Darling)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.403 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Tools
- Announcing Files v4.0.26 (Files Team)
- Translate on device with Text Grab 4.12 (Joseph Finney)
- What’s coming in VS Code v1.110 – Hooks support, Skills exposed as Slash commands, and more (Oren Melamed)
General
- The Wayback Machine debuts a new plugin designed to fix the internet’s broken links problem (Lucas Ropek)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 4, 2026 (#714) (Richard Seroter)
- The Replay (2/4/26): AI-first leadership, Tailwind layoffs, and more (Matt MacCormack)
