Top Links
- Oh My Posh ❤️ Claude Code (Jan De Dobbeleer)
- Are your .NET 10 Framework Dependent (not self-contained) EXEs 5x larger than they were on .NET 9? (Joseph Finney)
- GitHub Node – Adds a GitHub node to Solution Explorer that displays the contents of your repository’s `.github` folder (Mads Kristensen)
- WRAP up your backlog with GitHub Copilot coding agent (Brittany Ellich)
- Burrow – A directory-scoped secrets manager (Safia Abdalla)
- Fast Focus: Building a Blazor MAUI Hybrid App | Live! 360 Orlando 2025 (Rocky Lhotka)
- Here’s some good news worth spotlighting and carrying into 2026. (Bill Gates)
Web and Cloud Development
- Integrating .NET Aspire with WinampToSpotify Project – 1 (Atahan C.)
- URL Shortener – A lightweight URL Shortener built with .NET 10 and SQLite, featuring API key security, rate limiting, and analytics. Optimized for Azure Web Apps. (Louella Creemers)
- How to Use Regex for Data Validation in the BoldSign API (Vijay Amalan)
- CSS :has() Selector Deep Dive: The Parent Selector That Changes Everything (HK Lee)
- JSON vs TOON — A new era of structured input? (Marius Schröder)
- FHIR Consent backed by XACML enforcement (John Moehrke)
- ComputeKit: A React Toolkit for Heavy Computations Without Freezing the UI (Ghassen Ben Hadj Lassoued)
- Running Modern ES2023 JavaScript Inside Go Using QJS and WebAssembly (Olimpiu Pop)
- Per-Test Isolation in ASP.NET Core: A TUnit.AspNetCore Guide (Tom Longhurst)
- Trends That Defined JavaScript in 2025 (Loraine Lawson)
- The Secret Life of Go: Error Handling (Aaron Rose)
- What’s New in Syncfusion Pure React Components – 2025 Volume 4 (Piramanayagam Ramakrishnan)
- HTTP Over the Decades: A Story of Physics, Latency, and Grudging Adaptation and Why You Probably Shouldn’t Use Microservices (Yet) (Scott Galloway)
Windows Development
- Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers should be enough for anybody (Raymond Chen)
- Understanding Windows Settings URIs and How to Use Them in Enterprise Environments (hewagen)
- JavaScript creator warns against “rushed web UX over native” as Windows 11 leans harder on WebView2 and Electron (Mayank Parmar)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Async/Await Beyond the Basics in C#: Practical Concurrency Patterns for Real-World APIs (Sudhir Mangla)
- Supercharging Application Performance with Intelligent Client-Side Caching (David McCarter)
- What Makes .NET a Top Choice for Cross-Platform Development? (Wanpiti)
- C# 14 Null-conditional Assignment: Complete Guide to Elegant Null Handling and C# 14 Field Keyword: Simplifying Property Accessors (Laurent Kempe)
- Task.Delay fails if you wait longer than 49.7 days (Steven Giesel)
- How to Build a High-Performance Cache Without External Libraries (Milan Jovanović)
- PropertySphere bot: understanding images (Oren Eini)
- Why Dapper? Building High-Performance .NET Applications with a Micro-ORM (Abanoub Halim)
AI
- 3 New Tricks to Try With Google Gemini Live After Its Latest Major Upgrade (David Nield)
- Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit? (Calder McHugh)
- Configure DLP and DSPM for AI to Control Copilot Data Access (Liam Cleary)
- What Makes Goose Different From Other AI Coding Agents (Nick Taylor)
- How We Use goose to Maintain goose (Rizèl Scarlett)
- RIP Copy-Paste: Google NotebookLM Just Killed Manual Data Entry (Siddhesh Surve)
- Coding Rust with Claude Code and Codex (Tigran Bayburtsyan)
- Context Engineering Lessons from Building Azure SRE Agent (Sanchit Mehta)
- Goodbye Plugins: MCP Is Becoming the Universal Interface for AI (Sowjanya Pandruju)
- Martin Fowler on Preparing for AI’s Nondeterministic Computing (Joab Jackson)
- DocSummarizer Part 4 – Building RAG Pipelines and No, Small Models Are Not the “Budget Option” (Scott Galloway)
- What I Learned Testing MCPs Across Claude, Cursor, and Replit (Deepika N.)
