Top Links
- What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | October and November 2025 (Jenn Cockrell)
- Introducing GPT-5.2-Codex (OpenAI Team)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Trusting Agentic AI with Dr. Dawn Song (Scott Hanselman)
- ReSharper and Rider 2025.3.1 Released: Next Edit Suggestions and Other Important Updates (Sasha Ivanova)
- Agent Skills – A simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise (Anthropic & Agent Skills Members)
- Agent orchestration with Microsoft Agent Framework (Sam Gomez)
Web and Cloud Development
- JSON Web Token (JWT) Validation in Azure Application Gateway: Secure Your APIs at the Gate (Pierre Roman)
- Azure updates for partners: December 2025 (Cyril Belikoff)
- Vite vs. Webpack for React Apps in 2025: A Senior Engineer’s Perspective (Peter Aideloje)
- My HTML Web Component boilerplate for 2026 (Chris Ferdinandi)
- How to Set Correct WordPress File Permissions (and Fix Errors) (Jen Swisher)
- JWT Authentication in React: Secure Routes, Context, and Token Handling (Prashant Yadav)
- Auth0 My Account API: Let Users Manage Their Own Account (Andrea Chiarelli)
- React Spreadsheet AWS S3 Integration: Open and Save Excel Files in the Cloud (Sastha Prathap)
Windows Development
- Concluding thoughts on our deep dive into Windows clipboard text conversion (Raymond Chen)
- 2025 in review: How we elevated the Microsoft Store experience (Giorgio Sardo)
.NET and Visual Studio
- F#, Microsoft Agent Framework, MCP and Bitcoin for the F# Advent Calendar 2025 (Kevin Logan)
- How to Turn Data Into Interactive C# .NET Diagrams (Greg Lutz)
- From Spec to Santa: My C#‑Powered Christmas Story Generator Experiment (Alexandre Nédélec)
AI
- Where Architects Sit in the Era of AI (Dave Holliday, João Carlos Gonçalves & Manoj Kumar Yadav)
- Creating Agentic Workflows with No Code Using Microsoft Foundry (Janarthanan S.)
- Giving OpenAI codex a try in VSCode (Bart Wullems)
- Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) Is Now Live in JetBrains IDEs (Ekaterina Zharova)
- How to Build an AI Agent with LangChain and LangGraph: Build an Autonomous Starbucks Agent (Djibril M.)
- Local AI Power: Vision and Function Calling with Microsoft Agent Framework and Ollama (Bruno Capuano)
- AI isn’t optional at Microsoft — CEO Satya Nadella just made that clear, but almost no one is using Copilot (Kevin Okemwa)
- Building an AI-Powered YouTube Clipper using n8n (Frank Boucher)
- FunctionGemma: Bringing bespoke function calling to the edge (Ravin Kumar)
- What Microsoft’s 2026 Product Plans Reveal About Its AI Push (Kezia Jungco)
- Eliminating Hallucinations in LLM-Driven Virtual Agents (Benjamin Aronov)
- Turn Claude Into Your Personal Research Assistant (Nikos Vaggalis)
- My AI Colleague: Claude, the good, the bad, the UglAI (Toni Webb)
- DocSummarizer Part 3 – Advanced Concepts: The “I Went Too Far 🤦” Deep Dive (Scott Galloway)
- MCP: Building the Bridge Between AI and the Real World (Jason Murphy)
- Addendum to GPT-5.2 System Card: GPT-5.2-Codex (OpenAI Team)
- Tokenization in Transformers v5: Simpler, Clearer, and More Modular (Ita Zaporozhets, Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Arthur Zucker, Sergio Paniego, merve & Pedro Cuenca)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0b251218 Release (Evan Mattson)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Kubernetes v1.35: Job Managed By Goes GA (Dejan Zele Pejchev & Michał Woźniak)
- An End-to-End Cloud Native Observability Framework (Khushboo Nigam)
- GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners (Brandon Vigliarolo)
- 4 Data Architecture Decisions That Make or Break Agentic Systems (Max Liu)
- GitLab 18.7: Advancing AI automation, governance, and developer experience (Bill Staples)
- New Microsoft e-book: 3 reasons point solutions are holding you back (Scott Woodgate)
- Best Programming Courses in 2025: New and Favorite Picks on JetBrains Academy (Regina Muradova)
- How To Measure The Impact Of Features (Vitaly Friedman)
Mobile and Game Development
- Exploring the Swift SDK for Android (The Android Workgroup)
