Top Links
- Building an AI Skills Executor in .NET: Bringing Anthropic’s Agent Pattern to the Microsoft Ecosystem (Matt Kruczek)
- 5 amazing open-source apps that everyone should use on Windows 11 — but not the ones you might be thinking of (Mauro Huculak)
- Summary Row Styling in WPF DataGrid: Customization Guide (Piruthiviraj Malaimelraj)
- VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #19 – Subagents: Parallel Execution and Context Isolation (James Montemagno & Harald Kirschner)
- Microsoft Agent Framework: Exposing an Existing AI Agent as an MCP Tool (Jamie Maguire)
- Is the craft dead? and The danger of glamourizing one shots (Scott Hanselman)
Web and Cloud Development
- ASP.NET Core Document Editor with Backend via the Text Control Private NuGet Feed (Bjoern Meyer)
- How WebAssembly and Web Workers prevent UI freezes (Jessica Wachtel)
- ESLint v10.0.0 released (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- What to Expect in Angular 22 (Kelly Vatter)
- Salesforce Shelves Heroku (msmash)
- From Manual Calculations to AI-Driven Grading Logic with the JavaScript DataGrid [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
- Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users (Ivan Mehta)
- Isolate the swiyu Public Beta management APIs using YARP (Damien Bowden)
- How (and Why) to Stop Users from Selecting Text on Your Website (Rachel Kaufman)
- Ember 6.10 Released (Jared Galanis & Chris Manson)
Windows Development
- How can I prevent the user from changing the widths of ListView columns in version 5 of the common controls?, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
- WinDev Helper – A WinUI Extension for VS Code (Alvin Ashcraft) – A new preview release with an experimental XAML properties panel added to the experimental live preview pane is available.
- What’s New in vcpkg (Nov 2025 – Jan 2026) (Augustin Popa)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Text Control Private NuGet Feed (Jonathan Maron)
- Modern Mapping with EF Core (Ricardo Peres)
- How LeftJoin and RightJoin Work in EF Core .NET 10 (David Grace)
- Entity Framework Core 10 provider for Firebird is ready (Jiří {x2} Činčura)
- Abstract Factory vs Factory Method Pattern in C#: Key Differences Explained and Source Generation vs Reflection in Needlr: Choosing the Right Approach (Nick Cosentino)
- Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Global Phone Number and Postal Code Validation Made Easy and String Performance: Why Some String Searches Are Slower Than You Think (David McCarter)
- Lease Pattern in .NET: A Lock With an Expiration Date That Saves Your Data (Chris Woodruff)
- Command Line Interface Producer for Kafka in C# (Bryan Hogan)
AI
- 8 Things You Didn’t Know About Code Mode and How I Used RPI to Build an OpenClaw Alternative (Rizel Scarlett)
- Choosing the Right Model in GitHub Copilot: A Practical Guide for Developers (Nithyasree Kusakula)
- AI meets you where you are: Slack, email & ServiceNow (Tommy Hughes)
- The Passive AI Learning Stack That Changed the Way I Learn (Donn Felker)
- Secure MCP Development with Rust and Gemini CLI (xbill)
- Microsoft Copilot now reminds you to take a break from AI because you’re a human (Abhijith M B)
- How does AI impact skill formation? (Sean Goedecke)
- My First Week With OpenClaw: An AI That Actually Runs Your PC (Kory Becker)
- Moltbook, Reddit, and The Great AI-Bot Uprising That Wasn’t (EditorDavid)
- Do You Even Plan, Bro? (Tim Ottinger)
- Claude Code is the Inflection Point (msmash)
- The 6 pillars that will define agent readiness in 2026 (Nitasha Chopra)
- AI Can Build Your Flutter App, But It Can’t Architect It (Akansha Jain)
- OpenClaw Security Risks and Concerns (Mahesh Chand)
- Claude: Speed up responses with fast mode (Simon Willison)
- Apple might let you use ChatGPT from CarPlay (Stevie Bonifield)
- Why Copilot’s Auto Mode for AI Models Ignores Your Actual Task (David Ramel)
- Compliance Meets AI: What’s New in Insider Risk Management for Copilot (Jay Cotton)
- Making AI work for everyone, everywhere: our approach to localization (OpenAI Team)
- How AI Goes to Work (Om Malik)
- Pulumi Neo Now Supports AGENTS.md (Pulumi Neo Team)
- Reverse Engineering Your Software Architecture with Claude Code to Help Claude Code (Nick Tune)
- Moltbook was peak AI theater (Will Douglas Heaven)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- The 67 CEOs Who Redefined Excellence (JD Meier)
- Large tech companies don’t need heroes (Sean Goedecke)
- The cost of a function call (Daniel Lemire)
- Playwright v1.58.2 Release (dgozman)
- Code Isn’t Slowing Your Project Down, Communication Is (Marek Sontag)
- The quantum era is coming. Are we ready to secure it? (Hartmut Neven)
Mobile and Game Development
- Devs should avoid publishers, says publisher; and Steam Frame delayed? (Code Monkey)
- Build an AI-Powered Space Invaders Game (Lee Stott)
- Updated App Review Guidelines now available (Apple Developer Team)
Screencasts and Videos
- Agent Mode in Excel: Analyze a Football Squares Grid Fast (Microsoft 365 Team)
- Random.Code() – Making Tachyon a Generalized Interceptor, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 299 – “Choose Your Own AI Dystopia” (30 Seconds to Midnight) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Opus 4.6 and ChatGPT 5.3-Codex Are Here and the Labs Are at War (AIDailyBrief)
- Playwright CLI vs MCP – a new tool for your coding agent (Playwright Dev Team)
- The Download: OpenClaw AI agents, Last of Babel 7, GitHub Actions & more (Cassidy Williams)
- AspiriFridays – AI or something (Aspire Team)
- Ask Microsoft Anything: Secure Boot (Arden White, Scott Shell, Richard Powell & Kevin Sullivan)
