Top Links
- New series: Building an industrial level embedded device with .NET and Uno Platform (Morten Nielsen)
- Build AI Agents with Claude Agent SDK and Microsoft Agent Framework (Dmytro Struk)
- Introducing Bindable Property Source Generators (Brandon Minnick)
- Introducing OpenClaw (Peter Steinberger)
- OpenClaw Windows Hub (Scott Hanselman)
- Introducing MoreSpeakers.com and The Technology Behind MoreSpeakers.com (Joseph Guadagno)
- File Change Follower for VS Code (Damian Edwards)
Web and Cloud Development
- Use client assertions in ASP.NET Core using OpenID Connect, OAuth DPoP and OAuth PAR (Damien Bowden)
- Chalk to Node.js util styleText (Richie McColl)
- Incremental Hydration in Angular: Build SSR Apps That Feel Instantly Interactive (Ankit Sharma)
- What’s new in Svelte: February 2026 (Dani Sandoval)
- Coming to Postman in March: AI-native capabilities, a new API Catalog, and updated plans and pricing (Postman Team)
- Using HTTP Files in VS Code with REST Client (Bart Wullems)
- What’s new in Astro – January 2026 (Sarah Rainsberger)
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – January 2026: Configuration & Performance (PuiChee Chan)
- How to Build an AI Social Media Post Scheduler Using Gemini and Late API in Next.js (David Asaolu)
- Stop Guessing: How to Actually Identify Your Azure Billing Structure (Shannon Kuehn)
- Cache components in Next.js: Faster pages with partial pre-rendering (Temitope Oyedele)
- beautiful-mermaid – Render Mermaid diagrams as beautiful SVGs or ASCII art (Craft Docs)
- AWS Well-Architected reports with Octopus AI Assistant (Matthew Casperson)
- How to Auto-Populate PDF Form Fields in JavaScript PDF Viewer (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
- Unlock custom observability by exporting Crashlytics data to Cloud Logging (Ernan Anguiano & Andrew Brook)
- How to Go From Hello World to Building Real World Applications (Spruce Emmanuel)
Windows Development
- Why not store the SAFEARRAY reference count as a hidden allocation next to the SAFEARRAY? (Raymond Chen)
- Converting floats to strings quickly (Daniel Lemire)
- Windows App Development (winapp) CLI skill (awesome-copilot) – My first contribution to the Awesome GitHub Copilot repo
- WinDev Helper VS Code extension v2.0.0-preview Release (Alvin Ashcraft) – Preview release of my WinUI extension for VS Code with a limited live preview pane for XAML files
.NET and Visual Studio
- Remote MCP Servers using .NET SDK – Integrating with custom data and APIs (admin7081)
- Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: High-Performance ULIDs with the Ulid Struct (David McCarter)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): Building and Debugging Your First MCP Server in .NET (Jamie Maguire)
- Microsoft Ships OData .NET (ODL) 9.0.0 Preview 3: Safety, Modern APIs, and Spec Compliance (Edin Kapić)
- Containerize Your .NET Applications Without a Dockerfile (Milan Jovanović)
AI
- Benchmarking Local AI Models (Lee Stott)
- From Clawdbot to Moltbot to OpenClaw: Why This AI Agent Grew Up Instead of Burning Out (Munish Munagala)
- Point, Click, Let AI Fix It: How I Built ZingIt Using the GitHub Copilot SDK (Dan Wahlin)
- Primer – Get your repo ready for AI (Pierce Boggan)
- AI-generated product review summaries with OpenShift AI (Hadar Cohen, Ori Fridman, Itay Katav, Manna Kong, Ganesh Murthy, Peter Samouelian & Matan Talvi)
- AI layoffs or ‘AI-washing’? (Anthony Ha)
- Introducing Agentic RAG Python Sample – IT Support Ticket Search (Jason Haley)
- You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift (Zac Bowden)
- Introducing Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis (Celso Martinho, Brian Brunner, Sid Chatterjee & Andreas Jansson)
- Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site (Matthew Gault)
- How LLMs Keep on Getting Better (Malte Skarupke)
- AI Learning Roadmap: 9 Free University Courses to Master AI in 2025 (Hernani Costa)
- Stanford Agentic Reviewer (Stanford University)
- 🦞 Unleashing OpenClaw: The Ultimate Guide to Local AI Agents for Developers in 2026 (TorqueCloud)
- 31 Days of Vibe Coding – Day 31: Your Personal Vibe Coding Playbook (Jeff Blankenburg)
- OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network (Anna Heim)
- the browser is the sandbox (Paul Kinlan)
- I Tried Letting Antigravity Build An Agent For Me. Here’s What Actually Happened (Tensorlake Team)
- 5 Tips for Building MCP Apps That Work (Matthew Wang)
- Google Labs Experiments – Tools for anyone to create, learn, develop and play with the future of AI and Find out what’s new in the Gemini app in January’s Gemini Drop. (Google)
- Customize Cowork with plugins (Claude Team)
- Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer (Stefan Kaltenegger)
- When AI fails: The new reality of incident management (Kat Gaines)
- TIL: Running OpenClaw in Docker and Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now (Simon Willison)
- Vibe Coding Data Apps with Replit + Snowflake [webinar] (Replit Team)
- AWS Launches Generative AI Essentials Course on Coursera and edX (Liz Ticong)
- Automating TDD: Using AI to Generate Edge-Case Unit Tests (Nikita Kothari)
- Vibe-Coding BlueSky Comments (Mike Hadlow)
- Consuming an authenticated MCP server with a declarative agent in Copilot Chat (Marco Siccardi)
- 82 percent of hackers now use AI (Ian Barker)
- Microsoft Work IQ (Public Preview) – MCP Server and CLI for accessing Work IQ (Microsoft)
- The Adolescence of Technology (Dario Amodei)
- The Five Skills I Actually Use Every Day as an AI PM (and How You Can Too) (Aman Khan)
- How to Setup Openclaw With LMStudio (Ada-Ihueze)
- The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory (Dan Shapiro)
- dex – Task tracking for agents (dex Team)
- 🦀 Crabwalk 🦀 Real-time companion monitor for OpenClaw agents (Luciano Castillo)
- Tokentap (formerly Sherlock) – Token Tracker for LLM CLI Tools (Juan Munoz)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0b260130 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- Desktop Music Player Using QT for Python – Built with Github Copilot CLI (Charlotte Towell)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Octopus Easy Mode – Retries (Matthew Casperson)
- To Every Developer Close To Burnout, Read This (Dragos Nedelcu)
- Scaling Identity: Automating Auth0 Configuration with the Auth0 Terraform Provider (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
- The Continuous Strategy Scrum Guide Expansion Pack is Now Here (Karl Scotland)
- Case study: Securing AI application supply chains (MS Defender Security Research Team)
- AI’s Infrastructure Boom: Opportunity, Responsibility, and the Race for Sustainable Scale (Kieron Allen)
- Maintainability in the age of coding agents (Oren Eini)
- Playwright v1.58.1 Release (dgozman)
- Understanding Merkle Trees (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Welcome to the Room – A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella (Jeffrey Snover)
- Bias Alert: Forgetting about legacy strikes again! (Jenna Charlton)
- Rethinking Slack (Johnny Rodgers)
Mobile and Game Development
- The Android Phone You Want Is Coming Soon, According To This Samsung Leak (Chris Smith)
- 100 Game Marketing Questions Answered, and yet another AI replacing game devs? No. (Code Monkey)
- Accelerating your insights with faster, smarter monetization data and recommendations (Phalene Gowling)
- The Embedded Photo Picker (Roxanna Aliabadi Walker & Yacine Rezgui)
- How Automated Prompt Optimization Unlocks Quality Gains for ML Kit’s GenAI Prompt API (Chetan Tekur, Chao Zhao, Paul Zhou & Caren Chang)
- Trade-in mode on Android 16+ (Rachel S.)
- NFC support for all Uri types (Peter Foot)
- Qodana for Android: Increasing Code Quality for Kotlin-First Teams (Kerry Beetge)
- What’s new in Swift: January 2026 Edition (Nick Sloan & Dave Lester)
- How to Add Multi-Language Support in Flutter: Manual and AI-Automated Translations for Flutter Apps (Atuoha Anthony)
- Raspberry Pi: More memory-driven price rises (Eben Upton)
- Best Dev Boards for Music (Helen Leigh)
Screencasts and Videos
- We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech (Brandon Sanderson)
- AI and OpenClaw (née Clawdbot) and tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot for non-technical folks (Scott Hanselman)
- Switching models in GitHub Copilot CLI | demo (GitHub Team)
- ALL Commands of the new Windows App Development CLI explained! – Tutorial | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 298 – “The AI Future 2026” (An IDC Take) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- How I’m using ClawdBot to change my life (Alex Finn)
- Random.Code() – Handling Null Objects in CslaGeneratorSerialization (Jason Bock)
- Why Your Best Employees Quit Using AI After 3 Weeks (And the 6 Skills That Would Have Saved Them) (Nate B. Jones)
- Moltbook, the Agent Social Nework, is the Craziest AI Phenomena Yet and Are Agent Swarms the Next AI Paradigm? and The AI Acceleration Gap and What We Learned from OpenAI’s Town Hall (AIDailyBrief)
- Using Postman MCP in Antigravity: Code and Collections (Postman Team)
- How to Create INCREDIBLE Infographics with NotebookLM (No Watermarks) and Examining the wild rise of OpenClaw (Frank La Vigne)
- Updating our Blazor site to .NET 10 Part 5! – Deep breaths (pun intended) | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
- Project Genie | Experimenting with infinite interactive worlds (Google Deepmind Team)
- Dataverse MCP with Copilot Studio (Nicholas Chang)
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Podcasts
- Kevin Griffin: Engineering for System Uptime – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #387 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Fragmented, A Developer Podcast #303 – How LLMs Work – the 20 minute explainer (Iury Souza & Kaushik Gopal)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Dr. Becky on the surprising overlap between great parenting and great leadership (Lenny Rachitsky)
- GeekWire Podcast – GeekWire Field Trip: Starbucks rebounds, Microsoft slides, and Amazon resets (Todd Bishop)
- Big Technology Podcast – The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #420 – Ben convinces Scott to buy a 3D printer (Scott Hoag)