- Memory loss: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise (Josh Ruwitch)
- Building a Retro CRT Terminal Website with WebGL and GitHub Copilot (Claude Opus 4.5) (Remo H. Jansen)
- AI Agent vs Agentic AI: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters for the Future of AI (Mahesh Chand)
- Sam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI (Terrence O’Brien)
- The Complete Guide to Streaming LLM Responses in Web Applications: From SSE to Real-Time UI (HK Lee)
- Microsoft CTO to AI startups: Stop waiting for better models and ‘do the damned experiments’ (Todd Bishop)
- 5 Key Trends Shaping Agentic Development in 2026 (David Eastman)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Terraform Parallelism: How It Works, Tuning & Best Practices (Mattias Fjellström)
- I Wasn’t Burned Out. I Was Just Never Fully Rested (James Miller)
- Playwright: Web Scraping & Testing (Rost)
- The 3 a.m. Call That Changed The Way I Design APIs (Sreenivasa Reddy Hulebeedu Reddy)
- Git integration is ten years away (Mark Seemann)
- The Architect’s Guide to Logging (Akash Lomas)
- Logging Sucks. And here’s how to make it better. (Boris Tane)
- Docker Makes Hardened Images Free in Container Security Shift (Matt Saunders)
- TeamCity Pipelines Is Now Part of TeamCity Enterprise (Dmitrii Korovin)
- How Do I Audit Source Code? (Mahesh Chand)
- Building my faux lego advent calendar feels like current software development (Chris Heilmann)
- Server Components vs. Islands Architecture: The performance showdown (Muhammed Ali)
- Control Your Space or You Lose Your Mind Working Remote (Cole)
- Flow-First Coding: Why Your Best Code Happens When You Stop Trying So Hard (Dhruval Makwana)
Mobile and Game Development
- SwiftUI Window, Scene & Multi-Window Architecture (Sebastien Lato)
- Install Windows 8828080 on Surface Duo (1st Gen) (Gustave Monce)
- ProDataGrid for Avalonia v11.3.9-preview.12 Release (Wiesław Šoltés)
- Up Next for Arduino After Qualcomm Acquisition: High-Performance Computing (EditorDavid)
- Best of Game Dev Report 2025! (Code Monkey)
- Treat yourself: The best smart glasses to buy with your holiday gift money (Aisha Malik)
- React Native 0.83 for Production Teams: Better DevTools, Better Tracing, Less Risk (Alisson Goulart)
- Securing Legacy Android Apps: Modern Encryption Practices (Stephen Henry)
Screencasts and Videos
- The Most Important AI Lesson for Businesses From 2025 and The 5 Most Impactful AI Model Releases of 2025 and 51 Charts Explaining AI in 2026 (AIDailyBrief)
- Aspire – Beyond the Basics | Live! 360 Orlando 2025 (Loek Duys)
- Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2025 Playthrough – Part 6 and Part 7 (Jason Bock)
- How to Create an HTTP Server in C++ (and a Brief History of the Internet) (Frank La Vigne)
- IoTCT Webcast Episode 293 – “Non-Alcoholic Predictions” (Hot IoT+ guess for 2026) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Meta Cast – Give Yourself Grace Because 2025 Kicked Everyone’s Ass (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Merge Conflict Episode #495 – 2025 Wrapped – The Official Year of AI Development (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- My Favorite Podcasts of 2025 ⭐ and RunAsRadio #1016: What Windows Wants for Christmas with Paul Thurrott (Paul Thurrott)
- Lenny’s Podcast – 10 contrarian leadership truths every leader needs to hear | Matt MacInnis (Rippling) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #83 – Playwright – with Debbie O’Brien (Dan Clarke)
- PPP 487 | Why Humor Is a Serious Leadership Skill, with comedian Adam Christing (Andy Kaufman)
- Hard Fork Podcast – Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress? (Kevin Roose, Casey Newton & Rachel Cohn)
- BONUS The Operating System for Software-Native Organizations – The Five Core Principles | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
Community and Events
- I Built DevTrace — A Community for Developers Who Build in Public (Rushikesh Bodakhe)
- Meet the woman who’s tracking data centers in Pennsylvania (Hannah Frances Johansson)
- Call For Papers Listings for 12/26 (Leon Adato)
- Sal Khan: Companies Should Give 1% of Profits To Retrain Workers Displaced By AI (EditorDavid)
- Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
- PowerBASIC Users Community (PBUsers)
- Louis Gerstner, the man who saved IBM, dies at 83 — industry mourns the passing of transformative CEO (Anton Shilov)
Database
- How We Reduced a 1.5GB Database by 99% (Cardog Team)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Zellij — A Modern Terminal Multiplexer Built for Developers (Yashraj Singh)
- 💡 How to Install Gemini CLI on Your Computer (Deividas Strole)
- Localization Resource Manager (LRM) – CLI tool and TUI editor for managing .NET .resx localization files (nickprotop)
Writing
- The Writers Write Book Reading Challenge – 3 (Writers Write)
- A hodgepodge of ideas spewing in my head (Tom Johnson)
- AI can’t save a bad session abstract, but it can help make a meh one into a good one (Julie Yack)
- Why Blogging Still Matters in the Age of AI (Lou Creemers)
Tools
- Same Edge, Same Experience: Ghostery Brings Desktop Ad Blocking to Your iPhone and Android (Ghostery Team) – Source on GitHub
- handy – speak into any text field (Scott Hanselman)
- Vizual – A node graph-like visualizer for VS Code (asian-mario)
General
- The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2025 (WIRED Staff)
- Thousands of medical records found in auctioned storage unit (Dissent)
- People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year (Ritsuko Kawai)
- I Thought Compilers Were Scary. So I Built Sauce. (mitali)
- New Runtime Standby ABI Proposed for Linux Like Microsoft Windows’ ‘Modern Standby’ (EditorDavid)
- NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux (EditorDavid)
- Trump administration seeks to deport hate speech researcher previously sued by X (Anthony Ha)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #52, 2025 – Happy New Year (Sergey Tihon)
- The TechBeat: Coding Rust With Claude Code and Codex (12/28/2025) (Techbeat)
- #18 & AI: 2025 Reading List (Om Malik)
- Daily Tech News Roundup – 2025-12-29 (Atharv Shinde)
