Category: Development

Top Links

• Top .NET Blog Posts of 2025 (Jon Galloway)
• Azure at 15: What’s Next for the Cloud, AI, and You | Live! 360 Orlando 2025 (Eric D. Boyd)
• .NET 10 on iOS: Updates and Notes for .NET MAUI Developers (Leomaris Reyes)
• Memos – An open-source, self-hosted note-taking service (Memos Team)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Jan De Dobbeleer (Isaac Levin)
• PowerToys and EarTrumpet devs teaming up might be the biggest quality‑of‑life win Windows 11 has seen in years — and macOS should pay attention (Sean Endicott)
• Integrate Gemini AI with Syncfusion .NET MAUI Smart Components (Jayaleshwari N.)

Web and Cloud Development

• C# Minimal API: Multiple Authentication Schemes with Swagger Support (Daniel Balcarek)
• End-to-End Validation in .NET: Shared Contracts Between ASP.NET Core, TypeScript, and FluentValidation (Sudhir Mangla)
• Building Self-Referential Agents with .NET 10 & Aspire (Part 1) (Shawn Bellazan)
• Boost Your Svelte DX: A Guide to the Vite Svelte Inspector (Michael Amachree)
• Core Admin Panel for ASP.NET Core & .NET 10 – About Fully automatic admin site CRUD UI generator (Ed Andersen)
• Azure Web Apps and AI — What’s New from Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Gregor Suttie)
• How to Embed an Instagram Reel in WordPress (Jen Swisher)
• Why Developers Are Ditching Frameworks for Vanilla JavaScript (Alexander T. Williams)
• TypeScript 7 On Course For Early 2026 (Ian Elliot)
• DotVVM – Open source MVVM framework for Web Apps (DotVVM Team)
• What’s new in Astro – December 2025 (Sarah Rainsberger)
• Ruby 4.0: The Structural Maturation of a Thirty-Year-Old Language (Davide Santangelo)
• Document Editor with ASP.NET Core and Docker Support with Linux Containers using Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10 (Bjoern Meyer)
• Enterprise Patterns for ASP.NET Core Minimal API: Unit of Work Pattern (Chris Woodruff)
• Announcing Bootstrapr.io (Randal Sean Harrison)
• Caching with TanStack Query (Hassan Djirdeh)
• QR Codes Are Treated Like Images. That’s the Real Problem. (Crafting Code)
• The 8 trends that will define web development in 2026 (David Omotayo)

Windows Development

• Additional notes on color-keyed overlays as a way of doing smooth video rendering (Raymond Chen)
• no strcpy either (Daniel Stenberg)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Microsoft Agent Framework with Ollama (.NET/C#) (Thang Chung)
• Migrating from CRUD to CQRS and Event-Sourcing with Akka.Persistence (Aaron Stannard)
• CodingWithCalvin.VsixSdk v0.3.0 Release | NuGet (Calvin Allen)
• Top 10 errors found in C# projects in 2025 (Unicorn Developer)

AI

• Building Multi-Agent Workflows in .NET with AgentFactory and Handoff (Bruno Capuano)
• Reverse-engineering undocumented APIs with Claude (Kalil)
• I hope generative AI does away with SEO (pcloadletter)
• AI – It’s All Downhill From Here? (Mike James)
• 2025’s Radical Frontend AI Shift (Loraine Lawson)
• I Misunderstood Skills Entirely (Mark Downie)
• Generative diffusion model surrogates for mechanistic agent-based biological models (Tien Comlekoglu, J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Mar’ın, Douglas W. DeSimone,
  Shayn M. Peirce, Geoffrey Fox & James A. Glazier)
• How to Use ChatGPT for Sales and How to Use ChatGPT for Marketing and How Do I Use ChatGPT for Sales Prospecting? (Mahesh Chand)
• The OWASP Top 10 for AI Agents: Your 2026 Security Checklist (ASI Top 10) (Alessandro Pignati)
• What is Microsoft Copilot Chat? (Brien Posey)
• Agentic AI, MCP, and spec-driven development: Top blog posts of 2025 (Natalie Guevara)
• The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work (msmash)
• How Microsoft is betting on AI agents in Windows, dusting off a winning playbook from the past (Todd Bishop)
• From Vibe Coding to Working App: How SRE Agent Completes the Developer Loop (dchelupati)
• you’re not burned out, you’ve got context obesity (Ray Svitla)
• DocSummarizer Part 5 – lucidRAG: Multi-Document RAG Web Application (Scott Galloway)
• Google Nano Banana: How Prompt Structure Changes AI Image Results (Ashwin Mehta)

