Matt Goldman

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A screenshot from the movie The Green Mile with the caption "I am tired boss", a well-known quote from the movie. Overlaid on the character John Coffey's face is the JavaScript logo. The image also has the Beer Driven Devs logo as a watermark, and the episode number (63) and title ("It's time to let JavaScript go).

#BeerDrivenDevs EP63: It’s Time to Let #JavaScript Go

Not a hot take. We follow the thread from #SupplyChainAttacks through culture, incentives, and governance to the uncomfortable truth.

JavaScript isn’t going away. But for us, the conclusion isn’t ambiguous anymore.

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Excited!

Real apps demand real opinions.

At MAUI Day, @mattgoldman.bsky.social explores why unopinionated MVVM often leads to fragile state, inconsistent UIs, and long-term pain — and how deliberate constraints help teams move faster with fewer mistakes.

🗓️ Feb 6th 2026 · Central London
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Screenshot of an email from Google with the subject "You're now using Gemini on your iOS device". The content of the email is onboarding/marketing spiel for Google Gemini.

Uh, I'm using #Google #Gemini on iOS? Interesting, that's not something I ever installed...

Yay! @steampowered.com Frame announcement! Now to wait until its obsolete before they release it in Australia!!

Anyway, I'm seriously hoping it’s not just me and that there’s broader demand for a higher-end module, because I’d love to get into the Framework ecosystem. Love that you can pull the GPU module out and go full ultrabook when you don’t need it. For now though, I can’t quite make the leap.

8 GB on the 5070 feels like a ceiling I’ll hit too quickly, especially in #VR. And to be fair, the HX370’s iGPU is fricken rad, probably the best we’ve ever seen in a CPU, especially at that TPD. The 5070 is a step up, maybe enough for some people, but for me it feels like too little.

Been circling the @frame.work 16 launch for a couple of weeks now, built up a cart several times and was 1 click from ordering. Only thing holding me back was the GPU module. As a VR enthusiast, I need more VRAM. If there was a 16 GB+ option, I’d have ordered one already.

⏳ Building an Animated Countdown Control in .NET MAUI A radial timer with smooth animations, adaptive layout, and customizable styles

For #MAUIUIJuly day 16, Thomas Sebastian Jensen has put together an awesome animated countdown timer in #dotnetmaui! Check it out: medium.com/@tsjdevapps/...

Reusable Views in .NET MAUI This blog is part of the .NET MAUI UI July 2025 series with a new post every day of the month. See...

For #MAUIUIJuly day 16, Nick Alonge has shared a post on how to create reusable view in #dotnetmaui. Componentisation is a core part of any modern #UI framework, check out the link below to see how it's done!

dev.to/nick_alonge/...

It's #MAUIUIJuly day 14! Almost halfway, and today we have a great post from John Bijsterbosch on creating #dotnetmaui components with SkiaSharp.

blog.johndotnet.nl/creating-you...

New post for #MAUIUIJuly!

I took download progress from “boring modal” to “overflowing beer foam” in the #BeerDrivenDevs app.

Silly? Absolutely.
Necessary? Not really.
Fun? 100%.

Check it out, and tell me: would you ship this in your app? 🍻

👉https://goforgoldman.com/posts/bdd-app-downloads/

Sensor-based Parallax in .NET MAUI using the Gyroscope #MAUIUIJuly Parallax effects add depth and interactivity to your app's UI by making different layers move at different speeds to simulate 3D depth. In this article, we will cover how to implement a flexible paral...

Ever wanted to create gyroscope based parallax in #dotnetmaui? Francois has you covered, check this out! blog.francois.raminosona.com/sensor-based...

#MAUIUIJuly day 9!

Sensors in .NET MAUI #MAUIUIJuly In this post, we will focus on how our phone's sensors work. We will explore six key sensors available in .NET MAUI, complete with real-time visualizations and code samples.

#MAUIUIJuly day 8: Sensors in #dotnetmaui - but some cool things you can do with them too! Check it out: blog.francois.raminosona.com/sensors-in-n...

Byte217 - .NET MAUI - Tab Control with underlinement How to create a tab control with multiple tabs on one page and underlined active tab.

Want to customise the default tabs you get in hashtag#dotnetmaui apps? Ed's got you covered. For his final entry for hashtag#MAUIUIJuly this year he's written up how you can build a custom tab control, check it out below!

byte217.com/net-maui-tab...

Byte217 - .NET MAUI - Scrolling Text Display How to write a MAUI Text Display that is readonlt, disable, but still scrollable. The Control has a one-line and multi-line mode.

