Top Links
- Streamlining your Git workflow with Visual Studio 2026 (Mads Kristensen)
- .NET Rocks! – Package Management in 2026 with Gary Ewan Park (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Meet Microsoft Agent Framework — Your .NET Agent Toolkit (Luis Beltran)
- Aspire for AI Applications | AI Dev Days (David Fowler & Damian Edwards)
- Dartantic 2.0: The Nana Banana Edition (Chris Sells)
- Uno Platform Studio 2.0 – Deep Dive & $10k Contest for Attendees (Uno Platform Team)
Web and Cloud Development
- Capacity Planning with Azure Container Apps Workload Profiles (nesubram)
- Reusing Your Existing .NET REST APIs for AI with MCP (J. Tower)
- How to Create a GraphQL Server in Go with GqlGen (Elijah Asaolu)
- Create your MCP Server using Azure Functions (Jorge Levy)
- ASP.NET Core in .NET 10: Major Updates Across Blazor, APIs, and OpenAPI (Almir Vuk)
- Creating Scroll-Based Animations in Full view() (Preethi)
- Node.js v24.12.0 (LTS) (Michaël Zasso)
- What’s new in Microsoft Entra – November 2025 (Shobhit Sahay)
- Serverpod 3, “Industrial”–Robust authentication and a new web server (Serverpod Team)
- Creating a toggle switch with just CSS (Chris Ferdinandi)
- Why Defining MIME Types for PDF/A Attachments Is Essential (Bjoern Meyer)
- Major Architectural Update: Introducing the New Search Everywhere API (Built for Remote Development) (Aydar Mukhametzyanov)
Windows Development
- How does Windows synthesize the CF_LOCALE clipboard format? (Raymond Chen)
.NET and Visual Studio
- C# 14 New Feature: Implicit Span Conversions (Ian Griffiths)
- ClickOnce Deployment Template for .NET 10 (Kevin Logan)
- How to Create and Retrieve Secrets from Azure Key Vault using .NET Client Library? (Pankajkumar Patel)
- I like my F# code type annotation-free (Urs Enzler)
- Adding Goal Seek to Quipu (and helping Santa with it!) (Mathias Brandewinder)
- Write Cleaner Code with C# 14’s Null-Conditional Assignment Operator (Dave Brock)
AI
- Claude-Mem: A plugin that captures everything Claude does during your coding sessions, compresses it, and injects relevant context back into future sessions (Alex Newman)
- Adobe launches Photoshop, Express and Acrobat inside ChatGPT — for free (Wayne Williams)
- AI Predictions for 2026: A DevOps Engineer’s Guide (Engin Diri)
- When AI Works ⭐ (Paul Thurrott)
- Strengthening cyber resilience as AI capabilities advance (OpenAI Team)
- These developers are changing lives with Gemma 3n (Kristen Quan)
- Bring your app ideas to life with Gemini 3 in Stitch. (Rustin Banks)
- AWS built an integrated AI Agent training pipeline and they want you to rent it (Adam Gordon Bell)
- A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official (Emma Roth)
- Figma adds more Photoshop-like AI tools for image editing (Jess Weatherbed)
- Promptions helps make AI prompting more precise with dynamic UI controls (Sean Rintel, Advait Sarkar, Jack Williams, Nicholas Wilson, Richard Banks, Neeltje Berger, Philipp Steinacher, Payod Panda & Ian Drosos)
- Five Ways to Implement the Great Copilot Journey (Kristin Ginn)
- What Is ‘AI Native’ and Why Is MCP Key? (Randy Bias)
- Architecting Intelligence: A Complete LLM-Powered Pipeline for Unstructured Document Analytics (Jas Tandon)
- Build AI Agents with Langbase (Beau Carnes)
- How to Reduce Latency in Your Generative AI Apps with Gemini and Cloud Run (Amina Lawal)
- Capella AI Services: Build Enterprise-Grade Agents (Tim Rottach)
- Enterprise AI: The Ecosystem Behind Couchbase AI Services (Yves Laurent)
- Contribute to the Open Source Vonage MCP Tooling Server (Benjamin Aronov)
- From Awesome Copilot to Plan Agent: GitHub’s Built-in Planning Revolution (AJ Bajada)
- OpenAI Image Generation (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Agentic Coding Recommendations (Armin Ronacher)
- OpenAI report reveals a 6x productivity gap between AI power users and everyone else (Michael Nuñez)
- AI-assisted coding for teams that can’t get away with vibes (Atharva Raykar)
Python
- How to Work with YAML in Python – A Guide with Examples (Bala Priya C.)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Simple Network Communications in Docker Without Compose (Bryan Hogan)
- The End of Debugging (Tim O’Brien)
- IaC Testing for DevOps: Types, Tools & Examples (Ioannis Moustakis)
- Introducing the TeamCity Operator for Kubernetes (Dmitrii Korovin)
- Tell us what you really, really… do not want to spend time working on (Erin Yepis)
- Clarity in complexity: New insights for transparent email security (Scott Woodgate & Ramya Chitrakar)
- From awareness to action: Building a security-first culture for the agentic AI era (Mark Miller)
- Avoiding the ‘Being Glue’ Trap: Recognizing and Rebalancing Non-Promotable Work (David Ramel)
- The Rise of the Cognitive Architect (Frederic Lardinois)
- Stop trying to be a hero: How delegation makes you a better PM (Kimberly Shyu)
