Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - January 5

Published on Wednesday, January 7, 2026

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Open-source

GitHub - permissionlesstech/bitchat: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes by permissionlesstech

GitHub - aleixrodriala/wa-tunnel: Tunneling Internet traffic over Whatsapp by aleixrodriala

This year's most influential open source projects by Lee Reilly

.NET

Critter Stack and JasperFx Retrospective for 2025 by Jeremy D. Miller

How to Build a High-Performance Cache Without External Libraries by Milan Jovanović

ASP .NET Core IDisplayMetadataProvider by Karen Payne

Generating SBOMs in NuGet packages with Microsoft.Sbom.Targets by Barry Dorrans

Creating provenance attestations for NuGet packages in GitHub Actions by Andrew Lock

GitHub - CodingWithCalvin/VS-ProjectRenamifier: A Visual Studio extension that allows you to safely - and COMPLETELY - rename a Project from within Visual Studio! by CodingWithCalvin

Getting Started with the Aspire CLI - A Complete Guide by Chris Ayers

Enterprise Patterns for ASP.NET Core Minimal API: Identity Map Pattern by Chris Woodruff

Top .NET Videos & Live Streams of 2025 by Jon Galloway

Welcome to 2026, A Growth Year for All of Us by Jim Harrer

Azure

Azure Cosmos DB vNext Emulator: Query and Observability Enhancements by Abhishek Gupta

Work item linking for Advanced Security alerts now available by Laura Jiang

Software Development

Context Is the Bottleneck in Software Development by Derek Comartin

CSS for markdown blockquote attribution by Cassidy Williams

There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes by Safia Abdalla

Coupling from a big-O perspective by Mark Seemann

Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant memory, refinement by Raymond Chen

Reduce GitHub Actions runner CPU usage by Gérald Barré

Zero PII Customer Intelligence - Part 1: The Philosophy by Scott Galloway

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