Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – The Role of AI in Software Development with Jeff Fritz & Bill Wolff (Recorded live at Philly .NET) (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Aspire 13.1 – Our holiday gift to you (David Fowler)
- The Top Ten Highlights from Flutter & Dart in 2025 (Emma Twersky)
- Stop following tutorials and learn by building (with Antigravity) instead (Richard Seroter)
- How can I get started with File Explorer and version control? | One Dev Question (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Build a Compact Restaurant Dashboard in .NET MAUI with Spark Charts and Radial Gauge (Saiyath Ali Fathima M)
Web and Cloud Development
- 🎁 Aspire Roadmap – End of Year Update (December 2025) (David Fowler)
- The easiest way to work with the WordPress Quote block (Geoff Graham)
- Develop with WasmEdge, Wasmtime, and Wasmer Invoking MongoDB, Kafka, and Oracle: WASI Cycles, an… (Paul Parkinson)
- How to Manage Multiple Client Sites with WordPress Studio (Joe Fylan)
- Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 2) (Temani Afif)
- Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG (Andy Clarke)
- Docker Compose to Aspire AppHost and Aspire: Configure the MCP server (Aspire Team)
- Critter Stack Roadmap for 2026 (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Introducing Dark Mode for Pulumi Cloud (Kimberley Mackenzie)
- Announcing General Availability of Geo-Replication for Azure Service Bus Premium (Eldert Grootenboer)
Windows Development
.NET and Visual Studio
- Investigating a deadlock in Visual Studio (Kevin Gosse)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.23 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.1.1 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 11312.210 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- EF Core 10 Turns PostgreSQL into a Hybrid Relational-Document DB (Stefan Mitic)
- Microsoft Quietly Kills IntelliCode as AI Strategy Shifts to Subscription Copilot (David Ramel)
- Parsing and Lexing in F# (Owais)
- The New Features and Enhancements in .NET 10 (Joydip Kanjilal)
- Your cache is not protected from cache stampede (Alexey Fedorov)
AI
- Introducing updated GPT Voice Models in Microsoft Foundry (Dave Jacobs)
- The ChatGPT app store is here (Richard Lawler)
- Open Sourcing the Twilio Docs AI Buddy Prompts: Empowering Technical Writers with Smarter AI Tools (Ana Maria Benites Rodríguez)
- Introducing Agent Development Kit for TypeScript: Build AI Agents with the Power of a Code-First Approach (Toni Klopfenstein)
- Install Durandal Memory MCP Server to Mitigate AI Context Fatigue (Andy Leonard)
- Run AI Agents in the Browser With the Hashbrown Framework (Loraine Lawson)
- The Senior Engineer vs. The Speedster: How Gemini Tackles Advent of Code (Dan Dobrin)
- Why AI Agents (Should) Change UX Research (Torang Asadi)
- Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System (Steve Jones)
- Inside Replit’s Snapshot Engine: The Tech Making AI Agents Safe (Replit Team)
- Build with Gemini 3 Flash, frontier intelligence that scales with you (Logan Kilpatrick)
- Gemini app adds NotebookLM integration, details Thinking/Pro usage limits (Abner Li)
- Gemini 3 Flash comes to the Gemini app (Josh Woodward)
- When AI Amplifies Your Bad (and Good) Habits (Kris Kang)
- Surfing the AI Wave: Manage, Govern, and Protect AI Agents with Microsoft Entra Agent ID (Alex Simons)
- Understanding RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) (Hassan Djirdeh)
- The Open Evaluation Standard: Benchmarking NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano with NeMo Evaluator (Seph Mard, Isabel Hulseman, Besmira Nushi, Piotr Januszewski, Grzegorz Chlebus, Vivienne Zhang, Wojciech Prazuch, Pablo Ribalta, Nik Spirin & Ferenc Galko)
- Mistral launches OCR 3 to digitize enterprise documents, touts 74% win rate and $2-per-1,000-page pricing (Michael Nuñez)
Design, DevOps, Testing & Methodology
- Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release) (Kubernetes Release Team)
- If You’ve Never Broken It, You Don’t Really Know It (Tim O’Brien)
- A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images (Aditya Tripathi)
- Designing for dependency management in UX (Eric Chung)
- GitHub Is Going To Start Charging You For Using Your Own Hardware (BeauHD)
- Manufacturing Certainty: Load Testing with Azure Load Testing (Andy Wilson)
Mobile and Game Development
