Top Links
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) Dec 2025 – Extensions Enhancements, Foundry Rebranding, and Azure Pipelines Improvements (Kristen Womack)
- Copilot on Windows: New text editing feature begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Microsoft Copilot Team)
- The Forgotten Features of Visual Studio You NEED In Your Life | Live! 360 (Mads Kristensen & Harshada Hole)
- CrossIntelligence – Provides unified access to Apple Intelligence and external LLMS for MAUI and .NET apps (Frank Kreuger)
- Api Versioning – A deep dive (Irina Scurtu)
- Glenn Condron: Aspire Strategy for .NET – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #381 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Bringing the DOOM to Uno Platform (Martin Zikmund)
Web and Cloud Development
- Over the River and Through the Woods – Build a Navigation App with GeoBlazor and Blazor (Tim Purdum)
- How to Create Interactive and Animated WordPress Websites in 2026 And Why It Matters (Droip)
- API Performance Workbench in .NET: BenchmarkDotNet, Load Testing, and Practical Profiling (Sudhir Mangla)
- ASP.NET Core route constraints: A quick guide for developers (David Grace)
- When Should JavaScript Devs Use the Power of WebAssembly? (Jessica Wachtel)
- HTTP PATCH Method: Partial Updates for RESTful APIs (Postman Team)
- Server-Sent Events in ASP.NET Core and .NET 10 (Milan Jovanović)
- Electron Tech Talk: Improving Window Resize Behavior (nikwen)
- Enterprise Patterns for ASP.NET Core Minimal API: Data Mapper Pattern (Chris Woodruff)
- Build an AI Assistant with LangGraph, Next.js, and Auth0 Connected Accounts (Deepu K Sasidharan)
- Masonry Layout is Now grid-lanes (Sunkanmi Fafowora)
- How to Build Faster, Safer Local WordPress Dev Workflows for Your Agency (Alexa)
- Building an AI-Powered Form Assistant with Blazor (Ed Charbeneau)
- Introducing the Aspire ASB Emulator UI (Andrew Poole)
- oRPC Releases Version 1.0 with OpenAPI Support and End to End Type Safety (Daniel Curtis)
Windows Development
- C++ Joins C# in Visual Studio’s Deep Copilot Tier (David Ramel)
- A Guide to Filtering a WPF DataGrid Using FlexGrid (Hunter Haaf)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Bug in the C# Yellow Book (Rob Miles)
- File-based apps | .NET (Microsoft Learn)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0-preview.251219.1 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- What’s New in Spreadsheet Editor SDK — 2025 Volume 4 (Arun Kumar Chandrakesan)
- Faceted search in .NET (Tim Maes)
- Functional Programming with C# – The Mondas Were Here the Whole Time! (Simon Painter)
- Visual Studio Project Renamifier 2025.12.20.33 Release (Calvin Allen)
- Code It Anyway You Want: Initializing Reference Type Static Fields Inline for Enhanced Code Readability (David McCarter)
- Safe Clean Architecture eBook for .NET (Romain Deneau)
- A Brief Introduction to Quantum Computing for F# Developers (Tuomas Hietanen)
AI
- “Claude Code” for Non-Coders (Eleanor Berger)
- The Privacy Gap in AI (And How to Actually Close It) (Paulina Nowinska)
- AI Development Tips (Dave Bush)
- Are these AI prompts damaging your thinking skills? (George Sandeman)
- Microsoft Agent Framework: Giving Agents Contextual Memory Using AIContextProvider (Jamie Maguire)
- Where LLM Hallucinations Come From (It’s Not Lying) and The Strategic Leadership Operating System for the AI Era and LLM Thinking vs Human Thinking and How Does an LLM Process Your Prompt? and How to Prompt Better (JD Meier)
- Microsoft brings Ask Copilot and Agents to the Windows 11 taskbar for business users (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Coding with AI, not let AI code for me (Wilme González Martínez)
- Does AI Really Make Coders Faster? (EditorDavid)
