Top Links
- Writing Docs in a World Where LLMs Are the Readers (Khaled Abdel-Fattah)
- Technology & Friends – Joe Guadagno on Application Insights and Azure Monitor (David Giard)
- Build a Modern Student Enrollment Dashboard Using .NET MAUI Charts (Kamalesh Periyasamy)
- Install and use Microsoft Dot NET 10 with the Raspberry Pi (Pete Gallagher)
- Introducing the Visual Studio Toolbox! (Calvin Allen)
- 2026 Tech Predictions (Ted Neward)
Web and Cloud Development
- Set the amr claim when using passkeys authentication in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
- ScissorHands.NET – A Blazor-based static site generator (Justin Yoo)
- Why WordPress Emails Go to Spam (And How to Fix It) (Jen Swisher)
- An Astro site for my CSS Snippets (Raymond Camden)
- Deterministic Voice Forms with Blazor and Local LLMs (Scott Galloway)
- Create Clutter-Free Layouts with Row and Column Spanning in Blazor DataGrid (Venkatesh Ayothiraman)
- What 2026 Looks Like for Aurelia 2: A Look at the Year Ahead (Dwayne Charrington)
- GraphLens – Interactive architecture visualizer for Angular projects (Dmitry Kostyuk)
Windows Development
- How can you swap two adjacent blocks of memory using only forward iterators? (Raymond Chen)
- Matcher Redux: Demystifying Regular Expressions (Part 1: Exact Matching I) (Kamila Szewczyk)
.NET and Visual Studio
- .NET Toolbox (Steven Giesel)
- Repository Pattern vs Direct DbContext Usage in .NET (Yohan Malshika)
- C# 14 More Partial Members: Partial Events and Partial Constructors (Laurent Kempe)
- Naiad – A .NET library for rendering Mermaid diagrams to SVG. No browser or JavaScript runtime required and Morph – A .NET library that converts Microsoft Word DOCX documents into PNG images (Simon Cropp)
- SharpTS – A TypeScript interpreter and compiler, featuring tree-walking interpretation and ahead-of-time compilation to .NET IL (Nick Nassiri)
- Leveraging Span-Based String Concatenation for Improved Performance (David McCarter)
AI
- AI may not need massive training data after all (Science Daily & Johns Hopkins)
- Learning AI (Jesse Liberty)
- Introduction to Prompt-Driven Development (Cynthia Zanoni)
- Why APIs Are the Missing Link for Truly Autonomous AI Agents (Arash Nourian)
- Day 2: Managing Your Backlog with AI and Day 3: Keeping Your UI Consistent and Day 4: Observability First – Know When AI Code Breaks and Day 5: The Prompting Pattern That Actually Works (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Helping people write code again (Simon Willison)
- Why AI Workloads Are Fueling a Move Back to Postgres (Rob Pankow)
- Manage Semantic Index and Search Exposure for Copilot (Liam Cleary)
- Building the MCP Search Tool for any model (Matthew Albright)
- Microsoft wants to let you share app windows with Copilot right from the Windows 11 taskbar (Mayank Parmar)
- Microsoft Research Develops Novel Approaches to Enforce Privacy in AI Models (Sergio De Simone)
- In 2026, AI Is Merging With Platform Engineering. Are You Ready? (Jennifer Riggins)
- An Introductory Walk-through of the Progress Agentic RAG Dashboard (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Book review of ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’—why AI doom isn’t as visceral as nuclear war (Tom Johnson)
- Google’s Eight Essential Multi-Agent Design Patterns (Sergio De Simone)
Python
- Python’s else on Loops: The Feature You’re Not Using (Samuel Ochaba)
- FHIR Integration: Build Modern Healthcare Apps Using Python and FastAPI (wellallyTech)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Cool project, will you actually maintain it? and Software craftsmanship is dead (pcloadletter)
- Playwright vs. Selenium: A 2026 Architecture Review (Lalit Mishra)
- DevOps Bash Tools – 1000+ DevOps Bash Scripts (Hari Sekhon)
- What is Leadership Judgment? and What Is the 3Ps Leadership System? and The 7 Types of People You Need in Your Advice Network (JD Meier)
- Kubernetes v1.35: New level of efficiency with in-place Pod restart (Yuan Wang, Giuseppe Tinti Tomio & Sergey Kanzhelev)
- Why Every Developer Should Embrace “Reading Code” as Much as Writing It (Gustavo Woltmann)
- The Urge to Build Something (Milan Jovanović)
- Why PDF Creation Belongs at the End of the Business Process (Bjoern Meyer)
- Automate your full development process with handoffs (Bart Wullems)
- Advice for People (Still) Entering the Tech Industry in 2026 (Jennifer Riggins)
Mobile and Game Development
- Droid: Android Development in Swift – A modern framework that lets you build native Android applications entirely in Swift – without touching XML, Java, or Kotlin and Swift Stream IDE for VS Code (Mikhail Isaev)
- Rectangle-Pilling (James Ashley)
- First game made $1mil, second game $0! (Code Monkey)
- Running Home Assistant & Matter Server on a UGREEN NAS: A Deep Dive into Thread Device Commissioning (Sergey Tihon)
- What Are Over-The-Air Updates and Why They Matter for React Native (Turbopush)
- Pebble reboots its thinnest smartwatch with the Pebble Round 2 (Sarah Perez)
- MRTK3 apps on Apple Vision Pro – fixing the stuck to your head issue (and more) (Joost van Schaik)
Screencasts and Videos
- How to Change the World – NDC TechTown 2025 (Kate Gregory)