- Bethesda director Todd Howard says Elder Scrolls 6 is “progressing really well” and “the majority of the studio” is working on the Skyrim successor: “We have long pre-productions on things so that we feel good about them” (Jordan Gerblick)
- .NET 10 for .NET MAUI: Exploring the New Diagnostics and Metrics (Leomaris Reyes)
- Bringing Androidify to Wear OS with Watch Face Push (Garan Jenkin)
- Create a 2D Pixel Art Game in Unity (Beau Carnes)
- Tips on getting started with your new ROG Xbox Ally (Athima Chansanchai)
- How to Build a Smart HomeKit Virtual Light in Go (Rez Moss)
Screencasts and Videos
- GPT-5.2 vs Gemini: The AI War Heats Up | Ulyusses Maclaren & Eddie Kranz (SSW TV)
- Programming with C# and Tabs – CLI, AI, and Aspire! | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- 🔐 E2E 10-Minute Drill – Secure Your APIs with JWT Validation in Azure | ITOpsTalk (Vyshnavi Namani)
- 82% of Companies Are Seeing Positive AI ROI and 4 Reasons to Use ImageGen 1.5 Over Nano Banana Pro (AIDailyBrief)
- Uno Platform Studio AI – Overview and Getting Started Path for Uno Platform in VS Code (Uno Platform Team)
- Agent Mode and the Profiler Agent in Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Joseph Finney)
- Microsoft’s Python Team 2025 Year in Review: Trends, Learning & What’s Next | Python on Azure (Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza, Marlene Mhangami, Pamela Fox, Sara Kaiser, Renee Noble & Anthony Shaw)
- AI & Text to SQL: How LLMs & Schema Power Data Analytics (Frank La Vigne)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- A Geek Leader Episode #448 – Michael Aaron Flicker (John Rouda)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #551 – An Australian Documentary (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- The Cloud Pod – AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #671 – Agents in the database (Ajay Kulkarni & Adam Stacoviak)
- Browser Native Auth and FedCM is finally here | Adventures in DevOps Episode #259 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- Build Mode Podcast – Making life (and death) better despite regulatory barriers (Isabelle Johannessen, Gabriel Sanchez & Tom Harries)
- Lenny’s Podcast – The new AI growth playbook for 2026: How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year | Elena Verna (Head of Growth) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Measuring What Matters Beyond Velocity and Story Points | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Natalia Curusi)
- Podcasts can save public media (seriously) (Joni Deutsch)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Last week in AWS re:Invent with Corey Quinn (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Wasp Xmas Launch – React 19, Claude Code Plugin, Polar! 🎄🎁 (Matija Sosic)
- Announcing CodeMash 2026 Lightning Talks! (Amanda Stamper)
- From Our Worlds to Yours: Thank You for an Incredible 2025 (Joe Skrebels)
- Hello World (xpost from substack) (Charity Majors)
Database
- Common SQL Server Problems: Invalid Object Name (Aaron Bertrand)
- Batch Mode Sorts and Row Mode Indexes in SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- SQL Server 2025 REST API Example (Levi Masonde)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
PowerShell and Terminal
- Conductor: Introducing context-driven development for Gemini CLI (Keith Ballinger, Jay Kornder & Sherzat Aitbayev)
Writing
- Brandon Sanderson’s 3 Rules For Magic (Writers Write)
- awesome-ipsum – A curated list of awesome lorem ipsum generators (Sam Templeman) – I found this repo while looking for vegetarian-friendly options to bacon ipsum
- Spiral Story – Writers Group Comments and Self Evaluation (Emily Munro)
Tools
General
- Latest Windows 11 Canary build feels less like innovation and more like catch‑up, as features already in testing in the Dev and Beta Channels finally arrive (Zac Bowden)
- TikTok agrees to deal to cede control of U.S. business to American investor group (Lucas Ropek)
- Trump administration orders FBI to compile lists of “Antifa-related” Americans for investigation (Ellsworth Toohey)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – December 18, 2025 (#688) (Richard Seroter)
- Windows skilling snacks: bite-sized technical learning (Chris_Morrissey)