- A reality check on AI engineering: Lessons from the trenches of an early stage startup (Anna Rodriguez)
- Claude Code’s Slack Beta Pushes “Chat-First” Software Development Forward (AI Native Dev)
- From Prompt to Production: A Guide to AI-Generated Design Systems (Alexandra Spalato)
- GitHub Copilot – Coding Agent Examples Walkthrough (Rob Bos)
- TanStack Adds Framework-Agnostic AI Toolkit (Loraine Lawson)
- What’s new in Microsoft Copilot Studio: November 2025 (Nitasha Chopra)
- Does Duplicate Content Hurt SEO and AI Search Visibility? (Bing Team)
- Exploring the Future of MCP Transports (Kurtis Van Gent & Shaun Smith)
- Real-World Agent Examples with Gemini 3 (Philipp Schmid, Mark McDonald & Vishal Dharmadhikari)
- OWASP Drops First AI Agent Risk List (TechRepublic Staff)
- Why MCP’s Move Away from Server-Sent Events Simplifies Security (Will Johnson)
- The Strange Case of Engineers Who Dismiss AI (Matheus Lima)
Python
- Learn how to build MCP servers with Python and Azure (Pamela Fox)
- Fable Python (Dag Brattli)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Work item linking for Advanced Security alerts now available (Laura Jiang)
- Kubernetes 1.35: In-Place Pod Resize Graduates to Stable (Natasha Sarkar)
- Test-specific Eq (Mark Seemann)
- Beyond the PR: Solving Production Bugs with AI Agent Traceability (Brandon In)
- Using Terraform with AI: Workflows, Tools & Security (Divine Odazie)
- InstallExecuteSequence vs InstallUISequence Table for MSI Installers (Horatiu Vladasel)
- How to Customize Your Suite Installer Theme (Renato Ivanescu)
- First-Class Docker Support: Building and Deploying Containers With TeamCity (Dmitrii Korovin)
- Is DDD becoming even more crucial? (Jimmy Nilsson)
- Security Lingo Explained: BCP (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Saying Things Are Broken is Broken (Kin Lane)
Mobile and Game Development
- 19,606 Steam games made $16B in 2025, most made $0 but that’s not a problem. (Code Monkey)
- Foundry Local comes to Android—plus on-device speech, on-prem support, and a simpler SDK (Raji Rajagopalan)
- You can buy your Xbox Ally an official pair of anti-drift joysticks (Sean Hollister)
- Programming the Oxocard Connect with Arduino (David Groom)
- Best Dart Features to Highlight in 2025 (Majid Hajian)
- What’s New in Syncfusion 2025 Volume 4: .NET MAUI (Paul Anderson)
- What’s new in Swift: December 2025 Edition (Tim Sneath & Dave Lester)
- Media3 1.9.0 – What’s new (Kristina Simakova)
- Getting Started with Xbox Cloud Gaming (Will Fulton)
- How Mobile Development Teams Use Kotlin in 2025: Insights From a Certified Trainer (Ksenia Shneyveys)
- Goodbye Mobile Only, Hello Adaptive: Three essential updates from 2025 for building adaptive apps (Fahd Imtiaz)
Screencasts and Videos
- 10 Holiday-Themed Kids AI Activities and The Most Important AI Stories This Week (AIDailyBrief)
- Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2025 Playthrough – Part 1 (Jason Bock)
- Watch the recordings from my Python + MCP series (Pamela Fox)
- The Download: Bun acquired by Anthropic, React2Shell, GPT 5.2 & more (Christina Warren)
- Manage Agents, Instructions, Prompts, & Skills in Seconds with this VS Code Extension (James Montemagno)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 292 – “6th Annual Christmas Special” (The Lump of Coal of Invention) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Fast Focus on the Data Landscape | Live! 360 (Buck Woody)
- Spicy C# with Tabs and Aspire | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
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Podcasts
- Merge Conflict Episode #494 – TV Evolution- CRTs, Aspect Ratios, and Beyond (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Lenny’s Podcast – The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #123 – Ford’s $19B Electric Truck Retreat: What It Means For EVs In The US (Batteries Included Team)
