6 November 2024

27 links · Wednesday

SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

.NET MAUI in 9 and Syncfusion Toolkit for MAUI

We are ready for .NET 9 GA, are you? Come get a sneak peek of what you can expect, including the new open-source Syncfusion Toolkit for .NET MAUI. Community Links: https://www.theurlist.com/maui-standup-nov2024 Featuring: David Ortinau (@davidortinau), R…

We can have a different web

Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

Getting Started in Tech Part 2

In this edition of #tech on ice, we continue the "Getting started in tech" series where we discuss how you should think about choosing your first programming language to learn. Fun discussion! #technology #programming #developer #coldplunge

Intro To Yield In C# - Beginner Examples In Action

The yield keyword is a spicy one in C#. That's because when we use it within a method that returns IEnumerable, we get this fancy thing called an "iterator". Yeah. It's fancy as heck. But it can also be really confusing to understand, which is exactly why I…

Full of Themselves: An analysis of title drops in movies

A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they're in. Here's a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens.

Tracker Beeper - Bert Hubert's writings

A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google? From studying logs, I’d long known just how many sites send all your visits and clicks t…

Freelance Web Developer: Charge by Time, not Value

Freelance Developers have to rate their services by time or by value. Here I, as a freelance React developer, want to argue in favor of charging by time ...

Why you should care about WebViews

As you might know, I’m currently working with the W3C WebView Community Group on the website caniwebview.com, and I’d like to give you a little backstory on what it is and what else we are doing. What is a WebView and Why Should You Care? If you’ve ever used a…