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Top Links

• Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Build AI Agents in .NET (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)
• Visual Studio January Update — Enhanced Editor Experience (Simona Liao)
• 7 learnings from Anders Hejlsberg: The architect behind C# and TypeScript (Aaron Winston)
• Introduction to Contextual AI: MCP Tools vs Skills (Sam Basu)
• GitHub Copilot app modernization for C++ is now in Public Preview (Michael Price)
• Build AI Agents with GitHub Copilot SDK and Microsoft Agent Framework (Dmytro Struk)
• PowerToys v0.97.1 Release – CursorWrap improvements (Mike Hall)

Web and Cloud Development

• .NET 10 Becomes Available on AWS Lambda as Managed Runtime and Base Image (Almir Vuk)
• How to Add Digital Signatures in JavaScript PDF Viewer for Secure PDF Signing (Rangarajan Ashokan)
• How to Add Meta Tags in WordPress to Boost SEO Results (Jen Swisher)
• Getting Started with the Blazor Diagram Component (Héctor Pérez)
• GraphQL vs REST — Which Is Better? (Ananth Iyer)
• Enterprise Adoption Guide: Microsoft Dev Box (sauravtyagi)
• WordPress Studio 1.7.0: Meet the New Studio CLI (Nick Diego)
• Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts (Gabriel Shoyombo)
• Boosting Lightning FPS by 50% (Chris Lorenzo)
• Rust vs JavaScript & TypeScript: performance, WebAssembly, and developer experience (Irina Mihajlovic)
• ESLint v10.0.0-rc.2 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• Google’s approach to website controls for Search AI features (Ron Eden)
• Vue Basics: Ultimate Guide to Vue 3 Reactivity (David Adeneye Abiodun)
• Postman Product Update: January 2026 (Postman Team)
• make.ts (Alex Kladov)

Windows Development

• Visual Studio Code CMake Tools 1.22: Target bookmarks and better CTest output (Sinem Akinci)
• A digression on the design and implementation of Safe­Array­Add­Ref and extending APIs in general (Raymond Chen)
• Releasing Windows 11 Builds 26100.7701 and 26200.7701 to the Release Preview Channel and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7674 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7670 (Beta Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
• OpenSilver 3.3 Adds Native XAML Integration (Kay Ewbank)
• What’s new for developers | Windows apps (Microsoft Learn)

.NET and Visual Studio

• New in .NET 10 and C# 14: Multi-Tenant Rate Limiting (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: Supercharge Your .NET Apps with NetworkHelper (David McCarter)
• Internationalization Architecture for Global .NET Applications | ICU, Localization, and Cultural Formatting and Modernizing Stored Procedure-Heavy Applications: When to Move Logic to .NET (Sudhir Mangla)
• Introducing the ‘Debugalizers’ Visual Studio extension! (Calvin Allen)
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0-preview.260127.1 Release (Dmytro Struk)
• Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C#  – Part 6: Mark and Sweep (Kevin Gosse)

AI

• Moltbot, the AI agent that “actually does things”, is tech’s new obsession (Emma Roth)
• Moltbot – The AI that actually does things (Moltbot Team)
• GitHub Copilot SDK and Hybrid AI in Practice: Automating README to PPT Transformation (Kinfey Lo)
• Google Introduces TranslateGemma Open Models for Multilingual Translation (Daniel Dominguez)
• 31 Days of Vibe Coding – Day 28: The AI Tool Landscape: When to Use What (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Introducing Prism and The next chapter for AI in the EU (OpenAI Team)
• Making AI Apps Enterprise-Ready with Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Foundry (Arpitha Dhanapathi)
• In the age of AI coding, code quality still matters (Nan Yu)
• One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch (Simon Willison)
• AI UI Without the Hallucinations (Rob Levin)
• Introducing Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash (Rohan Doshi)
• UniRG: Scaling medical imaging report generation with multimodal reinforcement learning (Sheng Zhang, Flora Liu, Guanghui Qin, Mu Wei & Hoifung Poon)
• General availability of source specific filters in Copilot Search (wbaer)
• AI in My Developer Workflow: From Prompting to Planning (Tim Heuer)
• Agent Skills: From Claude to Open Standard to Your Daily Coding Workflow (Laurent Kempe)
• Reflections of a Developer on LLMs in January 2026 (Robin Moffatt)
• OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science (Will Douglas Heaven)
• Architectural Choices in China’s Open-Source AI Ecosystem: Building Beyond DeepSeek (Adina Yakefu & Irene Solaiman)
• Cost-Aware GenAI Architecture: Caching, Model Routing, and Token Budgets That Don’t Explode (Mohan Sankaran)

Python

• Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0b260127 Release (Dmytro Struk)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Continuous Unit Testing in 2026 (Eli Lopian)
• The Ground Has Shifted (Rob Conery)
• How Microsoft is empowering Frontier Transformation with Intelligence + Trust (Judson Althoff)
• Connecting an AKS Argo CD instance to a self-hosted Octopus Deploy server (Shawn Sesna)
• Good Results Are Repeatable — and Beatable (Peter Smulovics)
• Host Packages Internally (Chocolatey Software Docs)
• Adobe Photoshop Gets a Major Update (Paul Thurrott)
• Security Software False Positives (Eric Lawrence)
• Assessing internal quality while coding with an agent (Martin Fowler)
• An Introduction to the Four Pillars of Observability (Akash Lomas)
• How to better connect strategy to implementation (Pratheek Vinod Kumar & Charlotte Harling)

