Top Links
- Use Agent Skills in VS Code (Visual Studio Code Docs) – Plus two skills collections
- Introducing Agent Skills in VS Code (James Montemagno)
- Generate an Open Graph Profile Image with C# (Joseph Guadagno)
- AI-coding trick: ask it how it knows (Jessica Kerr)
- Enterprise Patterns for ASP.NET Core: Front Controller and MVC Pattern (Chris Woodruff)
- AI Won’t Kill Open Source – It Will Amplify It (Aaron Stannard)
Web and Cloud Development
- Implementing Level of Authentication (LoA) with ASP.NET Core Identity and Duende (Damien Bowden)
- File logging in ASP.NET Core made easy with Serilog (David Grace)
- Mastering React DevTools: A Comprehensive Guide to Efficient Debugging (Beleke Ian)
- HL7 V2 to FHIR (Keith W. Boone)
- Postman Adds Open Source Documentation and SDK Products (Loraine Lawson)
- How to Build an In-Memory Rate Limiter in Next.js (Orim Dominic Adah)
- Interpolate contrast-color() to manipulate lightness and Focus rings with nested contrast-color()? (Dave Rupert)
- Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time (Simon Willison)
- Understanding React’s useEffectEvent: A Complete Guide to Solving Stale Closures (Peter Kellner)
- Why Fillable PDF Forms in JavaScript Break and How to Fix Them (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
- ESLint v10.0.0-rc.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
- Widely Available Web Platform Features I’d Like To Learn (Ben Nadel)
- Simplifying JavaScript Prototypes in Constructor Invocation with Simple Words and Diagrams (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Conditional TypeScript Generics in React Components (Sergey Egorov)
- Ember 6.9 Released (Jared Galanis, Katie Gengler & Bert De Block)
Windows Development
- C/C++ Mocking Framework Architecture: Typemock Isolator++ (Part 3) (Eli Lopian)
- XAML Studio Open Sourced (Kay Ewbank)
- Using Active Accessibility to find out where the focus item is (Raymond Chen)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Collection Expression Arguments in C# 15+ (Steven Giesel)
- Remote MCP Servers using .NET (Gora LEYE)
- .NET 10: Automatic support of TLS 1.3 on MacOS (Anthony Giretti)
- File I/O Performance: Picking the Fastest Weapon in Your Arsenal (David McCarter)
- Explaining Contract Tracked Changes Automatically Using .NET C# and AI (Bjoern Meyer)
- .NET 10: Streaming over WebSockets with the New WebSocket Stream API (Anthony Giretti)
- State of .NET 2026 (Dev Newsletter)
AI
- AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse – Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes | IEEE Spectrum (Jamie Twiss)
- 2 Claude Code GUI Tools That Finally Give It an IDE-Like Experience (Moses Smith)
- AI Faceoff: Customized VS Code Commands and Hands On with New Experimental GitHub Copilot ‘Agent Skills’ in VS Code (David Ramel)
- Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype (Simon Willison)
- AI Fails at Most Remote Work, Researchers Find (EditorDavid)
- Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype (antirez)
- 31 Days of Vibe Coding – Day 10: Agent Configuration – Set Your Standards Once and Day 11: Teaching AI Your Patterns With Examples and Day 12: The Common AI Mistakes File (Jeff Blankenburg)
- The Complete Guide to Building Agents with the Claude Agent SDK (Nader Dabit)
- When To Use GenAI: A Practical Decision Framework (Venkata Karumuri)
- Features for no one (AI edition) (pcloadletter)
- Inside the Development Workflow of Claude Code’s Creator (Sergio De Simone)
- Beyond Python: Why LLMs Need More Stable, Open Source Code (David Eastman)
- HOWTO: Get started with the “Frontier” Copilot Early Access program (Kurt Shintaku)
- AI Models Are Starting To Learn By Asking Themselves Questions and Google: Don’t Make ‘Bite-Sized’ Content For LLMs If You Care About Search Rank (BeauHD)
- How to Run an LLM Locally to Interact with Your Documents (Zoe Isabel Senón)
- Research Kit – Deep Research Toolkit for AI Agents (Duoc Nguyen)
- Bitcent: The 10⁻¹⁰ Dollar Unit for AI Pricing (Daniel Cazzulino)
- How to use Agent in Settings on Windows 11 (Mahima N.)
- AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that’s masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests (Nick Lichtenberg)
- Bill Gates says there’s ‘no upper limit’ on AI, citing opportunity and risk (Todd Bishop)
- The One Mistake That Weakens Every AI-Generated App (Oluwadamilola Oshungboye)
- Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11’s File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app (Mayank Parmar)
- Deploying Agentic AI Solutions with Infrastructure as Code (Ioannis Moustakis)
- AI starts autonomously writing prescription refills in Utah (Beth Mole)
Python
- Python: What’s Coming in 2026 (David Cassel)
- Python Shorts 18: Getting an exception description in MicroPython (Rob Miles)
- How to Switch to ty from Mypy (Mike Driscoll)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Two regimes of Git (Mark Seemann)
- Solving Message Ordering from First Principles (Milan Jovanović)
- Keeping track of the latest versions of various GitHub Actions and A Software Library with No Code (Simon Willison)
- New efficiency upgrades in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 (Dan Bettinger & Luiz Bernardo Levenhagen)
- Kubernetes v1.35: Restricting executables invoked by kubeconfigs via exec plugin allowList added to kuberc (Peter Engelbert & Ben Petersen)
- Strengthening GitLab.com security: Mandatory multi-factor authentication (Kim Waters)
- Rethinking Application Infrastructure in the Agentic Era (Bnaya Eshet)
- Developers are Solving The Wrong Problem (Keith Casey)
- Security Is a Developer Experience Problem, Rooted in Our Foundations (Aditya Tripathi)
Mobile and Game Development
- Roadmaps for Game Dev SUCCESS in 2026! (Beginner, Intermediate, Marketing) (Code Monkey)
- Exploring Custom Text Rendering with Jetpack Compose (Segun Famisa)
- Flutter Beginner Tutorial 2026: Build Your First App (Setup + Modern Best Practices) (Samuel Adekunle)
- This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser. (Kamila Szewczyk)
Screencasts and Videos
- AI At the Edge with Raspberry Pi (Frank La Vigne)
- Technology & Friends – Dan Rey on Windows Recall (David Giard)
- Claude Code 2.1 NEW Update IS HUGE! Sub Agents /skills, Claude Canvas, LSPs, & MORE! (World of AI)
- Steve Yegge’s Vibe Coding Manifesto: Why Claude Code Isn’t It & What Comes After the IDE (Latent Space)
- Orchestrating Multiple Agents in VS Code (Ben & Peng)
- Random.Code() – Adding an Analyzer to CslaGeneratorSerialization (Jason Bock)
- Video: One-Shotting an App with Claude Code – Jan 2026 (Andy Leonard)
- How People Are Using AI for Health (AI Daily Brief)
- Open Source Friday Special – Vision Board 2026 and Mike McQuaid on 16 years of maintaining Homebrew | Episode 5 | The GitHub Podcast (GitHub Team)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 295 – Robotic Chihuahuas (The CES 2026 Episode) and IoT Coffee Talk Special Episode: Edge AI Foundation Dinner 2026 (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Carola Lilienthal and Henning Schwentner: Domain-Driven Transformation – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #384 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Fragmented, A Dev Podcast #300 – From Vibe coding to Software engineering (Iury Souza & Kaushik Gopal)
- Merge Conflict #497 – Turning Machine Code into C with AI (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Lenny’s Podcast – What OpenAI and Google engineers learned deploying 50+ AI products in production (Lenny Rachitsky)
- GeekWire Podcast: Alexa’s next act, Microsoft’s retail play, Google’s AI Inbox, and a smart bird feeder fail (Todd Bishop)
- Batteries Included Podcast #125 – Donut Labs Could Kill Combustion With The Solid-State Battery in This Bike (Batteries Included Team)
- BONUS Saving Democracy—How AI Is Transforming the Battlefield for Our Minds | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Anthony Vinci)
- PPP 490 | Why Psychology Might Be Hurting Your Team, with Barry Wolfe (Andy Kaufman)
- AI Unprompted Podcast #012 – Navigating the AI Wave: Kicking Off 2026 (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #342 – 2025 was the year of agents, what’s coming in 2026? (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Hard Fork Podcast – Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #279 – Coding Python With Confidence: Beginners Live Course Participants (Christopher Bailey, Stephen Gruppetta, Louis A. & Andrew T.)