Python

• Using Python To Merge Array of Ranges (Grant Riordan)
• Python Is Overrated? The REAL Best Language for Web Scraping (Saksham Solanki)
• Run Real Python in Browsers With Pyodide and WebAssembly (Jessica Wachtel)
• Microsoft Loves Python + AI (Nikos Vaggalis)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Microsoft Testing Platform (xUnit.net v2) (xUnit.net Docs)
• Kubernetes v1.35: Watch Based Route Reconciliation in the Cloud Controller Manager (Lukas Metzner)
• AI-assisted load test authoring in Azure App Testing (Nikita Nallamothu)
• Stop Drowning in Alerts: Why Signals Are Your Team’s Lifeline (Ari Stowe)
• Striking a Balance: Working Fully Remote for Nearly a Decade (Rion Williams)
• The Increasing Importance of Psychological Safety and Self-Awareness for Creative Work (Andrew Woan)
• 15 Best Observability Tools in DevOps for 2026 (Mariusz Michalowski)
• Architectural Lessons From Patreon’s Year in Review (Patrick Farry)
• Why more rules can actually increase team autonomy (Bart Krawczyk)
• Data as a Product is a Promise (Yusuf Aytas)

Mobile and Game Development

• 5 Flutter Decisions I’d Make Differently If I Started Today (Abdul Wahab)
• Raspberry Pi CM5 IoT In C – Getting Started With SPI (Harry Fairhead)
• How to Build a US Driver’s License Scanner for Android with PDF417 Barcode Recognition (Xiao Ling)
• Reducing Assets Import times in Unity (Attilio Carotenuto)
• Why Android is Not Really Open Source (Aditya Pandey)
• Should you bet on Valdi instead of React Native? (Ikeh Akinyemi)
• What Your Flutter App Leaks After Release (And How to Catch It Before Launch) (Flutter Guard)
• Exclusive: Lenovo Smart Glasses connect to PCs and phones, may challenge Apple and Meta (Abhijith M B)
• MAME 0.284 Release Notes (MAME Team)
• Card Cat 1.91 Now Available (Henry Lowe)
• Superwall Plugin for Capacitor – A comprehensive Capacitor plugin for Superwall SDK integration (Capawesome)

Screencasts and Videos

• How to survive AI as programmers (Frank La Vigne)
• Take Action: Go Fast with GitHub | Live! 360 Orlando 2025 (Esteban Garcia)
• Dream Machines and Walled Gardens – NDC TechTown 2025 (Anders Norås)
• Zero to Hero: Blazor Web Apps | Live! 360 Orlando 2025 (Allen Conway)
• 50 AI Predictions for 2026 – Part 1 (AIDailyBrief)
• Random.Code() – Updating Spackle for .NET 10 (Jason Bock)
• GitHub Actions brings CI, AoT, and Containers for CodeMedic | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• How SQL Indexes Actually Work (Step-by-Step) (Milan Jovanović)
• Rapid API Prototyping with Postman Mock Servers and Agent Mode (Postman Team)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Event-Driven Architecture: Learn everything you need to start using Event-Driven Architecture (James Eastham) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Why Agile Fatigue Means We Need to Change Our Approach | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Steve Martin)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #701 – Max Guernsey, III and Luniel de Beer on Readiness in Software Engineering (Brijesh Ammanath)
• RunAs Radio Show #1017 – The SysAdmin in 2026 (Richard Campbell)
• Hard Fork Podcast – The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose (Christine Cyr Clisset, Caira Blackwell, Rosie Guerin & Abigail Keel)
• The Podcast ‘Productivity’ Trap. Maybe don’t fill every available silence with the sound of people talking. (Thomas Chatterton Williams)

Community and Events

• Thoughts on leaving AWS and joining Anthropic (Nate McMaster)
• My Year in the Tech Community (Mike Irving)
• 2026 – A New Year (Rocky Lhotka)
• A Career Journey Marked by BizTalk (Yossi Dahan)

Database

• Azure SQL Database Data Sync Retirement: Migration Scenarios and Recommended Alternatives (Mohamed Baioumy)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• Excel in 2025: A Year of Culture, Craft, and Copilot (Ms. Excel)

PowerShell and Terminal

• Warp Wrapped: 2025 in Review (Hong Yi Chen)
• I made a CLI tool to search “TODO”s and distributed on Homebrew (I.D.)
• Advent of Warp 2025 (Warp Team)
• Windows SOS – Now Available in Extended Version (MentalistOps)

Writing

• Stop Rewriting the Same Dev Helpers: Build a Browser Toolbelt Instead (Roxroy)

Tools

• Snapdragon Control Panel 2025.3.0.0 released for ARM64 devices (Qualcomm Software Center)

General

• Fears Mount That US Federal Cybersecurity Is Stagnating—or Worse (Lily Hay Newman)
• 12 Predictions for 2026 (Tomasz Tunguz)
• Microsoft added “click on desktop to open Bing” to the Bing Wallpaper app, then accidentally hid the option to turn it off on Windows 11 (Mayank Parmar)
• ‘Foreign Tech Workers Are Avoiding Travel To the US’ (BeauHD)
• Microsoft made a splash with a controversial quantum computer in 2025 (Karmela Padavic-Callaghan)
• 2025 has been a disaster for Windows 11 as frustrating bugs and intrusive features continue to erode trust in Microsoft’s flagship OS — something desperately needs to change (Zac Bowden)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – December 30, 2025 (#692) (Richard Seroter)
• Good technology blogs: a reading list for the holidays (Alexey Milovidov)

The Geek Shelf

Build a Text-to-Image Generator (from Scratch) with transformers and diffusions (Mark Liu) – Referral Link

Build your own vision transformer and diffusion models for text-to-image generation–from scratch!