- The Azure Security Podcast Episode #124 – Microsoft Security Response Center for AI (Michael Howard & Raji Vanninathan)
- Changelog and Friends Podcast Episode #126 – Natural born SaaS killers (Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- React Native Radio #352 – Expo Launch with Cedric van Putten (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
- The Vergecast – Tim Cook is destroying his own legacy (David Pierce)
- Batteries Included Podcast #128 – Tesla Model S And X Suffer Death By Robot (Batteries Included Team)
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #206 – Tips from a 20-year developer veteran turned consultancy founder – Tapas Adhikary interview (Beau Carnes)
- Hard Fork Podcast – Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #282 – Testing Python Code for Scalability & What’s New in pandas 3.0 (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
- The Product Owner Role in Construction—Voice of the Customer Across Every Phase | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Felipe Engineer-Manriquez)
- A Geek Leader Episode #454 – Dr. Michael Housman (John Rouda)
Community and Events
- Call For Papers Listings for 1/30 (Leon Adato)
- Peloton lays off 11 percent of its staff just a few months after launching its AI hardware (Stevie Bonifield)
- blento – your own corner of the web (blento)
- The Power of Community: Applying Dr. King’s Lessons at New Relic (Essence Walden)
- One-Third of US Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals (msmash)
- Zillow lets go of 200 employees in performance-related reductions at real estate company (Kurt Schlosser)
- We’re celebrating Black history, culture and creativity. (Christina Basilio)
- Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
- Steve Wozniak – Global Humanitarian (Sue Gee)
- AI Dev Days Hackathon: Build the Future with AI Apps, Agents, and Secure DevOps (Feb 22) (Microsoft Reactor Team)
Database
- TLS 1.3 in SQL Server 2025: What It Really Changes for Security (Ryad B.)
- Oracle May Slash Up To 30,000 Jobs (msmash)
- SQL Server Pagination with COUNT(*) OVER() Window Function (Kevin Griffin)
- SQL + AI: Get ready for a fun new experience, launching next week! (Rie Merritt)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- New Performance Optimisation for Excel PivotTables Connected To Power BI Semantic Models (Chris Webb)
- Microsoft says MS 365 Copilot is now a daily habit, Copilot for consumers daily users up 3X after telling everybody to use it (Mayank Parmar)
- Breaking down the facts about secure development with Power Platform (Joe Unwin & Justin Tung)
- What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | January 2026 (Seth Patton)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Fix-SplitPanePersistence – One-click fix for Windows Terminal split panes to preserve current directory (Scott Hanselman)
- Using GitHub Copilot CLI as a Beginner to Translate English into Shell Commands (Arpit Jindal)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.400 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- 28 Writing Prompts For February 2026 (Writers Write)
- Part 1: Introduction (Bakhtin and model collapse: How to use AI with expressive writing without generating AI slop) (Tom Johnson)
- Markdown Inline Editor for VS Code (Seardna Schmid)
Tools
- Command Palette Dock is an astonishing proposal for a new PowerToys utility (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Notepad++ Official Update Mechanism Hijacked to Deliver Malware to Select Users (Ravie Lakshmanan)
- Microsoft explores bringing Linux-like top menu bar to Windows 11 with new PowerToys feature (Zac Bowden)
- 1Password is still worth it in 2026 (Nate McMaster)
- Forget VMware and VirtualBox: This should be your new VM manager (Jack Wallen)
- Microsoft is experimenting with a top menu bar for Windows 11 (Tom Warren)
- Subpixel ASCII Art via Gradient Descent (cts)
General
- Windows 11 26H2 confirmed for later this year, as references spotted on Windows Update page (Mayank Parmar)
- Microsoft’s historic plunge: Why the company lost $357 billion in value despite strong results (Todd Bishop)
- Microsoft stock is flat the day after sinking 10%. Here’s why (Kai Nicol-Schwarz)
- Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say (Aaron Couch)
- Why Tech (&) Media is complicated (Om Malik)
- StopICE Hacked: Names And Locations of Over 100k Users Were Sent to the FBI, ICE and HSI (Dissent)
- Author of Systemd Quits Microsoft To Prove Linux Can Be Trusted and White House Scraps ‘Burdensome’ Software Security Rules (BeauHD)
- Review: Snapmaker U1 Strikes Hard – Make: (MakeZine)
- Weekly Windows Wrap: Microsoft finally reads the room — right as it loses $440 billion (Sean Endicott)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #5, 2026 – Leveling Up With Lattice (Sergey Tihon)
- Azure Weekly #549 – 1st February 2026 (The Editor)
- Daily Reading List – January 30, 2026 (#711) (Richard Seroter)
- iOS Dev Weekly Issue #741 (Dave Verwer)
- Android Weekly Issue #712 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
- Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 25, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
