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Thomas Bandt
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Thomas Bandt's personal blog at thomasbandt.com covers programming. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “The Day Windows Died”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- The Day Windows Died3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-02
- Who cares about functional programming?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-23
- My Five Years Without Pants2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-25
- Is Node.js better than ASP.NET?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-16
- Xamarin.iOS Memory Pitfalls2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-13
What Hacker News says?
"This same dev did things like putting what he deemed as being large objects (icons) into weak references to save memory. When the references were collected, invariably they had to be reloaded." Well actually, this is what the Apple[1] docs instruct devs to do. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co... For .NET on iOS, the difference between managed and unmanaged objects is of particular concer…
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on “Jemalloc un-abandoned by Meta”Submitted Technology Choices for My SaaS in Retrospect as a story · 165 points
HN discussionA more recent view: "Who Cares About Functional Programming?" https://thomasbandt.com/who-cares-about-functional-programmi...
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on “Why no one uses functional languages (1998) [pdf]”Submitted The Problem with F# Evangelism as a story · 131 points
HN discussionHaving started in modern frontend js, and now doing mostly .Net 6 API dev with a Xamarin client, I don't quite understand the obsession with MVVM. MVU seems clearer and more intuitive by far, but that could just be my web background talking. Edit: to give an example of what I'm talking about, see this article's visualization of the unidirectional data flow you get with MVU. This feature in particular makes MVU much…
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on “Ask HN: What are modern architecture patterns for desktop applications?”Submitted Moving from Node.js to ASP.NET Core as a story · 98 points
HN discussionYou say that Windows is a Kraken, but it's been on a downward slide in my mind. I don't think Nadella gets enough flak for what is happening to Windows and Microsoft's attitude towards respecting users / privacy in general. Some examples that I've seen posted to HN over the past few months * Microsoft Edge leaks browser history to Bing - https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23697532/microsoft-edge-b... * More ads in W…
Comment linking /the-day-windows-died
on “Is Satya Nadella the best tech CEO of last decade?”Submitted Startup Lesson Learned: Technology Doesn’t Matter as a story · 81 points
HN discussionThis is mostly blogspam for this: https://thomasbandt.com/the-day-windows-died Which has already been posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35415758
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on “The Windows 11 Trash Party”Submitted Who cares about functional programming? as a story · 66 points
HN discussionSubmitted When 4K Isn't Enough Anymore as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Type-Safe Single Page Apps: Is F# Ready for Prime Time? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Functional Programming? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The IDE might die – taking my favorite programming language with it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Day Windows Died as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pragmatic MVU with React and TypeScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does the Elm Architecture Scale? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learn How to Learn as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three ways to write mobile apps with Xamarin in F# as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Lesson Learned: The Minimum Lovable Product Is King as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to replace Docker Hub with a simple self-hosted solution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Overview of Quantum Computing's Possible Impact on Cryptography as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Five Years Without Pants as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The importance of understanding and speaking the language of your customers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an F# Redux Store for C# Xamarin Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automate All the Things: Distributing Xamarin iOS Apps Without Pain as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Node.js better than ASP.NET? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TDD Is a Tool, Not a Religion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Lesson Learned: Think About Your Shares as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working remotely as a story · 1 points
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