- How to use ChatGPT to learn whatever I want in 2026 and How to Turn Paper Books Into an AI Tutor to Learn Better and GPT-5.2 Just Crossed The Line: The 74% That Changes Everything and Battle for your work: Slack vs Microsoft Teams (Frank La Vigne)
- What Manus and Groq Acquisitions Tell Us About AI Competition and Claude Code is Now Writing Claude Code (AIDailyBrief)
- Random.Code() – More Indeces Work in Spackle and Random.Code() – More Spackle Work (Jason Bock)
- How Debuggers Work – NDC TechTown 2025 (Sy Brand)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 294 – Unlikely Predictions (The Merry New Year 26′ Edition) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Let’s talk about command-line apps with C# and TAML | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Beyond the AI Hype: Real-World Enterprise Implementation with Intel, Red Hat & IBM (Jay Jubran, Anil Nanduri, Steven Huels & Nick Cavalancia)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Developer Tea Podcast – Career Growth Accelerator: Going from Autopilot to Purpose (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #121 – Building Smarter Apps with .NET MAUI and ML.NET – with Anjuli Jhakry (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
- AD 2025 – The Year of AI-Driven Development – Looking Ahead to 2026 – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #383 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Lenny’s Podcast – The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale (Lenny Rachitsky)
- GeekWire Podcast: Silver lining for Seattle in DJI ban, and a verdict on the 2007 Camry tech retrofit (Todd Bishop)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #124 – Every Electric Vehicle Coming To The US In 2026 For The First Time (Batteries Included Team)
- PPP 488 | How to Be a Less Terrible Boss, with Joel Hilchey (Andy Kaufman)
- Hard Fork Podcast – Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- A Geek Leader Episode #450 – Barbara Wittmann (John Rouda)
- I’d Rather Be Writing Podcast – Writing is telepathy: AI tools, automation, an intentionally offline life — conversation with CT Smith (Tom Johnson)
Community and Events
- Red Hat Accelerates AI Trust and Security with Chatterbox Labs Acquisition (Red Hat AI)
- Critter Stack and JasperFx Retrospective for 2025 (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Call For Papers Listings for 1/2/2026 (Leon Adato)
- You’ve Got a Public Reddit Profile. Here’s How to Curate It (David Nield)
- Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
Database
- Random Numbers Generator for Poker Simulator in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
- Diagnosing Power BI DirectQuery Performance Problems Caused By SQL Queries That Return Large Resultsets (Chris Webb)
- Upgrading from SSIS – Can We Talk? (Andy Leonard)
- Optimizer Rules I Wish SQL Server Had (Erik Darling)
- DuckDB’s WebAssembly Client Allows Querying Iceberg Datasets in the Browser (Renato Losio)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Note taking using CLI. I like to stay in the terminal or at the command line. I use `jrnl` now. With genai powered coding tools galore, wanted to build something that would better suit my needs. Lets see how it goes. I will write in here with my updates. (Kiran Adapa)
- Codex CLI Agent Profile (Jess Frazelle) – Part of their dotfiles repo.
Writing
- Harlan Coben On Writing Suspense (Writers Write)
Tools
- Happy New Year! My Windows apps are 75% off in January! (Joseph Finney)
- Top 13 Open-Source Automation Tools for 2026 (Mariusz Michalowski)
- Marp – Create beautiful slide decks using an intuitive Markdown experience (Marp Team)
- YouTubeCleaner – Get rid of unused YouTube subscriptions (Derek Ferguson)
- Morning Dew Creator – Streamline Your Link Blog Publishing (Alvin Ashcraft) – I ported the functionality from my VS Code extension to a Flutter app. Available in the Microsoft Store now. Android, iOS and macOS coming soon.
General
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now blogging about AI slop (Tom Warren)
- The Best of Windows 11 in 2025: See the 12 New Features I Liked Most (Michael Muchmore)
- Ikea’s new $4 USB-C charger is cheaper than Apple’s and Anker’s (Andrew Liszewski)
- Why Gen X might be the winners in the AI job revolution as their children flounder (Eleanor Mills)
- Tech billionaires cashed out $16 billion in 2025 as stocks soared (Connie Loizos)
- Canadian officials say US health institutions no longer dependable for accurate information (Olivia Bowden)
- Learn to Speak German | freeCodeCamp Course (Beau Carnes)
- Healthcare Firm Handing $2,000,000+ To Customers After Data Breach Exposes ‘Highly Confidential’ Information of 512,000 People (Dissent)
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella really wants you to stop calling AI “slop” in 2026 — “We are beginning to distinguish between spectacle and substance.” (Jez Corden)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #1, 2026 – Kipo & future of MonoGame (Sergey Tihon)
- 2025 in Review: Reading and Writing Highlights (Richard Seroter)
- Your Weekly AI Coffee Break: 5 Stories Shaping AI in January 2026 (Ethan Zhang)
- The most popular blogs of Hacker News in 2025 (Simon Willison)
- Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 28, 2025 (GeekWire)
