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The Code Brew's Weekly Newsletter - Week 18

Welcome back to The Code Brew! ☕ Happy New Year! We're starting 2026 with a bang: PostSharp 2026.0 is out (hello, .NET 10!), and Vercel just dropped a deep dive on how they built v0. In the frontend world, TkDodo teaches us about Type-Safe Compound Components. Plus, we have essential reads on software coupling, the rise of typed languages in AI, and the best coding tools for the year ahead. Dive in!

This Week’s Favourites

Building Type-Safe Compound Components - TkDodo Blog

The Urge to Build Something - Milan Jovanovic Blog

Coupling from a big-O perspective - Ploeh Blog

Dotnet, C#, Azure

December 2025 (version 1.108) - Visual Studio

PostSharp 2026.0 Generally Available: Support for .NET 10, C# 14 and Extension Blocks - PostSharp Blog

Secure and Intelligent: Queryable Encryption and Vector Search in MongoDB EF Core Provider - Microsoft Dotnet Blog

Critter Stack and JasperFx Retrospective for 2025 - Jeremy D. Miller Blog

.NET Toolbox - Steven Giesel blog

Recent updates to NetEscapades.EnumGenerators: new APIs and System.Memory support - Andrew Lock Blog

AI

Why AI is pushing developers toward typed languages - Github Blog

The 2026 Guide to AI Prototyping for Product Managers - Builder.io Blog

Best AI Coding Tools for Developers in 2026 - Builder.io Blog

How we made v0 an effective coding agent - Vercel blog

Vercel Agent code reviews now follow your code guidelines - Vercel blog

Devin vs Claude Code: How to choose in 2026 - Builder.io Blog

Generative AI with Large Language Models in C# in 2026 - Microsoft Dotnet Blog

Misc

Developer Update - January 2026 - Supabase GitHub Release

Bookmark domains on Vercel Domains - Vercel blog

v2.13.0 - NitroJS GitHub Release

Weekly Update 485 - Troy Hunt Blog

Future CSS: :drag (and Maybe ::dragged-image?) - CSS Tricks Blog

Secure Compute is now self-serve - Vercel blog

Introducing bash-tool for filesystem-based context retrieval - Vercel blog

A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela - Cloudflare blog

Context Is the Bottleneck in Software Development - Code Opinion

Distinguishing yourself early in your career as a developer - Phil Eaton Blog

A Year in Review - Shawn Wildermuth Blog

YouTube Videos

Build an MCP server with .NET 10 - Les Jackson Youtube

Azure PostgreSQL AI Capabilities - John Savill Youtube