For #MAUIUIJuly Day 6, Ed has shown us how to create a scrollable text display in #dotnetmaui
byte217.com/net-maui-scr...

Byte217 - .NET MAUI - Managing screen sizes Use this post to manage the screen sizes of your .NET MAUI Application. Keep your controls in proportion for all devices.

It's #MAUIUIJuly day 5! Check out this awesome post from Ed showing how to manage different screen sizes - and you have to see his ObservablePageLayout!!

byte217.com/net-maui-man...

Replicating the Outlook Mobile ‘Focused/Other’ Switch in .NET MAUI Over the past three days, I’ve demonstrated building some pretty cool UI effects in Maui.Graphics, the 2D graphics library that shipped with .NET MAUI back in 2022. Today I’m going to look at its clos...

#MAUIUIJuly — Day 4!

Remember the Outlook toggle I skipped?
I finally did it right:
✅ Animated pill (SkiaSharp)
✅ Text color blending
✅ Bindable & reusable

Check it out 👉 goforgoldman.com/posts/outloo...

#dotnet #dotnetmaui #mobile #appdev

GitHub - jsuarezruiz/awesome-dotnet-maui: A curated list of awesome .NET MAUI libraries and resources. A curated list of awesome .NET MAUI libraries and resources. - jsuarezruiz/awesome-dotnet-maui

You should add this here: github.com/jsuarezruiz/...

Wow, that’s awesome!!

Holy MauiGraphics Batman! Part 3: Clayface-Level Batmaths Welcome back to MAUI UI July 2025! If you’ve read Part 1 and Part 2, you’ve seen the Batmobile throttle and dashboard controls in action.

🦇 Yesterday: the Bat-gauge!

Today: #trigonometry behind the Bat-needle!

Can our hero's hypotenuse hold firm against Gotham's gnarliest gradients?

👉 goforgoldman.com/posts/batmob...

Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel!

#dotnet #dotnetmaui #MAUIUIJuly #mobile #appdev

Holy MauiGraphics Batman! Part 2: The RPM Gauge Welcome back to MAUI UI July 2025. In Part 1, we built a custom throttle control for the Batmobile. Today, we’re heading into the Batcave to build a live RPM dashboard that visualises the data stream ...

🦇 Yesterday we left our heroes at full throttle!

Part 2 of my Batmobile UI series is live: the RPM dashboard in #dotnetmaui using Maui.Graphics.

Arcs, pointers, and pure Batmobile vibes.

👉 goforgoldman.com/posts/batmob...

#MAUIUIJuly

100% agree here. The Apple DevEx is awful. The docs are bad, the tools are bad, their approval process is opaque and temperamental. Nothing about the experience comes close to meeting the standards they demand of apps submitted to their ecosystem.

Holy MauiGraphics Batman! Part 1: Batmobile Throttle Control “Here’s what we’ll build”

🦇 Holy MauiGraphics, Batman!

Part 1 of my Batmobile UI series is live — kicking off #MAUIUIJuly 2025 with a custom throttle control in .NET MAUI using Maui.Graphics.

Check it out: goforgoldman.com/posts/batmob...

YouTube video by DIY Perks True Wireless Power is FINALLY here (building a TRULY wire-free setup)

This actually blew my mind. This is the future I wanted! I can't wait for this to become mainstream, and already have a bunch of ideas I'm going to submit to their prototype request form.

youtu.be/EyR2-C9ggi0?...

No specific suggestions but I will say your support and budget requirements rule out Snapdragon. I’d say go with an AMD option.

Again not much on specifics but I will say if you’ll likely find a decent budget priced workhorse from Lenovo.

A hand-drawn digital sketch of a handheld games console. It features a large central screen, left and right analog sticks, a DPAD, and XBox style ABXY buttons. It is shaded green with purple trim, include two visible purple shoulder buttons.

A screenshot of a CAD design for a handheld gaming PC. It has a 7 inch LCD screen, two analog sticks, a DPAD, four buttons but they are unlabeled, and two additional buttons on each side (not clear from the picture but these will be start, select, power, and turbo). The case is slightly curved and rendered here at 50% opacity, revealing interior components like PCBs and battery cells.

How it started How it's going

#handheld #diy #gaming

I made a hands-on .NET MAUI workshop! I built it for in-person delivery (still happy to do that if anyone wants) but it felt wasted sitting in my GitHub.

It’s free and online, if you’re curious about #crossplatform dev with .NET. check it out → mauiworkshop.org

#dotnet #dotnetmaui #mobiledev #foss

YES!!!!