- Exploring MonoGame with F# (Angel Daniel Munoz Gonzalez)
- Amstrad PPC 640 cyberdeck gets a Raspberry Pi makeover (David Crookes)
- Brighten Your Real-Time Camera Feeds with Low Light Boost (Donovan McMurray)
- Build smarter apps with Gemini 3 Flash (Thomas Ezan)
- Flutter Hot Reload Isn’t Enough (And Why Flutter Developers Need Flutter’s Widget Previewer) (Majid Hajian)
- What’s new in DCM 1.34.0 (Dmitry Zhifarsky)
- How to Engage with Your Kids’ Gaming – Practical Tips from Parenting Expert, Dr. Becky (Joe Skrebels)
- Celebrating 10 Years of DirectX 12 (Stefan Bojanic)
- Astro Pi is 10: A decade of your code in space (Fergus Kirkpatrick)
- Meta is pausing its dream of sharing Quest’s Horizon OS with third-party headset makers (Lucas Ropek)
Screencasts and Videos
- Cross-field Validation with Angular Signal Forms (Deborah Kurata)
- Will this Update from OpenAI Make AI Agents Work Better? (AIDailyBrief)
- Becoming a Data Architect | Live! 360 (Buck Woody)
- Building interactive UIs for Agent-powered apps with Generative UI | Flutter (Khanh Nguyen)
- Next-Level SQL in VS Code: GitHub Copilot GA & AI-Ready SQL | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Carlos Robles)
- Fast Focus: Choosing the Right Azure PaaS Offering for Your SQL Server Workload | Live! 360 (Kendal Van Dyke)
- How to connect interfaces to the cloud with AI agents | Flutter (Rody Davis)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Announcing – Career Growth Accelerator, Episode Zero – Getting Out of Your Own Way (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – 2025 Words of the Year, with Jess Zafarris and Danny Hieber (Mignon Fogarty)
- Talk Python to Me #531 – Talk Python in Production (Michael Kennedy)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #699 – Benjamin Brial on Internal Dev Platforms (Sriram Panyam)
- AI & I Podcast – He Got Into a Jhana Live on the Show—And Explains How You Can, Too (Rhea Purohit)
- Engineer in the Loop Podcast – Inside Microsoft’s Secret to Scaling New Ideas W/ Taylor Black (Alec Harrison)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #964 – Markdown as a CMS is a bad idea (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- AI Book Club recording, notes, and transcript for Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence (Tom Johnson)
- Meta Tech Podcast Episode #81 – How We Built Meta Ray-Ban Display: From Zero to Polish (Pascal Hartig, Kenan J. & Emanuel S.)
- Demonstrating Your Value When the Market Questions Agile Roles | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Natalia Curusi)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #82 – AI and the Microsoft Agent Framework – with James World (Dan Clarke)
Community and Events
- .NET MAUI Day: The Conference with a Focus on .NET MAUI 🏝️ – Feb 6 in London (.NET MAUI Community)
- The 2025 Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange wrap—our top ten questions of the year! (Phoebe Sajor)
- The Best Thing I Did in 12 Years at Microsoft (David Giard)
- Why the Biggest Names in Travel Say Philly Is a Must-Visit in 2026 (Visit Philly)
- Building the Future Together: Introducing the Twilio Partner Advisory Board (Kevin Wagner)
- Coursera Acquires Udemy For $930 Million (msmash)
- The Breachies 2025: The Worst, Weirdest, Most Impactful Data Breaches of the Year (Thorin Klosowski, Bill Budington, Rindala Alajaji, Christian Romero, Lena Cohen, Hayley Tsukayama & Cooper Quintin)
Database
- Sending messages to Slack from SQL Server 2025 (Aaron Bertrand)
- ODBC Driver 18.6 for SQL Server Released (David Engel)
- Unlock the power of distributed graph databases with JanusGraph and Azure Apache Cassandra (Srikanth Sridhar)
- Find Missing SQL Server Data with NOT EXISTS (Jared Westover)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
PowerShell and Terminal
- Windows Terminal v1.23.13503.0 Release and Windows Terminal Preview v1.24.3504.0 Release (Dustin L. Howett)
- v7.6.0-preview.6 Release of PowerShell (Justin Chung)
- AI Coding Tools in 2025: Welcome to the Agentic CLI Era (David Eastman)
General
- Billionaires want data centers everywhere, including space (Elissa Welle)
- Async Programming in Rust: Understanding Futures and Tokio (Zziwa Raymond Ian)
- TECH FORCE!! (Mikey Dickerson)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – December 17, 2025 (#687) (Richard Seroter)
- The Replay (12/17/25): React2Shell, Shopify Winter ‘26, and more (Matt MacCormack)
