Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – MAUI in 2026 with Gerald Versluis (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Now in Public Preview: GitHub Copilot build performance for Windows (David Li)
- Introducing Flexible Pricing for Avalonia Accelerate (Mike James)
- Announcing GitHub Copilot code completions in SQL Server Management 22.2.1 (Erin Stellato)
- Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.2.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Color‑Driven Code Navigation (Mark Downie)
Web and Cloud Development
- Updated Candidate Recommendation: Web Neural Network (WebNN) API (W3C)
- Building Webhooks in ASP.NET Core: Delivery Guarantees, Retries, and Security (Sudhir Mangla)
- Getting Started with the Blazor Skeleton Component (Héctor Pérez)
- Supporting the future of Astro (Astro Team)
- Catching Up with Recent Wolverine Releases (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Exploring the AI-Powered KendoReact Smart Grid (Hassan Djirdeh)
- CSS in 2026: The new features reshaping frontend development (Jemima Abu)
- Responsive Layout Strategies Using Blazorise Grid & Breakpoints (Mladen Macanović)
Windows Development
- On the proper usage of a custom Win32 dialog class (Raymond Chen)
- Programmatically Turning Off the Screen (j2inet)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7653 (Dev Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0-preview.260121.1 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- Quadratic Regression with SGD Training Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- Introducing Pri.ProductivityExtensions.Source – A .NET Standard Package to Enable Modern C# Language Features (Peter Ritchie)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.25 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 11415.281 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
AI
- 31 Days of Vibe Coding – Day 22: Production Debugging: When It’s On Fire (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Goose in 5 minutes (Goose Docs)
- GitHub Copilot’s Agentic Memory: Teaching AI to Remember and Learn Your Codebase (AJ Bajada)
- goose mobile apps and agent clients (Michael Neale)
- Enabling autonomous agents with environment virtualization (Arjun Iyer)
- Satya Nadella’s new metaphor for the AI Age: We are becoming ‘managers of infinite minds’ (Todd Bishop)
- Practical Ways AI Can Help You Today with Minimal Setup (James Sturtevant)
- Anthropic’s new Claude ‘constitution’: be helpful and honest, and don’t destroy humanity (Hayden Field)
- Apple is turning Siri into an AI bot that’s more like ChatGPT (Emma Roth)
- Blocking AI crawlers might be a bad idea (Michael Kennedy)
- Elevate teaching and learning with AI-powered experiences on Surface Copilot+ PCs (Jeanine Park)
- Google Releases FunctionGemma Model (Nikos Vaggalis)
- A new era of agents, a new era of posture (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
- Secure Third-Party Tool Calling in LlamaIndex Using Auth0 (Raphael do Vale)
- Rethinking AI’s future in an augmented workplace (MIT Technology Review Insights)
- CEOs Say AI is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story. (msmash)
- Is that allowed? Authentication and authorization in Model Context Protocol (Dan Moore)
- Building AI-Powered SaaS Businesses (Michelle Smith)
- Copilot Gets Us Started (Jesse Liberty)
- Conversation: LLMs and the what/how loop (Martin Fowler)
- Agent Guardrails and Controls: Applying the CORS Model to Agents (Alex Rosenzweig)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Permission to experiment granted (Bart Wullems)
- Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why (Om Malik)
- Developers, your EGO is the real bug in the system (Ivan Kranjec)
- Should enterprises run containers in VMs or bare metal? (Jelani Harper)
Mobile and Game Development
- Raspberry Pi Flash Drive available now from $30: a high-quality essential accessory (Helen Lynn)
- NexDock is building a new Windows phone that you can buy in 2026 — Meet the NexPhone with Windows 11 (Zac Bowden)
- Build a The Backrooms Game in Unreal Engine 5 (Beau Carnes)
- Ready to review some changes but not others? Try using Play Console’s new Save for later feature (Georgia Doyle & Kanu Tibrewal)
- January Xbox Update: Xbox Expands to Arm-based PCs, Game Save Sync Indicator, and More (Mike Nelson)
- Xbox App Now Available on Arm-based Windows 11 PCs (Joe Skrebels)
- Play more: Xbox app is now available on Arm-based Windows 11 PCs (Brynnan Fink & Nicole Allen)
- USB gadget mode in Raspberry Pi OS: SSH over USB (Paul Oberosler)
- The Hidden Cost of Supporting Old OS Versions (ProMobile.Dev)
Screencasts and Videos
- Demo: Using GitHub Copilot CLI and yolo mode (Scott Hanselman)
- Learn PostgreSQL for free on Dometrain (Nick Chapsas)
Dometrain Course
From Zero to Hero: SOLID Principles for C# Developers: Learn the SOLID principles in C# with practical examples. This course covers the five SOLID principles, along with other key software engineering concepts like DRY to improve your code quality. (Alex Hyett) – Referral Link
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Scrabble strategy and tournament culture, with John Chew (Mignon Fogarty)
- How to Turn Your Favorite Tech Blogs into a Personal Podcast (Spruce Emmanuel)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #338 – T5Gemma Says “AI’ll be Back” (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- AI & I Podcast – Opus 4.5 Changed How Andrew Wilkinson Works and Lives (Rhea Purohit)
- The Azure Security Podcast Episode #123 – Agentic Identity (Michael Howard, Sarah Young & Mark Simos)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #972 – These Things Make Your App Feel Like Crap on Mobile (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Why Speed Without Value Creates Chaos in AI-Accelerated Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Cristina Cranga)
Community and Events
- M365 Copilot Agent-a-thon Coming to Arlington, VA (Abby Quinn)
- Best Places to Work in Tech 2026: The Companies Employees Trust Most (Esther Shein)
- Announcing the 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest Winners, Honorable Mentions & Finalists (Sterling Dudley)
- Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey (Todd Kulesza)
- X copies Bluesky with a ‘Starterpacks’ feature that helps you find who to follow (Sarah Perez)
- Code.org lays off 18 employees ‘to ensure long-term sustainability’ at education nonprofit (Kurt Schlosser)
- Philly .NET User Group Presentations (Philly .NET Organizers)
Database
- SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Version 22.1.0 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Identify and Mitigate SQL Server High Memory Usage (M A A Mehedi Hasan)
- IO-bound Insert Benchmark vs MySQL on 24-core and 32-core servers (Mark Callaghan)
- bit Obscene: SQL Server 2025 Availability Groups (Erik Darling)
- Unlocking Intelligent Search: Vector Search Workflows with n8n and Oracle AI Database 26ai (Sharad Chandran)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Resurgence of a multi‑stage AiTM phishing and BEC campaign abusing SharePoint (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
- Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise Get Stronger Defenses with Latest Security Baseline (Rabia Noureen)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.388 Release (Copilot CLI Team)
- Gemini CLI: Code & Create with an Open-Source Agent | DeepLearning.AI (Jack Wotherspoon)
Tools
- Notepad and Paint updates begin rolling out to Windows Insiders (Dave Grochocki)
General
- ‘America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster’ (BeauHD)
- How Rust does Async differently (and why it matters) (Anshul Gupta)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – January 21, 2026 (#704) (Richard Seroter)
- Interesting links – January 2026 (Robin Moffatt)
The Geek Shelf
Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps (Rezwanur Rahman) – Referral Link
Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot).