Top Links
- Scaling AI Agents with Aspire: The Missing Isolation Layer for Parallel Development (Tamir Dresher)
- How to get started with PowerToys Command Palette on Windows 11 — an answer to macOS Spotlight for Windows PCs (Mauro Huculak)
- How to Add Multilingual Support to a Blazor Scheduler (Mahesh Palanisamy)
- Building effective AI agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP) (Cedric Clyburn, Peter Double & Addie Stevens)
- The Modern .NET Show – NDepend with Patrick Smacchia: Scaling .NET Code Quality (Jamie Taylor)
- 31 Days of Vibe Coding – Day 9: Git Is Your Undo Button for AI Mistakes (Jeff Blankenburg)
- VS Code December 2025 Release (version 1.108) (Visual Studio Code Team)
Web and Cloud Development
- How Do I Improve Performance in ASP.NET Core APIs? (Mahesh Chand)
- Setting Up Dependency-Track on Azure Container Apps (Bart Wullems)
- A New JavaScript Framework? In this Economy? (Loraine Lawson)
- Building ChatGPT Apps with React Components: Introducing KendoReact + Apps SDK (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
- How to Choose WordPress Hosting: A Guide for Any Skill Level (Nick Schäferhoff)
- How to Optimize React (Beau Carnes)
- App Hosting adds support for Turborepo (Julia Reid)
- Algorithmic hover states with contrast-color() and Using your design system colors with contrast-color() (Dave Rupert)
- “Everything’s Async” Until Your RAM Explodes: The JavaScript Backpressure Problem (Gabor Koos)
- Microsoft’s strategic AI datacenter planning enables seamless, large-scale NVIDIA Rubin deployments (Rani Borkar)
- Enterprise Patterns for ASP.NET Core Minimal API: Lazy Load Pattern (Chris Woodruff)
- Webpack 201 (Rachel Kaufman)
Windows Development
.NET and Visual Studio
- How to deploy .NET applications with systemd and Podman (Tom Deseyn)
- Which .NET Version Should I Use Right Now? (Mahesh Chand)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0-preview.260108.1 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- C# Grabs Language of the Year, TIOBE Predicts TypeScript Rise (David Ramel)
- Fixing OllamaSharp Timeouts in C# (with a Simple Extension and just for fun) (Bruno Capuano)
- EF Core Lazy Loading Performance Gotcha (Mark Heath)
- Reporting for duty: the story of IPipelineActivityReporter (Safia Abdalla)
AI
- How to build the organizational muscle needed to scale AI beyond PoCs (Lenara Aliyeva, Sebastian Werner & Danilo Sato)
- Microsoft and PayPal’s Copilot Checkout allows users to make purchases without leaving the AI chatbot — and it’s out now (Rebecca Spear)
- Is Microsoft losing the AI race? Copilot (web) is still stuck at 1% market share. We don’t know how popular it is on Windows 11 (Mayank Parmar)
- Why AI is pushing developers toward typed languages (Cassidy Williams)
- Qwen3 vs GPT-5.2 vs Gemini 3 Pro: Which Should You Use and When? (Oyedele Tioluwani)
- ‘The Downside To Using AI for All Those Boring Tasks at Work’ (msmash)
- Owners, not renters: Mozilla’s open source AI strategy (Raffi Krikorian)
- How to Not Be Overwhelmed by AI – A Developer’s Guide to Using AI Tools Effectively (Atuoha Anthony)
- AI and the Future of Work: 5 Predictions for 2026 (Drew Robb)
- Microsoft debuts Copilot Checkout, joining AI shopping race vs. Amazon, Google and OpenAI (Todd Bishop)
- 3 Ways Enterprises Can Scale AI Gains in 2026 (Michelle Gill)
- 19 ChatGPT prompts for faster, better UX research (Bart Krawczyk)
- How Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI (Simon Willison)
- The PC market braces for an AI-driven storm (Tom Warren)
- Developers don’t trust AI-generated code (Ian Barker)
- Gmail is entering the Gemini era (Blake Barnes)
