Top Links
- Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot (Dan Hellem)
- ASP.NET Core roadmap for .NET 11 (Dan Roth)
- Debugging, but Without the Drama (A Visual Studio 2026 Story) (Harshada Hole)
- Building a Fibonacci Sphere with AI-Assisted Development (Matt Mattei)
- Microsoft.Testing.Platform Now Fully Supported in Azure DevOps (Youssef Fahmy)
- Getting Started with MCP on Windows (Nick Randolph)
- 100 Years of Microsoft Stories (KC Lemson, Raymond Chen & Larry Osterman)
Web and Cloud Development
- A Practical Guide for State Management Using Angular Services and Signals (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Add Some Class to Your JavaScript (Paul Sheriff)
- CSS Layout: How To ‘Center a Div,’ the Old School Way (Joab Jackson)
Windows Development
- C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot: now in Public Preview (Sinem Akinci)
- Why is the Windows clipboard taking the scenic route when converting from CF_TEXT to CF_OEMTEXT? (Raymond Chen)
- Rust vs C++: competition or evolution in systems programming for 2026 (Irina Mihajlovic)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Streams Record Truth. Queues Do Work: A .NET Way To Keep Them Straight (Christopher Johnson)
- Essential Studio 2025 Volume 4: What’s New in PDF, Word, Excel & PowerPoint Libraries (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
- Designing the Perfect PDF Form with TX Text Control in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Fetching and Analysing Web Content with LLMs in C# (Scott Galloway)
- Flatten your models with Facet .NET (Tim Maes)
AI
- Microsoft is building an actually good Copilot AI integration for one of the best Windows 11 tools — and you can try it right now (Jez Corden)
- Official Arm MCP server for code migration, optimization, and Arm architecture guidance (MCP Registry)
- Teaching AI Modern Go: Solving the “Stuck-in-the-Past” Problem with Antigravity (Roman Budnikov)
- Teachers are using software to see if students used AI. What happens when it’s wrong? (Lee V. Gaines)
- Microsoft confirms Windows 11 will ask for consent before AI agents can access your personal files, after outrage (Abhijith M B)
- Introducing OpenAI’s GPT-image-1.5 in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
- Wrapping Up 2025 – The Year Of MCP (Den Delimarsky)
- When Vibe Coding Goes Rogue: Debugging Your Own Brain (Alexander T. Williams)
- Replit Learn Launches (Replit Team)
- 6 Best Open-Source AI Tools to Build Dashboards (Yuan Tianqi)
- The new ChatGPT Images is here (OpenAI Team)
- Agents, Protocols, and Why We’re Not Playing Favorites (Denis Shiryaev)
- Develop and deploy voice AI apps using Docker (Jennifer Kohl)
- What Is Microsoft Copilot Chat? (Brien Posey)
- 8 ways to make the most out of Slide Decks in NotebookLM (Usama Bin Shafqat)
- Cursor: Introducing Debug Mode – Agents with runtime logs (Alexey Kozy & Albert Slepak)
- The Vonage Server and Tooling MCP Servers Are Live on Postman (Amanda Cavallaro)
- Why I Don’t Use LangChain (and What I Do Instead) and Stop Shoving Documents Into LLMs: Build a Local Summarizer with Docling + RAG (Scott Galloway)
- Why it’s time to reset our expectations for AI (Niall Firth)
- Developer’s guide to multi-agent patterns in ADK (Shubham Saboo)
- Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream (Martin Kleppmann)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0b251216 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- Building a Cookbook in Python, for Reasons (Part 2) (Rachel Kaufman)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- How to Check Windows OS Version and System Architecture for Software Packaging (Alex Marin)
- We’re Already Living in a Post-Serverless World (Jeremy Daly)
- Docker Model Runner now included with the Universal Blue family (Yiwen Xu)
- Beyond Planning: How GitHub Spec Kit Transforms Ideas into Implementation (AJ Bajada)
- Why “Microservices” Debates Miss the Point (Derek Comartin)
Mobile and Game Development
- Microsoft’s free update brings better Bluetooth to your Xbox Wireless Headset (Sean Hollister)
- Kotlin 2.3.0 Released (Alejandra Pedroza Marchena)
- Remote Access Hardware (PiKVM) (j2inet)
