Top Links
- Claude Opus 4.6: Anthropic’s powerful model for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows is now available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure (Steve Sweetman)
- Securing Aspire Apps with Microsoft Entra ID (Jean-Marc Prieur)
- OpenClaw Full Tutorial for Beginners (Beau Carnes)
- Keynote: The dangers of probably-working software – NDC London 2026 (Damian Brady)
- Visual Studio Code February 2026 Insiders (version 1.110) Release and Your Home for Multi-Agent Development (VS Code Team)
- Claude Opus 4.6 Just Shipped. We Had It Build a Cross-Platform .NET App (Matt Mattei)
Web and Cloud Development
- How to Change the Number of Posts Displayed On Your WordPress Blog Page (Jen Swisher)
- Enhanced storage resiliency with Azure NetApp Files Elastic zone-redundant service (Raji Easwaran)
- Why Your UI Won’t Update: Debugging Stale Data and Caching in React Apps (Oluwadamisi Samuel)
- CSS Bar Charts Using Modern Functions (Preethi)
- Google Pushes for gRPC Support in Model Context Protocol (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
- It’s official: WordPress.com has a Claude Connector (James W. LePage)
- Aspire app lifecycle guide (Aspire Docs)
- Building a Bluesky Sentiment Dashboard with Alpine and Chrome AI (Raymond Camden)
- Why Hyperlinks Break in JavaScript PDF Viewers and How to Fix Them (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
- Go 1.25.7-1 and 1.24.13-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
Windows Development
- How can I prevent the user from changing the widths of ListView columns in version 5 of the common controls? (Raymond Chen)
- Temporary Issue: Windows ML or ONNX Runtime GPU workloads crashing on some x64 Devices with Microsoft OpenCL Compatibility Pack (Andrew Leader)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Secure by Design: Dynamic Watermarking for Enterprise Documents in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0-preview.260205.1 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- Encrypting Properties with System.Text.Json and a TypeInfoResolver Modifier (Part 2) (Steve Gordon)
- .NET Framework 3.5 Moves to Standalone Deployment in new versions of Windows (Tara Overfield & Brett Lopez)
- Introducing the “LaunchyBar” Visual Studio extension! (Calvin Allen)
AI
- Complete Guide to Deploying OpenClaw on Azure Windows 11 Virtual Machine (Kinfey Lo)
- 31 Days of Vibe Coding – Welcome to the Blog (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Introducing Copilot Connector Checker (Vikram Kartik Jindal)
- Where on Earth is vibe coding taking off the most? (Darryl K. Taft)
- It’s not vibe coding: Agentic engineering (Michael Kennedy)
- Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 (Simon Willison)
- Beyond the Magic Word: Testing VS Code v1.109’s New Agentic AI Workspace Priming and VS Code 1.109 Deemed a Multi-Agent Development Platform (David Ramel)
- Continuous AI in practice: What developers can automate today with agentic CI (GitHub Team)
- Forget the Model, It’s Workflows That Make LLM Products Run (Marko Crnjanski)
- OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex helped build itself (Frederic Lardinois)
- Observability in Generative AI: Building Trust with Systematic Evaluation in Microsoft Foundry (ravimodi)
- Context Engineering for Coding Agents (Martin Fowler)
- Sketch: Five ways we’ve been using our MCP server (Freddie Harrison)
- Introducing SyGra Studio (Surajit Dasgupta, Bidyapati Pradhan, Amit Kumar Saha, Vipul Mittal & Sriram Puttagunta)
Python
- Build a Conference Call System with Python (Liz Acosta)
- How to Optimize PySpark Jobs: Real-World Scenarios for Understanding Logical Plans (Sameer Shukla)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- How to Dockerize Your Application and Deploy It (Manish Shivanandhan)
- CI In a Box (Alex Kladov)
- DevOps in Multi-Cloud Environments (James Walker)
- Does code obfuscation affect performance? What developers need to know (Michelle Pruitt)
- The security implementation gap: Why Microsoft is supporting Operation Winter SHIELD (Sherrod DeGrippo)
- Getting Feedback from Test-Driven Development and Testing in Production (Ben Linders)
Mobile and Game Development
- Here’s what Xbox is working on for 2026 (Tom Warren)
- Replicating a Valentine-Inspired Login UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
- Beige is back: Remembering the BBC Micro with Raspberry Pi 500+ (Toby Roberts)
- Loading Dynamic Data into a .NET MAUI ComboBox with JSON and REST APIs (Sudarsan Muthuselvan)
- From Zero to 16 Games in 2 Hours (Lee Stott)
- Let’s compile Quake like it’s 1997! (Fabien Sanglard)
Screencasts and Videos
- The Undersea Cable Network – NDC London 2026 (Richard Campbell)
- Is Software Dead? (AIDailyBrief)
- 5 quality of life updates for open source maintainers | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths & Camilla Moraes)
- NET MAUI Community Standup: Live from MAUI Day London (David Ortinau & Gerald Versluis)
- Getting started with the GitHub Copilot CLI, custom agents, MCP servers, and more (Kedasha Kerr)
- Java Sucks (So C# Didn’t Have To) – NDC London 2026 (Adele Carpenter)
- One of the best new Apps for Windows: FilePilot! | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
- GitHub Copilot SDK demo: Creating “Flight School” (Chris Reddington)
- The Plan Agent Improvements in VS Code are INCREDIBLE (James Montemagno)
- Anthropic Updates Its AI Model, Claude Opus 4.6 (Frank La Vigne)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show – Jody Donetti on Creating FusionCache and Collaborating with Microsoft on HybridCache (Jamie Taylor)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #558 – Tara Raj on Amazon Nova Act (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- When a Former Skeptic Calls to Say “Now I Know What You Did” — Defining Scrum Master Success | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Juliana Stepanova)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – AI attention span so good it shouldn’t be legal (Phoebe Sajor)
- The AI Marketing Stack Podcast – The Emerging Role of the GTM Engineer & Your On-Ramp to GenAI (Rachel Roumeliotis & Andrew Zigler)
Community and Events
- .NET AI Community Standup: Foundry Local for .NET Devs (Feb 11th) (Bruno Capuano & Maanav Dalal)
- Valentine’s Day 2026: Philly’s Most Swoon-Worthy Events, Dinners & Activities (Visit Philly)
- ‘Depths of Wikipedia’ Creator Annie Rauwerda on ‘Fragile’ Internet Citations (Chris Freeland)
- Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley (Lauren Goode)
- MVPs Global Student Innovation: Sprint to Imagine Cup 2026 (Soyoung Lee)
Database
- Join us at SQLCon 2026 (Rie Merritt)
- SQL Concatenate String using Double Pipe (||) Operator in SQL Server 2025 (Rajendra Gupta)
- How to Enable Microsoft Entra ID for Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL) (Sudhanshu Khera)
- Enable Soft Delete in Azure SQL (Jerry Nixon)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Your Terminal Tabs Are Fragile. I Built Something Better. (Michael Kennedy)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.405 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
General
- Substack reveals details of historic security breach that exposed user data (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Where to Find Philly’s New Beer Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary (Visit Philly)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 5, 2026 (#715) (Richard Seroter)