Dometrain Course
Getting Started: .NET MAUI: Get started with .NET MAUI to build cross-platform mobile and desktop apps using a single project. This course covers app logic, UI layout, and more to streamline modern app development. (Brandon Minnick) – Referral Link
Podcasts
- David Starr: DevOps Success Story – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #388 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Fragmented, A Dev Podcast Episode #304 – Agent Skills – when to use them and why they matter (Iury Souza & Kaushik Gopal)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Getting paid to vibe code: Inside the new AI-era job | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- BONUS Conflict Is the Yellow Brick Road to Success — How Embracing Conflict Transforms Teams and Leaders | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Dan Tocchini)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #340 – Azure releases a new SQL AI Assistant… Jimmy Droptables (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker & Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn)
- React Native Radio Episode #353 – Node-API Support for React Native with Kræn Hansen (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
- Big Technology Podcast – Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Changelog and Friends Podcast Episode #127 – It’s a renaissance woman’s world (Amal Hussein, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- PPP 495 | Your Layoff Survival Playbook: Lessons from The Layoff Journey, with Steve Jaffe (Andy Kaufman)
- Hard Fork Podcast – Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- A Geek Leader Episode #455 – Adam Christing on The Laughter Factor (John Rouda)
- Why “I’ll Just Do It Myself” Is the Most Expensive PO Shortcut | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Juliana Stepanova)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #283 – Improving Your GitHub Developer Experience (Christopher Bailey & Adam Johnson)
Community and Events
- MSSQLTips.com Author of 2025 (MSSQL Tips)
- The ultimate Microsoft 365 community event returns—your front‑row seat to the future of intelligent work (Jeff Teper)
- Call For Papers Listings for 2/6 (Leon Adato)
- Swift Student Challenge submissions are now open (Apple Developer Team)
- OpenAI inks huge lease in Bellevue, doubling down on Seattle region near Microsoft and Amazon HQs and Why these startup founders are leaving Seattle for San Francisco (Taylor Soper)
- Blazor Community Standup: ASP.NET Core & Blazor Roadmap for .NET 11 (Feb 10th) (Daniel Roth & Javier Calvarro Nelson)
- Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results Year End 2025 (Mark Pahulje)
- Open Source Software, Public Policy, and the Stakes of Getting It Right (Rachel Roumeliotis)
- A Virtual Visit To Computer History Museum (Sue Gee)
Database
- SQL Prompt Product Updates – February 2026 (Adam Atreides)
- SQL SERVER – Execution Plans and Indexing Strategies – Quick Guide (Pinal Dave)
- Azure SQL’s Native JSON Type: Optimized for Performance (Shrusti Kolsur)
- Pure Surreal Database Authentication in Nuxt (Jonathan Gamble)
- Column Store, Delta Store, and More (Erik Darling)
- Masking Sensitive Data in Azure SQL (Jerry Nixon)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Mastering User Settings in SharePoint Framework (Paolo Pialorsi)
- Upcoming few Copilot + Teams changes I’m tracking right now (Vesa Nopanen)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.406 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Crush – Glamourous agentic coding for all 💘 (Charm Team)
Writing
- Live Blog Writer – A VS Code extension for writing and publishing blog posts (Alvin Ashcraft) – New release with keyboard shortcuts, post templates, and initial localization support (English & Spanish)
Tools
- MaximizeToVirtualDesktop v0.0.5 Release (macOS green-button behavior for Windows 11 — maximize any window to its own virtual desktop) (Scott Hanselman)
- IDEcline: How the world’s most powerful coding tools became second-class citizens overnight (Janakiram MSV)
- Dev Feed Curator – Streamline your developer link blogging workflow (Alvin Ashcraft) – Minor updates in v3.6.3
General
- CIA World Factbook 2020 edition – Recovered from Internet Archive (Simon Willison)
- Is the ‘Death of Reading’ Narrative Wrong? and Good News: We Saved the Bees. Bad News: We Saved the Wrong Ones. and Free Bi-Directional EV Chargers Tested to Improve Massachusetts Power Grid (EditorDavid)
- I went back to Linux and it was a mistake (Terrence O’Brien)
- Windows 11: After Paint 3D, Microsoft is removing 3D Viewer, as the “Creators Update” era fades away and Microsoft says 32GB RAM is ideal for serious gamers on Windows 11, recommends Copilot+ PCs for gaming (Mayank Parmar)
- Amazon’s Tax Bill Plunges 87% After Tax Cuts and Memory Prices Have Nearly Doubled Since Last Quarter (msmash)
- RFK Jr. Has Packed an Autism Panel With Cranks and Conspiracy Theorists (David Gilbert)
- Civil rights groups issue Florida travel alert ahead of FIFA World Cup (Michelle Spitzer)
More Link Collections
- Links For You (2/8/26) (Raymond Camden)
- Azure Weekly #550 – 8th February 2026 (The Editor)
- F# Weekly #6, 2026 – FScript & An ode to “Slowly” handcrafted code (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – February 6, 2026 (#716) (Richard Seroter)
- Android Weekly Issue #713 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
- iOS Dev Weekly – Issue #742 (Dave Verwer)
- Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 1, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML.
