The next big thing since sourdough bread is here, and it’s called GitHub Codespaces. With Codespaces, you can go from looking at a bug to contributing to the repo in a matter of minutes. Or how about onboarding a new colleague? Hours looking at installers to get the right workloads? No more! With Codespaces, you can get to a successful build before your first coffee is done. Learn all about it in this episode.

All episodes of Null Pointers are great, and this episode is no exception. In this episode, exceptions are what it’s all about. Why should you care? How does exception handling even work internally? Should you care about handling exceptions? All good questions which are answered with a fair amount of dad jokes that get some pity laughs.

In this episode, we talk about the Xamarin Community Toolkit. You will get a scoop of the origins and how it came about. What the intentions are behind it and how it differs compared to the other well known Xamarin Essentials library. Be sure to tune in and have all the knowledge ready should the Xamarin Community Toolkit become the discussion topic of your next (remote) party.

Dark Mode seems to be a trend that is getting more and more momentum. It has taken over designs on the interwebs, desktop computers, tablets and even the beloved phone in your pocket. But what is it all about? Save the planet due to reduced power usage? A design fad? Well, join us in this weeks episode where we discuss our thoughts on Dark Mode and go off on some history tangents of the good old days. Or were they that good? Whatever your take is, we hope you enjoy this dark episode!

If you own a mobile phone, the chances are that there is data stored on it somewhere. Few apps are around these days that don’t store data in some form. But how is that done? What caveats are there to it, and what about caching or syncing data back to a backend? All of that and more on this episode!

Episode number twelve and we are putting on our architecture outfits to discuss the Model View ViewModel, or MVVM for short, pattern. We discuss the advantages, libraries, touch on some good old Inversion of Control. And to make sure you stay until the end - Gerald was so kind to provide us with an Easter egg.