Mark & Steven

Null Pointers

Null Pointers is your opinionated podcast on development, tech and every day struggles. After bumping into each other a few times at conferences and in the virtual world Mark and Steven decided to start a podcast. Being developers themselves means they cover development topics most of the time. Still, they don’t shy away from moving outside of their little comfort zone.

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Mark & Steven

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Technology

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nullpointers.io

Latest episode

Apr 30, 2025

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Episodes

95: VS Code, Co Pilots and stuffs, but with agents 30.04.2025

Writing Code in Agent mode? Nothing secret but definitely something you should check out if you haven't or just let us tell you about our experiences. How well does AI support our mobile endavours? Tune in and find out.

94: Navigation, but without GPS 05.03.2025

So, what is this about? Well, navigation within your apps! All things related to switching pages in your app, passing along data, MVVM frameworks and all the hot takes around that.

93: Exploring the mobile crosswinds 12.02.2025

After reminiscing about the downtime spent over the holidays. Mark and Steven explore the new Plugin. Maui. Crosswind library from Steven. Heavily inspired by the Crosswind for web this awesome library by Steven allows you to get started with your new app ideas. But in style.

92: A bit of this and a byte of that 11.12.2024

We talk about things ranging from old school Nintendo music to Mark, as per usual, wanting to nuke his machine by installing updates way too soon.

91: .NET Conf 2024 20.11.2024

.NET Conf 2024 just happened and so many cool new things got announced and released. We take a look at .NET Conf and discuss some of our personal highlights.

89: Offline Life 30.10.2024

Consistent as always, we definitely didn't skip out on an episode somewhere along the way. This episode fills in the blanks about various mobile offline data scenarios and what can be done to combat them.

90: Mobile Development Options 09.10.2024

Is the number of options you have when starting a mobile project overwhelming, or is it actually a good thing? In this episode, Steven and Mark discuss their thoughts and experiences on what to consider when beginning a new project, and whether it's worth investing all your time to learn every framework and option available for building mobile apps. After all, we need to be prepared, right?

88: Releasing to production 04.09.2024

Recorded before the summer break, released after the summer break. Steven and Mark discuss how releases can go horribly wrong. What are things to consider and general strategies. Also what can go wrong if you give a coupon to everyone in good faith and it still goes horribly wrong. Tune in for this opinionated pod on releases with a mobile focussed spin.

87: A bit of UI on the side 24.07.2024

Some holidays were had. Steven gets some UI-related questions from Mark. And who knows, maybe by the end of it he can convince him to do more with UI!

86: .NET Aspire 12.06.2024

.NET Aspire has been in preview for a while, but now that it is GA it is time to have a closer look - and talk. We discuss why you should care, what are some of the key components and it's extensibility.

85: Farewell Xamarin Forms, Legacy Systems and can you remember 15.05.2024

Between episodes it has happened. Xamarin. Forms have been archived on GitHub. Of course we had to take a quick moment to reminice. Then talk about migrations, and working with legacy systems that just keep on being used.

84: MVP Summit, WFH, Eclipse 24.04.2024

Looking at eclipses straight on, or with an Apple Vision Pro and Mark spills all the beans on the MVP Summit.

83: .NET MAUI: Rainbows, AppCenter and DevOps 10.04.2024

Steven updated Debug Rainbows to be used under .NET MAUI. We say farewell to AppCenter and look at what you can do when moving forward in replacing the different services.

82: AI All The Things 20.03.2024

What special thing does Mark use ChatGPT for? The answer might amaze you! The truth is, AI is everywhere these days. But is it a good or bad thing?

81: Macs and IDEs 06.03.2024

It has been a while. So there is a lot to talk about, in this episode we dive into new and old development machines. What is the state on the Mac as a .NET developer when it comes to IDEs and what will Steven be using once Visual Studio for Mac will be out of service.

80: Anything and everything 23.02.2022

War of the keyboards?! .NET turned 20?! A new movie coming out?! This episode is packed with things to talk about!

79: Visiting Blazor with Daniel Hindrikes 09.02.2022

This week we are joined by our good friend Daniel Hindrikes. Daniel shares his experiences writing Blazor apps. We talk about Web Assembly vs Server hosting, integration into .NET MAUI apps, bindings in Blazor and using Razor Pages to write your UI. Does Daniel miss XAML? Tune in and find out.

78: Winter Musings 26.01.2022

Today we cover a lot of different things going on in our lives and the tech world. What kind of gadget did Mark get from his wife for Christmas? Find out!

77: Creating Games with Xamarin Forms 12.01.2022

In this weeks episode we talk about making stunning mobile apps. Shaun tells us how he created Super Wordsearch with the help of tools like Skia Sharp and Lottie while using Xamarin Forms.

76: Coded UI & Comet 08.12.2021

Coded UI in Xamarin. Forms is not as popular as using XAML, but if you ask our guest Brandon Minnick we're all crazy for liking XAML so much. Join us in learning why!

75: .NET Conf Updates 24.11.2021

So .NET Conf happened a few days ago. Steven visited a conference in person. So perfect time to look at all the new shiny stuff that just was released.

74: Awesome UI Components 10.11.2021

Today we talk about all the different things that go into making a UI that's component-based instead of just mashing it all together willy nilly. Future you will thank us!

73: So many new things 27.10.2021

It is this time of year again, so much new tech is released. Not only devices, but also software. So tune in to find out our thoughts on MAUI .NETs latest release, the Microsoft device updates and the new Apple hardware that has just been dropped.

72: XamExpertDay And Sad News :( 13.10.2021

Last week we had an awesome conference about all things Xamarin and MAUI, let's talk about it! Also, stick around until the end because there will be some sad news. Number 5 will shock you!

71: Virtual Development Environments 22.09.2021

Virtual Machines are nothing new. They have been around for many years. Maybe you have even used some in the past as a development environment. But these days, virtual dev environments are making a significant comeback. Powered with Docker and using Visual Studio Code in the Frontend, the cloud is the limit. Is it time to make the switch?

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