- Why the Best Product Owners Let Go of What They’re Best At | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Carmela Then)
Community and Events
- Gentoo Linux Plans Migration from GitHub Over ‘Attempts to Force Copilot Usage for Our Repositories’ and Ubisoft Closes Game Studio Where Workers Voted to Unionize Two Weeks Ago (EditorDavid)
- Microsoft’s big lease renewal in Redmond helps buoy Eastside office market near Seattle (Taylor Soper)
- Tech Moves: AWS VP switches roles; Seattle’s new economic development head; Microsoft Teams exec departs (Lisa Stiffler)
- Upcoming Agentic Azure Logic Apps Workshops (Kent Weare)
- GameStop is kicking off 2026 by shutting down over 400 stores in 42 states (Terrence O’Brien)
- Craigslist at 30: No Algorithms, No Ads, No Problem (msmash)
- Call For Papers Listings for 1/9 (Leon Adato)
- CES Worst In Show Awards Call Out the Tech Making Things Worse (BeauHD)
- Light waves, rising tides, and drifting ships: Game Off 2025 winners (Lee Reilly)
- Wrapping Up My Latest Microsoft Chapter and Hello, Anthropic (Den Delimarsky)
Database
- Using REGEXP_LIKE in SQL Server 2025 (Jared Westover)
- Fixing the Site’s Search: PostgreSQL Full-Text Search (and Where It Breaks) (Scott Galloway)
- Parameter Sensitivity Training Part 3 (Erik Darling)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- The Big Debate: Azure Files vs. SharePoint (Shannon Kuehn)
- Microsoft denies killing Office brand in favour of Microsoft 365 Copilot, says it renamed Office Hub to MS 365, later to MS 365 Copilot (Mayank Parmar)
- Microsoft OneDrive, a year in review: AI-powered file management and smarter collaboration (Alyse Maguire)
- Send To Kindle from Microsoft Word is Discontinued (msmash)
PowerShell and Terminal
- How to Build a Local-First CLI Financial Tracker with Rust [Full Handbook] (Stephen Emmanuel)
- How to edit text files directly from Command Prompt and PowerShell on Windows 11 — using Microsoft Edit just like Linux’s Nano (Mauro Huculak)
- You probably don’t need Oh My Zsh (Artem Gobulin)
Writing
- Writing Competitions To Inspire You (Amanda)
- Writing vs AI – If you wouldn’t ask an AI to eat a delicious pizza for you, why would you ask it to write a college essay? (Cory Doctorow)
Tools
- 6 fast (native) alternatives for VSCode (Shalitha Suranga)
- Microsoft Windows Media Player Stops Serving Up CD Album Info (msmash)
- LEGO Text Effect | Font Generator (Text Studio)
- Connect additional browsers to the 1Password app (1Password Support)
- Free Dockhand Tool Simplifies Docker Container Management (Jack Wallen)
General
- Microsoft May Soon Allow IT Admins To Uninstall Copilot (BeauHD)
- Cory Doctorow: Legalising Reverse Engineering Could End ‘Enshittification’ (EditorDavid)
- Microsoft confirms it’s killing offline phone-based activation method for Windows 11 after 20+ years (Mayank Parmar)
- Finding and Fixing Ghostty’s Largest Memory Leak (Mitchell Hashimoto)
- Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards (Elizabeth Lopatto)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7535 (Dev & Beta Channels) (Windows Insider Program Team)
- The first sets with Lego’s new Smart Brick are now available for preorder (Andrew Liszewski)
- Microchipped at work? Washington state bill aims to ban employers from using ‘dehumanizing’ tech (Kurt Schlosser)
More Link Collections
- Azure Weekly #546 – 11th January 2026 (The Editor)
- F# Weekly #2, 2026 – Mibo and WREN Stack (Sergey Tihon)
- Links For You (1/10/26) (Raymond Camden)
- Android Weekly Issue #709 (Gyuri Grell, Sebastian Deutsch & Martin Cremerius-Gauer)
- Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 4, 2026 (GeekWire Team)
- iOS Dev Weekly Issue #738 (Dave Verwer)
- Daily Reading List – January 9, 2026 (#697) (Richard Seroter)
- Reading List 352 (Bruce Lawson)
- Signals for 2026 (Julie Baron)
- The Index #154 (Piccalilli)