- INotifyPodcastChanged Episode #14 – A look back at 2025 (Joseph Finney & Tamás Deme)
- React Native Radio Episode #350 – React Native Wrapped 2025 (Josh Yoes, Robin Heinze, Jamon Holmgren & Mazen Chami)
- Changelog and Friends Podcast Episode #122 – State of the “log” 2025 (Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- AI Unprompted Podcast Episode 010 – AI 2026 Predictions (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Joe Dluzen on Azure Functions & Durable Functions (Jesse Liberty)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #277 – Moving Towards Spec-Driven Development (Christopher Bailey & Marc Brooker)
- Hard Fork Podcast – Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- From Spreadsheets to Discovery—Helping POs Make the Transition | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Natalia Curusi)
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #202 – How to get promoted as a dev without becoming a manager – Staff Engineer Santosh Yadav interview (Beau Carnes)
Community and Events
- 15 Spots to Watch the New Year’s Eve Fireworks on the Parkway and Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
- Ignite Your Creativity at the Microsoft 365 Copilot Prompt a thon in Malvern (Abby Quinn)
- Announcing DEV.To Uno Platform Challenge Winners (Sam Basu)
- Cursor continues acquisition Spree with Graphite deal (Marina Temkin)
- Trump Admin to Hire 1,000 for New ‘Tech Force’ to Build AI Infrastructure (EditorDavid)
- The Joyful Chaos of the Early Web: A Conversation with Creator Audrey Witters (Caralee Adams)
- Call For Papers Listings for 12/19 (Leon Adato)
Database
- Achieve Constant Pagination Performance in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
- Vector Search in Oracle Database 26ai (Kellyn Gorman)
- freeCodeCamp’s New Relational Databases Certification is Now Live (Jessica Wilkins)
- New in SQL Server Management Studio 22: Open Execution Plans In a New Tab! (Erik Darling)
- Getting Started with Couchbase Enterprise Analytics SDK (Jeff Morris)
- What are SQL database projects? (Microsoft Learn)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Get clarity on complex presentations with Explainer in PowerPoint (guptaananta)
- Spotlight on… Glint and Pulse: A Year in Review Volume 1, Edition 3, December 2025 (Amy Wheater)
PowerShell and Terminal
- New Book: Build and Deploy Apps using Azure Developer CLI by Chris Pietschmann (Chris Pietschmann)
- Screenshot Anything (macOS only) – A Gemini CLI extension that gives the AI the ability to see your screen (Dmitry Lyalin)
Writing
- 20 Weird Things Readers Do and The 23 Best Bookish Gifts (Writers Write)
- Markdown Inline Editor | VS Code Marketplace (Seardna Schmid)
Tools
- Windows 11 Paint now lets you hide ‘toolbar,’ and is also getting new AI features and Microsoft wants you to use Windows 11 File Explorer for viewing Android phone’s photos, not Phone Link app. No iPhone support for now (Mayank Parmar)
- A love letter to Raycast ❤️ (Robin Moffatt)
- Awesome Copilot extension for VS Code (Tim Heuer)
General
- Rustup 1.29.0 beta: Call for Testing! (rami3l)
- The DOJ’s Jeffrey Epstein Files Are Here (Maddy Varner)
- What do people love about Rust? (Niko Matsakis)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7523 (Dev & Beta Channels) (Windows Insider Program Team)
- A shortcut gives me a weird path for a program shortcut that doesn’t point to the executable, so what is it? (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Azure Weekly #545 – 21st December 2025 (The Editor)
- F# Weekly #51, 2025 – WebSharper 10 & Fidelity Framework (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – December 19, 2025 (#689) (Richard Seroter)