Mobile and Game Development
- How to Add and Remove Digital Signatures in PDF Using .NET MAUI (Rangarajan Ashokan)
- Microsoft is making Android apps streaming on Windows 11 more native with expanded mode (Abhishek Mishra)
- Lead Essentials: Main Composition Module finished (White Belt 4th stripe) (Marco Siccardi)
- Build a Modern HR Recruitment Dashboard Using .NET MAUI Toolkit Charts (Naveen Kesavaraj)
- Three flutter widgets you may have never used before (Exxeta Mobile Team)
- Windows PC Gaming in 2025: Handheld Innovation, Arm Progress and DirectX Advances (Danielle Partis)
- Raspberry Pi: How to add your own images to Imager (Paul Oberosler)
Screencasts and Videos
- Anthropic Donates MCP to New Agentic AI Foundation and 10 AI Projects to Learn Gemini 3, Nano Banana and Opus 4.5 (AIDailyBrief)
- Deploy and configure an Azure Application Gateway for load balancing and website protection | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
- Build a Pizza Ordering Agent with Microsoft Foundry and MCP | AI Dev Days (Gustavo Cordido)
- 2 code a Roslyn Source Generator – C# Advent Calendar 2025 (Eva & Stefan)
- Supercharge your apps w/ OpenAI: Secure auth, Azure integration and MCP agents | AI Dev Days (Scott Addie & Arun Sekar)
- Welcome and Top of Mind | AI Dev Days (Jay Parikh & James Montemagno)
- The Road to Visual Studio 2026: Building a Faster, Smarter IDE | Live! 360 Orlando 2025 Keynote (Mads Kristensen & Nik Karpinsky)
- Enter the Chaos Monkey | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Let’s build an advent calendar with Warp agents (Warp Team)
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Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The ‘sheeple’ incident, with Stefan Fatsis (Mignon Fogarty)
- Developer Tea Podcast – Problem Definition As A Path for Career Growth (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Beyond the Hype: Will sustainable AI ever be a reality? (Oliver Cronk)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #333 – The Cloud Pod Goes Nano Banana (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- The Real State of Tech Hiring: AI, Ghosting, and the Developer Drought – JavaScript Jabber Episode #698 (Charles Max Wood)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #670 – Autonomous drone delivery in a Zip (Keenan Wyrobek, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Is Cloud Computing Becoming a Commodity? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #340 – The AI engineer skills gap (Ramin Mohammadi, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Testing as Measurement—Why Bug-Hunting Misses the Point | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte, Tom Gilb & Simon Holzapfel)
- AI & I Podcast – She Turned Her Whole Life Into Training Data—For an AI Baby (Rhea Purohit)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #962 – The Home Server / Synology Show (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Community and Events
- Laid off from my dream job, what now? (Debbie O’Brien)
- OWASP Top Ten: 20 years of Application Security (Jim Burger)
- Evolving SQL Saturday (Steve Jones)
- Don’t miss Building Agents with Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Foundry Agent Service (Jill Armour)
- Imagine Cup x GitHub x Replit: The Power Combo Helping Student Founders Build What Matters (MS Student Developer Team)
Database
- A Complete Native PostgreSQL Setup on macOS: Homebrew and Launchd and A Clean, No-Nonsense Way to Install PostgreSQL on macOS: Postgres.app and A Clean, Production-Parity Way to Run PostgreSQL on macOS: Docker (Adron Hall)
- Azure Cosmos DB : Becoming a Search-Native Database (Hari Sudan S & Samer Boshra)
- How Many Plan Variants Can You Get With The Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization In SQL Server? (Erik Darling)
- Update: SQL Server 2025’s REGEX Performance Isn’t So Bad! (Brent Ozar)
- Building dbRosetta Part 5: We Need an API (Grant Fritchey)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- General Availability of SharePoint Framework 1.22 – A Major Refresh of the Build & Tooling Experience (Vesa Juvonen)
- Fix Oversharing in SharePoint and OneDrive Before Copilot Deployment (Liam Cleary)
- How Microsoft Agent 365 works (Zachary Cavanell)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Pick up exactly where you left off with Session Management in Gemini CLI (Christopher Beeson & Jack Wotherspoon)
Writing
- In 2026, AI will outwrite humans (Davey Alba)
Tools
- WSL v2.7.0 Release (Ben Hillis)
General
- How to Implement OTP Authentication in Rust with Twilio (Popoola Temitope)
- Trump could introduce ‘mandatory’ social media reviews for travelers (Emma Roth)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – December 10, 2025 (#682) (Richard Seroter)