- No Graphics API (Sebastian Aaltonen)
Screencasts and Videos
- GCast 206: Mastering GitHub Copilot course, Using GitHub Copilot with Python, Part 1 (David Giard)
- GPT 5.2 & Updates to Agents in GitHub Copilot and VS Code – Developer News 49&50/2025 | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- C# Source Generators – Why and How | Live! 360 Orlando 2025 (Jim Wooley)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Kat Cosgrove (Isaac Levin)
- Anatomy of a Microsoft Outage. Evolving our culture towards more Transparency | ITOpsTalk (Rick Claus & Tajinder Pal Singh Ahluwalia)
- Manage all Copilot agents in one place with Mission Control | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths & Ellie Bennett)
- Build a Social Media Commander app with Agent Instructions using GitHub Copilot | MVP Unplugged (Jeremy Sinclair & Justin Garrett)
- Next-Level Debugging with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio | Live! 360 Orlando 2025 (Harshada Hole)
- In this era of AI, is low-code dead? | One Dev Question (Scott Durow)
- Coding with Tabs | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Uno Platform Studio 2.0 – Deep Dive & $10k Contest (Uno Platform Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #16 – The Open Web at a Crossroads: A Conversation with Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, Cindy Cohn & Jon Stokes (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes AI Conformance, with Janet Kuo (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- RunAs Radio Show #1015 – Zero Trust in 2026 with Michele Bustamante (Richard Campbell)
- The AI Fix Show #81 – ChatGPT is the last AI you’ll understand, and your teacher is a deepfake (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Moving From EA to MCA? Watch Out for These Gotchas (Mary Jo Foley)
- The Dark Side of High-Performing Dream Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Natalia Curusi)
Community and Events
- Find Your Friends on Bluesky (Bluesky Team)
- 2025/2026 New Year’s Eve Concert & Fireworks on the Parkway in Philly: What to Expect (Visit Philly)
- Your 2025 Stacked: A year of knowledge, community, and impact (Carrie Koos)
- Celebrating a Remarkable 2025: A Year of Innovation and Growth (Bjoern Meyer)
Database
- Are Snapshots Backups? Revisiting Modern Data Protection for SQL Server (MSSQL Tips)
- How to Create a SQL Server Agent Job in SSMS (Jim Evans)
- Powerful Text Extraction with REGEXP_SUBSTR in SQL Server 2025 (Koen Verbeeck)
- Generating Shape Bound Random Points in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
- SQL Server Table Partitioning and Query Performance (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
- Introducing sp_QueryReproBuilder: Quickly Get Executable Query Examples from Query Store (Erik Darling)
- Let’s Build a Better KILL. What Do We Need to Consider? (Brent Ozar)
- Redgate Test Data Manager Product Updates – December 2025 (James Hemson)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Unlock your email potential with Schema.org (Karishma S.)
PowerShell and Terminal
- docsummarizer – Local Document Summarization CLI Tool (Scott Galloway)
- Native OIDC Token Exchange for Pulumi CLI (Boris Schlosser)
Writing
- Books for a Grammar Workout (Emily Munro)
- Why Blogs Are Still Relevant Today for Developers and IT Pros (Chris Pietschmann)
Tools
- SignToolGUI 2.1.0.0 Released 🎉 (Michael Morten Sonne)
- Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models (Ivan Mehta)
- Coreinfo v4.0, NotMyFault v4.30, and Process Explorer v17.09 (Alex Mihaiuc)
- Waterfox: No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla’s Next Chapter (Alex Kontos)
General
- Data centers in Netherlands use as much power as 2 million homes (ANP)
- Canada ranked 12th ‘freest’ country amid global decline in human freedom: think tank (Jordan Fleguel)
- Ford’s next F-150 Lightning will have a gas generator as it pivots away from large EVs (Kirsten Korosec & Sean O’Kane)
- “Super secure” MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone’s phone number (Eric Daigle)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – December 16, 2025 (#686) (Richard Seroter)
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