Mobile and Game Development

• Google just leaked a first look at Android for PC in action (Dominic Preston)
• Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module: coming soon (Simon Burgess)
• Streamline dataset creation for the Raspberry Pi AI Camera (Lucy Hattersley)

Screencasts and Videos

• How to Add a Custom CLI Tool to a Bash Agent: Step-by-Step Tutorial and clawdbot/Moltbot is a security nightmare (Frank La Vigne)
• Inside the Future of AI‑Powered Robotics with Tim Chung | Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
• Microsof’s new CLI tool for Windows App Devs | Noraa on Tech (Noraa Junker)
• GCast 209: Running Tests in an Azure Playwright Workspace (David Giard)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Danny Thompson (Isaac Levin)
• Evaluating AI Models with Microsoft Foundry | MVP Unplugged (Justin Garrett & Veronika Kolesnikova)
• Playwright Workspaces: Run end-to-end tests at scale (Microsoft Azure Developers)
• CodeMedic with Copilot | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Random.Code() – Finishing params Expectations Work in Rocks (Jason Bock)
• NestedScrollView (Widget of the Week) (Flutter Team)

Dometrain Course

Getting Started: Modular Monoliths in .NET: Learn how to structure your .NET applications with modular monoliths. This course covers designing modular systems that improve maintainability without the complexity of microservices. (Steve Smith) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #20 – Publishing Beyond the Market (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #705 – Murat Erder and Eoin Woods on Continuous Architecture (Giovanni Asproni)
• RunAs Radio Show #1021 – Business Process Automation in 2026 with Ian Cooper (Richard Campbell)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Letters Home: The Great Migration and the Power of Connection (United States Postal Service)
• The AI Fix Episode #85 – ChatGPT gets ads, pets get AI therapists, and everyone’s wrong about LLMs (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #344 – How is AI shaping democracy? (Bruce Schneier, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Over-Commitment and Silence—The Deadly Duo Destroying Your Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Felipe Engineer-Manriquez)

Community and Events

• Agenda available for W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents (W3C Team)
• Microsoft Hero: How Community Sparked a Global Movement (Kim Sanchez)
• Upcoming M365 Copilot Government Roadshow Dates (Abby Quinn)
• Microsoft announces the 2026 Security Excellence Awards winners (Maria Thomson)
• Amazon confirms 16,000 more job cuts, bringing total layoffs to 30,000 since October (Taylor Soper)
• Bridging Generations: Remembering LGBTQIA+ Lives on Holocaust Memorial Day (Heather Paterson)

Database

• Learn Relational Database Design (Beau Carnes)
• Securing Your Databases in 2026: Best Practices for the Evolving Threat Landscape (Lukas Vileikis)
• Love Your Data Types: Strings (Erik Darling)
• Maybe You Shouldn’t Even Be Using Clustering or AGs (Brent Ozar)
• 5 reasons SQLite Is the WRONG Database for Edge AI (Mark Gamble)
• Data Privacy Week 2026: Take Control of Your Data (Ben Nettleton)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Agent Mode in Excel is now generally available on desktop (tmobrien)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Tailor Gemini CLI to your workflow with hooks (Edi Palencia, Jack Wotherspoon & Abhi Patel)
• GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.396-0 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
• Updates on Adobe GPO Templates, ASR Module and Secure Boot (Emin Atac)

Writing

• Reference Books for Writers (Emily Munro)

Tools

• Another selfish tool–Endpoint for VS Code (Tim Heuer)
• Windows Package Manager 1.28.110-preview Release (florelis)
• RTL Tool – Remove Right-to-left characters from filenames for Windows (Mark Pahulje)

General

• Meta is spending millions to convince people that data centers are cool and you like them (Stevie Bonifield)
• Amazon Inadvertently Announces Cloud Unit Layoffs In Email To Employees and Amazon To Pay $309 Million To US Shoppers In Settlement Over Returns and Internal Messages May Doom Meta At Social Media Addiction Trial and SoundCloud Data Breach Impacts 29.8 Million Accounts (BeauHD)
• The State of Mozilla: Are you ready to choose your future? (Mozilla)
• Citigroup Mandates AI Training For 175,000 Employees To Help Them ‘Reinvent Themselves’ (msmash)
• Enhance AI Productivity with Designed for Surface Accessories (Jenn Marescalco)
• So, you want to work for Anthropic? (Nate McMaster)
• The winter storm tested power grids straining to accommodate AI data centers (Justine Calma)
• Yahoo Answers 2.0? The forgotten tech giant promises to help you understand the memes in your feed (Joshua Benton)
• A CEO, Captured. (Om Malik)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – January 27, 2026 (#708) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

C# 14 and .NET 10 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

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