- Global AI adoption in 2025 — A widening digital divide (Microsoft)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Kubernetes v1.35: Mutable PersistentVolume Node Affinity (alpha) (Weiwen Hu & YuanHui Qiu)
- AI is reshaping DevSecOps: Attend GitLab Transcend to see what’s next (Manav Khurana)
- Jevons Paradox for Knowledge Work (Aaron Levie)
- 10 Best Practices for Managing Terraform Modules at Scale (Mariusz Michalowski)
- A data model for Git (and other docs updates) (Julia Evans)
- What Testers Can Do to Ensure Software Security (Ben Linders)
- What’s new in Argo CD 3.2? (Revital Barletz)
- Probabilistic Software Engineering, Demystified (Zvonimir Petkovic)
Mobile and Game Development
- Ultrahuman launches features 15% faster with Gemini in Android Studio (Amrit Sanjeev & Trevor Johns)
- Xbox Developer_Direct broadcast returns Jan. 22 (Athima Chansanchai)
- How to Add Comments to a Flutter App Without a Backend (Joris Obert)
Screencasts and Videos
- Why Everyone Is Obsessed with Claude Code (AIDailyBrief)
- Getting Started with Uno Platform & Cursor IDE – Complete Setup Guide | Uno Platform (Sam Basu)
- How to Build a Second Brain with NotebookLM: From Blank Page to Full Research Report (Frank La Vigne)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- A Geek Leader Episode #451 – Dawn Andrews (John Rouda)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #554 – The Alpha and The Omega (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – What Microsoft’s Recent M365 Bundling Moves Mean for You (Mary Jo Foley)
- Tools and Weapons Podcast – Special Edition: Key findings from the Microsoft AI Diffusion Report (Brad Smith)
- Why Teams Hate Agile (And How to Change That) | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Carmela Then)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Every ecommerce hero needs a Sidekick (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Xbox’s Developer Direct returns on January 22nd with Fable and Forza Horizon 6 gameplay (Tom Warren)
- Tailwind CSS Lays Off 75% of Engineering Team as AI Tools Disrupt Revenue Model (0xkniraj)
- My MVP Story: Yolanda Cuesta’s Journey from Accounting to Excel MVP (Kim Sanchez)
- Most dubious uses of AI at CES 2026 (Dominic Preston)
Database
- SQL Query Troubleshooting: Memory Issues and Timeouts (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
- Database in an “inconsistent state” and other errors (stukau)
- Parameter Sensitivity Training Part 2 (Erik Darling)
- Should There Be Ads in SSMS? (Brent Ozar)
- Postgres vs tproc-c on a small server (Mark Callaghan)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- What Is Heft for SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and Why It Matters (Liam Cleary)
- Microsoft Releases New Built‑In Tool to Simplify Slack to Microsoft Teams Migration (Rabia Noureen)
- Add links to text faster in Word (jye)
Tools
- The Best Alternatives to WinGet: Windows Package Managers Compared (Alex Marin)
- VLC 3.0.23 Release – Updates codecs, adds a dark mode option on Windows and Linux, support for Windows ARM64 and improves support for Windows XP SP3 (VideoLAN)
- MarkItDown Version 0.1.5b1 Release (afourney)
- Introducing vscwhere! (Calvin Allen)
General
- Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores? (Caroline Haskins)
- Lenovo has become what Surface was supposed to be about — a lineup of unique hardware that isn’t afraid to be different (Zac Bowden)
- Dell will still have Copilot+ PC branding for Microsoft’s sake, but it will focus on gaming, build-quality, not Windows 11 AI efforts (Mayank Parmar)
- Is this the world’s first solid-state battery? (Tim Stevens)
- Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them (Stevie Bonifield)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – January 8, 2026 (#696) (Richard Seroter)

